Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
Honestly, I've always felt there is a lore disconnect with Haurchefant's death. From the scenes on the Final Steps of Faith where his spirit and Ysayle's help the WoL and Alphi pull the eyes out to when his spirit shield shows up in Aitiascope...

The lore leads you to believe that a "blade of light" renders the soul into dissolute aether. I was always under the impression that he had been killed right down to his soul, so much so that my memory later disregarded the 3.3 scene after Nidhogg on the steps.

That's what made it so poignant to me, but like so many other things, the writers just do not care to adhere to what they wrote before with this game. It makes me sad and mad.
Yeah, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. Even assuming that the light spear doesn't just destroy your soul, his appearance in the Aitiascope dungeon just makes no sense for where the character was left off. Apparently the souls who are lingering behind in the Aitiascope are meant to be souls with regrets or something similar. So why is Hauchefant down there? He knows he saved us, if that was really him on the bridge after Final Steps of Faith, he knows we survived the dragonsong war, why is his soul just hanging around in the sea? Maybe the light spear makes it where he can't reincarnate but he's still down there? But then why are other characters' souls who shouldn't have such regrets seemingly stuck there too? Shouldn't he have been reincarnated by now all things considered? Maybe I'm just misremembering how it works, but it doesn't make much sense.

It feels like they kinda just dumped logic for feels on that one. It's not surprising though, that's 90% of this expansion's plot.