Quote Originally Posted by Alenore View Post
It depends, as said during one of Elpis quests.
Life forms are separated into two categories: Regular living beings, and arcane entities.
The former have souls, because Nature saw fit to grant them one as they were close enough to "natural" and "sustaining". The latter don't.


I wonder if its less about being "granted" a soul but more about growing and creating one. An arcane entity will have the potential but only a few actually manage it. If the entity survives and manages to procreate in the natuaral sense, its offspring will have one because it was born. A soul is only a special kind of Aether after all. Based on the stuff revealed in endwalker, it seems that souls are imprinted by the lives they lead. With before reincaration they are scrubbed of the memory of former lives with one key exception, Events that are truly traumaric are retained to a degree. At least thats the conclusion i've come to given what we know.