jasmine
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Post by jasmine on Jul 18, 2016 2:31:52 GMT
Demons travel between dimensions, but it is possible that all of the dimensions of my world are inaccessible to and from your world. The universe is bigger than I thought, and I have long considered myself an expert.
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Post by Journey to Knowledge on Nov 11, 2016 0:44:51 GMT
... I am confused by the discussion I have read here about souls. In my world, there would usually be no question of whether a human or witch had a soul, because anyone could see it. The idea of one without a soul is horrifying. Are the humans of your worlds like panserbjørne and animals, and possibly some of the otherworldly beings of my world, without souls, or do you keep them hidden somewhere?
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Post by Ahrotahn on Nov 12, 2016 22:40:29 GMT
I'm not sure I know what I'd look for to see if someone had a soul.
What do souls do, that panserbjørne and animals are so horrifying for not having them?
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Post by Journey to Knowledge on Nov 14, 2016 19:06:34 GMT
Panserbjørne and animals aren't horrifying for lacking souls because panserbjørne aren't humans and animals aren't people. (I've read some discussion that panserbjørne see their armor like their souls, but I'm not sure whether to credit it.) The soul is a fundamental part of who someone is, which is why the idea of humans without them is so frightening. There is fiction about humans whose souls are removed (possibly based on poorly-documented also possibly-fictional historical practices in some countries where the souls of some slaves were medically or magically crippled), leaving them unable to feel or make complex decisions; they're often explained as reanimated corpses. Souls look like talking animals and share the feelings of their people. When someone dies, their soul dissolves. Children's souls change shapes, but adults' are settled. (Witches' souls can always fly, and can travel far away from them.)
Oh, it's just occurred to me that it's most likely just another difference in dialects - although some on people the forum are not human and I am curious if they have anything equivalent to a soul - do you just use a different word for souls?
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Post by Ahrotahn on Nov 19, 2016 2:01:43 GMT
As far as I know/remember, none of the species I've encountered come with empathically linked talking animals. "Humans" is translating for me as referring to the dominant sapient species on my home planet, which are a type of ape characterized by a thin to absent pelt and a two-legged posture.
Edited to add: unless you count the ape body as a talking animal, in which case we don't have a non-soul body/person to be attached to. But we don't dissolve on death, we leave corpses. (Which don't reanimate.)
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Post by Journey to Knowledge on Nov 22, 2016 19:03:54 GMT
That sounds very lonely, but I suppose you must be used to it. Humans are as you describe, aside from the souls.
I think you are probably more like people without attached souls than like souls without attached people. (We also do not actually reanimate.) Or you might somehow count as both? Souls can touch each other without hurting themselves, but you are in a different world and it would be an unethical test, especially since you are likely just humans rather than detached, human-shaped souls.
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