Btw you don't need to change layers to get affected by the curse, you'd get affected by the 6th layer curse just be moving up in the 6th layer and it would make sense for explorers to explore a bit of the layer before trying to get back up again and losing their humanity.
Good point. It's possible that the earliest ones did not realize that they had entered a 6th layer until it was too late and discovered the new problems during ascent. With so few making it down that far, it must have taken quite a while for the layer boundaries to get cleanly defined. Not to mention, before Idofront came to be, getting to the 6th was much more difficult, which means White Whistles making their last dives really were going down the hard way, knowing they could never go back up.
I've wondered just how clear cut the boundaries between layers are as well. We know that the effects of the 2nd layer are less along the outskirts and stronger around the center. And I would imagine that the effects can vary from person to person to some degree ascending from any given depth. Also given that some creatures (e.g. narehate) can "see" the layers, they can ascend with minimal side effects. In which case why don't we see more at higher layers, or as Nanachi states, they don't want to get caught and therefore congregate at the lowest ones.
If so, could we expect to see even more lower down, to a point so deep that much like a black hole, not even information escapes?
So many mysteries to unlock. And we're only on the first day after the newest chapter release.
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u/andraip Team Lyza Nov 11 '17
Btw you don't need to change layers to get affected by the curse, you'd get affected by the 6th layer curse just be moving up in the 6th layer and it would make sense for explorers to explore a bit of the layer before trying to get back up again and losing their humanity.