Quote Originally Posted by YojimboM View Post
I have not seen many people discussing the true implications of what Wuk Lamat has done by the end of the MSQ: Wuk Lamat effectively committed a genocide on the Endless (the Alexandrian ruling class), and then installed a puppet proxy king in the form of Gulool Ja (a non-native). They even emphasize this by stating Wuk Lamat will be there to "guide" the literal baby in his role as king. Wuk Lamat killed the leaders of Alexandria and is now in control of it, she conquered
Your problem is assuming Wuk Lamat had enough brain cells to rub together to conceptualise any of this. If anything like 99.99% of what she done in Dawntrail was reacting without thinking which is pretty much her character anyway lol. Furthermore, again I don’t even think Lamat is smart enough to conceptualise the idea of colonising Alexandria lol; she isn’t going to extent any sort of ‘control’ over them anyway besides giving them whatever help they need?

Also maybe it’s harsh but frankly I still do not see how you can ‘genocide’ computer programs, no matter how realistic they are. I mean the souls are all released back into the aetherial sea right? We’ve literally done the exact opposite of a genocide by turning the terminals off because those souls will go on to create new life. If we’d done nothing they’d still be trapped in Living Memory being used to fuel a projection of someone that isn’t even them anyway.

Stealing people’s literal souls and using them to try and cope with grief seems just as unforgivable to me. If the dead can live on through memories does it really matter if a machine is projecting a manifestation of those memories? Or is it enough for them to live on in our memories ; in that way they never truly leave us. kinda thought that was the entire point of the storyline but I guess it was about murder lol