Quote Originally Posted by Carolingian View Post
But yes, if there's a whole society of sentient self-aware ghosts and we decide to kill all of them then that would also be considered genocide.
The Endless aren’t a society, they’re a zoo.

They’re preserved memories of the dead because Sphene can’t let go over her people. 90% of them don’t even have bodies and are locked in storage in the terminals until the system decides on drafting up “serendipitous” encounters. The Endless don’t do anything and have every single need magically catered to them. Living Memory isn’t even very robust and much of it is just a facade. Just off the beaten path are empty alleyways and monsters.

They’re also a perversion of the natural order of life. They’re an overly complicated graveyard manifested by a scientific approach at necromancy. We already know what is supposed to happen after you die and the Alexandrians decided against it and to plunder worlds of their souls to continue it. There is no incentive for us to prevent soul and memory aether from going back to the Lifestream as is natural.

We also can’t exactly fix it with Dynamis unless we’re in the depths of space because our world is extremely aether thick and even after sundering it has no effect here. It’s all moot to begin with because Sphene didn’t want to negotiate and we had to shut the terminals to get to Sphene.


Other undead seem to have varying degrees of sentience as well. Edda and Nybeth are the most preserved, and there are also undead Ronkan sorcerers who shed their corporeal form. Then there’s the whole thing with the Sirensong Sea where Lorelei, an undead siren, had a whole thing attracting and then crashing ships against the island. Other Ashkin in the books also show an awareness at their circumstances and an anger at the living.