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Vodyani: lore and description?

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8 years ago
Oct 16, 2016, 1:37:26 PM

I understand the Vodyani are made of essence/energy and they survive by leeching energy/essence from other lifeforms, is there any place where this is explained in detail (design document, dev thread/blog, etc), I mean, what they actually are , etc? 


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8 years ago
Oct 16, 2016, 1:45:15 PM

My point of interest is their b***s. I mean discrete femine signs. What happened with their men ?

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8 years ago
Oct 16, 2016, 10:59:06 PM
rvm1975 wrote:

My point of interest is their b***s. I mean discrete femine signs. What happened with their men ?

You have to also remember, they're utilizing technology scavenged from the endless. If the intro is to be taken literally then they started out as these kinda strange looking creatures, hunched over and with reverse knees. Now they're utilizing, from what I understand, kinda early Virtualization technology to house their consciousness in suits, more like the Broken Lords from EL than the Virtual Endless who were shown to just kinda float around. Thus it stands to reason, maybe there were just more feminine suits xD and it also fixes up the bit where people were saying stuff like "Why do they look so human?", well, the Endless were almost direct humanoid analogs so it flows that the suits follow in that tradition.


I dunno, i just really like their design personally. Probably gonna be my personal favorite if the vaulters don't make it in (Which I'm willing to start a bet that if they're not with release they'll be in an Expansion.)

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8 years ago
Oct 17, 2016, 2:38:15 AM

And maybe, they realized they had more space to put the essence if they had b***s. So it's a practical thing too! :D

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8 years ago
Oct 17, 2016, 12:16:42 PM
Nyanko wrote:

And maybe, they realized they had more space to put the essence if they had b***s. So it's a practical thing too! :D

They're not b***s, they're frontal storage units.

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8 years ago
Oct 17, 2016, 6:58:18 PM

I think its particularly interesting, pulling from the Tchinomy entry on the wiki, that the Vodyani now view their natural forms as "weak and grotesque". Its quite an interesting parallel, whereas the forms they now inhabit were probably created as the Virtuals ideal of the perfect form of their species, at least that's what I would design if I were making technosuits to house peoples' conciousnesses. It seems like the Vodyani may eventually forget who they once were and, *gasp*, start to view themselves as equivalent to their "gods" as they grow technologically, socially and territorially. Or maybe they'll start to blur the lines between themselves and the Endless, as they awaken more Virtuals and share suits with them, like the faction heroes do.


Man, now I just want a book about Vodyani society haha. Perhaps from the view of a person not totally under the sway of the Church, but not completely disagreeing either. Watching their species slowly succumb to loss of identity.


EDIT: Spelling fixes

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