Thread:LostGod2000/@comment-27818776-20141111220503/@comment-1762629-20141111223218

From what I read, the Beast is essentially this demonic entity who's lantern (which contains his soul, and thus his life) fell into the hands of a woodsman. To get it back, the Beast turns people into trees and tricks the woodsman in cutting them down and using their wood to fuel the lantern, in doing so fueling his own life and keeping him alive. The woodsman is under the impression that he's fueling his deceased daughter's soul, and doing this will bring her back to life. The Beast is experimenting in manipulation and mass-murder via feeding the people he's turned (including children) into trees into his lantern, but I don't get the impression he's doing it to be immortal. The whole time, he's trying to get his lantern back while at the same time preserving his own life.