Huh?? What are you getting that from? All I got from the fiction is that these strangers are the first of their kind to be returning to their ancient home, they are looking for information, and they think humans are ignorant and leading lives without meaning. We also know that they are like others of their kind and yet different in some way.
Yes, the story that introduced Myxkion starts out saying that he was seething with malice and feels destructive, but that could be because he's angry at someone. The strangers are allied with someone who is getting impatient and they are looking for something. I'm not so sure they are looking for an object per se, but rather information of some sort. Perhaps they seek the same information that the wisps who appeared after we cast the Armageddon spell were seeking?
The story that was posted most recently is also rather vague on exactly how many "great lords" were present when the six were sent into our world. I also got the impression that the "cloaked one" who helped open the portal has promised something to the Six's Great Lord...a "world of chaos given voice." It also sounds as if the "cloaked one" MIGHT be one of "three shadows," but not necessarily working in concert with the other two.
*sighs*
In this passage, Myxkion wants to commit genocide:
"Humans..."
"Tell me, would it not be better if we just wiped them out?" He nodded to himself. "Look at them. They *scurry*."
She laughed – with a harmony that would make the finest instrument jealous. Myxkion's ears enjoyed the familiar song. Then the bitter reminder of where he was gnawed at him with frost laden fangs. The only thing that annoyed him more than the cold, was the small camp of ignorant people down below, going about what, he felt, were their meaningless lives.
"I could destroy them all with a snap of my fingers," he mused.
The fair maiden's laugh stopping slowing into a teeming smile. "Don’t forget who and what you are, Myxion. There's no need for that – simply kill those in your way and focus on our goals."
Genocide is evil by most definitions.
In this passage, Myxkion commits murder on people camping outside Despise:
"We don’t need the unnecessary attention. But if they’re distracting you, then by all means, do it. Our ally grows impatient."
The words rang true, increasing his annoyance.
The wind died and a ball of crimson flame appeared in front of the man. The ground steamed where snow been packed inches thick moments before, and tendrils of fire licked the air around them.
The burning missile grew smaller as it shot down towards the encampment. A flash of light marked its impact, followed by a giant plume of angry smoke and ash. The shockwave carried with it the sounds that had traveled last of all back to the ears of the two steadfast strangers, up and above the chaos.
"You didn’t snap your finger," the woman playfully mocked her companion.
Below them, a few tiny figures fled the unfolding disaster.
"How silly of me to forget..." He snapped his fingers, and several more spheres of violent flame came to life.
Murder is, much of the time, evil.
Those passages were from the article called "The Six."
From the article called "A Short Time Ago," note this passage:
Their Great Lord's eyes now visible for the first time glowed in deep blues and purples. These energies were being summoned and manipulated from the Void itself. He saw the promise of the cloaked one unfold before him. It cried out to him, a world of chaos given voice, and he remembered.
Not as clear as the others, but surely sounds evil to me.
In this passage, they express glee at destruction:
"Valvakka, why do you smile so?" the woman asked one of her companions.
"Because, my lady Kealdia," his smile widened to display gleaming teeth, "My task has the highest of all honors: to destroy the weak ones that succumbed to... that human."
He clasped his hands in a quiet, but powerful, show of anticipation, his words trailing off in a whisper. "Weak... Fake..."
Most "good guys" in literature and pop culture may not exactly be torn up about causing destruction. Some may even like it. But that kind of glee at it is usually reserved for evil.
If the strangers are not evil, then the UO team is purposefully misleading us.
Always possible I guess.
*shrugs*
-Galen's player
