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Do you know what I think about the timeline?

I think Ebott is where the monsters originally came from.

Before they migrated and saw humans for the first time.

I don't have any hypotheses about the origins of monsters, but I do think they were made of magic from the very beginning.

The animals in the Underground are technically in the same domain as monsters, taxonomically speaking. We know this because the snails were affected by Asriel absorbing all of the monster SOULs.

They're more related to each other than they are to humans. They likely formed completely separately from the first animals.

And they have monster SOULs as well. They're technically monsters.

Which means they'd also have the ability to absorb a human SOUL.. If it ever came to that.

Considering that animals likely wouldn't "surrender" to the humans, it's unlikely that they would have been trapped under the Barrier. Yet, everything is peaceful on the Surface.. At least peaceful enough for Frisk to be alive to fall into the Underground.

It's very likely that monster animals don't exist on the Surface. And they wouldn't have been trapped under the Barrier.

Which means they came FROM Ebott.

And since monsters have many similarities with their cousin animals.. They likely had the same origin.

Meaning they too, likely originally came from Ebott.

Most mountains are quite barren inside. But Mt. Ebott has a bunch of lively climates, for monsters to thrive in.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the humans picked a good mountain to banish them into.

I'd say they knew monsters came from Ebott, somehow. Or at least that monsters could have came from there. And so, picked that specific mountain.

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The prophecy of the Delta Rune predates written history. The already ancient glyphs are from after the war, considering that the Barrier was already up. However, since it states that there are no entrances or exits, it must have been made before Chara fell. When it was reasonable to assume that such entrances and exits really don't exist.

The war likely happened in the equivelant of the Middle Ages. Which is well after the creation of writing. Plus, nobody knows what the prophecy even means anymore. So it was written before the war.

It might have predicted the war before it happened.. But it might have also predicted something else entirely. All that's known is that it involves an Angel from Above.

Whether that means the Angel of Heaven (As Deltarune posits) or the Angel from the Surface (As Undertale posits), we're not sure.

But before written history, images were still made. Graven images that date back to well over 20,000 years ago, in fact.

Perhaps an image pertaining to the prophecy was made as well. As a statue. Placed in Waterfall. Well before the war, and likely before the monsters really started to migrate over to the humans. Perhaps even before monsters knew that humans existed!