Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-108.180.145.133-20130922140854/@comment-10390252-20130925105151

@ Darkcloud,

I think you should remember that the narrator (likely Crimson) was simply retelling the myth of humanity's origins and their conflict with the Grimm. This is something that happened so long ago (the Vytal equivalent of the Neolithic period, based on the cave drawings Jaune and Pyrrha found) so there probably isn't a verifiable written history going back that far, only oral traditions.

"Man, born from dust" is a reference to the Judeo-Christian creation story and seems a fairly common theme (the mane 'Adam', the first man, is from the Hebrew word for 'red dust'). It just emphasises how tied up the struggle against the Grimm is with human pre-history and, possibly, religion. We can't be sure how much of those garbled legends are based on fact.

I suspect that the Grimm will turn out to be either:

1) An 'anti-humanity' - literally a metaphysical force of nature on Vytal, trying to squash the existence of civilisation because it is an anathema to its nature;

or

2) Creatures leaking through cross-dimensional portals from a 'hell dimension' that simply prey on intelligent life forms because that is their inherit nature.