Replaying the Arcadion series on an alt and I just realized most of us were too caught up in the story and the apparent evidence (not to mention the devs' own promos and info, like those screenshots of Retsarra and the kittens grieving) to think about the obvious flaw in Hector's apparent death during Cruiserweight:
He was wearing his regulator to use the feral souls. It's still on the fighters when they come out of their transformations.
And everyone else wearing a regulator still remembers him.
This is one of those "oh, duh" moments, and I think the fiction is helped in the aftermath scene by Retsarra, who doesn't wear his regulator outside of matches, not to mention the cover stories for how the Immortalized were dealt with.
Where exactly the Arcadion situation falls during MSQ is also dicey, but taken on release timeline, Cruiserweight was 7.2, and the finale doesn't happen until 7.4, but even then, given how fast everyone forgot Namikka and later the victims of the massacre in Everkeep, we should have seen people forgetting Hector nearly immediately.
But the regulators' primary function is real easy to forget outside the raid story, too. And it wouldn't be much for people to assume the feral form of the Brute Abominator affected, or broke, or otherwise did something to the regulator.
Still. Replaying it a month before 7.5's release and knowing the delightfully wrestling zany way the story resolves, it felt like the obvious came in and hit me in the face just now.
EDIT: Alt just finished 7.0 and was doing all the raids before patch MSQ, so there's a few things mentioned there about not taking memories again (aside from Calyx's nonsense), but also Arcadion seems to be acting in a weird nebulous manner a bit apart and treating some things like they're still under old rules. Also how'd they keep such a massive inventory of normal and feral souls from Zoraal Ja? It's a little weird all around.
