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Seems to be inspired by the World of Warcraft warlock class, which is a spell caster class with shadow bolt as its first spell and can summon demons. Also, a warlock is simply the male version of a witch so being a caster class seems natural to me.
I got the impression that his soul became an evil spirit and was trapped, similar to the evil spirit who was trying to paint his beloved but kept failing till Li Hao helped him. They mentioned something about him being lost in a river as an evil spirit, which I believe is what they referred to those realms as.
How is this different than taking it from the shelf?
And I’m just now realizing that is what you were talking about.
“As crazy as it is” is the point. The mc is trying to imply that the fraternity is crazy for believing that there is a divine hand guiding the loom of fate because, with enough fabric, it is possible to find a name randomly.