Since some people want to get into a debate about memories and what makes you you as a way to argue that the Endless are more than just simulacrums, let’s pose a simple question:

If you made a perfect copy of your memories and then transferred them into a simulated body, do you believe that would make two of you? Or would you think of the simulation as nothing more than a convincing copy that speaks and acts like you because you have the same memories? Now what if the real you suddenly died and the copy survived? Would you consider the copy to be the real you or would it still be a copy? What if the copy were made after the real you died?

Because that’s all the Endless are—simulations of people who are long dead. They are simulacrums of people who had their memories harvested and they are powered by captured souls. Hardly what I would call “alive”.

And I wouldn’t compare them to the beings in Ultima Thule either, as seems to be a popular argument, because, well, Dynamis is a bunch of phlebotium.