"Far better to have a savage universe with a happy end than a happy universe with no hope." Oryx said this in the last verse of his Books of Sorrow. The desired "final shape" of the universe is sought after because he wants the universe to not end, and any weakness will lead to fragility, and fragility will lead to an end. They just want the long term survival for not just themselves, but the universe. On the subject of narcissism, I would argue that they are not because they completely recognize and accept that they themselves may not be the ones worthy to join the "final shape," and that may just be another weak species that gets rightfully eradicated by something stronger. There's an interesting thing Oryx said about evil as a social concept and label. When people do things that go against the rules of their society (like murder for example), they don't fit in with society, and they are labeled as evil, and this brings me to what Oryx said on the subject of evil, "And they call us evil. Evil! Evil means ‘socially maladaptive.’ We are adaptiveness itself."