Lore Theory?
Wed, 06/12/2013 - 13:43
This is just something I was thinking about for a while already, and just want to put it out.
Basing off the Danger Missions, could it be possible that there are two types of undead? The first 'undead' are represented in Ghosts in the Machine, who are restless beings from a recent to ancient past. They're only restless. However, Legion of Almire shows us not just a restless set of undead, but an accursed group. This is the second undead I was talking about. These undead seem to face the fate Kats and Almire took in [sorry for the obvious call]. These, more interestingly, have a stronger impact on the lore. Being accursed, they also fall in the same fate as Arkus and the Trojans, who are found in the Fiend family. The Trojans are most likely our own fallen Knights imbued with the curse mingled with a terrifying fate alongside Darkmatter. We find a powerful Trojan in Heart of Ice known as Maulos, hoping to freeze Cradle over.
Let's jump to the Gremlin family. We have not two, but THREE types of Gremlins: those loyal to Tinkinzar and the Crimson Order, those who betrayed him [including Herex, as heard in Operation Crimson Hammer], and the Resistance of Emberlight. This may be a jump for what we have right now. Tinkinzar has been mentioned as the Architect in the Echo Stones, and as far as we know, the Crimson Order is following his every step. He was maddened and fell into a craze trying to construct Cradle's Clockworks in what we could assume as a protection against the Swarm. In his madness, he fell into using the Clockworks to destroy all who enter, and, possibly, falling into the Swarm's hands, showing the Gremlin darkness in the Unknown Passage. Herex and his rebels continue to make the Clockworks an even more devastating place for whoever enters, but against those who fell into the Swarm's ideologies. The resistance of Emberlight fights against these corruptions. The Artifact Razwog took away was probably meant for Tinkinzar's bidding to maybe experiment with the Swarm. But we go back into the Swarm. Is it possible that these things are kept inside the Core and the Shadow Lairs were only an extension to keep them from spewing further?
Then we have the Swarm and the Fiends. Fiends are not found inside the Unknown Passage, but interestingly enough, Greaver wings, mobs now classified as Elite, have the Eyes that appear on Curse, the seals of the Sealed Sword [THE PASSAGE IS SEALED], and on the entrance to the Shadow Lairs. The eyes found on the Vortex bombs as well as the pressure plate Statues may have to do something with this, but not so sure yet [but may apply to each other]. Is it possible that the Fiends are responsible for Almire's fate, the curse brought upon the Kat Tribe, and for the Swarm's infestation? Just something I was thinking of after reading other things before. Now however, I think I might be behind. -_-
Fri, 06/14/2013 - 13:29
#2
Teh Jellies
The Jellies were always a monarchy, but the Valkyries came in and put their SS stash inside RJP. The reason the slimes are hostile is because they are responsible for protecting those swords. The sword has two purposes merely because of ultility. You can't always smack a beast with a DA, so the GF was made to counter that. Also, these two paths belong to two different legions of Valkyries. The dark Valkyries use the GF and try to bring peace to the fiends, undead, and the trojan race. The light valks try to bring peace to the gremlins and constructs (basically the same thing though), and the beasts. They tried to unite all the groups, but war came along and divided the two. The slimes are in between. The neutral, and protect the normal SS. The slimes have the royal jelly to converse with the valks, but the valks never listen to him. The slimes try to bring peace to all races, the slimes are the key to Cradle's peace. The slimes are the most sacred race on Cradle.
The End
Mon, 06/17/2013 - 03:54
#3
Derpuraptor strikes back
Ghosts in the Machine: Ghosts of Quicksilver-armor wearing people, who were the same race as Almirians and Knights.
LoA: Almirians that endlessly guard their Kingdom, thanks to the Curse Vanaduke spred.
Vanaduke: He's like Faust, a person who in one or other mythology or something made a deal with the Devil (In this case the Vog). The Vog mutated/something him into what he is now, a big creature with armor instead of skin. Magma fingers. Stuff. He returned to his kingdom, Almire, which was under siege (That's why he wanted the powers of the Vog, to save his kingdom). However, in his now-twisted mind, he couldn't tell friend from foe, and burned his Kingdom in process. He now thinks his kingdom is still under siege, and is always ready to fight.
Kats: For one or another reason the Kats had war with the Owlites. The first three class heroes (Demo, Swordsman, and Gunslinger) of the Kats decided to scale the walls of the Owlite High Academy of Magicks. Margrel, the fourth of the heroes, came with them. He however was a Black Kat, thus he had many bad luck on himself. The gunner killed some sages, the swordie was the first to scale the walls, and the bomber, I don't remember. Margrel found a book known as the "Book of Grey Feathers", that probably contained some sort of destructive magic. Out of curiousity, he opened it, and brought the Kataclysm (Which killed both the Kats and Owlites, however only Owlites could rest after) probably by reading some spells. The Black Kats we see in the Kataclysmic Confrontation event are the darkest and most war-consumed warriors and souls of the Kat tribe, but they seemed to be the dumbest out of all (Proof of this is not being able to read books, and instead eating them). I believe they didn't have much brains when they lived, but if Margrel knew the book was going to destroy all... Derp.
I believe there was this world wherein the entity who wrote the Echo Stones lives it. He was in danger, so other entities brought Gremlins from another world (Source: Bootshuze or someone else) to maintain the Clockworks which these entities created to protect the Echo entity, probably from the Swarm. The gremlin king Tinkinzar, also known as The Architect, has gone mad (either on his own, or either he was infected by the Swarm) and turned what used to be a shelter into a prison. That's probably why the Core is sealed. He turned the already dangerous Clockworks into an even bigger death trap.
Slimes on the other hand, they inhabit places abandoned by more intelligent races. The Slimes seem to be capable of producing little things such as crowns for the Slime Royalty (Source: Celestial Ore) or Pipes (Impostocube). The Impostoclaus on the other hand, well, I don't know.
Chromalisks hate Jellies because Impostoclaus never gave them gifts.
I have my theories, and I think the statues were crafted by the Fiends to warn of how putting that statue on the pressure plate brings you closer to the Swarm.
I noticed the Greavers bearing the Eye, and I'm not yet sure of a theory for this yet.
The Curse of the Kat Tribe, I am starting to imagine, is the Curse the Kats brought upon themselves so that they may retaliate against the Owlites' magic.
Almire's fate was obvious. Vanaduke sealed a deal with Vog, and brought the Cursed Fire, the Shadow Fire, to Almire so that he could keep it to himself forever. Oh my....Shadow Fire! Maybe this all traces back to Vog! The Swarm! Maybe whatever it used to be made a deal with Vog! And asked for ultimate power...yes, it's been there all along. The Swarm must have once been something, someone! In the Echo Stones, they speak of how it is no longer beast or god! Maybe a self-aware beast, like Vog! And it became god, but as it absorbed, it slowly became something else!
That leaves a question. Where did Sanctuary come from? Valkyries? Sprites? Another race entirely?
What if the Sprite Mother and Vog are somewhere on or watching over Cradle. And what if the bands on Faust and Avenger that are encasing the Eye...what if they are Swarm and Anti-Swarm. The raw creations of the Sprite Mother and Vog to wage war upon each other?
What if the two of them are the way the Core will open?
Sorry, this was just a whole bunch of brain explosions coming out in a bunch of random text. But maybe....maybe I have something....I still have yet to know of the other Echo Stones....if someone could give me the full text of the Darkfire Vanaduke Echo Stone and the Red Roarmulous Twins Echo Stone, that might give me a new lead...