You learn to filter it out, mostly. It's a trick of the mind. You know when you wear a ring for a long time, but you don't really notice it after a while? Your body never stops feeling it, but your brain stops paying attention.
[ you are probably not meant to be plugged into that sort of input constantly. it might not be the cause of why john is the way he is, but it certainly didn't help. it's so easy to stop seeing people as people and only notice the processes. he had to be told not to cure people's panic attacks with necromancy instead of talking to them. why shouldn't he? it all makes perfect sense to john. ]
Of course. The process is the same — the body dies, and the soul separates, which generates thanergy — but it's what happens after that matters.
Souls return to the Tree in death, but our souls are contained within our Shards, so we stay put. That's the rule; you can't get them back once they've gone.
[ he prefers not to listen to the ants gnawing and digging, even if he's confident in the integrity of the bone and his ridiculous plan, so he keeps talking. ]
I've often wondered if Shattering involves freeing a soul. Not destroying it, but a true death, assuming the soul in question is capable of a true death...
[ john has gone into the River, so he has no reason to think he would die here any more than he would in his own world, even with diminished power. not that he's eager to test that hypothesis. ]
The answers I'm looking for are unlikely to lie in that direction, so I am in no hurry to find out.
[ all this talk has also helped as a distraction to keep him from focusing too much on what he's doing. he's at least gotten to a place where he's just accepted it. ]
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[ you are probably not meant to be plugged into that sort of input constantly. it might not be the cause of why john is the way he is, but it certainly didn't help. it's so easy to stop seeing people as people and only notice the processes. he had to be told not to cure people's panic attacks with necromancy instead of talking to them. why shouldn't he? it all makes perfect sense to john. ]
Of course. The process is the same — the body dies, and the soul separates, which generates thanergy — but it's what happens after that matters.
Souls return to the Tree in death, but our souls are contained within our Shards, so we stay put. That's the rule; you can't get them back once they've gone.
[ he prefers not to listen to the ants gnawing and digging, even if he's confident in the integrity of the bone and his ridiculous plan, so he keeps talking. ]
I've often wondered if Shattering involves freeing a soul. Not destroying it, but a true death, assuming the soul in question is capable of a true death...
[ john has gone into the River, so he has no reason to think he would die here any more than he would in his own world, even with diminished power. not that he's eager to test that hypothesis. ]
The answers I'm looking for are unlikely to lie in that direction, so I am in no hurry to find out.
[ all this talk has also helped as a distraction to keep him from focusing too much on what he's doing. he's at least gotten to a place where he's just accepted it. ]