Talk:Great Disaster/@comment-4295443-20170617043741

So, can we theorize as to what caused it? And, for that matter, caused all of... well... everything?

At first, before I got very far into the game, I thought it might have been caused by the death of Ilias in the original Monmusu universe, with her power being released throughout the universes and not only causing the large increase in mana but also having drastic unexpected effects. However, having played through the game now, I have come to a much darker conclusion.

In the original universe, 30 years before Luka set off on his journey, Remina was annihilated by Ilias. In Paradox, that situation apparently did not occur, but at approximately the moment that it should have occurred, the Great Disaster happened. It is confirmed during the game that the source of the Tartaruses, and thus the origin point of the Great Disaster, was in Remina, which vanished into a Tartarus rift the instant the Disaster occurred. Near the end of part 1 of Paradox, La Croix from the alternate world that is about to collapse confirms that the origin point of the cracks in reality, the chaos rifts that doomed her world, was also in Remina, and also occurred 30 years ago.

In short, I think the key element that caused the paradox and is dooming all the worlds to be overrun by chaos and collapse into nothingness, is Remina not being destroyed. And that in order to save all of existance our heroes will, somehow, have to ensure that the Slaughter of Remina actually happens. Or did happen. Or will have happened. Look, there's alternate universes and time travel and crap involved, figuring out the proper tense is difficult.