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>pic related (it's a Leshen from Witcher
That's a wendigo. They're minions of Santa Muerte.
>What it means to own a soul?
It becomes subordinate to you forever. That is real ownership. What was discussed above was merely getting souls out from hell to train them or save them. A lot of people now ended up in different underworld dimensions so I've been recruiting from there and taking them to my astral HQ to teach them magic so they can support me. That's not ownership, that's making a pact or deal.

A lot of souls turned out to be fake however. Anyone created by Yaweh is just a bit of qi called "breath of God". They can't be used for anything and will dissolve if you try. There's also artificial souls created by occultists, we refer to them as "botsouls", or in rare cases "golem". There is a quality difference between them but they're both artificial constructs created to inhabit slave humans. There are times when a botsoul will seem to gain awareness, but it's really that the soul functioned as an auto summoning device which summoned a being into existence, molded by the form of the botsoul. It's easy to mistake this for botsouls being real, but they aren't. This is more like drawing a character and then it seems to come alive. In reality a being of similar appearance was summoned by the drawing, the drawing itself is just ink.