Soulkin, huh? Snappier than 'entities composed of spirit magic,' which is what I think our textbooks are going for, these days.

[ He politely pretends not to notice the distaste, but does not politely stop talking about dead things. You can only get necromancers so far off their craft. Everyone knows it. ]

You could bind a soul to crystal, where I come from, but it'd be a rough deal for the soul. Not much to do when you have crystal for a body, is there? Not when you're used to eyes and ears and hands. It's why I'm so interested in the squid thing, here in town... it's like we take the shape we expect to keep. The memory of the person, inside a squid.