[ Sure, he collected them for power, but it wasn't always the soul that he purchased. Sometimes it was something else. A favor, an item. His father collected wizards and sages to conscript into forced labor in his burning palace in the chill of Cania, but while Raphael kept his debtors (and his soul pillars) there were even more within the world.
They would make their way to him eventually, upon death. ]
They live out their lives. I ask for an equivalent favor, in exchange for what they want.
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[ Sure, he collected them for power, but it wasn't always the soul that he purchased. Sometimes it was something else. A favor, an item. His father collected wizards and sages to conscript into forced labor in his burning palace in the chill of Cania, but while Raphael kept his debtors (and his soul pillars) there were even more within the world.
They would make their way to him eventually, upon death. ]
They live out their lives. I ask for an equivalent favor, in exchange for what they want.
[ All true. ]