Souls

Most sentient creatures were created with a soul, a piece of Æther from which they draw consciousness. Parts of this can be channelled, typically to gods, but as it is given away consciousness gradually degrades or is delegated to the entities which the soul was channelled into. This has led to a number of intriguing affects such as religious fanatics essentially being controlled by their god and, according to one maverick scolar of Pleitsdorf university, necromancers which have channelled away their soul in that use beginning to become a collective of all their creations.