The Tower in Land of the Livid Dead?

[SanteriEdelweiss]

I never have understood the story behind the tower besides the fact that the spirit locked the local teensies(griskins) in there. But with stairs, columns and walls being celestially transparent, does that mean that is like a magical reference of what the tower used to look like?

It is indeed beautiful and majestic! I have such emotional ties to it...

[spiraldoor]

The tower of the Great Spirit Palmito seems to exist on two different planes – on the surface level, it is purely an insubstantial tower of sparkling light. On a deeper level, accessible once the Griskin performs a spell on its front gate, the tower is entirely solid, and has a very different layout. the Griskin says he will ‘open up our world’ before he does this, and the solid tower if filled with Teensie carvings; this indicates that the solid version of the tower is indeed a Teensie construction, most likely built by the Griskins before Palmito killed them for awakening him, after which he imprisoned them in the tower so that they would not wake any more sleeping spirits.

Perhaps the sparkling blue light which encircles the solid tower and comprises the insubstantial one is in fact a force field designed to imprison the Griskin spirits within it. It’s interesting to note that the Griskins are ultimately found trapped within Hoodlum cages – perhaps the Hoodlums stormed the tower, found the Griskins imprisoned within it and then decided to lock them up in additional confines? It’s also strange that the Griskins are able to leave the tower at all – perhaps its prison function was disabled in some way by Rayman or the Hoodlums.

Sadly the idea that the now-freed Griskins will awaken other spirits is unlikely to ever be mentioned again.

[iHeckler9]

I think the tower in the current world was demolished by Palmito or something and when the Griskin 'opens up his world' the swirling portal sends Rayman back in time.

Just a theory...

[Adsolution]

Wow UI never thought of that, that's really cool.

[iHeckler9]

Wow UI never thought of that, that's really cool.

Who is UI? Or was that a typo?

[Sabertooth]

Everything about this just screams "fanfic fodder".

[SanteriEdelweiss]

Everything about this just screams "fanfic fodder".

WTF?

[iHeckler9]

Everything about this just screams "fanfic fodder".

Hold it: I ain't making another Rayman fanfic. They're just too dang hard. Leave it to Lachimax.

[spiraldoor]

Everything about this just screams "fanfic fodder".

What on earth are you talking about? To whom are you speaking and what point is it that you are attempting to make?

[iHeckler9]

Everything about this just screams "fanfic fodder".

What on earth are you talking about? To whom are you speaking and what point is it that you are attempting to make?

I think he's talking to nobody and he's trying to make the point that if someone were to write a fanfic about it this would be good material.

[spiraldoor]

‘Screams’ and ‘fodder’ are terms with negative connotations. I want to know what he meant.

[Tenderz]

Anybody ever noticed that if you look of from the transparent tower, you can see gem's floating in the air ( probably from the other tower, since they are in a spiral formation) ?

[Sabertooth]

‘Screams’ and ‘fodder’ are terms with negative connotations. I want to know what he meant.

I mean that it sounds like something fans would write fanfiction about. Is it really so hard to understand?

‘Screams’ and ‘fodder’ are terms with negative connotations. I want to know what he meant.

fod·der Noun /ˈfädər/

1.Food, esp. dried hay or feed, for cattle and other livestock
2.A person or thing regarded only as material for a specific use

The use being for fanfiction, the material being exposition or whatever. Really, this isn't complicated in the slightest.

I find it odd that there were three posts in a row quoting me (although one of them made sense). "Fanfic fodder" is a common term in some fandoms. My post wasn't revolutionary.

I think he's talking to nobody and he's trying to make the point that if someone were to write a fanfic about it this would be good material.

See, he gets it.

EDIT: Ooh, I'm so sorry, it seems that "canon fodder" is a much more common way of saying it. Is that better?

[spiraldoor]

I mean that it sounds like something fans would write fanfiction about. Is it really so hard to understand?

Are you suggesting that it was my own problem that I found your meaning unclear? Don’t go there. You were being highly ambiguous.

A person or thing regarded only as material for a specific use

The use being for fanfiction, the material being exposition or whatever. Really, this isn't complicated in the slightest.

The key word here is ‘only’. If you think that a discussion on the tower is ‘only’ good as ‘fanfic fodder’, that perhaps you think that we are wasting our time talking about it for any other reason? ‘Fodder’ is not a positive term, and neither is ‘screams’. Your comment implied disdain.

[need my speed]

He just thinks that this would make a good subplot or whatever for a fanfiction. What you said, but without 'only'. I'm sure he doesn't know the exact definition of fodder.