The latest Uncharted Realms story has me thinking that the Eldrazi might not be evil. At least, not from their perspective. From our perspective they're plane-destroying monstrosities that can't be reasoned with. But the conversation Emrakul has with Jace in the story has me thinking...supposing Emrakul was trying to save planes? Is it really such a leap? What if Emrakul was trying to, I don't know, evolve life? In order to better survive whatever might be coming? Admittedly, evolving life against its will is not really a nice thing to do, since most life enjoys being the way it is now, more or less.
In a really creepy way, it's almost motherly - Emrakul, Mother of Evolution, Twister of Forms, Betrayer of Flesh. But not necessarily because she wants to KILL life, she just wants to CHANGE it.
The Eldrazi were never really good or evil. They just happen to have diets that consist of entire realities and Emrakul happens to be the wine snob of the 3. Innistrad just hasn't reached the right year for her yet so she's just gonna chill on the moon for a bit.
I think it's not outside the realm of possibility that Emrakul might just be misunderstood. She must realize that there's no way that an entire plane would willingly welcome the idea of all sentience and physical identity just being melted away into a huge blob before all the mana gets sucked out of the ground and the plane is destroyed? And she must have realized that, because otherwise she wouldn't have trapped herself.
And on the front, why DID she trap herself? It doesn't make sense - from a storytelling perspective, it was kind of inevitable, because otherwise the Gatewatch would've died on their second assignment. But Emrakul could've just steamrolled her way through and done as she pleased. So why did she retreat?
The best villains are not evil in their own mind. No one sets out to be 'evil' - they just have their own agendas and okay, maybe they have to pull 'ends justifies the means' once in awhile.
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In a really creepy way, it's almost motherly - Emrakul, Mother of Evolution, Twister of Forms, Betrayer of Flesh. But not necessarily because she wants to KILL life, she just wants to CHANGE it.
Anyone else think it might be plausible?
And on the front, why DID she trap herself? It doesn't make sense - from a storytelling perspective, it was kind of inevitable, because otherwise the Gatewatch would've died on their second assignment. But Emrakul could've just steamrolled her way through and done as she pleased. So why did she retreat?