What about all the memories/player choices you get to make?
Remembering "Serena" with red, blond, or brown. Remembering her coming crying to you when they take the pendant; emotionless; or angry... Helping the cat, or leaving it alone; jumping over the river or using the bridge; punishing those who stole the pendant or not...
Are those completely false memories/fabricated by player choice (Rhue or Jeruh's Rhue?))?
I chose a red haired Serena... but in the big reveal in chapter 6; Serena had blonde hair...
Also the Lyrra/Midian/Jeruh location looked completely different than the one Rhue always remembers.
If that place *is* the End of the Way as Gaius likes to claim (Right?); then how does Rhue remember it?
Has he been there before? Why does he have detailed memories of a fake "Serena" (the player choices)? Could there be *another* Serena; that's not really Serena but someone that the original knew?
I'm fairly clueless without speculation on this matter...
I think the idea behind letting you choose different things about Serena was too hint that Rhue didn't actually know her like he claims/thinks he does, and alternatively make you doubt her existence, though that was proven wrong. They could just be things he subconsciously makes up on the spot to craft his perfect girl. It could also be memories from auras he absorbed, but at the very least the game makes it clear that he is the one choosing what happened, not any direct meddling by the PS or somthing.
Ok so Landorin, that scene we see 100 times over in Rhue's mind, turns out not to be Landorin at all as we see from the final version we see told by Jeruh and Midian. So for some reason in Rhue's memory the location has been replaced with "The End" of The Way (the name of which is a completely different discussion). Why? Maybe memories aren't complete and when the PS was patching together this persona another area got thrown in, also possible that the place has some significance to Rhue and its overriding the memory. As for how he has a memory of that place, either he or one of his auras has been there before. Which strongly implies that The Way is circular.
On Lexus Ending... and stuff (killed the Phantom Slasher shadow)
WHAT happens at the end? Dream Estrana? Upper Way? Phantom Slasher World?
How did so many people end up in the sword? Are they residents from everywhere; or are most of them from Estrana? Did Rhue somehow absorb most of Estrana's Auras when Sacrifa summoned destruction?
Rhue's been wandering in one form or another for a long long time, he's gotten many auras. And yes, his trek through Estrana after its destruction probably netted him 100's more.
Rhue from Dream Estrana not equaling Rhue in front of Gaius?
I personally, think they are the same; as much as one can be in a dreaming state. They both seemed to have the same personality and memories; although maybe slightly different. [Letting silent Slade join you? That's kind of odd...]
I don't see any reason to think they are different. And if I remember correctly Rhue initially assumes Slade is going to start something, and is only ok with it once he doesn't. Except the Lexus ending, whatever comes back to his body after he decides to stay with Lexus is probably something different.
Too many auras in one body usually causes the body to kill itself/go insane. That sort of seemed the case, when Rhue discovers the possiblity that he is just a figment of Jeruh's imagination. The other auras, Lyrra, Midian turn on him... "Who are you??"
It ends up with "Rhue" waking up? Or ending Dream Estrana? Or ridding himself of the other auras?
Lexus says, if you leave this place; I will be gone forever... Don't leave me...
But, if you stay; or if you leave her... That same Rhue wakes up?
He doesn't seem any different from the Rhue from before; except now he has the knowledge of his existence.
So, if Rhue *stays* in his dream world, or his phantom sword world... (or something else...?); how does he awaken the same person? But, not ridding himself of Lexus and the others?
I think Rhue as we know him stays with Lexus... where ever they are, in the sword I guess? Which leaves us wondering who is the one that defies Gauis in the last scene and flies away. One idea is that its the PS itself, I don't know if this makes sense though, because if the PS could take full control of its host, you think it would just do that, as opposed to just manipulating it. It could be some new dominant aura, or maybe Rhue's original personality. I like the latter because its the only thing I could think of that would be aware enough to say "I have no end". Also the flying, some manipulated aura probably can't do that.
Okay, what HAPPENS when "Rhue" wakes up and flys off? (going Neo and pissing off Gaius)
The whole flying off thing, no idea really. Best guess is Rhue's just tapping into the powers that have been suppressed all this time.(Which kinda goes into the Venge theory)
What is Dream Estrana?
Seems to be a manifestation of the auras absorbed by Rhue. It seems to be shaped by the auras currently residing. We first visit right after the destruction of Estrana and Rhue absorbing probably half the residents on the way out, so when we see it it reflects the destroyed city. Though it seems some older (or maybe stronger?) auras manifest there own areas. The forest inhabited by the witch from the Kava/Kura story, Altair Manor with he jester ghost dude, Lexus's beach, the barrucha cave, Lyrra's world, maybe the portal stone world with Traz's mom. Pretty much everything after that first sentence is pure theory, but thats the best I've got.
...I'm actually out of time here, so I'll go through the rest of the questions later.