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Another ill-used and twisted concept, [[Chaos]] is the oldest direct enemy of the Church. Misunderstanding and misdirection are key to Chaos' power in Creation.

To understand the danger of Chaos, one need only list the things that have come from it: the [[Spawn of the Unnamable Horror|Unnameable Horror]], [[Pazuzu]] and his legions, Entropy and Discord. All of these and more, all possessing of godlike power, these beings would like nothing more than the chance to overpower Creation and destroy it. Some have, in the past, come close, nearly destroying the Gods themselves, and were only stopped by the direct intervention of the being now known as the [[Logos]], [[Sarapis]].

The everyday phenomenon that we experience in Creation that we call chaos is primarily the result of the dispersal of Entropy and Discord in our realm. It's unknown if this was a planned-for result. It is possible that these entities counted on this, and thus secured a foothold for Chaos within Creation. While chaos, in the common form we take for granted, is not known to be particularly harmful (and indeed, has become a basis for life as we know it), it is a shadow of Chaos.

The practice of [[Occultism]] keeps open a window to Chaos, allowing its denizens a constant taste of what they desire. It empowers them, and lures them. It promises power and knowledge to the practitioners, rewards that would be worth absolutely nothing if Chaos succeeded in its bid to invade. The world got a very, very small taste of what could happen, when the Goddess of Chaos, [[Eris]], was frozen into a statue during an experiment. In Her stasis, some of Her power was released from Her control, resulting in hideous, torturing deformations of life, and life breathed into things that were never meant to contain it. If you experienced these times, you have a fraction of an idea of what unopposed Chaos means to Creation.

Very likely, anything you know not of Creation is of Chaos. These were the two realms created in the dawn of time.