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question about the spirit world

zounet·3/16/2019, 1:36:13 PM·1 votes·4,537 views

we know that the spirit world is a mirror world where everything exists as an entity: "Going back to Tahm Kench, we had been working with the notion that part of Runeterra’s magic related to the spirit world seen in Shen’s lore. This was a mirror world where the spirit of every living thing and every of type of thing exists. The souls of every person, the spirit of animals, the essences of species and of locations, elements, and even ideas exist in that dimension as powerful forces, which interact and create a type of magic in Runeterra. " from "dev: on vastayan evolution"

So the soul of a human exists in the spirit world. but if we take an animal,for example a fox in runeterra: his soul exists in the spirit world, but I believe that there are also animal spirits that represent an entire animal species. So what exists: several souls of animals, a spirit for all the species or both? In this case does the spirit of Human exist? And are spirit gods elementary or animal spirits? If anyone has an idea, he is welcome

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LordRedStone Nr13/16/2019, 5:16:10 PM2 votes

I think it would be parts of the whole. So all lifeforms in Ionia have their own, weak spirits, but together they form Liz the Spirit of Ionia. Going by this logic, that would mean the spirit of "humanity" exists and is made up of all the spirits of all humans. Whether we could see that in a story, that's another question.

fatherdarius3/16/2019, 2:48:19 PM1 votes

Look into the the concept of paragons, ala "dungeons and dragons".

YDy2ZkRq023/17/2019, 10:24:01 AM1 votes

Both souls and species spirits exists, any soul of that species is connected to the spirit of their specie in a way.

There might be an human spirit, but I don't think it would ever be able to manifest itself fully, to explain more easily I will answer your spirit-god question first.

Spirit-gods are the embodiments of a certain cultural ideal of their respective regions, for example, Volibear represents everything in nature that could kill you, since Freljordians associates the dangerous wild both with storms and bears, Volibear "takes power" from the spirit of storms and the spirit of the bear due to how Freljordian culture represents the dangers of nature. To clarify what I meant with "take power" is that animal spurs or elemental spirits can't manifest their entirety fully in the physical realm, instead, "parts" of them are associated with others "source energies" to form spirit-gods.

Back to the spirit of humanity, considering how humanity is so divided with a bazillion cultures, the spirit of humanity is probably split into several minor spirits(not necessarily at the level of spirit-gods) the Spirit of Ionia may be connected in some way to a minor spiritual truth "from" the spirit of humanity which represents Ionians for example.

Hope that text helped, my English isn't do good so sorry if it is hard to understand.