OK, thanks! One more thing:
8. About "the player must go there" and how Sawyer said the "all players must see the ascent in some form" part, does it mean that the characters who set foot on the ascent doesn't have to be characters that the player can control? (e.g., a flashback cut scene for a village's situation 5,000 years ago and way before any of the characters ever existed, or even the boss and villains setting foot on the ascent). Or even: maybe the ascent doesn't have any characters of NPCs on there, but somehow the player gets a "view" of it without being there (e.g., a character falls asleep and dreams of a mysterious ascent-like place that he knows nothing about, and nobody is in the dream; not even himself... the entire dream "goes up" the ascent even though nobody is there.)