Category:Soul Transference

Soul transference is among the greatest ambitions to troubles the most brilliant minds in the Land of Mists.

The principal difficulty of a necromatic approach to the problem, as Azalin himself has discovered, is finding a pair of willing participants. Neither his faithful subject Oldar nor his conscientious son Irik wanted any part of such an exchange and together they were able defeat the intentions of the lich (KoD 308-311).

The psion approach to the problem lies in the fact that the one being with both stenght and the desire to manage it has been cursed by the Dark Powers to fail in any such endeavour. The God-Brain would walk again, feel the breeze upon its face, and never will the Dark Powers allow this.

The alchemical approach has, after a fashion, proved more successful. Or at very least it gave birth to the Apparatus. This artifact can indeed exchange the souls of unwilling participants as well as split the soul in two. But its use has never ended happily.

Is not the thing cursed? Slightly less ambitious, but far less disastrous, have been brain transplantations, performed both by Dr. Victor Mordenheim and the illithid of Bluetspur.