Hey, i looked at a big picture of cradle, it has the globe racket thing. also, the land was totally separated into hexagonal sections. Not to mention, there are huge holes in the surface going into the clockworks. The entire thing looks so artificial, almost as if the cradle isnt just a planet with the clockworks built into it, as if the entire thing was created entirely by the gremlins. almost every single creature is a robot, and the only biological and intelligent beings are gremlins and devilites. there were the people of almire and the other two kingdoms, but their origin is completely unknown. what if the gremlins created this perfect world? what if its not even done yet? what if the other creatures evolved naturally? This is probably the biggest interesting thing created by sega/OOO like ever. What have you pondered about the cradle? Thing I think most about is the globe thing that goes around the planet. i think its a transportation system of some kind! you could get in the marker and the thing would spin and move and take you to any point in the cradle! interesting huh?
The Cradles Mysterious Secrets
The gremlins are either making a new planet to live on because there old one died out, or they're the planet making guys from Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy.
Pfft! Gremlins...
The gremlins are little more than glorified janitors for the Clockworks. It's been hinted at that the construction of the expansive mechanisms beneath Cradle's surface are likely beyond the gremlin's current mechanical capabilities. There's something bigger than these furry munchkins behind this. If you ask me? There's something sleeping in down in the Core. Something terrible. Something that likes to harvest large plots of land from habitable alien worlds, to add to the growing menagerie that we see every time we delve deeper into Cradle's depths.
The team of knights that are currently probing the Core? They're playing with Pandora's box. 'Cause when that colossal orb opens up, and the curb-stomping Core-dwellers discover our presence in their perfect little planetary museum... Well, it's only a matter of time before they discover where we came from.
Mark my words. If we're not careful, the Spiral Knight homeworld is going to be next on Cradle's menu.
"almost every single creature is a robot, and the only biological and intelligent beings are gremlins and devilites."
...Wolvers and Slimes are mechanical? Only one of the four boss strata is machine-based, and that one wasn't added until three months after release.
"The entire thing looks so artificial, almost as if the cradle isnt just a planet with the clockworks built into it, as if the entire thing was created entirely by the gremlins."
If you ever reached the core, there's an NPC down there that flat-out tells you that the Gremlins cannot have possibly built Cradle from scratch. They remodel the Clockworks regularly (as seen in the Deconstruction Zones), but they're not the ones who created the planet.
nick: the faceless Devilite CEO
Boswick: King Tinkinzar
just saying