[quote=@Laue]
Reading through the accepted characters, it seems John and Rick share quite a bit of similarities, except the bad stuff John does is always solely for science, discovery and/or curiosity. Which brings me to a few questions.

1)Analysis magic. I would assume it would a psionic type, basically something that would allow John to analyse various tissues (and flora) to determine various things about them, allowing his Pharmaceutics skill to be of some use. Also allow him to expand his anatomy knowledge to more creatures, after he dissects them, of course.

2)Souls, more specifically, is something like dissecting a soul theoretically possible, and what would be the results, because John would do that if he could.
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Well, what you see on the character sheet is less than half of what we have planned for Rick, so the similarities are going to end soon.

Now, to answer your questions.

1. A general-purpose magic scan should probably be an Aether ability, yes. You could potentially have a Life-elemental scan that's more specialized on organic matter, but it would be less effective on the inorganic creatures (e.g. golems, elementals) that you're going to face.

2. Unfortunately, soul dissection is [i]far[/i] too difficult for any player character to accomplish in any feasible amount of time. At the very least, decades of research would be needed, and I doubt the game would last that long in-universe.

[@whist]: Your character is accepted.