Talk:The Enlightened/@comment-28939893-20160903213900/@comment-28939893-20160917205334

Huh. OK. In my universe, which is an SCP Foundation-Fear Mythos-Cthulhu Mythos crossover, the Chaos Insurgency became the Enlightened after becoming "enlightened" and splintered off from the rest of the Foundation.

I also went with the Chaos Insurgency Hub interpretation of the Insurgency. In this version, they began as a covert task force who pretended to have splintered off, but were just doing this so people didn't see the Foundation as evil.

Then they really did split off. In the Hub's version the reason is unknown, and I gave them a reason: they had become Enlightened.

This is actually a merging of several different ideas. The idea that the Insurgency was originally pretending to have split was from the Chaos Insurgency Hub. A group originally part of another organization until it split to worship one or more "gods" came from my interpretation of the Panopticon (no longer part of my universe): They were originally part of the government think-tank, but left to worship the Eye. I never came up with a good reason for them to want people not to believe in the Fears though, so I merged them with the Insurgency. The third aspect of my version of the Enlightened came from the idea of the Enlightened in general, and that they always end up the same or similar regardless of their origins.