End Dawntrail Spoilers: What is the difference between a regulator and giving blood?

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Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon

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I thought somewhere they said, specifically for S9, accidental death was the most common way people ran out of souls? But aging and illness were the common ways to permanently die. Maybe I misunderstood something but I thought that was also why we were shown the hunter woman because hers was an accident (through her being careless) but that was an extreme example for the sake of getting the point across to the players.

And it seemed to imply they don’t out live their natural lifespan. Like Hyur’s don’t suddenly live to 100+ because of the regulator and extra souls. When Namikka died even though some NPCs were like “doesn’t she have any extra souls?” there was one or two who confirmed it wouldn’t have mattered (or been a waste) because of her age.

For the lower birth rates, wasn’t it more that because of the soul shortage for their 1UPs people were wary to have kids because it was p.much like being uninsured. So people didn’t have kids because they didn’t feel it was safe or smart to add more people who would just put more strain on then resources specifically having extra souls.

Edit: And I don’t think not leaving their legacy was an issue for S9/Alexandrians because for them they understood that things would just go to the cloud. So I don’t think they’d be bothered by not leaving a legacy, or at least the ones who use regulators arnt too worried since it’s optional to wear.

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Originally Posted by Serilyn

(For that matter, how do they have enough spare souls for everyone? If at the start they all had one extra soul each half of the population would need to have died... Let alone having more than one soul each which is implied by the fact that they can buy them. Did we skip the part of their history where they harvested the souls of all their neighbours? And they have such a shortage yet accepted the people who got stuck in the dome into their population instead of just harvesting them, that means they would have been using even more.

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I wonder since Alexandria was at war one point, that through the conflict they were able to get some additional stock that way? Then I think when the war was over, and their enemies are now Alexandrian citizens, the increased population provided an additional set of future souls.

Maybe initially, they had a surplus of souls so this system worked. Or maybe the initial number of Endless didn’t put a burden on their soul stock.
Either way I think they were maybe splitting things on razor thin numbers so the living wouldn’t get too distressed with the soul shortage but also making sure LM still had enough too.

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Originally Posted by W4rm0nger5

My problem with the regulators is not around the morality of what they've been doing with souls to make them work, it's more the psychological effect both it and the memory manipulations have on the population. The ones with regulators are utterly terrified of running out of souls, to the point where one man abuses the otherwise almost universally loved ruler because she can't help him get any more, and they have no memories of their loved ones to draw strength from since they get erased the second the person dies. There's a side quest in Solution 9 that really rams this home when you help out a guy whose job is to lay out dead people. He asks for help identifying a tag he found on one of the bodies, leading to a bit of a fetch quest where you eventually find out the body belonged to the man's father. He has no idea who the guy is because every memory he has of him has been erased, and without your help, he would never have even known his father had passed or that he had left him a memento of his life.

I'm honestly glad that Solution 9 wasn't connected to the source during the final days because I'm pretty sure every regulator user would have lost hope and turned into a blasphemy the second things got hard, they have nothing to draw on to take strength from the past and cant face their own mortality.

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They are the npc meme made manifest.