Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27464043-20151230192612/@comment-28278649-20170718171645

For Stranger's power to be served from the Soul Stone, that would have mean that every sorcerer who has every lived from Agamotto to Strange  and that alien dude the end of GOTG2 is using the Soul Stone for their power, which is completely inconvenient to the inclusion of magic in the MCU in the first place.

The theory of the Odinforce being the Soul Stone is actually dead on. Heimdall could be either particularly sensitive to the Stone, granting him his incredible perception, or was imbued by Odin the power for as of yet unknown reasons.

The stone can't br in Wakanda because what are the story implications it could possibly have there? The power source of Vibranium? Fertilization of the heart-shaped herb? Maybe it keeps the souls of Wakanda hidden from the world? No, because for reasons this thread wasn't intended to discuss, it wouldn't fit and wouldn't make sense.

Hela targets asgard for a reason, and states that it is 'dead', presumably after robbing it of it's power. In the mythology, Ragnarok is the rebirth of Asgard, meaning that we'll finally see the stone in action as it resurrects the Asgardians with their stolen power. Although if IW is supposed to be set after Ragnarok, that begs the question of how the Asgardians will keep that power.

Perhaps Asgard is resurrected as mortal, so after IW it's restored to it's power.