Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
I honestly wonder if something like the lifestream even existed before the sundering. Seemingly the Ancient ones are of long life and in the face of death and destruction they simply paniced. So if nobody is dieing do they even have a lifestream? What about the creatures they created? Did they die? How was it possible to live forever, yet still give birth to new life? Where did those souls come from? And how did they not manage to overgrow the planet? Or was this the reason the calamity even happened?

I do find your questions interesting OP. In the end Emet hated us for our imperfect souls and also for the cycle of death it created. Yet death was possible with the Ancient ones too..Emet also believes that Zodiark can give back those that sacrificed themselves to him..so does that mean that he kinda has all the souls of these people in him? I wonder if in the end we will free those souls from Zodiark and release them to the livestream so that they too can be reborn again..

Anyway I hope we will get more answers to that.



Hm that would only be the case if the old souls are all destroyed but seemingly it does hint that souls continue to exist and become people again just without the memories of their past.
Hydaelyn does seem to have some connection to the Lifestream, it could be that the sundering and 'creation' of 14 worlds, granter her a sort of dominion over the life she 'created' in the loosest sense (recycled from the original world)
In which case, all non Echo'd life really are Hydaelyn's children, and those with the Echo are her stewards/Ascians.

It could be that a sundered Amaurotian, aka like us, are unable to create new souls, being only 1/14th of themselves, and so Hydaelyn fulfils that role via the lifestream.

For one wild theory at least.