Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
But they can't be both. But the game TELLS us they are the former, but SHOWS us the latter as the process of their creation.
Why can’t it be both? Memory aether is just data—metadata for the soul, if I had to choose an analogy. The aetherial sea strips and discards memory aether from the soul too, with the occasional exception of especially strong memories sticking around when the soul is reincarnated. The Living Memory is just a bastardized version of the lifestream where it separates the soul from the memories, then it copies the memories into its database before discarding them. Afterwards it uses the blank souls as a base and superimposes the copied memories onto it to make the Endless.


That’s what the process seems like to me anyway, based on what we’ve seen and what the characters have said.