[Dragaera] Pararectal ideation on the Undead

[Alexx Kay]

>
> On Sun, February 21, 2010 12:00, Damien Sullivan wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:00:34AM +0800, Ray Lee wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:42 AM, andy <bonham15 at cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> > meh. I would think a non god would just need a break from remembering
>>> > *everything* at some time
>>>
>>> True, though I suspect Sethra has the Orb to remember for her. She
>>> could
>>> likely decant her memories via magic so that she doesn't have to keep
>>> it
>>> all
>>> in her head.
>>
>> The *Orb*?  The Orb remembers the lives of Emperors.  Sethra has no
>> direct connection.  Why would the Orb be remembering for her?  If she
>> needs offline storage, Dzur Mountain probably works.
>
> Generally speaking, anybody with that kind of lifespan needs offline
> storage, it seems to me.  Or else will lose a lot of memory.
>
> In fact I wonder about ordinary Dragaerans in that regard.  I just don't
> know whether the human-level memory hardware has either the capacity or
> the permanence for the Dragaeran lifespan.  Of course we have no idea how
> thoroughly they've been manipulated by the Jenoine.  And maybe if current
> humans lived that long, we'd discover that memory wasn't the problem after
> all; the typical memory problems of age may not be inherent in the human
> hardware (but I wouldn't bet on it, from what we know so far).
>
> A culture where people's healthy lifespans significantly exceed their
> memory capacity would be weird.  To be viable, it'd have to be early
> memories, or less-used memories, that get removed, and it would have to be
> possible to form enough new memory to remain functional.  But that still
> leaves a lot of room for...creative character abuse.

If Sethra has offline memory storage, it's still non-trivial for her to
move things to and from it.  Otherwise, she wouldn't make the slips that
Vlad notices in _Orca_.

Alexx

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