I took it as that the Son of Yudhe inspired her to focus on creating souls: she had already done so, but by working with the Son she could do so reliably, and gained greater appreciation for the soul. That further fits in with the shift from wild, chaotic shapes of the Primal Gods to the more specific Star Gods - a progression from random chaos to directed - and perhaps restricted - creativity.

EDIT: Man, this has gone beyond 'simple questions', and is something which would be interesting to discuss ICly.

I still say Yudhe was a Soulless from a previous universe.

Hrm, perhaps this could explain the Awakened Spirits as well, seeing as they are latent spirits, filled with Dynara's essence. The Sixth Circle then directs Dynara's raw latent essence into a 'star-shape', directing them into a spirit/soul.

Yeah, I actually also have some plans written down to develop a discussion on the distinction between body, mind and soul.
For example, is it possible to exist with a mind and body but without soul? See Soulless.
Mind and soul without body? See Elostian and Auseklis.
Body and soul without mind? Here's where I got stuck.

Your mom.

Here's how it all works:

Soul: Created by Dynara accidentally, or by Dynara+Son of Yudhe. Son of Yudhe's contribution to the Elder-making process was showing Dynara how to intentionally make souls every time, rather than only doing it by accident. This is the thing that lets you be aware of your own thoughts, emotions, etc and contemplate what it would be like if you didn't have those, or had different thoughts, emotions, etc. Probably also important to having an inner life to you, but we can't know one way or another. The Problem of Other Minds is alive and well in Lusternia.

Star God: A god with distinct pairs of legs and arms along with a single head. All of this is attached to a single torso.

Non-Star God: Crazy mashups of random parts, like Kethuru or Dracnoris or Keph.

Soulless God: A Non-Star God which does not have a Soul.

Herald of Magnora: A Soulless God that Magnora decided not to kill out of spite.

Primal God: A Non-Star God that does have a Soul.

Elder God: A Star God that has a Soul.

Spirit: A sentient, animistic essence found in everything in Lusternia. Spirits think, have memories, emotions, ect. Spiritfulness is an intrinic property of matter in Lusternia, unlike soulfulness.

Awakened Spirit: A spirit that has been 'woken up' and is now animate and/or intellegent

Fae: An awakened spirit created from some natural thing, like a specific mountain, or a specific lake or a flower.

Great Awakened Spirit: Like a fae, but broader. Rock is the spirit of all of the mountains everywhere, Lake is all of the lakes rivers and streams, Moon is that whole planet.

Animal: An organism pocessing a spirit which animates it. Yes, the same sort of spirit that is in a lake or something. This just happens to be an animal spirit, rather than a lake spirit.

Plant: Just like an animal, except it doesn't move and hopefully doesn't feel pain when you chop into it. At the very least, it doesn't scream or anything.

Elemental: An awakened spirit created by a mage out of some non-natural thing, like a pile of clay, or an ice sculpture that they made.

Ghost: A thing leftover when someone dies, that is definately not a soul. The soul goes off and gets reincarnated. Possibly, a ghost is the mortal's spirit. It certainly seems plausable, anyways.

*coughthemoonisnotaplanetcough*

That's what they say about Pluto.

You know what I mean!

Damn natural satellites, trying to make themselves look like planets. Tsk on them.

What was the name of the six "leaders" in the Wayfaire.

Our Moon is larger than ex-planet Pluto, and Ganymede (moon of Jupiter) is larger than Mercury.
In fact, if they were orbiting the Sun instead of Earth/Jupiter, they would qualify as planets themselves.
Taking an astronomy elective

Yes, they would, but gravity did not like them enough for that, so thus, they are natural satellites! Well, Pluto isn't per se, but it is thought at one point it was a rogue moon.

I think we got off topic and my little joke originally did not help I'm sure.

The moon isn't that big, it's only 39 rooms! Deepnight is bigger than that.











What?

We should tell Moon to pick up the slack then.

Whereas Sun is only one, extremely painful room. Tsk.

Can you writhe of a pinleg while paralysed?

And can you focus body while pinlegged?

Did I mention it was -extremely- painful?

I have it saved somewhere, but I need to find it. Since the first one (which I logged) I've gotten a new computer, and I'm not sure how much of my old one survived.

On that note, can you adjust parrying while in pin leg? Can you parry at all while in pin leg?

Anything that adds a 'p' to the end of your prompt means stance/parry won't trigger until the p is removed. You can move your stance/parry around all you want in some circumstances, you just won't be able to actually do it.