• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    64·
    2 days ago

    One of my favorite details from the old tabletop RPG Mage The Awakening is that souls are fungible. You don’t need your soul back, you just need a soul.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Sounds a little like the fantasy novel Warbreaker, where the “soul” can be used to give life to non-living objects including corpses.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        In setting that’s different from the soul itself. Biochromatic breath is part of the spiritual plane, but it’s a piece of Endowment, not the spiritual aspect of the person who has it.

        • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          15 hours ago

          Yeah but there were entire cultures that thought of the biochromatic breath to be their soul while others simply saw it as a kind of currency or fuel for their magic system. The world is very rich with different beliefs over the same thing.

    • vithigar@lemmy.ca
      9·
      2 days ago

      Your comment made me realise that I’ve been conflating the meanings of “fungible” and “miscable” for years.