Quote Originally Posted by Kesey View Post
I'm not sure it matters if they have the echo currently, as all life has some small part of Ancient's aether in their soul. Just some people don't awaken their echo.

Maybe they will explain better in 6.0 who does or does not awaken to the echo?
Actually they dont, Ascians didnt had the monopoly of souls even if part of the new souls did get "recycled" from them so to speak. Even using the eastern philosophy of reincarnation Ascians were only a part of the total souls in the star's cycle and thats the main reason they were so willing to sacrifice the entire non Ascian population, because most were of non ascian souls with just a small part being Ascian shards.

If all of the new life were ascian shards they would have had a much harder time to deciding sacrificing them considering as a race they are selfless enough to willingly sacrifice so many of their kin to save the star.