Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190709231436

TheHumanAmbassador wrote: 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. That works for me. A legend spread to discourage people from visiting the mountain.

Although, there are a few odd things I'd like to talk about.

The Waterfall Glyph writers once said there were no entrances or exists to this place, so a human would never arrive. So originally there was no way to fall into the Underground, until later in time when an Earthquake perhaps opened the walls.

Also, the Barrier has a weird loophole in it, that a creature with a powerful SOUL can freely leave. Which the monsters exploit when Asriel uses Chara's SOUL to return to the surface.

Why would the 7 mages (left-handed like you say, there was something definitely odd about them) put in a loophole like that?

And how could Asriel and Chara know that combining their SOULs together would allow them to exploit this loophole, that, if Chara was The First Human Who Arrived, the monsters could never have tested before?

Perhaps other humans did arrive, and die in the Underground, before King Asgore's human-hunting decree? Leading to the monsters gaining this knowledge?

The game hints at a lot of history. Most of which we dont' yet know.

And the Waterfall Glyphs were written long ago. The claim that monsters have never taken a human SOUL before might be outdated.