For anyone who recently watched the new cutscene "Confrontation" we learned some peculiar things about Darkness. First of all that darkness has no goals, and secondly that Darkness is truly incorporeal and can only operate in the plane of existence by using a heart as a vessel.
Why did Ven kill strelitzia? Previously it was believed that Darkness took over Ven and killed strelitzia to enter the Dandelions but if we can accept what Darkness is saying to be true then Ven may have already been willing to commit the act and either Darkness is merely what allows him to do it or Darkness amplifies those desires until Ven can't think of anything else.
The point is, darkness is instinct and chaos. Darkness doesn't make plans it will merely manifest itself in a heart in the physical realm in order to exist and its presence alone will make that vessel act out their instinctual desires to various degrees. Even if Darkness knows the plan as it's written in the book of prophecies it is powerless to avoid it because it is the embodiment of instinct and desire - when it sees a potential host it must occupy their heart. It has no concept of right or wrong and it does not care if it's nature brings about it's own destruction.
So if Darkness is the embodiment of instinct and chaos, then light is the embodiment of intent and order. The light that enters people's hearts grants them the capacity of "intent" - to form goals and create order. Hearts can be seen as a balance between these two - one side is intent and the other is pure instinct - or you could say it is the difference between a person who devotes themselves entirely to one goal and a person who just goes through life fulfilling every desire they have. Either way, both sides of the scale lead to obsession and can lead to atrocities. This is all simply to say that good and evil are not considerations made by either the light or the darkness, only people with hearts consider these judgement calls.
Which brings me to the main point:
Like the darkness, the light is willing to do whatever it takes to fulfill it's "intent", even things that are perceived as evil to create and maintain order, including all of the 7 deadly sins which are represented in the foretellers. People with hearts see greed, pride, gluttony, envy, etc as sins that lead to darkness because they are traits that a person with a weak heart naturally will possess and thus they are more susceptible to the darkness, but to a person of pure light that the darkness cannot touch these things can be seen as tools of manipulation that can be used to fulfill a goal. In fact, it may be true that beings of pure light have no concept of what sins even are - the sins would only be seen as weaknesses to be exploited.
If we assume that MoM is the physical embodiment of light in this reality then it makes sense that he has orchestrated everything that has happened including the darkness. It would mean that he is using the chaos of the darkness to create the order that he wants. Things like Ven killing Strelitzia happened because he wanted it to happen, not out of a desire to harm strelitzia but because his nature as the incarnation of light forces him to seek the path that will fulfill his intent and create a reality with perfect order.
What is perfect order? I think the reason why the master of master's is so exhausted from the fighting between the light and darkness is because the struggle itself goes against his nature; he exists in a reality of endlessly creating and watching his creations be destroyed. When he realizes he cannot overcome this cycle in their reality he concludes the perfect order would then have to be a reality where this cycle did not take place at all, which might be signalling a return to nothingness.
Which is all reflective of the many myths of creation and destruction in real life.
For anyone who recently watched the new cutscene "Confrontation" we learned some peculiar things about Darkness. First of all that darkness has no goals, and secondly that Darkness is truly incorporeal and can only operate in the plane of existence by using a heart as a vessel.
Why did Ven kill strelitzia? Previously it was believed that Darkness took over Ven and killed strelitzia to enter the Dandelions but if we can accept what Darkness is saying to be true then Ven may have already been willing to commit the act and either Darkness is merely what allows him to do it or Darkness amplifies those desires until Ven can't think of anything else.
The point is, darkness is instinct and chaos. Darkness doesn't make plans it will merely manifest itself in a heart in the physical realm in order to exist and its presence alone will make that vessel act out their instinctual desires to various degrees. Even if Darkness knows the plan as it's written in the book of prophecies it is powerless to avoid it because it is the embodiment of instinct and desire - when it sees a potential host it must occupy their heart. It has no concept of right or wrong and it does not care if it's nature brings about it's own destruction.
So if Darkness is the embodiment of instinct and chaos, then light is the embodiment of intent and order. The light that enters people's hearts grants them the capacity of "intent" - to form goals and create order. Hearts can be seen as a balance between these two - one side is intent and the other is pure instinct - or you could say it is the difference between a person who devotes themselves entirely to one goal and a person who just goes through life fulfilling every desire they have. Either way, both sides of the scale lead to obsession and can lead to atrocities. This is all simply to say that good and evil are not considerations made by either the light or the darkness, only people with hearts consider these judgement calls.
Which brings me to the main point:
Like the darkness, the light is willing to do whatever it takes to fulfill it's "intent", even things that are perceived as evil to create and maintain order, including all of the 7 deadly sins which are represented in the foretellers. People with hearts see greed, pride, gluttony, envy, etc as sins that lead to darkness because they are traits that a person with a weak heart naturally will possess and thus they are more susceptible to the darkness, but to a person of pure light that the darkness cannot touch these things can be seen as tools of manipulation that can be used to fulfill a goal. In fact, it may be true that beings of pure light have no concept of what sins even are - the sins would only be seen as weaknesses to be exploited.
If we assume that MoM is the physical embodiment of light in this reality then it makes sense that he has orchestrated everything that has happened including the darkness. It would mean that he is using the chaos of the darkness to create the order that he wants. Things like Ven killing Strelitzia happened because he wanted it to happen, not out of a desire to harm strelitzia but because his nature as the incarnation of light forces him to seek the path that will fulfill his intent and create a reality with perfect order.
What is perfect order? I think the reason why the master of master's is so exhausted from the fighting between the light and darkness is because the struggle itself goes against his nature; he exists in a reality of endlessly creating and watching his creations be destroyed. When he realizes he cannot overcome this cycle in their reality he concludes the perfect order would then have to be a reality where this cycle did not take place at all, which might be signalling a return to nothingness.
Which is all reflective of the many myths of creation and destruction in real life.
Edited by BlackDandelion