Animation: Principle/Artificial soul.

by **Laioath** on January 17th, 2013, 2:08 pm

I'd just like to make sure that Life Principle, or Artificial souls copy another animals soul? For example I cannot make a made up create that has 14 arms and legs. Instead I can have a body that has 14 legs but can only control 4, if i used a wolf as template.

Also when preforming the ritual, The lore says you have to use blood, or vital sap. So if I wanted to make miniture humanoids (i.e. my dolls) from wood come to life , do i have to use human blood, or can i use tree sap?

by **Thomas Cosa** on January 17th, 2013, 3:45 pm

So, hey. I think I might be able to answer some of your questions.

First off, the soulcore doesn't limit the astral body, which your character will shape at the end of an animation.

Your soulcore, the artifical copy, can come from wherever. You could have a human doll, metal wolf, or fourteen leg whatever, and use the same source (your soul, a wolf's soul) and have no problems.

The astral body is what you will shape to allow your fourteen leg machine full control of their limbs. Essentially, at least what I've gotten out of the lore, is that you mold the Djed that's collected with all the information and memories you used to create the persona and directives, and shape that to the needed areas. Like, you have a memory where you hear a dog barking, so your automaton can recognize a dog's bark, and you place that where the ear would be.

So, to the fourteen legs, as long as you teach your golem to move with fourteen legs, it can do that.

As a human, you'll always use blood. The animator has to use their life force, blood, ichor, as a sacrifice to start the ritual. I think it's the same in all world magics.

Hope that helps! And I'm relatively new, but I think I explained it well -- if you have any more questions, I'd be happy to try and help!