User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Part 2 Antagonist, the Darkness/@comment-24149763-20131217032806

I really enjoyed these last two blogs and I will say now that I think you are mostly right. I do believe that the Darkness will be the 'real' main bad-guy and will be causing the most problems for our heroines for every season to come and with the evidence you have given, I no longer suspect that the grim themselves are this threat. That said, my main problem is how straight forward you do make the Dark. While obviously I will not fully deny that it is a race of people before human and faunas, but that just seems too...human in and of itself, if that makes sense. I guess I personally see it as more of a malevolent force. That would make it all the harder for the heros to conquer and deal with. Afterall, if it has a face then that means that it is with in a form that has reasons and motives beyond "a-typical Disny villian". Without that face, though, suddenly we are dealing with something that is beyond human comprehension...or something that we do not wish to comprehend. As the classic saying goes: "Humans fear what they do not understand".

However this theory actually gives way to another very interesting question. If the Darkness, as either you or I see it, created the grim; then who created man? At the very beginning, we learn that man was 'born from dust'. Could this also mean that dust itself is alive and creating? Is this the very same dust that we see in the show and our favourite heiress' weapon of choice? Or perhaps this is yet another force/race of people who are the patriarch of humans/faunas themselves? I know that in the show they actually do say 'oh my god' a few times (as to oppose to 'oh my dust' in many a fanfiction) does that mean that there is a sort of God in their world? If so, then what is their Devil?

Just some food for thought, really.