Muds don't have feathers on there bodies. Those are the ceremonial
clothing of the ancient mudokons. Like the native indians wore for example. You know, whatever graphics software OWI used to make oddworld FMVs, they never detailed the ponytail object on a modokons head. Some people seem to say it is their hair, but I think it's actual skin, uh, strings or something like that. I can't think of the right word. |
The ponytails are made of feather-like hair. They can be tied up like Abe's, or grow freely like the Native Muds in MO.
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there feathers are part of their body look at mudarchers and shamans they have feathers growing from there fore head.
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Those feathers on the forhead are decorative feathers. The natural feathers are the ones growing from the back of the head.
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Yes, if you look close enough it appears the muds are wearing
feathers attached to a leather band around their heads or such. |
No, that's the band they wear at the feather's base to keep it tidier then it would otherwise be.
Maybe those feathers are natural, and appear due to the hormonal imbalances of getting older/more badass, in the same way a human might get hairier (or less hairy ;)) as he/she gets older. I always thought of mudokons as belonging to a vertabrate calss other than the five we have here (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish.) The same goes for most of the other creatures with bald, brighly coloured skin: scrabs, paramites, glukkons, sligs, slogs, slegs, outlaws, wolvarks, fleeches, possibly slurgs, Vykkers and Interns. The others are all mammal-like, bird-like or amphibious. |
I...see what your saying about the growing hair part.
You may have hyper, uh, coloristic eyes BM, seeing everything brighter and more colorful than normal. But I see glukkons as dark creatures that were made to be ugly in appearance and behavior. I thought it would be cool to have an alternate oddworld where the muds are the industrials and glukks and sligs were the servants and slaves. Even if that was so, I would still be hardpressed to to suddenly change sides and switch to playing games where the glukks and sligs have to save their races. And besides that, I guess the glukkons won't be really having orange eyes of evilness, instead a pathetic helpless face. Judging by what they're currently doing to oddworld creatures, that would be fine by me. |
I know they aren't brightly coloured! I was just trying to point out the wide range of pigments carried in the class. I mean, on earth a green pigment in animals is extremely rare, most green animals combine blue and yellow pigments. I'm just saying that bald creatures with a huge variety of skin colours have no real equivalent on Earth.
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Yes, I have also noticed that many of oddworld creatures don't
have hair and fur. Instead they have rough skin or plates, which makes sense do to the hostility and the climate of the planet. |
fuzzles are furry so are meeps.
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I did not mean it as all of Oddworld creatures being bald.
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EDIT: so are meeps. |
They're missing the visible fur. But I guess it was simpler that
way and didn't take as much work to design them that way. |