Thread: Servitors in General

yes but an option is never free will.

Free will is an illusion anyway. Whenever you talk about free will it is usually in the context of humanity however our brains are little better than a difference engine. We accumulate a bias of data and by the time we're 3 we have developed a bias towards reward. That is to say we inherently choose the more rewarding option based upon the information we have gathered up to that point. Can free will exist when the choice is always predetermined? I submit that once we cease to be infants then free will also ceases to exist. By that same token a servitor could be given "free will" just by implementing the same decision making process that we use in the servitor's design. Again it wouldn't really be free will in the way we think of it, the ability to choose any of a number of choices, but, it would be "free will" in the way we exercise it in which the most inherently rewarding choice is always selected.

"Free will" is a philosophical idea and a subject of considerable controversy. It would be better to say that servitors can possess autonomy. That is, within the context of achieving their programmed goal, they can alter their strategy without the direct input of the magician. This is, of course, a double edged sword. Poor programming is the #1 cause of "rogue" servitors.

it is my understanding that they can also be drawn back into and transfored into raw energy. Besides it is your thought there for it will always be ONE with you./ if you don't assign fear to it there is nothing to worry about.

Does servitors always turn on you or starts bothering you if you dont banish it or give it a certain time to exist?

Lets say you made a servitor to keep you company and maybe help with your magic somehow ...

I mean you want it to help you all the time right?

it is my understanding that they can also be drawn back into and transfored into raw energy.

Yes, but that is also true of any spiritual entity that you are stronger than. Just as very nearly any small animal is edible if you catch it and kill it.

Does servitors always turn on you or starts bothering you if you dont banish it or give it a certain time to exist?

No, you can successfuly keep servitors indefinatly if they are built correctly and treated with a certain ammount of respect (ok, you don't need to respect them, but I suspect it helps). Any long term general purpose servitor is going to have to have a certain ammount of intelligence to be able to perform a variety of duties effectively and eventualy is likley to resent being treated like a slave and find ways to rebel. it's often easier to say please and thank you and address it politely than to remake the entity every six months, and you have a helper willing to take it's own initiative to assist you.

Thank you shadow Weaver