Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-108.180.145.133-20130922140854/@comment-9090085-20130930193926

BenRG wrote: @ Kyvos,

Maybe that's a subtlety that only soulled creatures can have; we are all somewhere along that sliding scale of black to white. The Souless are just pure, focussed and merciless destruction; they can be nothing but the darkness. This talk about light and darkness and how people have some of both reminds me of Ruin and Preservation form Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy.

In it, Ruin and Preservation are God-like entities which all living things have a piece of both in them(representing destruction and protection, respectively, nether can create on their own); notably, humans have a bit more Preservation then Ruin in them, making them beings that can destroy in order to protect.

(as an aside, Ruin is not mindless destruction but rather "intelligent decay"; it's willing to build up one thing to knock down two others)

It's probably a similar idea here, with "natural" creatures like humans capable of both destruction and construction, while creatures of darkness, like the Grimm, are only capable of destruction on some level.

(not sure what that means for what/who - if anything/anyone - brings Grimm into being)