Jars and absorbing souls (SPOILERS)

[Ka-mai19]

I've twice found myself in situations where I can either absorb a soul out of a jar, smash the jar to pieces, or leave it alone. I've destroyed the jars and "freed" the beings that I believed needed respite, but I've left the jars alone that I felt deserved eternal imprisonment. Have any of you absorbed a soul? If so, what happened?

I'm really curious about this facet of the game. I wonder what the long term ramifications are.

[Woland]

Jars became empty that you can pick up. You get charges which are equivalent to soul vampirism effect (source points)

[Ka-mai19]

Ahhh coolio. Thanks!

[Acadian]

this is only useful if u actually are able to remove the source collar otherwise its pointless atm.

[nex]

i have cleared the area with the jars and absorbed the souls so i can get the empty jars but now how do i charge them? gratiana said something about me bringing her the jars but now that i've finished everything and killed bishop she won't do it anymore?

[Uhther]

I dont think you can recharge them

[Xafron Chi]

Good to know! I grabbed all the source jars cause the old lady said she wanted them. THen she only used one though, and so I ended up with the rest not sure what to do with them.

[Amroth]

If you give her a random jar instead of her own, she takes them all.
Or you could absord the other jars.
Or you could break one when you're fighting against undead. (Apparently smashing a soul jar kills the undead enemies)

I aim to keep them in case I come across the owners of those souls.

[Elendil]

In Braccus' vault (guarded by the jester) there are soul jars besides the jester's own, with one of them belonging to Gratiana, the priestess. The three other jars that remain after smashing the jester's and giving away Gratiana's contains the souls of three necromancers that sit just outside the research facility guarded by a gargoyle and a maze of traps.

These three necromancers were once prominent sourcerers themselves, with one of them specifically being the progenitor of the fading lizard empire. All they desire is a release from the mortal realm and rest in the Hall of Echoes, so you can grant them their wish by smashing their jars in front of them.

The last soul jar in the island contains Lord Withermoore's soul. Withermoore is a source hunter tasked with finding out what Braccus was doing in the island, and has been trapped there ever since. He is the one that initially gives you the quest to find and destroy his soul jar to free him. Surprisingly, you can actually absorb his soul that's inside the soul jar and present to him the empty soul jar, which he still recognises as his own. He'll ask you to smash it, and doing so will release him either way.

[Kenneth]

Did you get an "updated my journal" when you smashed the 3 necromancer jars or experience for freeing them Wyvern ?

[Elendil]

I think it's an incomplete quest because they say initially that they want to get out of the tower by any means necessary (they will first think that they should absorb your party's source) until you convince them that you can find and destroy their soul jars for them. Any conversation after that (including when you arrive with soul jars in tow) is just a loop of them asking what you're doing here. And from what I recall, the journal hadn't updated after I was done smashing the jars either.

[Kenneth]

Might be broken somehow because i always have the jars already with me when i get there. I convince them that i will help them, destroy the jars and they die. But i don't get any update or experience from it. Maybe i do it in the wrong order or something, wich would be a bug i guess.

[Ka-mai19]

Thanks for the info. Wyvern! I did find and free Witrhermoore, it was the other souls that I wondered about :)

[Voltages]

So my dumbass friend had me drink Gratiana's soul jar. Am I screwed?

[ZapZebra]

There are 7 soul jars in total in the game actually, 6 in Fort Joy, and one in Reapers Coast. The last one is much harder to obtain than the others though. In the quest A Taste of Freedom, you find a Lich and are given the option of freeing him from his prison, if you do so you will start to encounter him in the wilderness in a few different places, murdering innocents. If you find him a third time he will have stolen enough source from the people he killed to summon his Phylactery and escape, he will thank the player, summon his soul jar and then leave after rewarding the player. If you are fast enough you can steal the soul jar as it appears, but you have to be quick because he picks it up instantly. Then you have to fight him, but you get a 7th jar from it.