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Dual Nature
The soul. The spirit of every thing in existence. Anything can have a spirit, a cow, your cat, the rock you stepped over on your way to school, even your bike.
Such a thing is not unheard of. Human philosophers have long debated what makes us human and many with religious implications point to the state of the soul. The consciousness that seems to separate us from the rest of nature. If everything has a soul, a spirit, a consciousness, then wouldn’t that make humanity part of nature?
Everything has a soul. The spiritual awareness that taps into the surrounding environment and allows interactions with it. It gives the pulse of life and the eb and flow of nature and her seasons. The earth has a spirit (a massive one it is), as does the sun, the moon, stars, space. The soul is what connects everyone to everything, in essence, it is the metaphysical bindings of what all that we have ever known and ever will know.
A select few have the capability of summoning their own spirit forth, manifesting it as the raw potential they can draw upon. Each soul is different in its manifestation, some slither like shadows, while others explode into being. The danger comes when the soul is destroyed while manifested. It can then be affected by physical damage and when destroyed, the mind and body cease to function, possibly killing the individual.
Sometimes the spirit can manifest as an individual, as armor, or just as a glow around its mind and body. It can act either independently, fulfilling the mind or body’s true desires, or restrain itself. Nothing is impossible for those that have the will and capability.
The soul that everything has is singular. There is one soul/spirit to every person, animal, rock, tree, body of water, anything. This is the natural order of the world, of the universe, and cannot be tampered with.
There are rumors… however.
Rumors of people with more than just a single soul. Those who have two.
The human mind and body can normally only support one soul, the deeper inner workings of who they are and what they are truly capable of. But those with two souls seem to be in perfect balance. Conflicting forces of chaos and order, yin and yang, light and dark. Mixing together to form a whole individual who without one extreme of their soul ceases to affect anything in the world. Each side of these “dual souls” fights with the other, demanding more control over the mind and body that they share. Such combat can tear the person apart at the seams.
Yet these “dual natured” souls have been appearing, just as quickly as they are torn apart. Is it the next step in humanity’s evolution as it continues to tear itself away from nature, or nature’s own reaction to the atrocities that human kind has reaped.
I bid everyone a good afternoon as I work on my latest project/RPG idea that has been annoying me for quite some time. The basic idea is that the soul is normaly a singular entity within all things. The only reason we can’t see it is because well, a rock doesn’t communicate the same way a tree does. Everything in existence has a spirit, and a few of those can manifest that soul in order to defend itself or gain more power over its influence.
Now, there are those that have Two-Souls, conflicting aspects of their own personality that together make them whole, but separate can destroy them.
Factions:
Dual Natures: Those few humans who have two Souls, and can draw on either one to win a conflict. These are really powerful, and can manifest the souls in more ways than one. Making for difficult battles and the only way they might die is by sheer numbers.
Singular Unity: The faction of Soul Manifesters who have only one soul. They are the majority in the Manifesters and this organization seeks recruits regularly and helps to train them in manifesting their souls as well as weeding out the Dual Natures. Their soul Manifestation only has one single manifesting of the soul’s power, be it armor, a guardian, or just a flaming aura that allows them to manipulate everything as if by thought alone.
Humans: Regular mortals caught in the middle between the sects. More numerous than either side, their strength is both in numbers and fear of what they do not understand.
Government/Millitary/Law Enforcement: The battle between the Soul Manifesters has raged long enough to gain the attention of the local government. They will seek, capture, or destroy anyone or thing that can manifest it’s true self. Those they capture, they will test and test and test to learn how to harness the soul’s raw potential while the others will just die.
Mother Gaia: Animals can manifest their souls as well, although in a way unfamiliar to humans. Nature acts on its own behalf, following the tenants of Natural Selection and evolution for survival of the species. There are various sects within this faction, each pertaining to different kingdoms, elements, and even ecosystems. Humans can side with this faction, realizing their place within nature and trying to decipher the inner-workings of the soul. Examples: Shamans, spirit talkers, voodoo witch doctors, witches, druids.
Neutral: The fight may not concern this faction, but it could get them involved should circumstances arise.
Terms, Drawbacks, Powers:
Manifestation: The act of drawing the soul/spirit into the physical world and abide by its laws. A manifestation is unique to the individual, and can take one of many forms:
Armor: Shielding the mind and body with armor
Transformation: Combining the soul’s power into the body and transforming the body into an amalgamation of the base form with the soul’s true form.
Summoning: Summoning the soul similar to a beast from another dimension. Many combat-oriented souls are like this, and can take a lot of punishment from objects and other souls.
Aura: Gives the Mind more awareness to that which is around the manifester. Can also manipulate objects and items similar to psychokinesis.
All Dual Natures are able to use the above manifestation forms, each at varying strengths. Those with one soul can only use one, or on rare occasions, two of the above abilities when manifesting their souls.
A Dual Nature can summon both parts of their soul into the physical world. However, when they summon one, the presence within the body and mind is minimized to where the other half plays more of a role. When they summon both, the manifester seems detached, half-dead, and sluggish in their movements and commands. Such a strain of summoning their spirits can push them to the edge of their own power, and the backlash from calling forth their two souls could put them in a coma very easily.
Those with one Soul only suffer a lessened effect of having the soul brought into the physical world.
Powers: These are as variable as the winds. Elemental, battle, mental, any power is possible to those who can Manifest their own souls.
Current Characters:
Dual Natures (7)
Mew Master
kalad1
firepokémon
Zeno (Herald)
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Singular Unity (any number)
Kane Stachmeyer (Blademaster)
Verde Moss (Green Lantern)
Humans (Any Number)
Government/Military/Law Enforcement (Any Number)
Angelo Lazard (Mystic-Clown)
Mother Gaia (5)
Vivian Fey (Drusilla)
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Neutral (Any number)
Kel the Wicked (Crystal Tears)
Sign-up Form
Name:
Age:
Sex:
Faction: (If Gov/Mil/Law, please state which part of the faction you are in)
Spirit: (name of your Soul/s)
Manifestation: (How your Spirit manifests itself)
Spirit’s Personality: (Because they have one, sometimes a 180 of how someone acts)
Spirit’s Description: (physical description of the Manifestations)
Main Powers: (the main abilities of the Soul/s when manifested)
Description: (the person's description)
Personality: (their personality)
History: (their history)
Other: (relationships, quirks, habits, ect...)
*Reserves one Dual Nature spot for himself*
Let’s get started… shall we?
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