Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20170602170443/@comment-32182236-20190317234118

After watching the hypothesis, I've reached a different conclusion. But it's also "earth-shattering"!

The initial glyphs stated this, way back in ancient times, likely during the move to New Home. After this, the monster population would have naturally grew over the years.. Which means this measurement is no longer accurate. Over the centuries, it likely would have grown as much as GT said it did. More than sevenfold, especially considering how few survivors there really were in the war.

But do you know what this means? It means that the monsters now had enough power to destroy the Barrier with their own power alone!

So, if the monsters found a way to make use of the power themselves, like Alphys attempted to actually do, the Barrier wouldn't even be enough to contain the monsters for good! The humans would have HAD to kill off countless monsters, just to prevent the monsters from being able to undo the effect of the Barrier!

So, does that mean, that in fact, even the war itself.. Even the killings that predate the Barrier.. Were in fact.. neccessary the whole time?

For a while, something had bothered me. Why was the Barrier only made one way? If the goal was to prevent monsters from using human SOULs against them, why not block out the Barrier both ways?

Eventually, I found an explanation-It's one way because the Barrier affects light as well, so making it two-way means no light enters the underground, so no vegetation, eternal darkness, monsters all die. This was even supported by what lies beneath the hole being invisible in the intro, and the Barrier radiating white light, because the light simply couldn't cross the Barrier, and was reflected back instead.

But the war was well before 1000AD-Before particle physics, let along optical physics was even known! The humans couldn't have KNOWN this, and such couldn't act on said knowledge!

So, we ask again:Why was the Barrier only one-way?

..The only other possibility? So that humans COULD cross the Barrier.. to... "control" the monster population... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGqvpMQQ48o

..Either way, with monsters free.. Yeah, eventually someone's going to try to be the next God of Hyperdeath. It'll only be a matter of time.. And that is why they were banished in the first place...