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<blockquote data-quote="Rayston" data-source="post: 52445" data-attributes="member: 2302">Cyberware and essence loss?there is no reason to believe that cybernetics would drive you insane in todays world, with todays understanding of the human body and cybernetics. but thats just theory, noone has really went&quot;full borg&quot; yet, we dont know what'll happen to them when they do. in the SR universe the realization that cybernetics did this to peoples brains was just that a &quot;realization&quot; they were surprised, there was absoloutely no pre-existing reason to believe that it should happen, but they had to deal with it, then magic gave a pseudo-reason as to why it did. and in SR magic has come back, and its not just hot elves and parlor tricks, its MAGIC, it has changed the way the world works, everything, and I mean EVERYTHING!!!! is covered in magic, everyone has an &quot;aura&quot; that can only be seen by mages, maybe when magic came back it somehow &quot;changed&quot; the physiology of human beings, making them suddenly dependant on there essence( as represented by there aura's that until magic came back noone knew about ) for not only life, but there very sanity. magic is a huge mystery still in the SR universe they dont know yet its full effects on the world, some claim too, but they are prolly talkin out there butt. The theories in the context of the game-universe as to why you go insane or die when you lose a certain amount of essence is just that &quot;theory&quot; some mages/shamans rant about the essence being the &quot;soul&quot; and without the soul we die, but who knows wether thats true or not, theres no real way to prove it, in the context of the game-universe. just my 2 centsRayston</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rayston, post: 52445, member: 2302"] [b]Cyberware and essence loss?[/b] there is no reason to believe that cybernetics would drive you insane in todays world, with todays understanding of the human body and cybernetics. but thats just theory, noone has really went "full borg" yet, we dont know what'll happen to them when they do. in the SR universe the realization that cybernetics did this to peoples brains was just that a "realization" they were surprised, there was absoloutely no pre-existing reason to believe that it should happen, but they had to deal with it, then magic gave a pseudo-reason as to why it did. and in SR magic has come back, and its not just hot elves and parlor tricks, its MAGIC, it has changed the way the world works, everything, and I mean EVERYTHING!!!! is covered in magic, everyone has an "aura" that can only be seen by mages, maybe when magic came back it somehow "changed" the physiology of human beings, making them suddenly dependant on there essence( as represented by there aura's that until magic came back noone knew about ) for not only life, but there very sanity. magic is a huge mystery still in the SR universe they dont know yet its full effects on the world, some claim too, but they are prolly talkin out there butt. The theories in the context of the game-universe as to why you go insane or die when you lose a certain amount of essence is just that "theory" some mages/shamans rant about the essence being the "soul" and without the soul we die, but who knows wether thats true or not, theres no real way to prove it, in the context of the game-universe. just my 2 cents Rayston [/QUOTE]

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