He turned them from guys posing into balls and then casts lb4 during the mandatory tank lb3 or off yourself and grab a res part of sos. Could you also give the duty finder description a read for me? I think it’s faster than watching the cutscene and both it and the journal mention summoning and taking into himself. The converging light quest also says it’s a partial summoning of the hopes, which must live in either the memory part of the soul or the blue bit. This has to be true as the exarch spell doesn’t do bodies and that is explicitly what is used to call them across to be fodder enemies and/or an Easter egg. Hildebrand as an exception since he was gently stored in the interdimensional greg place.

I guess we can blame ultima the not the primal one. Or the great serpent of ronka. Something’s funny with souls, I don’t know what it is but there’s a few full ones just recently dropped into the lifestream. Maybe it’s just some kind of spiritual tax.