So, for some background stuff, there was this pretty comprehensive thread on death and necromancy and such a while back. You may find this interesting?
On the topic of people exploding into aether, that doesn't really happen in the XIV universe too often. The few cases it does happen:
1.
2.
and
3.
-all occur under the very specific circumstance that their aether is being absorbed by a greater being at the time of death. In the case of #1, Nidhogg. In the case of #2 and #3, Bahamut. (Ironically, all the times folks have exploded into aether it's because of one of Midgardsormr's sons....hmm....)
Anyways, the old 1.0 Ul'dah MSQ basically says that if a body is not properly buried and the soul not granted passage to Thal's Realm, the body will return to haunt the living. Ie. the soul becomes a Revenant or a Voidsent inhabits the body. So all dead must be buried or cremated properly to prevent this.
There's another strange case I just thought of in the lv50 ALC storyline. Severain returns his deceased lover from the dead. (He dug up her grave and returned the soul into her body.) However, as the soul no longer belonged to this world, it could not persist in our physical plane without a source of aether, so it-and the woman's body returned in a plume of shiny to the aether.
But anyways, hope that helps! ^^ The teleportation lore actually has the most lore on this death and dying subject. Basically when death happens aether is torn violently from the body. It burns brightly for a moment, then returns to the Lifestream, which flows to Silvertear Lake in Mor Dhona to be returned to the Aetherial Realm.
On the topic of people exploding into aether, that doesn't really happen in the XIV universe too often. The few cases it does happen:
1.
3.
-all occur under the very specific circumstance that their aether is being absorbed by a greater being at the time of death. In the case of #1, Nidhogg. In the case of #2 and #3, Bahamut. (Ironically, all the times folks have exploded into aether it's because of one of Midgardsormr's sons....hmm....)
Anyways, the old 1.0 Ul'dah MSQ basically says that if a body is not properly buried and the soul not granted passage to Thal's Realm, the body will return to haunt the living. Ie. the soul becomes a Revenant or a Voidsent inhabits the body. So all dead must be buried or cremated properly to prevent this.
There's another strange case I just thought of in the lv50 ALC storyline. Severain returns his deceased lover from the dead. (He dug up her grave and returned the soul into her body.) However, as the soul no longer belonged to this world, it could not persist in our physical plane without a source of aether, so it-and the woman's body returned in a plume of shiny to the aether.
But anyways, hope that helps! ^^ The teleportation lore actually has the most lore on this death and dying subject. Basically when death happens aether is torn violently from the body. It burns brightly for a moment, then returns to the Lifestream, which flows to Silvertear Lake in Mor Dhona to be returned to the Aetherial Realm.
