Quote Originally Posted by Kordarion View Post
Except we don't actually know if it destroyed the original identities of the unsundered, it very well could have mind you, but I don't think it did because if everyone died and was reborn how would they still have memories of the unsundered world like the makers of the Qitana Ravel cave paintings and the sun deities Azeyma and Azim having celestial, the sun, and naming similarities to the seat of Azem. Sure you could write it off as just being the echo but that just doesn't seem to be a satisfying conclusion.
Emet explicitly says, "No one could remember it (the original Ethirys). Just fleeting recollections of an all-too-familiar world."

"Fleeting" means "momentary" or "almost nonexistent". As in, the memories of their previous lives were almost completely gone.