psychotick
Auror
Hi,
I'd have to stand with Anders et al. To actually remove your own soul sounds suspiciously like comitting suicide. So if you did it and let a demon soul take over what would you care - you'd still be dead.
The normal deal with selling your soul to the devil is that you still have it while you live, but then when you die, it and you go to hell for eternity. Short term gains so to speak, for eternal torment.
As for what to call someone who could do this, it's your book, so use whatever term you want. My thought would be to make up a completely new term because what you describe doesn't sound like a lot of other magics I've heard of. Necromancy is usually associated with death but your guys still alive as is the demon. Demonology would surely only apply to when he was dealing with demons, and presumably he could do the same thing with other non demonic souls. So maybe something along the lines of a soul snatcher.
Cheers, Greg.
I'd have to stand with Anders et al. To actually remove your own soul sounds suspiciously like comitting suicide. So if you did it and let a demon soul take over what would you care - you'd still be dead.
The normal deal with selling your soul to the devil is that you still have it while you live, but then when you die, it and you go to hell for eternity. Short term gains so to speak, for eternal torment.
As for what to call someone who could do this, it's your book, so use whatever term you want. My thought would be to make up a completely new term because what you describe doesn't sound like a lot of other magics I've heard of. Necromancy is usually associated with death but your guys still alive as is the demon. Demonology would surely only apply to when he was dealing with demons, and presumably he could do the same thing with other non demonic souls. So maybe something along the lines of a soul snatcher.
Cheers, Greg.