Revelations from Patch 7.2: Seekers of Eternity

[mallleable]

I think the person who got turned to dust was someone wearing a Neo Regulator, and I think that's their sinister purpose: kill the wearer, and send their aether, and memories somewhere to turn them into an Endless. Which is my point of I think there are unforeseen consequences, potentially of the Necron variety of killing 5000 people to turn them into Endless that I'm not sure Calyx has accounted for. I think it's gonna be more like 'oops I made Necron' instead of 'at last, I made Necron!'

I think Calyx's potential miscalculation is gonna come from his overly clinical view of death as just a process, not realizing, not caring that it means something to the people he will to kill to make them Endless.

[Kranel_San]

I think the person who got turned to dust was someone wearing a Neo Regulator, and I think that's their sinister purpose: kill the wearer, and send their aether, and memories somewhere to turn them into an Endless. Which is my point of I think there are unforeseen consequences, potentially of the Necron variety of killing 5000 people to turn them into Endless that I'm not sure Calyx has accounted for. I think it's gonna be more like 'oops I made Necron' instead of 'at last, I made Necron!'

I think Calyx's potential miscalculation is gonna come from his overly clinical view of death as just a process, not realizing, not caring that it means something to the people he will to kill to make them Endless.

When I was watching the cutscene, the first thought that crossed my mind about the corpse turning to dust was due to the neo regulator already uploading the person's memories to the cloud. However, since he is still alive and to prevent his memories and existence from being deleted in others' minds then the person has to be reduced to dust before the regulators can finish. As such, what people will see with their eyes is a permanently dead person (Whom they haven't seen before) that they used to know. This new dread of seeing dead people, plus the attacks, will ultimately further people's despair into escaping death.

This is just my interpretation of what happened.

[Iscah]

When I was watching the cutscene, the first thought that crossed my mind about the corpse turning to dust was due to the neo regulator already uploading the person's memories to the cloud. However, since he is still alive and to prevent his memories and existence from being deleted in others' minds then the person has to be reduced to dust before the regulators can finish. As such, what people will see with their eyes is a permanently dead person (Whom they haven't seen before) that they used to know. This new dread of seeing dead people, plus the attacks, will ultimately further people's despair into escaping death.

This is just my interpretation of what happened.

This crosses over with what I was saying earlier about there seeming to be inconsistencies / lack of information about the current state of the regulator memory-wiping system now that the gate is closed and Living Memory is shut down. However, it seems that they currently are not losing their memories, at least until the neo regulator memory-rewriting stuff happens.

Additionally, even if the memory wiping is still happening, reducing someone to dust to prevent the upload would also prevent them from becoming Endless at all. It would probably be simpler to just disable the memory wipe.