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Oh. THIS stuff.
Sooo, if player gets taken by Lethe, all records about financial transactions they made will be purged or corrupted? That would be WAAAYY more obvious than if their photo in bigger-than-real size will be shown on New York Square for whole year. Computers are GOOD at checking consistency, and if it’s about money, they do it all the time. Actually … your advertising profile is ALSO about money and people will be alerted if some advertising profile disappears. People disappearing from photos? The hash of that photo will change. Will be detected. Heck, if the player did something with bitcoins and it gets corrupted, it will INVALIDATE WHOLE KEYCHAIN. $160.4 billion will disappear. Or do you think the “Lethe” will recompute it somehow and changes on all computers? Whoa. That’s a LOT of computation power.
… back to comics. So, the point is they will be getting ready to steal Tristen’s stuff – I mean, get some mementos of him?
So talking mythology here:
The river Lythe was one of the 5 rivers of the underworld, The river of memories. If you jumped in all your memories are completely erased. Hero’s that made it to Elysium (Paradise) could choose to be reborn, wiping their memories and returning to the world of mortals.
I’m guessing that here the river works in reverse; instead of one person losing their memories when they go in, everyone Else loses their memories of that person. And it would be like they never existed.
So I think that they want Tristens stuff so that they can save it, so that they CAN remember him.
Also…it’s a mythical river, in the legends the rivers of the underworld where more powerful than the Olympians (the gods of Greek mythology) being embodiments of chaos itself. I think it can handle some computing. A lot would change effecting hundreds of lives though.
Rivers are usually not known for their computation power :-). And chaos is usually not good with computers.
Anyway, if the effect really removes existence of that person without leaving any traces, it’s not about “records getting purged or corrupted”. It requires the records to be very carefully modified so the person is removed without causing any inconsistency or corruption. Corruption is VERY OBVIOUS, even more than if you remove someone from photo leaving a person-shaped transparent hole in it (to remove person from photo CORRECTLY, you need to draw the background which should be in place the person used to be).