[ OPEN ] Let No Soul Hunger For Justice: An Inquiry.

[fleurdesel]

FORM: Sending Crystals
SENDER: Adelaide LeBlanc
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Vaguely philosophical question time
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Part of Let No Soul Hunger For Justice.

[ Adelaide’s voice is even, if tired- but what else is new? Still this is a requirement for the next ritual and to that end, she must find some sort of acceptable truth from a variety of opinions. Sequestered in ‘her’ desk in the Library, full pot of coffee warmed to one side, sheaves of blank paper and bottles of fresh ink before her. To her right? Anders with a similar set up, papers, quills, ink- a kitten. To her left, Roul to take just as many notes. Prepared as they are ever going to be- she asks. ]

A few questions for the Inquisition:

What is a soul, truly? What fundamental differences are there between a mortal’s soul and the embodiment of a spirit? Is it the culmination of our thoughts and experiences, our emotions? Is it a combination of our self given purpose and our ambition?

A mortal might change their purpose, might grow and become more due to our experiences- most spirits do not. But what more than that? What sets one soul apart and makes it distinct from another? Can the same be said of similar spirits?

Answers need not be religious or academic- merely true. What do you believe to be the difference, what do you believe to be a soul?

[ ooc: threadjacking is welcome and encouraged ]

Comments

[justice_is_blond]

He landed in a corpse when initially flung, and survived there for several months. There were problems with that, beyond the fact that corpses fall apart. He'd residual memories and feelings from the man whose body he had. If he moved every several months, he'd lose himself entirely in no time. A host who agreed with his ideals seemed the best solution.

Things did not go as planned or hoped.

[dragoon_pride]

How strange... so even though the body was dead, the... person in there remained somehow? [Very creepy thought, in a way.] Not what I would call a pleasant living environment, no... But then if he didn't intend to get flung out here in the first place, why did he not seek a way to return? Or couldn't he, at that point? Or... did he even want to?

[Does that spirit want to leave now, even? He knows it seems that the spirit is more or less stuck there at the moment, but still...]

[justice_is_blond]

We couldn't find a way to get him back, and our resources were very limited. It was mostly me and him trying to figure things out, and the environment was fairly hostile.

[Heavily hostile, in the end.]

Small library, people who want you dead, people who if they knew what he was would want him dead as well and would probably brand you as maleficar and then have grounds for killing you are, oddly enough, not conducive to finding out a great deal of anything.

[dragoon_pride]

Right, that wouldn't exactly be a great way to start off a conversation. Hardly an easy topic to discuss around here in general.

[He knows well by now how others feel about the matter and Anders overall. He gets it, but he's still an outsider to all of it, in the end.]

It sounds like you did what you had to at the time, and as much as you could.

[justice_is_blond]

[Little does Kain know that this came about before Anders had even done anything wrong save run away for the sake of freedom seven times.]

I did. Maybe this will mean more options in the future should others wind up in similar situations.

[dragoon_pride]

[It really is a difficult situation to be in. Which is why he can’t completely go along with what everyone’s told him. If he did that, it feels like he’s got no hope for his own situation.]

I’d hope so. It can be easier for others to walk a path that someone has already made for them. Perhaps that will be the case here.

[justice_is_blond]

It would be nice to find a way that does not doom one or both caught in the situation, yes. Even nicer would be something that can be done quickly. If someone's fallen under the hold of a demon, there are only moments to act. At best.

[dragoon_pride]

That really isn't much time to work with. But if there were some way to stop it as it's happening, or before... not to mention also dealing with those already possessed...