Welcome to the chaos that is our lore, condensed into a form that is very badly summarized, but you should get the idea. (Hint, Dark Stickman is TEOTDD, Terrorists (and later, Organization) refers to the DLO, White stickman is Rowan and so forth)
One day I'll write this into something proper, but this is how I'd explain it to a newcomer, in a rushed and every incomplete, oversimplified manner.
