Ah, SBN. Well, here are my thoughts about the blogs, as briefly as possible:
- Mortamor: This feels like it may be overtime or just not even be absorption of the full universes. May make more sense with context.
- Rhapthorne: He's just planning to rule over both of them and make them identical. Nothing says he's actually joining together or even transforming the universes.
- End of Time: I don't really see what the first scan is supposed to imply, maybe it's a context thing? That said it a "multiverse" shares a space-time continuum I'm pretty sure that just makes the whole thing Low 2-C lol. Linking to wiki pages rather than the actual statements means I can't address the actual "feats" though.
- Estark: First scan doesn't work, but the "transcending dimensions" stuff is way too vague for us to use it, even with the wording quoted. As support, I could see it. Otherwise? Nah.
None of the feats above really seem like they scale to physicals from context presented, either.
I don't really see the WoL implication in the DQH bit, "realm" can mean anything and the fact that the World of Light has been referred to as such in the past doesn't mean that this is referring to it, given that the term's pretty versatile. I'm not fully sold on all of reality being comprised by the two either, no scans here really imply that, though maybe that's just really obvious if you've played enough of the games. I think the cosmology being overall 2-B is acceptable though.
"Infinite" blackness or evil means basically nothing, something can be infinite on a 3D scale and honestly even then it's a stretch. I don't think this necessarily implies that it's infinite in regards to specifically the Realm of Light, I honestly can't see the statement as anything but some random descriptor. Hyperbole, if you will. I don't even know if it's talking about the Realm of Darkness here, is it something obvious within the context of DQB?
The DQH Yggdrasil scan honestly seems to be an anti-feat if anything, given that it's clearly bound to one world and one world only. And the DQ11 one doesn't seem to imply anything in the regard of Yggdrasil containing the Void/Darkness, here it just seems like it takes you to it. I also don't see any evidence that all magic works like the one seen here, in fact it seems to be something unique to that one character. And I just don't see any evidence that it can be inherently utilized to enhance one's physical stats here, none at all. The mandala stuff I also don't think is concrete enough for any tiering.
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this is the only scan of this guy creating the World of Darkness, then I must disagree, given that it mentions the "ground" and "bodies" that went into it, here it seems more like he didn't physically create the realm, he just dictated its current status by taking it over. It'd be hard for either of those to be relevant during a creation of a universe. It also doesn't seem like they're forces that govern reality from the DQH scan, it just seems like the two gods actively made a path not to get in each other's territory, while the DQ11 scan just seems like some vague philosophical talk about good and evil, nothing really suggests it's an actual law of the universe.
Void stuff, Calasmos says he's born from the void, which is the opposite of it being an extension of him, I'm not sure what that's coming from. NEP seems fine for the void, and possibly Calasmos as a consequence, though. I don't see anything in the good and evil scans that actually implies they're exclusive to one or the other though.
The darkness and light thing must both exists bit seems legit, though I think both Calasmos and Orgodemir are just resurrecting through their soul. I don't see an issue with a NEP being having a soul, the fact that they do have physical bodies already makes it clear that they're clearly a bit of an abstraction of the concept. I wouldn't assume they don't have souls.
I can't address everything in the "Darkness and Light abilities" bit given that some things don't have scans but:
- Concept Manip is weak FRA, morality/empathic has no scans attached, none of the space manip scans actually directly reference the darkness, dream stuff is fine, darkness consuming one's soul is clearly not literal and just meant to be some "don't succumb to fear" BS and corruption is pretty straightforward.
- I don't think the DQ6 void stuff really means anything here. Acausality has no scans.
- The Creation stuff is particularly sus, not only is it clearly something unique to the builder rather than something everyone associated with Light gets (Light isn't even mentioned) but isn't the game literally just Minecraft? That premise wouldn't make sense if you could create things from nothingness, nor does the scan actually imply that.
- The DQH scan once again confuses me because I see zero mention of the purifying soul stuff, Poof seems like BFR actually, given it says it "forces them out of combat" and you don't get EXP. Regen Negation makes absolutely no sense given that the regen that is allegedly being negated does come from the darkness stuff that is mentioned to not be negated in the same breath. Morality and empathic don't seem to have any evidence.
- Magic seems wrong FRA and the evolution stuff not only is just an in-verse theory by some scientist that's never proven right, but is seemingly referring to IRL evolution, so out of those only bio manip would be viable, and only for the Goddess herself since nothing mentions that it's shared by all Light people here.
TLDR: The level of research is commendable but I don't think most things here work for VSBW standards.
