Talk:Souls/@comment-4074516-20170810225328

I might or might not make adjustements to whether or not plants and other non-sentient lifeforms have souls. The main conflict that I feel is that I wrote that mana is attracted naturally to all living things, which would include trees and plants and shit. As such, the simplest way for them to be considered "living" would be to integrate some sort of soul or lifeforce flowing through them (outer soul), or otherwise it would be hard to tell for mana what is alive and what isn't.

I could of course say that trees and plants and shit consists of multiple, singular cells which count as "mindless" organisms but are enough to justify having an Outer Soul, and them working together with each other pretty much causes their souls to fuse. However, animals also consider of bundles of singular cells, and how would I be able to differentiate between that and plants? How would the sentience of the animal come into play? After all, I plan on having the inner soul form from the animals conscious.

There is also the idea of life energy and or life force, whatever Imma call it, that I want to integrate, which would, for example, allow people to drain the greenerie (but also living creatures) around them of their life force to use it as a magical fuel, or would allow someone like Mikael to perform his magic, which pretty much is soul-based healing. Although Mikaels healing (which I am worried about being impossible with my current model) could just be changed slightly into him absorbing mana from food sources with very high efficiency and then (by manipulating the outer soul and linking it with his own, temporarily) forcing the rebuilt parts of his targets body to regenerate.