Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27907368-20160528162922/@comment-27620479-20160529071544

True Lab

Yes, monsters aren't physical enough. Not aren't physical at all. They have some physicality, but compared to humans of the same size, they have less physical matter. Let's go with the difference as described in-game. Human bodies are mostly made of water. So, it's like when we fill a balloon with water. It contains more water than balloon, and it is completely physical. Monster bodies are mostly made of magic. So, I guess we fill the balloon with mystical non-physical energy. Now, we have two balloons of the same size. One is fully physical, the other is partly physical, but mostly isn't.

As for the barrier, I have already pointed out multiple times in different discussions, that it is inconsistent, unless we assume every human being has the same amount of determination, including fatalists with suicidal tendencies (that is, people who doesn't believe in the possibility to alter fate and don't have the will to live either). Also, if a soul with red color is defined by determination, shouldn't the owner be able to just cross the barrier without absorbing monster souls?

Prophecy

How do monsters know what the Delta Rune means? They don't. They agreed on an interpretation. Like road signs. How do people know what a white circle in a red circle or some lines painted on asphalt mean? They know it based on agreement of how to interpret it.

Gerson tells that it had a (likely different) original meaning that was lost. So, the current meaning isn't contradictory, it's just made up like any interpretation of a vague symbol.

The rest, as I said earlier, seems contradictory.