(03-12-2015, 10:55 AM)Val Wrote: This kind of picks up on what I mentioned about the wisps. They're considered/believed to be souls from the Void. Why couldn't they find a lifeless corpse and animate them? It says they're driven by primitive instincts and stuff, so it makes sense that they wouldn't really be able to function like a living individual.
Wisps and plasmoids are neat because they always seem to appear at crystalline structures. Off the top of my head I can think of three locations: The icy cave in Coerthas in the bottom left of the map, the lightning?-aspected cluster in Mor Dhona near the Castrum and the... I forget-element cluster in Outer La Noscea. Maybe spirits that fell "out" of the Lifestream wind up being led back to Eorzea by way of aether, but without flesh to give them a body they just... hang out. I'm thinking they're the light-counterpart to the ghosts and stuff.
(03-12-2015, 10:58 AM)Cassandra Lachance Wrote: That's a good point Warren.
Your last paragraph in particular is in line with many depictions of necromancy and non-magical reanimation. The idea that when you bring someone back, only the shell comes back, inhabited by something else.
You guys all have some impressive knowledge of the lore. ^^
Enh, we're just spitballing and piecing to together the clues SE left us.
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