Quote Originally Posted by Rannie View Post
Ie: a soul dies and rages against the heavens due to regret and anger from dying, just like the soul that ended up merging with the conceptual pheonix that was created by Lahabrea and his academics. We don't know if there are any other souls to that extent that were just wandering around in the underworld and ended up building pressure over time like a pressure cooker with the top on wrong causing it to explode.
I feel like the short story with Phoenix is to plant the idea that Louisoix is associated with Ancients in some way.

Maybe this is a stretch, but what if Louisoix was Venat? Or Hythlodaeus? What if the "railing against life" quote is the artistic flourish to justify their association?

The short story also skips the exposition of who created Phoenix other then they worked in the "Words of Lahabrea" (which more like a work department?), but could that creator be associated with the Hydaelyn faction--could that have been Venat?

To my final question, is reincarnation not a thing of the past (I believe it was said the Ancients were immortal) and could it have started after Hydaelyn fractured the world?