Racebending.com: [here there be spoilers] →
look apparently this is very difficult to grasp
first of all, the recurrence of the other characters as reincarnated souls is, to the best of my knowledge, barely even hinted at, besides possibly ayrs’ dream and similar outside references
(and even so that’s, what,…
I haven’t read the book, but if this were true, it gived the “artistic choice” argument even less respectability