Soulless

Causes

People can become soulless in many ways, and for varying lengths of time.

Symptoms

Soulless symptoms are :

• Apathy and psychopathy due to lack of emotions, especially empathy
• No longer bleeding and not being able to heal naturally
• Feeling empty
• Immortality: Can’t be killed, nor healed normally, only magical healing can restore them.

Treatment

One way to cure a Soulless, and get the affected back to their orginal self, is to give them their soul back. If they get someone elses soul instead of their own then they aren’t the same, and they will develop a new personality. Over time they may even forget who they were before hand.
Another way to cure a Soulless is to bind their soul to its rightful place, but if their body is too injured, then the soul still be set free to the afterlife. This gets rid of the Soulless by killing them.
If a Soulless' soul is destroyed, they will slowly become undead.

Prevention

Mutilating, destroying and removing souls is incredibly hard to do, so isn't that common. There are two ways to prevent someone else using soul magic to make you Soulless, one is to bind your soul to your own body, the other is to have your soul bound familiar.

Cultural Reception

Some people can't tell the difference between a person with a Soulless, and an Undead. An Undead is a creature that is technically dead but still animates. Because people get confused between the two, peoples negative connotations towards the Undead are also felt towards people with the Soulless.
Mutilating, destroying and removing souls, even your own, is frowned upon.

Origin

Magical

Rarity

Rare