Quote Originally Posted by LilimoLimomo View Post
The game explicitly tells you multiple times that these are soulless digital creations. And I'll be the first to agree that it's bizarre that the writers chose to write it that way, given that for so much of the story you interact with the Endless as if they are people with hopes and dreams. But the text of the story outright states that they are fabrications.
We met Namikka in both human and Endless form, we met Otis' soul separate from his Endless form. Were they somehow lesser to you? We met Cahciua before we knew she was an Endless, were you thinking of her as lesser back in Solution Nine?

The game is clear that they don't have souls, yes. But the game's also clear that having a soul doesn't really change much, and the story of Dawntrail is written consistent with that; they're not treated as lesser for not having a soul, just as other things we've met without souls weren't treated as lesser. Meteion didn't have a soul. Alpha didn't have a soul for most of its story. Do you describe them as lesser beings, did Alpha suddenly graduate to being any different in your eyes at the last minute?