Jeez. I remember a site I used to visit, some on-line roman centurion game community, that got too big and unwieldly once, they practiced a little decimation in true roman form- 10% of the population got the axe. It was kind of funny, but only because I wan't one of the casualties.
Anywho, as for the birds, I always thought that they were just another oddworld creature they hadn't fully introduced yet. THe big argument I've seen before is about what sort of spiritual powers they have to be so closely connected to portals and such. My personal theory is that the birds of oddworld are like pidgeons- they're sensative to magnetic resonance and such, so they instinctively flock towards disruptions caused by portals and teleporting individuals. As for why abe's soul turns into them when he dies is still kind of weird, though.
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