Wait a minute...is this a plot-hole (Austerities of Wind and Main Scenario-related)?

[Anonymoose]

I suspect Ramuh may have memories that aren't his own.

I was midway through posting the last thing I said in here when this popped up and I just wanted to poke back in already and say "I'm glad I'm not so crazy as to be the only one." I believe that Ramuh may (might, possibly, potentially, hypothetically) have memories that were imbued into him.

All of the primals have personalities that philosophically represent their element. What is lightning? Patient... calm... silent... and then strikes without warning with merciless dexterity to swiftly annihilate that which is judged to be its target. Lighting is calculating. Lightning is wise. There's a possibility that Ramuh knows many things by nature of the living aether that he was not personally there to witness.

Or, perhaps he was once a living person and read a lot of books about the past and now the soul orb thing we saw in the Striking Tree remembers college pretty well, hells if I know. But he's no Elder, as far as we've been told. That's for sure.

[WyrahFhurrst]

*snippet*

Oh good, I'm not the only one. The only guess I have as to why the other Primals don't mention their older memories is that they don't have them, or they just don't find them important to bring up around us. Both are entirely logical, at least for the elemental Primals. But what about the non-elemental Primals? Does Good King Moggle Mog have older memories, or only the recent ones? And does that lack of elemental memory explain why he's different from the elemental ones? I of course mean his lack of trying to temper us or gather a following beyond his loyal Mog Squad. Perhaps, as a new Primal, he has yet to fully come into his own and discover all of his powers, since he has no element (and older {rimals of that element) to inherit memories from?