Question Hallow go bye bye

What happens to a spirit if its hallow is destroyed?

I assume it slowly loses power unless it can get enough energy to maintain its mind state / level of sapience / whatever.

Perhaps fall back into a lower class of Entity...

Likely to be eaten by stronger Entities?

You say po-tay-to, I say po tah to
you say to may to, I say to mah to
you say hollow, I say hallow...

Seems that there are different ways to say "the place where spirits reside inside a person"

elrodw wrote: You say po-tay-to, I say po tah to
you say to may to, I say to mah to
you say hollow, I say hallow...

Seems that there are different ways to say "the place where spirits reside inside a person"

Not all Hollows / Hallows are inside people, though, like the one for Tansy's first spirit?

So destroying a Hollow doesn't mean killing someone?

Malady wrote:

elrodw wrote: You say po-tay-to, I say po tah to
you say to may to, I say to mah to
you say hollow, I say hallow...

Seems that there are different ways to say "the place where spirits reside inside a person"

Not all Hollows / Hallows are inside people, though, like the one for Tansy's first spirit?

So destroying a Hollow doesn't mean killing someone?

IIRC, every person, including baseline humans, have exactly one Hallow that is inhabited by that person's own spirit.

It's the rarer people that have a Hallow that is large enough to hold more than one spirit.

Most of the people in the WU that have larger Hallows, have them due to their own expressions of the MGC, ie. they are mutants.

Some baselines have Hallows that are different, due to magical-legacy's, extra-planar-influences, cultist's meddling, and/or, due to the side-effects of ( Author's use of ) Narrativium, but this isn't really a problem, as baseline human's can have active Essence Wells.

So far, so background.

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Destroying a person's Hallow would be the same as killing them, as their Hallow is synonymous with their physical body.

A free, unbound, spirit that has a Hallow that's in a physical place, ie. a Genus Locii, would be damaged if their Hallow was destroyed, but not necessarily completely killed.

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Please note that all of this, whilst being logical extrapolation from the Canon Stories, is always up for being altered by Authors, if they can justify it due to the flow of the story.

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Definitely a relevant question, with the Murphy story being newly released.

elrodw wrote: You say po-tay-to, I say po tah to
you say to may to, I say to mah to
you say hollow, I say hallow...

Seems that there are different ways to say "the place where spirits reside inside a person"

I was thinking Hollow Man when typing. -eye roll-

I was thinking the glen or what ever that held the peace spirit Tansy first had, not a person, like Malady asked.

Aren't they both different aspects of the same mechanism?

A Hallow is a space within you that is suitable for holding a spirit.

Mahren was a Hollow Man, in that he had a space that had previously been filled, but was cored due to a magical accident/trauma's/PTSD, leaving him with the potential to become an Artificer.

I'm probably getting two different things mixed up.

Any comments from the Canon Authors?

Ok, so there is some confusion about a word that really means the same thing, but it is used two different ways. In simplest words, a hallow is a multi-dimensional interface between the astral realms and the 'real world' prime material plane, what ever you want to call it. In a living being, the hallow is the part that interfaces with the soul, or a cohabiting spirit. With a soul, it allows that soul to control its body.

But for spirits, a hallow is a place where they can absorb essence.

This will be talked about more in depth in an upcoming story.

*Waits for the Spirit-Chan kicks evil's butt story*

I realize that this isn't an issue I needed answer to. The spirit I'm dealing with in my story is to young and unworldly to know what would happen and zips into a host to quickly to feel any real ill effects.