So we are, yes. It is akin to a division-- were you struck by the same blow that split our world, the result would be a fragmentation; individual existences, yes, but all weakened, all reduced in every aspect. Each separate one cannot truly be called alive any more than one would call a broken shard of ceramic a bowl.

...but they cling to such an existence regardless, unaware that they have lost both the world as it was and their own immortality. To them, we are not trying to restore something to them, but trying to take away what they know-- never realizing what they know is false.