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Lorekeeper -> RE: Lore: Anima (4/10/2020 12:56:01)
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As Truth would tell you in a rare occasion of being truthful, the soul is the essence of life. Be it biotic or necrotic, life must have a soul in order to endure - It's not lightly that Forsaken are called, and constantly feel, doomed.
In physical beings, their identity is where the material and ethereal intersects, each shaping the other. How the ethereal benefits the physical before the moment of death varies wildly, while the reverse is ongoing growth and sustenance. The act of living grows and restores the constituent energy of the soul: Anima.
This energy has a charge, with positive anima being the evolutionary path of least resistance for biotic life while negative anima is a consequence of most forms of undeath. This is why even older forms of necromancy lost to Lorian magi can manipulate necrotic lifeforms with negative anima; the overlap is almost complete.
Now, this in turn leads to a number of question. How these charges interact, how corporeal undead do differ from necrotic life, whether or not the living could make active use of their Anima like incorporeal beings do... And, of course, how this energy behaves. Particles? Waves? The screams of frustrated physicists?
Stay tuned.
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