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Others inhabit The Dark. To define them is folly - their origins are unknown, their actions contradictory, their goals incomprehensible. The few that reveal themselves to mankind do so out of apathy or worse, a desire to manipulate and control the masses. In turn, Cults have spent untold generations categorizing and researching these beings, which had lead to the creation of many myths and methods of their control.

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 Others inhabit [[The Dark]]. To define them is folly - their origins are unknown, their actions contradictory, their goals incomprehensible. The few that reveal themselves to mankind do so out of apathy or worse, a desire to manipulate and control the masses. In turn, Cults have spent untold generations categorizing and researching these beings, which had lead to the creation of many myths and methods of their control.
-== None of them are good ==
-This is the one general claim the wiki is willing to make about Others, and it is made flatly, which is not this wiki's habit. The flatness is the claim. {{R|contested|note=a universal negative assembled from an incomplete record; we know what that is worth and we are stating it anyway}}
-Across every cult, every tome and every account held here, nothing out of [[The Dark]] has ever been described as good. There are the hostile, which are most of them. There are the indifferent, which are the rest &mdash; and which are mistaken for good every time an indifferent thing declines to hurt someone who expected it to. There is no third kind. {{R|inherited}}
-Every generation produces a seeker who has found the exception. Every account of the exception, followed far enough, resolves into an Other that wanted something, or an Other that had not yet noticed them. We have no case that survives being followed. {{R|unverified}}
-The consequence is the part recruits get wrong, so it is written here rather than left to be inferred: '''anything good in a person's life was put there by a person.''' There is no other source and no other supply. Whatever protection, kindness or beauty exists is manufactured locally, by people, at cost, and it is not replenished from anywhere. {{R|unverified}}
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