Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-544940-20160309130458/@comment-26879545-20160326233857

The Beast didn't remember who it was.

Let's say you had amnesia and you didn't know your name or anything about what you've done your entire life. You're essentially a blank slate. You come across someone from your past and they call your name. You're not going to just gain every single memory back from someone saying your name. You might feel as though the name is familiar, but that's about it.

Let's say you found an album that was filled with pictures of you up to the point you got amnesia. By looking at the pictures, you might start to remember bits and pieces. The more you look at it, the more memories you start to get back.

Every time the Beast transformed, it was like looking at the album. Each time, it remembered more and more about who it was. Eventually, it got all of its memories back and remembered who it really was. That was the point of the "Damnatio Memoriae" phase.

As for why they connected Mason to the Alpha Naziwolf, this is just my theory, but I believe it did more than just physical healing. I think, by being connected to Mason's spine, it allowed the Beast's spirit to remember the rest of whatever memories it was missing.