What could it be (Specific):
- The ghost of an Archive. Ghosts are made up of memories. A dead Archive? Remembers a lot.
- A Spirit of Intellect sworn into service (by an ancestor?) in exchange for protection from certain... rivals. Of course, by now they've lost his trail. Right?
- Demons never give anything for free. Still, they give exactly what they promise. You made your deal without realizing it and now you have to make the best of it.
- Genius Loci. Locations remember things on a geological scale so remembering a few minutes for you now and again isn't exactly taxing. Your entire life is a mere blip in its existence. And through you it gets to see some of the rest of the world.
- Inherited memories. Occasional flashes, black-outs and finding yourself reading books in ancient greek, despite never having had the opportunity to learn it. It's freaking you out, but it's also pretty cool.
Cool ideas, I'll have to think about some of them presenting themselves in someone/something else. The boy in the situation I'm working on isn't going to have access to memories from prior people/hosts. I think. I am considering having the boy haunted by (hosting?) a Mane by the name of Titus Annius who was a centurion in a Roman unit based in York, England.
-Cheers
