Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27136653-20180228205701/@comment-27136653-20180309145253

"How do you know they DID take almost the monster entire population? They didn't! The expedition only involved around a few dozen mondters. It had Gaster, Asgore, the monsters who wrote the Waterfall plaques, and some other monsters we're unsure of. It did NOT, however, contain Toriel OR Asriel, as Chara fell sometime between this initial expedition (earliest as proven by the plaques) and after Asriel went to New Home (Otherwise Asriel couldn't have found Chara)"

I think we got confused here a bit. What I think happened, is that the monsters have been continuously exploring the underground over the millenia, until one day, they had enough info and courage to move out of their old home. After all, building an entire city, plus the CORE... that couldn't have happened during the very first journey into the rest of the underground. And it also probably took more than a single year.

"Snowdin is just as bad of a name as Asriel. For the same reason, too. It's just combining two words related to the situation-"Snowed in", like "Asgore"/"Toriel" making Asriel."

It wasn't Asgore's decision to found Snowdin though. So I assume he also didn't name it. The way this is described, it makes me think that these monsters made some sort of a camp first, while the rest continued with Asgore further into the underground. And later, it turned into a permanent settlement. But other than that, Snowdin is a clever name. If it was Asgore, he would name it something like "Snowtown". But even that might be too clever for him. After all, he didn't even try to make a reference to the location with the main cities. He simply called them "Home" and "New Home" respectively.

"They were written all by Gerson"

Again, you can't know that. But I don't think that's the case. Gerson was a warrior, not a historian. He only became a historian due to his old age.

"Volumes 6-8 explained how SOULs work. Why? So that you'll understand Part 9"

Again, who said they were written all at once? The way the very first volume is written makes me think that it was describing "present-day" events, not something that happened in the past. So these volumes were most likely written by different people over the years. Monster history had many authors, that's what I'm saying. It's also more likely, more logical. Just like anything else we're discussing here.

"If so, the "before" stuff would mention the war between humans and monsters."

And that I think proves me right. There's enough space in those books to document everything, including Chara's arrival, which would then explain volumes 4 and beyond.