D&D General - Souls and Spirits - are they necessary in order to exist? | Page 7

Yes, absolutely. This is a super interesting character story.

For them, Last Breath is going to be especially exciting, because they have no soul for Death to collect. Does that mean Death cannot see them? Does it mean Death has some special plan for them? Perhaps they cannot "die" in the usual sense, but if so, they'll be hounded by those who want the secret of immortality.

And beyond that: Where has their soul gone? Did it simply go to the city beyond the Black Gate to await its exit from existence? Or is this like the Nameless One's mortality, where it lived on separated from him, a powerful and dangerous force? What if their soul doesn't want to come back? Can you do such a "grab a soul-blank and replace it" maneuver? These are all fascinating questions I would love to jointly discover the answers to.

As for the cosmological and theological consequences, it's quite likely that such a person would be either fascinating to or repulsive to most people who care about this sort of thing: Waziri who study the soul, Safiqi priests, Kahina, the more esoteric Raven-Shadows, etc. Necromancy is usually forbidden specifically because it tampers with the immortal soul (which the Safiqi believe is a gift from the One), but if there's a person that already lacks a soul, that could enable the more liberal priests to study necromantic magic in ways normally forbidden to them. Most likely, if news got out about this character's condition, a significant effort would form to find a way to cure them, restoring their rightful soul to their body so they can properly go to Jannah, "true heaven." Whether the character would welcome such attention is of course a completely separate issue!

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