I was right this was going to be a shitshow.
What
@Irradiance said, explain please.
I feel like no one ever reads my posts about Toaru.
Okay, first there's the Hierarchy or Kabbalah, this thing.
Which is the Sephiroth Tree.
An explanation of the hierarchy.
People can climb through the hierarchy thanks to "soul levels," the higher the level, the higher the creature is in the hierarchy.
Tsuchimikado says that phases are similar to radio waves, they exist on different frequencies and can only interact in the human realm.
Tsuchimikado says directly that different beings from different religions exist, they should be called Phase beings.
Stuff like miracles and Divine Retribution are beings of higher phases interacting with the human phase.
Creatures on a higher hierarchy can't exist in a world of a lower hierarchy, thus they exist in a realm of a higher hierarchy. (See the entirety of OT Vol 4 where Gabriel being dragged down from heaven onto the human realm caused everyone's minds, bodies, and perceptions to switch as an unintended consequence, and I do mean everyone, it was a worldwide phenomenon and only magicians in castles and other protected places were unchanged.)
There are also another four worlds.
The Fall of the Angel is such a global spell that it affects all four worlds, more specifically the material universe ASSIAH, the world of formation YETZIRAH, the world of creation BRIAH, the world of emanation and archetypes AZTILUTH, this spell changes roles in the hierarchy of things, driving the angel from his throne.
Here's Othinus explaining phases.
Not only does she say that Phases contain religions, but also places like heaven, hell and more.
What Othinus has done is create phases and stick Touma in there.
This means that the universes she uses to torture Touma are phases.
And before anyone says that this isn't universal, because I know someone will.
These phases have time, space, cosmic phenomena like galaxies, matter, Earth and its people exist, and even things like fate, life and death, and heaven and hell exist. (Plus universe, world, and phases are all used interchangeably, though this could be because of Baka-Tsuki translations.)
So there exactly like universes.
And note she never says she can't destroy all the phases, because she can she explicitly does this during the beginning of NT 9 and when she gets pissed off and uses Gungnir.
Othinus destroyed the world.
Othinus destroyed the entire universe.
She just says it's easier to create Phases over it.
There's also the Black Phase created after she destroys the universe.
Othinus created hundreds to thousands
to ten-thousands
to millions
to billions
to hundreds of billions
Of worlds/universes/phases in order to torture Touma.
As I said above, Othinus when was finally pissed and done with Touma she pulls out Gungnir which destroys
all the phases.
Which also includes the religious phases. And these phases contain beings powerful to destroy the world like she did.
And Magic Gods are said to be able to paint over and control these phases. Including Othinus which Touma explicitly says in this quote below.
This means that Magic God Othinus scales above these universe destroying gods.
The only phases she wasn't to affect were the Pure World which is a world of pure physics which is what IB is connected to.
And the Hidden Phase which is made to house the True Magic Gods.
Who are again stronger than Othinus to the point that they can only exist in their true forms in the hidden phase or else they'd destroy everything, the universe, the world, all its phases, with the ease of moving an arm or leg.
And I already posted TMG's feats above.
These phases can exist because of the shape of the Toaru universe.
And I don't mean you insult or accuse you but what I really don't get is that you should already be familiar which this
@Xhominid The Fool, you make threads for Fate, which has exactly the same concept called Textures. Literally, layers of reality that can also be other worlds like underworlds or Olympus, does that sound familiar to you?
The only difference is that Textures are planetary to solar system level. (Fate literally has an earth inside the earth)
While phases are universal. (Universes layered over universes)
So really I feel like your incredulity is very misplaced, either you aren't paying attention to anything posted on Toaru, or your purposely faking it and pretending you don't understand.