[split] Memories/Forging (spoilers all books incl RWC)

[Farseer]

Sorry for back-to-back posts...I am the worst, repeat offender here!

I've just had a thought that the serpents losing their memories is not unlike the loss of human memories etc during the Forging process that was instigated by the Pale Woman. At the end of SOM, Shreeva, Maulkin and Sessurea are talking about the ongoing and gradual loss of their memories and actions of the white serpent (Carrion, I think?). Maulkin explains to the other two that there is nothing wrong with the white serpent except that he is further along the path than they are, in that "he has forgotten...Everything...Everything except feeding and shedding and growing. All else, all that is real and significant, he has forgotten." Sounds very much like what is taken away and left behind when a human is Forged?

Ensuring a lack of memories has the same goal of destruction of a race, in my opinion, no matter if the memories are kept from a being (such as the serpents and subsequently the emerging dragons) or taken from a being (eg Forged from a human).