Defiant 2.0 (Rift Lore)  

Resurrection is a relatively simple matter these days. Clerics have long been able to call on the gods or high spirits to pull souls from the soulstream, but such beings can be so fickle so the ancient Eth endeavoured to create a technological way to do so. They were close, but it was not until Orphiel found their technology and completed the project that we actually saw a machine resurrection.

The resurrections were insufficient, however. Of Orphiel's original Defiants, only Asha Catari possessed true power. She is said to have stolen some of the power of Regulos himself when she encountered him in the beyond, and this explains her unreplicated power. All others were disappointingly mundane and not equivalent of the Guardians.

It is only with recent breakthroughs that we have been able to bring back true Ascended, reformed with the capacity to hold not one by many souls.