[Spoilers] I’m irrevocably Unimpressed

[Gwenorai]

words I guess

Our souls would live on and be made whole again. Again, souls work differently than mortal bodies. Our mortal bodies are, as emet puts it malformed. Our soul, if whole, is that of an ascian.

Well if we consider this; and how WoL doesn't remember anything - then what made that person a 'person' is gone. Their personality is gone. The soul may live on, but the person does not. That is still considered a 'death.'

The WoL is the closest being beside the Ascians to being complete, and they don't remember their past life as the missing '14th' who left.