(http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz359/Majere_Draven/Banner2.jpg)<br/>Knetic energy Ezo was hard pressed to counter. he was used to being able to accomplish his goals with brute force, physical or divine. this was diffrent, this was not in his playbook. Ezo thought on his feet. as the onrushing energy came towards him, he used one major spell at his disposal. spreading his arms out and facing the explosion, it blasted the flesh from his bones. Brutal, painful, but this was self sacrifice. Ezo took the full blast, he could not change it, instead he focused all the kenetic energy on himself. The dome of energy stopped where he was anahilated. everything outside that sphere was protected.<br/><br/>A martyer's death... to die protecting others. this was magic all on it's own... not even magic, for magic could be understood, calculated, redirected.<br/>Ezo was a Paladin, his soul fortified my faith, reason, passion and holy powers. his soul could not be yanked from his body like a common man. so long as his faith in good remained, this soul drain could not touch his soul. that was where his power lay, in his spirit, untouched and immune.<br/>it still hurt like a bitch... the breaking of bones, the tearing of flesh.<br/>Ezo's body was torn to oblivion, but his soul remained untouched. He had not fallen from grace before dying, he'd died protecting the land from an undead a suicide attack.<br/>this must have preplexed llillith if she was still around, she gathered no soul from that attack.<br/><br/>(Ezo was loosing anyway, he decided to die a maryter's death, saving the land in the process. I'm guessing Ezo and lillith's physical shells are gone after that. Ezo's a paladin and immune to soul sucking powers.)