Well I know that in some versions of the Babel story in the bible the city and it's tower are destroyed by god but there seems to be a lot of different opinions about whether god actually physically destroyed it or simply caused it to be abandoned and swallowed by time.
Maybe Lorne chose Nolybab as the name to refer to the big powerful city inhabited by many different species (language thing in the bible) which will eventually fall by the hand of Abe and the other mystical things on Oddworld the Mudokons apparently have on their side (god in the bible).
I dunno, I hoped there was a definite answer to that but I guess everyone is as clueless about it as I am
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