[Archer]

Originally Posted by Antera Caramichael

Spoiler for Long theory:

Concerning this, could it be that Umineko is an invention of Battler?
I explain myself:
In Ep4 TIPS, it is explained that there is 3 levels of Witches: The one named like this (The Golden Witches), who are the "masters" of a world (In this game: Beatrice is the master of Rokkenjimma), the Voyagers, who are travelling from worlds (Kakera) to worlds to distract themselves and finally the Creators (Maria), who can create Universes from zero.

At first, my theory was that Ryukishi was a Creator: As the writer, he created the Umineko Universe. But what if it was the Battler from the first game?
My (crazy) theorie is that The Battler from Episode 1 survived. Maybe he was even not the only one (There was Four Missings, but we know that Maria is dead).
Because he was (one of) the only survivor(s), he knew that all the suspicion would fall on him and he ran away.

Battler tried to solve the mysteries in the real world, and we can see some phases of his reasoning:
The first game is the real world where he don't understand anything.
Battler refuses to accept the witch existence but at the same time recognize it by the only fact of creating her character.
In Episode 2, he begins his thinking but surrenders quite rapidly.
But he realises that surrendering cannot giving him rest because of culpability (Rosa's banquet?)
In Episode 3, he is slowly beginning to accept the witch (Eva-Beatrice) theory which leads him to another surrendering, which doesn't give him culpability.
But his souvenir of Ange waiting revive him and lead him to finally find a human explanation to all the murders.
He defeated Beatrice, now he only has only final riddle to solve: Who is she?

The fact that he have to prove that it was all a human deed (And so explaining with a rational explanation the events of the island) was at the same time limited by Beatrice, which in fact is an invention of his mind.
Battler created Beatrice as a character who try to make him surrender by reminding him all the elements that he has observed or learn in a way or another in the real world. But in fact, it is Beatrice who is keeping him going to the truth: If his theory were not wronged, he would stop thinking. Because he found an rational explanation, he could stop, but it is not necessarily the truth.

For me Erika represent another Beatrice: She actually is another part of Battler's character, the one who can easily found a culprit, but that is not necessarily the true one. But who cares, the only goal is to find someone who is not him.
Battler succumb to this tentation (Red Blade) but at the end realise that he wants to reveal the truth, and not only exculpate himself from being the murderer.

So in brief: Umineko is a world created by Battler in order to find the truth.
Each magical character got a metaphoric signification and thus is not real.
Beatrice and Erika are characters born from himself.
Beatrice represents his will to find the truth and Erika the one to find an explanation. For me, both those characters are rivals, needed in order for Battler to stimulate himself.

Concerning Lambda and Bern, I have an idea but for the time I don't have the time to write it. =p

Well, this theory is half-assed in any cases...

Personally, I disagree with this theory, purely because

Spoiler for Episode 4 Spoilers:

"Beatrice" does exist in the real world. There is actually somebody out there related to the murders that calls herself "Beatrice". The proof lies within the signature written on Maria's Grimoire.

Furthermore, that person was also the one that wrote the letters to the relatives of the victims and the letters in the bottles as evident by the similar handwriting. This implies that this "Beatrice", whoever she is, is still alive under the alias of "Maria Ushiromiya", and knows exactly what happened on the island. Furthermore, within the context of the game, meta-Battler knows a lot more information than he should be knowing, especially about the true story behind Beatrice. This suggests that there is an outside influence that is guiding meta-Battler through all this, whoever he or she may be.

I believe that the "Creator" aspect of the TIPS section refers to "Maria"'s creation of multiple worlds through her letters, which also ties in well with the TIPS about the Mariage Sorciere and Beatrice's titles.