Tale of Emet [FF14 x Nier Reincarnation event story]

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But the description of the state of post-sundering humanity goes waaaay beyond "leaving the actual thing alone". I don't think we can expect consistency anymore, only "being up to date with the latest retcons".

Not a single word in the collab hasn’t already been stated by Emet in ShB. This is isn’t a retcon, this a characters perspective. Notice how the “malformed” souls are walking about in both images, they aren’t screaming for help or catatonic like you would see if they were stripped of their souls (we were shown what this looks like in the StB patch series). There’s little to suggest that’s what happened.

And Sundering itself would not strip anyone of language, it would be a wiping of memory that would do that.