IMO Chaos from 40k represents what the Dark Side should represent better, pure bottomless descent.
It keeps taking and taking and taking until there’s nothing left, and then it makes you into a vessel to take from others to sate what you alone no longer can.
It’s damnation, but it’s also an addiction, it’s always eluding you and dancing further away for you to pursue for the next high, and no matter how close you get in that high, no matter how horrified you are by the true face of what you’re chasing when it’s in view, the new low you’ve brought yourself to for what you’re chasing, the new feat of horror you’ve subjected yourself and at this point your victims to, once it’s beyond your reach once more you can’t help but fall for the beautiful lie once more and resume the chase.
Darth Sidious isn’t a pinnacle of the dark side, he’s just the strongest crab in the bucket.
IMO Chaos from 40k represents what the Dark Side should represent better, pure bottomless descent.
It keeps taking and taking and taking until there’s nothing left, and then it makes you into a vessel to take from others to sate what you alone no longer can.
It’s damnation, but it’s also an addiction, it’s always eluding you and dancing further away for you to pursue for the next high, and no matter how close you get in that high, no matter how horrified you are by the true face of what you’re chasing when it’s in view, the new low you’ve brought yourself to for what you’re chasing, the new feat of horror you’ve subjected yourself and at this point your victims to, once it’s beyond your reach once more you can’t help but fall for the beautiful lie once more and resume the chase.
Darth Sidious isn’t a pinnacle of the dark side, he’s just the strongest crab in the bucket.