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 that 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
Okranite Theories In Relation To Findings II
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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
Okranite Theories In Relation To Findings Series is a collection of bookitems. These items can be found with the 'unique' tag at Science HQ in World's End. However, they can also be found without the 'unique' label in The Great Library in Black Scratch.
