We know that when exposed to the Final Days, the Ancients lost control of their creation magics and made monsters, and we know that this same stimuli resulted in post-sundered people's souls basically dissolving as they were replaced with monsters.
As information-gathering bio-constructs, there would presumably be no need to give the Meteia the power to do things like turn people into monsters, and I don't see how the manipulation of emotional energy would cause a person to transform into a flesh-hungry beast with 9 mouths.
So the question: were we ever given any explanation of the actual mechanics of this process and how the Meteia have the power to actually do this? Or is this an Underpants Gnomes sort of situation where the mechanics haven't been revealed and we just need to trust that through some unknown mechanism Collecting Underpants does in fact lead to Profit?
No judgment on either situation, I'm just trying to remember if I'm forgetting something or not.
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As information-gathering bio-constructs, there would presumably be no need to give the Meteia the power to do things like turn people into monsters, and I don't see how the manipulation of emotional energy would cause a person to transform into a flesh-hungry beast with 9 mouths.
So the question: were we ever given any explanation of the actual mechanics of this process and how the Meteia have the power to actually do this? Or is this an Underpants Gnomes sort of situation where the mechanics haven't been revealed and we just need to trust that through some unknown mechanism Collecting Underpants does in fact lead to Profit?
No judgment on either situation, I'm just trying to remember if I'm forgetting something or not.
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