Thinking on that 7 x 7 thing again
(6.6 spoilers under the cut)
There are seven gnosises (gnosies? Idk) which are the seven fragments of the third descender.
Dottore split his soul into seven (one main and six segments, as far as we know for sure). The Omega segment split his final seventh into two fourteenths, which were reunited in irmansul, but he commented that a soul could be no further reduced.
Dottore was experimenting with removing himself from the control of "fate", i.e. creating/ becoming a "false descender".
I'm not massively sure what to do with this information, but I do have two conclusions and one question.
If a 14th is the smallest you can make a soul and still have it able to act as an individual, then it's possible that a gnosis can be split in two and still function.
If Omega is a seventh of a soul and the pyro gnosis is also a seventh of a soul, there is a possibility that one surviving being burnt alongside Irmansul that the other could as well. Inversely, both could be completely destroyed which might put a spanner in the works for the Tsaritsa. However, the gnosis being that of a descender and therefor unaffected by Irmansul does give it a better chance of survival than Omega.
If a 14th can function independantly, then why put both pieces into Irmansul? (I should rewatch various cutscenes to try and wrap my head around this, but watching them gives me a stomach ache).
I wonder if it's a power thing, but he was such a hassle in Nod-Krai that a 14th is clearly not to be sniffed at. Maybe it's more that he didn't want to be more than one person again, and the "backup" copy in the bank was there just in case the plan of entering irmansul through death didn't work.
Okay wait, also, if the gnoseis are each a 7th of the Thrid Descender, does that not mean that he could be revived with just one gnosis?
Since these thoughts are already quite disjointed, I'll add one more thing, which is just personal opinion- Dottore (that is, the Omega segment) died on his own terms. So if he does come back, he won't be the one pulling the strings. I hope it's the Tsaritsa. I hope she's so fucking ✨normal✨ about her barbies.