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Lore | Jun 18th 2009, 12:25pm | |
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Believe it or not, I actually am still trying to get start on an article inspired by the opening cinematic we saw at Blizzcon, concerning Kerrigan vs. Zeratul. It's not easy though given the truly absurd amount of possibilities, and my attempts at keeping it from becoming too much speculation and not enough fact.
The point of this thread though is for if and when I do get it out I'd prefer not to have to explain the background too much and subsequently keep it from being as absurdly long as my Diablo article. So I'm asking you all to get any questions about the lore, or story of it out of the way right now, I'll also probably do very short little blurbs about specific subjects every couple days for as long as I see fit in here to give you guys some subject matter to discuss.  |
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| Jun 18th 2009, 12:30pm | |
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Im a HUGE nerd when it comes to vidio game lore, but thers 1 thing i could find about starcraft lore...
what does a xel'naga look like???????????? |
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| Jun 18th 2009, 12:37pm | |
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no one knows how the Xel-Naga look like. maybe the Naga part can be like the Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne Naga. partly human and partly fish... although i wouldn't discribe them as a mermaid...
the only building i know by hearth is the Xel-Naga watch tower. which still doesn't give me any other idea of how the Xel-Naga look, or their buildings. an observatory mostly looks different from "normal" buildings so...  |
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| Jun 18th 2009, 12:45pm | |
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really... I always thought the Xl'Naga were likethe titans fom warcraft
also before i started playing starcraft i played warcraft and i was reading one of those books and i saw an ad for a starcraft book with a picture of kerrigan and t said somthing about xel'naga so i thought the xel'naga were a whole bunch of kerrigan looking ppl until i read the starcraft lore |
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| Jun 18th 2009, 12:52pm | |
Allow me, this subject has been very throughly examined in other topics, this one appears to be the most relevant, and instead of rewriting the whole thing, I'll just link it for you. http://www.sc2armory.com/forums/topic/4247/page:1 I think that answers your question. |
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| Jun 18th 2009, 01:05pm | |
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Is it just me or does it look like the Xel'Nage image has Tyrael like "wings"
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| Jun 18th 2009, 01:09pm | |
You aren't alone there, omega. :O GASP! Blizzard could bring the Archangel of Justice to PWN the zerg swarm!! That would be both sad, and totally epic at the same time.
Seen my map?
Note: No longer adheres to the petty rules laid down by mankind. By god, if I feel like devouring babies, then babies shall be devoured. |
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| Jun 18th 2009, 01:11pm | |
You are correct, they do look just like Tyrael wings, but it's kinda hard to give a semi-humanoid creature tentacles in a wing pattern and it not look like Tyrael. The arrangement which makes it look even more like Tyrael may be deceptive though, as the whole carving is apparently designed for symmetry so it's only natural that the tentacles would be spread out in that pattern. |
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| Jun 18th 2009, 01:23pm | |
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Yeah but it is still a fun little thing to look at. Also how do we even know that is how the Xel'Naga really look and not just some artist's portrayal of them.
No CoV I don't think at the end of SC2 Tyael will show up and say" okay this has gone on long enough its Diablo time" and kill everything. |
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| Jun 18th 2009, 01:40pm | |
D: :P lol, Yeah, that would be kind of an unsatisfactory ending.
Seen my map?
Note: No longer adheres to the petty rules laid down by mankind. By god, if I feel like devouring babies, then babies shall be devoured. |
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| Jun 18th 2009, 02:54pm | |
I doubt Zeratul's spent years searching for the secrets of the galaxy and ended up in a giant artificial cavern possibly millions of lightyears away from Zerus (Zerg homeplanet) or Aiur and found a giant cave carving depicting boot races accurately where Kerrigan was apparently waiting for him to look at some alien artist's composite sketch of a Xel'naga. |
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| Jun 18th 2009, 02:56pm | |
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This actually bring up a good point. Who made that relief? If it was the Xel'Naga then why make it of themselves?
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| Jun 18th 2009, 03:08pm | |
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wait... wat wat wat?????
Omega can u repeat that in noob plz didnt understand a word u said |
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| Jun 18th 2009, 03:15pm | |
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The relife I am talking about is at 00:50 in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSjRXI5XHw8 . I shows what should be a Xel'Naga if you don't know who they are look them up in starcraft wiki.
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| Jun 18th 2009, 04:32pm | |
I think it was the Xel'naga, I was doing research on the cavern it is placed in and it looks just like their style of architecture. No other known race builds like that, nor do any other races know of the Xel'naga, Protoss and Zerg (Terran don't count, at best only a few researcher and leaders from SC 1 even know the Xel'naga exist.) Unless it's Duran's home planet or something totally unpredictable like that, which is purely speculative. The Xel'naga may have done it for something of the same reason that Egyptian Pharaoh tombs were covered with hieroglyphs of all the battles they've won and whatnot. That's my best guess is that it's almost like an ornamental method of storytelling, like if a Chinese emperor had a bunch of calligraphy all around his palace it would qualify as decoration, but the calligraphy itself would be telling a story about some battle or something. |
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