Apologies if this is too much, but…how then do brain and soul relate to ghosts and phylacteries? Figure a resurrection heals a brain, but soul comes back and then…what does it mean for relationship of brain and soul?
I said “thank you for everything”, I said "thank you for everything", right…? 🙄
… does the brain's physical memory arrangement… modulate the medium of the soul the same way? Or is that the Astral analogue of the physical brain?
I thank you and then drop this on you. Sorry.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020
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A successful resurrection heals a brain and a body, and the soul and animating spirit return to the body, the spirit linking brain and soul together to the body…and “life as before” is back again. 2)
A phylactery is a physical item “standing in” for the body after death, so the animating spirit and brain remain with the (decaying) body (=undeath). The soul is in the phylactery, and the ‘dreaming’ (inactive) brain is in the…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020
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…phylactery too, memories updated by the brain in the undead body via the Weave (upon contact, or when close by, or deliberately, or constantly; it varies with the undead creature, its whereabouts [in the Realms, or on 4)
…another plane], and the situation (intervening magic, any meddling by Mystra or her servitors or other deities, and so on].#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020