Quote Originally Posted by Nitelancer View Post
assuming there was no other solution
2 things:

1) I don't think we'd want to commit multi-shard genocide to the level of Ascians each time one of them comes to threaten us for resources.

2) This was the biggest puzzle I was trying to solve myself when I was looking at the lore encyclopedias.
- The Ea are stated to be biological immortality. They are stated to consume pure aether have no mention of sustain problems. They actually said the universe would freeze over before they had that problem if ever, and then killed themselves.

- The Nibirun are stated as also obtaining immortality and later having also created their definition of a perfect world. With nothing left to do in their existence, they chose to off themselves as well. Another instance of not having supply shortages.

We know that in the world of Final Fantasy that immortality without any negative future limitation does for a fact exist since we have 2 races that achieved it. So the question is where does infinite soul aether come from?

Well, one interesting side question I had was: If dynamis is another energy source like aether, do soul dynamis, memory dynamis, and corporeal dynamis exist in the same split as aether does? It's stated that a being with less aether is able to use dynamis. Well, we, in our nerfed state are able to use dynamis (Thancred using his will to physically manifest in Ulthima Thule). The issue is that we're technically aether, 100%. Which means that aether with a conscious/emotion is able to use dynamis. And, we know that memory aether is only a fraction of what we are. Endless do not have soul aether, but are memory aether, which we know carry emotion. Does that possibly mean they would be able to more strongly use dynamis than what we are?

If you check the description of creation magicks and concepts in the lore encyclopedia, they sound extremely close to the idea of Ancients actually creating soul aether types (basic instincts, physical manifestation details, etc. because keep in mind, corporeal aether is just elements by itself, it doesn't take on a living type behavior by default), but, would be lacking in memory aether as a means for having a full "soul".

If the creation of a soul aether type is actually a thing, a soul dynamis should be able to be created as well. Could a memory aether, be attached to/control a soul dynamis and corporeal dynamis? This would be something not even fathomable to Alexandrians, but if possible, dynamis dwarfs aether in volume and you would have a vast amount available. Not to mention, as a dynamis being, similar to Meteion, they should be able to fly wherever they wanted in the universe to get a new aether/dynamis source.

Few different ways things could go especially with other mysteries such as the origin/creation of memory aether since only soul aether and corporeal aether are recycled, as well as how much soul aether is pending use in the lifestream already.