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The Soul is the lifeforce of a living being, comprised of a mass of Manna. It can be extracted or injected using magic.

Appearance

Souls resemble a floating sphere of manna. When an organism dies in a manner that extracts their soul, manna will pool out of their body, assemble into a soul, and float up. Souls can also form into the shape of their original host, as was the unique case with Spellbinder.^[1]

Magic users can astral-project their soul. In Gwen's case, due to her heritage, her soul is depicted as her Anodite form.^[2]

Functions

The soul of an organism provides them with consciousness and thought. When extracted, the body is not damaged, and simply goes completely limp. Beings who have subsequently been resurrected can sense to a certain degree that their soul has been extracted.^[1]

Through the use of magic, living beings are able to manipulate souls. Souls can be extracted by spells, some of which via talismans like the Staff of Ages or the Alpha Rune; they can be stored within machines such as the Sorcerer's Engine; and they can be moved and restored to their host bodies by a spell or by powerful beings such as Dagon.^[1]

Through one particular forbidden ritual, "the darkest of dark magic",^[3] a gigantic offering of souls can be traded with the "old one" of Legerdomain and exchanged with the soul of an already deceased person, materializing a physical body for them as well.^[1]

Another method of instead controlling one's own soul is astral projection, where a magic user is able to send their soul out, leaving their physical body behind in a trance-like state. This allows them to access locations or scales of reality they otherwise cannot.^[2]

History

Ultimate Alien

In The Ultimate Sacrifice, Gwen astral-projects her soul into the Ultimatrix in order to go rescue Ben after being warped inside. While there, she could perform Manna attacks as normal, and Ben further remarked that if she stayed like this for too long, like with her Anodite form, her Human body would be destroyed.

In Enemy of My Frenemy, Charmcaster built the Sorcerer's Engine to congregate the souls of 600,000 beings within Legerdomain, including Addwaitya and the trio. She bargained this with Dagon as a trade for returning her father to life. Dagon accepted, ressurecting Spellbinder as agreed. After all the souls were sent through the crack in the sky through which Dagon communicated, one single soul was sent floating down. It landed in front of Charmcaster, fully materializing into Spellbinder. However, when Spellbinder learned of his daughter's actions, he was horrified, and rescinded the deal. His body became a soul again and flew back up. As is the way of magic, Dagon returned the 600,000 souls, reviving all those who had been killed by Charmcaster.

Appearances

Ultimate Alien

• The Ultimate Sacrifice (first appearance)
• Enemy of My Frenemy

Trivia

• Anodites are a species that notably exist as bare souls, with little or no material comprising a bodily shelter for them.
  • This is evidenced by Gwen's use of her Anodite astral form being just as destructive to her Human body as her true Anodite form,^[2][3] and the fact that Charmcaster waited for Gwen to enter her Anodite form before she easily absorbed her soul with the Alpha Rune, a process that absorbed all parts of her Anodite body, including her skin.^[1]
• Dagon being able to seemingly retrieve Spellbinder's soul indicates that souls merely travel to another location upon death, and don't get destroyed on their own.
• It is unknown whether the positive happiness energy in the form of blue phantoms, that the Psyclown in Last Laugh was built to draw out, constitutes a part of one's soul.
  • This energy can similarly be removed from and put back in the body non-destructively. Though, less concretely, it also has memory of its original identity, and its effects can linger in the bodies of those completely drained of it.

References

See Also

• Manna

Mysticism
Abstractions	Manna (Soul) • Magic (Spells)
Spellbooks	Archamada Book of Magic • Gwen's Spellbook
Artifacts	Alpha Rune • Bag of Tricks • Charms of Bezel • Door to Anywhere • Seal • Sorcerer's Engine • Staff of Ages