Memory Transference

[Vyrerus]

Hello all,

I want to ask about the process of memory transference within the lore, and if we can expect to see this continuing on throughout the various storylines. Which civilization created memory transference, how many times have we seen it in the game, and which groups of people currently use this technique.

Correct me if wrong, but I'm aware that the allagans used this. We saw it again in the First, and as well as with the ascians, and recently in the Save the Queen areas. Why is it that we keep being drawn in to this idea of memories being recalled? Does it have something to do with the echo?

To answer you directly:

The Amaurotine Times society created memory storage using auracite like crystals which could even store beings as concepts. Seen firsthand in Amanesis Anyder. Seen first hand in the Convocation memory crystals.

The Echo is the first innate ability that allows memories to be transferred to us, the player. You could count every single Echo vision, barring Mikoto's futuresight visions, as being memory transference after a fashion.


The first time we see artificially induced memory transference, outside of Soul Crystals, is technically with the Allagan clones of Doga and Unei, who have the transferred memories of the real Doga and Unei.
The second is Doga and Unei activating G'raha Tia's Allagan Eye/blood.
Koh Rabntah is actually soul transference, I think, with Archsage Noah stealing her body. However, the Oneiromantic Pearls used in that weekly quest essentially allow us to remember/dream new memories of the Crystal Tower raid series, and store said new memories in each pearl, so that's another variety.

The Allagan artifacts in Azys Lla show us cloning technology time and time again, once in the ARF, and then later on the Warring Triad Extreme danger room simulations were specifically used to make Allagan Elites, so that they and their techniques could be cloned too.

This sort of ties into the alchemist quests mentioned, as they left out the part where the truly unethical part of the alchemy was the fact that in order to perfect the technique, the alchemist spent months kidnapping and cloning people, and then trying to transfer their consciousness to the clone. When it failed, the original person would die and the clone would be slotted into their place in the real world with no memories or knowledge to also die. Fairly grisly, honestly. There was something about an Allagan artifact, a rod of some sort I think? in that questline as well.

The Auracites in the Ivalice raids series contain the memories/concepts of monstrous beings and heroes alike. Playing off of that, we get to Bozja.

In Eureka we experience Drake(Gerolt's apprentice) making the Mneme generator to make actions out of crystallized soul memories (Logograms). This is the most modern creation related to memory transference, but it purely relates to battle techniques.

The Weapons of Werlyt series plays off of auracite again, first using Garlean combat data gathered from their power suits to overwrite someone's identity with the memories of the person the data was gathered from. That's another modern memory transference technology being put to use, and it gets pretty ridiculous with what happens after Diamond Weapon in regards to Alphonse and the core and all the previous test pilots of the weapon program, physically manifesting their memories.

So about a dozen times directly or implied.