The World of 'Pons

When the two planes fused the souls of every living thing on one plane were ripped from their bodies and thrust upon the lands of the other. Orphaned souls had their own physical forms destroyed when their plane of existence collapsed and so every living thing from the higher planes had to find a human body to inhabit when the breaking began. Tragically, the higher planes of existence actually had more total landmass than that of the humans and thusly, there were more mortal souls than there were bodies for them to inhabit. When the realization hit and these lost souls were running out of time before the breaking had concluded they had no choice, and sequestered themselves into inanimate objects. These "soulful items" were the first 'Pons.

(see my "Spoiler Statement" on this website for the whole story!)