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

[EverSnow]

If you give yourself to the stone willingly, it seems you lose both the memory and the emotional connection you have to it. Except for when Fitz put his pain into Girl-on-a-Dragon, I'm still working on that one.
If you hold yourself back from it, as in try to guard your memories, it appears that the stone takes the connection and duplicates the memory itself, leaving you with a copy of the memory, but not the attachment.

Hmmm, would you say Verity is holding back when carving his dragon until the very end?
When talking to Fitz he describes his state as "To be able to recall what one once felt, but unable to feel it anymore. My loves, my fears, my sorrows. All have gone into the dragon. Nothing I have held back"

Although clearly he has held back in that he is not absorbed into the dragon at that point.

Given the stone dragon's purpose perhaps they take the emotional memory (how one felt & reacted) but not the factual memory (of what happened).

Would that fit with Fitz and Girl-on-A-Dragon?