Quote Originally Posted by fulminating View Post
He turned them from guys posing into balls and then casts lb4 during the mandatory tank lb3 or off yourself and grab a res part of sos. Could you also give the duty finder description a read for me? I think it’s faster than watching the cutscene and both it and the journal mention summoning and taking into himself. The converging light quest also says it’s a partial summoning of the hopes, which must live in either the memory part of the soul or the blue bit. This has to be true as the exarch spell doesn’t do bodies and that is explicitly what is used to call them across to be fodder enemies and/or an Easter egg. Hildebrand as an exception since he was gently stored in the interdimensional greg place.

I guess we can blame ultima the not the primal one. Or the great serpent of ronka. Something’s funny with souls, I don’t know what it is but there’s a few full ones just recently dropped into the lifestream. Maybe it’s just some kind of spiritual tax.
Fair enough, I'm gonna be honest, that part of the story's a bit rusty for me.

I don't think Elidibus is exactly standing up as a positive example of cramming a bunch of souls in you, though. Like Dikatis pointed out, Elidibus' mental state was in complete tatters thanks to his whole 'being Zodiark' thing; if anything Zoraal Ja handled it better than him, he seemed to mostly remember everything.

Hraesvelgr ate one person, and frankly I wouldn't call him mentally okay either, but largely for different reasons.

All this to say: 'eating a bunch of souls' has historically not gone well for anyone at all; in fact, just eating one soul doesn't have a great track record. It really shouldn't be surprising that it went badly for Zoraal Ja too, especially given, as I keep pointing out, the absolutely insane amount of souls he consumed. So, to go back to your original comment: it made him very ill at first, and then it made him a lot worse than that, and none of that is because of his personal strength, that was just a bad idea all around no matter who does it.