World of Souls

A Soul.

Everyone has one. It's what shimmers to life when a baby takes their first breath and what retreats to the afterlife once they take their last. A soul can be pure, filling the owner with a sense of innocence and love. It can be corrupted, making a person utterly cruel and heartless. But it exists in everyone.

In this world, souls like to travel. After leaving one host in death, it tends to wander in Limbo before returning to another host, a newborn baby, and filling that child with the memories of its last life after five years of bliss. In this way, the poor can be reborn as a royal. A prince killed young can come back and live the calmer life of a baker. The children who've lived one or more previous lives and came back for another are called Old Souls.

There are cases where children are born with no past lives at all. They're fresh, clean slates whose souls are just as newborn as they are. They are the ones whose souls are the most adventurous, more likely to latch onto newborns to continue the cycles of reincarnation. The name their parents give them now is the name they'll carry throughout their future lives. These children are called New Souls.

This world of full of both New and Old Souls. And sometimes, especially during these chaotic times of Kingdoms at war, souls can be very pesky at times.

(The image in the cover is NOT mine, at all. But I love it.)