Quote Originally Posted by Morningstar1337 View Post
I can't help but wonder

if the First's status as a void devoid of all life had something to do with this? Maybe its not just the WoDs that went to the Lifestream, but everyone that was in the first as well. Only that there was no Lifestream to go to causing the souls to be in a state of limbo until Minfilia reverses the situation.

If that's the case, it might explain the discrepancy a little. There would b e two sides, material and metaphysical, and the latter has to be recreated first to continue the circle of life before working on the material side. The reason being the souls are in a state of Limbo, dead but unable to reincarnate because of the lack of lifestream, so Minfilia has to create a destination for the souls to be converted into aether first and then recreate the material realm to give the new aether a destination to form.

tl;dr. The WoD are dead because the metaphysical side had to be recreated first, leaving no room for their physical bodies. A simpler theory would be that they willingly sundered their souls again to be reborn with the rest of the First or that the void thing meant there were no bodies for them back there..
With regards to the First:

The world hadn't been completely consumed by Light yet. It was falling but not quite lost. Hydaelyn's intervention should bring it back from the brink.