The Relationship Between the Show Del and the Aethers

We hear from Malon that show del are rare in shades. It's unclear precisely what she means when she's talking about this, but she does say that the show del make excellent guides because they have a direct line to their gods. We see this from twin soul in the lost metal and his connection to Selazana. The guess that we are making is that maybe the show del have a similar relation to to something. Is that an aether or is that quote unquote, you know, bear gods? Is it a shard? Because Yolen is considered to be one of the oldest or old inhabited planets, we think that there's maybe a possibility that this connection predates