Allegory

A TIME IMMEMORIAL - A strange beast appears, arisen from a foregone conclusion in the words that make the world – the will for assigned meaning, the desire for fate that could be understood and accepted by a searching mind – had a little split, you could say, and this beast was the eventual result. It began as a unique quirk in wording, in the composite words of a simple spider. It existed on such minor scale, at first, a kind of memetic ripple through the names of things that the spider came upon, in its tiny little life. The mark wrote itself upon the outcomes of cause and effect with ease, for it was so, just – a little new sort of so. And as the spread of its influence grew, the mark developed temperament, the basics of personality – ways in which it would favor being spread, rather than not; it was now no longer a toolmark that operated without conscious choice. This simple bit of existential grammar, something like – ‘and so it happened, as was the only imaginable outcome’ – became in itself that which decided what the only imaginable outcome was. It became the hidden meaning behind events. In short -- it became Allegory.

Allegory is an extremely clever manipulator, seemingly preternaturally aware of what would be the most powerful buttons to push to get reactions out of someone - actually, there's nothing 'seemingly' about it. Allegory, as a being born from the raw structure of meaning, can naturally observe the concepts that give someone form - their purpose, their meaning, what holds sway over their heart...

Allegory's persuasion over reality is strongest when reinforced in threes - naturally, this can be turned against it in many ways. And if something goes awry for it anyway, when done by rule of three - it's almost futile for it to attempt to change the outcome.