moon

[freakyLA]

Do ya think there is any live on Oddworldian moons? The most important moon which we´ve seen so far is this one with the Mudakon handprint on it. I can´t imagine how it came there. It can´t be a coincidence. What meaning does it have? I just know that the time when the hanprint appeared was the time when the Glukkons fought the Mudakons and got industrial.

[Wil]

How Abe's Moon got there is never explained, and never will be explained. The Mudokons saw it as an omen of the coming saviour.

Munch will have his own moon, too. In fact, all the five Oddworld Heroes will have their own moon.

Between other projects, I am considering what life on Oddworld's moons would be like. Most of them seem too white and dusty for habitation, but you never know - it's an odd world.

[freakyLA]

well for five saviors, right?
But it had to come there. what will munches moon be like ? anyone knows

[Danny]

well... munch's hand, of course...

will munch's moon just appear, or will it have been there all along, like abe's?

how many moons are there?

[Lampion]

I have two theories of how mudokons made their handprint in their moon.

theory one

A huge mudokon conference took place in the past, when all the great shamans of mudos met togheter in a great celebration.

Then, all of them togheter concentrated a fantastic amount of spooce and send a tremendous ligthning bolt throughout the space toward their moon.

Controlling the direction and intensity of this ligthning bolt it was possible to print a mudokon-hand-like shape in their moon.

Well, this theory discrad the fact that the mudokons are the chosen people, because this way the hand in the moon wouldn't be a natural phenomenon, what lead me to think in another theory.

Theory Two

The mudokon hand print is actually the Hand of Odd. A fantastic god being that printed her own hand in the dark side of the moon, to show that the mudokon are the chosen one.

she did that a thousand years ago, but, because of the very slow relative rotating speed of the moon, comparred to the Oddworld planet, the hand print only appeared a few centuries ago, making the mudokons to know their fate and making the glukkons jealous of hteir condition of non chosen species.

Well, the rest is History...

P.S. I didnt read that in anywhere. I'm just wandering...

[freakyLA]

well I don´t understand teory two.ok the moon is the hand of odd? and odd is the god?
(who told you that? I never heard of it)

[Lampion]

Hi, Freaky!

Nobody told me that because it is not real. I was just thinking about the fact that there is a handprint in one of Oddworld's moon. It's not official information, at all. I created them

[Joe the Intern]

maybe instead of lightning bolts the mudokons used asteroids from the surrounding universe to collide with the moon and make the handprint? i dont know. im just wandering also

[Cool Paramite]

Some things just can't be explained.

[Xavier]

I think the thèory of a Odd.. ooops, of a God is the most possible, so the 5 heroes never be forget... They are the spirtual leaders of Oddworld and ODDGOD thanx them with a moon

[Malaprop]

I had a different theory, though I'm not an expert on Oddworld so some of the stuff here might not work with the facts...

Maybe the reason the Glukkons became industrial in the first place is that they realised the Mudokons were the "chosen ones" by seeing the paw print on the moon. Seeing no point in being spiritual creatures if they weren't favoured by some all-powerful being, they turned to science and industrial pursuits, and the way they enslave the Mudokons reflects primal memories of the despair and abandonment they felt when they discovered that it wasn't their fate to be a spiritual race. This would be interesting because it would mean the Glukkons aren't just "the bad guys", but wretched creatures without hope for salvation, helping the Oddworld games to become more complex than the simple 'good vs evil' outlook of most stories.

[Gluk Schmuck]

makes sense

[Xavier]

I found this text somwhere , but I don't think it's a Fan fiction:

THE FALL OF THE MUDOKONS

A long time ago, the Glukkons and the Mudokons lived lives that would belie their future entanglement with one another. The
Glukkons were not masters of Mudokon slaves.

Buried in the mists of Oddworldian time - unknown even by modern Mudokons - is a memory of the Mudokons as they once were: a
race of spiritual folk who weren't necessarily averse to warfare. Not warlike themselves, they served as advisors.

The folk the Mudokons counseled and the not-necessarily-admirable stuff they did in that capacity will be revealed. We'll also learn
just how this noble and seemingly powerful race of creatures went from the upper echelons of Oddworldian culture down to the
slaves used in Glukkon factories.

The Glukkons were at one time a very spiritual people. In fact, while the Mudokons were going through their Advisor Era, the
Glukkons were going through an era of their own: the Alchemy Era. Their belief system centered on the moon that orbited
Oddworld; the face of the planet appeared to bear the mark of a Mudokon's handprint. At the time, the Mudokons considered this a
sign that they were the Chosen People. The Glukkons went to great lengths through their alchemy to disprove this theory and prove
that they - in fact - were the true chosen people. During the course of these experiments, a disaster of unknown type occurred and
almost wipped out the Glukkons.

In short, this accident set the wheels of fate into motion. The remaining Glukkons became "Enclosurists," not wanting to look up in
the sky and be reminded of the fact that they weren't the Chosen ones. As a result, they immediately began spending all their waking
hours inside. Over the course of the many years that ensued, their eyes became incapable of dealing with natural light. Further, they
rejected their mystical heritage in favor of a colder, more scientific approach to their problems. Lurking beneath their disbelief, though,
is almost an inbred hatred of the Mudokons for their claim to divinity. This scientific approach, coupled with nascent ill will for
Mudokons eventually lead to the management approach that would have no problem enslaving Abe and all of his kind in the name of
the all mighty bottom line.

So that's the story so far. There are a couple of important things to keep in mind as the Oddworld story unfolds in the coming years,
though.

[Malaprop]

That's interesting, Xavier. Where did you find it?

However, I don't know if it's an official story, because it's incorrect in at least one aspect. It claims that Glukkons' eyes are incapable of dealing with natural light owing to all the time spent indoors, yet in Abe's Exoddus we see a Glukkon, I think it may be Phleg, out in the middle of the desert "recruiting" Mudokons using Soulstorm Brew. He doesn't seem to be having any problems with the light.

[Oddsville]

That was in the old Oddworld site in the History section, I remeber reading every part of that when it first was put up on the site.