Prologue
The gods created a grand experiment, they asked what kind of world would result if the lighter forces and darker forces were
separated and thus the world of Baransu was created. All seemed well, aggression and peace were segregated by a magical
barrier and the worlds progressed, if slowly, at similar paces. However, without conflict the light side advanced slower then
dark side. Pushed forward by competition the dark side advanced on they’re own merit, while light was constantly aided by the
gods to keep pace. Finally the gods saw the flaw in their plan and set forth to rectify it. The dark side discovered light
and the gods let the darkness creep into it, let the berrier weaken. But darkness' war like power was to much for the
pacifistic light and so the gods were force to seed the hearts of light with a grain of darkness so they could defend themselves.
Most could not handle the chaos in their hearts and went mad; thus the gods mercifully warped their bodies to match their hearts.
Ages pasts and finally the grain set in the people, yet the Geas remained. Those who went mad would transform and with the grain of
darkness Light could hold back the encroaching dark side.
Until one day a necromancer of darkness raped a priestess of light and was birthed a child of Balance, this child was half
light and half dark and seeing the imbalance set into motion a plan to wash light in darkness and bring balance, even if it ment
recreating the world in his own image...
Clarifications on the game
Darksiders don't have the curse, but they don't have any social emotions either. Darkside's is all about instant gratification.
They takes what they want, when they want. Lightside's is all about sharing, so dark side is more advanced technologically because
their always trying to best each other, while light side is very social and has more supplies because they work to better the whole.
Lightside only fights because they got a dark seed so they won't stagnate, pre seed they made very minor advances due to
complatency. Light may share, cooperate, and work as a team but they have no drives naturally, so they stagnate due to lack of a
competative drive to be better, they're happy being equal. The gods were frequently giving light a hand because while dark might be
self centered they are also self sufficient, they do get things done. Light needs to rely on others, their very social. Dark crossed
over to light and saw a world of abundence, a perfect way to increase their personal resources. So the gods had to give light a
dark seed, just a touch of darkness so they would have the drive to fight back, to advance. That dark seed though was the inverse
of light's nature so lighters end up going mad. The gods decided to make it easy for light to know who's gone insane by turning
those into monsters outside to match the monster inside. Now we fast forward to our current timeline and the gods are interveening
again due to the threat of balance boy unweaving their great experiment.
The world is naturally in a devided state, Light and Dark (Caren, Alfax, Bernard, just about everyone but Ranyc are light) work
together to discover the souce of the quakes, eventually taking on the mastermind, Balance. In this game "evil" is relative,
that's why I use the terms light and dark not Good Vs Evil. Light is the Ego/Superego, the social emotions. Darkside is all the
drives and agressive inpulses, the Id.
From Balance's POV the two are a destructive duality:
Darkside is consumed with instant gratifcation, they take what they want and fight over things leading to rapid development of
technology so "you can't take my beer without taking on my cannons!"
Lightside has no drives, their all social, giving, and charing , sure that sounds nice but with no impulses they have no reason
to advance, so they stagnate.
The frigging gods have to help them by introducing the dark seed and driving them mad.
From Balance's POV thats that's a bad design.
From light's perception Balance is just a powerful darksider who seeks to destory their way of life, and they're right,
to a degree.
Darkside sees Balance as a powerful force that wants what they have, and they're not going to stand for that.
As much as dark despises light's sharing nature which is a stark contrast to their "gimme" attitude Balance is a threat to both
so Balance must DIE.
But reguardless of which side your on you don't think your Evil.
Light thinks Balance and Dark are evil.
Dark thinks Light and Balace are evil.
Balance thinks Light and Dark are evil.
the only "Evil" empires are the big cites aligned to Light, Dark, and Balance. Evil is relative, each side thinks the other 2
are evil. Light and Dark think Balance is the bigest threat, since, well he wants to destroy their world. But Balance wants to
just bring about Balance, couse that means remaking the world, since you can't seperate Light and Dark.
A Question
"Would not the opposite be true regarding darkness's dominance over light? I mean, sure dark will have better weapons, but light
will just be progressing much more overall. It's like a futuristic world with no weapons of any sort up 'til now, but still
posessing trucks, planes, workbots, etc. being attacked by a bunch of barbarians with flinklocks. How's that war going to swing
eventualy? You could just as easily have a seed of light placed in the hearts of all Dark (we all know where that would bring us,
though it doesn't have to always be totaly darth vader) and a seed of dark put in the hearts of all light people to compensate."
The Answer
True but consider that without the social drives there's still competition, the gods are more concerned with preventing extinction.
Dark can survive without a seed of light, they've done it so far. Sure they have to rape, pillage and plunder but they don't
need help to do it. However, Any inpulse that's not mutually shared can't be acted on by light without aid...they have no
drives to compete because everyone helps everyone...
That might not be bad in theory, but when you got the barbarians with flintcock pistols and your still using a saber because up
till now there hasn't been any need for more advanced weapons of war you can see the problem.