Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-174.114.213.173-20131030150611

I have played the games and read up on everything, I understand most of it, like how  Take-Mizkazuchi always fires on Ibukido and how in all timelines Mu dies during tempering, but in the timeline the games follow she survives and becomes Noel,    but somethings are still unclear to me.

1. Why does  Take-Mizkazuchi always  fire on Ibukido and Kagutsuchi?

2. The Black Beast:  I understand how when Ragna, Nu and Jin entered the cauldron they were sent back 100 years, resulting in the black beast attack. I get how Jin no matter what became Hakumen and the possibility that Ragna and Nu fused into the black beast or that Nu was the black beast, having absorbed Ragna's dark essence, and Ragna having become the hero Bloodedge.

What does not add up, to me at least, is in the games true ending, and the timeline the games follow, Ragna and Jin don't go into the cauldron. With that event not happening, would the whole black beast event and Hakumen never happen?

3. What is the Calamity trigger and Continuum Shift?

Any help in clarifying this would be much appreciated. 