Dynamis Vs Aether

[Cleretic]

That may be false. EW Healer role quest spoilers below.

It was shown in the final role quest that apparently this may in fact be fake, because Fordola sees the soul of her friend, the man who turned into the blasphemy, and had a conversation with him as he turned into light. Almost as if the idea that they do not return to the lifestream is in fact false, and the dynamis is merely so strong that it masks the aether.

I actually don't super buy that, or really take it as evidence of anything, given who we're talking about.

First of all, we've never seen a scene like that before or since, and we certainly have no shortage of scenes where people died while an Echo-haver was around to facilitate it. I genuinely think that's just how Fordola perceives what she did, rather than in any way what happened.

And as for why it contradicts... well, because it's Fordola. Fordola's far from stupid, but she's also not exactly the smartest person, nor the person most capable of readily taking new facts on board. Even if she was told that was how it worked as far as things looked (and honestly I don't think anyone would've told her), does she really seem like the type to believe that when she already has a strongly-held belief of what she has to do and why?

I actually always believed that it wasn't that the souls of people turned into those beasts were consumed, but rather that they were being yanked to Ultima Thule instead of their own lifestream, and it just happens to look about the same to Y'shtola who wasn't in a great place to perceive what was going on exactly. I don't believe this is never stated, but it would explain how exactly Ultima Thule exists, and why it has souls from planets that Meteion saw die; it's something of a magnet for them.

[RyuDragnier]

I actually always believed that it wasn't that the souls of people turned into those beasts were consumed, but rather that they were being yanked to Ultima Thule instead of their own lifestream, and it just happens to look about the same to Y'shtola who wasn't in a great place to perceive what was going on exactly. I don't believe this is never stated, but it would explain how exactly Ultima Thule exists, and why it has souls from planets that Meteion saw die; it's something of a magnet for them.

This could also be the case for why blasphemies can't return to the lifestream, because the second they turned their souls were yanked to Ultima Thule. It's possible that defeating Endsinger may have returned said souls to the lifestream, if they aren't a part of Ultima Thule that is recycled/reborn onto another fresh planet.