Talk:Four Masks of Polokus: Difference between revisions

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::I agree, this information in unsourced and speculative. —[[File:RRRGBAIcon8.png|link=User:Hunchman801]][[File:RRRGBAIcon0.gif|link=User:Hunchman801]][[File:RRRGBAIcon1.png|link=User:Hunchman801]] 16:27, 4 April 2014 (CEST)

:::It's speculative all right, but it's also quite obviously the intention. I realise the names of the second and third sanctuaries are counter-intuitive, but consider everything else about them: Stone and Fire is full of grass, stone, plums, lava, and generally earthly imagery, the boss is a dull stone statue and the mask is stone too. Rock and Lava is far more incandescent, doing away with much of the earth imagery in favour of more fire and hotter lava, culminating in a 100% fire-themed boss and an agonised-looking red mask. Remove the elemental references if you like, but I have no doubt that they were a deliberate motif created by the developers, if a slightly muddled one. —[[User:Spiraldoor|Spiraldoor]] [[File:IconSpiralDoor.png|link=User:Spiraldoor]] 22:51, 4 April 2014 (CEST)

::::I've been thinking about this, and I'm starting to think that they got a bit lazy towards the end. Foutch was a recycled Axel with extra HP (think about it) and they didn't even have a proper Sanctuary for the fourth mask. That might explain why it's "muddled". --[[User:Plumgmk|Plumgmk]] ([[User talk:Plumgmk|talk]]) 00:01, 5 April 2014 (CEST)

::To be fair, the naming of the Sanctuaries clearly follows the four elements. In fact, many years ago when I was discussing them (and knew nothing of the elements myself), my grandfather immediately spotted the pattern and suggested that the fourth should be the Sanctuary of Wind and Air. --[[User:Plumgmk|Plumgmk]] ([[User talk:Plumgmk|talk]]) 17:40, 4 April 2014 (CEST)

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 ::I agree, this information in unsourced and speculative. —[[File:RRRGBAIcon8.png|link=User:Hunchman801]][[File:RRRGBAIcon0.gif|link=User:Hunchman801]][[File:RRRGBAIcon1.png|link=User:Hunchman801]] 16:27, 4 April 2014 (CEST)
 :::It's speculative all right, but it's also quite obviously the intention. I realise the names of the second and third sanctuaries are counter-intuitive, but consider everything else about them: Stone and Fire is full of grass, stone, plums, lava, and generally earthly imagery, the boss is a dull stone statue and the mask is stone too. Rock and Lava is far more incandescent, doing away with much of the earth imagery in favour of more fire and hotter lava, culminating in a 100% fire-themed boss and an agonised-looking red mask. Remove the elemental references if you like, but I have no doubt that they were a deliberate motif created by the developers, if a slightly muddled one. —[[User:Spiraldoor|Spiraldoor]] [[File:IconSpiralDoor.png|link=User:Spiraldoor]] 22:51, 4 April 2014 (CEST)
+::::I've been thinking about this, and I'm starting to think that they got a bit lazy towards the end. Foutch was a recycled Axel with extra HP (think about it) and they didn't even have a proper Sanctuary for the fourth mask. That might explain why it's "muddled". --[[User:Plumgmk|Plumgmk]] ([[User talk:Plumgmk|talk]]) 00:01, 5 April 2014 (CEST)
 ::To be fair, the naming of the Sanctuaries clearly follows the four elements. In fact, many years ago when I was discussing them (and knew nothing of the elements myself), my grandfather immediately spotted the pattern and suggested that the fourth should be the Sanctuary of Wind and Air. --[[User:Plumgmk|Plumgmk]] ([[User talk:Plumgmk|talk]]) 17:40, 4 April 2014 (CEST)