Aether's Obsession
"And you are telling me that same man is now a vekreth? Pearl-skinned, lavender-toned, tall and soft-featured, and alien in ways Lirian never was? He woke up in the sand three years ago with nothing — no memories, no past, no idea what he is — and you are telling me that is him?"
"The Aether rebuilt him," Mara said. Steady. She had clearly already dismantled this argument in her own mind many times over. "It couldn't reconstitute a human body capable of surviving what happened. The bond nearly destroyed him as a human; his body had no framework to hold that kind of Aether. So it rebuilt him into something that could. Something with a natural channel. Something that could survive long enough