Souls

"*Your soul will grow with you, one day you will awaken it and find paths open to you that were previously unimaginable*" - **The Old One** sitting on a bench with a stranger

### Significance

The soul is a key component in the Mysterious Legacy unique spirit. The soul can allow any ordinary person to specialize in the strengths their awakened or even unawakened soul could provide. The main component of the average souls is

A. Soul Minimum, The soul minimum increases with the more abilities or physical attributes a being attains. Those with a large soul minimum are incapable of using their abilities for long as their soul excess easily strikes this bottom bar and must recover to use their unique abilities once more.

B. Soul "Overheal" Excess, The soul excess is the expendable portion of the soul, it replenishes naturally but the rate is variable depending on the person, substances consumed, or soul variant.

C. Potential Soul Enhancements, pertains to the materials that can temporarily enhance the quality of the soul, some dumb down the user as to lower their soul minimum while others can permanently enhance the average soul excess depending on the substance used. Though it is important to notice some may permanently damage the soul, fluoride is known to weaken the soul but it really doesn't do much.

The last portion of the soul is its **Color**

### Souligate

The souligate is an organ that works to more efficiently channel the soul into physical manifestations, the souligate is a rare organ that requires a second soul to reach its full potential. In order to achieve this max potential a Souligate originator must desire some kind of relationship with another and risk the dangers of losing everything should they leave. When a being bonds with another, their souligate splits in half and lodges itself into the recipients cavity and attaches to their vascular system. From there the souligate gains a 50% increase in excess as the two souls share the burden of existence, this cannot be done with one large souls as it is more akin to electricity or fluid piping, can't funnel in and push out through the same pipe, unless its a circle like in the souligate's case.

If ever one is to break a bond, two things will happen as consequence. The souligate originator will be limited to half their strength permanently, though they can re-pair to get it up to 75%, while the other will retain the soul boost. Some recipients learned to take advantage of vulnerable counci to collect their souligates, many however understand that a strong souled human is bad news as many have accumulated counci souligates and are bloodsuckers.

Those with souligates will die once reduced to a twelve of their strength but even before that point other issues can occur. Realizing ones lost potential can indue a depression in the souligate originator, they will lose their stamina and strength, many lose their mental stability of they were polymaths before. One can reverse all of these effects through a surgery that will deactivate the souligate and leave on permanently with a grey soul until they reset their very soul. Even the depression is mostly gone as without their weak powers to remind them of what could have been, they no longer wish to grow something they don't have the ability to even start. Some liken it to a man with bad legs being bound to a wheelchair, though the analogy is often not too accurate unless your legs were a burden.

### Trivia

- The soul diagram was inspired by *Team Fortress 2's* overheal mechanic

-Akkens was the first person to have his souligate removed, It was all transferred to Yimaya as she had the remaining 75%. She didn't see anyone else the relationship is just on and off sometimes. Probably because they are hundreds of years old.

-Counci/Mortal souls combine to create a super species inbetween that is stronger in the soul than their parents, they were inspired by the Primarchs of *Warhammer: 40k*