Talk:Transcendent Physiology/@comment-38199059-20190117070421

So, a bit of a random question, but I'm dying to get it off my back as it relates to an idea my friend and I are co-creating.

As a general gist, we have a fantasy setting (anything goes with races and such) where the main character (a human) holds the unique magical ability to link with another one's soul and weaponize it, (i.e; he soul links with a dragon he could have a blazing sword, or if he soul links with a dryad he can utilize natural magic via a staff).

The general rule he must follow is that he must not soul link with transcendent beings. However, he happens to have a fellow traveler who happens to be a Goddess. We've hit a small snare in which the main cast is doomed to fail their quest because they lack the power to defeat a being with near deity leveled power, and my friend and I never quite decided why it was exactly the protagonist could not soul link to Gods.

The Goddess traveling with him is one of Light, so if he were to soul link with her, would the power backfire and give him darkness powers? Would he go berserk? Or would the powers do something else? If anybody is willing to read the half a book I just wrote, please give your thoughts!