No I didn’t post this in the wrong thread. *ahem*
It seems pretty clear in the games that Scrabs and Paramites are the only species the Mudokons consider sacred (or at least sacred enough to integrate into their Shrykull god), since those species are the only ones with temples related to the testing of the Mudokon savior and the only ones which Mudokon tribes use to guard their tombs in Necrum.
While it’s possible there were other temples dedicated to other species, it seems unlikely that the Mudokons would just alter the “savior test” just for practical purposes. The Shrykull power requires only the two hand scars from the Scrabanian and Paramonian temples, and if other temples were originally involved surely they wouldn’t just be able to stop using one or more scars in the ritual and get the same results.
In Monsaic Lines there is only evidence of the Scrabanian and Paramonian temples’ existence – Scrab and Paramite statues*, story stones describing those lands and the trials the Mudokon savior must complete to prove themself, and the two wells leading to each land.
Meeches were known to have existed in the area, but nowhere in Monsaic Lines is there any mention of the species, and there is no scar (or other ritual element) which could be connected to them. I think it’s safe to say that the Shrykull power is only explicitly connected to Scrabs and Paramites, and these are the only species (at least for the native Mudokon tribes living in Mudos) considered sacred on such a level.
* There are also Elum statues, but the lack of any other mention of Elum relating to the Shrykull power means we can safely put this down to Elum being a revered workhorse of the Mudokons and not explicitly a part of the tests.
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