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Most likely one of my biggest projects by the end of this year and the start of the New Year. Credits to @Shiroiyo and @Frerty for being the life support of this CRT. Also thanks to @Enryu_The_Red_Tower, @Kubo423 and @ThanatosX for presenting a lot of useful information here too.
Let's start off with the basics first, there'll be more convincing details that'll all logically line up.
Part 1: The Imaginary Tree, the conceptual cosmic structure, predated absolutely everything; space-time, laws, concepts, etc.
The Imaginary Tree is the essence of absolute omnipresent existence, one that engulfs all worlds of Hoyoverse throughout all its metaseries (Honkai Impact 3rd, Honkai: Star Rail, and Genshin Impact).
The Concept of Time in each of the branch worlds/realms of the Imaginary Tree is fundamentally different, contrasting to the lead worlds (the standard Universe), having its own laws and notions of causality. Therefore, the worlds and Civilizations that are birthed from the Imaginary Tree take the form of branches, that are embedded across a different time axis, separate from that of the conventional concept of time. Hence, it is inaccessible since it doesn't exist in any accessible dimensions.
The Imaginary Tree is the instant of eternity, the start of the end and the origin of laws and truth, birthing the entirety of creation itself. The fundamental laws that govern the universe and the truth of all life came into existence from the predation of the Imaginary Tree.
The Imaginary Space, a supplementary concept of the Imaginary Tree, is an imaginary structure that governs the fundamental concept of the Imaginary, manifested through Imaginary numbers, stretches beyond and encompasses all structures that are formed from real numbers and information, even existing in infinite amounts itself. The Imaginary Space was already stated to be the origin of the Universe where all laws intervene, the other side of the world that exists beyond layers of rules, defying the laws of physics, and transcending concepts of time, even having its own notion of time itself.
Part 2: The Imaginary Tree/Imaginary Space is a void that consists of absolute nothingness and transcends reality
The very concept of Imaginary Space defies everything that originates and intertwines with reality. Fundamentally opposing all physical constants, the entirety of the real world and even existence itself.
The Imaginary Singularity is a point in the Imaginary Space that lacks any aspect of dimensional information, analogous to that of the Herrscher cores that is used by many Herrscher characters; Kiana, Mei, Bronya, etc.
The Imaginary Space is a void that is devoid of time and completely lacks any aspects of common sense. It is constituted of Absolute Nothingness, with the meaning of time there bypassing and defying conventional logic, eventually. time will lose its meaning and everything will be reduced to nothing in the Imaginary Space, with utterly nothing remaining and even diminishing the meaning of everything, only leaving oblivion.
The Imaginary Space transcends reality, the powers of the Imaginary Space extend beyond every aspect of reality, transcending even far beyond its margin. Otto Apocalypse needed to harness the powers of the Void in order to retrieve the absolute infinite powers of the Imaginary Tree. Herrscher Authorities also transcend all dimensions, corresponding to that of concepts of the Imaginary Space, such as the Imaginary Singularity.
It is already established from these continued series of approved content revision threads (first, second, third, fourth), that the Imaginary Tree exists on a plane of absolute infinity, its power representing a sign of absolute infinity, with transfinite layers of transcendence over normal worlds and Civilizations themselves. Hence, the Imaginary Tree and Space are already established as Low 1-A on the current cosmological scale.
Part 3: Project Stigma
This section is going to contain a shit ton of information and Imgur scans. All of the crucial evidence that directly mentions reality-fiction transcendences should be presented in this section, with most of the key information of Imaginary Tree birthing, containing and transcending infinite worlds/Civilizations being presented here, here, here and here. Anyway, let's start analysing this execration.
The lowest level of Project Stigma is the establishment of fiction, the fundamental basis and origins of all abstract concepts; "idea" is the fundamental core unit of Project Stigma, a contradictory concept (hence, logic-defying concept) and bestows characters "enlightenment", another conceptual unit derived from "idea" that eliminates the boundaries between reality and fiction by outlining another concept named "truth". With this information inferred, it can be postulated that this thing called "idea" grants a lower fictional being R>F transcendence, allowing them to interact with real entities of a higher R>F plane. Keep this in mind, this is crucial information to support and establish the logic of further content I'll present, for solidifying context and connecting shreds of evidence.
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The Civilizations of Project Stigma are referred to as stories, a system of worlds and dimensions that stems from fiction but tend to progress into further evolutionary states that allow them to transcend reality. Stories originate with the earliest concepts called "narratives".
Narratives are the fundamental building blocks of reality. They absolutely consist of everything that is within and beyond reality, establishing both fiction and reality-transcending worlds and dimensions. Prometheus stated that Civilizations are created by imaginary humans, which are entities part of the Imaginary Space as the name suggests. It is implied that the Civilizations function as a hierarchy, with each higher order of Civilization being more advanced and complex than the other. Not to mention Narratives are concepts that originated from the Imaginary Space, implied by the statement that Narratives have been harnessed by imaginary humans.
Narratives are created from the path of reason, also referred to as "reason" itself which directly correlates to the Herrscher of Reason, aka Bronya; the Herrscher of Reason authority allows Bronya to create anything, through control over Narratives.
Humanity's standards of the Narrative all revolve around imagined and unreal purposes and desires, making their fictional world and nature expand wildly. However, history freed and transcended humanity beyond its fictional Narrative, letting them become reality and ascend into a higher plane of qualitative existence.
The spirit of the Herrscher of Reason inherits reality and is deemed as the key to combat against Project Stigma. However, it's doubtful that Bronya can utilise the Herrscher of Reason's full-power, due to only having a distributed core being one of the remnants that were split 300000 times.
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Project Stigma is a structure that contains the hierarchy of all narratives. It was said to have been created by a "story" that governs all stories, referred to as the absolute idea of self-existence, a concept that signifies "conceptual infinity". Project Stigma contains multiple layers of Civilizations/stories, each transcending and spiralling on top of another, representing the Civilizations spiralling evolution, progression and acceleration of the growth of their existence beyond fiction. A higher story/Civilization views the story/Civilization below them as fiction and qualitatively inferior, telling its own story.
It should be mentioned that this subsection reckons back to the first relevant Imgur gallery shown in this section; fictional stories attaining "ideas", hence achieving enlightenment that allows them to qualitatively transcend above their fictional existence onto reality. In such case here, Prometheus explained that the story separated from the storyteller through its evolution and, therefore begins to tell its own story as if they became an R>F transcended entity that is qualitatively superior to their former self(ves).
All forms of Civilization come in the form of information and concepts, even with humans being individual data and having their own unique Narratives, allowing their own stories to be created that pertain to their individuality; Civilization symbolises their independence, freedom and enlightenment. Civilizations, being born from Narratives, stem in many forms and quality of existence, whether it be data, computer programs, or even a woven web of neurons which is the human mind. Civilizations all originate from fictional stories told by other stories that have evolved beyond their fictional confinement through "ideas", thus "enlightenment" (hence, qualitative transcendence); the system was described as a huge web of formulated ideas, composed of Narratives in the form of individual fundamental information units named "free and independent people". The dialogue later implies that the hierarchy extends continuously like an endless evolving permutative sequence. Prometheus even posited an analogy with humans graduating from childhood, implying that they've discovered "ideas" and achieved "enlightenment", allowing them to evolve beyond their fictional states of existence.
The evolution of Civilizations occurred many times in history, whether it be any type of Civilisation, such as human Civilisation that woven its own meaning that allowed them to transcend the confinements of fiction. Human Civilisation formulated concepts that govern their ideals, such as faith and the economy, with "individuals" being free from those shackling concepts, such as the industry/supply and demand, "individual" branding, etc.
Herrschers belong to a Civilization but are not only unbounded by Project Stigma but exist as a complete opposite end directly being its antithesis, meaning they exist at the apex level of Project Stigma, considering Project Stigma was said to be a Narrative that forms all Narratives. In order to be free from the shackles of the paradoxical nature of the Honkai, one has to surpass Finality; Raiden Mei asks Prometheus about Project Stigma being something that can free them from the Honkai, then receives an affirmative answer from her that it indeed can surpass the paradoxical nature of the Honkai.
Part 4: Preemptively addressing potential arguments and "anti-feats" against this revision
The reason why fiction was able to wage war against reality is because they attained the powers of the Honkai, which is a phenomenon that stemmed from the Imaginary Space which I already explained is a 1-A structure. Also, not to mention, I already mentioned the R>F evolution of Civilisations so even if we put them getting their hands on the Honkai aside, it'll very likely that they can interact with reality through "ideas" and "enlightenment", which are explained are methods of lower-fictional realities to attain R>F qualitative transcendence. The Honkai makes up the Herrschers and the Will of the Honkai acts as the Honkai ground zero, making up and controlling the relationship and link between base reality and the Imaginary Tree. The Imaginary Tree is the realm of GOD, and GOD is none other than the Will of the Honkai itself; it should be clear that the Will of Honkai has control over the entirety of the Imaginary Tree, and all Honkai stems from the Imaginary Tree and Imaginary Space.
Now, first of all, if you even came up with this type of argument then it is pretty obvious that you're not even remotely knowledgeable about Honkai Impact 3rd and really shouldn't be in a position to make such certain assumptions over information that you're not really knowledgable in.
Kevin Kaslana is one of the main executors of Project Stigma, being a crucial factor towards the project's sustainability. Not to mention he utilises the power of Project Stigma in his battle against the Herrscher Trio; it's currently even listed on his profile. Not to mention that Kevin wields the Divine Keys, unimaginably powerful equipment that is directly forged from Herrscher cores and harnesses the Honkai Energy of Herrschers, which is the entire reason why he can defeat and kill Herrschers of the previous era.
Kiana defeated Otto Apocalypse as the Herrscher of Flamescion. I already presented on the OP that the Herrscher Authorities are concepts of the Imaginary Space, via being correspondent to the Imaginary Singularity. Not to mention that Herrschers are also mentioned to transcend dimensions, heavily implying correlation and origins to the Imaginary Space, which I also already presented earlier. Another thing to add is that Herrschers are disciples of the Will of the Honkai.
As for Durandal, even anyone who has a bit of knowledge about Honkai Impact 3rd knows that she is a long-term term extremely OP character with powers that rightfully rival that of the strongest Herrschers. One of the easiest explanations is that she retains the Abyss Flower, which is the 6th Divine Key. She also used the 2nd Divine Key, the Seed of Sumeru. Since she progressed and grew stronger through wielding the power of the Divine Keys, it's pretty obvious that she is capable of retaining power equivalent to the power of the Imaginary Space. Not to mention that all Valkyries harness Stigmatas to amplify their powers and adaptability with Honkai Energy, hence practically every Valkyrie could attain power from the Imaginary Space as long as they are strong and powerful enough, with sufficient potentials, such as powerhouses like Durandal. Additional information that should completely dissipate this counterargument for good, is that Durandal is entangled with Imaginary Space, thus she's pretty much an Imaginary entity; she also attained and wielded the powers of the Kaslana stigmata.
There are honestly many interpretations of this and can easily be dismissed as an obvious outlier. Though, I think there is in-lore reasoning to it, as I explained here before.
Not to mention that Project Stigma establishes the R>F evolutions for Civilizations; the Cocoon of Finality was explicitly mentioned to be a Civilization, so there is pretty solid merit and implication that the Cocoon was a qualitatively inferior/lower R>F Civilization back then.
Another argument that can also be plausible but I'm struggling to find the scan for it, but this information was on the official Honkai wiki for quite a while, but only removed via the reasoning "it isn't trivia", which has nothing to do with the information being incorrect. The flood created from the Sea of Quanta was orchestrated by Sa, who retains up to ten percent of the Cocoon of Finality's power in the ancient past, which should obviously establish that they were in the same pool of existence as each other. The Cocoon of Finality (the Abyss) infected the Soul system, hence latched itself upon it; the goal of the Venusians was to expunge the Cocoon of Finality from the Soul System. Sa used her powers to harness the flooding powers of the Sea of Quanta into the Soul System, in-order to disconnect it from the Abyss via releasing its efficiency restriction.
Hence, summarising the issues with this counterargument:
1. The Cocoon of Finality was very likely a qualitatively inferior Civilisation back then.
2. Even with that aside, Sa, is an entity that has 10 percent of the Cocoon of Finality's power at the time.
3. Sa used her powers to harness the flooding power of the Sea of Quanta onto the Soul System that the Cocoon infected and latched onto, hence she's not even directly affecting the Cocoon of Finality itself.
Okay, now firstly even if this was true, it would only apply to Vita. If you actually watch the scene, you'll realise that both of them aren't even fighting for real and are merely goofing around with each other -- Vita was only pretending to be hurt and fooled by Sparkle, toying with her like if Sparkle was her pet, nothing special. Another detail is that it's also questionable whether they even fought in the first place since the scene after their "fight" directly shifted to them driving their car.
Not to mention this counterargument also pertains to my previous debunk, where I addressed that Sa only possesses 10 percent of the Cocoon of Finality's power during its battle against the Venusians millions of years ago. As I said multiple times before, the Cocoon is very likely to be a qualitatively inferior entity that has not yet attained "ideas" or achieved "enlightenment" during that time. Therefore, neither Sa nor Vita would be 1-A or remotely scale to the rest of the characters.
Conclusion
The new cosmology will go like this:
The lowest level/layer of Civilizations of Project Stigma will be 11-C via being qualitative inferior since we're not including R>F evolution for them.
The second lowest level/layer of Civilizations of Project Stigma will be High 1-C at maximum since base reality is ontologically equivalent to this layer, where most of the series takes place. Baseline reality also contains the Sea of Quanta which is a cosmological structure that is already established as 11-dimensional. This should apply to the leaf worlds/universes of Honkai Impact 3rd and Honkai: Star Rail.
The third lowest level/layer of Civilizations of Project Stigma will be baseline 1-A, via 1 layer of R>F transcendence over base reality.
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The higher we go into the Civilizations hierarchy, the more layers of qualitative transcendence it will go. The hierarchy expands to "conceptual infinity", therefore the infinite R>F layered Civilizations will be baseline 1-A+ at least, via having at least countable infinite layers of R>F transcendence.
Imaginary Tree, Imaginary Space and Project Stigma: the absolute apex of Honkai Impact 3rd cosmology (excluding GGZ). The Imaginary Tree is said to be a sign of absolute infinity, with infinitely transfinite layers of transcendence over Civilizations and branch worlds. Project Stigma was stated to be the key to surpassing the Paradoxical Nature of the Honkai and overpowers even the Finality itself, referencing the current main storyline Herrscher/Cocoon of Finality (Kiana Kaslana), who has their existence equal to the Imaginary Tree, therefore the apex level of Project Stigma should have its existential nature be ontologically equal to the Imaginary Tree. With that said, all of those 3 aforementioned structures should have their ratings upgraded to 1-A+, with Absolute Infinite and Infinitely Transfinite layers above baseline 1-A.
Tally (Evaluating Staffs Only)
Agree: {DarkDragonMedeus, ActuallySpaceMan (1-A Imaginary Tree, haven't commented with Project Stigma)} (1)
Disagree: {} (0)
Let's start off with the basics first, there'll be more convincing details that'll all logically line up.
Part 1: The Imaginary Tree, the conceptual cosmic structure, predated absolutely everything; space-time, laws, concepts, etc.
The Imaginary Tree is the essence of absolute omnipresent existence, one that engulfs all worlds of Hoyoverse throughout all its metaseries (Honkai Impact 3rd, Honkai: Star Rail, and Genshin Impact).
The Concept of Time in each of the branch worlds/realms of the Imaginary Tree is fundamentally different, contrasting to the lead worlds (the standard Universe), having its own laws and notions of causality. Therefore, the worlds and Civilizations that are birthed from the Imaginary Tree take the form of branches, that are embedded across a different time axis, separate from that of the conventional concept of time. Hence, it is inaccessible since it doesn't exist in any accessible dimensions.
The Imaginary Tree is the instant of eternity, the start of the end and the origin of laws and truth, birthing the entirety of creation itself. The fundamental laws that govern the universe and the truth of all life came into existence from the predation of the Imaginary Tree.
The Imaginary Space, a supplementary concept of the Imaginary Tree, is an imaginary structure that governs the fundamental concept of the Imaginary, manifested through Imaginary numbers, stretches beyond and encompasses all structures that are formed from real numbers and information, even existing in infinite amounts itself. The Imaginary Space was already stated to be the origin of the Universe where all laws intervene, the other side of the world that exists beyond layers of rules, defying the laws of physics, and transcending concepts of time, even having its own notion of time itself.
Part 2: The Imaginary Tree/Imaginary Space is a void that consists of absolute nothingness and transcends reality
The very concept of Imaginary Space defies everything that originates and intertwines with reality. Fundamentally opposing all physical constants, the entirety of the real world and even existence itself.
The Imaginary Singularity is a point in the Imaginary Space that lacks any aspect of dimensional information, analogous to that of the Herrscher cores that is used by many Herrscher characters; Kiana, Mei, Bronya, etc.
The Imaginary Space is a void that is devoid of time and completely lacks any aspects of common sense. It is constituted of Absolute Nothingness, with the meaning of time there bypassing and defying conventional logic, eventually. time will lose its meaning and everything will be reduced to nothing in the Imaginary Space, with utterly nothing remaining and even diminishing the meaning of everything, only leaving oblivion.
The Imaginary Space transcends reality, the powers of the Imaginary Space extend beyond every aspect of reality, transcending even far beyond its margin. Otto Apocalypse needed to harness the powers of the Void in order to retrieve the absolute infinite powers of the Imaginary Tree. Herrscher Authorities also transcend all dimensions, corresponding to that of concepts of the Imaginary Space, such as the Imaginary Singularity.
It is already established from these continued series of approved content revision threads (first, second, third, fourth), that the Imaginary Tree exists on a plane of absolute infinity, its power representing a sign of absolute infinity, with transfinite layers of transcendence over normal worlds and Civilizations themselves. Hence, the Imaginary Tree and Space are already established as Low 1-A on the current cosmological scale.
Part 3: Project Stigma
This section is going to contain a shit ton of information and Imgur scans. All of the crucial evidence that directly mentions reality-fiction transcendences should be presented in this section, with most of the key information of Imaginary Tree birthing, containing and transcending infinite worlds/Civilizations being presented here, here, here and here. Anyway, let's start analysing this execration.
The lowest level of Project Stigma is the establishment of fiction, the fundamental basis and origins of all abstract concepts; "idea" is the fundamental core unit of Project Stigma, a contradictory concept (hence, logic-defying concept) and bestows characters "enlightenment", another conceptual unit derived from "idea" that eliminates the boundaries between reality and fiction by outlining another concept named "truth". With this information inferred, it can be postulated that this thing called "idea" grants a lower fictional being R>F transcendence, allowing them to interact with real entities of a higher R>F plane. Keep this in mind, this is crucial information to support and establish the logic of further content I'll present, for solidifying context and connecting shreds of evidence.
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The Civilizations of Project Stigma are referred to as stories, a system of worlds and dimensions that stems from fiction but tend to progress into further evolutionary states that allow them to transcend reality. Stories originate with the earliest concepts called "narratives".
Narratives are the fundamental building blocks of reality. They absolutely consist of everything that is within and beyond reality, establishing both fiction and reality-transcending worlds and dimensions. Prometheus stated that Civilizations are created by imaginary humans, which are entities part of the Imaginary Space as the name suggests. It is implied that the Civilizations function as a hierarchy, with each higher order of Civilization being more advanced and complex than the other. Not to mention Narratives are concepts that originated from the Imaginary Space, implied by the statement that Narratives have been harnessed by imaginary humans.
Narratives are created from the path of reason, also referred to as "reason" itself which directly correlates to the Herrscher of Reason, aka Bronya; the Herrscher of Reason authority allows Bronya to create anything, through control over Narratives.
Humanity's standards of the Narrative all revolve around imagined and unreal purposes and desires, making their fictional world and nature expand wildly. However, history freed and transcended humanity beyond its fictional Narrative, letting them become reality and ascend into a higher plane of qualitative existence.
The spirit of the Herrscher of Reason inherits reality and is deemed as the key to combat against Project Stigma. However, it's doubtful that Bronya can utilise the Herrscher of Reason's full-power, due to only having a distributed core being one of the remnants that were split 300000 times.
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Project Stigma is a structure that contains the hierarchy of all narratives. It was said to have been created by a "story" that governs all stories, referred to as the absolute idea of self-existence, a concept that signifies "conceptual infinity". Project Stigma contains multiple layers of Civilizations/stories, each transcending and spiralling on top of another, representing the Civilizations spiralling evolution, progression and acceleration of the growth of their existence beyond fiction. A higher story/Civilization views the story/Civilization below them as fiction and qualitatively inferior, telling its own story.
It should be mentioned that this subsection reckons back to the first relevant Imgur gallery shown in this section; fictional stories attaining "ideas", hence achieving enlightenment that allows them to qualitatively transcend above their fictional existence onto reality. In such case here, Prometheus explained that the story separated from the storyteller through its evolution and, therefore begins to tell its own story as if they became an R>F transcended entity that is qualitatively superior to their former self(ves).
All forms of Civilization come in the form of information and concepts, even with humans being individual data and having their own unique Narratives, allowing their own stories to be created that pertain to their individuality; Civilization symbolises their independence, freedom and enlightenment. Civilizations, being born from Narratives, stem in many forms and quality of existence, whether it be data, computer programs, or even a woven web of neurons which is the human mind. Civilizations all originate from fictional stories told by other stories that have evolved beyond their fictional confinement through "ideas", thus "enlightenment" (hence, qualitative transcendence); the system was described as a huge web of formulated ideas, composed of Narratives in the form of individual fundamental information units named "free and independent people". The dialogue later implies that the hierarchy extends continuously like an endless evolving permutative sequence. Prometheus even posited an analogy with humans graduating from childhood, implying that they've discovered "ideas" and achieved "enlightenment", allowing them to evolve beyond their fictional states of existence.
The evolution of Civilizations occurred many times in history, whether it be any type of Civilisation, such as human Civilisation that woven its own meaning that allowed them to transcend the confinements of fiction. Human Civilisation formulated concepts that govern their ideals, such as faith and the economy, with "individuals" being free from those shackling concepts, such as the industry/supply and demand, "individual" branding, etc.
Herrschers belong to a Civilization but are not only unbounded by Project Stigma but exist as a complete opposite end directly being its antithesis, meaning they exist at the apex level of Project Stigma, considering Project Stigma was said to be a Narrative that forms all Narratives. In order to be free from the shackles of the paradoxical nature of the Honkai, one has to surpass Finality; Raiden Mei asks Prometheus about Project Stigma being something that can free them from the Honkai, then receives an affirmative answer from her that it indeed can surpass the paradoxical nature of the Honkai.
Part 4: Preemptively addressing potential arguments and "anti-feats" against this revision
The reason why fiction was able to wage war against reality is because they attained the powers of the Honkai, which is a phenomenon that stemmed from the Imaginary Space which I already explained is a 1-A structure. Also, not to mention, I already mentioned the R>F evolution of Civilisations so even if we put them getting their hands on the Honkai aside, it'll very likely that they can interact with reality through "ideas" and "enlightenment", which are explained are methods of lower-fictional realities to attain R>F qualitative transcendence. The Honkai makes up the Herrschers and the Will of the Honkai acts as the Honkai ground zero, making up and controlling the relationship and link between base reality and the Imaginary Tree. The Imaginary Tree is the realm of GOD, and GOD is none other than the Will of the Honkai itself; it should be clear that the Will of Honkai has control over the entirety of the Imaginary Tree, and all Honkai stems from the Imaginary Tree and Imaginary Space.
Now, first of all, if you even came up with this type of argument then it is pretty obvious that you're not even remotely knowledgeable about Honkai Impact 3rd and really shouldn't be in a position to make such certain assumptions over information that you're not really knowledgable in.
Kevin Kaslana is one of the main executors of Project Stigma, being a crucial factor towards the project's sustainability. Not to mention he utilises the power of Project Stigma in his battle against the Herrscher Trio; it's currently even listed on his profile. Not to mention that Kevin wields the Divine Keys, unimaginably powerful equipment that is directly forged from Herrscher cores and harnesses the Honkai Energy of Herrschers, which is the entire reason why he can defeat and kill Herrschers of the previous era.
Kiana defeated Otto Apocalypse as the Herrscher of Flamescion. I already presented on the OP that the Herrscher Authorities are concepts of the Imaginary Space, via being correspondent to the Imaginary Singularity. Not to mention that Herrschers are also mentioned to transcend dimensions, heavily implying correlation and origins to the Imaginary Space, which I also already presented earlier. Another thing to add is that Herrschers are disciples of the Will of the Honkai.
As for Durandal, even anyone who has a bit of knowledge about Honkai Impact 3rd knows that she is a long-term term extremely OP character with powers that rightfully rival that of the strongest Herrschers. One of the easiest explanations is that she retains the Abyss Flower, which is the 6th Divine Key. She also used the 2nd Divine Key, the Seed of Sumeru. Since she progressed and grew stronger through wielding the power of the Divine Keys, it's pretty obvious that she is capable of retaining power equivalent to the power of the Imaginary Space. Not to mention that all Valkyries harness Stigmatas to amplify their powers and adaptability with Honkai Energy, hence practically every Valkyrie could attain power from the Imaginary Space as long as they are strong and powerful enough, with sufficient potentials, such as powerhouses like Durandal. Additional information that should completely dissipate this counterargument for good, is that Durandal is entangled with Imaginary Space, thus she's pretty much an Imaginary entity; she also attained and wielded the powers of the Kaslana stigmata.
There are honestly many interpretations of this and can easily be dismissed as an obvious outlier. Though, I think there is in-lore reasoning to it, as I explained here before.
Not to mention that Project Stigma establishes the R>F evolutions for Civilizations; the Cocoon of Finality was explicitly mentioned to be a Civilization, so there is pretty solid merit and implication that the Cocoon was a qualitatively inferior/lower R>F Civilization back then.
Another argument that can also be plausible but I'm struggling to find the scan for it, but this information was on the official Honkai wiki for quite a while, but only removed via the reasoning "it isn't trivia", which has nothing to do with the information being incorrect. The flood created from the Sea of Quanta was orchestrated by Sa, who retains up to ten percent of the Cocoon of Finality's power in the ancient past, which should obviously establish that they were in the same pool of existence as each other. The Cocoon of Finality (the Abyss) infected the Soul system, hence latched itself upon it; the goal of the Venusians was to expunge the Cocoon of Finality from the Soul System. Sa used her powers to harness the flooding powers of the Sea of Quanta into the Soul System, in-order to disconnect it from the Abyss via releasing its efficiency restriction.
Hence, summarising the issues with this counterargument:
1. The Cocoon of Finality was very likely a qualitatively inferior Civilisation back then.
2. Even with that aside, Sa, is an entity that has 10 percent of the Cocoon of Finality's power at the time.
3. Sa used her powers to harness the flooding power of the Sea of Quanta onto the Soul System that the Cocoon infected and latched onto, hence she's not even directly affecting the Cocoon of Finality itself.
Okay, now firstly even if this was true, it would only apply to Vita. If you actually watch the scene, you'll realise that both of them aren't even fighting for real and are merely goofing around with each other -- Vita was only pretending to be hurt and fooled by Sparkle, toying with her like if Sparkle was her pet, nothing special. Another detail is that it's also questionable whether they even fought in the first place since the scene after their "fight" directly shifted to them driving their car.
Not to mention this counterargument also pertains to my previous debunk, where I addressed that Sa only possesses 10 percent of the Cocoon of Finality's power during its battle against the Venusians millions of years ago. As I said multiple times before, the Cocoon is very likely to be a qualitatively inferior entity that has not yet attained "ideas" or achieved "enlightenment" during that time. Therefore, neither Sa nor Vita would be 1-A or remotely scale to the rest of the characters.
Conclusion
The new cosmology will go like this:
The lowest level/layer of Civilizations of Project Stigma will be 11-C via being qualitative inferior since we're not including R>F evolution for them.
The second lowest level/layer of Civilizations of Project Stigma will be High 1-C at maximum since base reality is ontologically equivalent to this layer, where most of the series takes place. Baseline reality also contains the Sea of Quanta which is a cosmological structure that is already established as 11-dimensional. This should apply to the leaf worlds/universes of Honkai Impact 3rd and Honkai: Star Rail.
The third lowest level/layer of Civilizations of Project Stigma will be baseline 1-A, via 1 layer of R>F transcendence over base reality.
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The higher we go into the Civilizations hierarchy, the more layers of qualitative transcendence it will go. The hierarchy expands to "conceptual infinity", therefore the infinite R>F layered Civilizations will be baseline 1-A+ at least, via having at least countable infinite layers of R>F transcendence.
Imaginary Tree, Imaginary Space and Project Stigma: the absolute apex of Honkai Impact 3rd cosmology (excluding GGZ). The Imaginary Tree is said to be a sign of absolute infinity, with infinitely transfinite layers of transcendence over Civilizations and branch worlds. Project Stigma was stated to be the key to surpassing the Paradoxical Nature of the Honkai and overpowers even the Finality itself, referencing the current main storyline Herrscher/Cocoon of Finality (Kiana Kaslana), who has their existence equal to the Imaginary Tree, therefore the apex level of Project Stigma should have its existential nature be ontologically equal to the Imaginary Tree. With that said, all of those 3 aforementioned structures should have their ratings upgraded to 1-A+, with Absolute Infinite and Infinitely Transfinite layers above baseline 1-A.
Tally (Evaluating Staffs Only)
Agree: {DarkDragonMedeus, ActuallySpaceMan (1-A Imaginary Tree, haven't commented with Project Stigma)} (1)
Disagree: {} (0)
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