Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27907368-20160308002702

Alright. So, the premise for the entirety of the Underground is that humans attacked monsters and sealed them underground. This act was committed millennium ago, and the monsters have been stuck Underground since.

My speculation is that monsters don't actually know why they're Underground. I see a huge allusion to Christianity (I know, you may groan here) with the origin tale. Humans (God) sent monsters (Adam and Eve) to the Underground (Wasteland outside of Eden) because they were "scared" of monsters. Even though humans are incredibly strong.

After millennium, we can safely say that some things may be lost in the translation. First and foremost, the monsters say that not a single human was killed during the War. Yet, as we all know, they can whip our butt Underground. I am going to put it as next to impossible that monsters did not manage to kill a single human from the time period in which humans lived in straw houses and small cities that were surrounded by walls.

Moreso, humans sealed the monsters Underground using magic. Well... I cannot say for certain whether or not Jesus-era humans had magical abilities. I am going to hesitate and counter that our protagonist, Frisk, does not.

The more I think on it, the more I believe that Monsters have always been Underground and have made up the part about humans sealing them Underground due to the things that come through the garbage dump.

Maybe you're thinking that this can't be true, because seven human hearts open the Barrier. My counter is - do we actually know this? The only time the barrier opens is in pacifist mode (post Photoshop Flowey). There is so much going on here that it is hard to say if the human souls opened the barrier or not.

An interesting caveat. Could the pretense behind the story be false? 