5/6/2023 0 Comments Ogra dark crystalUltimately, the Skeksis were seemingly successful in eliminating all but two of the Gelfling - Jen and Kira.Preface: This piece was originally written on October 14th, 2014, and lay in ToughPigs article limbo for almost five whole years. They even manufactured false shards to hinder the Gelfling in their quest to heal the Crystal. In their madness and paranoia, they created the Garthim soldiers and Crystal Bat spies, dispatching them to hunt down and exterminate the Gelfling. When the Skeksis learned of the Prophecy, they immediately sought to thwart it. Why would the Skeksis harm them? The Skeksis provided no answer other than to cull more of the Gelfling for use as slaves and sources of essence. This final act shocked the Gelfling out of their naiveté. It discovered how to use the refracted light of the Crystal to drain the essence and weaken the will of Gelfling and Podlings, turning them into mindless slaves. The Skeksis scientist called skekTek experimented with the Dark Crystal. With the passage of time, their powers began to fade. Meanwhile, over the course of hundreds of trine, the Skeksis went from eccentric nobles to mad despots. Led by Emperor skekSo, they played the role of extravagant hosts to both Gelfling and Podling alike, holding grand feasts and games. The rejuvenation chart of the Skeksis Lords of the Dark CrystalĪfter the initial shock of the cracking of the Crystal, the Skeksis settled into their roles as Lords of the Dark Crystal. A blighted wasteland slowly and inexorably crept from the Castle and strange creatures began appearing throughout Thra’s wilderness. And with the darkening of the Crystal, so too did the world turn dark. The Crystal darkened, turning from pure bright white to dimly glowing violet. The resulting release of energy – the kakoi – broke off a dagger-shaped shard and changed everything. Two Skeksis, and therefore two urRu, were murdered.ĭestructive behavior continued, and one of the Skeksis struck the Crystal and cracked it. Immediately following the split, confused fighting erupted. For every urRu, there was a corresponding Skeksis. The Skeksis were the personification of their destructive, cruel and aggressive impulses while the urRu were the personification of their creative, healing and passive impulses. Unintentionally, the urSkeks were split into two separate creatures: the Skeksis and the urRu. During this Great Conjunction, the urSkeks stepped into the light of the suns that filtered through the Crystal and refracted through the urSkeks’ mirrors.
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