(07-18-2016, 02:44 PM)Valence Wrote: Which brings me to:
Rowena Wrote:While the soul is indeed inimitable, we believe it possible to create a quasi-soul. Thus we turned our attention to anima─the selfsame force which allows individuals to traverse the Lifestream via aetherytes. By infusing a soulstone with the requisite quantities of aether, this force may be harnessed.
Which seems to confirm that soulstones are a collection of seeping memories and experiences, and that it just lacks a 'quasi-soul' to become awake. I would argue that in the case of job soulstones, that enabling soul is you. The interesting question would be... How much of the soulstone does pervade into you? How much bleeds in you, and how much influence does it exert on you?
Amusingly enough, I kinda played with that idea for back when Gogon was a plot villain. He ended up creating devices that basically "jolted" a soulstone to quasi-awareness using a ceruleum pool and a specific frequency of charge using lightning crystals. In addition, it was a major detail that these "awakened" soulstones were more pervasive and influential - and he had to basically overwhelm them with personal will in order to force them to obey him and relinquish their secrets. And when he let his mental guards down in the final battle...
... Well, there was a reason I basically had him in a coma for a couple real-time months. And even now he's dealing with the fallout of allowing the amalgam essence of awareness and knowledge from the soulstones to pervade his being. It's actually the primary overarching "arc" that he's on right now - though it's mostly a thing occurring in the background as more dynamic and interactive RP comes up.
It's just amusing to me that there's actual lore now about doing something similar - just with anima instead of ceruleum and electricity.
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