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Sophiological Avatars are avatars composed of ideas made manifest, rather than immortalized flesh. One should note that the sale of custom sophiological avatars means that biometrics such as fingerprinting, voice recognition, eye-scanning and DNA evidence are all less useful than they were in the Old Real. The result is that SAMs like Psychometry or Parcelmaster are heavily employed by police forensic teams.

Psychoneurography
A Psychoneurography is the process of drawing upon a person's self-image to form a type of sophiological avatar called a psychoneurograph by the medical community. The machine used to enact the process is called a Psychoneurogram.

Souls
A Soul's composition and existence is still a mystery.

Originally, the only hypothesis with any evidence was that the New Real is a universe made of ideas, and Souls are a simpler and more permanent idea than a biological human body, due to the fact that Souls seemed more rooted in mythology, religion and fiction than in a physical reality and that dreaming Souls always have the same form in their dreams as they do while awake.

Some say they're an artificial body made of pure energy, powered by fusion within the Soul, which is backed up by the fact that Souls emit carbon dioxide and water vapor, and produce heavy water, as waste products.

All that is known is that Souls come from the psyche of the person who underwent a Soulsearch.

Soulsearching
For all intents and purposes, self-image and the consciousness is the soul. Furthur, a psychoneurography always gives the same results, regardless of a person's age or experience. As a result, a psychoneurograph is said to be the process of shedding a physical body to become a Soul, a process nicknamed "soulsearching".

Souls and SAMs
Superhuman Ability Modules are actually based off of the Quirks which psychoneurographs can have. Quirks date back thousands of years, back to the end of the First War, and include the abilities that a person expects a biological being, or mythlogical or fictional character, to have. Examples include super-hearing, vampirism, toon physics, lack of a shadow, or immunity to fire. While a Soul or Semblance can have any ability which could be accomplished with technology or biology, true superpowers cannot be enabled by a Quirk.

Semblances
A custom sophiological avatar, or Semblance, is extremely expensive, however - as stated above - it is possible to use self-image as input to automatically generate a sophiological avatar called a Soul. Souls predate Semblances by at least 11,000 years, however the idea of the Semblance was first recorded on the walls of a cave near eGoli, in the form of a painting with no known author which dates back to before 0 GHE.

The first Semblance ever produced was the infamous False Soul, which was created by the infamous MisterGoodright to convince voters in Newton that he was a better person than he actually was. He was elected as mayor 3 times before retiring, and his deception was not revealed until many years later.

Semblances remained a trade secret for decades, merely a rumor among the populace of Gaia that "Souls can be faked for the right price". Most if not all Semblance creation was done by members of the Underworld.

The first Semblance studio was Edison Sophiologies, founded in 11937 GHE by Thomas Edison. Each Semblance created by the company came with a

Waste Products
A Sophiological avatar creates very small amounts of waste, about one liter of liquid waste per year in the form of Heavy Water, as well as a negligible amount of carbon dioxide and water vapor which hasn't been measured because no one wants to keep tabs on people's farts.

Due to the production of heavy water by sophiological avatars, the Omni Processors used on Gaia are equipped with an extra subsystem so that water in the system will undergo deuterium depletion.