So, as many know by now, the final areas for Dawntrail introduce the portion of Alexandrians known as, "The Endless."
These are Alexandrian people who died of old age or many many violent deaths, who then had the memory portion of their soul enshrined in a database wonder land that then projects it into a controlled environment to continue living on in bliss, analyzing the entirety of their lives and projecting them as they were when they were at their happiest moments.
The first Endless we are introduced to is actually Sphene, who is a computerized entity of the Queen of Alexandria's memories from before their shard was destroyed in the Lightning Calamity, 9000 years prior to the game's events, by the forces of Lindblum who were inciting said Calamity using their Lightning based Weapon of Mass Destruction.
The Endless as they are can enjoy things, form new memories, and interact with the living. They also know that they no longer have bodies.
The second Endless we are introduced to is actually Erenville's Mother, Cahciua. As part of a weak plot twist, she was dead all along after the 30 year time dilation, became an Alexandrian citizen, and was uploaded into Living Memory. From there, she aimed to bring Alexandria and Living Memory down by traveling back into a robot body which she lived in for an indeterminate amount of time assisting in leading The Resistance.
Given this set of events means that any Endless could leave Living Memory in a robot body.
Given the Omicron civilization is a group of lifeforms entirely composed of robot bodies, this means that The Endless are comparable to them, and that The Endless are very much alive and are not just, "memory ghosts."
Living in the database was still living, and we snuffed them out.
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These are Alexandrian people who died of old age or many many violent deaths, who then had the memory portion of their soul enshrined in a database wonder land that then projects it into a controlled environment to continue living on in bliss, analyzing the entirety of their lives and projecting them as they were when they were at their happiest moments.
The first Endless we are introduced to is actually Sphene, who is a computerized entity of the Queen of Alexandria's memories from before their shard was destroyed in the Lightning Calamity, 9000 years prior to the game's events, by the forces of Lindblum who were inciting said Calamity using their Lightning based Weapon of Mass Destruction.
The Endless as they are can enjoy things, form new memories, and interact with the living. They also know that they no longer have bodies.
The second Endless we are introduced to is actually Erenville's Mother, Cahciua. As part of a weak plot twist, she was dead all along after the 30 year time dilation, became an Alexandrian citizen, and was uploaded into Living Memory. From there, she aimed to bring Alexandria and Living Memory down by traveling back into a robot body which she lived in for an indeterminate amount of time assisting in leading The Resistance.
Given this set of events means that any Endless could leave Living Memory in a robot body.
Given the Omicron civilization is a group of lifeforms entirely composed of robot bodies, this means that The Endless are comparable to them, and that The Endless are very much alive and are not just, "memory ghosts."
Living in the database was still living, and we snuffed them out.
Continue reading...