Quote Originally Posted by Elladie View Post

Any creatures remain concepts until Hythlodaeus passes them for 'general use'; before that, no souls. They still die, of course, if they're 'discontinued' but the Ancients seem to collectively see this not as death but as a change of form; they go back to aether and get used again in some other concept
In the german version Hermes says that the difference between such beings is the soul but that the Ancients cant create one thus its bascially RNG if a creation gets one.

And even though we do have a soul (even if its sundered) Hythlo and Emet still called us an It for quite some time at the beginning and most Ancients there did see us as just an familiar. Basically if you are not a born Ancient you are in some ways bellow them.

So I can fully see that they would still "kill" a concept even if it had a soul.