Fabulous Knight

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@Hael@poog the pigIllunabar might be another good choice, regarding emotion.

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@MardoxExcept the wolf only feels hungry once more, and goes off to eat again...Or maybe not. Perhaps Reathos might have some followers who hunt down and kill the amalgams (as well as undead in general) in order to return their souls to the cycle.

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@poog the pigHi.

Are you joining the RP?

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@FrettzoOr you could make horrible soul-demon amalgams!

I've got an idea. Not only does a half-returned soul not contain the aspect of the element its missing, but it also feels a constant yearning to make up for this. To a simple necromantic soul, this might express itself through hopeless longing; a soul without Shadow might surround itself in knick-knacks and souvenirs from everyone and everywhere it visits, while a Soul without heart might surround itself with life.

But when you mix in a demon, the undead creature becomes much stronger, the same way concrete does with rebar. Its hunger also becomes insatiable. They feel a constant urge to fill themselves with something, anything, so they kill mortals and consume what aspect of their souls they're missing. But this isn't enough to keep them whole for long; perhaps the soul cannot ever truly be taken, and eventually Reathos takes it back from the amalgam's stomach, or it simply floats away.

Sound like something good?

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@Antarctic TermiteWhat, in general?

Uh, I guess that'd be Kheroh the High Priest of the Busque Theocracy. I don't remember a tonne about him. But...I don't think OC doughnut steel characters invented when you're seven count, right?

The second guy I made for a freeform forum RP was actually a god in an RPG along the lines of this one.

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@Antarctic TermiteWell, are the butts within reach yours? If so, go ahead!

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@Kho

Man, for reasons too obscure and shameful to explain, this guy is forever associated to me with an alcoholic Californian Catholic tabletop game developer.

Uggghhh noooooo, that's impure! You shall not defile the purity and beauty of DEATH with your occult taint!

@Kho

Ah, but that's the fun!

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@Kho
I think necromancy makes the most sense if it worked by using Mammon's occult magic. Perhaps it could be done by summoning a demon to possess a corpse, or preventing the victim's soul from leaving its body even in death.

@Cyclone

That's a...cool idea. A weak demon made much stronger by a premade physical body. It'd certainly work with the whole theme of the occult. The interactions between souls and demons would be very interesting. I could imagine monsters formed out of half-demon half-mortals, where part of their soul has been returned -- but the rest is supplanted by demons. Perhaps they would hunger for more souls to fill themselves up with. But that would depend on whether Slough/Legion/Fretzzo were down with allowing that kind of stuff to happen.

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@Lugubrious Pretty sure the whole removing elements-of-soul thing is splitting souls á la Reathos' suggestion.

I was getting a pretty big Dark Souls vibe too.

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@KhoKho be a Rtron Cyclone God?