Gone Troppo
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| Submitted by Giovanna_del_Arco on Sat, 2007-09-29 13:28 | |||||
Here are a couple of images from my most recent visit to the Pineapples Island. The image depicts a couple of the mysterious statues we all wondered at the sources of in DS1. The file further supports my view of the DS1 areas generally having much more sweeping vistas than the DS2 areas (then again, the DS2 areas usually have so many trees, ferns, and bushes crammed into those locations where you might be able to get a sweeping vista that you often don't even have a very good view of things right next to you; in this regard, DS2 is very baroque).
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Since the statues are cyclopean, it got me to thinking about some of the cavern artwork I've noticed, and I think I've seen something in some cavern that might be intended to represent some sort of one-eyed being, but I didn't get a screenshot, apparently.
Regardless, the mystery of the statues on the Eastern Island and these on the Pineapples Island remains unsolved. Who were the mysterious folk who carved these statues, and what happened to them? Were they one-eyed people, or was their pantheon one-eyed? If the people themselves were one-eyed, why have we never encountered them --- or have we? Those cyclops opponents in Redwood Gap seem to be rather primitive (dressed in breechclouts and fighting with clubs), so if their ancestors were the creators of the statues on the Eastern Island, what happened to plunge them into such a primitive lifestyle? Was it a result of Turmanar? Then again, people with such "primitive" technological status may have excellent stoneworking abilities, so maybe it was them. But if so, why did their people abandon the Eastern Island (and the Pineapples Island)? If their ancestors were not the source of the statues on the two islands, who were the people who made those statues?