#souls appearing at conception is obviously right out or kain's parents would have banged hours or days before ariel died

[kainissoable]

A thought. Because new Pillar Guardians are chosen at birth and we know that in Nosgoth souls are physically real and tied to the workings of the Pillar and Reaver, would that mean that in the LoK universe a soul enters the body at birth? Maybe at first breath like some real world faiths believe?

That would tie in nicely with Kain's speech in Soul Reaver 2, "As Ariel dies, I am being born to take her place" and how as a result he was corrupted at the moment of his first cry.

#legacy of kain #I think this fits in better than a soul sort of coalescing in the spectral realm during pregnancy which is my other theory #souls appearing at conception is obviously right out or kain's parents would have banged hours or days before ariel died #which is not only incompatible with canon but it's also very silly to imagine an au where that is the case #the grand dramatic speech would be totally ruined #so i'm going with the theory of the first breath being the moment souls enter bodies in nosgoth. would love to hear other theories