Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[MikkoAkure]

They just do.

So instead of the simple answer that a vengeful, murdered guy becomes a ghost and just watches it happen, your answer is that everyone who dies suddenly gains omniscience on the level of the elder primal that has been taking care of the Lifestream for 12,000 years and they magically know everything?

[Lady_Silvermoon]

So instead of the simple answer that a vengeful, murdered guy becomes a ghost and just watches it happen, your answer is that everyone who dies suddenly gains omniscience on the level of the elder primal that has been taking care of the Lifestream for 12,000 years and they magically know everything?

Emet-Selch is narrating EW from the afterlife. He's complaining he can't get a proper rest because he's watching to make sure we don't botch it and there is still a star to reincarnate back to when he wakes up. The fight for our continued existence is the "clamorous show" he's complaining is disturbing his rest. So yes, the people in the aetherial sea can see what we're doing. That's how Haurchefant and Yasale know to show up to help us free Estinien because they can see us and know we need help. So yes, the dead in the FF14 universe are "watching over us" but from below instead of above. That's made perfectly clear from the short stories, EW and the time we went tromping through the aetherial sea.

The people in the FF14 universe don't just immediately lose consciousness or self-awareness the moment they die. They can fade slowly and wait for their loved ones to join them in the aetherial sea. "At duty's end, we will meet again. We will. We will." They know how their own afterlife works. They can literally dig a hole and visit it.

And it's a process that can be resisted. Something Amon fully intended to do because he wants to stay dead and not be reincarnated, but Asahi's punishment for what he did was to drag him forcefully to the bottom of the aetherial sea so that he'd reincarnate faster.