The IF is a window into hell
This is magic. How, in Earwaverse, can a mundance object made by non-magi without the knowledge or ability to use magic, make something that is so very obviously Magical?
, used as a goad by the progenitors.
It goaded the progenitors as well. So, who is doing the goading. Ajokli is the only entity that makes sense.
They found it somehow, or rather created it.
Again, magic. A race of entities that didn't know of, or believe in, an afterlife, or God, or the Outside, somehow made a mundane object, without magic, that let them open up a window into an entire metaphysical reality?
That's a lot of coincidences to ignore.
Its what started their mission to decimate worlds til finding the promise land. Its shows your hell, not Ajokli's.
We don't know what it shows other than its consistent for literally everything that looks into it.
We know for sure that the Outside is more complex than "Oh look everyone is damned and Ajokli is the ruler of everything!"
The only logical explanation is that what people/things think the IF is showing, (which happens to be what the Inchoroi tell them) is simply inaccurate.
The IF has suspiciously Diamotic origins akin to Kellhus's journey to Ajokli's Hell.
It's also suspiciously similar to Kellhus' Seeing Fire thing.
I don't see how its possible that the proginators made a device so strangely similar to the magic that we see in Earwa.
To me, in Earwa there's a pretty distinct line between mundane and magical - or physical and metaphysical. You're either dealing with Souls and Gods, or you're dealing with people and their works. I see no room for something that is purely tekne making something that interacts with the magical, and no way for the proginators to have created such a thing. It requires intervention directly from Ajokli or some other metaphysical entity to exist.
That's not exactly how it works though. You're either damned or not, with the vast majority of people being damned.
Granted, that appears to be the case, but we don't know what being damned is, or what it means, or how it works with all the variety of movers in the Outside.
If a particular God likes you, you get into their heaven,
Gilgaol reached down and saved at least 1 person in TUC.
But Mimara saw nothing but damned people when walking through the camp.
So what does that mean? It means we don't know what damnation is. The saved gentleman would surely have been an obvious spot of Holy Light amidst the turely damned - but none was apparent.
How can you be damned and saved? Because we don't know how either works. So then what does the IF even show us? It shows us exactly what Ajokli says: it shows a person's fate
in his house. Quite simply, its a tool for Ajokli.
but otherwise you're thrown into the pit. Gilgaöl would not take a soul aligned for Yatwer, he only takes the best of the best of bloodthirsty, noble warriors.
All the Gods hunger. I imagine they don't just take the souls they want to reward with some kind of Heaven. They need souls to eat and torture as well.
Mimara would most likely see herself saved somehow, although we cannot rule out that the very act of gazing into the Inverse Fire brings damnation in itself.
Nothing to really go for or against what Mimara would see. IMO, she tends to see what she wants - but that's another discussion.
