User blog comment:Nomad27/Predictions of what will Occur in Volume 10./@comment-95.252.234.253-20160209222619/@comment-27557332-20160210213053

'Darkness' and 'Evil' aren't always the same. Especially when taking anything even remotely associated with the Cthulhu Mythos into account. The Cthulhu Mythos Dark Young aren't really 'Evil'... they're 'Alien' in nature. I wouldn't even use the term 'Inhuman'... that implies that they understand and bother to even approximate the human thought process, which they don't. The best example I could give would be: If you had a huge ant hill in your yard would you think twice about filling the whole thing up with water or smoke to 'get rid' of all of them? Same thing. (Not 'kill', mind you... that implies they even had something that would be defined as 'life'.)

Many people do lump the two together, but that could be a intentional literary mental trap.

The whole level approximation thing may also be a kind of trap in the same exact manner. We don't see it in video games these days, but in many early RPGs things like 'Gods' weren't even assigned stats. Rules at that time used to state: Does not matter how powerful the 'Player' is... direct confrontations result in the 'Player' or 'NPC Character' losing.