Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3257939-20140105070225/@comment-3146930-20140717090902

Shadow at Morning wrote: 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.

Based on how Pyrrha describes them, she makes it sound like the are the physical form of a concept, meaning they aren't true beings in the same way as humans or animals. I mean if people in the world can measure the Aura of all living things (as Pyrrha says that all living things have a soul) and Aura comes from the soul, yet none of the Grimm have this then it is safe to assume they lack a soul and exist in a completely different way from the rest of the planet's inhabitants.