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From: jacob@chalmers.UUCP (Jacob Hallen)
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Subject: Re: Inanimate ego/intelligence
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 23:40:06 EDT
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An other way of viewing swords with ego and intelligence is that it is in
fact a person and that it has a soul. The only way of getting a soul into a
sword is putting it there. Only the greater gods can create souls so some
intelligent swords are bound to be created by them. The rest are created
by locking the soul of a live human (or demihuman) in the sword.
This should apply to other intelligent magic items also.

The way I run these items, I consider intelligence as the intelligence
of the person bound in the item and the ego as the level of the of the
person bound. 
In this way the items get more personality and it is easier to provide
them with a coherent history.
In general evil and good swords contain the souls of people who wish to
continue their deeds of evil/good without risking death. Neutral swords
tend to contain the souls of people who fear death and have taken the
ultimate step to avoid it.

Jacob

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