Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-96.2.118.250-20181224222613

Spoilers for Arc 6

Recent chapters of the Web Novel have revealed that Subaru’s memory was consumed by Lois Arneb, the Sin Archbishop of Gluttony. It also appears that Lois is the core being of Gluttony, having created both Ley Batenkaitos and Roy Alphard to act as proxies in the world. That is since Lois resides in the Corridor of Memory, a part of Od Laguna which filters the souls of the dead. The Library already had a connection to the Corridor of Memory. It linked to this natural function of the world in order to create records of the dead into Books of the Dead. While that part is sort of obvious, the question is “Where does the mass come from?” Simply recording memories is one thing, but the Library actually creates a physical book that didn’t exist before. Some living beings have been able to grow and change their bodies naturally, apparently having been chosen by the world to have that capability. Then the world must allot a certain amount of mass to go with that transformation. But that is by the world’s chosing. The Library seems to be stealing from the world, not just memories, but mass. Rather than the power of magic, bending the world to one’s will is the domain of a Witch Authority. Daphne’s Authority of Gluttony allowed her to create Witchbeasts. That is, even if she wasn’t conscious of taking mass from the world in order to produce the Wtchbeasts, that appears to be the power of her Authority. Thus, in order to make the Library work the way it does, the Witch Genes of Gluttony were made part of its system. But Witch Genes attach to living beings, even spirits in the case of Petelgeuse, and that must be the design of the Library; a Spirit with the Witch Genes of Gluttony is part of it, acting as a medium between the Library and the Corridor of Memory, filtering in the memories of souls of the dead, and utilizing its Authority to generate a physical Book of the Dead. Lois Arneb is either is the Spirit of Taygeta, gone insane over the centuries as thousands of lives passed through it, leaving it with no defined sense of self, or Lois was directly sent to claim the Spirit of Taygeta, consuming it and taking the Witch Genes of Gluttony. 