Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
To expound on this, if you pierce any soul with a pure aether blade, then the soul will be destroyed rather than return to the lifestream. This is part of what made Haurchefant's death so poignant. That javelin of light, "Spear of The Fury" was meant to kill and destroy an immortal Echo user(the WoL). Instead it kills Haurchefant, body and soul.

We haven't just been killing Ascians, we've been erasing them completely. At least, that's how it goes in the writing of the NA version.
You need a huge amount of aether to pull of killing the soul. We used the whole Light we gathered by slaying the sineaters to kill Hades. The spear attack was basically from an add. It did not destroy his soul, it "just" killed him. This is shown by Ysayle and Haurchefant helping us later.