I watched a science documentaries called “Can you live forever” & they said, your brain is like a hard drive, it has limited capacity storage, so if you live forever, some day your brain will be full & you can’t remember new things. So what if Magnus actually just has … bad memory, after 400 years of living, especially when it comes to people’s names. Not that his brain is full, but like he developed a habit of not remember names of ones he is not interested about, because he need space for more interesting things in his brain.
Also, people usually said “Once you name it, you get attached to it”. Magnus is careful about getting attached to people, because he lost so many already. So Magnus doesn’t remember, or doesn’t want to remember others’ names is just a way to defend himself from getting hurt again.
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