Soul Swapping?

[Loxmardin]

And I imagine that resurrections would be so much more difficult than they already are if you have to find and fetch the proper soul to push back into the body without the bonds that ties the soul to its container.

Imagine how many resurrections would've gone wrong, in that case!

[Duraza]

I'm pretty sure the human body does not just -die- once the soul is gone, it's just like a mindless shell. Brain should still work, all organs are not damaged, and they have no reason to just stop working.

It does just die. At least, I don't think we should assume that if you remove someone's soul from their body there is some time limit before the body stops working. Its not like they are slowly bleeding to death. Removing the soul IMO should result in flat out death of the body.

http://www.wowpedia.org/Soul

According to WoWwiki a Warlock captures the soul in the final moments of life. This means you'd be trying to shove a soul into a corpse. The organs won't be working so it probably wouldn't work.

[McKnighter]

No. Like otehr have stated in this thread, I have also read that a soul is bound to it's body. First of all, you'd need a ridiculous amount of work to even force the soul into another body that isn't it's own. And if it would succeed. Both the body and the soul would be failing quickly. Important body systems would shut down and the soul would get confused.


EDIT: Secondly, how would you get a priest and a shaman or druid to help a warlock? That. . .Is almost even more difficult.

For the above statement, a Necromancer/Priest/Druid/Shaman would have to keep the body alive, while the warlocks fuse the -Soulstone- of the Forsaken into the soulless body of the human.

And how will Redis gather this help? Either by paying them, or finding another means. *Cough Cough* Annabelle *Cough Cough* might do this dirty deed. Otherwise, I'm sure there's some dark side Shamans that'll help for a reward.




As I said in my last statement, I'm planning to use a Soulstone to hold the Forsaken's soul in place. It should be able to keep the entire soul, or most of it, intact as it is used to bring the target back to life.

http://www.wowpedia.org/Soulstones



The healer(s) would keep the body alive by infusing their magic, I guess it would be similar to Necromancy, so it is possible that we would have to have a Necromancer in order to instruct the healers what to do. The soul of the human would have to be removed, then ASAP, the soul of the Forsaken would have to be infused into the body in order to keep it alive and working.


The body might not accept the soul, in which possibly Shadow magic or Fel would have to force the soul into the vacant space.


Yes, -many- things can go wrong just attempting this. I do think it is possible, regardless. I know, this is walking the line of OP. The Forsaken's soul may fuse with parts of the human's , causing split personalities, or perhaps they both fuse to create a whole new being.

[Roxas65]

Darkside shamans? That was new for me. Shamans are Shamans, not jedi. Shamans do what the spirits say, and if they do something the spirits do not approve, they lose their powers temporarily.

[Loxmardin]

Darkside shamans? That was new for me. Shamans are Shamans, not jedi. Shamans do what the spirits say, and if they do something the spirits do not approve, they lose their powers temporarily.

Or, rather, the spirits simply refuse to lend them their powers.

[Xigo]

So let me get this straight.

You're going to have a Necromancer instruct healers (Most likely Priests or Shamans, whom both have valid reasons to hate Necromancers) to keep a body alive so that the soul can be sucked out of it and a new soul can be put into it, most likely by a Warlock? (Once again, whom Priests and Shamans have valid reasons to hate). Also, the person having their soul transferred will be a Forsaken. (Rinse, Lather, Repeat)

I just want to understand what you're planning perfectly.

[c0rzilla]

*Cough Cough* Annabelle *Cough Cough*

*narrows eyes* Excuse me? ;p

[Roxas65]

Xigo is right. This is lore breaking on so very, very, very, VERY many levels and quite frankly, you should just forget about it.

[Jeff]

I don't think this could happen, no matter how quickly you remove and attach the new soul. Souls are kind of... extracted upon the death of someone and planted into a soulstone. It'd involve killing both of them. Even then, when you release the soul it'd just go back to its own body if I remember right.

[Piroska]

Regardless of the feasibility (and I'm another one of the people leaning towards the "not possible" header), I do not think that the staff should allow it. The underlying reason is simple: we currently don't allow humans or blood elves to become Forsaken and we don't allow living characters to die to become death knights. By extension, we shouldn't allow characters to die and come back in new bodies of different races or classes.

[Relapse]

Alright, I have a question.


Warlocks, IG, have a spell that puts the target's soul into a shard, so when they die, they come back to life.


Now, the idea that is in question is that is it possible for a warlock to take the soul of a Forsaken, then put that soul into a human body?

The soul of the human could either be put into another shard, or be banished into the Twisting Nether.


I think this would be interesting, but I'm not suggesting it's something someone can just pull off. It would have to take at least a week to have the ritual set up, -nothing- can do wrong or both souls, and the warlock, could be destroyed.

I thought I heard somewhere that the GM's said that you can use any skills that you have IG, so I just want some yes's or no's about this. I think it would be very interesting to RP out....

Thoughts?

Why does this remind me of Voldemort?

[McKnighter]

It shouldn't...


Voldemort split his soul 7 times, having 7 objects that held his soul. As long as one survived, he could never die.

This was different, but I'm dropping it. GM trumps me. :3

[Bovel]

Possible, yes.
Something that should be avaliable for us "mortals", I'd have to say NO!

[Binkleheimer]

It shouldn't...


Voldemort split his soul 7 times, having 7 objects that held his soul. As long as one survived, he could never die.

This was different, but I'm dropping it. GM trumps me. :3

That's different.
The horcruxes were phylacteries for all intent and purposes.