Quote Originally Posted by Naria View Post
I suppose the disagreement is a matter of semantics. I don't view any shard's destruction as the same as the death of that Ascian. True death or destruction, I mean. Even if that shard is completely destroyed, the rest of that soul is still intact and it has been at best been further maimed (unless that was the very last shard). Unless destroying one shard destroys them all (maybe it does?) then only that particular aspect/shard of the Asican is gone. I mean say Ardbert's shard was killed via a blade of light, unless that act killed the player character and the other 5 shards as well, the Ascian/Amaurotine soul that they originally were would still be existent.

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If destroying one shard destroys them all, however, you'd think that the Ascian's would have weaponized that in their own favor against Warriors of Light. Hmm this is getting into a bunch of metaphysics that the game hasn't really explained yet.
When we kill Nabriales, we do not know which shard he hails from, just that he is not of The Source. He alludes to the fact that the shard based Ascians could not come to The Source prior to us losing our Blessing of Light. This implies that they had no Source counterpart for the unsundered to raise up, meaning that all that or most of what was left of their original soul was with their shard body. Of course, nothing is certain, because this idea that all souls are split across the 14 worlds just in different bodies with different minds is so relatively new. I often wonder if they remember or review their old plot points as they wrote Shadowbringers.

Of course, we are shown black masked Ascians on The Source which raises many questions. Though it's probably easily answered as nobodies who were raised to basically be Ascian servants/henchmen. I suspect that the Convocation shard members are chosen and raised up from shards that constitute the majority of the soul in question, for in my mind, it is possible that the souls were sundered unevenly. For example, perhaps no portion of certain souls reside on the 3rd, 4th, or 5th shard, but there are soul portions on every other shard, with those 3 missing ones all being constituted on one of the other shards or The Source.