History Main / OurSoulsAreDifferent

*** "Black" souls are those of intelligent, fully sapient creatures (with the exception of Dragons and presumably other Aedric beings, more on that below). Black souls are those of the humanoid mortal races (Men, [[OurElvesAreBetter Mer]], [[PettingZooPeople Beast Folk]]) as well as the greater of the lesser Daedra, like the Dremora, Auriel, and Mazken.

** In ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'', souls are described as essentially being two-dimensional; and they only gain substance in Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. Souls in these frameworks are virtually indistinguishable from when the individual was alive and become the defacto body. In special cases, the incarnation Death may be needed to physically pull the soul from the body so that they may die.

* ''Literature/IAmMordred'': Mordred eventually decides to cope with his prophesied fate by [[spoiler: removing his soul from his body. He plans to give his soul to Arthur for safe-keeping, but it is stolen by a raven sent by Merlin. The soulless Mordred is unable to feel emotion (which was Mordred's purpose for the procedure, he was tired of the pain) and has no sense of morality. It is this soulless Mordred that kills Arthur, while Mordred's soul becomes trapped in the raven. (In fact raven!Mordred is the book's narrator). It is possible that raven Mordred has some connection to his body still as parts of the book are told from the perspective of the soulless Mordred. Also, apparently putting a human soul in a raven makes said raven immortal]].

* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' souls are reincarnated countless times throughout history. What happens between incarnations isn't discussed. The souls of Heroes get a slightly different treatment-they spend their time between lives in [[DreamLand Tel'aranh'rhiod]], but lose their memories between the time they are reborn and their next death. [[spoiler: Birgitte]] proves a soul ''can'' be forced into the real world before its time, but the full effects are far from certain.

* ''Literature/TalionRevenant'': Souls can be drawn out of the body by a Talion Justice. This kills the person, but some souls retain their vitality, although not memories, and are called ''rhasas''. Talion Justices must be cleansed of these souls in a special ritual. A ''rhasa'' soul can be placed into a corpse and this reanimates it, along with leaving the undead being far stronger, quicker and easier to train. Souls appear as colored lights, ''rhasas'' being white.

* ''Literature/{{I Am Mordred}}'' Mordred eventually decides to cope with his prophesied fate by [[spoiler: removing his soul from his body. He plans to give his soul to Arthur for safe-keeping, but it is stolen by a raven sent by Merlin. The soulless Mordred is unable to feel emotion (which was Mordred's purpose for the procedure, he was tired of the pain) and has no sense of morality. It is this soulless Mordred that kills Arthur, while Mordred's soul becomes trapped in the raven. (In fact raven!Mordred is the book's narrator). It is possible that raven Mordred has some connection to his body still as parts of the book are told from the perspective of the soulless Mordred. Also, apparently putting a human soul in a raven makes said raven immortal]].

* A variation in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' where [[spoiler:in the season five finale, the BigBad forcibly separates Steven's human and Gem halves in order to prove their theory that Steven is [[MakesSenseInContext actually his own mother with self-afflicted amnesia]]. Steven's human half is sickly, in pain, and can barely stand on his own without his best friend's help. This thankfully isn't too much of a problem, as his Gem half is more than powerful enough shrug off the villain's attacks and walk back over to fuse into a single being once more.]]

* A variation in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' where [[spoiler:in the season five finale, the BigBad forcibly separates Steven's human and Gem halves in order to prove their theory that Steven is his mother with self-afflicted amnesia. Steven's human half is sickly, in pain, and can barely stand on his own. This thankfully isn't too much of a problem, as his Gem half is more than powerful enough shrug off attacks and walk back over to fuse into a single being once more.]]

* In ''VideoGame/NieR'' human souls [[spoiler:can be removed from their bodies. They are colored black and gold, look somewhat translucent, talk in BlackSpeech and bleed red.]] [[AwfulTruth Go figure.]]

* In ''[[FanFic/BlackQueenRedKing Black Queen, Red King,]]'' Rex gains the ability to see souls. He describes them as brilliant, flaming figures that glow an impossible color. His own soul is described [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination as a horrifying monstrosity]] that damages the eyes of those who look at it and that it ''"glowed with a blindingly bright darkness."'']] This world is of the "Loose your soul, you die" variety, and soul eaters do exist.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Brook's devil fruit power is that after he died, his soul returned to his body (though not until after it had rotted to a skeleton). Later on, during the TimeSkip, he figures out how to force his soul out of his body have it fly around.

* Roleplay/ShadowhunterPeril'' focuses on souls quite a bit. There exists a creature called an Ushubaen, which boils down to a human imbibed with demonic energy. Normally this would kill the human, but if the human is also imbibed with enough souls to counteract the corrosive demonic energy, then they become a perfect mix of the two (in contrast to faeries, which are half angel half demon but aren't perfect mixtures). Unfortunately, because they have multiple souls in them, and demonic energy taints the mind as well as bestowing powers, all Ushubaen are insane, genocidal monsters who want to destroy everything they can. They can even kill [[BigGood angels]].

* ''Tabletopgame/{{Exalted}}'' has a complex but fairly well defined soul-ecology. Normal people have two souls, the lower and higher, whereas celestial Exalts have a third soul that grants them their powers. On death, each faces a separate fate. The lower ghost becomes a bestial grave guardian until the body rots away; it then is simply a mindless beast that hunts in the underworld. The higher usually has its memories destroyed and then goes on to be reincarnated, but "lucky" souls that cling to life can become ghosts, and very unlucky ones can be consumed by oblivion. Solar shards first go back to Lytek, the God of Exaltations, who prunes some of their memories, and then sends them to an almost always adult person who is somehow worthy in the eyes of the Unconquered Sun, thereby exalting them. Lunar shards face much the same process, although Luna's standards are different then the Unconquered Sun's. Abyssal shards have to slink back to the underworld and their deathlord, carefully, because sunlight hurts the shards. Infernal shards are pulled back inside a brutally tortured little girl until the Yozi feel like making another Infernal. Sidereal shards are fated to Exalt someone at a specific time, shortly after a specific Sidereal dies. Fate itself thus prepares them for their life as a Exalt as they grow up. The problem is that both Sidereals and Sidereals-to-be can be killed ahead of schedule by beings capable of defying fate, in which case the Sidereal shard Exalts someone completely unexpected and unprepared, which throws the whole system out of whack. Thing is, there are a lot of creatures that exist outside of fate running around Creation these days...

* ''Literature/{{I Am Mordred}}'' Mordred eventually decides to cope with his prophesied fate by [[spoiler: removing his soul from his body. He plans to give his soul to Arthur for safe-keeping, but it is stolen by a raven sent by Merlin. The soulless Mordred is unable to feel emotion (which was Mordred's purpose for the procedure, he was tired of the pain) and has no sense of morality. It is this soulless Mordred that kills Arthur, while Mordred's soul becomes trapped in the raven. (In fact "raven' Mordred is the book's narrator). It is possible that raven Mordred has some connection to his body still as parts of the book are told from the perspective of soulless Mordred.Also, apparently putting a human soul in a raven makes said raven immortal]].

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAncientDarkness'': Each person has three souls, with different functions - and losing each soul has different effects. The world-soul connects the person to the rest of the world, [[spoiler: losing it causes you to become a [[AndIMustScream Lost]] [[FateWorseThanDeath one]]; the clan-soul is responsible for morality (explained as a sense of belonging to temper the strength of the world-soul) and losing it causes you to become a [[FaceMonsterTurn demon]]; if you lose the name-soul you become a ghost, losing your memories - the name-soul is also your reflection, but we don't see if [[MissingReflection the reflection is lost too]]. [[spoiler: Soul-sickness happens when one of the souls is corrupted - even though you stay you, the effects are the same]].

* In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''Literature/TheMonsterMen'', it is taken for granted that the humans that Professor Maxon creates have no souls. At one point, Number 13 goes to murder him, and stops because it would be the act of a soulless creature. von Horn becomes quite [[GreenEyedMonster envious]] of him because a soulless creature acts better than he does.

* In a young adult novel, an adopted girl was contacted by the astral projection of her long lost twin sister who encouraged her to also astrally project. This evidently meant vacating your soul from your body as when she was back from flying among the stars her twin sister had snaffled her body. When her siblings threw an 'anti-bad-spirit' charm that touched the body, the twin sister was momentarily displaced and the original sister got snapped back into her body. Because the original sister did not seek out her twins' now-spare body but stayed with her family her sister was assumed to be dead and cremated. Her soul would continue to exist, gradually getting fainter and fainter. As long as she didn't astrally project again she was fine.

* Meredith Ann Pierce's ''Literature/TheDarkangelTrilogy'': when you die, your soul ascends to the sky ("deep heaven"). Once there, it is possible for it to return to earth temporarily to speak to living people, though this happens rarely. However, the soul can be removed from the body and stored in a vial. When this happens, the soul's owner become a wraith which retains the power of speech but very little memory. Souls can also be consumed by demons like darkangels and lorelei, in which case the owner's consciousness is completely obliterated. Soulless beings are always hideous to look at.

* ''Manga/ShamanKing'': Souls, at first sight, appear to be destroyable, but then [[spoiler: it's discovered that every soul is able to be recovered from the Elemental Spirits, since they are fragments of the Greater One, so, the Spirit of Fire doesn't technically burn souls to oblivion, or even eat them, only absorbs these to become stronger.]]

** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': After [[spoiler:Daitokuji]]'s death, [[RunningGag his soul often gets consumed by]] [[spoiler:his cat Pharaoh.]]

** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], [[spoiler:souls are what power alchemy. In turn, people actually have a smaller version of the Gate of Alchemy within their own souls, which pulls souls of the dead from a parallel world (read: our real world, circa WWI) to power alchemy. The [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Philosopher's Stone]] is in turn made from condensing a metric ton of souls into one object. This is also why attempts at human transmutation fail and produce homunculi: equivalent exchange can account for the physical elements that make up a body, but not for the soul. Homunculi are thus soulless abominations, though it's shown that what truly makes them a homunculus in the end (and gives them their overall life and power) is eating red stones, which are lower-power versions of Philosopher's Stones.]]

* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' [[spoiler: the Soul Gem is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The souls get transformed into one as a part of a contract with Kyubey. The girls' emotions seem to appear as magic energy, so while a girl's wish gives her positive magic, the despair equal to the wishes the girl creates darkens the Soul Gem and turns it into a Grief Seed, turning the girl into a witch.]] In addition, [[spoiler: being too far away from your gem causes you to enter an EmptyShell state until it's returned, and if it's ever destroyed, you die]].
* In the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}}, souls are eternal, but require a physical body to tether them to the world. The soul is linked to the body, and when the body dies, it returns to [[TheLifestream Akasha]], to await reincarnation. Ordinarily when a soul is reincarnated, it retains no memories from any of its previous lives, but there are ways around this, as seen with [[{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}} Roa]]. If a person does manage to preserve their soul beyond the death of their original body, usually by [[GrandTheftMe transferring it directly into a new body]] or by [[OurVampiresAreDifferent becoming a vampire]], then the soul will decay. The Third True Magic, as explained in VisualNovel/FateStayNight, can overcome this problem. Also, [[spoiler:[[LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai Aozaki Touko]] has a method of [[CloningGambit transferring her consciousness and soul into an identical artificial body]] with no apparent negative effects.]]

* In the ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'', a being's soul is composed of two parts -- a Light of Existence (the heart) and a Shadow of Existence (the appearance), both containing parts of the being's personality. If erased from existence, the Shadow ends up in [[EldritchAbomination Entropy]]'s Realm (the Light, according to WordOfGod, returns to Fauna Luster from whom all souls spring, or in the case of some of the G3 ponies, entered the afterlife, or was reborn as a new individual). What's more, it's stated that there's not a "Law of Conservation of Mass" when it comes to souls, meaning [[spoiler: the same person can have ''multiple'' {{reincarnation}}s ([[BadFuture Dark World]]!Twilight being the reincarnation of G3 Minty's Light and Minty Pie being the reincarnation of her shadow, for example), but the soul will still exist independently of the reincarnation.]]

* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', the story is set in Remnant, meaning that it follows many of the same conventions as ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. All living beings have a soul and they can awaken their Auras to gain the ability to produce {{Deflector Shield}}s, utilize {{Ki Attack}}s, and fuel powerful Semblances that grant almost magical abilities. The primary difference here is than an unlucky few people are born [[UnSorcerer "Broken"]]. Their souls are fundamentally flawed in some way that weakens them to the point that they'll never develop an Aura or a Semblance. Izuku falls squarely into this category until he meets Toshinori and obtains One For All, a unique Semblance that's passed down from wielder to wielder and can grant an Aura to a Broken Soul.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Losing your soul robs you of all willpower and memory, you simply "exist" as an EmptyShell, conscious but unable to think or act; while acts such as murder breaks the soul apart makes you less human ([[SoulJar and immortal, if you know how to work it the right way]]). It appears that the mind is a semi-separate entity that remains with the largest piece of a split soul.
** In addition, [[spoiler:ripping it apart and dying with your soul not in one piece will condemn you to eternity in agony, as the act is a "horrible crime against nature"]]. [[MrExposition Hermione]] implies that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone repentance]] can potentially put a torn soul back together, but it hurts a lot.

** In ''Small Favor'', [[spoiler:Harry gains "soulfire": magic strengthened with soul energy in much the same way that concrete is strengthened with rebar. Archangels use soulfire, but they have a lot more soul to work with.]] Using it does, however, [[spoiler:damage the soul by using it up a little at a time. (Bob complains that humans get too upset over phrases like that, though he acknowledges using Soulfire too much could be fatal, up to leaving no soul behind)]].
** And in ''Ghost Story'', the concept of a soul is finally settled by one line [[spoiler: from Archangel Uriel.]]

* In Creator/CSLewis' ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'', it is implied that the souls of those in Hell are devoured by demons, and this is in fact the fate of all the damned, including the demons themselves minus whoever's last. (Theologically, this can be seen as a parody/inversion of the Christian belief in Heaven as eternal communion with God, where the Devil's version of that communion is an eternal domination and violation of all lesser souls.)
* In [[Creator/CSLewis Lewis']] ''Literature/TheGreatDivorce'', on the other hand, souls in Hell (which looks like [[spoiler:an English industrial town on a perpetually cold and rainy evening]]), isolate themselves there out of refusal to give up some single vital facet of their self, becoming a twisted, damaged version of their former personality. ''Divorce'' plays with the idea that souls can leave Hell of their own will (in which case it will merely have been Purgatory), if they have not placed themselves beyond redemption -- it can be difficult to tell if a person has crossed the line. (A "Solid Person" who has made it to heaven questions whether a woman whose fate is up for grabs is still a grumbler, or merely a grumble going on and on mechanically.)

* Souls in ''Literature/TheHollows'' novels are a nebulous thing that is referenced often but ill-defined. The souls of living vampires are destroyed [[spoiler:maybe]] when the die and reanimate and they seem to lose their conscience and the ability to feel emotion. Souls of living beings can be temporarily removed by demon magic without appreciable harm to the person though what change this makes in the person is never explored. BlackMagic creates 'smut' on the soul that is visible to magical creatures. This is considered a bad thing though the negative consequences of having this smut is never explained. This smut can be transferred to another person's soul. Finally the existence of souls is an established fact and its loss and destruction can be detected by an unexplained process.
** To add more confusion a person's aura is linked yet separate from their soul in an unexplained manner.

* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/ThreeHeartsAndThreeLions'', the FairFolk have no souls. They can not venture on holy ground. And a nixie is explaining that certain barbarians offer her HumanSacrifice, and her reaction is a light observation that she's not, as they think, a cannibal, but the sacrifices do wear nice clothes -- and [[ObliviouslyEvil gives Holger an innocent look, because she has no soul]].

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAncientDarkness: Each person has three souls, with different functions - and losing each soul has different effects. The world-soul connects the person to the rest of the world, [[spoiler: losing it causes you to become a [[AndIMustScream Lost]] [[FateWorseThanDeath one]]; the clan-soul is responsible for morality (explained as a sense of belonging to temper the strength of the world-soul) and losing it causes you to become a [[FaceMonsterTurn demon]]; if you lose the name-soul you become a ghost, losing your memories - the name-soul is also your reflection, but we don't see if [[MissingReflection the reflection is lost too]]. [[spoiler: Soul-sickness happens when one of the souls is corrupted - even though you stay you, the effects are the same.]]

* ''Literature/{{I Am Mordred}}'' Mordred eventually decides to cope with his prophesied fate by [[spoiler: removing his soul from his body. He plans to give his soul to Arthur for safe-keeping, but it is stolen by a raven sent by Merlin. The soulless Mordred is unable to feel emotion (which was Mordred's purpose for the procedure, he was tired of the pain) and has no sense of morality. It is this soulless Mordred that kills Arthur, while Mordred's soul becomes trapped in the raven. (In fact "raven' Mordred is the book's narrator). It is possible that raven Mordred has some connection to his body still as parts of the book are told from the perspective of soulless Mordred.Also, apparently putting a human soul in a raven makes said raven immortal.]]

* Vampires in the ''Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}verse'' are typically soulless and AlwaysChaoticEvil, since the essence of one of the [[EldritchAbomination first demons]] comes in and parks in the vacated spot. Their vampiric personalities are generally twisted parodies of the original person, and never get any closer to goodness than a NobleDemon (and even NobleDemon vampires are very rare). A vampire can, through magic, actually regain a soul, and with it a completely human identity, morality, and guilt over their former crimes. Non-human demons may or may not have their own versions of souls, and they can range all the way from {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s to KnightInSourArmor heroes. There are also {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, and the dialogue suggests that, whatever other metaphysics apply, they do have human souls. Having a soul, however, is no guarantee of morality: as a demon points out, the worst serial killers and tyrants in human history also had souls. It could be considered that having a soul gives you a conscience so that you'll feel guilty about doing bad things, but that conscience can be misguided or suppressed. Lack of soul removes the guilt, and the demon essence gives you the evil.

*** One of the creepier episodes of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' involves [[http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Ryan_Anderson Ryan Anderson]], [[spoiler:an otherwise-normal human child who is explicitly stated to be soulless. He is so monstrous that an age-old demon was DrivenToSuicide by accidentally possessing him.]]

* ''Series/Preacher2016'' the live-action adaptation of the Creator/GarthEnnis comic series ''ComicBook/Preacher'' souls appear as a glowing, silvery white liquid. It is shown to be a currency in Hell used by some characters to make deals with Satan directly but also to be a transferrable material between humans with multiple shadowy figures and organisations [[spoiler: Including the Grail]] stealing, storing and trading souls which can be consumed by others.
** Also appears to serve as the mechanism by which [[spoiler: Jesse’s CompellingVoice (Genesis) is able to function. He needs to have his soul to power it but the person being compelled also needs to have a soul unlike in the comic. Shown when he was unable to compel the Saint of Killers until he injected him with a tiny fraction of a human soul (his own)]]
* Souls, as far as ''[[SuperSentai Engine Sentai Go-onger]]'' is concerned, are [[MerchandiseDriven highly marketable]]. The team's mecha sidekicks need to have them placed into their bodies to return to their normal size, but only for ten minutes, as a side effect of being in the Human World. Even the human souls in the series work like this, as proven when Sousuke shoots his soul at his own body to reverse a FreakyFriday situation.

** It is possible to sell your soul, typically via the traditional Faustian DealWithTheDevil. Later in season six, it was revealed that [[spoiler:when Sam was pulled out of Lucifer's prison, his body was freed from the Pit, but not his soul. Without it, he lacked empathy and a conscience, and didn't need to sleep.]]

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

* The ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series largely revolves around the various effects of souls and the corruption thereof. Losing your soul will kill you, while returning a soul into its dead body will apparently create a vampire. A corruption of the soul leads to a creeping physical corruption - Kain's vampire lieutenants grew into increasingly inhuman monsters instead of just stronger. Also very importantly, souls are food for various beings, almost all them tied into the biggest soul-devourer of them all, [[spoiler:the Elder God. A purified soul, on the other hand, will enable a being to see said god.]]. There's a lot more, but these are the most noteworthy points.

* It turns out that if you're [[spoiler:the child of a god, you can keep going without your soul]] in ''[[Videogame/BaldursGate Baldur's Gate 2]]''. And it has some other interesting effects.

* In ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'', souls, depicted as glowing orbs, are collected by defeating enemies, breaking open fountains, [[CrateExpectations crates]], and other containers, doing the absolution minigame, and completing the challenges in the circles of fraud and deceit before their time limits are up. They are used as currency for purchasing moves, upgrading existing ones, and purchasing relic slots, and upgrades to the health and mana bars. Also, after the final boss, [[spoiler:they help seal away Lucifer again. Sort of.]]

* In the VideoGame/{{Mario}} fangame ''VideoGame/MarioTheMusicBox'': Spirits are said to mostly lack corporeal forms (even though most if not all spirits in the haunted house have a physical body), and angels are even mentioned once. Spirits that do have corporeal forms also tend to be hostile with few exceptions. Entities are mentioned (though they aren't given much explanation) and only two of them exist: [[spoiler:Alice]] and [[spoiler:Anna]]. The circumstances that allowed said characters to become entities are also different in nature.

* In ''Literature/ChronoHustle'' #9, [[spoiler:the original]] Jack makes a deal with Merlin in the Middle Ages, agreeing to give him a Demi-God's soul in exchange for some information. He tells him it'll take some time to get the information and to meet him in the year 3007, where the exchange will take place. So in the year 3007, [[spoiler: Merlin takes Agent Jack's soul in exchange for that information when he and Melinda show up.]] It's yet to be revealed what exactly a soul is, or what losing it even means as [[spoiler: Agent Jack]] doesn't seem to be any different afterward.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': All living beings have a soul except the Grimm. Souls create Aura, which can be locked, trained or manifested passively. Aura can create effects such as a DeflectorShield or KiAttacks, and fuel Semblances, a unique ability shaped by an individual's personality. Aura can also be channelled into inanimate objects, empowering weapons and armour; science has even created an Aura-using robot. Rare, secret events can cause soul and Aura mergers that risk the loss of the original, independent selves. [[spoiler:Ozpin attempts an artificial soul merger between Amber and Pyrrha to prevent Cinder obtaining Amber's full Maiden powers. Ozpin himself underwent a soul merger when he was a child, and later soul-merges with a young farm-boy called Oscar, causing them to share thoughts and memories.]]

* From ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode ''Scaredy Pants'':

-->'''Spongebob:''' Do souls look like pickles?
-->'''Mr Krabs:''' Aye, as a matter of fact, they do. And he puts them where you can never get them...in his soul bag. (drops the pickle into a bag that has the words "krusty krab" crossed out and the word "soul" written above it. Mr Krabs laughs evilly as Squidward appears behind Spongebob in a pirate suit)
-->'''Squidward:''' I’ve come for your pickle! (Spongebob jumps up screaming)

** Also worth noting is that for whatever reason Vector Sigma hasn't released a new pulse in millions of years. With the recent destruction of the Matrix, and Cybertron coming off a four million year war that killed billions, it would seem that it is now impossible to make new Cybertronians, and the race is doomed to a slow extinction despite being functionally immortal.

** It turns out that souls [[spoiler: are effectively parasites that collect the owner's experiences and, upon death, float into space and are eaten by [[EldritchAbomination the Sun]] who then gains the previous owners' memories, making it even more omnipotent.]]

* ''Literature/I Am Mordred'' Mordred eventually decides to cope with his prophesied fate by [[spoiler: removing his soul from his body. He plans to give his soul to Arthur for safe-keeping, but it is stolen by a raven sent by Merlin. The soulless Mordred is unable to feel emotion (which was Mordred's purpose for the procedure, he was tired of the pain) and has no sense of morality. It is this soulless Mordred that kills Arthur, while Mordred's soul becomes trapped in the raven. (In fact "raven' Mordred is the book's narrator). It is possible that raven Mordred has some connection to his body still as parts of the book are told from the perspective of soulless Mordred.Also, apparently putting a human soul in a raven makes said raven immortal.]]

* Raven demonstrated in TeenTitans that Superboy, who was also born without a soul, developed one over time as he lived his life.