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Re: Discussion for Soul Burning
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 12:58 pm
by Alera Tai'var
Thanks for the clarification. I think it would be terribly hard to quantify, but the example percentages give a good idea of what this can look like and where the lines are. I like the bit about how the elementalism plays in to it. It all makes a lot of sense.
Re: Discussion for Soul Burning
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 1:16 pm
by J. M. Vincent
It gives some good perspective on what damage Cael has done to his soul thus far too.
Re: Discussion for Soul Burning
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:36 pm
by Alera Tai'var
Exactly. I will try to work in some of the symptoms as we play on. I imagine him as having used maybe 25-30 percent of his soul already. Much of his casting has been small by comparison to the bigger spells described above, but he has also relied on it on more than a few occasions. Things for him should be starting to add up now!
Re: Discussion for Soul Burning
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:20 pm
by Mana Apparatus
Alright, time to establish a safe limit. Typically around 50% of your soul being burned away, your mind will attempt to preserve what little is left of the soul. When you've breached 30% your body shuts down (coma time), for an undetermined amount of time. Dipping to 20% (after awaking from a coma) will cause your soul to lose a lot of it's attachment to its body (luckily there are still preventative measures that can be done to insure no invading spirits). If you are able to survive to 0%, your soul's reincarnation ability is burned up and your soul will cease to be a cohesive force in your body. While, technically, you could live close to 0%, being at that dreaded 0 will cause your body to cease functioning.
Below is an example Idayn soul burner.
100% - perfectly normal
50%- body goes into conservation mode, tries to shut off soul burning ability. Elemental powers begin to wane.
30%- slips into coma. At this point contact with their elemental spirit is too damaged to continue. Any elementalist powers are lost.
20%- light elemental attempts to leave the body so that it's immortality isn't threatened. If stopped it cries out in pain to be rescued.
0%- annihilation of the soul, that specific light elemental ceases to exist.
For a particularly heroic soul, godly intervention may come about and remove the soul prior to it's fatal burn.