Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
Endless~!
Just to add, it's probably better to think of the Endless as digital copies a la the game "Soma".

That is to say, Otis, the original, died. Dead-dead. When he died, his entire memory was able to be copied digitally, which resulted in both the robotic doll and at a later time, the Otis we meet in Living Memory.

Neither of these are the actual Otis as he lived. It just happens that one requires additional life force to keep it running.

The big problem in the writing is, it's never really clear EXACTLY what it is this "life force" is, aside from maaaybe it being Dynamis...because otherwise they had the tech to convert Aether A into Aether B as much as they liked.

It's weird "science" and doesn't really make sense given the established lore we have in that, as far as we know, Aether is kinda like matter/energy in that is can't be created or destroyed but rather converted into something else. So, really really not clear what the "Corporeal Aether" (as you said) is, unless it's actually Dynamis..which has a lot of question marks.