"I'll draw things from the top."
"The multiverse is essentially built upon rules upon rules with each layer of rules giving order and meaning to what is above it."
"The meaning of things are essentially dictated by these many layers of rules."
"Let's start with an example... let's take something someone on this tier of existence might understand... like you and your friends are going to play a new board game. You know quite well how to read the instructions on how everything is supposed to set up and the game is played."
"Now imagine there's another set of rules that dictates how the instructions are read and what the words mean. What happens if someone changed those instructions and meanings?"
"But what gives those meaning and whatever gives that meaning and so forth? The deeper down this bizarre rabbit hole you go, the easier it is for someone to pretty much do anything they want to whatever is laying above them and just as easily ignore whatever it is they are doing while they remain just as blissfully ignorant to what is going on."
"Or to put it in other words, anything deeper down can do anything they want to anything higher up while anything higher up has no idea what anything deeper down is doing, nor can they do anything about it."
"This is also the main principle of Universal magic and... why the mortality rate (if you can consider it mortality) rises exponentially the deeper and deeper they delve into the inner workings of the multiverse... and why it's referred to as a "divine power" to those that are familiar with it."
"Please note that I am talking about proper divinity and reality benders and not someone like say... some guy that builds himself cloud houses and throws lightning bolts at unsuspecting pedestrians. If the two were to clash, the hapless "god" would find themselves living the rest of their lives as a perfectly ordinary goat in Indiana and nobody would even notice... since the "rules" that dictate and define who they are had been changed."
"However, this god is still bound by the rules that grant them the power that allows them to change them... and as such is free game to whoever can easily dictate and redefine the rules they have to follow, and those that can easily dictate and redefine those rules and so forth."
"Of course, if I wanted to break your brain a bit. Ask yourself... What is a Tomato? What makes a Tomato a Tomato? What do those words mean? What makes the words that gives those words meaning any meaning? What gives those words meaning that give the words that give those words meaning and so forth?
"You can probably pretty quickly realize how much of a headache it is to do such a thing and how it sort of devolves into a confusing pile of mush... like a dropped tomato in a blender, but it's that control of what makes things things and what makes what into what makes things things and what makes what makes what into what makes things things and so forth that I wanted to demonstrate."
"I think I'll let you guys try and process this for a while."
