Souls

History
The Souls are an immaterial species, who only seem corporeal in the Void as matter is meaningless and only the ethereal is real within the Void's expanse. If unfettered, souls appear as orbs of glowing essence and have little real purpose or meaning; to become sentient, a soul needs to become fettered. To become fettered, the ephemeral substance of the soul needs to be drawn in by an Ascension Chain and sent to a material realm to combine with matter and create life. Once severed from matter, that soul is drawn back through the same Ascension Chain it originated (unless it underwent a significant Paradigm Shift and became committed to another chain through faith, worship, residual cultural belief, or some sort of mystical pact. Returned from life, the soul becomes fettered and takes on the shape it had in its most previous life. Some realms practice reincarnation and these souls typically have much stricter holds on their souls, often surpassing the other means to escape the Chain to which the soul is bound.