Quote Originally Posted by YianKutku View Post
The current lore is that everyone has the soul of an Ancient, albeit sundered. The source is a Letter From The Producer (non-Live) archived somewhere on the forum, I believe.

Of course, this kind of causes issues with previous text, where we learn souls can be formed/developed, eg with Alpha. Also we don't know if by "everyone" they mean "every Spoken", or "every living thing", or "every sapient being", or "every player character race. (Obviously we'll leave extraterrestrials like dragons and Omega aside.) For example, would our Chocobo have the soul of an Ancient? Would Seto?

So apparently what Elidibus did with the starshower was attempt to awaken another part of this Ancient soul-ness, namely what we know of as the Echo. Some people got it, some people did not, and we don't know what the criteria is, or even if it's just random chance. But everyone (on-scene, conveniently) somehow managed to pull from ancestral memory of Amaurot and Amaurot-like architecture as something that was lost.

I don't know if this "everyone has the soul of an Ancient" thing is leading somewhere, or if it's one of those "it sounded nice and dramatic in storyboarding, don't think too hard about it.


Ten Character Jin
I'm not too sure about that...

I mean, they wanted to sacrifice the new life on the planet to restore Amaurotines, and that was before the Sundering. So not every soul is a sundered Amaurotine, going by the all creation had been sundered, some must have a sundered soul of a sundered non-Amaurotine.