The entire Emperor story is nonsense when you think about it. I have no idea why Larian decided to implement it that way.
No matter how many memories are retained, its not the original being that is transformed, but the tadpole that grows into a mind flayer xenomorph style.
This is a well known fact (among people that know about mind flayer), so that someone like Ansur would try to heal the Emperor when there is nothing to heal is completely stupid. (As is that the Emperor could kill him. Mind Flayer are not that powerful). There is nothing to heal, only to true ressurect.
If mind flayers have souls or not doesn't matter in the end (and why wouldn't they? This entire thing of them having no souls is nonsense Larian invented which hopefully never makes it into canon). If they have a soul it would be the soul of the (former) tadpole and completely unrelated to the soul of the former host.
Which makes the whole ending choice even more stupid. How can you be sure that the mind flayer create by you, your companions or Orpheus (ignoring the nonsense of Orpheus creating a mind flayer without even being infected. By this point Larian didn't even try to have a coherent story) is on board with your plan of stopping the brain instead of being a mind flayer supremacist? Or that it would be capable in fighting the brain?
Last edited by Ixal; 06/10/23 01:04 AM.
