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animus_network2012-11-26 11:57 am
sageprincess) wrote in animus_network2012-11-26 11:57 am
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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.]
[Short, sweet, to the point. Debates of morality aren't really of interest to her at the moment.]
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[C'mon, man, you can't just trail off like that!]
And how difficult would it be for a mage to steal a soul within a body?
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[Sorry, he'd thought it was self-evident.]
As far as I'm aware, it's possible to pull a soul from its case and leave the body alive or even to trap the body in with it, but the astral body is the soul. Snatching it up would break the tether and kill the physical body; if the poor sod ever got free after that it'd be as a petitioner or undead.
As for the difficulty of such entrapment, it would be easier than astral projection in terms of skill, though not radically so. It does require more of an investment on the material side- a mage can't bind a soul without something to bind it to, and the more powerful the target was, the more potent the focus would have to be. Astral spell just requires a decent jacinth and some silver to cast, and some talented cutters don't even need that much.
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I see. And I suppose if a mage is sufficiently powerful enough and has plentiful access to all the materials, there is little but their own morality to keep them from pulling as many souls ad they wish.
I have one last question, and forgive me if it seems a bit odd, but the phantoms that roam Floor Eleven at night. Do they resemble the petitioners or undead that you speak of at all?
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I'm sorry I can't be of more help with that.
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Thank you very much for the help you were able to give, however. It has been very informative.