Talk:The Great Hereafter/@comment-96.32.44.112-20160521013043

I've come to the following interpretation: Arisen separates soul and body, then transmigration of souls into the pawn's body. The pawn is but an empty vessel.

supporting evidence:

- olra's transmigration of souls

- olra's comment about how sometimes the destruction of the body is the only path forward. Note the word choice - "destruction of the body."

- the "body" is the dragon. When Daimon is first defeated, the soul trapped within is freed. But Daimon remains, and the 2nd form is the dragon - the face in the torse, and the comments by both pawns and Barroch that the power they sense is similar to that of the dragon. 2nd form Daimon states "Dare you look upon the truth?", which I take to mean that the body of the Arisen is the dragon. When you defeat Daimon's second form, it turns into detail-less human body before disappearing.

- regading the above conclusion, Arisen who fail to defeat the Seneschal are turned into Dragons. Their will is imperfect, but given physical form; and, their will, in turn, suborned to their vanquisher (that is, they are servents of the Seneschal and do its will. Read Olra-the-dragon's account).

- The Final Battle is more than what you see. While we see a battle, clearly more is going on. You see it as a physical battle, but it is a battle of wills, not of mere physical strength. The act of godsbaning shouldn't immediately be taken literally.

A small leap of thinking, and I reach the conclusion that Godsbaning freed the Arisen from the cycle by having the strength of will to overcome mortality, the taint of the dragon. The transmigration of the Arisen's soul into the Pawn's body. Think of the pawn as a back-up body, I suppose. Now the World can turn (run) on the wills of all the souls within, and doesn't need to depend on the will of the Seneschal to live or die (perhaps the Seneschal was wrong about their importance all along).