I've often wondered how a real life Oddworld Encyclopaedia might be published, but I've only ever come to the conclusion that it would have to come in the form of richly-illustrated in-universe material. What that might cause it to lack in objective accuracy and comprehensiveness would be made up for by the deep insight into how different races and classes try to influence and understand their world and each other. Vykkers' zoographies and lab notes, industrial reports and memos, taskmaster and slave handbooks, rebel propaganda, academic rubbings of native carvings, travellers' storystones. I'm salivating.
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