How do Sundered Ascians work? Or Alternatively: Is Reincarnation possible or not?

[Recon1o6]

Judging by what we know of reincarnation and how life works in ff14, its certainly possible for reincarnation to happen and for outside processes to interfere- see the dotharl and how the allagan siphon can take away the aether of someone which is what they know is removing oneself from the cycle of death and rebirth.

another dotharl sidequest also goes over one dotharl who thinks he isn't the soul whose name he bears. Turns out he is but was unclear on the exact history of his name. (namely each reincarnation had a preference for a different weapon than the last)

additionally the buduga also comment that had they would happily wait for a xaela wol to be reborn as a man had they been a dotharl. So at least two tribes there think its possible.

We also have at least 2 examples of reincarnations: the player and the one revealed in eden.


tldr: its possible, but new life does get formed as well

[Veloran]

It could just be that they left out that bit, but it also makes me wonder if maybe something changed about the cycle in the wake of the Final Days and/or the Sundering because if reincarnation and generation of souls co-exist, what would determine which occurs whenever new life is born?

Right, it would raise the question of why all life is sundered at all.

Judging by what we know of reincarnation and how life works in ff14, its certainly possible for reincarnation to happen and for outside processes to interfere- see the dotharl and how the allagan siphon can take away the aether of someone which is what they know is removing oneself from the cycle of death and rebirth.

another dotharl sidequest also goes over one dotharl who thinks he isn't the soul whose name he bears. Turns out he is but was unclear on the exact history of his name. (namely each reincarnation had a preference for a different weapon than the last)

additionally the buduga also comment that had they would happily wait for a xaela wol to be reborn as a man had they been a dotharl. So at least two tribes there think its possible.

We also have at least 2 examples of reincarnations: the player and the one revealed in eden.


tldr: its possible, but new life does get formed as well

There's also Mide and Dayan, who are clearly reincarnations of themselves. Side note, I also strongly suspect that those two are actually incarnations of Gaia and Artemis, considering that their interactions and the thrust of their story (with the whole inseparable love across lifetimes and coming together in a bubble of compressed eternity thing) are exactly the same.

[Recon1o6]

Right, it would raise the question of why all life is sundered at all.


There's also Mide and Dayan, who are clearly reincarnations of themselves. Side note, I also strongly suspect that those two are actually incarnations of Gaia and Artemis, considering that their interactions and the thrust of their story (with the whole inseparable love across lifetimes and coming together in a bubble of compressed eternity thing) are exactly the same.

I didnt include that one admittedly because Alexander's time magic made it a bit unclear if it was reincarnation, or if it was a stable time loop. Its certainly within Alexander's remit to deage them and release them out into the world at the start of the hotgo history