Talk:Divine Source/@comment-50.27.202.59-20190712014907/@comment-24460960-20190712154654

It's not written anywhere, but it's visually shown in the game that the Divine Source stores the souls of anyone who looks at it. It acts the same way a stereotypical soul jar does.

The first example would be the ressurective immortality that the Deathless and Jacob display. When fatality wounded they disappear is a flash of blue fire. Their body is destroyed, but they simply reform later perfectly healthy, which is basically how a classic Lich would work. (If you do not know; a lich is a type of undead that has stored its soul within an object turning it into a soul jar, thus making it immortal. The concept of a lich first appeared in an old Russian folklore tale featuring a character called Koschei the Deathless, who could not be killed due to him hiding/storing his soul inside a needle. This type of undeath was popularised in the game Dungeons and Dragons, which featured the Lich as a skeletal undead wizard). The liches most notable feature, is the fact that it can never truly be killed until the item which they've stored their soul in - which can be reffered to as a soul jar or a phylactery - is destroyed. If you destroy their bodies, they will simply come back again a little later in perfect health because their soul is safely stored somewhere else.

The second more visually direct example would be that when Ana decides to look into the Divine Source near the end of the game, you can see it draining her soul through her eyes. As the old saying goes "The eyes are the windows to ones soul".

The third and final example is when Lara smashes the Source upon which a huge vortex of souls are released and fade away, which in turn causes the Deathless and Jacob to die, which as mentioned previously is what would kill a Lich.

The only difference between the Source and a classical soul jar is that the former takes someones soul automatically, instead of them needing to store it in there themselves. So while there is no physical note saying it stores souls, the visual evidence, along with the ressurective immortlaity and with the how similar the Source is in function to a soul jar, it's pretty obvious thats exactly what it does.

It's been established that the soul can be transferred in this series, first with Himiko and her soul transfering to different bodies, so it's not a surprise the Divine Source can store souls.