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==Primordial [[Chaos]]==
* Pre-sapient [[Angel]]s serve as themes constructing the universe.<ref name="Faysal">Once, he had built.  He had been a ''theme'', spelling out a thousand narratives simply by ''being'', like so many pens touched to an endless scroll of paper.  He inked out paths and behaviors on the broadest scale.<br><br>When ''man'' had come about, he had been reflected in man’s thoughts and behavior.  As man became intelligent, so had the angel.  He had guided man and been guided in turn, a symbiotic relationship.<br><br>Man, however, created its own demons.  Some were obvious, while others stirred in the midst of the noise and chaos and took ''form.''  Sentiments became figures, fears took form, and in some cases, man abandoned his kind to join the storm of thoughts and ideas.  To become the monster.<br><br>The creating ended, and man took the center stage, bringing change to that steady, stable creation.  Born from chaos and noise like anything else, a chance configuration of molecules, man carried that change and chance with him.  Each movement brought change, like a stirring of dust swelling and spreading out from underfoot.<br>
As man’s power waxed, the creators’ power waned. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/01/03 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 14|14.x (Histories: Faysal)]]</ref>
*[[Primeval]]s originate in the chaotic pre-human universe.<ref name="8.1e1" /><ref name="PrimevalDoc" /><ref name=":8" />
*The universe naturally separates into natural structures and gives rise to animal life, but remains quite chaotic and undefined.<ref name="8.1e1">“It’s easier than it once was.  To hear the older forces talk about it, it used to be lawless out there.  But you know how lawless things were, teacher.”<br>
Durocher smiled.  “That’s for later in the class.”<br>
“Sure thing.  Right now, those of us who are canny enough are changing roles.  Used to be we provided definition and structure.  Now your species is doing that for itself.  We’re smaller, we keep more to our own selves and family branches, and we game the systems if we’re smart.”<br>
[...]<br>
“The powers I tap originate from an age of primordial chaos.  When light, land, sea, and sky mingled freely.  As those things settled into layers, animals and other forces took form from the chaos.  Gods gave it structure. [...] the Abyssal may be related to the same kinds of primordial chaos I tap into, simply refined by time.” 
<br>- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/vanishing-points-8-1/ excerpt] from [[Vanishing Points 8.1]]</ref>
*Some [[Diabolism|diabolists]] believe that most of the universe is destroyed by [[Demon]]s, which is why most of it is empty space.<ref>Demons of the First Choir are the counterpoint to the forces that brought the universe into being.  There is no telling the damage they have done, but Bartholemew Peck’s ''Abyssian'' suggests a dark possibility, that the universe as we know it might be the leftovers of something far vaster.  That the materials and elements that gathered to form stars and planetoids are merely the crumbs of a feast.<br>
If this were true, it would be the demons of the First Choir that did the feasting.<br>
Though it’s scarcely more than speculative fiction, it illustrates the nature of the First Choir for the seventh of our nine chapters here.  They devour.  They take.
<br />– [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/category/story/arc-7-void/7-x-histories/ Excerpt] from ‘Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings’, by [[Rose Thorburn Senior|R.D.T.]]</ref>