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>>29436234
Clair is just an aspect of Yasu.
The way you see witches depends. We basically see 3 worlds in umineko, the meta world, the chessboard and ange's future world.
The world inside the chessboard is directly affected by the metaworld battles and the desires of the players inside it, as we see many times.
You can come to the conclusion that all magic and witches are fake, and as such none of the meta world characters exist either.
In that case, all of the battles being fought in that meta world are representing some struggle in the future of people coming to a general consensus about what happened in Rokkenjima.
Scenes in the "higher plane" then are just as much of a story as the scenes inside the chessboard, an embellishment of people arguing on the internet about the truth.
In that case magic is entirely parlor tricks like pick related and Bernkastel is just fulfilling some role, possibly personifying a theory, person or something else from the future.

You can also view the future world as inferior to the meta world, the same as the world within the chessboard - just another fragment that the witches could affect but don't, with a few weirdos like Featherine that have a piece version of themselves down there for fun.
In that case, the big metaworld battles are happening literally, Bernkastel is some manifestation or remnant of Rika's time traversing fragments and the mystery surrounding Rokkenjima allowed for Beato to get a chance to transcend into a higher world.
The game won't tell you literally, so go for what you feel is right.