.::Questions about the World of Defiance::.
I made this thread with the hope of getting more established lore. I want to know what you want to know, so that we can create a list of questions and see about possibly handing it forward to those who can give us the official answers. There's no guarantee that these questions will make it to the right people or be answered, but I figured it's worth a try. Add as many or as few questions as you like. Please only ask questions about the lore of the setting, this isn't a place for questions specific to game-play or future content.
I may rephrase your question, if you don't like this feel free to speak up.
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Angeleus09's Questions:
- Votan Colonies - Population wise, how large are the Omec and Sulos colonies roughly speaking?
- Votan Population - I was also wondering about how many Votans survived Arkfall in general?
- Castithan Divide - Do the residents of Daribo see themselves as more authentic and closer to tradition? Or do the residents of Casti see themselves as better since it was mostly the wealthy (likely members of the Shanje Liro) who migrated to the newly made planet?
melkathi's Questions:
- EGO Implant - What does an EGO implant look like? What is the procedure of inserting it (other than large needle to back of neck - which gives me an unwelcome image of Piercer)? How safe is this? How safe is having an EGO implant? What complications can arise (if they can arise)? Can an EGO implant be rejected by the host? Can it be removed? If it can be removed, can it then be re-implanted into someone else?
- Arkhunter Stims - How safe are the stims arkhunters are using? How similar to Adreno are they (thinking of the Power stim here for example)?
Escyos' Questions:
- Daribo Races - Were the Indogene physically similar to the Castithans before they started with the implants and is there skin a synthetic material or something they put on their bodies at birth/adulthood etc.?
- Daribo Races - Did the Indogene help, either willingly or by force, the Castithans reach other planets or did they do that themselves?
- Omec Inhabitants - Was the race that lived on Omec another Votan race or a colony of Castithan, Indogene, Liberata, etc. (perhaps living in a dome or underground city)?
(Relevant Lore: "The Volge evolved on an unknown planet somewhere in the galaxy but eventually made their way to the Votanis System where they conquered the people of Omec and claimed the planet.")
- Game Details - What are those platforms on the road in the Bay Area with the light pole? Does the constant traffic charge the light? Attachment 6503
- Votanis System - In the Volge Intel video we get a shot of the Votanis System and indication that Omec is the large planet that orbits Vysu and makes it path through the Sulos system. So we can assume that the large planet orbiting Sulos is Gula and we know the other two are Daribo and Irath. Orbiting Vysu is Casti but there is also another planet (presumably uninhabited). Any info on that planet or if there are other planets in the system?
- Colonies - Obviously the Sulos colony is the capital of the Votanis Collective but are there other colonies on other continents that rival Sulos. Also how is the VC government arranged?
- World - Any info on Australia? (Or other places I guess?)
Bakku's Questions:
- Volge Armor - We have (possibly) conflicting sources saying that:
a) They ... wear fearsome armor made from an alloy unique to their home planet of Omec.
b) ...their bodies secrete an organic armor which is very difficult to puncture.
c) They wear organic armor, similar to an alloy native to their home planet.
Which of these is correct, or are they all? If only a) is correct, then they would have arrived at Omec / the Votanis system, conquering the planet's natives without their current level of protection. It also means that they could eventually run out of said armor. Another problem I have here is that Omec isn't the name of their home planet, it's the name of the planet they arrived at and conquered. It would make sense if the alloy mentioned in a) and c) were unique to their home planet outside of the Votanis system and not Omec... Unless... They are the species that existed on Omec, and the other Votans didn't notice as they became overtaken by this ?invasive alloy?, turned into monsters... And everyone just assumed the Volge had come from another galaxy...? Crazy talk, I think-... Right...? I don't know if I can make any more guesses, when none of this seems to add up.
- Volge Artillery - In the show we see something that looks like a Dark Matter Bulwark marching alongside the Volge, yet in-game the Volge never have anything like that (the closest would be their drones).
Previous Questions & Answers "Round 1":
(Please understand that not all questions will be answered and that there is very likely a good reason for that.)
Bakku's Questions:
- Votan Creatures - What kinds of domesticated animals did each Votan race have on their home-worlds? Are there dog, cat, bird, hamster or goldfish equivalents? Did they make it to earth?
- Votan Culture - How similar or intertwined are the Irathient and Sensoth cultures? We know they established bonds, due to living on the same planet, and they both seem to value the natural world to some extent. Are/were Sensoths particularly spiritual? Is there any reason why the Sensoths seem to be more connected (through past slavery) to the Castithans than the Irathients with whom they shared a world? Did the Irathients try anything to stop the Castithans from subjugating their neighbors?
- Votan Botany - Can we get any information on the "Lovecraftian horrors" that are said to exist in Germany? Described as bizarre, rare and dangerous, the plant-life that stalks (implying it's mobile) humans / votans who wander into it's home. Are they more humanoid like the sylvari of Guild Wars 2 and countless "plant-people" concepts, or are they more like Audrey II from the Little Shop of Horrors, or the Piranha Plants from Mario?
OKuratool's Questions:
- Votan History - How did the Liberata lose their economic status? (We know only that political missteps are to blame, not what they may be.)
- Votan History - We know that the Liberata, Irathients and Sensoths evolved on the same planet. War has happened, in our history, between the same race (humans), was there a lot of racial division and war waged between these three races?
melkathi's Question:
- Game Design - During character creation, female Castithans have the option to select very unique, elaborate scars under "Blemishes". These scars look intentional, somehow. Is there established lore behind these "markings" and why only females have the option to select them? Could it be due to gender inequality within Castithan culture? Perhaps ritualistic punishment of some kind that relates to their religion, Shirivanawo?
Seizan's Question:
- Dark Matter - What is the racial composition of Dark Matter like? Are they primarily Castithan with a smaller number of irathients? Does the fact that we don't see Indogene, Liberata or Sensoth Dark Matter forces mean that they don't exist or are they just very rare?
Vhalen's Question:
- Votans / Bay Area - What is the closest Votan colony or settlement to the Bay Area?
epsire's Question:
- Votan Culture - Are there, or have there been separate nationalities and cultures within each individual Votan race? Humans have, for example, Americans, Germans, Indians, Japanese and Egyptians. Did or do the Votan races have that kind of range of culture, physical differentiation and geological separation?
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Originally Posted by
TrickDempsey
Any animosity between the three species from Irath is largely overridden by the history since their subjugation by the Castithans. We've never revealed the details in-depth of when the Castithans invaded Irath, but it wasn't pretty and it turned all socio-political ties the species had on their heads.
Dark Matter Enforcers are Irathients, and Sniper and Monitors are Castithans. Irathients are an underclass in the Shkathe'Nado (Dark Matter). They've fared better than the Liberata and Sensoth of the unit, which have been purged. Few Indogene fight, and there are no Indogene within the ranks of Dark Matter soldiers.
The Ekaru Kome, which Dark Matter was once a part of, included all the Votan species. Gulanee were rare, and the ones that did fight were highly prized. Though often called a Votan species, the Volge were never a part of the Votanis Collective military.
Omec is the furthest North of the established colonies, but the Votanis Collective has been establishing footholds further and further North and even annexing towns and principalities.
Indogene and Gulanee have the most homogeneous cultures. Castithans see a divide between those originating from Casti, the first terraformed world, and those from Daribo, the Castithan homeworld. Irathients are separated into many tribes and even further broken down by their level of assimilation with Earthkind. (Some Irathient tribes have even begun to include themselves within the "Earthkind" classification.)
Liberata and Sensoth have had their cultures somewhat more homogenized due to their long subjugation by the Castithans, but they were once quite diverse. That diversity still comes up from time to time, but largely the more recent shared histories within these species dominate their cultural expression.
