Soul (CofD)

The immortal spark that sets humanity apart from base nature can be summarized as the Soul. Through it, a human can fulfill his potential and can be human. As a result, many of the supernatural have a unique viewpoint or nature of their Soul and of the beings that reside after death.

==Vampire==

As beings tied very strong to the material, the Damned have little to no evidence of their soul left and see this as a part of their damnation.

==Mage==

In atlantean dogma, the Soul is the source of everything that makes humans humane and enables them to connect to the Realms Supernal. In academical terms, the Soul correspondens with the Death Arcana and is connected to the Astral Space. It is that ineffable portion of a person that is responsible for her liveliness, vitality, curiosity, sense of wonder and connection to the world. It is also the portion of a person responsible for the use of magic. The clearest way to see what the soul does for a person is to remove it. A person who has lost her soul still retains her identity, memories and personality, but she lacks vigor, vitality and conviction. In the absence of a soul, the soul-less one loses her empathy for both herself and her fellows and becomes entirely inured to both the pain and joy of others. A mages that loses his soul immediately starts to Sleep again until he has his soul reconnected.

A Mage can clip away a small part of his soul in order to create a soulstone, animate a Soul Golem or can shape his soul according to the attainments of certain Legacies in order to transform himself into something with more sympathy to the realms Supernal.

Mages who damper with souls are also called Reapers and are among the most cursed breakers of the Lex Magica. Several Left-Handed Legacies, the most famous being the Tremere, have committed themselves to the magic of the soul and how to harness it for their own purpose.

==Promethean==

As fundamentally alchemic beings, Prometheans lack a soul and have to struggle to eventually regain one and become human again. This event - the New Dawn- is the goal of every Promethean who hasn't given into his Torment.

==Changeling==

Arcadia has left its toll upon its inhabitants. Many Changelings who flee through the Hedge find that the Thorns have left them scarred and that some parts of their humanity have been cleaved away, filled with the Wyrd instead.