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MAG 200 - Last Words

Mar 25, 2021
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INSIGHT

Extinction As Dark Mercy

  • One character plans to burn the world to starve the things that feed on fear, preferring a barren void to continued torment.
  • This reveals a nihilistic logic: extinction as a form of mercy and control over uncontrollable horrors.
INSIGHT

Fear Fractures Into Many Monsters

  • Fear evolved from a singular primal force into many specialized forms as minds developed language and stories.
  • Those fracturing forms gained new appetites and shapes, enabling complex horrors to arise and persist.
INSIGHT

A Collective Mind Plots Escape

  • The things born of fear gained agency by weaving connections and forming a higher mind called the spider.
  • That spider plotted an escape, using other fragments to build a bridge into a new world of terror.
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