Not inhabiting something with a brain, and being ‘felted’ together, so to speak, instead of sloughing off the mortal coil fully formed, personality and all, they aren’t properly sentient, and don’t have thoughts in the way a cipher could read, though they can be and often are highly opinionated with goals and motives of their own, very much shaped by the circumstances that ‘birthed’ them(2).īefore the Engwithans built the gods, this was demonstrably a fairly quick process. As those bits tend to be shed in kith-shaped places, like buildings, and around kith-made objects, like swords, sometimes they stick to those places and things instead, and, when they reach critical mass, get stuck in them, instead of forming a new soul and returning to the wheel.
A kettle of fish and white rats, even(1).Īs souls move through the wheel, especially on the life-to-death end of the spectrum, but also at all other points, they shed ‘dust’, little bits of knowledge and experience that under ideal circumstances eventually stick together and gain enough critical mass to form a whole new soul. Like, not even related to each other different kettle of fish. It’s late, I’m having A Month, let’s talk about ghosts.Įxcept we’re not talking about ghosts, we’re talking about hauntings, which in pillars terms is a *completely* different kettle of fish.
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