Question about Story "SPOILER ALERT"

Alright here's something that I found weird, maybe lore explains this or maybe I'm thinking too realistically about a fantasy game.

When you defeat Piety the first time, her body is taken by Malachai, ok no problem.

When you defeat Dominus, his body is also taken by Malachai, then at the exact same moment, he returns as a nightmare version of himself.

Wouldn't it take Maligaro some time to transform him?

Something that is interesting, is that on that door of the scepter of god, you can see some men holding the nightmare version of Dominus, a prophecy?

Also, when you kill nightmare Dominus, he dies for good but when you kill nightmare Piety, she returns to her human self, why? When you kill the nightmare version of Maligaro, Shavronne, Kaom and Daresso, they also simply die, except for Doedre who turns into a toad, I really wonder why.

The whole world is a dream... you can't expect a dream to follow the laws of reality. You can't even expect it to be self-consistent.

Can we really assume that the Highgate beast is the only one?
Maybe the cause of the Vaal cataclysm is a different one? Maybe that's the one Dominus was involved with.

As for Doedre turning into a toad, that clearly means that Doedre=Umbridge confrimed.

That's the thing about the cosmic horror genre. It doesn't generally make a lot sense unless you can work out the rules it's governed by. I feel like I know quite a bit about the story, history behind wraeclast, and lore, but I still can't wrap my brain around the nightmare stuff which is where the cosmic horror theme is based. I never was good at understanding cosmic horrors. Bloodborne is a recent game release in the same genre actually if you like this kind of storytelling. I learned a lot by listening to ENB's playthroughs on youtube regarding cosmic horror in general.

The idea behind a lot of cosmic horror stories is essentially that life is a dream, and there are multiple dreams coexisting. You can die in one dream and live in another. Perhaps in PoE the beast is the originator of the dreams. It's also extremely possible that the beast is merely a dream about the dream. When you deal in dreams, it's hard to believe anything is real. But then, if everything is a dream, then wouldn't all the dreams be real? Yeah....

Haven't read much of the lore but here's a theory, just for fun...


-The beast comes from Beyond (it's "theme" fits).

-The beast crossed through the Beyond and appeared in the mountain when a huge bloody war/event took place (fits with how the beyond creatures appear).

-The beast is actually an empty cocoon, that Malachai tries to exploit and is exploited too in the process (it is obviously something like a living cocoon with a hard shell broken with the rupture device).

-There are many "beasts" in beyond and every one of them is a cocoon hatching Archdevils or something nasty (act 5 will be in Beyond and Oriath where you get to fight an original inhabitant of the beast instead of one who entered it like Malachai :O )

I don't know that much about the lore but it all sounds and looks very Lovecraftian, and I really like Nasreth's description of it being "cosmic horror".

My interpretation is that PoE loosely makes use of the scientific theory of parallel universes, where these universes constantly interact with each other in strange and inexplicable ways.

I kind of like how GGG doesn't even attempt to explain the "rule set", so to speak. It lets the player use their imagination to fill in the gaps, if they want.