So its not our soul? Its a collection of all deeds we’ve done in life? how does it power things up? how is it separated? who separated it from our characters when we die? where’d it come from?
I understand there’s a drought and something attacked the Archon thus shoveling all anima into the maw or is it all souls?
Do we still have anima inside us since we’re still mortal? Why does the jailer want so much of it?
I’ve finished the main questline but feel like things are mentioned in passing and perhaps missed a lot. Anybody understand things about anima?
Ended up just going with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Souls can be transmuted to power a philosopher stone which can then help you do all sorts of random crap.
The soul can exist without anima, evidenced by the Revendreth quest Bring Out Your Tithe where one of the local Venthyr from whom you can request a donation will drain it from a caged soul, remarking after the fact that the soul is now completely drained of anima and condemned to an eternity of suffering, or something like that. This could mean several things; that redemption requires fuel directly from the soul’s own stores to occur, that anima is the coalescence of a soul’s memories and experiences in life which the Venthyr can no longer manipulate to guide them toward absolution, that without anima the soul will simply fade to oblivion, and likely other things that have yet to cross my mind.
As for what anima is I’m not wholly certain. It is a form of sustenance for the beings of the Shadowlands, but also a means by which they can construct buildings and power machinery, so it is also a very fundamental part of the various realms. Garrosh is a seemingly endless supply of it in Revendreth, so it may be the manifestation of the potency of one’s own convictions in life, of the strength of their characteristics like pride, or of their force of will.
It’s some made-up power, like azurite or whatever. Nothing about it makes any sense at all, there’s no point in trying to rationalize it. It’s just another convoluted and feels-bad system that Blizzard had designed.
Anima is the Death Energies created by the Soul when the person dies.
Unless it’s drained completely it will create more Anima in time.
The Soul once drained completely of Anima cannot produce more unless it’s tormented in the Maw to create Stygia(created by bluntly wailing on the Soul) and Phantasma(created from ruthless prolonged torture)!
Too much torture turns the Soul into an incoherent source of Doubt Anima lacking any sanity!
I keep hearing ‘Mall Walker’ when I hear ‘Maw Walker’… The voice actors need to learn to enunciate a little better. Cause I sure in the heck ain’t no ‘Mall Walker’…
