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Revision in the Digimon World Hierarchy

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Introductio

If you are aware of news regarding Digimon on this Wikia, you should know that there is a major review planned to deal with the structure of the franchise as a whole.

For us to prepare for this I have created several Digimon blogs that I suggest read in due time so that all the points are understood, of course in this thread there will be a total summary of what I wrote.

  • History of the Digimon Franchise: Important to understand the change in the structure of Digimon's narrative during the creation of Anime and then the return of this narrative during the Xros Wars era;
  • Souls, Ideas, Mythology: Explanation of Digimon's occult narrative based on neo-platonic emanationist theorists;
  • World Hierarchy: Digimon cosmology structure based on neo-platonic emanationism;
  • Digimon Gods: Establishment of the divine hierarchy of Digimon, a deepening of the layers of gods present in the previous blog;
  • Power of Darkness: Further explanation of the power of darkness in Digimon;
  • Data: A better demonstration of how Digimon works and the characteristics of a neo-platonic emanationist cosmology.
Story
In its origin Digimon began as a franchise of digital monsters that were born when computer viruses spread through the network and used design known as humans to create a texture around its wire frame.

This was the original Digimon origin established at its inception and used as the basis of most of the V-Pets lore, the original World series, manga like V-Tamer and anime like Digimon Tamers.

In the creation of the anime Digimon Adventure, the main director Hiroyuki Kakudō decided to establish a new origin story for the Digimon to leave his most complete work (And also because he found certain details of the original story as being very weak).

In this new establishment the Digimon are older than the humans, being in fact primordial souls that existed in Idea, the true form of the world. These beings lived apart from our world, which would only be a shadow of Idea. However, from time to time there were distortions in the World's Balance that made the worlds come into contact with each other.

Sometimes these distortions are detected by humans in some way and in the past primordial souls were interpreted as ghosts or deities by the way they acted through distortions. Nowadays electronic devices are very sensitive to these distortions, and because of this when a soul is perceived through these devices they end up being interpreted as computer viruses.

The explanation by this story of why the Digimon act like Digimon, rather than primordial beings older than the humans, is because of a feed feedback from the Digimon and the Digital World with Humans. The Digimon feed on human thoughts, their emotions because of the nature of the world that was created through the emotions of light and darkness and some Digimon are more sensitive to one emotion or another. A Digimon can end up binding to a human and adapting to human thinking, which may end up influencing the Digimon to act in a way. Consequently, for the Digital World everything that exists is equivalent to Data, including human thought and history itself. Then, the collective consciousness of humans can agree on something, this ends up being read by the Digital World and ends up changing the Digital World itself. The reason the Digimon act the way human hope, it is because the collective consciousness changed history so that souls were really always Digimon and they began to do so following the common sense of human, just like the Digital World was always a virtual space than a primordial world beyond our level of existence.

Basically this story does not deny the others, it just says that the story of products like Digimon Tamers, V-Tamer and others treating Digimon as virtual beings and the Digital World as a computer world is actually the result of a rewriting of history at level cosmic that altered how the worlds behave and made them adapt to the way the humans of our era.

Structure
The structure of Digimon Multiverse is based on a neo-platonic emanationist cosmology. Basically the structure of existence is divided into several layers with a physical and metaphysical difference between the layers.

Let us say that we humans are material beings with bodies composed of atoms, but we still have a soul that we are not able to interact with, it is metaphysical. In an emanationist cosmology our world is located in a layer, in a layer above ours the souls are physical as our bodies in our layer, but these souls happen to have a new metaphysical correspondent just as the physical body had the soul.

To each level of existence, there is a higher level with this physical/metaphysical difference. Our physical bodies have souls, souls have other souls (I will call the Second Soul), the Second Soul has a Third Soul, and so on.

Digimon follows the same cosmology, the world is structured in a Multilayered Hierarchy. We humans exist in what is known as the "Physical World", above this layer there are numerous other layers (At least 6) that exist between the level of existence of the Humans and Digimon.

The Digital World itself also has numerous layers with the deities residing at the highest levels being Yggdrasil the top of that.

Above the Digital World there are still other layers like the World of Eaters and several others that we just do not know.

What this entails in Digimon profiles
Currently Digimon profiles have a lot of confusion about it. The Digital World is not just a parallel world, a world that transcends the Real World on various levels of existence, something that is virtually ignored in the profiles.

Let's start by talking about AP, since this is the topic I want to end soon. The Physical Layer is a conventional multiverse, it is infinite, it has infinite timelines for infinite possibilities that can sometimes be repeated. This multiverse follows interpretations of the quantum mechanics of overlapping worlds for every existing possibility and then it is established that there are infinites, very simple.

However, this is only the first layer of the Hierarchy of Worlds. Above this there are six other layers to then reach the lowest level of the Digital World where there are several other layers to reach the level of the deities, with each layer having its own multiverse following the complication of parallel worlds and the Chronicle Layer System. There are multiple layers of multiverse until you reach the level of the God Tiers.

Currently the God Tiers are in 2-A because of the feats of destroying the Digital World taking into account that the Digital World is infinite containing servers that are isolated worlds with a past, present and future system that allows all to exist simultaneously in the same instant, and yet new ones are created every moment through Host Computer calculations. What is justifiable, however, there is no indication of all the complex Hierarchy of Worlds that exists until you reach the most basic level of the Digital World and we still have to take into account the level of the God Tiers that exist in the most complex level of existence.

It's literally a completely different level from what's being adopted in the profiles.

Finally, talk about the very existence of the Digimon. Currently, Digimon profiles take into account the body, soul and mind union of the human perspective as a single thing in the Digital World. Which is something legitimate, however this is only showing a tiny part of what this is.

In the cosmology upon which Digimon is based, the metaphysician of a world becomes something merely physical in a higher world. Which means that in a higher world our souls would be completely physical to the inhabitants of this plane of existence just as our physical bodies are to us in our plane of existence.

In Digimon, there is a process known as Digitize from which human matter, mind or even human soul becomes something Digital, this is because the human body is unable to exist at these levels of existence and therefore end up being transformed into data for protection . For example, in Digimon travel through space-time are impossible for physical bodies, so when someone travels through space-time it has its existence converted into a digital entity while this is occurring.

For the Digimon, all matter, soul or mind of humans is just something physical, or even less than physical since they exist on a level completely above humans in several higher layers. Which means that the Digimon are not physical beings for us, but metaphysical. What we see in the Human World are not really the Digimon. In places where the distortions occur occurs a phenomenon known as Realise in which free matter of our world begins to clump around the distortions and follows the true form of the Digimon through these Digimon until it is possible to identify something equivalent to the Digimon in our world, but these bodies are not the real bodies of a Digimon, but rather false bodies that merely follow the wills of the Digimon. Under normal conditions if a Digimon really entered our world, the distortions should be large enough for the whole world to be destroyed.

In the most drastic of situations, what happens is that the Physical World itself is covered by the Digital World which ends up making everything in that world in data, completely destroying the physical laws to put into practice the laws of the Digital World.

Conclusion
With that I conclude that the Digital World is much more than the profiles show and the Digimon are much more complex than it seems.

Basically the Tier level of the God Tiers is greatly reduced, not taking into account all the complexity until it reaches their level. Their level is much higher and metaphysical than it is there.

And the Digimon should not continue to be treated as "physical beings that can affect minds and souls," they are so from our point of view because of the innumerable factors that occur to justify the interaction of a Digimon with something of our world, but in the most natural of them, they are completely metaphysical and beyond the laws of our world.

At best, there could be a key with the limited form of the Digimon in our world, but this is certainly not to be a priority over their true form that exists far beyond the physical bodies. (That is, I agree with notes that explain the interaction of humans with metaphysical beings with the profiles making clear the metaphysical nature of the Digimon, but not with the profiles ignoring the metaphysical nature and only using the explanations that make the relations between humans and Digimon in a fairer way).

I propose at least a better explanation of the tiers taking into account the nature of the Digital World or whatever the level of existence of the character/feat in question is. The same for the metaphysical nature of the Digimon.

In most cases, it is possible to discuss a change of the Tier of the Digimon according to the structure of the Hierarchy of Worlds, I do not know much how this Wikia takes into account all this.
 
I thought we didn't highlight verse specific tho

As for my contribution, I don't know the verse and don't have the time nor reason to go through everything with it ever searching for inconsistencies, so yeah
 
Wokistan said:
I thought we didn't highlight verse specific tho
As for my contribution, I don't know the verse and don't have the time nor reason to go through everything with it ever searching for inconsistencies, so yeah
Kinda assume we could seeing as I know Naruto discussions were highlighted.
 
Oh no, most Digimon from my understanding will stay their respective tiers. Only the actually 2-A's and above would have their tiering affected.
 
As long as I can put Minomon against other verses' God tiers Im fine with this.
 
We are trying to see where everything mentioned above would rate and be treated here as it could significantly upgrade the Top and God Tiers as well as provide non-tiering updates to other Digimon.
 
Would Digimon being naturally metaphysical change how others can interact with them? Like a form of intangibility/abstract existence/non coreporeality?
 
Dragonmasterxyz said:
We are trying to see where everything mentioned above would rate and be treated here as it could significantly upgrade the Top and God Tiers as well as provide non-tiering updates to other Digimon.
I mean I guess this is okay?

Im in the middle of working on blogs for another verse and my attention span (no offense Ex) for reading big blogs like this is not exactly that big. What would the top - god tiers be upgraded to?
 
@Kukui

That's what we are deciding here. It all depends on how the information here is evaluated.
 
"What we see in the Human World are not really the Digimon."

This line doesn't make any sense. Also, there are a lot of grammatical and typographical errors in this thread OP.
 
If what we see in the human world isn't really the Digimon then why do they look the same one we go into the Digital World?
 
.....Because they still keep their forms?

That has literally nothing to do with why the Digimon looks that way, it's like saying an Android looks Human so it's Human.
 
I'm in college now, when I get home I'll answer the questions that are in the thread.
 
@Seed

Yes and no. Right now we are trying to figure out where we end up placing the Top and God Tiers with this collected information.
 
Schnee One said:
.....Because they still keep their forms?
That has literally nothing to do with why the Digimon looks that way, it's like saying an Android looks Human so it's Human.
Im pretty sure thats not what hes asking.

He's asking why would they still have their forms in the digital world if what they look like in the human world isn't their actual forms.
 
Ex will explain it more. But the Digimon's true forms are the souls (Digicores) of the Digimon. The form of the Digimon we see is simply a protective layer of data made to protect the true form of the Digimon. These are just....very....versatile protective layers.
 
O agree with the Proffessor on this one... I'll give opinions after one of the Digimon experts gives his thoughts.... But I agree that Abstract Existence for everybody seems to be likely at this point.
 
Not very experienced on the verse, but seems legit!
 
Hello, I apologize for the delay. I ended up staying longer in college than I was expecting, but I think I can start here.

First
First I would like to apologize for my writing, I am still adapting to English and the way I communicate between Portuguese and English may end up being different and I am often not sure what to write. In other cases I simply mistake myself for lack of knowledge. I apologize for this in particular because it is a very large text, so it must be painful to have to read something that is bad. I'm trying to improve, I hope I can get better in a timely manner.
I know there are many doubts about the text, which must be a consequence of that I do not even know what changes should be made, precisely because it is a sensitive subject. I'll explain it better as I answer the questions.

What is the actual point that is being conveyed here?

  • Basically today, Digimon profiles do not take into account the complexity of the franchise's multiverse structure, and when this is addressed in some way in the profiles, it is partially flawed. I want the explanations to be added to the profiles next to the changes they bring.
Would Digimon being naturally metaphysical change how others can interact with them? Like a form of intangibility/abstract existence/non coreporeality?

Does everyone get Abstract Existence by default then?? Metaphysical screams Abstract to me
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But I agree that Abstract Existence for everybody seems to be likely at this point.

Well, I guess I'll have to dig a little deeper into the philosophy behind it. What makes a person herself? There are those who say that each person has an essence that indicates what it is, something that exists beyond the body and that makes it, itself. We can generalize this to include mind, soul, etc. A concept would be the common essence that various things have, so a soul would be an individual essence while a concept would be the universal essence.

For example, what defines me in what I am is the existence of an incorporeal soul which is my essence, it is something unique that sets me apart from all things on a level beyond the physical. Meanwhile what makes all circles as circles with something in common to all of them which defines them as circles is the existence of a universal essence, the concept of circle. The two are essences that exist beyond matter, but one is universal being responsible for something throughout all existence while the other is something particular.

Relating to Plato's theory of Forms, both Concepts and Souls exist in the same world, but while Concepts define the true nature of the world, souls are the true form of life that inhabits the world. Just as the material depends on the concept, every living thing depends on its soul.

Our Abstract Existence page, along our Conceptual Manipulation, take into account the abstract in the form of concepts, an essence that is universal. Although souls exist in the same world, they are not universal but are particular.

Because of this, they only define Digimon as souls, but they exist on many planes of existence above conventional souls. So, it's only Non-Corporeal Existence.

Looks good. So we're discussing how this translates to tiering?

.... I'm just going to assume this upgrade to the current 2-A's is to Tier 1.


I do not believe that there will be any change in the Tier of the characters because of that. There will be some changes later, but this has to do with a confusion of powerscaling in the current profiles.

I usually believe that "there is an infinite multiverse in this layer, just above it there is a multiverse that transcends the lower, and so on" usually fits like a change from 2-A to High 2-A and so on. But I usually believe that this type of scale is restricted if there are direct mentions of higher dimensions, since other franchises that work with something similar end up having this Tier as something dubious and often it is something of constant discussion because of being something uncertain. If Digimon does not have the necessary descriptions for layers to be interpreted as higher dimensions, I do not want to cause unnecessary discussion.

Just an explanation of the complexity of the multiverse, or even a better explanation of what is already in the profiles taking this into account, I believe that is enough.

his line doesn't make any sense. Also, there are a lot of grammatical and typographical errors in this thread OP.

If what we see in the human world isn't really the Digimon then why do they look the same one we go into the Digital World?


I would like to apologize again for my spelling mistakes, I'm sorry that this happened.

I have come to imagine that this phrase could generate discussion, so I will try to express myself in a better way. Imagine that an X character is an entity of a 26-dimensional world. This entity can not manifest itself directly in the 3-dimensional world, but as it approaches this level of existence, space-time begins to distort and then the energies involved in it begin to change the chemical composition of the surrounding air, so that they organize themselves creating a body around the distortions that can be controlled by the entity of a higher dimension. Would you think that this physical body is the true entity, or just a manifestation of it in this world?

Basically what I meant is that the physical body of the Digimon in the Human World under Realise conditions is just a material body created as a consequence of the distortions around the manifestation of the Digimon, which ends up following the appearance and will of the Digimon. There are still other factors such as the fact that the Realization is related to Quantum Teleportation, which means that the passage of something between the worlds ends up destroying separating the original body so that it is destroyed so that the information of it is passed to the body in the other world.

What I meant is that the Digimon in the Human World are not in their original structure. It's basically a more basic explanation in case someone says "Digimon is not metaphysical because Takato played with Guilmon." It is the way I had to explain how humans and digimon can interact in the most common scenario. (In the most complicated, as we know it is the Real World itself that ends up becoming a direct part of the Digital World).

And about appearance, it is explained in both V-Tamer and Chronicle that the appearance of a Digimon is merely the interpretation of the humans from the 0s and 1s coming from the Digicore that covers the wireframe of the Digimon. This is, of course, in the current interpretation of the Digimon. As explained by both Kakudou and Habu, the way they are understood by humanity, and therefore how they manifest themselves, is something that has changed over time and the appearance they have today is only a consequence of the nowdays times. Why every time a Digimon appears it looks the same, in most cases, rather than something different to each is something that is not explained, and possibly will never be (Although I have my interpretations that I formed with the material already presented, but I do not think it's interesting to talk about it in this place).

What do you mean by all of this?

I think this is everyone's general opinion so far. Basically what I have presented is that Digimon has a hierarchy of worlds based on the idea that if a world has a material and abstract construction there is a higher world where the abstract of the lower world is merely material in it's perspective while there is something abstract in this world far superior to that which existed in the lower world.

Leaving aside the idea of higher dimensions that is not very clear in all this within Digimon, basically says there are souls for souls and those have other souls that have souls, etc. It is a metaphysical hierarchy where the abstract of one world is the physical of a higher world.

The consequences in AP are indeterminate, so I just want to mention them. In any case there are clear consequences in the way of interpreting the Digimon, in particular the nature of their composition and how the world works, which is more complex than the conventional one. Which should raise the hax level in Digimon to a considerable degree because of all these "planes of existence" in which the franchise goes.
 
The 2nd Existential Seed said:
O agree with the Proffessor on this one... I'll give opinions after one of the Digimon experts gives his thoughts.... But I agree that Abstract Existence for everybody seems to be likely at this point.
I've already givin my thoughts.
 
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