Soul Changes

## Shift:

This is something every soul goes through, usually multiple times. This is when a soul reaches a turning point in its growth, and undergoes a sudden change to become a different type of soul. This happens first when the body that it inhabits dies. The mortal soul then turns into a shadow soul or if it goes rogue, turns into a Roʊv soul. When a shadow soul completes its task as guide and guardian to a different mortal soul, it will then be given two choices out of four depending on how it acted as a mortal soul and shadow soul.

### Types:

* Abandoning: Shift into a Roʊv.
* Ascension: Shift from Shadow to Ascended.
* Descension: Shift from Shadow to Descended.
* Awakening: Shift into an Eidolon.

## Bind:

This is something every soul goes through at least twice. These two times occur in the most common form of soul binding. This form is that of a newly formed mortal’s soul binding with a newly formed shadow’s soul. This changes how two souls interact with one another, but does not change the personalities of either one, nor does it harm them.

## Rewrite:

This is when the someone gets their soul changed either by being carved upon or erasing old runes & sigils. These runes and sigils dictate everything about the soul's identity. If these runes & sigils are removed or more are added, then the soul will be changed & also usually corrupted.

## Tether:

This is similar to the binding of two souls, but this is a more corrupted version. With binding their is both a master soul and servant soul, but there are only two souls, and it is a process all must go through, where each and every soul experiences both sides eventually. With Tethering, it is the forcing of another soul into the servitude of a different soul who already has a shadow. Although it is possible to willingly let your own soul become an extra servant soul of another, it is much more common for it to be unwillingly taken.

## Split:

This is when someone gets their soul cut into two or more pieces. This form of soul changing has the highest amount of willing participants attached to it as it benefits the soul being changed the most. When a person’s soul is split into two or more pieces, each of the new soul fragments acts as its own soul, but these soul fragments also have a collective consciousness and are psychically linked to each other. This means that each soul fragment can seem like it acts independently from one another, but there is a single will that drives all of them. The splitting of the soul does not give any performance boosts, but it does allow the person to cheat death. The reason for this is because only one of the soul fragments has to inhabit a body host for person to stay ‘alive’.

## Fuse:

This is when someone gets their own soul and the soul of their shadow fused into a single, larger, soul. If the fusion is not perfect, then the new Weir soul will be fragile and unstable; susceptible to annihilating itself when under stress. If the fusion is perfect, then the Weir soul will be neither fragile or unstable. The advantage of a Weir soul as opposed to a Mortal soul is that the Weir soul gives the body it inhabits the ability to shift between physical and spiritual, which holds many benefits, mostly in combat and movement.