no, as we saw with the covetous coffer in the second nightmare, anything not tied to the soul is lost. therefore, since living beings presumably can't be tied directly to your soul so far, they would disappear like the items sunny had tried bringing.

the runic circle is fixed, it's the runic channels to the tree that need to be fixed. the tree was the battery, and without that connection it instead has to use a different power to fly. specifically essence. that's how they got out of the water from the whirlpool to get on the island the first time

Nowhere in particular. but in the FS Sunny refuses her help for less dire wounds because he didn't want her to experience that burning pain just for him. something that gets said a few times even, alluding to the idea that the more used to the burning alive part of her aspect she is the less human she becomes. which is pure speculation, we will have to keep reading, and hoping that Guilty shows us the truth of the matter somewhere at sometime.

It sounds to me like it's the spirit that becomes the body. A hollow no longer has a spirit to become part of so it's effectively entirely dead.

aw hecc yeah! Kenichi is awesome!

He doesn't fear it, he Hates it to his core. He fears becoming a slave and having to kill someone to become free, someone he cares for, and to do it before they can stop him.

That's what I said. He only uses Two out of the three

actually it's a variable of the total that they absorbed. like a fragmented disc being read, it could be most, close to none, but usually never everything or nothing.

It's a conjecture. sunny has deduced the finale after learning the "goddess" was the chosen to be the conduit of the sun. which is where the mosaic ends. But also the number of people who arrived to the forgotten shore is a probable indicator of the number of sacrifices, and of course the corruption of the nightmare infected everything, plus the vision from Cassie telling how the forgotten shore was given it's full sea of darkness.

That is correct. hope you're still reading, or past it already.

If you've ever read Super Gene, it might be closer to that. albeit loosely. Considering that the dream realm is an actual physical space that Ascended can travel to physically, it can be theorized that your soul is given a form similar to your body, and slowly starts to reshape you with the addition of soul shards, and completes the assimilation of your soul's strength upon ascending.

Just expanding on this thought. the crimson forest on the floor is said to be sharp on top. he'd need to be lucky more than once to avoid turning into shredded cheese.

you have. though maybe not verbatim. Noctis and the dragon was a good fight.

All these gates, and all because sunny is here? Naw, all these gates because of every person in Sunny's convoy of able body being the next generation of sleepers to become awakened- for sure.

y'know... I remember when sunless used to have those small goals back in the FS... and then used up a whole hundred of his fragments to make saint a shadow. good times

THE SWORD! HE CAN FIX HER SWORD

y'know... there's an eastern tradition. When a vase is broke it is repaired with gold. it doesn't hide the blemish of it's destruction, but it does grow in value and beauty... shamefully I can't remember the name of the tradition

ahhh, I can hear it now... "You heard me Tin Man"

if a mundane enters a gate they'll be given a seed of nightmare but remain as a mundane until they undergo the first. if they happen to survive and best the gate though? impossible but they'd likely ascend to the gates level. after all, Nephis beat her first gate as a sleeper. but a mundane isn't directly tied to the spell yet either.

here's a macabre thought... music will is best utilized by the voice. can it become vocal cords?