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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5632350" data-attributes="member: 14159">For Lovecraftian/Far Realm entities, here is a good way to see how they can be omnicidal and destructive, but be distinctly different from demons and other "destroy everything" creatures.Demons want to destroy things for Evil's sake, cause mayhem to cause mayhem, corrupt souls, drag everything into the pit with them.  They just want to watch the world burn, to quote The Dark Knight.  They want to see individuals suffer and harvest the souls of the corrupted.Lovecraftian abominations don't even see what they are doing as wrong, they just don't care.  They are powerful enough to cause massive devastation, but due to differences in perspective in reality they don't understand what they do is "wrong", they just do it.Look at it this way: You find an annoying anthill in your backyard.  You may ignore it as not worth your time or effort, but you find it full of insignificant, unintelligent beings you see as vermin, certainly nothing you can negotiate or deal with.  You ignore it for a long time, but one day you may just decide to deal with the nuisance and decide to destroy it.  You could dump some poison on it, just to end the vermin nuisance. . .or you could pour gasoline on it and burn it all down and end the annoyance.  To the ants, you are a merciless, destructive, genocidal/omnicidal maniac that can't be reasoned with or dealt with, you have vast destructive power that might be able to kill most/all of their entire people.  They hope you'll never come around, they hope it will be generation away, if ever, before you destroy their world.</blockquote>

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