Talk:Genius/@comment-5480911-20140425195842/@comment-918376-20140907123305

But if those who weren't logged in became Genius monsters, there would be a lot more Genius monsters than there are Adventurers. Think of all the players who had quit before the Catastrophe or weren't online at the time of the Homesteading the Noosphere update.

I'm not sure how aware the Genius are of the real world, but they are aware that the Ancients are merely puppets and NPCs. That also implies that they aren't monsters created by the game, and only appeared after the Catastrophe. Perhaps the Genius monsters were game devs in the real world who somehow got morphed into them?

The two Genius monsters we've seen are level 89, which is still lower than the level cap pre-Noosphere.