> >1. Vlad nails Loraan with a dagger in an especially bad spot, killing him > >instantly. > >2. Blackwand swipes Loraan across the chest, but since he's dead, his soul > >is safe. > >3. One of Loraan's guards comes around and revivifies him later. > > > > > How fast does one lose his soul with a normal weapon? Unless his > brain explodes, I see it taking several seconds at least. Besides a neck or spineshot, through the eye or from under the jaw, I don't see it happening. Textev seems to link the soul to the central nervous system, and besides directly destroying that, it takes about 3 minutes to bleed out sufficiently to "kill" the brain from oxygen deprivation. Jeff -is somewhat disturbed by how fast he recalled that information.