@ Curethan, you said:
Earwan sorcery could simply be the result of the Inchies exterminating every other ensouled race in the universe. Kind of concentrating the connection to the outside to Earwa because its the only place left where souls can be reborn.
SHIT!!! That would explain why the Inchoroi technology is on the decline and why the Ark crashed and why Earwa is the promised land! The Inchoroi are bruised and battered from interminable war and finally limp to the promised land, which they created, and are nearly extinguished because they are the ones that made it strong! They GAVE Earwa sorcery (via being the last and most concentrated repository of souls), which the nonmen/men have used to battle them through the ages! LOVE IT!!!
BONUS: That's why some animals have souls! There are so many souls, they overflow the humans and nonmen and end up in animals!
ALSO BONUS: This would fit with Bakker's thing about science eradicating the intentional universe. Teckne kills souls. (soul repositories)
EDIT: I was quoting the wrong part of Curethan's post, now fixed.