The Monsters Under the Bed

Monsters, the human race has been fascinated by them for as long as we can remember. Ancient myths are full of terrible creatures from the other side; ghosts, orcs & goblins, gnomes & pixies, gorgans & gargoyles...

We terrify our children with stories of bogiemen and boglins under the bed, monsters in the closet...why?

Why do we have creatures all around our house that need to be placated or minor chaos will ensue?

The Chronicles seized this folklore with eager hands once the Nephilim started to develop.

We realised that we could use something like them, a race of sort of human creatures who possess an extra strand of DNA gifted to them by their angelic forebears. Now, angels, remember, are the precursor, purely spiritual beings with an obviously physical component somewhere that allows them to create a fully working human body around their astral one. That an angel would have DNA (twelve-stranded, no less) might sound counter-intuitive to some but, to us it is both logical and necessary. In order to pass on the kind of traits and problems experienced by the early Nephilim, there must be a genetic component.

Why only one extra strand is passed on is just one of those things I am not going to explain, it just seems like the right number.

As I said, the angels are the first form of 'life' in our universe (that we know of) and existed before our universe, technically, existed. It is therefore reasonable to assume that they were created with the same potential that other life came to inherit. When angels encarnated and took on flesh, their spiritual bodies expressed differences and these differences were passed onto the children they later 'fathered' with mortal women. It is safe also to assume that the DNA of the angels somehow 'learned' from earlier disasters and refined their zygotes so that they contained only three strands because all 12 meeting human DNA was not beneficial to the offspring's survival. This idea of DNA learning by itself is real and cutting edge science and, though it is far from being proven, this is a work of fiction isn't it?

Monsters in the Dark

So; this human need to have some horrible creature with lots of teeth, claws, and an ugly aspect concealed either under their bed or where they hang their clothes...why?

The psychology is simple really, it's easier than explaining what is actually going on, especially when we don't actually know what that truly is. Also it might be part of a terrible and traumatising parenting practise which seems to be dying out;

"Eat your dinner/go to sleep/tidy your room or the monster will get you!"

Humans are, for the most part, quite an imaginative species. If we cannot explain something, then we'll invent something that can. We have Santa Claus to blame for the children not getting the presents they wanted for Christmas and for ensuring they behave in the run up to said festival. We also have monsters to explain other phenomena we are unable to explain.