Editing Self (section)

===Soul Loss===
Lose the soul, and parts of your self will begin to go awry, collapse, or fail to return correctly when lost.<ref name=":19" /><ref>If you’re forsworn, you may keep your soul and body, but you lose the things and conventions that protect your soul and body.  If you lose your soul, however, then the eggs, flour, and sugar that make up your Self are there but much more shaky, or in the hands of whoever owns your soul.  If you lose your soul while keeping from being forsworn, then the core of your self may be prone to manipulation, but they’ll have to keep to conventions and karma while they do it.

Lose your soul and you’re like a drawing of a drawing of a drawing.  Just slightly ''wrong'', hollow, without the original vision.  If you lose something then maybe you can get it back, but it’s going to be a little off, a little ill-fit.  Stuff you don’t touch on often is going to fade faster.<br>
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/8-2-spoilers-soul-self/ 8.2 Bonus: Soul & Self]</ref>

Soul loss also renders a person more vulnerable to outside influence (like losing any other part of the Self);<ref name=":19" /> [[Others]] will sometimes ask for a person's soul as part of a deal in order to render the person vulnerable to [[possession]].<ref name=":7">“Demons and devils ''do'' ask for people’s souls.  Or they make Faustian promises.  They don’t put any particular value in the soul, though.  That’s not to say the soul is useless as a commodity, it does have some power to it, but my understanding is that most such Others are more interested in the ''soulless'' than the soul itself.”<br><br>“I met an imp a few days ago, who was very interested in finding chinks in the defenses, so it could wedge itself into them,” I said.<br><br>“Exactly,” Duncan said.  “It’s not demons and devils alone that want that kind of opportunity.  Nature abhors a vacuum, and you’ve cracked yourself like an egg, emptying out the contents and allowing anything and everything else in.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/ Excerpt] from [[Conviction 5.4]]</ref>