Souls Information

## Souls Health

Since the sanctuary beginning, residents have tried to figure out How to take care of their soul. Here’s what they have discovered since.

1. The souls are an agglomeration of energy that they can shape based on their consciousness. Therefore, the consciousness is created when the energy condense in a small space.
2. The consciousness often keeps an imprint of their past energies. Those energies, whom people can call memories or feelings, are often kept when passing away as a form of contentment. As such, many souls that dies retain their physical appearance and their memories. Other, less connected to their physical bodies, embodies other forms of spiritual beings, such as willow-wisps, or energy flow.
3. The Sanctuary has been created by wishes of people. Therefore, what the energy imprint of the sanctuary makes it look like a version of the place souls lives when they reincarnate.
4. As some souls have gathered more or less energy, they have a certain upper hand over others. Those irregularities have created three types of souls : Alpha, Beta and Omega.
	1. An Alpha souls have gathered more energy based on powers and strength. They have the upper hands on Omegas in brute force, and can mark them. However, they are weaker to the spiritual cunning of the Omegas. Many of the Alpha souls carried strength based mentality in their past lives.
	2. The Omega soul is one that is weaker in strength, but wiser than the Alphas. Those are souls that have passed numerous lives learning and trying a more passive approach. As such, they can entice Alphas and imprint them to keep the upper hand.
	3. A beta soul is one that have experiences both the Alpha and the Omega phase in their previous life. They are more balanced than any other and as such, do not suffer from irregularities. It is also important to note that the soul becomes a certain way based on their actions in past lives. That does not stereotype them in the life they are at the moment. As such, an Alpha could be quite passive and an Omega, quite aggressive. This present life will gather the energy required for the next one.
5. Souls require a constant stream of energy to keep them conscious. As such, it is important that they consume energy around them. In the Sanctuary, that energy takes the form of consumables, like potions, drinks and food. A bit like the living would have. If souls don’t have that stream of energy, they’ll disappear and won’t be able to reincarnate until fed again ; and this could take centuries.

## Souls Ritual

Rituals and festivities are a common source of joy in Viverian. Many of them are on the calendar and are self-explanatory, but soul rituals aren’t one of them. Soul rituals are experiences that the soul can have at some stages of their life, and only once. They provide them with resourceful insight about their soul and can give them the right amount of information in order to be more stable in their next life.

### Soul cleansing

Soul cleansing is available to every new resident when they first arrive. The soul cleansing resets their souls, giving them a new start within the sanctuary. It shattered your old beliefs and knowledge of your entity and creates yourself a new “you”, basically giving birth to you in the sanctuary.

### Soulmate Switch

The day prior of a soul reach their “maturity”, which means 20 years of life within the sanctuary, they can accept a ritual called soulmate switch, where both of the soulmates switch place for 24 hours. They will then arrive exactly at the palace of their soulmates and can try and gather information about them if they so desire. The souls who switched keep their own spiritual imprint, meaning their own form. Many people who are interested to meet their soulmates will do this ritual and be accompanied of a friend or a family member, who will then collect information on the soul that took their place for the day. That way, when they come back, their friends or relatives can tell them all about their soulmates. Another way is to leave instructions in the room they do the rituals. Many Viverian will let a paper with several questions on it, so their soulmate can answer them, facilitating the research afterward.

### Soul mending

Soul mending is a ritual made with regenerative water and regenerates the soul. It uses the energy imprint as well as the magic found in the sanctuary to do so. Souls can do this ritual many times in their life, and is particularly useful after being wounded by other souls.

### Soul power

When souls arrives in the Sanctuary, they cannot use magic nor psychic powers. Those abilities are blocked out of them as their astral form have quit their physical form, the vessel for those powers. The soul power ritual allows those souls to tap back into their power and regain them. It can also assist new souls that were created in the sanctuary to tap into Blue Magic as well as many types of psychic powers.

### Soul marking

When two souls want to spend their next life together, they can do this ritual and “mark” themselves in order to enter the same universe at the same time. In some cases, those souls are not able to meet even so, but the majority are able to meet themselves back. On rare occasions, friends have made these rituals, although it is mostly restricted to weddings and couples.

### Lesser soul marking

This ritual is the result of an Alpha marking an Omega with their soul signature. This ritual works as the soul marking. As romantic as it sounds, it is problematic because unlike soul marking, where the souls must be synchronized for the ritual to work, the lesser soul marking can be done to anyone. An alpha could then condemn an omega energy to pass their next life with them, for better or worse.

### Soul imprinting

As a retaliation of the previous ritual, Omega energy can imprint on an Alpha energy. This imprint works the same as a marking, and bears the same effects and consequences as it’s alpha counterpart.