06-25-2025, 05:40 PM
I really am quite enjoying The Deep Sea > The Sea God > Rafayel hierarchy.
Because honestly, I am getting the definite sense that Rafayel is the one fucking things up constantly, because he keeps choosing to let the girlfriend escape at the 11.5th hour, denying the Sea God his true place and thwarting the requirements of the Deep Sea.
Rafayel doesn't want to be the pawn of a greater power, obviously, and seems to really resent the fact that he can't just lay down the burden and escape into death, because no matter what, he will return again and again and again. No matter how much or how little he remembers (and there are likely timelines where he doesn't leave himself clues, even as there are timelines when he does), he keeps trying to make the same choice to save her. He does it in GoT (wins), he does it in City of Mirrors (fails) and I guess I'll see how this plays out in Golden Sands.
I think you're right, now that I read back a little as to what Rafayel and Amund are saying. I think he remembers who he is in a general sense, and has the backstory of the legends and myths from Amund, but no really cohesive memories of past live(s). He may remember specific things - that he straight up tells her that their bond existed in the past and exists now at least implies a longer truth he's carrying, but yeah, maybe he's just extrapolating the pull he feels against what he knows it should mean (ie, if he doesn't remember it in this incarnation, then it had to have happened in a previous one and it transcended death. ie: when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth).
Because honestly, I am getting the definite sense that Rafayel is the one fucking things up constantly, because he keeps choosing to let the girlfriend escape at the 11.5th hour, denying the Sea God his true place and thwarting the requirements of the Deep Sea.
Rafayel doesn't want to be the pawn of a greater power, obviously, and seems to really resent the fact that he can't just lay down the burden and escape into death, because no matter what, he will return again and again and again. No matter how much or how little he remembers (and there are likely timelines where he doesn't leave himself clues, even as there are timelines when he does), he keeps trying to make the same choice to save her. He does it in GoT (wins), he does it in City of Mirrors (fails) and I guess I'll see how this plays out in Golden Sands.
I think you're right, now that I read back a little as to what Rafayel and Amund are saying. I think he remembers who he is in a general sense, and has the backstory of the legends and myths from Amund, but no really cohesive memories of past live(s). He may remember specific things - that he straight up tells her that their bond existed in the past and exists now at least implies a longer truth he's carrying, but yeah, maybe he's just extrapolating the pull he feels against what he knows it should mean (ie, if he doesn't remember it in this incarnation, then it had to have happened in a previous one and it transcended death. ie: when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth).
