Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
Wasnt this stated by mortals? (Scions) I mean how would they even know this to be the case? IMO it could simply be that this was what they believed at that time.
Possibly. The folks who were talking all had a Sharlayan education, though, a community that is implied to be very rational and scientifically rigorous. Not the sort of people to stand by matters of faith as rock-solid fact - especially given that they were basing their anti-Ascian strategies on those very beliefs. While I don't know how, exactly, the Sharlayan's figured out what happens to a soul after death, I strongly suspect they had SOME kind of rigorous scientific testing that lead them to that conclusion.

They could still be wrong, of course. But I don't think it's just a matter of untested personal beliefs. And if they ARE wrong, then we need to toss some of our own assumptions out the window, such as Nabriales's and Igeyorhym's deaths. Both were taken out by way of the White Auracite plan, which relied on the Ascian's soul dissolving into the Lifestream once they were unable to escape to the void between worlds. If souls DON'T dissolve - then what happened to those two?