Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3257939-20140105070225/@comment-24891101-20140717231910

I'm unconvinced that they have brains, let alone that they're conventionally living. In my mind, they're either an emergent property of the universe, a manifestation of a principle thereof, which seeks out and destroys souls, or the creation of being(s) which have godlike powers.

I suppose I may have overreached in asking for them to be impossible to sympathize with. But I think that every action taken by the CoG is in furtherance of a singular goal: destruction of souls. Rather than being impossible to sympathize with, I think that they should not be sympathized with: they are metaphysically hell-bent on mankind's destruction, and there can be no peace. I see their animal-like behavior as a macabre parody of living things, an unthinking mimicry.

In short, I see them as a force of nature the purpose of which is the destruction of souls. Build a tower too high, lightning will strike it. It's lightning that looks and acts a bit like a bear, but it's still lightning.

I guess I just don't want people to start sympathizing with the Creatures of Grimm more than they already are.