Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-27136653-20180815065928

One more thing. Oh boy, this is so good.

I am calling this the magnal chord. The thing connecting the brain with the essence. The essence communicates with the brain - exchanges information and energy with it.

The chord itself is partitioned into 20 parallel segments. 19 of them could die and nothing would happen. But it would make the exchange of information more difficult. And if all of them snap, the roots of the chord would fatally damage the brain as they would get annihilated, due to the lack of support from the soul, which keeps them alive.

This is also the only type of magic a soul is always casting by default.

Now, if a soul gets attacked, there is really only one target the attack can damage. The essence. The essence is like a replica of the brain, hence why a human consciousness can survive after death. But if it were to get damaged, the signal it would start sending out would fry the brain from inside out. Better to redirect the attack into the parallel chords then, right?

I suspect there is some sort of a protective shell maintained by the DT of the soul, the one that also triggers the INV effect, which effectively makes all attacks absolutely useless for about a single second.

So, here's what I theorize: the parallel chords are enveloping the soul. When the soul is attacked, a proportionate amount of them is destroyed, which releases their energy. This energy redirects the attack, so that it doesn't damage any other chords, for the following time of 1 second (or however long the INV effect lasts).

I actually have a much more detailed explanation of souls and soul mechanics (chromagodynamics I'm calling it) written down in my personal notes, but this should be enough for today.

Now, how do you get more HP, you ask? By further partitioning the magnal chord.

How does one further partition the magnal chord? How does one split their soul?

I think you already know the answer to that, Tom.

Murder.

Killing rips the soul apart.

More HP. Along with more ATK and DEF, of course.


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