DreadPirateMurphy
Explorer
Group Consciousness
At the borders of existence lie the fringes of madness. It should be understood that this is not just a descriptive term for the incomprehensible. While this is not generally known by the races that live on the World of Ka, the edge is where the mind that was Ka tries to comprehend itself. It knows that it is an individual, but it also knows that it is everything. The universe lacks the ability to understand itself and this inherent dichotomy.
As a tool to try and grasp the ungraspable, this realm of insanity has created tools in the form of agents. These agents are known to the rest of the world as mind flayers. These horrid abominations are motivated to seek out and absorb knowledge from other races. They think in ways unlike other beings. To a mind flayer, a thought is not sensible unless it is fully self-contradictory. Mind flayers can only be truly ethical and moral by being unethical and immoral. They can only exist as both a group mind and as individuals simultaneously. It is enough to give a sage both headaches and nightmares.
At the borders of existence lie the fringes of madness. It should be understood that this is not just a descriptive term for the incomprehensible. While this is not generally known by the races that live on the World of Ka, the edge is where the mind that was Ka tries to comprehend itself. It knows that it is an individual, but it also knows that it is everything. The universe lacks the ability to understand itself and this inherent dichotomy.
As a tool to try and grasp the ungraspable, this realm of insanity has created tools in the form of agents. These agents are known to the rest of the world as mind flayers. These horrid abominations are motivated to seek out and absorb knowledge from other races. They think in ways unlike other beings. To a mind flayer, a thought is not sensible unless it is fully self-contradictory. Mind flayers can only be truly ethical and moral by being unethical and immoral. They can only exist as both a group mind and as individuals simultaneously. It is enough to give a sage both headaches and nightmares.
