#it certainly isn't because of the quantity of the malevolence that's for sure

[lastthroes]

fact-checking some berseria parts again for writing purposes, and i noticed something

this happens during the first visit to hexen island. the entire context goes as follows

In order for Innominat to eternally suppress negative emotions…

He needs an infinite, powerful source of malevolence to feed off of. For example, that produced by an immortal dragon.

Which would make this place a sort of "dragon farm," created so he can control humanity forever.

but, you know. that part in bold doesn't sound right. and looking at its original equivalent in japanese...

カノヌシに、ずっと業を鎮めさせるには……

穢れを喰わせ続ければいい。例えば、不死身のドラゴンが発する強力な穢れを

ここは、人間を制御し続けるための“ドラゴン牧場”というわけか

nothing here seems to imply this... let's call it "energy" that's being taken from the dragon is limitless. powerful, yeah. infinite, not really. feel free to correct me if i'm wrong, but i can't find any single stance of so in any of the dictionaries i've checked 強力 for

the verb used 発する is also one that seems can be used for both "emit" and "produce". the game already stated before that malakhim cannot produce malevolence through grimoirh, just like we know immortality is an attribute inherited from being a sort of "transformation" of a malakhim. malevolence comes from their surroundings, with malakhim absorbing it, which ties yet again with the ex dungeon's revelation as to why does malevolence exists in the first place. this is how eizen ultimately becomes a dragon, and also how theodora became one through the short story

as to the wording of the "dragon farm", it also makes more sense that several dragons are needed, not just one. after all, if one single dragon has infinite malevolence, there's no need to have an entire farm made out of them rather than keeping one individual. or a few of them, but as backup rather than because the first one will be eventually exhausted. or maybe... i wonder what happens once innominat has completely eaten a dragon's malevolence away? even if it's said they're immortal much like malakhim and can't die of old age, do the dragons actually die when this happens? when velvet absorbs a daemons' malevolence, they came back to their human form... as corpses. only phi has the power of turning a daemon back to human without killing them. so, would innominat be like velvet with the dragons?

this was probably overlooked because the translation got rushed and/or was underpaid, but it also answers for me the question of "couldn't they throw innominat against a dragon so he fed off it forever instead of from velvet?", being less about the urgency and more about the possibilities, because the way an infinite cycle was created was that they were both feeding off each other the same malevolence in a constant, rather than the onesideness of innominat devouring a dragon's malevolence. the "finite energy" also makes the dragon farm part even more messed up, by implying that they are going to sacrifice as many malakhim as needed to keep this going on forever