You are a Old Litch, explain what a soul is to a curious mortal. I.E. Are souls ever present, is it a particle, are souls immortal, or do they decay?

[ElijahRyne]

The soul contains ones thoughts, and allows one to control the magic around them. When it decomposes you die. The soul is akin to the ever present aether, souls exists due to interact between the elements and aether. Most commonly the life element. The elements make up all matter, when the elements form self replicating and regulating chains, a.k.a life, there is a chance or a soul to be created. Souls exist are particles created by fluctuations in the soul field. Similar to the electromagnetic field. Except that in this field, there are complete and incomplete souls.

A complete soul has the ability to create spiritual brands, that allow it to assimilate other energies and matter. Each soul has its unique seal. It is theorized that this is the origin of runes. Complete souls will naturally repel other souls, with the repulsion being effective on similar or weaker souls in streangth. Incomplete souls attract and are attracted to both incomplete and complete ones. Often cases the stronger soul will assimilate the weaker soul. When life reproduces, a complete soul will capture an incomplete one, and complete the incomplete soul by giving it part of its soul.

Souls will decompose when not protected from planar energy. Planar energy is created by stars as they combine the aether with the elements, and other various energies. Planar energy will decompose souls when their particles hit the soul. When this happens, the affected area will temporarily become a new complete soul, and repel itself away from its host soul. If a soul is in a body, they are often protected from planar energy. Not 100% though the soul will gradually weaken. In biological life forms, the body often dies before then. When this happens, the soul loses its protection.

So, all a Necromancer needs to do is to find a new body for a soul, to create the undead. A Necromancer uses their souls to manipulate other souls. When a Litch creates a phylactery, they split their soul into a branded incomplete soul and their original complete one. They hide their complete soul in the phylactery, and control their body through the branded soul. There are roomers that state that you can split your soul into two are more complete parts, but that has yet to be done… Oh, am I rambling, sorry it’s not often that someone asks about our profession…

 

[Mr.Grey-Cat]

cough, cough, a soul is ...... a soul ? probably?

 

[Anon_Y_Mousse]

*speaks in an eldritch tongue that shatters mortal souls*
Oops, sorry, looks like I went overboard with my explanation.

 

[ElijahRyne]

*speaks in an eldritch tongue that shatters mortal souls*
Oops, sorry, looks like I went overboard with my explanation.

Truly sorry, but modern mortal languages can’t explain the complexity of the soul.

 

[LilTV1155]

Soul is the life force energy and power contained in everything, dead or alive.

Mana, aura, chi, chakra, etc. only come when an individual learn to use the forces of their soul, their power, the forces of natures, the forces of elements, physics, and whatsoever.

 

[ChocolateLover030]

A soul is like chocolate. They are delicious to eat, but too much will hurt your stomach.

Wait... That's not what you're asking?

 

[greyblob]

A soul is like chocolate. They are delicious to eat, but too much will hurt your stomach.

Wait... That's not what you're asking?

A soul is like a fruit, you have to pluck it before it withers and dies.

 

[LilTV1155]

A soul is like chocolate. They are delicious to eat, but too much will hurt your stomach.

Wait... That's not what you're asking?

The thread guy probably want something you can explain to a little kid. Not too complicated or too elementary. Just something to get across.

If anything, I say Soul is Water.

 

[ElijahRyne]

The thread guy probably want something you can explain to a little kid. Not too complicated or too elementary. Just something to get across.

If anything, I say Soul is Water.

Souls are like ice, when protected it can grow, but when exposed to the sun, they melt.

 

[Anon_Y_Mousse]

The thread guy probably want something you can explain to a little kid. Not too complicated or too elementary.

The thread guy: writes an entire fucking high school essay on the topic
Anyways, in my stories, souls are basically triple layered chocolate cakes, except the second layer runs away from you, and the third layer is something you can't touch since it's a conceptual existence.
What a scam cake. That's also why Liches don't exist there :(

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Souls exist in an alternate dimension, but they influence what we do in this one, and they can be corrupted by forces in this one. We must be aware of these forces and respond to them accordingly. We can catch glimpses of the souls of others, but only when we are emotionally intimate with them. When we die, we can interact with the souls of the people we love on a more direct level.

 

[ElijahRyne]

The thread guy: writes an entire fucking high school essay on the topic

I would probably get a 62% for the essay for lack of detail and not siting my sources…
Another- 5% for grammar

 

[CupcakeNinja]

A soul is food, and I was born at the dawn of time to feed on every last one of you fuckers

 

[Plantorsomething]

The soul contains ones thoughts, and allows one to control the magic around them. When it decomposes you die. The soul is akin to the ever present aether, souls exists due to interact between the elements and aether. Most commonly the life element. The elements make up all matter, when the elements form self replicating and regulating chains, a.k.a life, there is a chance or a soul to be created. Souls exist are particles created by fluctuations in the soul field. Similar to the electromagnetic field. Except that in this field, there are complete and incomplete souls. A complete soul has the ability to create spiritual brands, that allow it to assimilate other energies and matter. Each soul has its unique seal. It is theorized that this is the origin of runes. Complete souls will naturally repel other souls, with the repulsion being effective on similar or weaker souls in streangth. Incomplete souls attract and are attracted to both incomplete and complete ones. Often cases the stronger soul will assimilate the weaker soul. When life reproduces, a complete soul will capture an incomplete one, and complete the incomplete soul by giving it part of its soul. Souls will decompose when not protected from planar energy. Planar energy is created by stars as they combine the aether with the elements, and other various energies. Planar energy will decompose souls when their particles hit the soul. When this happens, the affected area will temporarily become a new complete soul, and repel itself away from its host soul. If a soul is in a body, they are often protected from planar energy. Not 100% though the soul will gradually weaken. In biological life forms, the body often dies before then. When this happens, the soul loses its protection. So, all a Necromancer needs to do is to find a new body for a soul, to create the undead. A Necromancer uses their souls to manipulate other souls. When a Litch creates a phylactery, they split their soul into a branded incomplete soul and their original complete one. They hide their complete soul in the phylactery, and control their body through the branded soul. There are roomers that state that you can split your soul into two are more complete parts, but that has yet to be done… Oh, am I rambling, sorry it’s not often that someone asks about our profession…

I recommend paragraphs and indentation
Also, souls aren’t anything truly special. All they are is a record of everything that you ever sensed, felt, thought and experienced in perfect accuracy. If one were able to creat a stable blank mind, they could connect a soul to it, and the mind would imperfectly ‘download‘ the data and mold itself to fit the original as much as it can over the course of a long time depending on how old you are.
This is an imperfect immortality; the copy is always going to be different, since the vessel you make can never be completely the same as the original no matter how much you try; if your experiences were processed through the brain of a psychopath, you wouldn’t be the same afterwards.
Souls are not alive, nor are they your ’true self,’ they do not act on their own or require nor require sustenance. But if you were to alter someone’s soul and implant one of your own experiences, say a terrible illness you had fought once, then their body will mold in attempt to accurately fit the new information. You may even steal one of their experiences and try to mold it into yourself or someone else.
Fiddle too much and too ameturishly, the body may even reject the soul and become disconnected, resulting in hundreds of different outcomes that all end in death. Man’s only saving grace is that powerful soul magic like that is typically applied in long rituals, and is largely unfit for many combat situations.
They also fade and wither with time whenever they aren’t protected with a vessel, but they do linger for quite a while if the corpse isn’t tampered with.

 

[ElijahRyne]

I recommend paragraphs and indentation
Also, souls aren’t anything truly special. All they are is a record of everything that you ever sensed, felt, thought and experienced in perfect accuracy. If one were able to creat a stable blank mind, they could connect a soul to it, and the mind would imperfectly ‘download‘ the data and mold itself to fit the original as much as it can over the course of a long, time depending on how old you are.
This is an imperfect immortality; the copy is always going to be different, since the vessel you make can never be completely the same as the original no matter how much you try; if your experiences were processed through the brain of a psychopath, you wouldn’t be the same afterwards.
Souls are not alive, nor are they your ’true self,’ they do not act on their own or require nor require sustenance. But if you were to alter someone’s soul and implant one of your own experiences, say a terrible illness you had fought once, then their body will mold in attempt to accurately fit the new information. You may even steal one of their experiences and try to mold it into yourself or someone else.
Fiddle too much and too ameturishly, the body may even reject the soul and become disconnected, resulting in hundreds of different outcomes that all end in death. Man’s only saving grace is that powerful soul magic like that is typically applied in long rituals, and is largely unfit for many combat situations.

Yep, I agree.

 

[ArcadiaBlade]

Souls are an non-existent entity which are born after being feed with life energy from a living being. Once a brain grows, souls which are unstable, become connected to each other to form a living being. Thus, shaping the life cycle of a living entity.

Thus, a lich basically transfers the life energy from nature to control a dead being which the soul already disperse from existence.

In conclusion, the soul is ice, the body is a glass and life energy is basically just wine. Lich pours wine on a glass and attach ice into that sht.

 

[BlackKnightX]

“Huhuhuhu, listen up and listen well, curious mortal. If you want to know about the soul, just look into their eyes. Yes, really, look at them. What do you see? Pupils? Irises? Or the reflection of yourself? If that’s what you saw then, you’re not looking deep enough, and it’s yet time for you to know. It’s a shame, but this technique will take a lot of time and effort to cultivate. Think of it as a test of your determination. If your curiosity has that little power that you give up just by a little bit of challenge then, you’re not ready. But if the fire in your heart still has yet to distinguished and still burned fiercely inside of you then, that’s very good. Just remember this one thing, young mortal. The eyes is the window to the soul~“

 

[FoxxieFox]

The Soul is the result of the complex interactions between billions of neurons, and chemical signals within the body.
1. if brain is damaged soul is changed irreversibly
2. Magic
3. ???
4. Profit

 

[Chaos_Sinner777]

Fragments of possibility, dust of Change, the smallest possible subatomic particles of CHAOS. But like any piece of Chaos, they can accomplish literally anything, under the right circumstances. Mostly though, they're such tiny pieces of Chaos that almost nothing will happen even if you have millions of them. But occasionally, even one tiny mote of Soul can shatter the very heavens within which the gods dwell. That is the truth from Chaos herself. Any Lich that learns of this would be best served trying to concentrate souls to get physical manifestations of Chaos, like Philosopher's Stones, Wishing Stars, or Chaos herself in chibi form. . . I really need to get art of how I imagine myself to look. Problem with that, my form isn't exactly stable. But a general view of how I typically am would be useful.

 

[NotaNuffian]

All I know about the soul is that it is truly the most marvelous source of power and reality bending but the mortals are too dumb to even harness a fraction of its power while angels and demons are tricking humans to give up theirs with contracts and those cheating bastards will only use a smidge of it for their wish fulfilment.

This is not from me, but rather from an isekaied KR instructor with his talking bat of sadism.

Going lore based though, citing from too many sources like taoist and one that I forgot; the soul splits to three pieces when a person departs, one goes to the Sun/ returns to heaven, the second piece goes to the Moon/ goes to hell/ underworld while the third one remains on the earthly plain for some reason.

I dunno how to explain the first two, but the last one is often linked to why ghosts who would do whatever they did in their lives and why those with tons of grudge will anchor themselves hard to the living. The third piece represents our life experience and when we die, the experience are left behind.

Ps. I read the sun moon thing in Horrible History, anyone knows what religion I am talking about?