dude it is a parallel world
if it isnt then tell me how the **** is there a whole new giant world inside a tree trunk?
its a portal of a parallel world
yeah but he is taking the form of deceased characters
the elegy of emptiness allows you to create statues of your current form in a lot of ways there like funeral statues standing there like a memorial to the dead, if the only masks allow you to create a clone of the one's who are related to...
it has bunch of hard facts
in majors mask
he could create statues of the deceased people he could transform into and some how he was able to create a statue of himself which means he is dead