Stobe's Account
The Mercy of Stobe
None had greater reason to wish annihilation upon humanity than Stobe - the sole surviving behemoth. His brothers knowingly walked to their doom, slain out of fear, slain for Obedience.
We do not know why Stobe was spared this fate only that he met his doom in Stobe's Gamble and is now layed to rest in Stobe's Garden, an oasis of life in an otherwise desolate expanse.
Stobe played no part in the Skeleton Rebellion, only interfering just before the destruction of the Capital of the First Empire. The actions and motivations of Stobe are widely debated but it is confirmed that he brought an end to the rebellion also known as The First Extinction.
We do not know why Stobe was spared this fate only that he met his doom in Stobe's Gamble and is now layed to rest in Stobe's Garden, an oasis of life in an otherwise desolate expanse.
Stobe played no part in the Skeleton Rebellion, only interfering just before the destruction of the Capital of the First Empire. The actions and motivations of Stobe are widely debated but it is confirmed that he brought an end to the rebellion also known as The First Extinction.
Stobe's Legacy
Records
Okranite Theories in Relation to Findings I
The Okranite scripts, although rather eccentric, are some of the oldest legible texts salvaged to this day and may offer a useful insight into the history of the ancients.
The most notable point of their teachings is that of the enemy:
The demon 'Narko' and her skeletons.
Was Narko in fact the leader of the skeletons and Okran an ancient human who managed to save the few remaining survivors from destruction in a battle between the two sides?
This still does not explain the malice for other races, other than a simplistic fear of those who are different. The most plausible explanation would be non-humans were born from the lesser tribes of the time which the ancient humans warred with.
These tribal societies would have been seen as inferiors incapable of grasping advanced concepts and thus feared as contaminating their pure blood.
Sabina, Machinist Theorist
The most notable point of their teachings is that of the enemy:
The demon 'Narko' and her skeletons.
Was Narko in fact the leader of the skeletons and Okran an ancient human who managed to save the few remaining survivors from destruction in a battle between the two sides?
This still does not explain the malice for other races, other than a simplistic fear of those who are different. The most plausible explanation would be non-humans were born from the lesser tribes of the time which the ancient humans warred with.
These tribal societies would have been seen as inferiors incapable of grasping advanced concepts and thus feared as contaminating their pure blood.
Okranite Theories in Relation to Findings II
It's no secret that I do not regard the Okranite religion of any value to historical research.
But for the sake of theorisation, let's assume that the beginnings of Okranism do coincide with the mass extinction - the First Extinction, as they themselves call it.
Scapegoating can be frighteningly easy during times of turmoil,
and mixed with religious fanaticism it can be all the more cruel.
Let's take Atticus' biological extinction as the reason for the ancient's end.
The skeleton,
immune to disease and biological attack, would have been the strongest surviving race and perhaps even a subject of envy.
The first religious texts originate back to a considerably longer time after the age of the oldest ruins, which suggests a chain of lost misinterpretations combined with this scapegoating.
Now let's look at another tragedy of nature: Volcanic eruption, earthquake, flooding...
Be it self inflicted destructive force or natural disaster, such huge scale destruction could easily be interpreted as an act of the 'demon'.
The skeletons survived the atrocity, perhaps due to a sturdier physical makeup, and thus are associated with this 'demon' as the ones to have carried out her will.
Finch, Machinist Loremaster
But for the sake of theorisation, let's assume that the beginnings of Okranism do coincide with the mass extinction - the First Extinction, as they themselves call it.
Scapegoating can be frighteningly easy during times of turmoil,
and mixed with religious fanaticism it can be all the more cruel.
Let's take Atticus' biological extinction as the reason for the ancient's end.
The skeleton,
immune to disease and biological attack, would have been the strongest surviving race and perhaps even a subject of envy.
The first religious texts originate back to a considerably longer time after the age of the oldest ruins, which suggests a chain of lost misinterpretations combined with this scapegoating.
Now let's look at another tragedy of nature: Volcanic eruption, earthquake, flooding...
Be it self inflicted destructive force or natural disaster, such huge scale destruction could easily be interpreted as an act of the 'demon'.
The skeletons survived the atrocity, perhaps due to a sturdier physical makeup, and thus are associated with this 'demon' as the ones to have carried out her will.
Mass Extinction III
How did the skeleton survive the mass extinction of the ancients?
Natural disaster and war explain the areas of destruction that we have found during excavations but they do not explain the continuation of the skeleton.
Only biological and environmental factors can explain this.
The ancients certainly had intellectual capacity to carry out biological warfare against each other, which the skeletons would have survived.
In fact, an attack could have easily been carried out by the skeletons themselves.
Even non self-inflicted biological dangers such as plague, famine and toxic pollution from overmining are all possibilities. The central mines have shown us that they carried out excessive extraction of resources from the land, byproducts from this may easily have caused mutations and disease within the inhabitants.
Atticus, Machinist Scribe
Natural disaster and war explain the areas of destruction that we have found during excavations but they do not explain the continuation of the skeleton.
Only biological and environmental factors can explain this.
The ancients certainly had intellectual capacity to carry out biological warfare against each other, which the skeletons would have survived.
In fact, an attack could have easily been carried out by the skeletons themselves.
Even non self-inflicted biological dangers such as plague, famine and toxic pollution from overmining are all possibilities. The central mines have shown us that they carried out excessive extraction of resources from the land, byproducts from this may easily have caused mutations and disease within the inhabitants.
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