Dawntrail's Final Zones destroy everything the story has built.

[MarianneviBrittania]

When something fits the definition of life, breathes, grows, reproduces, dies, etc, the star grants it a soul. Either a newly minted soul or a cleansed soul from the aetherial sea. Deciding what did and didn't get a soul was the last frontier in the Ancient's ability to create life which is what Athena was working on before she died.

I wonder if that means the Lifestream is sentient......?

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That's not very Forge Ahead of you. In fact, I daresay Emet would be proud.

Edit: Man, there are a LOT of Emets in here. So much 'You are not alive, therefore I kill you good' flying around in here. Also lol @ the reticence towards The Big G Word. Even if you downgrade it to mass slaughter the immorality of it all hardly lessens.