Editing Stormwaltz 2016 Q&A/Full Q&A (section)

== Question 22: Olthoi - Natural or Divine ==
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|      Date = September, 2016
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|  Question = Are the Olthoi natural creatures, no different in origin from say a Shreth, or did they have a more malevolent purpose? I ask because the Tumerok refer to Olthoi as the children of Wharu, and Wharu is, essentially, a Tumerok demon, the spirit of decay. I believe in AC2, Wharu was revealed to be a Kemeroi.
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During my time, the Olthoi were considered a completely natural form of life. They were a menace because they the evolutionary product of a far more aggressive insectoid-fungal ecosystem. If there was a later change to that, maybe it was intended to reconcile the absence of direct Nameless intervention in the Third Sending, as I discussed above.
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The Tumerok references, at the time of ACDM, weren't intended to be literal truth, but an expression of how they think about the world in mythological terms. The Olthoi filled a biological niche they identified as akin to their spirit of decay, so they considered them to be an expression of Wharu's hand in the world.
| Developer = [[Turbine Developers#Chris "Stormwaltz" L'Etoile|Chris "Stormwaltz" L'Etoile]]
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