Explaining the Meta-world

[seilax97]

I've seen loads of people trying to explain the "Mystery of Rokkenjima" but no one analyzing the meta-world and all the 'lore' of Umineko, so I'll try to fix that.

First of all, from what I've seen, witches and wizards are writers on a big or smaller scale. I mean, Featherine is a famous writer in-universe, Bernkastel is known for writing poems, Maria has her grimoire, Eva has her diary, Beatrice (with the Shannon=Kanon=Beatrice=Yasu theory) is the author of the sea bottles, Battler has written some stories with Ikuko, aka Featherine (as Tohya) and in a bonus, it is shown that Lambdadelta tried to write a poem herself. Heck, even Kinzo is a writer himself as he wrote the epitath.
More complicated is the case of Virgilia. We know next to nothing of Chiyo, and certainly not if she has written anything at all. But we also know she was the mentor of Beatrice, so ... maybe ?
For Erika ... she never was aknowleged as a witch, so maybe she never wrote anything despite havig the occasion ?

So, what do you think ?

[Sergent H]

Interesting idea. It's true it was said that umineko story was stored in a massive library; ruled by the Senate of witches.

For erika, it's like Battler; Battler became a sorcerer because he understood the whole story and was recognized by Lambdadelta. For virgillia i wonder since she is only a witch "In Umineko" ; unlike Bern and Lamb who seem to freely wander.

[seilax97]

Thanks for the answer.

As for the cause to become a witch/sorcerer, i think it is actively linked to the "real world" ; my theory is that to become a witch, one has to write a story/a poem (not sure) and gain acknowledgement for it (ex: Kinzo for the epitaph and Featherine for all of her works).
I think it's interesting to note that Battler became a sorcerer AFTER he changed his thinking process and his vision of magic (ep 5), that as a sorcerer he is a lot colder/harsher to the rest of the world; and that Battler became a co-author AFTER becoming Tohya (thus losing his memories and changing of personality). In both cases, there was a big changement in his life.
Erika is a real mystery for me : did she have the occasion to become a writer and she decided not to ? Did she want to but couldn't ? I honestly have no idea.
And Virgilia ... we know waaay to little things about her. Even her human avatar is more mysterious than it seems.

So yeah. I think it's time to put the 'mystery' aside and to start analysing the link between 'fantasy' and 'reality' in umineko, because it seems that there is a lot of interesting things in there that everyone ignores.
Anyone who wants to think with me is welcome here, in my tea party for the humans who research the 'fantasy'.