[quote=@HeySeuss] Well, what we're shooting for is a relationship to actual mythology and folklore here. I mean, her original spirit went somewhere (coma, perhaps?) and something else took over. That's all cool. I was just thinking, what if it was a dead person's spirit that was floating in limbo and found its way in there? I mean, whole different set of memories in someone else's brain, it's bound to be hard to remember much when the software and the hardware are not compatible, right? Maybe a long-dead spirit, totally bewildered by the current world and, sure, experiencing amnesia. Conveniently, knows snippets of an ancient Native American language? [/quote] What I was going for was more of a comparison of a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, so the original person's spirit didn't leave the body, they literally just evolved and broke out of her old body and left it behind as a shell. With what I had in mind, there isn't a new spirit in the shell either. She isn't alive in any way, if anything she could probably be best described as an empty puppet reanimated through magic. The general idea is that she shouldn't be up and walking around, but the whole uprising of magic was able to effect even a discarded shell and give it a consciousness.