Oh I just remembered as it was mentioned before. Nerazim do actually have physiological differences to Khalai Protoss. If you look at their head plates/ridges they tend to be more jagged and pointed whereas Khalai Protoss tend towards being smoother. Interestingly Tal'Darim seem to have similar pointed head plates/ridges, possibly suggesting it's a result of long term exposure to Void energies?
It's interesting reading words like "gender roles" written on some posts. Media and social indoctrination does have an effect on the generation it's being propagated onto. Just saying.
Anyway, it's obvious yes they do have children. How many per birthing? how frequent they copulate? do they want to copulate, or are they forced into it like ceremonially in order to create offspring? Do they follow mating seasons? Do they have uterus? etc. No body knows.
But I don't see anything wrong if they were mammalian. Dolphins, etc. I've noticed that species who show compassion, territorial, or social, or have a communal society have children birthed from wombs. I think because it is necessary for them to protect their heritage, their immortality, their gene pool, or whatever.
And because they have to care for their own fragile members to ensure the continuance of their species and their own survival is what makes them create societies.
I'm pulling things out from the rear side here.
They originally were tribal, so there's that. Tribes, comes from clans, clans from families, families from mates birthing children. So..
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As a heavily-individualist society, tribalism doesn't require direct offspring. The protoss had their familial links and loyalties until the end of the Aeon of Strife and the creation of the Khala turned them into a collectivist empire. All of the data gleaned from SC/BW lacks any explicit mention of protoss having or lacking genitalia with which to reproduce, just as SC2's lore does, and yet the scriptwriting of SC2 mandates that protoss offspring must exist despite this never being mentioned in BW.
It winds up becoming another case of blizzard not planning their story out to any great detail, resulting in a massive shift in their writing that seems to run counter to the original intentions. Obviously, some of these are bound to happen, given the breadth of time between BW's release and SC2's development, but it's evidenced even more heavily in SC2 as well, with fans having to struggle to justify the existence of glaring plot holes and inconsistencies in the story for it to make sense in any context.
If I mix both our ideas, I thought considering, that maybe after the Xel'Naga tinkered with the protoss, they've lost their capacity to bring forth children.
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I really don't get your logic. Kids were never mentioned in 1, but having a character stated as the kid of a character from 1 in 2 is somehow a glaring plot hole? Way I see it they've just never had any particular reason to go into detail about Protoss reproduction. Just because kids aren't mentioned in 1 it doesn't mean they didn't exist and that their existence is some kind of mega retcon.
It's the same sort of train of thought that I've seen in WC Lore discussions where people are shocked at the existence of females of a species that's only previously shown males simply due to there not having previously been any specific reason to make more than one model for them as they were generally creep races.
Oh I just remembered as it was mentioned before. Nerazim do actually have physiological differences to Khalai Protoss. If you look at their head plates/ridges they tend to be more jagged and pointed whereas Khalai Protoss tend towards being smoother. Interestingly Tal'Darim seem to have similar pointed head plates/ridges, possibly suggesting it's a result of long term exposure to Void energies?
It's interesting reading words like "gender roles" written on some posts. Media and social indoctrination does have an effect on the generation it's being propagated onto. Just saying.
Anyway, it's obvious yes they do have children. How many per birthing? how frequent they copulate? do they want to copulate, or are they forced into it like ceremonially in order to create offspring? Do they follow mating seasons? Do they have uterus? etc. No body knows.
But I don't see anything wrong if they were mammalian. Dolphins, etc. I've noticed that species who show compassion, territorial, or social, or have a communal society have children birthed from wombs. I think because it is necessary for them to protect their heritage, their immortality, their gene pool, or whatever.
And because they have to care for their own fragile members to ensure the continuance of their species and their own survival is what makes them create societies.
I'm pulling things out from the rear side here.
They originally were tribal, so there's that. Tribes, comes from clans, clans from families, families from mates birthing children. So..
Whatever you do, wholeheartedly, moment by heartfelt moment, becomes a tool for the expression of your very soul.
As a heavily-individualist society, tribalism doesn't require direct offspring. The protoss had their familial links and loyalties until the end of the Aeon of Strife and the creation of the Khala turned them into a collectivist empire. All of the data gleaned from SC/BW lacks any explicit mention of protoss having or lacking genitalia with which to reproduce, just as SC2's lore does, and yet the scriptwriting of SC2 mandates that protoss offspring must exist despite this never being mentioned in BW.
It winds up becoming another case of blizzard not planning their story out to any great detail, resulting in a massive shift in their writing that seems to run counter to the original intentions. Obviously, some of these are bound to happen, given the breadth of time between BW's release and SC2's development, but it's evidenced even more heavily in SC2 as well, with fans having to struggle to justify the existence of glaring plot holes and inconsistencies in the story for it to make sense in any context.
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If I mix both our ideas, I thought considering, that maybe after the Xel'Naga tinkered with the protoss, they've lost their capacity to bring forth children.
Whatever you do, wholeheartedly, moment by heartfelt moment, becomes a tool for the expression of your very soul.
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I really don't get your logic. Kids were never mentioned in 1, but having a character stated as the kid of a character from 1 in 2 is somehow a glaring plot hole? Way I see it they've just never had any particular reason to go into detail about Protoss reproduction. Just because kids aren't mentioned in 1 it doesn't mean they didn't exist and that their existence is some kind of mega retcon. It's the same sort of train of thought that I've seen in WC Lore discussions where people are shocked at the existence of females of a species that's only previously shown males simply due to there not having previously been any specific reason to make more than one model for them as they were generally creep races.
Protoss having children is technically an additive element.
it doesn't necessarily contradict SC1 (unlike 98% of SC2)
Obviously? Every species has offspring. Protoss babies aren't materialized out of thin air by walking out of a warp gate.
I chuckled a bit there Grad. I chuckled. XD
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What if protoss ARE children?
Vorazun has a mother called Raszagal, so yes protoss have children