Golden Girl

Or you could ask Second Measure:

They both give the same answer regarding what comes after Tyrant's defeat, and what level of power it will require

So it'd be logical for the multiverse threatening event that we're getting all this power to fight will involve a threat level where we won't need that power?

From June 2004:

Some of the oldest existing lore, which the devs have been expanding upon, as requested

I think the Coming Storm will be designed with at least 3 level shifts in mind - posisbly even more, depending on how many more shifts the next 5 slots give us.
Even the conent for those next 5 slots will probably be designed with a couple of level shifts in mind, maybe even all 3 of the current shifts avilable to us.

It is weird - which is why it's very much a minority mentality - and it's why they're fighting a losing battle - Trials are here to stay, and we'll be getting more and more and more - they're the core of the endgame system, and that isn't going to change.

And are continuing to make it

But it sure would help

Well, it's Praetoria all the way to the Omega slot - and then we get more wacky Well antics for the Coming Storm - so you've got a lot of ignoring to look forward to

And Nemesis hasn't even been spotted yet

Sure - it's just that people won't take it seriously, that's all

The same writiers are still at Paragon Studios.

In what way? Or do you just mean that fighting Praetorians makes them seem similar?

It's not really me describing it - I'm just repeating what the devs have already said in various interviews, Q&As and threads

Think of it as a kind of Incarnate debuff

Well, that's certainly a comon explanation amongst a certain little group of players - but it's not the correct one

My internet search finally managed to dig up this little cartoon from several years ago:



It really needs to be better known

The Well favors them.

I think you, and a few other, are still not quite gettign what the Incarnate sytem is, or how it's tied into the game - there is no end to the Incarnate system.
These 10 slots aren't the only slots they can add, and no slot is limited to just 4 tress - more slots and more trees can be added, as the devs have alreayd mentioned.
There is also no end to the Trials - the current plan is to add one or more Trails with every new Issue - the Trials won't stop once all 10 slots are available, and they won't stop once Tyrant and the loyalists are defeated either.
The devs have alreayd said that once we have these 10 slots, we'll find the first Trials pretty easy, but that there's even mroe challenging content planned for higher level incarnates.
Every day, more and more players and avatars are becoming Incarnates, so the need for more and more Incarnate content is also growing, which is exactly what the devs have planned for.

The development and release on Incarnate content will only end when all other development on the game ends too.

They're the same person

But game lore is important to story mechanics - ignoring character relationships is a big no-no - the characters as they eixist in the game or any other official material is the only accurate version of those charcters.