Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3257939-20140105070225/@comment-24891101-20140717053233

Bismarkus: I'm all for the Creatures of Grimm to be utterly implacable and not misunderstood in the least. What makes them interesting is not their potential innocence, but why the world is structured in such a way that such things even exist. The light/dark motif and how they connect with souls speak of an active metaphysics. The CoG are not antagonists, in my mind. They're not malevolent, exactly. They're merely a force of nature. Is a hurricane a one-dimensional villian? Of course not.

As to things said upthread regarding souls: The people of Remnant have quantified souls. They've got a machine that measures Aura, intimately tied to the soul. If they can determine that normal animals have souls, they can certainly do the same for the CoG. I certainly don't think they're alive, in a conventional, biological sense.