Quote Originally Posted by Sicno View Post
What if the reason why we're able to talk to that one specific troll is not a matter of intelligence but because it has a soul while the others don't? In the same way creations were granted their souls by the star maybe the animals we know in the post-sundering world don't have a soul by default.

So, with the immediate post-sundering humanity... What if the sundering left them soulless initially and the star eventually started granting souls back to humanity?
Sundering doesn’t strip anyone of a soul as far as we know, it divides. It strikes at everything that defines a target but leaves the actual thing alone. For it to strip someone of their soul would be to kill them, which doesn’t fit Emets description. I think this is where we recognize the bias of the narrator.