The human brain is a fantastic innovation of nature. It is capable of gathering, retaining, sorting, and prioritizing massive amounts of information in seconds. It assists us in countless ways, but the brain has limits. It has a finite amount of memory, is easily tricked, and prone to failure and waste without the proper conditioning.
This is doubly so for Quasi-immortals, beings who are only near impossible to kill. Immortality has its perks. They can withstand untold amounts of punishment, leave their fear of death at the door, and can give a unique perspective of history. Immortality has its drawbacks, however.
Ask any of these pseudo immortals what the worst part of immortality is, and you'd be surprised at their answer. They don't talk about their friends and family moving on without them. They don't speak of the loneliness, either. When
The Alexandrian University studied Quasi-immortals, they noticed the same answer across the board: they were remarkably forgetful.
A very logical consequence of long life. I like how you play into the fact that most of our memories are just memories of memories that we've constructed along the way. Good thing an immortal has years to perfect his mind-palace technique! Also, that's probably why there's not a solid knights' templar faction: most knights in this world are probably just crazy immortal folks! Could be fun to try playing one though. So is there any way to gain immortality with a side benefit of expanded brain capacity? Could be nice. I've recently been watching youtube videos and aincent mythology, so I appreciate the bit about contradictory stories making up the mythology we know today.
Oh absolutely! The brain is so easy to trick when it comes to memory. Yayyyy someone knows what mind palaces are! I love the method of foci and its actually a very useful tool for memory. I wanted to make a brotherhood of knights but didn't want to dip too far into cliche. I'm currently working on it ( the grail knights) and the story that delves into it. As far as whether an immortal can expand it, yes and no. The prestige helps alot. Morrigan, who is no where near old enough to feel immortal decay, uses it to expand memory capacity. The university is working on a memory storage solution involving what's basically a memory hard drive. Young gods ascending to godhood is the only case where becoming immortal adds in extended memory on its own. I'm glad I'm not the only one who watches those on YouTube in free time lol. I saw one on authurian legend and oof. inspired lol