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==Misconceptions==

===Gate Effect Modification Theory===

''ZeaLitY''

Perhaps the Gate Effect is not a solid 'dome' encompassing Chronopolis, but a dome-shaped barrier taking entrants ten thousand years into the future always to the same Chronopolis, the one that came back from Keystone T-1. Assuming Home World does retroactively get its own history (albeit a carbon copy of Another's before 1010 A.D.), when the split of dimensions occurs and time traveler's immunity is preserved, so too is the Gate Effect. This means that those who would enter the Dead Sea from Home World would merely be accessing Chronopolis, just as there are distortions allowing dimensional crossing in Home World after the Dead Sea is dissolved. With this in mind, there is one Chronopolis for both dimensions until 1010 A.D. Now, perhaps Belthasar foresaw that the history of Home would extend back, and planned for Chronopolis to be equipped to control it or at least know about it from their perspective in 1010 A.D. onward.

Problems:

#Whether Chronopolis cares or not, Home World's history is automatically a carbon copy of Another's. It wouldn't need to be equipped to control it.
#The Dead Sea is treated as its own future separate from Chronopolis. If the Dead Sea is accessible in one world and Chronopolis in the other, then the Gate Effect is either dissolved in 1010 A.D., or each Sea of Eden retains its own effect.

===1006 A.D. Theory===

''Rocky''

The original timeline was split into two due to Schala's unstable contact with it in 1006, but the two resulting futures remained largely unchanged thanks to FATE until a another new change was made (saving Serge in 1010) to one of the dimensions, this time by Belthasar and Kid.  Thus the game can say that "the world became divided into two" in 1006, but "[Serge's] future was split in twain" in 1010.

The volatile nature of Schala making contact with the modern era divides time into two separate timelines.  Chronopolis, which until now only had to monitor one dimension, recognizes that it now has to monitor two, and limits both to a small amount of variety so as to ensure the saved future's continuance in both.  And part of FATE's plan was to use its vessel Lynx to kill Serge in 1010 to break the lock on the Flame - I guess in both dimensions now that they have split.  However, Kid is sent back in time to stop this from happening in one dimension (Belthasar's got it all figured out).  So in that dimension, Serge lives, and this somehow negates the saved future and transforms Chronopolis into the Dead Sea.  (I know this contradicts the "Armageddon-Branch Theory" within the "Salt for the Dead Sea" article.  I'm merely trying to harmonize the explicitly stated facts from the game itself.  Besides, just how Serge's existence negates the saved future is not in itself a contraction, merely a mystery - we don't have a conclusive, in-game explanation.  So I'm not attempting to explain that one...)

Okay, so Chronopolis - which has been able to control both worlds from 1006 to 1010 - now can only control one, as stated with these words:  "Ever since the formation of the Dead Sea 10 years ago... FATE has been unable to intervene directly with World 01."  My aforementioned explanation allows for this fact.  And this would explain why other people's futures start to diverge so greatly from this point on - FATE is no longer able to keep them so limited in variation.  Based on these things, I believe (for now...) that the Dead Sea was formed, not merely because one world split into two, but because a relatively big change was made in one of them - a human who originally is eliminated from both timelines is now reinserted into one.  This could potentially change the world, so to speak...

At the end, this theory just leaves the question, "what caused the Dead Sea to form/Home World to end in ruin by Serge's hand?" It also leaves the question, "How was Chronopolis able to set up a room to monitor two dimensions, given the nature of it workers (ghosts) and their seeming caught up in temporal loops?" The second question is another part of the overall plot hole.

''From'': [[Plot Inconsistencies]]