davids at kithrup.com writes: > How did Loraan come to be undead when his soul was presumably consumed > by Blackwand? Actually, it has only just now occurred to me, because we have recently had conversations in regards to the various sorts of magics in Dragaera. Specifically, wizardry. What's a wizard? Something to the effect of 'get real good at X, Y, and Z, then bind your soul into an item and poof, you're a wizard'. We all know where Morrolan carries HIS soul; Blackwand, of course. She's also his witch's familiar, but that doesn't come into this. So when the Athyra wizard Loraan gets killed ... his soul cannot be claimed by Blackwand -because-it-is-not-there-. His body, however, is dead; the wizard can get his soul to the Paths of the Dead and, as souls seem to 'reconstitute' bodies in the Paths, and as well as being something of an accomplished necromancer, he can perform the necessary ceremonies and walk out of the Paths as a member of that most suppressed underclass in all worlds except for Dragaera, the undead. Well, it sort of hangs together for -me-... Knightmarshall Felix Surnamed Eisen, or "Iron Felix" Hand of Morr, The Order of Bones