Soul Creation

Soul Creation
Fal'Cie goddess Etro (Final Fantasy XIII-2) can create souls by infusing the bodies of living beings with a piece of Chaos.
Power/Ability to:	Create souls.

"Metatron: You invented souls! Souls! Try shining a light on that. How did that make you feel? Chuck: Nauseous."

― God and Metatron (Supernatural)

The ability to create souls, the incorporeal and immortal essences of people, living things, or objects. Sub-power of Creation and Soul Manipulation. Opposite to Soul Destruction.

Also Called

• Core Being/Life Essence/Spiritual Body Conceptualization/Creation/Fabrication/ Generation/Production/Realization
• The First/Spiritual/True Birth
• Flame of Anor/Imperishable/Secret Fire (The Silmarillion)
• Soul/Spirit Conceptualization/Fabrication/Generation/ Production/Realization

Capabilities

User can create souls: a person's essence, their hopes, their dreams, their emotions, their will, and their sense of humanity. They can construct another's sense of self with nothing but their own imagination or inevitably allow their creation to develop to their own sense of self. The souls cannot be destroyed by conventional methods but might still be able to be damaged or absorbed by other beings.

Applications

• Life-Force Entity Creation
  • Choosing What Soul Type to Create for the Body?
  • Immortality Bestowal (May be conditional)
  • Spectral Entity Creation
• Personality Manipulation
  • Programming of souls.
    • Trait Manipulation
      • Emotion Generation/Infusion
      • Mind Creation
        • Belief Inducement
        • Sentience Inducement
        • Willpower Inducement

Variation

• Soul Recreation

Associations

• Artificial Soul
• Concept Creation: The soul is "partly conceptual" in nature, it's creation is potentially similar.
• Ectoplasm Generation: Essentially producing the material that spirits are made of.
  • Ectoplasm Constructs: The soul may be this.
• Life Creation
• Modified Soul
• Soul Manipulation

Limitations

• Though this power allows the user to create souls of various entities, it does not allow the user to destroy their created souls.
• May be limited to creating only one soul at a time.
• Once a soul develops its own sense of self it may start to refrain control from the user who created it.
• Only Certain Metaphysical Entities/Deities, Mystical Artifacts and Powers that can Control the Spiritual might be able to have the power to destroy the created souls.
• Weak against Essence Removal, Soul Splitting, Soul Mutilation and Soul Destruction.
• May require a body for the soul to be put in, either by finding an existing body or via Lifeless Body Creation.

Known Users

• God/Yahweh/Allah (Abrahamic Religions)
• Kirio Hikifune (Bleach); artificial souls only
• Fisher King (Doctor Who)
• Etro (Final Fantasy XIII-2)
• Sirin/Herrscher of the Void (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• God (Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne)
• David Haller/Legion (Marvel Comics)
• Dr. Light (Mega Man X)
• Pantheon (The Order of the Stick)
• Chuck Sherley/God (Supernatural)
• Eru Ilúvatar (Tolkienverse); via Flame of Anor/Flame Imperishable
• Lucifer Morningstar (Vertigo/DC Comics)

Known Objects

• Soul Gem (Marvel Comics)
• Monkey Spear (Xiaolin Chronicles); limited to monkeys

Known Locations

• Byston Well (Aura Battler Dunbine)

Gallery

Kirio Hikifune (Bleach), the inventor of "artificial souls".

Fisher King (Doctor Who)

David Haller/Legion (Marvel Comics)

Chuck Sherley/God (Supernatural)

Videos

Analysis & Discussions

Eru Ilúvatar - Tolkien Explained - Hobbit Day 2023