[ That's a good question. And a tough one to answer, especially as a bunch of outsiders to the culture. ]

You said it wanted Estinien's shard, [ comes Matt's mental voice, with an impression of carefully guarding his words to make sure only the right ones get through. ] Maybe that's what we can expect. That these entities will try to latch onto us because we're Aions. That happened on my world sometimes, though like, on a way smaller scale--spirits being drawn to people with power.