Quote Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal View Post
"Humans" (playable races) are distinctly different from the beastmen. The Dragons, Omega, and the Ancients explicitly distinguish humans from non-human races. So far there is no evidence that human souls can reincarnate as anything other than another human.
I might have a bias toward... at least one beast tribe, but what I actually found most interesting was how neither Omega nor Midgardsormr went out of their way to even distinguish us from a chocobo. Such as when Omega said:
He was the first entity I created here in this realm— my first and only attempt to recreate a being who shared your mundane parameters.
And in that same questline Hraesvelgr says:
What is but a fleeting respite for my sire might last a lesser creature's lifetime.
Typically, dragons refer to the star's inhabitants as "mortals," unless they need to be more specific— such as talking about the neighbouring Gnath or Thordan's "children," the people of Ishgard. Occasionally, Hraesvelgr refers to Elezen as "men" or refers to (I suppose) Eorzean as the "tongue of men."
One thing that stands out to me is that during the Dragonsong War, Nidhogg goes out of his way to categorize Elezen as a distinct creature.
They have ever been untrustworthy creatures, these short-lived Elezen.
I struggle to find much evidence against or in favour of the reincarnation angle, though.
I wonder. Aside from the accounts of the Dotharl, what specific examples of reincarnation — that is, following a full return to the "aetherial realm" (also feel free to let me know my if my parlance is outdated) — do we have?