As author guy may have mentioned somewhere...

The first book took enough time to make George RR Martin impatient (if he'd been reading it)....I don't know when Martin started GOT, but I know when I started dictating the story to the lazy author and when GoT was released....and let's just say that Bran had not yet been born and probably the same for Joffrey....

However, the author claims he's going to have the second book done this year...he's shooting for the end of the year...

I'm hoping he keeps his word, because I can only start collecting payment once the book is published and it draws new users to this site, where I can collect their souls via their email addresses...

Ouch does that mean your going to be split 87 ways?

Actually, I believe this is a case of "Buyer Beware". It's amazing that the soul market still operates on "buy now, pay later". It's not my fault if entities don't check whether a person is still legally in possession of their soul before acceding to a deal. As such, for soul claimants 2 through 87, sucks to be you.

Good luck with that. My first deal was 8,000 years ago with Old Nick himself for immortality. My times up when the sun expands and swallows the Earth, and not a minute sooner.

Later if I can manage to get off this rock.

(All soul claiments= )

You're welcome to try, but unless you've got it in good with the Big Guy Upstairs you're not going to be able to do a magically forced ejection on this Plane. And I know how to spot the "imported" substances that could otherwise separate the soul from the body. Besides, I don't think you want me telling Tom who sold Reggie the "demon" weed, now would you? .....

You guys are hilarious

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A couple things. First, it's BECAUSE he knows you that Tom will probably believe it. Second, I've made it 8,000 years on a deal for immortality with Old Nick, which means I'm possibly the most paranoid entity in existence. That guy makes a living coming up with new meanings for "Fate Worse than Death". Thus his famous "Escape Clause". Almost got me in Pompeii too, a few decades trapped under magma and ash might have made that escape clause look tempting.

By the way, I'm blaming the 800 or so stoned/comatose people who visited my local bakery on you. You may not notice it (considering where you keep that pipe), but your "special blend" has a distinctive odor. Nice try though.

And on another note, I hereby laugh at our serious discussions on matters of life, death, and eternal torment. Hey nani nani and a ho ho hoo.

Ehhh...

Chocolate is pretty lame once you've had Denubian Choco-Coffee(TM) that stuff leaves everything else in the dust....

I was just having Tea with Nick. He's one of my best customers for "herbal remedies" It's going to be complex, but we'll probably be able to come to an agreement. It may take a few centuries, so we may have to put you on "ice" or in Limbo for a while.

Here, have a cup of DCC(TM)...

Drink it while it's hot!

And btw, since I'm a demon already, I can't fork over my soul, because my immortal soul is me....I'm just a soul with a mana shield with some "dirt" stuck to it.

Eating Animus isn't like eating Mana I believe. Mana is universal like refined gasoline while Animus is unique consciousness (like every consciousness vibrates at a unique frequency). The more Animus you "eat" the more the foreign personality mixes with your own... no? Even if you only eat like a small amount... You'd be fundamentally changing your identity. The being that you were before would cease to exist. Hmmm I suppose that would change your True Name too... Maybe that's the secret...


And yes I realize how pretty much every one of the topics on this forum have gone off on a tangent like the Amazon thread... must be Tizzy's fault. This post has nothing to do with the next book time frame lol.

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People gather animus from experience and even when consuming external animus their basic personality as intact as their body allows. So an individual personality likely has some form of core, or soul which all the other animus then clings to. I mostly think this is the case as all the elements have various forms. Fire also has electricity and seems to encompass energy, Air seems to be gases and voids, Water holds sway over liquids, and Earth holds sway over solid.

All other associated magics with these elements are likely powered in part by belief unless used as a medium. This leads one to conclude that element of Man is composed of various different sub-elements. I am not entirely sure what they would be, but the most basic and simple would be animus, sentience/conscience, spirit, and soul. Man draws mana to itself and then uses the mana to draw in the other elements. I don't know why, but the the elements seem to mostly stick to themselves unless mana is us present. From what I have read mana is needed to allow interaction between the elements and is needed as a glue between them. Not sure exactly what it is.

Higher mana levels just allows for more interaction between the elements. Animus draws mana and it is harder, but possible to do the reverse. Pure elemental planes likely have no mana as it appears between two. Any plane with two or more elements needs some mana. Not sure what determines how much mana is present, but from the discussion between demons in the first novel it seems that most realities have little mana now. I like to think that this means that the mana concentrates around a certain something, or it is being drawn somewhere.

Their is likely a finite amount of whatever the elements and mana are composed of to power the realities. This means that eventually, some realities will collapse. My guess is that low mana realities might be less important realities. I believe it was mentioned that minor differences were simply lost and consolidated to prevent infinite realities in this universe. Then it stands to reason that some of the realities which continued might go on for some time before they to dissolved as it were. Our theories state that our universe will eventually not have enough energy to sustain itself, so higher mana level might allow a reality to persist for a longer period of time. Thus the low mana realities might be doomed realities. We are off topic, but I just gave you a lot to be distracted by, so feel free to elaborate as you choose.

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