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So when fraud came out many people speculated that it was fake due to the theater, including everything seen in it. but that's Boring uninteresting and stupid. Do you think this one dimensional writing style of "it was all just a dream lol" would fit cool-ass reveals in a game where lore is based on the rule of Cool? Of course not.

So today i will explain how the punishment of fraud works through the 8-3 secret book. İn this book 2 specific lines should be taken note of and those are "no even this is not gnosis" and "simple shadows on a cave wall" these lines are referencing gnosticism and plato's allegory of the cave. İn gnosticism the material world we live in is a prison created by the demiurge, and gnosis is the divine knowledge of the spiritual realm beyond the ugly material world. Hell is saying the exact same here the spatiotemporal reality is just a simple abstraction of the actual reality that exists. Now for the allegory of the cave it starts to make sense even more, as in this short story 3 prisoners are trapped in a cave unable to move their Heads with a fire and a bridge behind them. And whenever someone or something crosses that bridge the prisoners mistake that for all there is to reality because it's the only thing they see and know. İn the book however one of the prisoners are forcefully taken out the cave while the prisoner begs to remain in the cave and when the prisoner is out he is in confusion and pain from the sun, the wind and the earth that he has Never seen before.

This is the punishment of fraud. İt's just like the prisoner being taken out of the cave and feeling pain and confusion because the shadows in the cave were all he knew. İn the layer the sinner gets exposed to things that cannot logically exist within their knowledge of their spatiotemporal reality because their kinda were not designed to comprehend the way vaster reality outside of them. And in turn they are devoid of physical space and sensory information in the process.

So by this the fraud layer is more "Real" not actually fake.

First off, let's talk about Raphael's helmet which resembles the vultus trifons aka a depiction of the holy Trinity. Now it's commonly known that Jesus doesn't exist in ultrakill, (he could have been either a prophet or a random guy too) but he is a member of the holy Trinity, that being the son. In ultrakill the cross represents the tree of life rather than the crucifixion of Jesus, Raphael wearing a depiction of the holy Trinity implies that some sort of holy Trinity exists, idk tho it's probably something like "the father the tree and the holy light" idk

Secondly let's talk about the light source shining down upon the holy council's palace, which is presumably at the top of heaven which is the primum mobile, pretty much the same in divine comedy. What could that light source be? That's the empyrean. The abode of god that's shining down upon the primum mobile just like in Dante's inferno. God definitely had to sit at the absolute top of heaven somewhere the angels knew and the empyrean is where that is. But now that god is gone, let's just say... It's empty.