Quote Originally Posted by AlysCamoa View Post
Oh good, somebody who read the entry. I'd like to know where you're getting the idea that the memories formed by the Endless do not develop them. In fact, we're demonstrated quite the opposite, several times, as the dozen or so characters we interact with there change merely by meeting us. The most glaring counter-point to your claim would be Cahciua, no? But I'm willing to entertain the idea this might be true—if you can cite the part of the story where the Endless do not develop based on new experiences.
Actually, the counter-point to my argument is Sphene. Not Cahciua.
But Sphene is an anomaly in comparison, as to genuinely be able to enact under these new memories (recent ones), she had to erase past memories to get rid of her inhibition to perform her primary directive.
Any new memory an Endless receives is stored inside themselves, compiled, and still performed as the person would based on the data received out of them. That is what we say, not the other way around, those people do not develop as living ones.
We did not have enough exposition on Cahciua to argue she changed, for all principles, she didn't. As Erenville even argued in his hurtful rant how she was deciding things for everyone.
That was already a trait of her personality that complied with the memories, and since we are talking with Ghosts, it is important to keep in mind they live in the past and only by what they know.
And after new experiences quieted past grievances or any left out unfinished business, they feel at peace and capable of departing.