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So our erowitch has consumed a soul stone. You get to vote which one she gulped!
🕑 Added 2020-05-26 08:13:48 +0000 UTC
Soul Stones
Soul stones are identified by their deep purple color and cloudy surface that appear to encapsulate a storm itself.
The quality of a stone is determined by how long it has been accumulating souls-turned pure mana. Research conducted by the Witch's Academy's Elder Board has found that they are similar to magic crystals in that both carry mana.
However, unlike magic crystals, soul stones cannot be extracted from and have no maximum capacity and are thus believed to continue accumulating indefinitely.
*It is unknown where the mana goes. Scholars have observed the mana capacity of a familiar first summoned does not equate to the mana capacity the soul stone had stored.
One of the earliest theories believed that greater accumulated mana leads to stronger familiars. This has since been rejected.
There is currently no way to determine exactly what cardinal sin lies in a given stone. Few promising theories have emerged in modern years, but little evidence renders them nothing more scholarly guesses.
Soul stones are vital to a witch's induction into the Academy's covenant, where they must summon and bind the soul into an animal's corpse. Doing so forges a bond between the witch and her familiar.
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Witch's Academy devised names and categorized the souls by order of their strength.
Greater Souls
Pride - The Prideful Soul.
The uncontested soul capable of bringing about the end of the world. A familiar possessing this soul can drain the life of anything it comes in contact with.
The interactions between a witch and a familiar imbued with this soul is unknown. There are no documented witches with such familiars.
Pride has since been outlawed by the Council of Kings following the end of the Crimson Wars that persecuted witchcraft. Any familiar imbued with the prideful soul during the summoning is to be destroyed immediately.
Wrath - The Wrathful Soul
Torn between thousands of souls, wrath will always attempt to claw its way into existence. It's volatile summoning requires the presence of no less than three instructors, any less risks death.
A familiar imbued with this soul can magnify the spells cast by their bonded witch a near three folds.
Envy - The Envious Soul
Perhaps the most unassuming soul, envy can mimic the spells of its bonded witch.
While there is yet to be concrete evidence, it is believed the magical potency of these familiars is measured in reflection of its bonded witch's envy. If this is true, the envious soul may vie side by side with the wrathful soul in strength.
Lesser Souls
Lust - The Lustful Soul
None are as discerning as the lustful soul given its ability to identify any spells and sniff out magical signatures.
Witches with these familiars are often relegated to a kingdom's royal guard, protecting its monarch from detectable dangers.
Sloth - The Slothful Soul
No soul has received as much unneeded scholarly attention as the sloth. Whether or not these souls belong at the bottom of the hierarchy is met with great contention and has, to this day, split the witch's community down the middle.
Familiars imbued with this soul can store a single spell within its body to be cast with ten times the intensity.
Few witches regard the sloth as anything more than a duelist's familiar. Fewer still who have mastered the slothful soul need only a single spell.
Greed - The Avaricious Soul
Witches in possession of these familiars often use them as a trump card to be played last and in a pinch.
Though they cannot house magic within their bodies, the surface of their familiar's skin is laden with mana lines, reinforcing it in a defensive layer as dense as diamonds.
It draws its strength inversely proportional to the bonded witch's stamina. The weaker the witch becomes, the greater its physical capacity is.
Gluttony - The Gluttonous Soul
Gluttony is an infantile soul that grows by consuming unique mana signatures. Though the success rate is immeasurably low, successful consumption allows the familiar to adopt it's preys' characteristics.
While the weakest soul has the greatest potential to match the strength of a greater soul, it is often found destroyed by bonded witches' impatient attempts to induce rapid growth.
Comments
Vhail
I'll go with pride because if it affects Ellory persona, it can be interesting. She would take great pride will pleasing her sexual encounter, making her more dominant and Mira needs to be put on a leash (figuratively and literally) ^^
