One of my favorite details from the old tabletop RPG Mage The Awakening is that souls are fungible. You don't need your soul back, you just need a soul.
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The soul is a boolean function.
Sounds a little like the fantasy novel Warbreaker, where the "soul" can be used to give life to non-living objects including corpses.
In setting that's different from the soul itself. Biochromatic breath is part of the spiritual plane, but it's a piece of Endowment, not the spiritual aspect of the person who has it.
Yeah but there were entire cultures that thought of the biochromatic breath to be their soul while others simply saw it as a kind of currency or fuel for their magic system. The world is very rich with different beliefs over the same thing.
Your comment made me realise that I've been conflating the meanings of "fungible" and "miscable" for years.
(Me, who works in finance) ya, that's fair.
(Me, who works in finance as well) nods
If only it didn't pay so well, I can't go back to paycheck to paycheck ๐
Sure you can!
Once the global economy crashes because America did a "really fucking stupid finance bros" again.
I don't want to live the American dream ๐ข
Seen this happen in real time actually
I feel like there's a story here!
not for long ;)
that panel design gives it heavy meme template potential
I'm assuming you mean speculative finance and not the people in the back office making sure most businesses don't run out of money.
When people say Job in finance they aren't talking about accountants or clerical workers.
Or human resources!
or the trump admin
Or marketing
Good thing she wasn't at a Republican convention, she'd be SOL!