Races of Oddworld

This article presents different the races from the series of video game Oddworld.

Mudokons

Mudokons are the race of Abe, hero of the first Oddworld plays. They are beings humanoïdes, with the greenish skin, equipped with large hands for three fingers. They do not have nose but have very important spheres occulaires and have, as a hair, a simple wick. Mudokons live a little everywhere on Oddworld, but most of the population was reduced in slavery by Glukkons (see low) and work for them in immense factories of production. However, other Mudokons, which lives in freedom on Oddworld, are named Natifs.
One can easily differentiate a slave from free Mudokon. Indeed, all the slaves have the two lips bent with crossed thin straps, on the two sides of the mouth. It sometimes even arrives as certain slaves have the bent eyelids, which returns them obviously aveugles.
One can notice that Mudokons seem to undergo the same fate as the indigenous inhabitants of America, living quietly with nature with their traditions until the arrival of Glukkons, which installed technology, capitalism and slavery in planet.

Glukkons

Glukkons are the “malicious ones” of Oddworld. Indeed, it is a parasitic civilization par excellence. Glukkons large, are deprived of arm, having two large very long legs attached by a very thin body pendouillant also supporting the head. Glukkons being always vêtus costumes, this characteristic is difficult to notice, if not impossible as long as Glukkon wears its clothing. Another characteristic, all Glukkons without exception smoke, that it is the cigar of the Phleg Director, the pipe of the Dripik General or the cigarette of the Master Brewer. Glukkons, incompetents to achieve least manual work, benefit from their great intelligence and their great vision of marketing to greedily exploit the other races of Oddworld and to make them work with their only profit. Glukkons form a vast organization known under the name of Cartel of Magog. They can be regarded as the colonizers who, fault of bringing civilization, exploit the populations places from there to drain always more money.

Sligs

Sligs are the favorite soldiers of Glukkons. In the beginning, Sligs are kinds of crawling worms equipped with arm. They have an enormous head, the mouth being filled of tentacles, and have red eyes. Difficult to fight while crawling, the solution was thus to create mechanical prostheses to replace the rear limbs. Once this regulated problem, Sligs learned how to make use of the weapons and became the armed wing of the Trust of Magog. Unfortunately, Sligs are not particularly intelligent, and their principal quality within the industrial machine is to be the only race being able to be made obey of Slogs. Their lack of intelligence also make of it a prey of choice for the envoûtements of Mudokons.

Big Bro Sligs

Big Bro are of Sligs to the striped skin, much more massive and having a terrifying mass msuculaire. They have arms much longer than their Sligs cousins, and use prostheses lower than three legs, to support their important mass. They also have three eyes.

Slogs

Slogs are extremely wild canidés monsters domesticated by Sligs to assist them with the combat. The Slogs young people are called of Sloggies. Slogs do not have eyes, but have an excellent sense of smell. They run on two legs, and have a jaw disproportionate compared to the remainder of the body.

Vykkers

Species resembling Glukkons physically, though equipped with 4 arms and 3 legs. Their skin is violet. Vykkers were made a speciality in medicine and the surgery, directing an impressive lobby of medicinal products manufactured starting from living beings of Oddworld. They are in particular responsible for the quasi-extinction of Gabbits, causing the revenge on Munch. Vykkers are closely associated with the Trust of Magog. The Vykkers Laboratories are located within a gigantic vessel. This vessel will be destroyed by the two dissidents Abe and Munch at the conclusion of the Odyssey of this last.

Interns

The Interns are creatures having of long fingers, which enables them to roll up them around an object for holding best. They are used as “internal” employees, as their name indicates it, in the Vykkers Laboratories and also of security guards. They are as brutal as Sligs.

Scrabs

Scrabs are the principal predatory ones of Oddworld. They are beings deprived quadrupeds forelimbs. They also have long a jaw out of scissors. Scrabs live as a recluse, and fight between them each time they cross. Their great strength with the combat make its briefs engagements a demonstration of violence. Scrab always pushes a war cry before attacking in to carry out its moulinette (attacks where it even turns on him, the claws which forms the end of its legs pointed towards outside to wound). The winner devours the loser, after having celebrated his victory by trampling the corpse of his victim. The meat of Scrab was used by Rupture Farms to manufacture filled cakes. Scrabs are endemic species of Scrabania and the caveaux ones of the Mudanchee tribe in Necrum.

Paramites

Paramites are also the predatory ones. They resemble spiders with 4 legs, and have a mouth having the characteristic to be surrounded by fingers, forming a hand which Paramite is able to use. Paramites live in group, and communicate between them by means of sounds produced either with their fingers, or with their mouth. Paramites are intelligent beings, able to work out strategies. Thus, one can see Paramite guiding a traveller (Abe for example), pretense to want to show him something or to claim of the assistance, to lead it in a ambush and to make his meal of them. It is necessary to be very attentive when one follows Paramite, because if it is dangerous alone, in group, Paramites are frightening. Rupture Farms made tortas with meat of Paramites. Paramites are endemic species of Paramonia and the caveaux ones of the Mudomo tribe in Necrum.

Shrykull

Shrykull is the most frightening monster of Oddworld. In fact, it is about a divinity for Mudokons. Fortunately for all the inhabitants, this monster appears only when Abe calls upon it and takes the form of it. This monster is able to launch flashes destroying all on its passage. Shrykull is a kind of fusion between Scrab and Paramite, having the body of Scrab, as well as legs and “antennas” of Paramite.

Fleeches

Fleeches are large bicephalous worms (a head on each side of the body), each one of their heads having of the teeth, a ductile jaw with high degree and an excessively long sticky language enabling them to move and catch their preys. Glukkons make use of these creatures as pet until they reach a certain size, after which they throw them in the toilets. The underground world of Oddworld is thus infested with Fleeches.

Slurgs

Slurgs are “slugs” of Oddworld. They nourish remainders left by Fleeches after their meals. They are creatures enough génantes, pullulating sometimes on the ground and producing a powerful sound when they are crushed.

Gabbits

Gabbits are a species amphibienne present in the oceans of Oddworld. Munch is one of them, makes the last survivor of the species of it. Indeed, Gabbits were exterminated by Vykkers (see higher) which made use of them to manufacture their medicinal products. Gabbits are easily recognizable by their inordinately large, decorated cranium of two small “ears” and their very broad jaw and very fine. They have tiny arms and a single foot enabling them to be propelled in water.

Fuzzles

Fuzzles are small hairy creatures forming a simple ball, without any member. They have two eyes and a mouth. One should not trust with their inoffensive pace, because Fuzzles are excessively dangerous and hide long teeth which enable them to devour a creature much larger than they groups some at the speed of a bench of Piranha S.

Elums

Wild of Oddworld, flexible and inoffensive creatures being able to be used as mountings in Mudokons. They follow Mudokons and obey their orders submissively. They run quickly and can jump on long distances. They are fond of delicacies of honey. One especially finds Elums in the forest of Paramonia and the desert of Scrabania.

Meechies

Strange wild creatures of Oddworld exploited with excess by Rupture Farms to make sausages of them, so much so that the species disappeared from planet.

Meeps

Meeps are an inoffensive wild species of the meadows of Oddworld. They resemble sheep unipodes and have only one large eye.

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