I keep thinking about that, and I only remember reading that on a fan site. Through official means that I recall, the Glukkons’ Alchemy Age was only mentioned once, and it doesn’t say their morphology was changed as a result of their ‘alchemy’. Nor does it say they were trying to change their hand shape. Nor does it explicitly say the Glukkons were nearly wiped out in terms of numbers, although that may be a more tangible inference.
What is actually said is this:
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In actuality, their belief system centered on the moon that orbited Oddworld; the face of the planet appeared to bear the mark of a Mudokon’s handprint. At the time, the Mudokons considered this a sign that they were, for lack of a better term, the Chosen People. The Glukkons went to great lengths through their alchemy to disprove this theory and prove that they—in fact—were the true chosen people. During the course of these experiments, a disaster of unknown type occurred and almost did to the Glukkons what Jerry Springer has done to America’s sense of decency.
In short, this accident set the wheels of fate into motion. The remaining Glukkons became what Lorne Lanning refers to as ‘Enclosurists,’ not wanting to look up in the sky and be reminded of the fact that they weren’t the Chosen ones—kind of like DeadHeads after Jerry Garcia died. As a result, they immediately began spending all their waking hours inside—kind of like Star Trek fans. Over the course of the many years that ensued, their eyes became incapable of dealing with natural light.
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That’s not to say it can’t be right.
It wouldn’t be the first time canonical information has become mainstream through an indeterminate non-official source. It also makes sense it way that’s logically elegant, which is probably why I took it for truth.
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Wow, hybridisation really fucks over cladograms.
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I searched for a while to find a cladogram that included a hybrid species, but couldn’t find anything that wasn’t a dendrogram of genes. Possibly Gloktigi aren’t elligible for inclusion on such a diagram because they’re infertile (as a species if there’s a morphological queen that pops up), or created individually.