Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[MikkoAkure]

... That's not how souls work.

You do realize the "ghosts" you are referring to are wraiths - effectively souls that can manipulate the surrounding aether to generate a body for themselves. Those who neither have the Echo or have a technique/art applied on them will have their souls directly sent to the Aetherial Sea. Souls don't randomly hang out in the living world. There has to be specific conditions for them to stay in the living world - all of which Asahi does not fulfill. Ascians are beings who have the Echo - and thus can manifest themselves even just as a soul in the living world. Asahi is not an Ascian. He does not have the ability to remain conscious as a soul in the living world.

If Asahi was in the Lifestream the whole time, where is he watching everything from? We were there. It’s just thick aether. Are you saying he can magically part clouds and watch from above like a cartoon?

The only thing that makes sense is that he was there as a spirit, which means he wasn’t in the Lifestream. The encyclopedia says this can happen, as does the presence of ghost enemies in-game. The souls of the dead indeed are generally called to the Lifestream, but it doesn’t always happen.

Some cultures believe that when the dead are not provided proper burials, their souls remain trapped in the corporeal realm.

Sometimes, people are unaware when the end knocks, and their souls miss the opportunity to journey back into the Lifestream.

Scholars theorize that [Dalvag’s] mortal remains are animated by a thirst for vengeance alone.

Albin was but one of many slain in the abortive conquest, yet his mortal coil still roams the land in search of vengeance.