Dragaera

Souls - Destruction and Creation

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Thu Feb 26 12:00:18 PST 2004

Noam Izenberg <noam.izenberg at jhuapl.edu> writes:

> The talk about what exactly does a Morganti weapon
> (whether or not Blackwand is typical) 

(cutting your off in the middle of a sentence)

Stop right there!  To suggest that a *great weapon* is typical of
Morganti weapons is *clearly wrong*. 

> In the specific metaphysics of this world, _are_ souls
> destructible? Must there therefore also be a source of
> souls? What are the 'laws' of soul birth, migration, and
> (possible) death?

Yes; ordinary morganti weapons destroy them.  

The details of the rest of it are undocumented, so far as I can see.
We know there's reincarnation.  We don't know if there's a large
initial pool, or if new souls are also created on-the-fly as needed.  

Given that time isn't the same thing to the gods as it is to us, these
questions may be meaningless in the frame in which souls are handled. 
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