love having fandoms in law.. have i wver read or watched trigun? no. however i do love that robot kinda guy with his 50 layers of jacket and the emo guy with his.. jesus gun
text from the pictures goes under the cut because while i recognise that the text is small my main points gotta go above it, theres also some other fun things
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okay heres some brief context for my conspiracy theory:
art, which pottery is a very well preserving medium of, can tell how a culture spreads, we know that minoan crete influenced micanean greece because we've found pottery of the minoan style that was made in greece even if we barely know anything about the minoan people then we do know this, so the assumption im using here is that the pots are all of the same style which then presents sort of a narrative
domino 1
the trail culture has some sort of connection with the coastal warm ocean people and cold ocean people, they also have a connection to (or are) the desert people who made the pyramid and frequents the desert well that never dries up, using its water for potions and magic or worship. they also have friendly connections to villagers or something that looks like them to a point where they make motifs about them
domino 2
the guardian monument, at this point in time just barely above the water level so that the inside is dry but the guardians can enter and exit, is attacked by the cold ocean people for prismarine and other such luxury items. the cold ocean people trade these items so that they end up with the warm ocean people who seem to be peacefully fishing and taking care of the sniffer, cultivating the seeds they dig up
domino 3
Something happens. The warm ocean people may have caught a virus that make them immune to the dangers of creepers and find sunlight dangerous needing to take shelter under savannah trees, the sea level could also rise. We don't know exactly what happened but whatever did happen causes conflict on a personal level as seen by the type of damage done to the cold ocean peoples buildings. At this point contact either ceases between the trail culture and the ocean people as buildings are destroyed and in time, submerged. Or the trail culture sees ocean people joining them as refugees.
However much they flee, though, the trail cultures structures also get buried and forgotten.
domino 4, the end
the guardians now live in the water full time but are still amphibious. the pyramid well civilisation vanish and the waters have covered what remains of the ocean peoples towns as well as the sniffer eggs that are forced to go into stasis as hatching in the water is less than ideal, waiting for someone to bring them up to safe ground again.
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there is something living on the bottom of the ocean. its not what it used to be, but they still live in their homes. not alive but not acting very dead, the ocean people are still there, looking like the player.
maybe the universe loves us
maybe the universe hated them
maybe the universe regrets what happened
VILLAGERS
Have square buildings made of stone and local wood types
Buildings are scattered around an area but connected by paths
Villagers look like the friend pottery shard, and spawn the iron golem which also looks like the friend shard
TRIAL RUINS
Their buildings are mostly made from mud, terracotta and bricks
They loved color, everything is very colorful
Prolific potters/pot makers and amazing glass workers
A culture rich enough that it's worth inventing four (4)
armour trims for your already expensive armour
Have a central tower with a connecting building, a long straight paved road down from the tower with buildings or decorations like statues
Pottery shards burn, danger, howl, sheaf, friend, heart, heartbreak (the last two being the only 100% abstract shards)
DESERT PYRAMID
Made of sandstone and terracotta, has two tower wings
Pottery shards miner, prize, skull, and archer
Created by a wealthy people as it's full of riches
DESERT WELL
Made of sandstone
Very shallow
Hasn't dried up since the pottery cultures time
Pottery shards arms up, brewer
WARM OCEAN PEOPLE
Many sandstone buildings but only a few (2/8) are obviously houses
They love their arches
Uses terracotta (unglazed) and sea lanterns
Many plazas
Buildings are scattered loosely around an area
Knew about and may have taken care of sniffers based where eggs are found
Pottery shards angler, shelter, snort
Might have been fishers based on the pottery
SNIFFERS
Thought to be extinct
Eggs can be found in the sand in the warm water ruins
Eggs hatch faster near moss
They sniff out ancient seeds
COLD OCEAN PEOPLE
Stone brick buildings, many of them houses (5/9 small), (3/4 large), they have a small tower as well
A mix of rounded and square houses
Uses terracotta (glazed), prismarine, sea lanterns, spruce and dark oak planks, and bricks
One large monument that mirrors one of the warm ocean plazas
Buildings loosely scattered around an area
Knew about the warden
Pottery shards blade, explorer, mourner, plenty
Might have been hunters or explorers based on the pottery
GUARDIAN MONUMENT
Guardians do not suffocate in air, they can survive indefinantly but spawn only in water
Guardians are psychic or otherwise magic
Pyramid-like structure with two wings
23 pillars that stretch to the ocean floor (like it didn't want to be flooded but needs to be near water for guardians to spawn)
ZOMBIES
Look like the player
Spawns in the underwater ruins
CONNECTING POINT: similar pottery style
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random thoughts at the end:
i still actually think that the trail culture is nomadic, maybe herders and traders with semi permanent settlements for farming when the seasons allow for it, the ruins we find being those semi permanent structures that are more like waypoints or settlements along a path
the absolute wealth of having four whole different armour trims dude, i really like the idea of the trail people and pyramid people being the same but considering how not buried the pyramid is that might be a long shot, could be the remnants of the trail people tho, like finding traces of people during the bronze age collapse, their cities get buried and they keep the pottery style with them and they manage to squeeze out a new armour trim, and they extrapolate on the wealth part of their culture and do grave goods re: pyramid with so much hidden wealth
unrelated but since im tagging @nightshadeowl i might as well talk about the reconstruction work ive done, im not sure ill post the pictures because its very cramped on the flatland but the damage done to the cold ocean ruins is very much not natural, it looks like it blew the fuck up (it being the biggest house in the generation pool) and theres no sign of it ever having a roof even tho it very obviously should have, also the warm water peoples bungs stumped me for a long time because of the lack of houses, all the buildings are very artsy and i wonder why that is, one of the arches kinda reminded me of the ones at the ocean monument but i think that was coincidental
wish i could more easily summon in these things and shoutout to the blacksmithy in the trail ruins for also looking blown the fuck up, what happened to you to have no roof to be seen, weird spike terracotta walls, and a perfectly intact interior, only of its kind
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