[Shard] - Sosaria
[Type] - Philosophy
[Book] - Red 20 pages

[Title] - Keep Your Soul!
[Author] - Isk

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The lure of the dark side
is strong. The promise of
eternal power, magical and
supernatural knowledge or
even company to some is
a fair exchange for ones
eternal soul. Humans are
the only beings walking

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Sosaria who actually
possess a soul, the other
creatures and races being
too chaotic and twisted
in appearance to act as
vessels for a divinity.
Thus it is the right of
all humans, the need of

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the race to remain pure.
It has long been argued
that necromancy is the
first step towards the
degradation of the spirit.
Only those with
exceptional self control
can maintain their

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humanity and practice the
dark art, a magical
practice which inevitably
leads one to the worship
of daemons. To worship
the ungodly daemons is to
take a regressive step as
an evolved being should


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not pay homage to a
creature beneath it.
Furthermore, it is the
goal of most dedicated
necromancy practitioners
to reach immortality
through the lichdom spell
formulas or vampiric blood

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magics. It has been
stated by Humanis before
that any modification to
the human form can only
create a lessening of
that form. This is
further supported by
economic theory which

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suggests that success is
the result of more gain
than expenditure. In the
case of vampirism the
vampiric subject would
theoretically spend a
portion of its time
hunting for blood and

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once it is found drain its
victim sending one able
bodied producer into a
weakened state while the
vampire takes on energy
for a limited time.
On the whole a society
with vampires present

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experiences a drainage in
energy and thus does not
become successful. Such
an existence diminishes
the once human being into
a predatory hunter which
waists more power than
it would be able to

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produce had the vampire
remained human.
In the case of liches the
spell removes the moral
aspect of the persona
turning the human
magician into a senseless
servant of the very gods

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that populated the world
with orcs and elves. To
prove this one must only
look into the past to see
what previous liches had
accomplished, how anti
progressive and chaotically
violent such beings

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become. The body of the
human turned lich shrivels
as muscles wither, the
appearance no longer
becomes human as the
mark of the sinner gods
becomes evident on the
lich. The mind of liches

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becomes warped and
paranoid, the lich hides in
towers and dark corners
avoiding all forms of
confrontation as what
remains of their self
worth cries out in their
minds adding to the

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misery of their pathetic
existence.








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is the continued destiny
of humanity to triumph
over the minor races and
claim Sosaria as our
place of dominance. For
every human that modifies
its body be it by
technomantic implants,

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vampirism or anything else
which changes the
structure of the human
form or mind there will
be one more pyre on
Year Zero.