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    Is Hythlodaeus unsundered?

    His soul and memories were in Zodiark at the time of sundering, but soul and memory are two separate components in the lore regarding souls now. Soul aether was used (and I would say consumed) to build and power Zodiark, while it seemed the memories were stored, as shown on Mare Lamentorum when they swarm us. Zodiark was split into pieces, but that was his body, made up of the energy from their souls.

    So, do we think that the memory component of the Ancients he stored was sundered as well, or no? Since Hythlodaeus had no corporeal or soul aether at the time, was he (and the rest of the Ancients sacrificed to Zodiark) actually sundered? Were there 13 copies of each of their memories made and put on each shard?

    I think its much more likely that their memories remained whole and just stuck with the main body of Zodiark on the source, counting as a part of that shard of Zodiark since they were technically inside him. After all, Zodiark sundered into pieces, not replicas of himself like Emet's powerpoint in ShB showed the Sundering did to normal people. Arm in one shard, part of a torso in another, etc. So, he wasn't evenly distributed.

    So, the idea of his head (or w/e body piece), plus the memory aether from the sacrifices stored within it, all counting as one piece of him and sticking together as a mass in the source makes sense to me. And thus Hyth and what remained of the other sacrificed Ancients at the time were not technically sundered by Hydaelyn.

    But I wanted to know what you guys think. If their memories weren't sundered, it might have interesting implications when it comes to their reincarnation.




    EDIT: I spelled his name wrong and it shall forever live on in the title. I am Shame.
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    Last edited by Alleluia; 06-12-2023 at 08:22 AM.