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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dias Ex Machina" data-source="post: 4020320" data-attributes="member: 58907">Here is a SMALL excerpt from the Amethyst rulebook that introduces the concept as well as how demons are dealt with in the story...    Chaos inspires creation.  Random and uncontrolled, the universe, wild as it is, joys in its indiscriminate nature.  Alas, science claims everything can eventually be forecast if all fac-tors of a situation are known and able to be measured.  How-ever, this assumes a scenario can always be controlled and monitored.  The multitude of layers the cosmos has prevents a situation from ever being predictable.  Nevertheless, in theory, by knowing all factors present, one could predict an outcome with 100% certainty, if one's claim of omniscience matched reality.  The term chaos theory postulates that distant, seemingly trivial events can have lasting repercussions a distance and / or a time later.  These elements could theoretically be predicted if, again, one knew all factors involved.  Chaos theory assumes no such pansophy exists.  The best observers have is to know enough to predict an outcome with a large degree of certainty.  This applies in the world of science as well as magic......But chaos begets chaos, for it hungers with an appetite unsatisfied by what it eats.  Chaos never knows limits, never fathoms a frontier, refusing to acknowledge borders or thresh-olds.  Chaos may also be responsible for all life in the universe.  For if the universe were uniform and constant, waves in gravity would never converge; stars would never stir; planets would never form, and the spark of life would never ignite.  By its nature, chaos is feral, anarchic, and thus cannot be controlled.</blockquote>

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