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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 52818" data-attributes="member: 891">Here's a genre rationalistion for the whole essense lowering to death thing.This is not part of Shadowrun in any way. It's just an idea I've had that a GM could toss out there as something some parapsychologist in their universe came up with.Before the awakening our souls were bound away from our bodies. While there were many people who claimed things like ESP or out of body experiences and so on... most people were very far removed from this reality. The body and soul had little practical effect on each other. The soul; such as it was at the time, lacked a direct connection and only the most bare of links to our mortal coils.When the awakening came about it brought on a paradigm shift in this connection. The health of our bodies and souls became very much intertwined. Without a strong hold on one's soul life became difficul, unhealthy, and often fatal.In the preawakening days work in prosthetics was something of a hoped for marvel. It seemed a field full of promise for a new and brighter future for the legions of disabled. If the dream held and the technology worked there were no risks.With the awakening's change in the paradigms of our universe we were faced with a much darker fate for this technology. No longer was it a way to 'heal the weaknesses' of the flesh. Rather as it steadily removed the flesh we found it also removed the newly awakened soul.Something that before the awakening was not a risk even in the most cybered up candidates of the day was now an all too present risk for sometimes even the most trivial of modifications.As furthor evidence of this idea we found that even common surgery was a risk to those who were truely awakened; the mages among us.This sort of a thought process might be common enough in some circles. And it could offer up an explaination for the situation found in Shadowrun that does match the way it's genre presents itself.</blockquote>

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