Quote Originally Posted by SannaR View Post
That makes some sense, but wouldn't the souls inside also fall under the everything got sundered? Sure they got split up and placed onto different reflections but why would they still be whole in a sense.
How I gathered the sundering of Zodiark affected the souls was that while Zodiark's body was sundered and its constituent souls ripped away, the souls themselves remained whole. It's like if you dispersed a crowd into multiple smaller crowds; every person in each crowd is still the same, you didn't split the person (unless you were extraordinarily bad at crowd management).

The main evidence there is that Hythlodaeus seems no different when we talk to him on the moon than he did in Elpis or Ultima Thule.