Voidsent souls on the source.

[shadowclasper]

And... uhm, that's not what Ardbert's situation was. At all. I'll grant that we have very little in the way of scientific facts on what his situation was, but he verifiably didn't 'fuse with us' on the transition to the First. it took A WHILE, and only happened when he basically willed it to.

I mean he was riding around in our body like a possession with a hand on the wheel for basically the entire expansion until he fully fused with us so I think we're arguing on degree or semantics in this particular case but fair enough on the rest of your points