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Can a Beast-bonded witch posses a new body permanently using Twin Soul? Is there a wise person from Paizo, who can confirm?
1) Old witch captures a young girl.
2) Witch stabs her heart in a wild ritual placing her soul in her familiar.
3) Witch takes over young girls body, which soul now has nowhere to go (dies).
4) An 80 year old witch in a young body, permanently.
"can persist in this state indefinitely"
It's a valid interpretation. The girls spirit wouldn't necessarily die. It could either reside in the familiar or be suppressed. As magic jar without a receptacle isn't really covered (as far as I can find) they are also viable options at the GMs call.
In those circumstances you could later be exorcised, returning the girls spirit to her own body. It wouldn't time out though, so it lasts until you run into a meddling goody two shoes with the right skills.
A particularly malevolent solution if the GM treats the familiar as the host for the spirit (least likely RAW solution as it is effectively treating the familiar as the receptacle) is to ensure the familiar is out of range, get someone to kill the familiar, then acquire a new familiar.
If the GM rules the girls spirit is suppressed, I'm not sure you can guarantee permanence.
It's a valid interpretation. The girls spirit wouldn't necessarily die.
The rules for Magic Jar clearly state "Any life force with nowhere to go is treated as slain.", so I am pretty sure she is dead, which leaves one fresh and empty body ready for the taking.
I also don't think you could be exorcized, since you can "transfer into a suitable vessel (such as a clone)" and as we know trying to exorcize clones is utterly pointless.
Another questing is what would happen if the witch cast clone in her new body? Would she bring the girl back or would she create a backup body for herself?
Or what would happen were the witch die when her familiar is dead and someone would cast Resurrection on the claimed body?
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Can a Beast-bonded witch posses a new body permanently using Twin Soul? Is there a wise person from Paizo, who can confirm?
1) Old witch captures a young girl.
2) Witch stabs her heart in a wild ritual placing her soul in her familiar.
3) Witch takes over young girls body, which soul now has nowhere to go (dies).
4) An 80 year old witch in a young body, permanently.
"can persist in this state indefinitely"
Just one problem with your scenario.
The girl's body is already dead with Step 2. Which means her soul never goes into a receptacle. And there is no valid body for the witch to possess. Any other interpretation goes outside the ruleset.
It looks like OoC meant "The witch stabs her own heart". ^_^
Shadow Demons are different. They being what they are and how they operate, simply insert themselves into the body, and take control of what is a very crowded house.If so, Shadow Demons just got even MORE stupidly overpowered for their CR.It's a valid interpretation. The girls spirit wouldn't necessarily die.The rules for Magic Jar clearly state "Any life force with nowhere to go is treated as slain.", so I am pretty sure she is dead, which leaves one fresh and empty body ready for the taking.
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Shadow Demons just have a Magic Jar SLA. Nothing in the rules that indicates they are special in any way with regards to how that SLA functions aside from the bit about getting hit by sunbeam/sunburst.
I would seriously like it if you could find some indication for how shadow demon Magic Jar usage functions. Since they *don't* have any special abilities around the SLA using a receptacle, any information about how they function could probably be reasonably applied to Magic Jar in general.
Except you are all ignoring the fact that Shadow Demon has Magic Jar as a spell-like ability and it thus has the duration of the spell (10 hours).
Where as the Twin-Soul clearly states:
"They can persist in this state indefinitely"
meaning you can also posses a new body indefinitely.