The Bastille

The Bastille is a living location and is said to have the ability to lower the Caliber of other entities housed within it to Caliber 6. As a result, it is theorized to be capable of containing even some Caliber 1 entities. Created by the Secondborn (Extrinsic and Atrophy, to be specific), it has no recorded instances of entities escaping without being permitted to leave. Due to the nature of Caliber 6 entities, it is impossible to determine the validity of this claim, especially since certain beings are known to be unaffected by it. The only recorded use of it was on Atrophy, who may know how to bypass its effects, as he is known to have created it.
The rest of this entry is purely theoretical, and operates under the assumption that these claims are true, though no evidence of it is possible.
== Padlock Theory ==
If an entity is contained within the Bastille, it would have all its ability to affect the world around it removed, perhaps by simply removing the entity from existence for as long as it remains inside. As a byproduct, all records and memories of said entity would be removed and altered by a Reality Weaver, thus leaving no evidence it ever existed.
This means that it is entirely possible that some beings may have at one point existed within the Temple that no longer do, and nobody would even know. It also means that there may be something within it that nobody is aware of until it ends up coming out of it.
Not even Atrophy, Extrinsic, or Fabricator (the current keepers of the Bastille) seem to know if anything is currently contained there, only the Bastille itself simply seems to know when to open its metaphorical doors.
Given that Atrophy was known to have been contained while maintaining his Caliber 3 status, it is likely that exceedingly powerful beings (such as the cowboy and N Spider) may also be capable of resisting the effect of the Bastille.
== Trivia ==
* Extrinsic refers to the entity that makes the Bastille work as "Mori".
** This may be in reference to either the Latin word for death or a Japanese word for forest (森), possibly both.
* The Bastille basically functions as an in-universe "retcon".
** "Mori" is noted as actually being a retconned character, further reinforcing this.
* The Bastille gets its name from the Bastille Saint-Antoine, a French fortress with a very particular history.
Category:Phenomena