About the Blessing of Light and the Echo

[WellGramarye]

Souls come from the Aetherial Sea. They're a natural product of the world's processes, and just come into being eventually. Creation magic was unable to form them.

From Through his Eyes Side Story

As water flows to the sea and rises to the sky before raining upon the land once more, the Underworld was a fundamental part of the circle of life. And for this reason, it was regarded at once with familiarity and reverence by men, who, despite their godlike powers, could not claim dominion over it. Wise though they were, they could catch only fleeting glimpses of the realm, channel but a sliver of its power, and do naught to control its ceaseless flow.

This explains the natural cycle of souls, rising from the Aetherial Sea, and becoming new life and how the Ancients couldn't manipulate it.

. Here and there, lives that had served their purpose drifted upon the current before suddenly plunging down unto the Underworld.

Emet was staring up at the sky and could see souls in the aether currents around the area, that would then fall into the Aetherial Sea, which they called the Underworld.

Through their mastery of creation magicks, men could weave anything into existence. Anything they could imagine, they could bring forth─anything, that is, except a soul. As Hades well knew, souls spontaneously manifested within creatures that were born in accordance with the laws of nature. It was a gift from the star itself, long held to be impossible to recreate. No artificial being, no matter how subtly sculpted in the image of nature, could come to possess a soul. Such creations occupied a separate classification known as arcane entities.

This part re-enforces the previous bits.

In Tales from The Dawn, A Friendship Record we get this part :

The Final Days brought fire and ruin until Zodiark put an end to the calamity.

His devotees then resolved to sow new life─a bounty of souls to take the place of their sacrificed brethren. In time would they reap this crop, and by rendering it unto their god would the lost be returned, and the world restored to the paradise it was and ever should have been.

Zodiark as Emet put it during the Amourot dungeon could "weave the laws of nature anew," meaning it could manipulate the Aetherial Sea, and actually create souls en-masse from it. This is the "new life" that never knew the End of Days, from which most of intelligent life as we know it descends. The Sundering stopped the harvest of this life, and split all souls.

We can infer three things:
1. Those who were alive and Ancients at the time of the Sundering, became those whom have the potential for the echo.
2. Those who were created though Zodiark, are those who do not have the gift at all.
3. Those were Ancients before but were not corporeal during the Sundering, feel the nostalgia and sorrow, the loss of their civilization.

[SannaR]

Souls come from the Aetherial Sea. They're a natural product of the world's processes, and just come into being eventually. Creation magic was unable to form them.

From Through his Eyes Side Story



This explains the natural cycle of souls, rising from the Aetherial Sea, and becoming new life and how the Ancients couldn't manipulate it.



Emet was staring up at the sky and could see souls in the aether currents around the area, that would then fall into the Aetherial Sea, which they called the Underworld.



This part re-enforces the previous bits.

In Tales from The Dawn, A Friendship Record we get this part :



Zodiark as Emet put it during the Amourot dungeon could "weave the laws of nature anew," meaning it could manipulate the Aetherial Sea, and actually create souls en-masse from it. This is the "new life" that never knew the End of Days, from which most of intelligent life as we know it descends. The Sundering stopped the harvest of this life, and split all souls.

We can infer three things:
1. Those who were alive and Ancients at the time of the Sundering, became those whom have the potential for the echo.
2. Those who were created though Zodiark, are those who do not have the gift at all.
3. Those were Ancients before but were not corporeal during the Sundering, feel the nostalgia and sorrow, the loss of their civilization.

This is pretty much how I classify the difference between souls and who might get the echo. We also now have, but will never see in game what effects it could have on a soul those who died during the 2nd Final days. Those that were in the Aetherial Sea prior to the 2nd Final Days kick off. And then any new souls made after these events.

[WellGramarye]

This is pretty much how I classify the difference between souls and who might get the echo. We also now have, but will never see in game what effects it could have on a soul those who died during the 2nd Final days. Those that were in the Aetherial Sea prior to the 2nd Final Days kick off. And then any new souls made after these events.

As Yoshi-P joked, maybe in 40 years~