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The Darkness
Monsters are real.

This is the essence of the truth – that monsters are real, and they want this world. Why do they want it? Who knows? They're monsters. They aren't like us. They don't have goals and dreams and motivations and desires like we do – they have hunger. They are hunger, and they hunger for our world.

For aeons they worked their foul deeds without little opposition. They were patient. They were in no hurry. They knew that no one could stand up to them, so why rush? A corrupted soul here, a dead would-be hero or lost cause there; it added up slowly. The world became a darker place, hope became a rare commodity, and the monsters ate well.

But this is a new world. A world of science, of technology, of progress, and it has no room for such ancient and childlike superstitions. So the monsters should have faded away, back into the nightmares that spawned them. But they did not. Instead, this new age of rationalism and disbelief has, if anything, made them stronger. There are no more holy men or wise women to oppose them, just the skepticism of scientists and engineers. And so they grow in power and influence even as fewer and fewer people believe in their existence...