The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Is Harry a good mentor
Mira:
--- Quote from: Tinfoil hat on July 15, 2024, 07:43:19 AM ---Having a soul doesn't stop her from being insane. Nemesis seems like it possesses anything and everyone with or without a soul
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True, but it still doesn't answer the question of whether or not Maeve had a soul.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 08, 2024, 04:55:52 PM --- ... ordering the cold blooded death or execution of her daughter was pretty soul less, though her reaction after the fact hinted that she did have some soul...
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"soulless" as an adjective is much like "cold-blooded" ... but absolutely should not be confused or conflated with the Dresdenverse condition of having or not having a "soul."
Regular everyday humans -- who absolutely-and-for-sure have souls -- make those sorts of "soulless" decisions (and do so distressingly often!).
This might equivalently be called a "corrupted soul" or other epithets; but such criticisms of the state of their souls are very different from literally having no soul whatsoever in the Dresdenverse.
Mab -- who has mastered both cold-blooded calculation and self-control -- took years of coming to term with her daughter's state, before she gave her new WK the (necessary) order to kill Maeve. But I don't think this gives us strong evidence of Mab either having or not having a soul, honestly.
Mira:
--- Quote --- But I don't think this gives us strong evidence of Mab either having or not having a soul, honestly.
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That's my point, unless you believe that non-humans can have souls.. Then you have to figure out how much mortal human remains in Mab, and is that enough for her to have a soul? Now Maeve may have had, with a mortal father she might have been at least half human.
vincentric:
As Uriel said, " You have a body, you are a soul." Any creature that started off as a mortal has a soul to begin with, even if they corrupt and distort it over the course of their lives. Assuming a big enough mantle may grant immortality but doesn't destroy your soul.
Mira:
--- Quote from: vincentric on July 15, 2024, 05:51:50 PM ---As Uriel said, " You have a body, you are a soul." Any creature that started off as a mortal has a soul to begin with, even if they corrupt and distort it over the course of their lives. Assuming a big enough mantle may grant immortality but doesn't destroy your soul.
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Do the animals and reptiles and fish have souls? They all have bodies don't they?
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