Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10317392-20130906010815/@comment-4830106-20130909200451

Primsatic wrote: Angren Túrë wrote: ChishioKunrin wrote: BenRG wrote: Angren Túrë wrote: So this whole mess would really just be the fault of one flamboyant, petty crime don hoping to gain control of a city. Way to go, Roman. History has a lot worse disasters caused for even worse motives. Whole wars and even genocides just to distract people from domestic political incompetence. Greed and ambition is the zip-line to hell. Huh. That sounds familiar. I guess history is being written here in the US right now. -_-

On-topic: I dunno, I still feel like there may be someone higher on the chain than Roman. As cool as he is, so far he doesn't seem like the real big bad. He also doesn't seem like a low tier antagonist, mind you, but from what we've seen so far, not quite big bad material. Just regular villain. We already know he's a secondary antagonist behind the overarching Grim. But they won't really materialize as the dominant threat until later on in the series. Sort of like how Sauron was always the big bad, but he didn't actually unleash any forces (apart from the Ringwraiths) until comparatively late in the series. Roman is just a secondary, but more immediate threat. We still have very little concept of how the Grim interact with dissident human's. Are they control by the Grim, is there even a central focus (hivemind) or do the humans ride a tiger thinking that they have it under control.

Probably both. I have a theory that the Grim are guided by a central intelligence, but have some measure of autonomy in and of themselves. Grim cultists are under the impression that the Grim are 'purifiers' of the world.