(11-07-2015, 04:23 PM)Teadrinker Wrote: Something this thread made me think about was the existence of fiends and pyrefly like creatures like in FF10.
I Would think that if a person's "essense" or "soul" if you will was able to stay in the physical realm and manifest it would be a very twisted remnant of what it once was. Some of this is implied in the main story but it's usually explained away with "voidsent".
It's somewhat canon for this to happen in XIV as it is. The ghost mobs (lost souls, etc) that look like floating blobs with wings are detached souls which haven't found their way back to the Lifestream, be it due to denial, bitterness at being dead, or whatever reason they might have. There are a few FATEs with lore blurbs around it as well.
Recently I've seen a bit circulating about how aether works, and how the soul and body both return to aether upon death, but there's part of this which leaves me confused, because we see in game that there are also zombies and magicked bones. Hell, there's even a cemetary at St. Adama Landama church in Eastern Thanalan. You even have quests where you retrieve and bury corpses, and neither zombies nor magicked bones would exist -without- those corpses. So there's a question of whether the physical body, when intact, might take a lot longer to break down into aether than the individual's recently released soul.
