"None alive know. They may have been one giant creature, or a gestalt. Nobody really knows what their true form was. Forever unknown, in some measure. But they were vast enough to physically rend a planet apart."

"And yet," he smiled, shaking his head, "to always reflect a familiar demon. To find the deepest fear in the base of he mind, and exploit that. Unnecessary, but an added touch."

"Nor indeed was any of this the worst of what they did. There were worse things, still."