[Spoilers] Death and reincarnation

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Originally Posted by Alleluia

An interesting idea, but I don't think that we've seen anything to indicate the lifestream plays favorites like that. If ancient soul fragments are just getting reborn constantly throughout the Source, why would they skip an entire race? Do Garlean genetics have some kind of resistance to ancient souls or something?

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I would assume not, but they do have some kind of problem with processing aether. Not only can they not use it, it actually seems like they might have less of it than the other races. Take Nero during his little trip through the void as an example. His reaction to having his aether sapped was much worse than everyone else's.

In any event, we don't actually know how reincarnation works for Ancient souls. For all we know, they could always reincarnate as the same race they were shattered into in a given shard. E.g. a hyur would always be a hyur, an elezen would always be an elezen. The only thing we know at this time (and really, I suppose even what we think we "know" is just conjecture with a lot of supporting circumstantial evidence) is that these soul fragments are not dissolved in the lifestream like normal souls.

Nero was in the Void a lot longer then everyone else was though. He gets sucked into the Void right after we clear Syrcus Tower (2.3) and stays there until we clear the World of Darkness (2.5). Unei and Doga can't be effected by the Void because of Xande's pact, but Nero is fair game. Unei and Doga also say that Nero has been defending them from Voidsent for the entire time. So it sounds like there was plenty of opportunity for Voidsent to start eating away at the aether he did have.

So far, we've seen nothing that indicates Garleans have "less" aether then anyone else. If anything they probably have more on some level given that are collectively portrayed as being physically stronger then most other races. They just can't manipulate their own aether, which the other races can do easily.