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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 5044185" data-attributes="member: 2093">Just because he's gone insane, why does that mean he's gotten access to memories of his past? Perhaps he's just truly gone schizophrenic, or manic depressive, and still has no idea about his past.He lives like an ordinary street person, struggling to survive; but he has these momentary flashes of some sort of clarity, when his memory comes up. Unfortunately, each time it is some different past life memory, which confuses and frightens him even more.Most insane people, especially those who are "far gone", aren't very likely to be demanding worship or plotting cruel actions. They're hiding, fleeing, trying to escape their own personal hell.If you DO want them to have the ability to "tap" their past, you need something more than "they're insane" to justify it. They may be insane or at least mentally damaged BECAUSE of what is allowing them to tap the memories (nasty magical ritual went awry?) or merely because of the weight of all the memories (I think that would be enough), but then you can't say they're totally unaware of what they are. I think.</blockquote>