Great discussions there!

Regarding the Fomorians, I personally believe they are the farthest the Endless reached while experimenting on Morgawr.  If you look at their heads as well as the tentacles things at their back, you can see a resemblance to Morgawr.

I think the Endless used heavy cybernetics, which we can observe on the Fomorians, to separate them from the Morgawr collective mind.  But they were still deemed a failed experiment so they were used to keep Morgawr imprisoned. 

Snerrir wrote:

Strange, it finally occured to me that Fomorians share some similarities with ES2 Cravers - boxy, triangular metallic heads, patches of "exposed" muscles, mention of being "created" rather than born... can it be that they have their origin in the same project?

And, looking on Vodyanis - seems to me, that ancient Broken Lords indeed stumbled on the similar cache of Virtualization tech, as did folks on Tchinomy... only aurigan Cloth is way more makeshift.

As for humans on Auriga, I still support the idea of several waves of colonization (OK, without Earth :-P)- UE mentions of Mezari suggest widespread nomadic/colonizing culture. It can be that several clans in fact found on their sensors a promising vibrant wolrd full of life readings and dust signatures... only to be gunned down by Endless kill-sats on arrival. And only the latest arrivals retained their Sci-Fi culture and looks.

Good point! I remember thinking that something was off about the Fomorians when I first saw a picture of them in-game, then realizing they looked like Cravers but behaved very differently. They were probably both derived from the same experimental stock, though it's possible the Fomorians are from before the Virtual-Concrete split.

Vodyani vs. Broken Lords - interesting idea. Virtualization provides the best explanation for the current state of the Broken Lords - but how, then, do they relate to the Ended minor faction, which are most likely fallen Virtual Endless? Was it through the Ended that the BL got Virtualized? 

I think the timeline for human settlement on Auriga is this:

Rootstock humans - become proto-Broken Lords

Ardent Mages and Roving Clans split off from Broken Lords

BL later become Virtualized

Original Mezari crash on Auriga, become Vaulters

Vaulters create and then exile the Forgotten

Another Mezari diaspora arrives on Auriga nearer to the start of the EL in-game narrative

*Somewhere, somehow, the Wild Walkers develop. I'm a fan of them starting off human, potentially the same rootstock as BL came from, and then becoming genetically distinct as they develope animalistic traits from Sharing with the wildlife.

The time... could me more of a common thing. As in - someone invetend how to divide time and name it and it got asimilated by others. Though... who knows?

SpaceVC wrote:
Where is Slowhands when we need him?

KnightofPhoenix wrote:


I also think the fact that the Roving Clans and Ardent Mages are the best parallels to the Concretes and Virtuals respectively is not a coincidence either. It does seem to suggest that the "humans" of Auriga are tightly linked with the Endless, be it a very successful experiment (including splicing between Endless and humans), or actual descendants.

lilyophelia wrote:
Actually, it's really neat because if you read the character bios, there are actually a lot of different nonconventional stories represented there, especially among the Forgotten.



I was very proud of Amplitude when I saw that. <3

Frogsquadron wrote:
Slowhands: (...) watch the man finesse his way out of the situation

Crixler wrote:


One big question I've had for a while now is about Skoros. Skoros is the Dust guardian, but the guardians are said to predate the Endless. Yet the Endless are said to have created Dust. Did the Endless not actually create it, and merely discovered it? Or were the guardians in general around before the Endless, but Skoros specifically only came to be after the Endless created Dust? Or did the Endless create Dust, but then somehow Dust got to Auriga before the Endless themselves did, thus allowing Skoros to exist before the Endless got there? I'm thinking probably one of the latter two options.

KnightofPhoenix wrote:
The Facts & Concept Art devblogs are an awesome resource. But it is my impression that they sometimes make reference to ideas that didn't materialise or that had changed substantially. For instance, one person said that the Broken Lords are Concrete survivors, which is seemingly contradicted by the faction intro. So it might have been the original idea behind them before it was changed. Unless they are concretes...

KnightofPhoenix wrote:
It would appear that the Roving Clans came into existence after breaking off from the main body of what will eventually be known as the Broken Lords, who we will assume were located on the Amber Plains. It is unclear whether the Ardent Mages are also an offshoot of the Broken Lords, or are rather an eventual off shoot from the Roving Clans. The similarity in names (both having significant Middle Eastern influence), as well as the fact that the Ardent Mages also have clans, seems to suggest the latter scenario.

SpaceVC wrote:
Where is Slowhands when we need him?