Cuttlefish That Loves Diving
All this loop buisness looks like the the result of the Monster pathway, since as we've seen that Reboot works only on a limited space, but it only rewinds a few seconds at most and everyone involved retains memories. That is, if we look at Will Auceptin's Reboot. Ouroboros is not only fully grown, but has shown before to be able to make large scale loops where everyone involved didn't retain memories unless influenced by a divine external force; namely the Fool and Derrick during that one expedition. The problem is, this power seems to transcend whatever Ouroboros can do; and can't be a sequence 0 or an Above The Sequences since of the Monster pathway since all sequence 1 characteristics and the uniqueness are all accounted for. Perhaps Circle of Inevitability just shares this authority? Who knows. Anyway, Fors' role and situation here seems to be the same as Derrick's, she seems to have wanted to disrupt the loop in the past but was perhaps unable to act because of perhaps the presence of Outer God's (through the padre and Lumian). Lumian, on the other hand is exempted because of his apparently close connection to an outer deity, which he only discovered in the previous loop when Fors decided it would be useful. It's weird that the padre isn't exempted tho, but perhaps he actually is and pretends not to? Or he's just not that close to the Outer deity; you never know what might happen with lotm. Lastly, the dream reset as well. That probably means that the place is entirely within and/or close to Lumian at all times, or it's the village itself, like people have previously theorised.