>>96290797
Battler was always meant to be a temporary thing, an in-joke about the nature of Umineko. The problem was, Val abandoned the Garden of Avalon/Oasis of Fantasy updates, leaving me stuck until another Major Chain Event arrived for me to justify it.
>>96290809
Totally.
>>96290814
>how this reduces suffering
To explain what just happened in SMT terms, I essentially enacted all the SMT Nocturne Reasons simultaneously. Without Padomay there is no destruction, no conflict, no change, no individuality and no separation from divinity. In addition to that, every soul in existence is fine-tuned into it’s optimal outcomes and phenomena, qualia and new entities are simulated to actualise it-preventing them from interfering with each other. Due to the former condition, malice is eliminated as reason and contemplation drive all living things. Finally, the useless and weak (most of the mer, some of the animal-souled) are removed from life…by burning up their histories (which they largely abhor ideologically for the crime of either being mortal or knowing nothing but misery and defeat.
There is a trail of divine beings that have lived and achieved all they wanted to (in a safe, simulated environment) and a trail of some older divine beings freed from the burden of Mundus leaving what was formerly known as the universe to colonise/form their own planes in Oblivion. There are also some people who just wanted to be mortal staying in the now-changeless Mundus forever repeating the best moments of their lives.
It is still bleak and horrific in it’s own right, but it’s a bit more complicated than “you cannot suffer if you are never born” except in the last case which is “you have suffered since being born, so trade in your mortal life to have always been an innocent divine being”. And in that case, every and I mean EVERY Thalmor with full knowledge of the facts is thanking me. Especially after I murdered them in another timeline