Hey folks,
Hope you all enjoy playing "Spot the Misconception" because I have a few questions regarding the breakdown of how the original solar souls were distributed.
First off, I'm assuming that there were originally 300 Solars created to fight in the Primordial War. I'm also assuming that when the Jade Prison was destroyed, 1/3rd of those souls escaped to reincarnate as normal Solars, and the remaining 2/3rds were evenly divided among the Deathlords and the Yozi.
This yields the following question:
1. Are there any estimates on how many Solars escaped the Usurpation and thus were never captured in the Jade Prison?
2. Did the Deathlords factor into this number? I know that the Mask of Winters was not among the Solars slain in the Usurpation, but I remember reading that some of souls were plucked from the Jade Prison.
3. I have also read that Deathlords are the souped up ghosts of dead Solars, so - did the creation of the deathlords consume the solar essence of their previous incarnations (and thus prevent that soul from ever being reincarnated) or are they ghosts instilled with the power of the Malfeans and the Solar essence has passed on to be reborn?
I don't particularly care about exact numbers on this, but the two things I'm mainly trying to figure out is: Do Solars outnumbers their abyssal and infernal counterparts just because a few managed to elude the Jade Prison and could an individual Solar, whose previous incarnation formed the identity of a Deathlord, be reincarnated with memories of their previous life (prior to becoming a deathlord of course). For instance, could the First and Forsaken Lion meet himself or at least what he would have become had he accepted a normal death instead of becoming a servant of the Labyrinth? I know that the Ghost of a First Age Solar is a pretty fearsome thing, and thus might be a powerful enough basis for a Deathlord, all of whom have had several millennium to mature into their current power and most of the books indicate that none of the greater powers had the ability to subvert a solar essence until a good amount of time after they were created.
Thanks much!
Hope you all enjoy playing "Spot the Misconception" because I have a few questions regarding the breakdown of how the original solar souls were distributed.
First off, I'm assuming that there were originally 300 Solars created to fight in the Primordial War. I'm also assuming that when the Jade Prison was destroyed, 1/3rd of those souls escaped to reincarnate as normal Solars, and the remaining 2/3rds were evenly divided among the Deathlords and the Yozi.
This yields the following question:
1. Are there any estimates on how many Solars escaped the Usurpation and thus were never captured in the Jade Prison?
2. Did the Deathlords factor into this number? I know that the Mask of Winters was not among the Solars slain in the Usurpation, but I remember reading that some of souls were plucked from the Jade Prison.
3. I have also read that Deathlords are the souped up ghosts of dead Solars, so - did the creation of the deathlords consume the solar essence of their previous incarnations (and thus prevent that soul from ever being reincarnated) or are they ghosts instilled with the power of the Malfeans and the Solar essence has passed on to be reborn?
I don't particularly care about exact numbers on this, but the two things I'm mainly trying to figure out is: Do Solars outnumbers their abyssal and infernal counterparts just because a few managed to elude the Jade Prison and could an individual Solar, whose previous incarnation formed the identity of a Deathlord, be reincarnated with memories of their previous life (prior to becoming a deathlord of course). For instance, could the First and Forsaken Lion meet himself or at least what he would have become had he accepted a normal death instead of becoming a servant of the Labyrinth? I know that the Ghost of a First Age Solar is a pretty fearsome thing, and thus might be a powerful enough basis for a Deathlord, all of whom have had several millennium to mature into their current power and most of the books indicate that none of the greater powers had the ability to subvert a solar essence until a good amount of time after they were created.
Thanks much!