Talk:Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon/@comment-216.249.87.75-20141008044617/@comment-4511886-20141008080238

All things, including dragons, defeated in DaS drop souls. The soul items are something completly different. The souls absorbed from a creature is part of the creature's own soul. In comparision, the item is an extremly strong soul, or a strong fragment from the soul.

And on the topic of the "real" Ancient Dragon. Souls become part of your soul only after some unknown process. In-game, the process is done when you level up. So the Ancient Dragon's soul has undergone this "transformation" which makes the other souls it has absorbed into its own soul, thus it's still the "Ancient Dragon's soul" and not the "Combined Souls of 10000 different creatures".

I can also recall that "the soul is the source of all life." And life was created with the First Flame. So dragons must've been given souls at that point to live in the first place.