Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24267938-20130808174809/@comment-23.122.201.219-20140112184645

So I looked at the Imperial Library Dreamsleeve page and this is what I turned up: The Dreamsleeve is basically a recycling process of souls and consciousness. All memories of being alive and having a physical form are stripped away from the soul. But this contradicts the mortal notion of the afterlife. And we know that there is an afterlife, because it is accessible through multiple Elder Scrolls games. For example, Sovengarde is visited by the Dragonborn in Skyrim. But if someone is stripped of their identity in the Dreamsleeve, how can they be placed in any particular sort of afterlife? How can you differentiate the Nord souls from the Bosmer souls from the Argonian souls? I don't think you can. There is a very obvious question that has not yet been asked. Where does the stripped consciousness go, once it has been separated from the soul? Is it simply destroyed? I think that it is sorted into the afterlife, because it still has its identity. Once in the correct afterlife, based on the beliefs of its race, it is given a physical form and stays there for the rest of its existence. But the soul it was once attached to goes back to Nirn in order to give life to another. And the cycle repeats. Live, Die, Strip, Consciousness goes to afterlife, Soul is reincarnated, Live, Die, Strip, ect.