Quote Originally Posted by SentioftheHoukai View Post
Is he, though? I don't recall the narrative giving us any actual indication he retained the vast repositories of knowledge that an Ancient that lived through the Final Days of Yore and what came before might possess. I'm not saying that you're definitively wrong per se, but he always came off more to me as some sort of Sundered familiar of Hydaelyn's in a manner similar to Argos. He almost certainly wasn't the same man that he was during the era of the World Unsundered. Say what you will about Y'shtola, but rude and dismissive is certainly not one the adjectives I'd use to describe her. She's never actually talked down towards anyone, not in anyway that could really be considered dismissive. Most of the closest counterexamples are more snarky one-liners, like "Little Sun", and "Take you over my knee" and the more recent one when the WoL throws her under the bus beneath Thavnair's ocean.
Hence the "sort of." He may be a simulacrum of who he once was, but he's proven myself to be more substantial and closer to who he was than, say, the shades in Amaurot, possessing I believe at least a hefty chunk of his memories, intelligence, knowledge, and the capacity for discussion, duty and reflection.

Also, were you not several pages ago arguing how rude Y'shtola was to Magnai before dubbing us all nefarious or some such for claiming otherwise and leaving? Bit odd that you would suddenly decide to take this stance, all things considered.