Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140815002519/@comment-24891101-20140820011555

The universe naturally hates souls, for some deep metaphysical reason. Or, the Grimm are somehow a programmed weapon left behind from something, possibly tied up with the great cataclysm in Remnant's past. The two are interchangeable, from a small enough perspective.

Concepts I'm drawing on, things similar to one degree or another: grey goo, Marvel's Galactus, Mass Effect's Reapers (themselves Lovecraftian), shoggoths, Hounds of Tindalos, McDevitt's omega clouds, Tolkien's Ungoliant.

No malevolence, no agency. Merely unfortunate fate.