Yes, it's surprising, isn't it? Of course, he is a memory-copy of Veldin at the moment Veldin was most into Aloree, so a benign explanation is possible.
The prince always knows more than the reader, as he has the full unredacted copies of the dying words of each of his brothers with accompanying images, in addition to whatever memory-copy version he has. The reader only has a redacted copy with no images.
This is not to say that he knows everything, or that he reacts the same way to stuff he only has dying words of as opposed to a memory copy.
I don't expect most readers to detective-fu through memory-copy logic to figure out offscreen info, though. It's supposed to be a fun story without any requirement of mystery solving.
Only Velwin had all memories and only because no other brothers were unstasised before him. Everyone is a stale copy and no one has more than his dying words regarding marrying Aloree, because his last memory copy is before his mission. But the reader also has no more than dying words to go on, so we still know less than every single brother.
The lad is strangely conflicted, especially given he hasn’t had much to do with Aloree? I think
Yes, it's surprising, isn't it? Of course, he is a memory-copy of Veldin at the moment Veldin was most into Aloree, so a benign explanation is possible.
Ah! Honestly I am starting to lose track of all the Vels and who knows what.
It's all one vel, just many copies and all of them into Aloree.
The prince always knows more than the reader, as he has the full unredacted copies of the dying words of each of his brothers with accompanying images, in addition to whatever memory-copy version he has. The reader only has a redacted copy with no images.
This is not to say that he knows everything, or that he reacts the same way to stuff he only has dying words of as opposed to a memory copy.
I don't expect most readers to detective-fu through memory-copy logic to figure out offscreen info, though. It's supposed to be a fun story without any requirement of mystery solving.
But isn’t there at least one who doesn’t have all the memories because the download/upload didn’t happen in time (or they were held back?)
Only Velwin had all memories and only because no other brothers were unstasised before him. Everyone is a stale copy and no one has more than his dying words regarding marrying Aloree, because his last memory copy is before his mission. But the reader also has no more than dying words to go on, so we still know less than every single brother.
Got it!