>>96528851
This explains everything that happened in the Torrential Tide.

>By Design is a moment when the Outsider System skips to Effect without the natural Cause (this is similar to Du'um's death curse). It generates the original character as the embodiment of everything that the Outsider System promised of them, biologically locked at the peak of their power as a side effect.
>One of the Outsiders reverse engineered this phenomenon on their own, probably from inside the Toybox, probably aiming to prematurely open it, but couldn't achieve such because they still needed to fulfill the criteria of their "death". This is the same reason that nobody has Everlasting unless they bought it, but instantly got it unlike the new version.
>So instead of firing it at the Outsider System to skip the waiting period, they fire it at the Outsider System to generate new Outsiders without the limitations of causality. New Outsiders are spawned and enter the world even with mutually exclusive causes for their existence.
>Imperfections of the process also catch consciousnesses that were never supposed to be Outsiders, like non-players, fictional characters, a lobotomized and corrupted Nilmatrix, True Dragons, and the very concept of an Outsider.