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Does this count as Type 3 Madness Manipulation? Since the following context is a result of comprehending a certain event that was made by someone else, but Type 3 only mentions the comprehension of a being rather than an event:
Of course, we now know that he should have taken the sayer's words more literally. Even with careful study of the Annotated Annals of If, what happened on the field before the Unsated Satrap's palace is almost impossible to visualize. It appears that in the midst of the carnage, the battle began to bifurcate. At each pivotal moment, reality calved and broke into bits. Soldiers who staggered and fell in battle also stood sure-footed, forging onward to fight. Their minds also split; the warriors found themselves both dead and alive, existent and non-existent. Victory and defeat were partitioned, so that each separate outcome was experienced in simultaneity by both armies. The universe became a hall of mirrors, with all the mirrors endlessly shattering.
The immediate effect on both parties was insanity. Unable to comprehend the state of being both triumphant and defeated, the Graven King's mind dispersed into motes of madness. The naive Satrap fared no better. The opposing paired realities continued to split and split again, echoing into infinite histories, all of them populated by a bewildered populace that soon lost the ability to feed, clothe, defend, or reproduce itself in the traditional manner.
The context here is that this certain character used their powers to continuously split reality on a rather small scale into infinite histories. It only affected the area where the battle happened, and everyone involved in it experienced a paradox where they simultaneously felt multiple moments in reality. Their minds were split and they also saw themselves dead but also alive, existent and non-existent, etc. Because they couldn't comprehend what they were seeing, they fell into madness to the point where they couldn't do basic actions.
Of course, we now know that he should have taken the sayer's words more literally. Even with careful study of the Annotated Annals of If, what happened on the field before the Unsated Satrap's palace is almost impossible to visualize. It appears that in the midst of the carnage, the battle began to bifurcate. At each pivotal moment, reality calved and broke into bits. Soldiers who staggered and fell in battle also stood sure-footed, forging onward to fight. Their minds also split; the warriors found themselves both dead and alive, existent and non-existent. Victory and defeat were partitioned, so that each separate outcome was experienced in simultaneity by both armies. The universe became a hall of mirrors, with all the mirrors endlessly shattering.
The immediate effect on both parties was insanity. Unable to comprehend the state of being both triumphant and defeated, the Graven King's mind dispersed into motes of madness. The naive Satrap fared no better. The opposing paired realities continued to split and split again, echoing into infinite histories, all of them populated by a bewildered populace that soon lost the ability to feed, clothe, defend, or reproduce itself in the traditional manner.
The context here is that this certain character used their powers to continuously split reality on a rather small scale into infinite histories. It only affected the area where the battle happened, and everyone involved in it experienced a paradox where they simultaneously felt multiple moments in reality. Their minds were split and they also saw themselves dead but also alive, existent and non-existent, etc. Because they couldn't comprehend what they were seeing, they fell into madness to the point where they couldn't do basic actions.
