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Brian Staveley on gods, the Csestriim and balance

We found an old answer to questions about gods and their links to the Csestriim.

One of the principles governing the theology of the world is balance. As a result, the old gods came into being (no one in the word knows or understands how--the theology varies from religion to religion and region to region) in pairs: the Blank God, then Ae (nothing and something), Pta and Astar'ren (chaos and order), Hull and Intarra (Darkness and Light), etc. When the universe swings too far toward on pole, a countervailing force arises to balance things out. The Csestriim and the Nevariim, were both created by Bedisa (goddess of Birth), and created to balance each other out. The Csestriim--rational, cerebral; the Nevariim, instinctive. When the Csestriim destroyed the Nevariim, there was a major imbalance, and some speculate that the young gods (and hence the humans) emerged in response to that imbalance...

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I believe this is extremely interesting since in the books the Csestriim are said to have been almost entirely destroyed by humankind. Does it mean there are way more Csestriim alive than we think? or did it cause another imbalance that will cause further changes in the world and its creatures?