[quote=@Crispy Octopus]
It was brought up in another discord I think, but what constitutes a soul?  Can you make artificial souls?  Clearly demons function (albeit poorly) without souls, so basic function isn't predicate on having a soul.


What if a god dumped might into making home grown souls?  What if multiple gods established a system, we'll call it 'spirit', that does the same thing as souls?[/quote]

My thinking was that soulless beings like demons and golems can be created, but that a mortal being designed to have a soul (like a human) simply cannot be born without some soul. Note [i]some[/i]; going back to my earlier comments about some osuls being "larger," in times of scarcity the supply of soul ash could just be spread thinner, and it'd weaken the living beings born with smaller souls. 

Creating an alternative to "souls" is a solution to the finite soul thing that I'd accept both OOC and IC; in fact, it has precedence because in Mk. II [i]my[/i] god actually created beings with something called Flickers that acted as pseudo-souls. It should probably be a [i]really[/i] difficult and big undertaking though; in Mk. II, Fate (that universe's equivalent to the Architect) took some grave exception to my god bending the universe's rules.