Did I set this whole thing off by posting this in the Glukk evolution topic?
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originally posted by me:
I've long had a theory that Phleg is not in fact one of the many children of Queen Margaret. He looks totally different from all his peers. His skin is a totally different colour (all the other Glukks are purplish-brown [apart from the Brewmaster, who's greenish because he spends so much time amongst vats of chemicals], but Phleg's more yellowy-chestnut brown), he's far chunkier, wider and more prognathous, and his eyes are a lot closer together. I reckon that there are in fact several queens in each species (although Skillya is the only Slig queen that the Cartel knows about; the others must be in hiding), and Margaret is simply the main, or leading Glukkon queen, and her children get priority for job places in the Cartel. Phleg probably had to get quite a few strings pulled (I like to think that he's also more intelligent than most Cartelian Glukks) to get such a high position in the Magog world.
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Al said:
Or could he have been there for a darker purpose...possibly to infiltrate the magog cartel. Thoughts?
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I like it... I like it a lot.
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Majic_ said:
He could be older (1), yet more incompetent (2) ...
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1) Someone once asked Alf the ages of Phleg, Aslik, Dripik and the Brewmaster. Alf's reply was that they were all 29, coincidentally. He also said 'Phleg was 29 for at *least* 17 years...' That implies that it's been 17 years since he was actually 29, but he hasn't admitted histrue age since then, which would make him 46 (29 + 17, that is). I'm not sure I agree, though, because Molluck is 43, and Phleg looks younger than him.
2) I don't think so. If anything, I reckon he's more intelligent.