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Explains a lot (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 10 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

(Minor nitpick - while we don't know for sure about the men of gold, the men of stone were sentient robots (or at least, the one that's still around is fully mechanical (and is posing as a servitor)))

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I was under the assumption that they were augmented humans. After checking the wiki, apparently there's so little information about them that they just say:

    According to dimly remembered legends and the few scraps of actual historical record that survived the Age of Strife, the Men of Stone were an artificially-created or augmented faction or sub-species of Humanity who had been engineered by the equally legendary and poorly understood Men of Gold.

    Neat. Today I learned. Basically just "Who the fuck knows"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    There's a short story titled "Ancient History" that (with a heavy dose of inference/speculation) seems to suggest the Men of Stone were humans engineered specifically to have no/a greatly reduced warp presence in order to avoid attracting demons while navigating the warp.

    And (with an even heftier amount of speculation) the attributes seemingly ascribed to the Men of Stone line up suspiciously well with what's known of the Leagues of Votann.

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