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[inuko]

Hey, magic knowledgeable people, how possible is it on a scale of 1 to 100 that people who have a part of what used to be your body (nail clippings, hair, blood, antlers, scales, fur, feathers) could work some kind of magic on you, specifically, with it?

I mean, more how likely do you think it is that people here can do that? Especially as more Chroma's being absorbed back into the world.

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[inuko]

I don't fully get it, but I'm surprised to hear you can get too far from your vessel... or, no. I guess I'm not. More surprised vessels don't all sound like they can choose to move on their own, depending on what kind it is.

[sivard]

Oh, nothing bad happens to the vessel when it's a person.

It's a partnership.

I haven't done it myself, but there's no reason to think it's a bad thing.

[inuko]

So, for example, when this contract is ended for whatever reason, no one dies horribly? That's nice.

[sivard]

No.

Not unless you both absorb a lot of malevolence, then you're fucked.

[inuko]

How does that end up happening?

[sivard]

It depends.

Daemons create quite a lot by themselves, and humans who absorb too much can become one. It can be created a number of ways, but the most basic one would be a person doing something that goes against his personal beliefs.

So a bad guy who kills someone wouldn't necessary create malevolence, but a man who thinks he's done something unforgivable would.

Malakhim who absorb too much malevolence become dragons, and that's as bad of news as you think it is.

[inuko]

Wait, wait, do kids make this stuff too?!

Also, dragons aren't really a bad thing where I'm from, just a really powerful one. Wise, powerful, awe inspiring, stuff like that. What you're talking about... I guess I'd have to think of it as a total corruption.

[ or Murasame going off leash, so to speak. a calamity in and of itself. ]

[sivard]

They do, yeah.
It's why Theodora and I had to find the kids we adopted a human family.

It is total corruption.
It's terrible, incurable.

[inuko]

Even by death?

[sivard]

Well, death is a cure of sorts, I suppose.

It's just not an ideal one.

[inuko]

Not for most, really... but sometimes it's what a person wants for themselves. Hard as that can be to understand, for me at least.

[sivard]

When Malakhim become like that... well, there's nothing left of them to want anything beyond the desire to attack randomly.

It's terrible, to be honest.

[inuko]

Best you can do is end it for them, before they're hurting anyone else with what they've lost. That's a terrible place for anyone to be, you're right. I'm sorry that's what your world has to deal with... things like that, they don't stop being hard.

[sivard]

It's rough, but it does help them be at peace. So that's something, I suppose.

What is your world like? I realize this has been a Zaveid Talks About His Feelings power hour.