Quote Originally Posted by Connor View Post
Yeah, I think that’s why they needed ‘soul aether’ specifically rather than just being able to suck up any type they wanted. I guess in that sense you could call them ‘artificial souls’, like artificed ghosts almost.

When a creature like Eos/Carbuncle is summoned it’s given form by the thoughts and memories of the summoner - which is what we do see happening with the Living Memory inhabitants. Without those memories they’d likely lose their form, as there’s be no ‘concept of what they are’ left to give the soul aether form. Ironically, they (or the summoner) need to know what they look like, for them to look like anything in the first place. Had they tried to use bestial aether, for example, the Endless would have turned out looking like the things we see in Arcadion lol.

I think the biggest distinction between something we create like a Carbuncle and the Endless is the both method and how it’s formation works. Arcanists use geometric formulae to facilitate the construction of these beings, Summoners I believe do the same but utilise their own personal aether after it becomes affected by a defeating/encountering primal. Scholars I believe used written script. Each time, this method basically ‘turns what’s in the summoner’s mind into something real’.

For the Endless however, this part is done solely through technology. They soul aether is taken and converted by machinery, then stuck into whatever vessels they used for the Endless. Finally, the computer adds the memory data, which is what then gives that ‘Endless’ its appearance/form. It’s similar to summoning in practice, but the theory itself is very different. It’s not so much a ‘recreation’ of that person as it is a mannequin with that person’s face and memories, if that makes sense lol. Again, just my thoughts; I may turn out to be completely wrong
I think you're onto something and I hope we get more answers in 7.1.