Do animals have souls?

Fallen London
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I’ve been wondering about the impossibly large amount of souls that are being sold and bought all over the place. Do you think it’s possible that a large chunk of those might be animal souls?
What makes me suspect that might be the case is the monkey in Heart’s Desire; he’s a player in the Marvellous, so he must have staked his soul like everybody else.
Other animals might qualify - I think the cats and LBs, at least…

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What about Pentecost Apes? Apparently they have either multiple souls or have someone else’s soul inside them. I don’t know if that’s relevant to this particular question, but I thought I might add it.

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Pentacost apes steal/absorb human souls in an attempt to become more like humans. This is reasonably successful.

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Er… some of the players may not happen to have one. And I’m not talking about the possibility of a PC being souless

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[quote=Phèdre Delaunay] he’s a player in the Marvellous, so he must have staked his soul like everybody else.
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It’s not my Ambition, but I’m pretty sure you can stake something other than your soul.

Didn’t the Topsy King stake his mind, and that’s why he talks funny?

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Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just a phrase and not actually literal.

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I doubt it. At least, not souls that devils would want, or be salable.

I do know, however, that lower primates have souls. A devil (from Sunless Seas) once referred to them as &quotunripe&quot, though.

So there is a possibility that it could extend to other animals, but we just don’t know; They would also definitely be undesirable to devils as well, and thus unlikely to be bottled in the first place.

Until lore is established that lays down the law on the topic of animals and the status of their souls (or lack thereof), I’d say it’s really up to you what’s what. It’s a canonical grey area.
edited by Addis Rook on 2/22/2018

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I’ll… I’ll have you know I have sold my souls twice. Twice!


And I still got it!.. Somewhere… Uh…

shuffles papers

… I… apparently once commissioned a vault to hold souls… for some reason. Now it just holds all my Dubious Testimonies. Maybe I left it in there.

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All I will add is cats. Clearly smart. Definitely too smart to consort with devils. Ensouled? I think so.
edited by Jermaine Vendredi on 2/23/2018