Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-32182236-20190709193602

I did have a solution.. But it was a while back, so I'll remind you. (Plus offer my expansions since then.)

(Maybe my rebuttal project SHOULD get its own thread? ...I'm still not doing it yet. I'm not sure what would actually justify doing that, nor where such a thread would belong.. Or how to make it correctly.)

The creators of the Barrier knew that those who fell would never return. That's where it came from.

But you might then ask:Why did it become legend, rather than fact?

Well, all they had was the words of the wizards. People who wouldn't want humans falling down and freeing (or killing!) the monsters. So the community would probably soon believe that the statement was apocryphal:A myth solely created to prevent people from climbing the mountain.

And to stop people from being curious... They stopped teaching about monsters formally. Wiped them from history.

So soon, monsters became but a rumour. A legend. With Ebott simply being known as a cursed moutain:One that those who climb don't return to. So too was the war reduced to legend.

Chara likely combined the legend of the war and the legend of Ebott, to deduce that the monsters and the Barrier are the reason why nobody returns.. And having hated humanity, they wanted to find those who fell victim to the war between humans and monsters.. To help free them, and then destroy humanity. They told Asriel about the legend as well-They had to have:Otherwise, he wouldn't know about it to talk to Frisk about it.