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Welcome everyone. Today, I want to clarify and correct some important points regarding Umineko, especially The Creator, because some people are unaware of the true nature and concept of the Creator in Umineko when discussing returning it to Tier 0 on the forum.
Please, this time I do not want off-topic comments. I will be busy, so I may be late in responding to comments, and I apologize in advance.
Note: Three staff approvals = acceptance.
Alright, I’ll begin:
The Creator in Umineko is one, indivisible, and immutable. However, many people here have fallen into an obvious trap, which is the use of the term “Creators”. This leads them to believe that it negates the existence of a single Creator, pushing them to claim that it is not Tier 0.
The term Creators is, in essence, equivalent to the term Creator within the context of Umineko. Follow me carefully to understand the reason, because this requires focus:
In the context of Umineko, the terms “the Creator” and “the Creators” do not refer to multiple independent entities, but rather to a single, indivisible reality. Anyone who reaches the rank of the Creator loses their individual identity, meaning, existence, and even the concepts of life and death, becoming free from all restrictions to the point of nothingness.
At this stage, no distinction or multiplicity remains. All who reach this level merge into the one Creator, who is indivisible and unchanging. Therefore, the use of the plural term “Creators” does not imply true plurality, because those who attain this state lose everything that defines them as separate beings and become one with the Creator itself.
Accordingly, there is no contradiction between the use of the terms “Creator” and “Creators” in Umineko, as the plurality is merely nominal while the essence is singular. In the end, the Creator is one absolute entity, and the plural form carries no real ontological meaning within this context.
_ You can find more details here for those who are not familiar with the tier system regarding this ↓
That is everything. The essence is one and undifferentiated; when anyone reaches this level, they become one with the Creator and lose their identity, meaning, and existence, which makes them a single, immutable, and unchanging entity.
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Please, this time I do not want off-topic comments. I will be busy, so I may be late in responding to comments, and I apologize in advance.
Note: Three staff approvals = acceptance.
Alright, I’ll begin:
The Creator in Umineko is one, indivisible, and immutable. However, many people here have fallen into an obvious trap, which is the use of the term “Creators”. This leads them to believe that it negates the existence of a single Creator, pushing them to claim that it is not Tier 0.
The term Creators is, in essence, equivalent to the term Creator within the context of Umineko. Follow me carefully to understand the reason, because this requires focus:
Beings that completely lost all restrictions, ... in exchange for obtaining everything, they lose even the restriction of their own 'meaning'... Even the concept of life and death disappears, even the meaning of their existence disappears, and they reach the Realm of Zero. Or fall. Crash. Crumble. Vanish like mist.
The Creator is the supreme being that stands beyond all restrictions, including that of one's 'meaning' and 'will', as the endless sea of zero. It's the ultimate state of being a Witch reaches as it evolves through the infinite layers of the Witch and 3rd Domain, losing restrictions with every step, and gaining freedom as it ascends towards godhood.
The Creator is a sacred being who can create 1 out of the sea of nothingness. It can give birth to 1 from 0, give birth to the endless, and then return it to 0 again in a flash. Freed from all restrictions, the voyagers in particular even call him God.
In that sense, perhaps the Witch of Origins, Maria, is the "chosen one" promised to be The Creator...
Voyagers fear that the end of their own journey is to become a Creator. As to why they would be frightened of evolving into a higher-order being, none can understand except they themselves.
In the context of Umineko, the terms “the Creator” and “the Creators” do not refer to multiple independent entities, but rather to a single, indivisible reality. Anyone who reaches the rank of the Creator loses their individual identity, meaning, existence, and even the concepts of life and death, becoming free from all restrictions to the point of nothingness.
At this stage, no distinction or multiplicity remains. All who reach this level merge into the one Creator, who is indivisible and unchanging. Therefore, the use of the plural term “Creators” does not imply true plurality, because those who attain this state lose everything that defines them as separate beings and become one with the Creator itself.
Accordingly, there is no contradiction between the use of the terms “Creator” and “Creators” in Umineko, as the plurality is merely nominal while the essence is singular. In the end, the Creator is one absolute entity, and the plural form carries no real ontological meaning within this context.
_ You can find more details here for those who are not familiar with the tier system regarding this ↓
A character cannot become Tier 0:
This logically follows from the first and fourth requirements. A Tier 0 cannot change, and neither does its power have any "degrees." Therefore it is not possible to "rise up to that level" (i.e. It is possible to increase the degree of your power until it reaches something with no degree at all)
However, this is worth to note separately, because there is indeed a sense in which a character can "become" Tier 0, even if not in the conventional manner. More specifically, if a verse functions on a nondualist cosmology, where all distinctions are illusory and the innermost core of everything is some undifferentiated ultimate reality, then a character may in a sense "become" Tier 0 by shedding all their individual traits and dissolving back into the nondual ground.
So only in that sense can a character "become Tier 0." Though this is, of course, not at all a conventional ascension to godhood or anything of the like, so much as a "return" to the source of your being, or realizing what you have always been all along. Otherwise, it is impossible to become Tier 0 in the sense of filling a spot that wasn't there before.
That is everything. The essence is one and undifferentiated; when anyone reaches this level, they become one with the Creator and lose their identity, meaning, and existence, which makes them a single, immutable, and unchanging entity.
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