Talk:Bayonetta 2/@comment-95.122.180.14-20141015134711/@comment-1661895-20141015165847

1. The Witch Hunts were started before Balder was taken to the present day. They are actually occuring when he finds Rosa in the sanctuary. It's here that he explains to Rosa that he didn't realise what his allegiance with the angels would mean ("I was deceieved by the light") and he tries to save her. After the events of Bayonetta 2, he returns to his time period where Loptr's evil makes him spur on the rest of the Witch Hunts. He wasn't the initial cause of them, but it's thanks to his efforts that the witches were finally hunted to extinction.

2. Balder's timeline goes along the lines of this:

- Balder falls in love with Rosa and conceives Cereza, breaking the law between the Sages and Witches. He is then exiled from the Sages whilst Rosa is imprisoned.

- Sometime later, he has allied himself with the angels under the idea that he will stop an apparent "Witch rebellion" that would upset the balance of the universe. This turns out to be a lie told by the angels as an excuse for them to hunt the Witches down. After Rosa is killed, he is snatched to the present day by Loptr.

- Loptr tells Balder he knows who killed Rosa and he dons his masked alias. The events of Bayonetta 2 then occur.

- After Balder returns to his time period, Loptr's evil corrupts him and he concludes the Witch Hunts himself. He spends the next 500 years cultivating his power with the Ithavoll Group in the hope of using the power of the Eyes to ressurect Jubileus (as it's implied that the Eyes will allow Jubileus to remake the universe to be how Balder wants, just like how Loptr wanted to rule over the human world with them). The events of Bayonetta then occur.

Basically, there is only ever one Balder throughout the games. It's just that he jumps between time periods meaning it's a little difficult to track where/when he is.

3. The Trinity Of Realities is composed of the human world, Paradiso and Inferno. Aesir ruled over the human world because it was formed from chaos and needed some sort of ruler/order. Purgatorio on the other hand is just that, a purgatory layer between the realms that doesn't count as part of the Trinity. There are said to be creatures that naturally reside in Purgatorio such as the Little Devils, implying there are at least some other sort of natural inhabitants there. But in terms of the human world where the majority of people in the Bayonetta universe live, there isn't anything.