arcanedude34
01-22-2007, 09:17 PM
How does one become a summon? I think it may happen something like this:
If a warrior is killed in combat, he is given one of two options - death or reincarnation. If he choses death, his soul goes to heaven or hell (depending on his lifestyle) while his body becomes home to a soul that was either banished from heaven/hell, or escaped death somehow, but lost it's body. This is how monsters are formed.
If, however, the dead soldier choses reincarnation, he/she will be given some tasks to complete. The tasks range from easy (e.g. reviving unconscious warriors) to difficult (e.g. preventing assassination attempts). Based on the level of difficulty and how easily the task was accomplished, one of two things may happen.
If they handled a small task with ease or a large task with some difficulty, they are morphed into summons (with abilities similar to that of the aforementioned task) and their powers are put into scrolls or, say, horns. Anyone who can weild the scrolls or just has the natural ability can summon these creatures at will.
If they struggle with even the smaller tasks, however, they are either returned into the earth in another body just being born (reincarnation) with a blank slate of memory and no special abilities, or, in rare cases, are placed back in the body the inhabited before departure regaining conciousness, with no recolection of the events that occured after death.
Well, that's my theory and I'd like to read yours. :)
If a warrior is killed in combat, he is given one of two options - death or reincarnation. If he choses death, his soul goes to heaven or hell (depending on his lifestyle) while his body becomes home to a soul that was either banished from heaven/hell, or escaped death somehow, but lost it's body. This is how monsters are formed.
If, however, the dead soldier choses reincarnation, he/she will be given some tasks to complete. The tasks range from easy (e.g. reviving unconscious warriors) to difficult (e.g. preventing assassination attempts). Based on the level of difficulty and how easily the task was accomplished, one of two things may happen.
If they handled a small task with ease or a large task with some difficulty, they are morphed into summons (with abilities similar to that of the aforementioned task) and their powers are put into scrolls or, say, horns. Anyone who can weild the scrolls or just has the natural ability can summon these creatures at will.
If they struggle with even the smaller tasks, however, they are either returned into the earth in another body just being born (reincarnation) with a blank slate of memory and no special abilities, or, in rare cases, are placed back in the body the inhabited before departure regaining conciousness, with no recolection of the events that occured after death.
Well, that's my theory and I'd like to read yours. :)