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| − | The soul controls emotional memory, personality, desires, and emotions. If a character's soul is damaged, some or all of those things may be erased, although they can develop replacements over time. If their soul is completely destroyed, | + | The soul controls emotional memory, personality, desires, and emotions. If a character's soul is damaged, some or all of those things may be erased, although they can develop replacements over time. If their soul is completely destroyed, it cannot recover. |
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| + | The [[Faint Aura|Faint]] and [[Strong Aura|Strong Auras]] of [[Psychic|psychics]] are the effect of the psychics' souls extending from them. | ||
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| + | ==== Eating Souls ==== | ||
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| + | Eating a soul takes about five minutes and is a conscious act, with physical contact needed for the entirety of that time, as the prey soul is slowly and visibly sucked from its body. If two conscious soul eaters try to eat each other's souls simultaneously, this causes an emotional mess but is not an effective way to stay nourished. | ||
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| + | Souls that have been eaten continue to hold much of their own identity, and can, in response to the eater's senses, express emotions that the eater is aware of. If an eater has its soul eaten, all of the souls it has eaten are transferred with it. Being digested does cause souls to blend slightly over time, gradually taking on more and more of the attributes of the other souls in the eater's soul-stomach. | ||
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| + | Creatures whose souls have been eaten begin to develop new souls, being essentially catatonic for the first week aside from the faintest desires for food, drink, air, and sleep, but gain more personality over time until they are essentially a new person after a year. They temporarily stop being psychic for the first week. | ||
==== Afterlife ==== | ==== Afterlife ==== | ||
| − | When a creature [[dead|dies]], normally its soul travels to the afterlife. Since souls do not have any form of memory other than the emotional kind, it's very difficult to determine what the afterlife is actually like, but those who come back to life after long periods of time often return with strange psychological changes, like an acute fear of garlic, a perpetually cheerful disposition, or a significantly more vicious temper. | + | When a creature [[dead|dies]], normally its soul (and any soul it has eaten) travels to the afterlife after about 1d6 minutes. Since souls do not have any form of memory other than the emotional kind, it's very difficult to determine what the afterlife is actually like, but those who come back to life after long periods of time often return with strange psychological changes, like an acute fear of garlic, a perpetually cheerful disposition, or a significantly more vicious temper. |
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| + | ==== Beforelife ==== | ||
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| + | Souls begin at conception, and grow to full size over the course of the next year. Partially grown souls are not strong enough to reach the afterlife. | ||
Latest revision as of 20:46, 8 September 2023
The soul controls emotional memory, personality, desires, and emotions. If a character's soul is damaged, some or all of those things may be erased, although they can develop replacements over time. If their soul is completely destroyed, it cannot recover.
The Faint and Strong Auras of psychics are the effect of the psychics' souls extending from them.
Eating Souls
Eating a soul takes about five minutes and is a conscious act, with physical contact needed for the entirety of that time, as the prey soul is slowly and visibly sucked from its body. If two conscious soul eaters try to eat each other's souls simultaneously, this causes an emotional mess but is not an effective way to stay nourished.
Souls that have been eaten continue to hold much of their own identity, and can, in response to the eater's senses, express emotions that the eater is aware of. If an eater has its soul eaten, all of the souls it has eaten are transferred with it. Being digested does cause souls to blend slightly over time, gradually taking on more and more of the attributes of the other souls in the eater's soul-stomach.
Creatures whose souls have been eaten begin to develop new souls, being essentially catatonic for the first week aside from the faintest desires for food, drink, air, and sleep, but gain more personality over time until they are essentially a new person after a year. They temporarily stop being psychic for the first week.
Afterlife
When a creature dies, normally its soul (and any soul it has eaten) travels to the afterlife after about 1d6 minutes. Since souls do not have any form of memory other than the emotional kind, it's very difficult to determine what the afterlife is actually like, but those who come back to life after long periods of time often return with strange psychological changes, like an acute fear of garlic, a perpetually cheerful disposition, or a significantly more vicious temper.
Beforelife
Souls begin at conception, and grow to full size over the course of the next year. Partially grown souls are not strong enough to reach the afterlife.
