>>6069489“All new avenues of arcane have their… Hiccups,” Ayla comforts you, rubbing your back you retch.
“I know that!” you snap. “But… But its eyes… They were in such pain.”
“That’s why I didn’t do it,” Ayla admits. “And… Anyway, I HAVE a soul. It’s not like yours—or, rather, not like the other, uh… Not like Ezreal’s. Or like HERS. But it’s mine… it’s ME. Before you gave me this body, I had that spirit. It was ALL I had. I wouldn’t… I could never replace it.”
But you have no such thing. Even as you master these Dark Arts, you are painfully aware of how parasitic you have become, drawing your arcane ability from the blood and spirit of other living things, or relying upon the ‘materials’ summoned up by Izirina-Ayla. But with your latest spell…
>GAINED: <Ectoplasmic Enhancement>>You can take raw magic harvested from living beings, or summoned from the Elemental Planes, and force it into a being; this can make it more inherently magical, or powerful, and can even give an ‘unsouled’ being an approximation of a spirit, and a permanent MP pool if it lacks one…You could change that. The only thing, of course, is that you would be doing in effect what the Dark Gods once did: taking a part of the universe—the flow of life through the Prime Material, or a <Summoned Elemental>, and forcing it into awareness without its consent. You would be creating an immortal being and forcing it to think and feel as you do, to imitate and embody you, and to suffer as you and ALL living things must suffer… All to serve your purposes, to give YOU power and a truer ‘life’.
(Well, and it’s blatantly necromancy, an art that even Death Himself abhors, to say nothing of the Gods of Light)
Do you do it?
>Yes, you will augment your body and give yourself a brand new soul through Black Magic>No, you will remain a soulless goblinoid>Write-in 