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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8260283" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>There's no reason all species should have the same souls beyond that it makes things a lot more straightforward and consistent, and means you don't get into weird situations where some kind of soul-eating monster wouldn't want to eat PC X because he has "the wrong kind of soul" or whatever.</p><p></p><p>However, if you don't have everyone sort of roughly sharing souls, it does raise an enormous number of questions re: half-races and derived races and potentially re: lineages and so on. I'm surprised no-one has brought this up already. Would half-elves be reincarnated or operate like humans, for example? If one or the other, why? Can they change it? (I'd be surprised if the FR had a consistent answer on that!).</p><p></p><p>Basically having different souls and thus different afterlives for different beings is kind of a can of worms, and it's up to you to decide if you want to open it, and if you do, how far you open it and how many worms get out (but it's probably gonna be a lot if you open it at all!). There may be benefits to opening it, of course, as with so many cans of worms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8260283, member: 18"] There's no reason all species should have the same souls beyond that it makes things a lot more straightforward and consistent, and means you don't get into weird situations where some kind of soul-eating monster wouldn't want to eat PC X because he has "the wrong kind of soul" or whatever. However, if you don't have everyone sort of roughly sharing souls, it does raise an enormous number of questions re: half-races and derived races and potentially re: lineages and so on. I'm surprised no-one has brought this up already. Would half-elves be reincarnated or operate like humans, for example? If one or the other, why? Can they change it? (I'd be surprised if the FR had a consistent answer on that!). Basically having different souls and thus different afterlives for different beings is kind of a can of worms, and it's up to you to decide if you want to open it, and if you do, how far you open it and how many worms get out (but it's probably gonna be a lot if you open it at all!). There may be benefits to opening it, of course, as with so many cans of worms. [/QUOTE]
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