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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.

Why Everybody Is A Bad Guy, Listed In Order Of Obviousness

• The Yozis and Infernals are bad guys because they want to cast the collective souls of the world into an everburning pyre of damnation and feast upon an infinity of our agony and just generally be abusive parents. They also have tentacles and are therefore evil.

• The Abyssals and Deathlords seek to cast all of Creation into Oblivion and bring all life the blessed surcease of death. And they are too goth for their own good.

• The Sidereals are a bunch of manipulative bastards with inflated egos, Machiavallian minds, and an agressive superiority complexes who have the colossal arrogance to assume they know what's best in every single situation ever. Sorta like the government.

• The Terrestrials are basically the same as the Sidereals except less powerful and more debauched.

• The Lunars want to reduce all Creation to a state of primitive tribalism, squalor, and barbarity. They also have superiority complexes. And they smell funny.

• The Solars are the supreme kings of arrogance and superiority complexes. That they are justified is no excuse. They also lead the rebellion of Creation against its original and rightful rulers, the Primordials. And they all will eventually go crazy.

Why Everybody Is A Good Guy, Listed In Order Of Obviousness

• The Solars have a divine mandate from humanity's divine beneficiary to make the world a better place, and the power to do it. They are also mostly nice people.

• The Sidereals are responsible for making sure Creation keeps spinning, sacrifice everything for their jobs, and live in anonymity, without widespread fame or awesomeness and stuff.

• The Terrestrials are just trying to keep things stable, and a little debauchery is a small price to pay for protection form the dead and the Fair Folk.

• The Deathlords and Abyssals' motives are, at heart, altruistic. They seek to destroy the universe, true, but the universe, it is generally agreed, sucks. The goal, to make the world a better place, is the same as the Solars. The methodology is different. The Abyssals have taken the Sidereal approach, and took the safe route. Don't try to make things better, wreck them even more. It will work.

• The Yozis and the Infernals are the rightful rulers of Creation. They created it, they ruled it, they gave existence to every single frickin' thing there is. In return, they were brutally overthrown, crippled, and confined in a cage of their own bodies. Those that survived, anyway. They may have royally screwed the world, but it was theirs to royally screw, by gosh! The Unconquered Sun is the real villain, in a sense.

• The Lunars are trying to create an environment where the weak will not survive, making everybody stronger. This is a desirable result, despite what the losers say.

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 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, 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, 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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