Quote Originally Posted by Basteala View Post

As for Erenville seeing his mother again. This...is tricky. I always took this as an optimistic assumption, but all I can assume is that once released from the cycle, memories will return to the lifestream, same as souls. What we don't know is what happens to these individual memories, or if they will simply disperse, as even a natural soul tends to, eventually, be cleansed of most memories, and what's left is little more than faded marks on a reincarnated soul. For any of this to be true, though, the Terminals would almost have to act like RAM, where as soon as power is cut off from it, all the data is lost--and in this case, allegedly released. But this last part is all conjecture, right now. It's not explained in great detail compared to the rest.
This is what I'm wondering as well and I have a feeling the answer is a very "have your cake and eat it, too" kind of thing. Endless are to be regarded as instances of the original person, that's something I think made clear in both the journals and dialogue. The question for me is what happens to the memory "data" accrued during time as an Endless? I am assuming it is etched into the memory aether, which then magnetically attracts back to the soul as you have suggested. That's the only way Erenville could meet his mother in the Aetherial sea. So it's like he will meet the original her included with the new Endless memories as well.