Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20170602170443/@comment-27701762-20170602190855

You have placed a lot on the picture of the "strange creature" as being evidence of first-hand experience. But again, there isn't really any justification for that. You say that you would need to see it to know it, but that is demonstrably untrue: there are illustrations (which is the term used to describe the picture of the strange creature) of various mythological beasts such as chimerae and minotaurs which exist, despite the fact that no one has actually seen one. The same could easily be true here: the fact that the monster with a human soul is described as "a horrible beast with unfathomable power" would lend itself to a rather terrifying representation of the monster, one that would, presumably, unsettle a person who looked upon it. It would be the same as seeing an illustration of the minotaur feasting upon the sacrificial boys and girls: it would be unsettling, but would not indicate first-hand experience with the scene.