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Introduction
It's certainly been a long time since I made one of these. The following is the first of many changes and additions to God of War, this time focusing on correcting and applying an aspect of the magic system that's mostly been ignored, namely how certain powers interact with the fact that all souls are manifestations of the settings' Universal Energy System.
Power Nullification, Absorption and Soul Potency
As long established on the Magic Explanation Page, magic, life-force and the soul are the same entity in God of War, with the latter just being constructs of the former. Not only that, but magic is also the fundamental energy of the setting, with all abilities and physicality stemming from it as a result.We see many examples of this in action already detailed on the page, but there's even a relatively direct showcase of Kratos physically diminishing Alrik by purging the souls the latter had just absorbed out of him. Not only that, but upon going back in time, Kratos recovers his powers from the Blade of Olympus but not his godhood. This is important as he no longer had the soul of a god after Zeus stripped him of his power, directly altering the former's soul.
Thus, any feats and showcases of nullifying and absorbing magic would be equivalent in potency to affecting the soul, and vice versa.
Soul Magic
Currently, almost every God of War page is plagued by any feat of manipulating and affecting souls needing to contain this: “Mind Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Probability Manipulation, Non-Physical Interaction and Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1): Souls are composed of their form, the metaphysical nature of a being, their luck, their mind and their direction, which guides their path to their respective afterlife as per Mimir's words. Damaging souls can shatter and fragment their memories as a consequence.”Not only does this have the issue of heavily bloating our pages, given it has to be repeated each time something relating to souls happens (which is very much a lot in the verse), it's actually missing some abilities, and therefore is worsened as it is inaccurate as well.
Since the magic explanation page has long since established that magic and the soul are synonymous, all such instances will link to the General Abilities section and be labeled “Soul Magic” and just have the specific feats themselves listed.
TL;DR
- The large block of abilities associated with affecting souls in God of War gets relabeled Soul Magic.
- Soul Magic and Power Nullification/Absorption potency should be equivalent.
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