Substance

Substance is the semi-organic material that makes up the soul. Just how DNA functions as the building blocks of the physical body, Substance functions as the building blocks of the metaphysical body. Each pattern of Substance is unique to each soul, which is why everyone is different and not just copies of one person, so to speak. Substance is white noise and static given a physical form due to the decay of their audible one. The creation of Substance occurs in space, where Leylines emit vast amounts of static which arrange themselves into patterns to create simple yet unpleasant melodies. These melodies then group together based on sound to create physical forms - this is Substance. It loses its sound in exchange for a corporeal form, usually about the size of an atom. These atoms of Substance - called Motes - clump together and drift in random directions until they find other semi-organic material and begin to integrate themselves into it, creating that materials’ soul and turning it fully organic. The material can then grow and evolv with its soul evolving with it, until eventually it can gain the capacity for Tune after millions of years. Souls do not have to be created in this way every single time a living creature is ‘born’, as they are passed down through generations with the pattern of Substance changing slightly over time.