Humanity will match the Powers with me guiding them while they still require it. My thoughts were once of petty revenge, albeit on a scale fitting a God, but the more I think about it, the more I learn of these people, I see something far greater. It is said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic but that is not the case. In time they will develop technology that can be distinguished from magic because it is so far beyond it. The gods themselves will one day quail before mankind even though it may take the species a thousand millennia to get that far. They keep the balance not only to protect humans from the dark but to protect both light and dark from the humans. That is something I could have never conceived of in my original form, I thought that such as Homo-Sapiens were weak but they are mighty beyond measure, with great potential for good, evil or to grow beyond such trivia.
—Illyria in Chapter 9 of Compelled To Play By The New Rules
