There were five guys on the Oktigi image. A Glukkon, an Oktigi on its host, an Oktigi on the floor, a Gloktigi, and something that seemed to fit between Oktigi and Gloktigi. That was the weird one.

That was an Octigi.
There are three Octigi's on the image.
Two on the floor,and one on the host.

omg...you people have figured all this stuff out? Better hope no-one asks how the amighty raisin evolved, eh?

He's a tree. The less said the better.

I thought it was octopi.

Hell, I'd even settle for octopodes.

But octopuses? That's too vaguely vulgar for my taste.

Anyway, on topic, has anyone figured a rough evolutionary time frame yet? I mean, I can't imagine their legs going vestigial rapidly, but the whole oddworld universe just seems so...young to me. It's hard to fathom such awkward creatures being around for very long.

Since we speak English, octopuses is the only acceptable plural. Octopi is misconceived, based on the assumption that octōpūs is a second declension Latin noun, which it is not. Octopodes is pedantic.


Strictly speaking, such awkward creatures would not exist for any amount of time at all, since such evolutionary pathways are roadblocked by severe selection pressures. There seems to be a peculiar aspect of Oddworldian evolution that influences its course towards literal realisations of human metaphors, most probably caused by the fact that it is a fictional world design by humans to whom establishing evolutionarily plausible life forms was merely a secondary objective.

As for time, the age of Oddworld could not possibly be established without either an official statement, which we lack, or a geological study, which would not be straightforward because (for starters) a world that size that can achieve an Earth like state clearly follows no known geological laws. Also it is fictional, which is a significant impediment to genuine scientific endeavour.

Good job your first sentence isn’t! I agree on all points except your last word.

That was the word Fowler's Modern English Usage. As I said, the word octopus does not derive from Latin, it is in fact from the Latinised Greek oktṓpous (ὀκτώπους), whose plural is oktṓpodes (ὀκτώποδες). But as I also said, we speak English, not Greek.

Perhaps it's not pedantry. Pedants are interested in being correct. Or am I confusing pedantry with semantics?

STOP BLOODY SMALL TYPING!

No. Inconveniencing you is the only fun we have.