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This page is an attempt to explain the assumptions that underlay Creation as I Storytell it. Feel free to flame in the handy-dandy Comments Section.

== Autochthon, Gaia, And The Gods ==

If the Primordials were a family of rich kids, Autochthon would be the spoiled, whiny little brother who wasn't much good at anything and wanted to be included in the big kid's games even though he ruined the fun for everybody and was generally a poophead. He signs on with the gods as a means of childish revenge for being treated like the inferior order of being that he is.

Gaia would be the "elegant, refined, civilized" older sister who scoffs at her sibling's childish games and plays at being a refined socialite and an adult, despite being no more than a teenager. She signs on with the rebellion because she sees herself as somehow intrinsically more deserving of rulership than the other Primordials. She's also arrogant, snobby, effete, a hypocrite, shallow, self-absorbed, and blind to her own faults.

Gaia and Autochthon are both insane by Primordial standards, by the way.

The gods would be the family servants who decide to kill the young heirs to the fortune and claim the vast treasures for themselves, betraying their rightful overlords, masters, and paycheck payers.

The Exalts would be the hitmen they paid to do it.

== The Primordials ==

The Primordials did not shape humanity in their image. Not even remotely. We are as bacteria to the Primordials. Their minds are as galaxies, their instincts and passions almost totally alien to mankind. Their exact nature remains undefined, but it's either like Mighty Cthulhu (crazy with tentacles, lives at a right angle to reality) or like a giant robot thing from before time (cold, inscrutable, totally alien to mankind).

Since they were overthrown and imprisoned, they have gone crazy. I mean, wouldn't you? So now, being crazy, they are perhaps either in line with humanity mind-wise or diametrically opposite to humanity, and everybody knows opposites really aren't that different. Okay, they are, but they're also not. Assuming a 90-degree rotation of the mind upon being driven crazy.

So now they are the pathetic and shattered remnants of the rightful overlords of Creation. Still the rightful heirs to Everything, but nothing compared to what they once were. So in absence of a better option, they are the best we've got. You could opt to side with the gods, familiarity, sanity, and treachery and a blatant defiance of the natural order. Or you could side with the Yozis, alienness, insanity, better job benefits, and working for the people who are still technically supposed to be in charge.

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-This page is an attempt to explain the assumptions that underlay Creation as  I Storytell it. Feel free to flame in the handy-dandy Comments Section.
+This page is an attempt to explain the many and varied (and largely irrelevant) assumptions that underlay Creation as  I Storytell it. Feel free to flame in the handy-dandy Comments Section.
 == Autochthon, Gaia, And The Gods ==
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 Gaia would be the "elegant, refined, civilized" older sister who scoffs at her sibling's childish games and plays at being a refined socialite and an adult, despite being no more than a teenager. She signs on with the rebellion because she sees herself as somehow intrinsically more deserving of rulership than the other Primordials. She's also arrogant, snobby, effete, a hypocrite, shallow, self-absorbed, and blind to her own faults.
-Gaia and Autochthon are both insane by Primordial standards, by the way.
+Gaia and Autochthon are both insane, by the way.
 The gods would be the family servants who decide to kill the young heirs to the fortune and claim the vast treasures for themselves, betraying their rightful overlords, masters, and paycheck payers.
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 == The Primordials ==
-The Primordials did not shape humanity in their image. Not even remotely. We are as bacteria to the Primordials. Their minds are as galaxies, their instincts and passions almost totally alien to mankind. Their exact nature remains undefined, but it's either like Mighty Cthulhu (crazy with tentacles, lives at a right angle to reality) or like a giant robot thing from before time (cold, inscrutable, totally alien to mankind).
+The Primordials did not shape humanity in their image. Not even remotely. We are as bacteria to the Primordials. Their minds are as galaxies, their instincts and passions almost totally alien to mankind. Their exact nature remains undefined, but it's either like Mighty Cthulhu (crazy with tentacles, lives at a right angle to reality) or like a giant robot thing from before time (cold, logical, inscrutable, totally alien to mankind).
 Since they were overthrown and imprisoned, they have gone crazy. I mean, wouldn't you? So now, being crazy, they are perhaps either in line with humanity mind-wise or diametrically opposite to humanity, and everybody knows opposites really aren't that different. Okay, they are, but they're also not. Assuming a 90-degree rotation of the mind upon being driven crazy.
-So now they are the pathetic and shattered remnants of the rightful overlords of Creation. Still the rightful heirs to Everything, but nothing compared to what they once were. So in absence of a better option, they are the best we've got. You could opt to side with the gods, familiarity, sanity, and treachery and a blatant defiance of the natural order. Or you could side with the Yozis, alienness, insanity, better job benefits, and working for the people who are still technically supposed to be in charge.
+So now they are the pathetic and shattered remnants of the rightful overlords of Creation. Still the rightful heirs to Everything, but nothing compared to what they once were. So in absence of a better option, they are the best we've got. You could opt to side with the gods, familiarity, sanity, and treachery and a blatant defiance of the natural order. Or you could side with the Yozis, alienness, insanity, and justice. The right. What is certifiably, objectively, and legally right. Assuming you believe in something other than "survival of the fittest," and subscribe to some theory of absolute moral principles. Which I don't, FYI.
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