A Fantasy world without souls, spirits or an afterlife?? That's quite original =) Sometimes all of these things can make a story more complicated than perhaps it should be...As for the last question about a soul destroying spell or device, in my story, anything will do that; no souls, no spirits, no afterlife, once you're dead, you are dead. Sure many of my people are superstitious and have a belief in the afterlife, there just isn't one.