Keep Your Soul!
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Title: Keep Your Soul!
Author: Isk
The lure of the dark side is strong. The promise of eternal power, magical and supernatural knowledge or even company to some is a fair exchange for ones eternal soul. Humans are the only beings walking Sosaria who actually possess a soul, the other creatures and races being too chaotic and twisted in appearance to act as vessels for a divinity. Thus it is the right of all humans, the need of the race to remain pure. It has long been argued that necromancy is the first step towards the degradation of the spirit.
Only those with
exceptional self control
can maintain their
humanity and practice the
dark art, a magical
practice which inevitably
leads one to the worship
of daemons. To worship
the ungodly daemons is to
take a regressive step as
an evolved being should
not pay homage to a
creature beneath it.
Furthermore, it is the
goal of most dedicated
necromancy practitioners
to reach immortality
through the lichdom spell
formulas or vampiric blood
magics. It has been
stated by Humanis before
that any modification to
the human form can only
create a lessening of
that form. This is
further supported by
economic theory which
suggests that success is
the result of more gain
than expenditure. In the
case of vampirism the
vampiric subject would
theoretically spend a
portion of its time
hunting for blood and
once it is found drain its
victim sending one able
bodied producer into a
weakened state while the
vampire takes on energy
for a limited time.
On the whole a society
with vampires present
experiences a drainage in
energy and thus does not
become successful. Such
an existence diminishes
the once human being into
a predatory hunter which
waists more power than
it would be able to
produce had the vampire
remained human.
In the case of liches the
spell removes the moral
aspect of the persona
turning the human
magician into a senseless
servant of the very gods
that populated the world
with orcs and elves. To
prove this one must only
look into the past to see
what previous liches had
accomplished, how anti
progressive and chaotically
violent such beings
become. The body of the
human turned lich shrivels
as muscles wither, the
appearance no longer
becomes human as the
mark of the sinner gods
becomes evident on the
lich. The mind of liches
becomes warped and
paranoid, the lich hides in
towers and dark corners
avoiding all forms of
confrontation as what
remains of their self
worth cries out in their
minds adding to the
misery of their pathetic
existence.
Is the continued destiny of humanity to triumph over the minor races and claim Sosaria as our place of dominance. For every human that modifies its body be it by technomantic implants, vampirism or anything else which changes the structure of the human form or mind there will be one more pyre on Year Zero.