All living beings in Zeta have a soul. Its main purpose is to enable life by providing the energy the body needs to function, and it is the source of a being's inherent magical abilities. It also plays a hand in the personality.

The soul is composed of different types of energy clumped together in a roughly spherical shape. It sits near the heart, where it is connected to the rest of the body through the Energy Channels.

The major parts of the soul's anatomy include:

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  Life Force


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  Balance of Light and Darkness


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  Soul Cores


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  Energy Channels

Life Cycle

When a being is born, much of their soul's structure is influenced by their parents. The balance of Light and Darkness is randomly inherited from one or the other, while elemental cores can come from either source. There is always some random chance involved — a child might inherit none, some, or all of their parents' powers — but elemental cores must be received. In other words, a child will never express a power that their parents did not have unless it was placed in the soul manually.

At death, the soul disperses and is released through the energy channels in a thin strand. This energy is too diluted to be seen with the naked eye, but may be detected by a powerful mage. Once the entire soul has left the body, the energy channels themselves follow suit until there is no magical energy left inside at all.

Eventually, the soul is gathered up by Seraphim and taken to The Hereafter.