Quote Originally Posted by Tsumdere View Post
What people are saying is that the plotline is messy, poorly explained, contradictory...
To me, Alexandrian lore does not neatly integrates with the rest of the game, because it is clearly a transplant from another Final Fantasy.

They tried to adapt this by making Alexandrians do the Aetherial Sea soul recycling technologically, but the souls in FFXIV do not work exactly in the same way.

Consider that the Ascians did not put ancient memories to some random strong souls; original souls were needed. The entire rejoining plan was about restoring souls of the ancients from disparate shards to complete state and then undoing reincarnation memory cleansing, in effect resurrecting them all. Because all ancient souls originally possessed echo, which made them immutable and able to exist without body (the whole plotline in needing to hit ascian souls with huge amount of aether or they would just escape)

Yet in Alexandria a person with regulator "dies", purified soul is put into his body (which for unexplained reasons repairs all damage to the body), memory is restored from backup and somehow this is the same person? What would happen if the previous soul would get to the Aethereal sea, would it enjoy seeing an impostor walking around in his body, pretending to be him?