As of today, I am half done with connecting all of my people together using my soul. Things are really starting to get interesting. I am not able to completely turn off the emotions I receive from the people, even when only considering the ones I have connected. I would say that I am able to remove about half, the other half has little to do with the soul. It's probably in the brain, considering all I know about it, which puts it beyond my reach. The only way I can think of to prevent myself from feeling those emotions isn't exactly something I'm willing to do to anyone, much less my own people.

That isn't to say all hope is lost for preventing me from entering a rage when the people get too upset. Being able to cut down on half of the emotions is quite a lot. And with my increased control enables me to feel more nuances in the emotion. From my understanding pure rage isn't a very nuanced emotion, so hopefully, there will be some beneficial interactions there.

Before I was only able to feel very general emotions, like happiness, sadness, or anger. Now the emotions I receive from the people are a lot deeper. I can tell when that happiness is love, or when that sadness is despair. All of that is still drowned out by the mass of emotion, but I can pick it out if I pay attention to it. Plus I can much more easily feel the emotions of one particular follower if I pay attention to them. Or to the emotional state of a crowd of people.

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It's a lot more than I expected, but at the same time, less than I had hoped for.

Other than that we received word from Par. The mercenaries have been more or less defeated while our army has taken moderate casualties. Very few dead, the mercenaries didn't seem to be aiming to kill so much as maim, they probably don't fight healers very often. However, there are a lot of people that were injured beyond the abilities of our front line medics to heal. So many of them will be returning to town for medical treatment before going back to the front. Some of them will likely be beyond all but our best healers, I will try to step in for those cases but beyond that my people have this under control.

I spent some time with Tiddol today. She's taking a break from tinkering with her insides to practice some alchemy for a little while. Just a couple small potions, like one designed to make the person who drinks it smell like oranges for five minutes, or one that lets you climb on walls. I have no idea how that last one worked, the first one caused you to release something from your pores, but the second one had no obvious physiological changes associated with it. It just worked.

I'm glad that she is managing to take a break today, she definitely deserves a chance to rest.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.