In Heavensward, of course, Haurchefant is killed, slain by a beam of energy that pieces, burns, through his shield, and blasts through his chest. However, he lays there for a time, speaking to us, but even if we're currently classed as healers, we seem incapable of helping him. We don't even try to heal him.
All we can do is listen to his final words, his final plea to smile, before he dies.
It's very jarring and seems inconsistent with our chosen role at the time, that we should've been able to save him if he was still talking. However...
In Shadowbringers, we kill Emet-Selch with a concentrated burst of Light, a beam of energy that blasts through his chest. It doesn't completely engulf his body and eradicate him outright, instead it's like it pierced the "heart" of his soul. It prevents him from regenerating or healing, and in fact seems to rapidly erode the rest of his essence, but it gives him enough time to make a final plea to us.
As we learned late in ARR, the only way to kill an Ascian, which is basically just an extremely powerful soul, is with a concentrated burst of aether.
So, in essence, Haurchefant was killed in the same way. He had enough time to talk, but his aether was already being eroded, his soul discorporating, because of a similar blast. We couldn't have saved him. His "soul" was already destroyed, regardless of how we tried to heal the body.
(Obviously, the spirit lived on long enough to seemingly aid us with Nidhogg, but spirits seem separate from souls, as we see in the Seat of Sacrifice, with a certain waving Ancient.)
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All we can do is listen to his final words, his final plea to smile, before he dies.
It's very jarring and seems inconsistent with our chosen role at the time, that we should've been able to save him if he was still talking. However...
In Shadowbringers, we kill Emet-Selch with a concentrated burst of Light, a beam of energy that blasts through his chest. It doesn't completely engulf his body and eradicate him outright, instead it's like it pierced the "heart" of his soul. It prevents him from regenerating or healing, and in fact seems to rapidly erode the rest of his essence, but it gives him enough time to make a final plea to us.
As we learned late in ARR, the only way to kill an Ascian, which is basically just an extremely powerful soul, is with a concentrated burst of aether.
So, in essence, Haurchefant was killed in the same way. He had enough time to talk, but his aether was already being eroded, his soul discorporating, because of a similar blast. We couldn't have saved him. His "soul" was already destroyed, regardless of how we tried to heal the body.
(Obviously, the spirit lived on long enough to seemingly aid us with Nidhogg, but spirits seem separate from souls, as we see in the Seat of Sacrifice, with a certain waving Ancient.)
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