Soulbound items

Soulbound (from the Journal of the leader of the Cult of Nia): What is Soulbound? It’s something beyond mortal understanding, that’s what it is. Somehow allowing you to hold onto items beyond death itself, and even through world resets. Now, this opens up hundreds of new questions, like if your soul stays with you through worlds, is it possible to completely maintain memory of all previous worlds? If something is linked to your soul, do you react to damage to it? Can someone destroy a soul without even touching it? Is there a way to remove it? No one knows any answers regarding these questions. All I can say is that soulbound runes are an ancient enchantment that dates back to the beginning of the universe itself. I could ask any of the celestial beings on this world, but they may not even know. Maybe they’re examples of this soulbound enchantments taken to a logical conclusion. Keeping all the energy and power they had from previous worlds...that’s something worth investigating, isn’t it? -fbimemedatabase

A concept first discovered by User, who accidentally bound a journal to his soul, and was thus able to keep a record of events of all previous worlds. No one remembered the world he came from, and no one questioned their new life in this world. User went on to study the effects of binding something to his soul, and found two ways in which an item can become soulbound. The first way was to absorb a massive amount of magic energy, which seems to have been the cause of the journal becoming soulbound. The second, however, is through a ritual that requires massive amounts of material and soul energy. While creating a link between the soul and the item, a person is extremely vulnerable, unable to move or act in any way until the ritual is completed. In one version of the world, he climbed the great tree of the world and discovered the instructions for how to complete such a ceremony. From that point on, he was able to bind items to his soul, though at great cost, and always under the threat that someone else would find out. It was only around W5 (at least, by his count) that he finally shared the secret with others, who were amazed and shocked at the revelation that they had made it through multiple resets of the world. Once the recipe was known to others, they started aquiring the resources to bind their own items to their souls, starting with journals similar to User’s own, but eventually branching out into weapons and armor, so that they might have an advantage in the next world. Nick eventually learned of the existence and knowledge of the soulbound enchantment, and tried to purge the world again. Satisfied that the people did not remember what soulbound was, Nick retreated into isolation once again. The people were smart, however. They hid their soulbound items on their bodies when they went through, and learned about the past through the journals they took with. This world would be different.This time, they knew about what they were facing. They knew how to prepare to outlast such a foe. And they knew they needed to work together to defeat the evil that kept them trapped in the endless cycle of world renewal and destruction. -fbimemedatabase