"Casey Rousseau" <casey at the-bat.net> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/05/06 06:25 AM To "'Dragaera List'" <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject RE: Life-states >Majikjon writ: >> I note that some of these terms apply only to the body, and >> others to the soul, and some to both... So it's possible for >> a being to have more than one of these states apply to >> someone at any one time. > >I'd quibble. All of the life states described by Davdi reflect the >status of the soul. The following involve the body, but the soul is >what is important for life. A brief restatement from a soul-centric >view might look like: Well, but what's the difference between "Permanently dead" and "disembodied soul"? They seem to be two terms for the same state, with one term (the dead one) focusing on the state of the body, and the other talking about just the soul. And I'm still curious about Aliera's current life-state, in that her current body appears to be a construct created by the LoJ (Verra in particular) whose soul was not "attached in normal fashion". Is she undead? "Re-animated?" Or do we need another term to describe this special case? >Alive: soul attached to natural body in normal fashion >Dead: soul attached to natural body that is not currently functional, >revification possible. >Permanently dead: soul no longer attached to corpse. Revification not >possible. >Destroyed: soul has been "eaten" by a Morganti weapon wounding the >body while soul attached in 'alive' state. >Disembodied: detached soul - see permanently dead. >Undead: soul reattached to former corpse by unspecified interventions. >'Bodily' functions undefined. >Undead Vampiric: see undead. No explicit explanation in textev. May or >may not be distinct. All in all, I find it extremely useful to have a glossary of necromantic terms, if we're all supposed to agree on what we're talking about (yeah, like *that's* ever happened...). Majikjon