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{{quote|Fifteen thousand million years ago, the cosmos formed during Event One. There was a hydrogen rush which defined the parameters of the mate- rial universe. The implications and resonances of Event One go beyond that simple explosion, but they don’t concern us… Suns formed. Systems formed. Life blossomed on a million planets. And when the first cells spawned in the first oceans on the first world, I was there, with my people, watching.|The [[Grey Man]] ([[PROSE]]: [[Falls the Shadow (novel)|Falls the Shadow]])}} | {{quote|Fifteen thousand million years ago, the cosmos formed during Event One. There was a hydrogen rush which defined the parameters of the mate- rial universe. The implications and resonances of Event One go beyond that simple explosion, but they don’t concern us… Suns formed. Systems formed. Life blossomed on a million planets. And when the first cells spawned in the first oceans on the first world, I was there, with my people, watching.|The [[Grey Man]] ([[PROSE]]: [[Falls the Shadow (novel)|Falls the Shadow]])}} | ||
After the aforementioned first mundane humanoid species evolved, the Grey Man and his "colleagues" watched them for "ten thousand years", growing emotionally invested in their turmoils. One day, however, war broke out within the species and they destroyed themselves. The Grey Man saw, in their senseless a violence, a "madness" external to the mortals' own way of thinking, and realised that his colleagues were responsible for the introduction of "them and us", "good and evil" and all other such absolute dualities to their noosphere: | After the aforementioned first mundane humanoid species evolved, the Grey Man and his "colleagues" watched them for "ten thousand years", growing emotionally invested in their turmoils. One day, however, war broke out within the species and they destroyed themselves. The Grey Man saw, in their senseless a violence, a "madness" external to the mortals' own way of thinking, and realised that his colleagues were responsible for the introduction of "them and us", "good and evil" and all other such absolute dualities to their noosphere: | ||
{{quote|There was a madness manifest in the design of that virus. (…) | {{quote|There was a madness manifest in the design of that virus. (…) Polarisation and duality. Undiluted absolutes. Fine for chess but chess is a game, and these concepts had been applied to the real world. I call it madness. It was nothing of the kind. (…) There were other agencies at work. Not alien forces, because no such things yet existed. I investigated and I found… found the influence of my people, of'' my'' race. They had developed the madness because it suited their own purpose, it suited the rivalries and the tensions that divided them and to which I had not been a party. Their influence stretched through the cosmos, down to the universal structure itself. There is a structure – perhaps, it is difficult to explain – but it is a loose and pliable one. They had taken it and were making it rigid, imposing their own philosophies, their absolutes. They had taken the people of the first world to war. They had destroyed the oldest civilisation for their own fathomless motives. I do not understand why. Perhaps they were jealous, perhaps they hate those who live the real life that has been denied to them. Perhaps they wish to be worshipped as if they were gods – they style themselves as such. I have never understood, perhaps I have not tried.|The [[Grey Man]] ([[PROSE]]: [[Falls the Shadow (novel)|Falls the Shadow]])}} | ||
He fled "[their] home" and created [[Cathedral (engine)|Cathedral]] in an effort to inject ambiguity and [[free will]] into the universe. He hid it in a pocket reality, making sure his people would not discover it. He himself, however, "long[ed] to see it again" and returned to this "home" where he was "immediately placed on trial by [his] colleagues" for his so-called [[blasphemy]]. He was "cast out", "fell", and "burned", essentially dying; his mind only survived as part of Cathedral, though he could project himself from it into the universe, the form in which the Doctor and [[Bernice Summerfield]] would eventually meet him when [[human]]s studying [[interstitial time]] stumbled on the secrets of Cathedral. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Falls the Shadow (novel)}}) | He fled "[their] home" and created [[Cathedral (engine)|Cathedral]] in an effort to inject ambiguity and [[free will]] into the universe. He hid it in a pocket reality, making sure his people would not discover it. He himself, however, "long[ed] to see it again" and returned to this "home" where he was "immediately placed on trial by [his] colleagues" for his so-called [[blasphemy]]. He was "cast out", "fell", and "burned", essentially dying; his mind only survived as part of Cathedral, though he could project himself from it into the universe, the form in which the Doctor and [[Bernice Summerfield]] would eventually meet him when [[human]]s studying [[interstitial time]] stumbled on the secrets of Cathedral. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Falls the Shadow (novel)}}) | ||
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