Quote Originally Posted by Tsumdere View Post
clearly failed to convey their moral of Living Memory
Agreed. When I was going back and researching things, different characters perceive/describe the Endless in different ways.

Erenville the first time you go to Living Memory: "memories of the departed abided", "alive in all perceivable ways but knowing no loss" <- Considers Endless departed

Constancy, initial guide in Living Memory: "we have been recreated from the memories of those who have exhausted their souls - the departed, in other words" <- Only considers someone dead after they no longer have soul aether available.
"great effort is taken to ensure the integrity of your memories, so it will feel no different from when you were flesh and blood" <- Considering he believes us to be Endless as well, he is speaking as if memories have some sort of conscious.

Gra'ha: "All men eventually die. If you make Endless of everyone, you will never have enough aether to sustain them. You but prolong the inevitable." <- Speaking as if Endless are not dead or AI since he's using the word prolong.

Cahciua: "Being alive, you're the only one's who can do this." <- Contradicts Gra'ha's notion seemingly considering Endless to be dead.
"Can't bear to exist because someone died." <- Implies Cahciua believes Endless are only alive when they have soul aether.
"No matter how lifelike we may seem, we Endless are but facsmilies crafted from memories." <- Weird statement considering facsmilies are copies by definition. There's no "cloning" of the memory aether that got extracted and stored. It would seem as if facsmilies crafted is moreso a reference to their physical state being recreated based on memories since the original corporeal aether is not available and not the Endless as a concept as a whole.
"She is powerless to resist her purpose." <- Referencing Sphene. Adds the idea that different Endless have different levels of control considering Cahciua is going against the system. If every Endless was "programmed", Cahciua wouldn't exist.
"Harnessing the love the living Sphene bore for her people, they brought forth an eternal queen" <- This is odd language. Harnessing love is not in the process of creating an Endless traditionally. Origenics is not harnessing love or other emotions. Something different/specific has happened with Sphene. Almost giving me primal vibes.

And if we go back to Otis:
"She lives yet she does not. Tis admittedly a difficult distinction to make." <- Goes on to describe Sphene being made used extracted memory aether, and considers someone alive just because of that sake, regardless of the soul aether requirement.

It rides off of who you want to believe the most xDD I chose to go off Otis and Gra'ha because Otis is an explanation dump section of the MSQ & Gra'ha is a knowledgeable figure in general, although I would've preferred if we had Y'shtola in Living Memory.