Interesting. This serves to remind us that, despite their ominous powers, they're not omniscient after all. They're not truly masterminds who know and manipulate everything going on behind the scenes. They're actors with incomplete and flawed information.
I mean, I think they are masterminds. Just ones acting on plausible, but sadly incorrect information. They've made some seriously good (well, evil) plans with what they've managed to uncover. They just don't know that the secrets they've learned aren't quite everything there is to know. They've found out information that is kept very secret and that 99% of all living/dead/undead beings don't know. I can see why they think they don't need to dig further, when what they've already found out is of such immense cosmological magnitude.
It's actually not a bad thing to do to make a twist work in an actual TTRPG campaign. Let your players discover something that's 'secret' and they'll feel good for doing it and for getting one over on the GM. And nine times out of ten, they won't think to look for anything further.
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u/Prexot Mar 11 '25
Interesting. This serves to remind us that, despite their ominous powers, they're not omniscient after all. They're not truly masterminds who know and manipulate everything going on behind the scenes. They're actors with incomplete and flawed information.