Quote Originally Posted by ApolloGenX View Post
I don't see why rejoining wouldn't unsunder souls and renew the ancients.

Other races are just forms that the ancients created or variants. Who cares about them? They have souls, they would be reborn.

Knowing that there is life after death in the lifestream and about soul rebirth kind of makes death pointless. In fact, poor people would probably just kill themselves.
The Ancients wouldn't return because a soul can go into numerous species and the Ancients as a species aren't on the star anymore. A dense soul doesn't create a new species.

Think of the Sundering as having turned people into literal cats. Over the years, those cats re-evolved into cat people. They build yarn cities, prayed to cat nip gods and created a whole different life for themselves. Rejoining them wouldn't turn them back into the destroyed humans, it's just make them really awesome cat people.

Also, death still matters because you don't come back as you. Some new being ends up with some of your personality traits. That's the reason why even though 75% of the Ancient population is now in the lifestream, we won't be getting any Ancients, they'll be coming back as the current races.