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William Witt
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William Witt

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I have a couple of quotes to present, which tie into some thoughts of mine...

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In the time before the Grand Tree came into being, the gnomes were planning to co-exist with the humans. For if you trace humanity back far enough, you will find that these two races share a common genealogy.
- Gnomic Negotiations lore story

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Zooknock: Garkor had long decided that we need a monkey insider. I have the necessary magic to perform the shapeshifting spell, but we needed a human to transform.
Player: Why don’t you just transform a gnome?
Zooknock: It has been tried in the past, but the results were far from… satisfactory. Although we, like you, are related to the monkeys, the link is too weak for a successful transformation. That is why we need you.
- Monkey Madness


Furthermore, one of the possible conversations with pirates aboard the Lady Zay indicates that the pirate's mother was a gnome, which indicates humans and gnomes can interbreed.


I thus suggest that RS gnomes are actually another species of human (like Neanderthals, for example) - and that Teragard is their homeworld, too.
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01-Aug-2014 03:40:07

Ascertes

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William Witt said :
I have a couple of quotes to present, which tie into some thoughts of mine...

Original message details are unavailable.
In the time before the Grand Tree came into being, the gnomes were planning to co-exist with the humans. For if you trace humanity back far enough, you will find that these two races share a common genealogy.
- Gnomic Negotiations lore story

Original message details are unavailable.
Zooknock: Garkor had long decided that we need a monkey insider. I have the necessary magic to perform the shapeshifting spell, but we needed a human to transform.
Player: Why don’t you just transform a gnome?
Zooknock: It has been tried in the past, but the results were far from… satisfactory. Although we, like you, are related to the monkeys, the link is too weak for a successful transformation. That is why we need you.
- Monkey Madness


Furthermore, one of the possible conversations with pirates aboard the Lady Zay indicates that the pirate's mother was a gnome, which indicates humans and gnomes can interbreed.


I thus suggest that RS gnomes are actually another species of human (like Neanderthals, for example) - and that Teragard is their homeworld, too.


*ooo nice find, i'll update immediately
-Ascertes, King of all the Hallowlands and the Everchosen of Saradomin.

01-Aug-2014 03:41:28

Robo Hobo

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I remember making a list about a year ago on a word file on my computer, it was pretty big, but then, we've learned a lot more worlds and names of referenced ones since a year ago.

Still, Ill see about posting it here in case it has any not on this, when I get back home
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01-Aug-2014 03:45:54

Robo Hobo

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Also, hmm kitty. Maybe the gnomes (and maybe dwarves?) are humans that saradomin brought to different worlds and they just evolved over time differently than the other humans on other worlds? You can only fully appreciate a story when you experience it through the eyes of one of its characters.

01-Aug-2014 03:51:20

Vardan

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Robo Hobo said :
Also, hmm kitty. Maybe the gnomes (and maybe dwarves?) are humans that saradomin brought to different worlds and they just evolved over time differently than the other humans on other worlds?

Now THERE'S an interesting idea. Something along the lines of genetic engineering perhaps, changing humans to be able to adapt to different planets?
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01-Aug-2014 03:56:56

OrangeNebula
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I s'pose there's the Realm of the Fisher King and "Britain", but I dunno if they really fit into the current state of things lol. I see that area of lore one DevTime away from being retconed. :P The former may not even be its own separate world, really.

Overall, I can't see the number of planes being infinite, the RS universe gives me the feeling of being relatively small (compared to our own) based on what we learned in Fot*, but I'd say it stretches from however-many-we-need to millions; guess it depends on how good the Elders are at arts and crafts.

All the creatures that presently live on Gielinor (minus the few native exceptions) have to come from somewhere, right? So there's at least as many unique homeworlds as there are unique species, though there's probably instances of species "pairing up" for worlds. :P
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01-Aug-2014 05:44:20

Ascertes

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OrangeNebula said :
I s'pose there's the Realm of the Fisher King and "Britain", but I dunno if they really fit into the current state of things lol. I see that area of lore one DevTime away from being retconed. :P The former may not even be its own separate world, really.

Overall, I can't see the number of planes being infinite, the RS universe gives me the feeling of being relatively small (compared to our own) based on what we learned in Fot*, but I'd say it stretches from however-many-we-need to millions; guess it depends on how good the Elders are at arts and crafts.

All the creatures that presently live on Gielinor (minus the few native exceptions) have to come from somewhere, right? So there's at least as many unique homeworlds as there are unique species, though there's probably instances of species "pairing up" for worlds. :P


Well, the Realm of the Fisher King does fit under the label of "Other Realms" so i'll add it.
-Ascertes, King of all the Hallowlands and the Everchosen of Saradomin.

01-Aug-2014 18:36:30

AesirWarrior
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I think scaperune might be a completely different reality instead of just another world in this one. It's like an anti/opposite-verse where good are bad and bad are good. The laws of physics/magic/whatever it is in rs are also different there (uncooking). -
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01-Aug-2014 19:09:14 - Last edited on 06-Aug-2014 14:49:03 by AesirWarrior

Balustan

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As many as Jagex will ever need is the answer. Which boils down to which races they need, which can share worlds, which races they create, how different they can make planes (still refusing to call them planets) etc.

Though I do know Mod Osborne was trying to make it as few as possible so we may see races sharing worlds and stuff.
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03-Aug-2014 03:28:41 - Last edited on 03-Aug-2014 03:34:37 by Balustan

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