Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20170602170443/@comment-27701762-20170602174636

Okay, I'll bite:

I presume when you refer to the "strange creature," you mean when the ancient writings say that a monster with a human soul would be a creature of incredible power.

So let's say that happened: a monster killed a human and absorbed their soul.

We also know that a monster with a human soul has incredible power, to the point that Asriel with Chara's soul had the power to wipe out an entire village single-handedly.

Given that, how do you have a war between humans and monsters where not a single human soul is taken? That one monster should be able to defeat at least one human, which would allow them or another monster to take the soul, and so on and so on. If a monster with a human soul is that powerful, and monsters can continually absorb human souls, it would take an incredible amount of luck for the human race to not be simply wiped out within a matter of days or even weeks.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that we have to answer the question "how would monsters and humans know that a monster with a human soul would be a creature with incredible power?" Are there other ways that such a creature could come about? Say, for example, that a human died naturally, and a monster happened to absorb that human's soul. No murder, no cruel intentions on the part of the monster. Or the humans and monsters, living together for so long, perform experiments to see what the result would be. The hybrid monster dies eventually, no humans are killed, but they all have the information at hand, information that would worry the humans and push them to start a war for fear that the monsters might someday make use of this information.

But then let's unravel that earlier assumption: why do monsters and humans need first-hand experience with the process to know that a monster with a human soul would be powerful? Given how long monsters and humans coexisted, why couldn't they arrive at this information in some other way: speculation, science, divine intervention, vague prophecy, etc.?