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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cignus_pfaccari" data-source="post: 2737326" data-attributes="member: 14557">Incarnum isn't actually souls.  A soulmeld isn't, say, the soul of Uncle Bob stuffed into your feet to make you go faster.  It's more like the Force as shiny bluish stuff that you use.  Souls are drawn from it, and go back to it, but you don't go plucking souls out to do stuff with it.  It's really nothing like anything from the Drenai or other Gemmell novels.Yes; effectively, you could have a kid who'd've become a shaman if he were born on the Nadir steppes instead get drafted into a Temple of the Thirty, so there has to be some sort of quality, which could be represented by one of the backgrounds in IH.  Beyond that, you'd differentiate based on levels, both total quantity and classes taken.  The various members of the Thirty we've seen display different levels of martial and psychic aptitude, so odds are that the Thirty has its own prestige class; Decado could barely do any psychic work, but was a fearsome fighter, whereas Dardalion, while very powerful on the astral, was nearly hopeless with any sort of weapon.Basically, a shaman would probably be pure Arcanist until he entered the Nadir Shaman PrC, whereas a Thirty Templar would have a mix of martial classes and Arcanist in order to qualify for the Thirty Templar PrC.Brad</blockquote>