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Limited Conversation

Emmrich: I’m sorry, but I find it completely unnatural.

Harding: I don’t get why you think cremation’s so bad. Everyone outside Nevarra burns their dead.

Emmrich: All those lost vessels. Fine mansions reduced to ash! Manfred, for instance. How would his wisp have fared if I hadn’t given it a body?

Manfred: (Curious hiss)

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1 - Investigate: How smart is he anyway?

Rook: What does Manfred understand, exactly?

Emmrich: Simple things, but he grows. Spirits of Curiosity are voracious learners. The more he experiences, the more sophisticated his conclusions. With guidance, of course.

Manfred: (Friendly hiss)

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2 - Investigate: Where’d his body come from?

Rook: Where or… who’d you get his body from?

Emmrich: There was no single donor. The arms were recovered from a charnel pit. The ribs were a gift from a dear friend. And Manfred’s wisp picked out his own skull from some donations. That was quite the day! He’s been fine company during my Necropolis excursions ever since.

Manfred: (Pleased hiss)

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3 - Affable: Does he understand “hello?”

Rook: If I say “good to meet you,” will he get that?

Emmrich: Manfred’s alert to the sentiment, certainly!

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4 - Sarcastic: Sure. Back at you, Manfred.

Rook: Yep, same to you.

Emmrich: It’s just Manfred’s way of saying hello.

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5 - Stoic: Tell me Manfred’s trained.

Rook: That a greeting or a warning?

Emmrich: Manfred is the gentlest of souls!

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6 - Mourn Watcher: He’s a lively one.

Rook: Manfred’s very aware for one of the common dead.

Emmrich: Isn’t he? You can see why I couldn’t leave him behind.

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Emmrich: I encountered him as a wisp in the Necropolis years ago. A simple spirit, but so curious! He refused to leave my side.

Harding: So you… built a skeleton for the spirit to live in?

Emmrich: Spirits are formed from the emotions and desires of people in the mortal realm. Manfred’s wisp came from curiosity. It’s these spirits which animate the dead. Their drive revives the corpse, yet the corpse colors their actions. Thus the eternal question: are undead inhuman spirits puppeting a body, or does some shade of the departed return?

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7 - I believe the soul returns.

Rook: I feel something of the soul returns when we revive the deceased.

Emmrich: That’s my view as well. It’s difficult, isn’t it, to prove those lingering glimpses may be grace?

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8 - I maintain they’re puppets.

Rook: We place spirits into bodies for convenience. There’s little evidence the old soul returns.

Emmrich: I take the opposite stance myself, though I won’t dissemble the argument’s reliance on faith.

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9 - Not getting into this again.

Rook: I debated that enough during my tenure at the Necropolis, if it’s all the same.

Emmrich: I belong to the side that believes in a deeper resurrection, but let’s let the subject lie.

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Harding: Wow.

Rook: Wow?

Harding: You know you sound different when you talk Mourn Watch things? Way fancier.

Rook: I do no such—(Clears throat) No I don’t.

Harding: Thanks, professor. I learned a lot today.

Emmrich: My pleasure!

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