On Dotharli beliefs...
The Dotharl believe that if you kill yourself in the House of the Crooked Coin, you remove your soul from the reincarnation cycle. The idea that it isn't just Ascian/Echo users' souls that can float around after death and attach to a body but everyone is intriguing...but more interesting to me right now is the idea that perhaps all those Dotharli who killed themselves on the statue (who removes the bodies?!) actually had their aether integrated into it.

We already know it's possible for souls to follow others around post-demise, ex: Haurchefant and Ysayle appeared to help us save Estinien. For the Dotharl reincarnation cycle to be true, their children would have to be without a soul at conception, meaning they are all technically just empty vessels waiting around for a soul, meaning no new souls are generated. Sometimes, they say, a soul from another tribe or place is reborn as a Dotharl (to explain unfamiliar souls).

It was an interesting concept before but now I really wonder how much of it is actually true and what connections Nhaama/Azim have to the facts we currently know about gods, deities, kami, and ancient civilizations...