Gods
The thing often called godhood is having more than 1 soul in a body, having this opens up a lot of different possibilities.
Souls are inherently magical; this causes creatures with a soul to be capable of magic through the souls connection to the world tree. With more than 1 soul that magical potential grows and gives the gods powers. Those powers can manifest in various ways depending on some factors. Basically a soul isn’t a passive thing, but it's alive in its own way. It worms and seeks to function, when you have 1 soul, that function is the passing of energy, recording and the flow of the world tree.
A note here is that having the power of a god does not mean that a person knows how to use it, training can still be a thing.
Gods do not have to be immortal, they can nearly always still die by combat(with few exceptions) and plenty also still end up dying of age. It's observed that having more souls seems to slow the aging process somewhat. It is observed that gods with a LOT of souls basically always become ageless, something in the magic just keeps their body infinitely rejuvenated.
What form that power takes depends on the type of soul taken in.
souls most of the time of intangible, they exist in the Energy plane. some souls do become physical in the world if taken from the spirit world somehow. the intention of absorption will allow you to absorb a soul(with a bit of focus training), you can theoretically absorb a soul from the ethereal plane, while being on the physical but its hard and requires a lot more training and control. The souls of a dead god that don't have a personality stay behind when a god dies, meaning they can be claimed by others.
The children of gods are gods themselves, the power of them tends to be somewhere between how many souls both the parents have (or around the 1 parent in case of some types of spirit procreation), though it isn't an exact average, there is variance, sometimes even that the child has more souls than both the parents. If 1 of the parents has only 1 soul it is observed that the child strongly trends towards that too, having only a couple souls and often being referred to as a demi-god because of that.
Souls are inherently magical; this causes creatures with a soul to be capable of magic through the souls connection to the world tree. With more than 1 soul that magical potential grows and gives the gods powers. Those powers can manifest in various ways depending on some factors. Basically a soul isn’t a passive thing, but it's alive in its own way. It worms and seeks to function, when you have 1 soul, that function is the passing of energy, recording and the flow of the world tree.
A note here is that having the power of a god does not mean that a person knows how to use it, training can still be a thing.
Gods do not have to be immortal, they can nearly always still die by combat(with few exceptions) and plenty also still end up dying of age. It's observed that having more souls seems to slow the aging process somewhat. It is observed that gods with a LOT of souls basically always become ageless, something in the magic just keeps their body infinitely rejuvenated.
Soul clusters
When souls “cluster”, which is what happens when there are multiple. only 1 core will keep those functions(there is an exception described later) the other ones take mutate to fuel their energy into what most creatures would consider magic, it brings that energy into effects of power. The core soul becomes like a center where all the other souls connect onto like a hivemind and fuel into that central one, the central soul morphs to gain enablers(described in Magic) to allow for this.What form that power takes depends on the type of soul taken in.
- empty soul, a soul that has never taken on any aspects at all, nearly always still attached to the world tree. When a person takes in this soul the power they gain depends on the personality of the souls already in the body and it will take on aspects based on what already exists.
- aspect soul, an aspect soul is a soul that has taken on aspects but isn’t a full filled soul, an empty soul when being taken into a body with a soul already will become an aspect soul based on what it took in and then retain that.
- filled soul. A filled soul is the soul of another person, something that has been the singular soul of a creature and as a result has memories and the like in it. This is the most dangerous soul to take in as the other soul can try to vie for control and possibly end up possessing you. you also do not actually gain power from this soul type until either 1 soul has beat the other filled souls into submission into a battle of the minds(this is ever only temporary under most circumstances) or until the souls agree to work together willingly(also doesn’t have to last). Even in the best of scenarios this soul can cause weirdness like loss of identity and having trouble with handling it. unless true harmony is achieved in which the creature becomes a perfect blend of the souls and basically becomes a mix between the souls inside and out. then there is actually observed a power spike from having multiple minds work together.
Taking in the souls
if any creature tries to take on more souls there will be a initial pushback, this either stabilizes or would destroy the creature(though often they can back out and expel the soul again before it is too late).souls most of the time of intangible, they exist in the Energy plane. some souls do become physical in the world if taken from the spirit world somehow. the intention of absorption will allow you to absorb a soul(with a bit of focus training), you can theoretically absorb a soul from the ethereal plane, while being on the physical but its hard and requires a lot more training and control. The souls of a dead god that don't have a personality stay behind when a god dies, meaning they can be claimed by others.
Gods and children
Gods are still limited by the species they are when it comes to having children, a god that is a biological creature still has children the normal way and a spirit also has to still pro-create the way their type of spirit would.The children of gods are gods themselves, the power of them tends to be somewhere between how many souls both the parents have (or around the 1 parent in case of some types of spirit procreation), though it isn't an exact average, there is variance, sometimes even that the child has more souls than both the parents. If 1 of the parents has only 1 soul it is observed that the child strongly trends towards that too, having only a couple souls and often being referred to as a demi-god because of that.
Gods and aspects
As already somewhat described in soul clusters. the souls gods have take on aspects, these aspects can be anything, fire, light, death, love and a infinite amount more, from emotions to species, abstract concepts or technologies, anything that is an aspect of reality even in the minds of people can be an aspect that a god taken on. While theoretically each soul can take on their own aspect and so gods ecpecially more powerful ones can have a lot of aspects, generally there tend to only be a couple as many souls take on the same aspect. These aspects are either already in place in the case of a aspect soul or filled soul. In the case of an empty soul this aspect is determined in a chaos theory like way, meaning a near infinite amount of minute factors apply to cause the result. the result tends to be based on those factors, these factors tend to be stuff like species, surrounding and personality which then congrogate into the aspect. Aspect gods are a unique type of incredibly powerful god. Normally a god stands below their aspect, being somebody that has been installed with magic related to an aspect, but in extremely rare cases, a god becomes so in touch with their aspect that they stop being subservient to it. In that case the god becomes intertwined with their concept this makes them lose their form becoming something far more, completely part of the concept they rule, the most important thing this causes is that they become immortal so long as the concept they rule still exists.
Type
Magical
Rarity
Extremely Rare
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