Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
2 things:

1) When you give blood, your body can make more blood.

If a person is given a soul, it can’t return to the life stream to allow a new individual to be born. Unless souls are infinite, there will be a point where souls run out and new babies can’t be born. We can infer souls are not infinite because Sphene plans to harvest every last ounce of life-energy until there is none left, then move on to other shards. If it was sustainable to “harvest life force” in any way, the AI would have thought of making a gigantic fish farm or something.

2) The extraction process turns the persons memories into an endless.

They will live (essentially) in a never ending twilight zone of a theme park for eternity. That is not a peaceful exit, and it might even be desired for a short period, but all indication is that they are in a sort of purgatory.

1. Actually though, souls are infinite because the planet can just make a new one instead of recycling from the aetherial sea. For example, Alpha the chocobo. And also hermes/hythlodaeus said that the planet will imbue a creation magic creature with soul so long it "follow the law of nature". That said, the rate of which it create new soul probably is very slow.

2. While the regulator use soul aether (after it's purified from memory), I don't think they're perma destroyed since Erenville said that he will meet his mom again in the aetherial sea. Meanwhile Endless is powered up by living force (different thing than soul aether and memory aether), which can only be harvested from currently living beings. Why do they not use feral living force? idk. Maybe it will corrupt them the same as people being corrupted by using regulator filled with feral soul.