So /that’s/ what Jonah and Luthien look like these days! Also, go figure that Jonah is a Being; who else would get eaten by a whale and then go, ‘well, let’s see if I can’t rile up its indigestion when it’s close to a shoreline’?
Could just be named after that Jonah, after all, these are probably their most recent names. Remember, beings are named by their masters, and those names tend to change with their masters.
I have a question for the next FAQ. Is the beings short memory perhaps related to the lifespan of their masters? It seems like changing one’s personality and desires every few decades would be detrimental to one’s memory.
Exactly right. When a Being gets a new Master, their views and emotions change to line up with what that Master wants — so they start losing their sense of feeling about the previous Master. (The current state of Patrick is an exception, because of the unusual way his Contract was changed.) At that point they’ll still have the facts and details of those memories, but once they’ve been through another switch, those will start fading too.
The Dove and the Donkey! They’re back!
So /that’s/ what Jonah and Luthien look like these days! Also, go figure that Jonah is a Being; who else would get eaten by a whale and then go, ‘well, let’s see if I can’t rile up its indigestion when it’s close to a shoreline’?
Could just be named after that Jonah, after all, these are probably their most recent names. Remember, beings are named by their masters, and those names tend to change with their masters.
I have a question for the next FAQ. Is the beings short memory perhaps related to the lifespan of their masters? It seems like changing one’s personality and desires every few decades would be detrimental to one’s memory.
Exactly right. When a Being gets a new Master, their views and emotions change to line up with what that Master wants — so they start losing their sense of feeling about the previous Master. (The current state of Patrick is an exception, because of the unusual way his Contract was changed.) At that point they’ll still have the facts and details of those memories, but once they’ve been through another switch, those will start fading too.