Ascians, though my memory is actually foggy, are creatures of death and oblivion, isnt that right? (going to go in game and find that cs now, darnit)

My thought is, we will see them, upon return to Eozrea post-Dalamud catastrophe as so much death will draw them out on our plane. In a way I like the idea too, Ascians being beings of another dimension of entrophy and destruction, occasionally able to slip between dimensions when enough death occurs in a particular place to weaken the viel between our world (life) and theirs (death), so that they can seek out new souls. And when Dalamud does its thing, it weakens the viel almost eeeeeverywhere, allowing the Ascians to move more freely between their dimension and our own, killing and reaping.

Could make for a nice little storyline to, put you on the purpose of 'fixing' the viel between dimensions, undo what Dalamud did to our world, pushing the Ascians back to their world. Though if they did this, I would suspect we wouldn't really see the Ascians except in storyline instance situations, unless they decided to create an area in the game, like the creepy marsh place in XI, where death reigns and they are more common place.

I like the idea, I really do.