![]() This race does not much look like any other in the game with the exception of the lizards their hunched backs and saw-tooth mouths are closest to their physiology as observed in the game. These are marked on the map as special buildings but when visiting them these shrines do not depict the otters offering water but instead a different race, not only controlling water by holding it in their cups but 'creating' it from their mouths as well as from the central water feature. In the Eastern area, there are two identical 'shrines'. The other, minor races, do not have any iconography associated with themselves throughout the game with two exceptions. Finally, the lizards were undone through their advanced technology by inviting the very thing that destroyed them so quickly. the birds were overthrown from within by more powerful/aggressive users of their magic. The otters' ceded control of their water to another race and in so doing, lost their lives. What is also interesting is that it is a corrupted form of each of these offerings that ended up bringing each race to their knees: The raccoons were 'infected' with their crystal, becoming zombie-like entities. Since there are no statues of the lizard's offering it is difficult to say how or what they would have looked like given that there is no overt imagery of the race within the game but it is pretty safe to say they the lizards offered their advanced robotics technology. It's a bit difficult to determine exactly what each offering is signifying but if I had to make an educated guess it is the following: the birds offered their 'magic', the otters offered their control over water, the raccoons offered their control over the green crystal. What is important about these statues is that they are not merely depictions of the race in question but show what the species offered towards the great project. Statues in profile and facing the camera, displaying their respective offerings. ![]() This discrepancy is explained by the tablets found in the Southern area and is discussed later. The bird, raccoon and otter races have lots of iconography associated with them and their areas, as seen below, but the lizards do not. Those four races are depicted as the birds, raccoons, lizards and otters and are laid out in the diamond formation in their cardinal points of land ownership on the world map. They create the AI which is depicted with the image of a dog with a diamond of light around its head. As I mentioned above, the four main races come together and pool their knowledge/resources into a great project. ![]()
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