(EW Spoilers) Tales from the Dawn #5 - Days Gone By, Days Yet to Come

[Alenore]

I think what Reginleif meant was that English uses the word "soul", whereas other language just comment on the physical Fandaniel: a black lump, a black mass, and a black thing in EN, FR and DE.

On the other hand, I don't really know what a color of a soul would actually do for us. We know souls have colors at least by some forms of observation--according to an ALC quest ours is blue--but there's never been any indication those colors mean anything. Like, genuine question, not being rhetorical or sarcastic: what would it even mean for... anything, if Hyth said someone's soul was puce? What meaning could that even carry?

It's a characteristic like any other. What does it do in the grand scheme of thing? Nothing. But for small details about xharacters and trivia? Cool!

[MikkoAkure]

I think what Reginleif meant was that English uses the word "soul", whereas other language just comment on the physical Fandaniel: a black lump, a black mass, and a black thing in EN, FR and DE.

Yeah, I think here "soul" is being used in the same way you could refer to people in English as "souls" rather than mean their spirit. The writer does the same thing earlier in the story when they refer to someone as an "industrious soul".

Though considering Hythlodaeus is a character who can actually see the colors of peoples' souls and is switching between normal and soul-sight in order to track Azem, I probably would've used a different word here instead of "soul" to avoid confusion.