User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: Where are the Grimm?/@comment-5217560-20140915000437/@comment-24891101-20140915035515

Why would they be more evolved? They're clearly not animals, nor do they seem to even be alive, in any conventional sense. And I highly doubt that one can raise a Creature of Grimm to be docile; it would involve overcoming its natural, overwhelming instinct to rip the soul from your body and gorge itself upon it, thereby snuffing your light, as it should never have been, or so I see it. Not something you can really fix. I do not want a softer side. They ought be intrinsically opposed to the continued existence of humanity. They're lightning shaped like animals. To ask what motivations they have is to ask the lightning why it strikes. It is its nature. Sure, there's a technical explanation, but at the end of the day, there's no agency, nor culpability. It can hardly be blamed for doing that which it does.

Zathronas: There definitely needs to be more fearsome CoG than can be defeated by mere college freshmen. And that's a neat idea, about depravity, but it's very hard to measure. Not even the Wise can see all ends, after all. And it's really a function of system complexity: the more people who exist, the more competing agendas there are, and the more creative and extreme people have to be to do major stuff.