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The precise relationship between the Light and Darkness likewise remains somewhat ambiguous. The Witness and its followers clearly believe the Darkness to be superior to the Light and oppose all who would use it, and the Darkness itself is presented in ''Unveiling'' as having opposed the Light since before the beginning of time. However, in the Lore Book ''[[Lore:Inspiral|Inspiral]]'', a slightly more nuanced picture is given in the entry "Winnowing", where the Darkness is presented as playing a necessary and complementary role to that of the Light in helping to maintain the stability of life and civilization. After having gained insights into the Darkness from his studies of [[Strand]], Osiris likewise came to believe that the Light and Darkness are not truly antagonistic forces, but merely different. | The precise relationship between the Light and Darkness likewise remains somewhat ambiguous. The Witness and its followers clearly believe the Darkness to be superior to the Light and oppose all who would use it, and the Darkness itself is presented in ''Unveiling'' as having opposed the Light since before the beginning of time. However, in the Lore Book ''[[Lore:Inspiral|Inspiral]]'', a slightly more nuanced picture is given in the entry "Winnowing", where the Darkness is presented as playing a necessary and complementary role to that of the Light in helping to maintain the stability of life and civilization. After having gained insights into the Darkness from his studies of [[Strand]], Osiris likewise came to believe that the Light and Darkness are not truly antagonistic forces, but merely different. | ||
[[Clovis Bray I]] studied the Darkness during the late Golden Age, having been exposed to it through the K1 Anomaly and later through the entity he called "Clarity Control." In his notes, he observed that the Darkness violated [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem Noether's theorem], and did not follow established physical rules of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_(physics) symmetry] and conservation. He also noted that the Darkness possessed "anti-structural" properties, and had a tendency to reduce the entropy of systems it was applied to, leading him to hypothesize that it may have been responsible for the low-entropy state of the universe preceding the Big Bang. | |||
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