Quote Originally Posted by Rokke View Post
iirc, JP explanation was we destroy their aether which is what usually protects them from the pull of aethersea/lifestream, while EN says we destroy them. I'd have to ask my friend to go through old cutscenes to be sure.
To be entirely fair, we have never laid low an Unsundered with white auracite. Nabriales and Igeyorhm were both sundered. Lahabrea got blasted by a Blade of Light of sorts (again) by King Thordan and that destroys his physical vessel, but his actual /soul/ is eaten by the primal. With Emet, the white auracite is used not to contain him, but to bind him and give us time to use the Axe of Light™️. If it was made of enough Light to banish night from a world's sky I can see that actually shattering this protection against the pull of the Lifestream upon physical death, but then again, we have to take into account that Hades has a natural affinity with the Lifestream considered extraordinary even among the Ancients. Perhaps he no longer can reincarnate the way we know Ascians do, but he has not surrendered to the Lifestream's pull entirely either. The way he speaks of his death to dream of things long lost and futures yet to be won makes me believe he is drifting in some sort of sleep (the night, the sunless sea of heaven) but until those who take the stage now prove our worth he will be keeping an eye. I would not blame him, to be honest. Once he is sure the world is in good hands, perhaps he will truly "let go". That does not mean he does not trust us, I think it is obvious he believes we can do it, but Emet is a world-weary realist. And it would be not out of character for him to give a push every now and then to help us in saving the world and the people; that is precisely what he used to do for Azem by interceding on their behalf whenever they ran off to do things their way, after all.