Adapted from a list Annaroxiel keeps on file to calm down her father.


Reasons why using souls to power machinery is a bad idea, even if Addison supplies the means:
1) Boom.
2) Boom Boom Boom. (With you as the second boom.)
3) Peasants. Pitchforks.
4) Mass uprisings making number 3 look like nothing, which results in a change of government and you seeking refuge in a foreign land.
5) Inciting cackling.
6) A large bill presented to you for damages.
7) A rather perterbed master duelest &/or necromancer showing up asking what the hell you're doing, sir.
8) Big Badda Boom.
9) Becoming the star in a cautionary tale told around campfires of combining good solid engineering with Things Man Was Not Meant to Know.
10) Becoming the star in a penny dreadful &/or play about the above, but without being alive to collect the royalties.
11) Laws of dramatic irony dictate you would be harvested to run a machine.
12) Biomechanical design for host of soul  (aka Lich-bot) goes on rampage, resulting in #2, #6, #10, and #10 when #7 occurs.
13) Lich-bot likely to have massive angst issues. It would be like having a teenager.