Soul Contract
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Soul Contract
Can you make a contract as a PC to steal the soul of another PC if that other PC is a warlock who's pacted?
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Re: Soul Contract
That's entirely up to the player of the Warlock in question.
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Re: Soul Contract
So they accepted, would you say it makes sense though lore wise?
Re: Soul Contract
I think if the nature of their pact is that their soul is owned (a common pact I assume), then I guess their soul is already to be owned and can't be traded again? Or it can, but whoever 'gets it' might be getting the property of a powerful demon/devil/whatever and it will come to claim what is theirs. Maybe.
Might be a definitive in-lore answer, but I think if you both agree on something there could be a lot of different and very cool stories that come from such a muddled situation. Pretty cool stuff!
Might be a definitive in-lore answer, but I think if you both agree on something there could be a lot of different and very cool stories that come from such a muddled situation. Pretty cool stuff!
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Re: Soul Contract
You'd have to have some way of getting it from whoever they're pacted to. If you can do that, I don't see why not. But it's not going to be easy or cheap, and it will probably involve a very high personal cost to you. You have to give the owner something worth as much as or more than that soul.
And under no circumstances will it allow that player to have an unpacted warlock.
And under no circumstances will it allow that player to have an unpacted warlock.
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Re: Soul Contract
My warlock once negotiated a "lease" on her soul to a third party, which was fairly entertaining.
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Re: Soul Contract
To be a warlock doesn't mean you've signed your soul away. It CAN mean that's your pact, but it could also be any other myriad kinds of pacts.
Like a Faustian pact signed with a devil. You don't give away your soul, but instead you receive powers in return for performing increasingly evil acts, which ensures that your soul ends up in hell at the end of the day without resorting to heavy-handed methods.
And I don't think devils or demons would care too much about mortals making contracts for each others souls. They don't have even close to the same potential to enforce such contracts, and even then they're still just mortals and when they die the time will come to collect on their original due anyway. What does it matter if it takes a couple of centuries longer?
Like a Faustian pact signed with a devil. You don't give away your soul, but instead you receive powers in return for performing increasingly evil acts, which ensures that your soul ends up in hell at the end of the day without resorting to heavy-handed methods.
And I don't think devils or demons would care too much about mortals making contracts for each others souls. They don't have even close to the same potential to enforce such contracts, and even then they're still just mortals and when they die the time will come to collect on their original due anyway. What does it matter if it takes a couple of centuries longer?