These four folk stories concern Eurmal, which was the Theyalan name for the universal Trickster figure (which may or may not have been synthesized into being by the Trickster College of Slontos, a theory which will not be addressed here). While the title of Trickster might bring to mind Mianmo's light-hearted wit and ability to dance around a point, she is here quite clear that the role of Trickster within Heortling culture was to be a negative example of behavior: to show the reason for rules by demonstrating what happened when they were broken.
Eurmal was not a god of Chaos, not inimical to the existence of the world. Indeed, it was necessary in the course of the Lightbringer's Quest, which was carried out by the Seven Lightbringers in order to save and reconstitute all of existence; the world could not have been remade inside of the net called Time without the assistance of Eurmal. But Eurmal is not tame, not good, and not anyone's friend. It is part of the world, but the part that we all would rather overlook and forget: the impulse to be selfish, to take what you do not need, to act without consideration, and to break laws simply because they are there. Such behavior is sadly not unnatural. Eurmal simply is.
Note, however, that Eurmal is allowed to flirt with Chaos, to invite it and its powers of dissolution back into the cosmos. Here we see the origin of a truly horrid Chaos cult (or one of its folkloric origins, at least), after all. This may be reflective of the fact that inside of Time, all of us have the power (should we so abuse it) to invite the inversion of the world back into the world: a world where people eat each other, where what is solid melts away, where broos sing their horrid songs, where Scorpion eagerly clicks her pincers.
