Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27136653-20180228205701/@comment-32182236-20180305203430

We can connect the expedition to them moving out via the Monster History Books. “Fearing the humans no longer, we moved out of our old city, HOME”. This was the time they moved out. It even mentions the snow, Waterfall, and hotlands they had to endure before reaching Snowdin. The Snowdin said they were moving out, and along the way, some of the monsters stopped in Snowdin and formed their town.

They couldn’t know where they were heading to without someone else having gone there before. That’s why some monsters stayed in the Ruins, along with Toriel and Asriel. There was probably quite some time when a significant amount of monsters were in the Ruins, while at the same time, there was a significant amount of them in New Home. The initial expedition had no idea where they were going. They just stopped by in Snowdin, and decided to form a town here. And Asgore declares it be called Snowdin. He’s pretty much the one who makes bad names.

Puzzles had to have been created at some point between the creation of HOME and the move to New Home:At least the puzzles in the Ruins. There’d have to be a volume about that. Plus, there’d have to be a volume about Asriel-He was the only prince that there was during the age that monsters were underground.

Why can’t Part 9 be what happened with Chara? You’d need the info in Parts 6-8 to understand exactly what happened to Asriel Dreemurr, and Chara, along with Asgore’s declaration of war immediately after. Or, perhaps Part 5 talked about Chara, then their death, and Part 9talks about the SOUL absorption that occurred afterwards, and the declaration of war? The books would then continue on about the invention of the SOUL capsules...