Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
The quote indicates that Kairos burns memories into a soul, but there is nothing in it to indicate that strong memories are saved regardless. Neither does it indicate that Kairos only does that to memories if they are already strong.

The closest evidence we have of other memories persisting is that characters are prone to being reminded of the Final Days by falling meteors, but even then they seem to describe the experience as triggering something they can almost but not quite remember.

Hermes is the only character (besides this unresolved business with Zenos) ever shown to have had specific and clear memories of a past life, while also being the only Kairos subject to have been reincarnated. There is no indication that he has naturally retained any memories outside of the Kairos-affected period.
Memories are a strongly tied to the soul as we discovered with bringing the scions back from the First. Kairos was designed to erase memories and outside of Hermes we're not shown anything to indicate that Kairos has that effect. In the same way strong memories can keep a soul from moving on we can probaly say that memories can function in the same way.

Also amon doesn't have clear memories of a past life, aside from the ones that reside in the Fandaniel crystal. Before he got that he does say "Night after night, the faceless multitude. The voiceless cries. Shards of shattered memories. But slowly the fog bangan to clear. This was Elpis and I...I was Hermes." Now that he's dead he was able to fully recall what happened