Talk:Poseidon/@comment-83.81.246.143-20150203174351/@comment-25035274-20150216152719

" If we're going to take his word for it about Zipangu, I don't see why we wouldn't take his word for it about the chaos gods."

He's seen Zipangu first-hand. Any information he has about the Chaos Gods is second-, third-, or fourth-hand, at best.

Also, KC has officially stated that Wandering Scholar actually doesn't always have it right. Wandering Scholar is forming opinions based off short-term observation of one or two individuals of a given species, which is why many of his profiles state that such-and-such does nothing but eat, sleep, and fuck.

Aside from that, he has also flat-out stated that much of what he has written in the books is complete hyperbole and is not intended to be taken 100% literally.

Sauce: New section in the Q&A

EDIT:

Quoted from that section:

"About the description of MGE, my intention and the interpretation of Westerners seem to be different much. As always, the descriptions of MGE are hyperbolic, and the reality will be more milder than that. The case of Apopis is not exception. And there is the setting that MGE is written by a human scholar in the world, not me. So sometimes the fact that "the increase of the ratio of sex in life was observed by him" can be interpreted "they are doing nothing other than sex", by him, from a human perspective. On the other hand, WG2 was written by an MG, so she write the truth that they communicate with friends or families, and they do the jobs and hobbies. When you read MGE, please consider such context."

Take KC's own words into consideration before you start trying to claim exactly what the Great Ultimate Truth is.

We'll find out what the truth of the Chaos Gods is, one day. For now he's chosen to leave it intentionally vague, likely because he intends to pursue it later down the line.