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Can anyone tell me about "astral projection"?

[Short, sweet, to the point. Debates of morality aren't really of interest to her at the moment.]

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yeah
sentient familiars are actually pretty rare
difficult to get human souls
even more difficult to control them after they're assembled
animals can do most of the tasks with less than half the hassle
and you're welcome

I suppose if one were looking at it through a purely utilitarian sense, then yes, that would make the most sense.

is there any other way to say it?
i guess maybe some modern magi don't like killing people
to make familiars?
either way makes more sense to have animal familiars

Not all people with the power to create such beings are so reasonable, I mean to say.

yeah, some magi are pretty nasty
but there's organizations that keep them from getting too out of hand

And yet, I doubt such organizations have extended their reach to this place, let alone organize to the point of being able to exert power and order over others.

not very many magi in the tower either
at least, not very many i know for sure
but i bet if someone was fucking around with another person's soul
it would catch the attention of whoever keeps people in line

Unless, of course, they were the ones who were doing it.

[Even though their practice has been given a name - psionics - there is still so much left unknown about the extent of the administrators' powers.]

[Somehow, reading that sends a chill down his spine.]

okay i know ruana has psionics
but can she or anyone else really mess with our souls

[A long break between this and the next line.]

oh wait
they switched our bodies once
likely they switched our souls
usually this would't be possible
but fuck
they did it
they did Third Magic
would explain side effects too
shit
shit
shit

Pardon?

[Um...]

Are you all right?

yeah i'm okay fr the most part

[Actually, he wasn't. In the aftermath of the bodyswap, Lancer had been so focused on his guilt involving Ruler that he had forgotten the implications of the swapped bodies. As a Servant, he was a copy of the original Heroic Spirit, and yet the soul of said Heroic Spirit was still a unique one. The fact that the administrators could manhandle his soul unnerved him.]

read carefully i'm gonna type this fast
Third Magic is Materialization of the Soul
remember how I said souls degrade without bodies?
even if a magus can somehow project his consciousness and senses
he has to do it through various mediums
nothing like actually pulling a soul out of a body
Third Magic does that
it preserves souls that have lost their bodies so they won't decay
it pulls complete souls out of bodies
it probably can even call back and fix a soul that has already degraded
the body switch
two ways it could be done
alter the memories of a person to make them believe they are this other person
or take the soul out of one person's body
stick it in the other person's body
first option is wrong because people remember their times in the other body
means their souls were actually taken out
also i said souls have weight
think of them as a body part
human bodies reject body parts that don't fit
the bodies were rejecting souls that don't fit
and in some cases trying to write over them with the body's memories
that's the side effects

[He takes a moment to consider how he should type out the next bits of information.]

one case I saw was special
both people were special types of familiars
they were spirits to start with and their bodies are made of energy
both of their bodies were magecraft resistant
yet their minds still got switched
they were able to extract the souls from familiar and put them into different vessels
that's how advance their "magic" is

that's as much as I can figure out

[Okay, give her a moment to try to make sense of this all.]

That does match up with what we have seen. I do not want to jump to any conclusions or assumptions about what they might be capable of, but... that is certainly a good working theory, if I am understanding what you are saying.

[And an unsettling one, but there's no time for fear. Not when there's still work to be done.]

Do you know anyone here who might be more well versed in this "Third Magic"?

all the magi from my world understand the theory
what it's supposed to do, at least
but they don't know how it's done
i don't know how many of them are here
but you can try asking for a "Caster"

Caster. Understood. Thank you very much for your time. This has been enlightening, to say the least.

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