I need to bounce ideas off of someone.
I’m world building *shudder* for a new book. I like the idea of “the rule of conservation of life” as the foundation for the magic. What would happen is, when a person of a certain race dies, their life—not soul, essence, personality, or anything like that, just their life—is transferred into an inanimate object. (It is a certain type of inanimate object, and the object itself becomes one of the beings, not like a Gollum or something.) I’ve been trying to brain storm some ideas of conflict, and without telling you the rest of the rules, I would like to know if any come to mind.
The number one conflict I can see is, because all of the sentient life is “recycled”, then there wouldn’t be sexes (bodily waste would be disposed of by other means that I’ve already planned out, and they can't procreate by sex—don't have the equipment). So that would mean that a couple wouldn’t be able to live in a sexual relationship—unlike the rest of nature around them which uses sex to procreate. I thought it would be interesting to play with a story about two of these beings in love and see what would happen. (Note: there are multiple species, and none of them are human.)
If you’ve got any ideas, let me know.