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First off, so we know in solution nine that they extract the souls of the dead and separate the memories from it. The memories are loaded to a terminal in living memory, while the soul itself is processed and becomes a soul cell. Is it ever explained how these would return to the aetherial sea? Can memories return to the sea without a soul?
Answer here is unclear, but the Arcadion suggests that once a soul is properly set free of the Everkeep's cycle, it's gonna go back to the Aetherial Sea.

Question there is when the soul is actually freed from that cycle.