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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5533442" data-attributes="member: 22779">DannyA, I can get behind that.I'd look at it like this.  Demons are the other side in a war for creation.  They want to actively destroy creation and return the Primordials back to power.  Spin back the dial to when everything was just big C Chaos.  Everything they do should be directed at that specific goal.Far Realms creatures are more like parasites, or, as was mentioned, a sort of reality cancer.  They don't really have the goal of Destroy Everything the same way that a parasite has no real goal of killing its host.  However, just like a parasite or cancer, destroying everything around them is generally the end result.The more intelligent Far Realms beasties actually recognize that their presence is inimical to reality, but, likely, don't care.  They want to turn their new home into a more comfortable place for them.  They get to spread out, colonize, take over and become top dog in a new place, just like a parasite invading a new host.  When the host dies, the parasite doesn't (usually), it just moves on to a new host.Just like the Far Realms critter moves on to a new area once it exhausts the current one.  It's not so much malevolent as malignant.  The goal isn't "Take over the world" or "Destroy everything and eat their souls", it's "Make this place just like home".Sort of combining the Borg (or Alien) concept with the cancer or parasite model.Actually, thinking about it, Alien makes a really good analogy in my mind.  The Aliens invade a new space, begin breeding, change the climate of the planet to match what they want and so on.  They aren't out to destroy, necessarily, but, the processes they follow will inevitably destroy the present ecosystem.</blockquote>

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