[ After glancing at the first few people's comments, he writes his own. ]
In my world, Darkness is the equivalent of active energy. Some might even call it chaos, but that is a gross reduction of its useful qualities. Activity is not evil: it is growth. Change. Renewal. When you understand that, you understand the ways it can be used. It can mutate cells and cause a man to erupt from the inside out. But it can also invigorate and keep him going when at a standstill.
Light, of course, functions in the opposite sense. It is passivity. Normalcy. Stasis. It can calm a frantic mind yet it can also bring about a slow and gentle death. Few associate this element with anything other than good, but the horrors Light's power can inspire are manyfold. While it may drive away the horrors of the night, living under perpetual light, unable to sleep, unable to hide - it would drive anyone mad.
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In my world, Darkness is the equivalent of active energy. Some might even call it chaos, but that is a gross reduction of its useful qualities. Activity is not evil: it is growth. Change. Renewal. When you understand that, you understand the ways it can be used. It can mutate cells and cause a man to erupt from the inside out. But it can also invigorate and keep him going when at a standstill.
Light, of course, functions in the opposite sense. It is passivity. Normalcy. Stasis. It can calm a frantic mind yet it can also bring about a slow and gentle death. Few associate this element with anything other than good, but the horrors Light's power can inspire are manyfold. While it may drive away the horrors of the night, living under perpetual light, unable to sleep, unable to hide - it would drive anyone mad.