![]() Seeds containing fetuses of unborn, that she let fall into the world of mortals, where they would land into the earth and grow on their own, eventually attaining full maturity and being born directly from the earth, instead of being violently torn from their parent’s belly.īut these seeds were not left alone. Instead of having her unborn be birthed the usual, bloody way, she decided to create seeds instead. What is clear, however, is that Vatra eventually tried something else. Did Vatra always plan to sire a new god from the unborn? Do the glands of the deceased parents become unusable right after their death? How often do they give birth? Why did she make them this way in the first place? No clear answer. But whether or not this is on purpose is unclear. So, these births are infamous, and they certainly don’t help in increasing the overall population of unborn. The details get a bit muddy here, and open to interpretation. It’s the only way that works, but every time, the parent is killed in the process. Picture a C-section with a flaming sword. Getting the offspring out is so difficult that a molten spike has to be used. Problem is, her unborn are very few in numbers, because the way they are birthed is extremely messy. To do that, one of her unborn must consume a considerable amount of True Nektar. She wants to sire a new god through her unborn. Now that this is clear, let’s get back to Vatra. And an unborn without its gland is just as lethal as a human without its heart. You can’t extract True Nektar without killing an unborn, as extracting it requires you to juice the damn thing like an orange. In other words, it’s the blood within the gland, its very essence. True Nektar is what is inside the gland.It is what you drink in the game to get to a boss it’s so powerful that it warps reality and transports you to the guardian of that temple. Nektar is the proper secretion of an unborn.It can also cause hallucinations, give visions, and overall make you “spiritually high”, if that makes any sense. ![]() Tiel did consume a lot, and because of that, it infected him with a divine disease that made his skin and flesh peel off. It’s fairly common in the game, so much that it’s become a currency - but it is still quite diluted, and mostly harmless. Tar is like a drug, very reminiscent of Moon Sugar from the Elder Scrolls, or even the Spice from Dune.Things can quickly get wacky when anything coming from this gland is consumed. This substance, at its core, is magical, infused with divine powers, even when extremely diluted. The gland itself secretes Nektar, which can be “milked”, in a way, from an unborn. Within this gland is found True Nektar, which is the most important part of it all. This gland is divine by nature, it’s the key to this species. The only constant throughout, is that they have a very special, ultra-unique, uber-magical organ within them: a gland. Sometimes they’re scaly, or they barely have any skin at all sometimes they’re gigantic, others they’re tiny sometimes they almost look like a human, other times they are an indescribable, Lovecraftian mass of exposed flesh. There is no set appearance for these creatures. So, this goddess, among other things, she has these creations called the “unborn”. There may be other gods, but she is the only one that matters for this story. She is still reasonably benevolent, though, and she is worshiped in quite a few lands. She is, for all intents and purposes, Gaia, but slightly grimier a distorted take on the classic nature goddess. She is the earthly goddess, represented by worms, insects, fish, water - basically anything born of the earth. Over several of those realms watches a goddess. We are in a fantastical setting, medieval themed, with many kingdoms and different realms. Mortal Shell’s story explained as simply and concisely as possible I try to be as simple and straight-foward as possible - unfortunately, the game isn’t, so it still makes for a wall of text. This is mostly meant for players who have finished both the base game and DLC, those who want to understand what actually happened and what they contributed to. There are already a handful of story explanations out there, but this is my take on it.
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