Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-238662-20140606160839/@comment-25866432-20140922013953

I'm actually a bit torn as between the aether being the reality stone and actually the soul stone. On one hand, the elves were going to use it to destroy the universe as we know it, thus altering reality in a sense. On the other hand, in Guardains, they explained that people can't hold the infinity stones without them killing them, but the aether went inside of Jane and kind of posessed her (latching on to her soul perhaps?). Plus, Adam Warlock's cocoon was broken in the GotG end credits and the collector also had the aether, so what if warlock picked up the aether/soul stone while he was there? Again, it's been shown to be able to "inhabit" people.