Dead characters should stay dead (spoilers?)

[Anonymoose]

Lahabrea I almost wonder about because they keep bringing him up in the MSQ

If they intended for him to still be alive, they missed a grand opportunity to make it convincing: he could have been absorbed into the Eye of Nidhogg powering Ascalon, where he could have ridden out the torrent a la Y'shtola in the Lifestream long enough to ride out while the Eye was summoning/powering Shinryu. They even could have had him hang in Shinryu until side-jacking Zenos when he merged with the primal. (We had this theory as an alternative to the more obvious case of Elidibus possessing Zenos himself.)

On the other hand, back in 2.5, Nabriales spoke of the difference between the Originals and what I've been calling the "Transmigrationists." Nabriales said that he was a Transmigrationist while there were two Originals, Lahabrea and Elidibus.

DIGRESSION: The way he talked about it at the time, I assumed the Ascian overlords were raised within the worlds on which they were meant to oversee the Ascian presence, and that Nabriales was weaker on the Source because he was on a world he wasn't born in or assigned to. Shadowhunter suggested that this was not true, implying that all of the overlords were raised on the Source and that the Transmigrationists are those whose connection to it was severed so that they could invade the shards.

4.5 reframed the Ascian power structure, revealing that the Source had three Originals (at least), including the enigmatic and well-hidden Emet-selch. I've been suspicious that this "new revelation" was specifically because they wanted an Original to be part of the story, but couldn't bear the idea of undoing yet another death and using Lahabrea himself, lol.