In this way, it is ensured that the same amount of Soul Essence has been cycling through both Binral and Bintaar since the beginning of the planes, and always will be. As they grow and live, memories accumulate in the form of more Soul Essence that forms within the person, until they die and go to Bintaar where the memories they gathered are stripped away and left to linger there while the original soul essence is returned to the Soul Rivers so that it can one day be reborn into a new soul. Souls emerge from the Rivers as ‘clean slates’, so to speak, and are born without memories or influence. Their work seems to be entirely automatic and uninterrupted, and why they do this or what tasked them with keeping order to the cycle is an enigma. They are a group of massive, floating entities sometimes spotted in Bintaar’s dark sky, appearing as an indecipherable tangle of long tentacles that can be observed as constantly adjusting the flow of souls. This is operated and overseen by a host of mysterious beings simply called the Creators of Death. Nonetheless, all souls do inevitably pass on, and when they do they undergo a fairly straightforward and mechanical process where their memories are split from the Soul Essence they were born with. Their souls did not fully depart over to Bintaar, so they were able to be brought back to proper life rather than a twisted facsimile of it. This allows for the occasional seemingly-miraculous resurrection of a person through magical means or the birth of afflicted peoples like Archbloods who seemingly die but return to life without being Undead. This has no fixed time and can be as instantaneous as the moment they die or take weeks after weeks if the soul is particularly unrestful and dissatisfied with leaving their life behind. When a living soul that dwells within Binral dies, it begins the process of departing from its body. In the Cycleomortem Theory, Bintaar plays a crucial, irreplaceable role in the cycle of life and creation that connects it to Binral. It is these Animologists who swear by the “Cycleomortem Theory”, which ascertains that Binral has an intrinsically connected opposite in the form of Bintaar, and the twin planes share an inherently symbiotic relationship as far as their overall functions are concerned. ![]() Still, there exists a niche of the academic community that commits themselves to the self-titled field of “Animology”: the study of souls, so to speak. ![]() It is impossible to ever definitively ascertain the precise functions of a plane of reality like Binral or Bintaar, especially when the latter’s existence is still broadly doubted and discredited by a majority of Aloria’s scholars and theologians.
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