Good and bad are relative terms. That is easy to wrap one’s brain around. But real evil, pure evil, is identifiable by those who value life or an existence unencumbered by pain and tragedy.
Evil is associated with a desire to end life for reasons that cannot be justified, or for a justification that is so singular that it’s fulfillment comes at the expense of others so as to prioritize the plight of a small minority over that of a large majority.
Imagine the scenario of two warring forces, force Red and force Blue. A being of force Blue will see the motivations of its side as noble, regardless of what those motivations truly are, because they seek to defend the honor of the Blue force against the Red. Beings from the Red force would be seen as bad from the perspective of a Blue force warrior. Because of the casual use of language, some on the Blue force may use the word evil to describe their enemy depending on the nature of their conflict, but the opposing force would be seen objectively as fighting for their side and any actions they take, no matter how brutal, could be explained by the context. It is easy for true evil to hide in large scale physical conflicts, but it’s impossible to assume the presence of true evil on either side of the conflict.
In order to determine pure evil it is necessary to know the real motivations behind violent acts that result in many deaths. If we know that the Blue force is only interested in slaughter for the sport of it and this was the real reason for their conflict with the Red force, then a case can be made for the evil nature of the Blue force.
Evil is not subjective, but it can be hard to identify because how can we ever truly know another’s motivations?
Hell, the dark in-between, is home to many things that can be considered true examples of evil. Things hostile to the lives of beings across the various realms of matter that take pleasure or sport in destroying it. It is why they were banished from the realms of matter; their disruption to the natural existence of large numbers of others.
Among the beings of Hell, is the current Father, or ruler, a being who has ruled the dark catacombs for many millennia. The Father was very small compared to the other beings in the dark in-between. He originates from a parallel of existence where sentience developed on a quantum level and beings of this existence occupy particles that are extremely small in our parallel of reality. The Father inhabited a massive Top quark and it existed long enough for 10,000 generations of the Quarkert beings to live and die inside its form, a relatively short time for quarks of this realm. But the resplendence of the Top Quarkerts, who appeared as beings of pure energy molded into bodies with two arms and two legs, and the advancement of their civilization in the time they existed was outstanding and they even developed a unified theory of physics that alludes sentient societies across the multiverse in the relative present. These Top Quarkerts advanced the knowledge of the Quarkerts across their entire atom, thanks to the information sharing enabled by gluon transmission lines, and even though the majority of the inhabitants perished when their Top quark down shifted under the pressure of it’s enormous size, they were immortalized by survivors who still occupy the Strange quark their home became in the aftermath. The Strange quark would last much longer and many museums have been erected to honor the culture of the Top quark from which it originated.
The Father was believed to be a casualty of the downshift to Strange and many believe he perished when the Top quark reversed its spin and lost mass. He was called Tungsten then and he was old in the period just before the downshift. He had given much of his life to the advancement of Quarkert science, but he knew that the civilization that had raised him would cease to exist with the changing of the quark and he was bitter. He had given rise to eight children with the help of his partner, Oson, who held his hand while they combined their energies to produce their offspring. Oson was a scientist like her partner, but unlike him, she accepted the changing of the quark and she was content with the legacy that their Top quark would have in future generations of quarks all over their atom.
In an attempt to defy the fate, Tungsten fled his quark while Oson and their children were preoccupied and he set out on a mission to find a stable quark that he and his family and friends could inhabit. But that was the noble intention that he told himself, Tungsten knew that every quark in his atom was inhabited by a thriving culture of Quarkerts who would happily welcome his family and any other refugees hoping to flee the destruction of their home, many of the Top Quarkerts of Tungsten’s home world had done just that, but really, Tungsten was bitter and hoping to flee his atom altogether. It had been done before, Quarkert physiology made them well suited for extremely long range travel, and their technology was advanced enough. But what Tungsten really wanted was to see what no other Quakert of his atom had ever seen, go where none other had ever been. He wanted to be more than the stuff that was sacrificed at the whim of physical processes outside of his control. He wanted to be a master of reality.
Tungsten drifted space alone in a craft for a very long time. He lost all concept of the society he had left, the loved ones he had held dear. It all gathered together into a warm and fuzzy ball deep in his consciousness that he would only visit in his dreams. His reality was watching the strange views through the front of his ship as he left his atom and traveled through others.
Tungsten experienced something that made him the Father he is today. How he went from beyond microscopic, to ruler of Hell is a very interesting tale.
PRL Serials 