Editing AnglerStudios:Story/Lamb Shank (section)

=== The Threads of a Scheme ===

If he could manipulate one of the two of them, even both of them, into destroying the world, then he would be God by virtue of being the one to have instigated it.  So the question is: How does one convince them to do it?

Three basic facts about Enzi and Uzi became obvious to him in his observations:

* They're both naturally violent.
* They both have very strong moral impulses.
* They both love each other very much.

So he contrived this basic plan:  He would set up Enzi's 'adventure' and Uzi's 'success' so as to progressively increase their strength to an appropriately high level, Uzi overcoming various gangs, and Enzi fighting the Legendary Swords.  Once one of them has become as powerful enough for him to set them on their way, he would drop this bomb on them; the fact that the Black Aspect, which they hate so much, was infact present in everything, pervading all life and staining every aspect so universially so as to be totally undetected by their senses.

This revelation, considering their strict 'evil must be punished' philosophy, would drive them to destroy the planet and even themselves.  It got better:  by keeping them seperate, if one of them happened to die, then the other would go mad with grief and more doggedly do the deed.  In this way the two acted as contingencies to each other.

Even if Lamb Shank died in the process, in his own head at least, he would have completed his task.