Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
The Endless are AI's. They are not "clearly sentient people." They are AI's programmed to act like the people they are based on, but as we see in the case of Sphene, even that programming can be "tweaked" to emphasize or de-emphasize things about them. They are the equivalent of ChatGPT's given bodies. EW was about valuing beings that were actually real, living creatures. DT is about letting go and moving forward with our lives.

Also, don't forget that Alexandria itself effectively invaded and conquered part of Tural. It exists on the Source, in Tural, and is part of Tuliyollal's empire (including the Turali people it took away from their own lives by isolating them inside the dome). In the end, Alexandria invaded Tural, fought a war against Tuliyollal and lost, and is now part of Tuliyollal's empire as a result.

It may be time to step away for a bit. When someone reaches the point of shouting about "unforgivable" things in a video game and declaring the writers incompetent because one personally doesn't like the story they wrote, that sounds like a good sign it's a healthy move to detach oneself.
The endless are 100% implied to have sapience because an AI program created to eternally preserve a persons memories would be unable to take steps towards ending its own existence. Cauchia is definitive proof the endless have a degree of agency

The endless (via cauchia, Otis, krile’s parents and the proposal NPC) are all fully aware they are endless and understand how their programming works but also have shown to act beyond it, particularly the proposal NPC who states he has been spat out by the system before and never made a move for his finance but chose to do it this time because he is unsure of how long the existence of the endless can last (a common thread amongst the endless in that they understand that their existence isn’t forever), in that scene he breaks out of the implied temporal lock that exists amongst the endless. The NPC that makes the game for you in yesterland and changes his age when he realises that his childhood form doesn’t make him happiest is another example

The endless may not be human but they are 100% sapient, they aren’t the people they were based on, they are different entities that use the memories of the deceased Alexandrians as a foundation