Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3257939-20140105070225/@comment-24891101-20140718012340

Yeah, normally, something would need a brain to do that. However, this is a universe with quantifiable souls and powers. They always speak of Creatures of Grimm as distinct from animals (Pyrrha's exposition), and the way they dissolve, as well as aspects of the opening narration, suggest to me that they're not really conventionally alive, certainly not in the same way an animal is. They're theriomorphic, for whatever reason, and they have behaviors similar to animals, but I think they're still fundamentally lightning. I guess I've been approaching them from a fundamentally metaphysical perspective, in view of the soul business going on.