Somehow the Crystals were connected, but let’s not pull that thread for that way lay lore madness. Banished from their homeworld for unknown crimes against their own Great Crystal, 18 urSkek were sent to Thra via their beam technology. Remember earlier when I said the Great Crystal used to be deep inside a mountain that got destroyed? That was the urSkek. Turns out they were aliens the entire time. After thanking Jyn and resurrecting Kira, the ethereal beings beam themselves back to space and the credits roll. This culminates with the two becoming one again during the climax, revealing they were once a single species known as the urSkek.
As the tale unfolds, it becomes clear the two races are intimately connected. The main story of The Dark Crystal focuses on the hero’s journey of Jyn and Kira as they fight to save the world but their story is pushed forward by two other species: the evil Skeksis and the benign Mystics. Outmatched by Skeksis technology and peaceful by nature, the Gelflings never stood a chance though clearly, pockets of resistance did pop up. Prophecizing that Gelfling hands would destroy the Skeksis terrified the vulture-like creatures, who then proceeded to commit genocide.
Concerned about Skeksis behavior, 49 Gelflings dreamfasted to create The Wall prophecy that Jyn and Kira find in the ruins. It wasn’t until decades later, as they Skeksis began to age and decay, that relations soured and war tore the realm apart. When the Great Division shattered the peace and the Great Crystal, the Gelflings at first made friends with the new Skeksis. A great civilization rose and Gelflings populated nearly every corner of the planet. With the help of the urSkek, Gelflings splintered from the other sentient race of Thra - the Podlings - and left nature behind. Naive and trusting, the Gelflings became more and more reliant on the urSkek over the centuries as the aliens (hold that thought) shared their knowledge. When the urSkek arrived after a thousand years of peace, they claimed to be benevolent god-like saviors. The true origins of the Gelfling are lost to time but, as stated earlier, they first rose to prominence as a primitive society long before the Great Crystal was shattered.
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The ancient, perhaps one-of-a-kind creature taught the Gelflings how to survive and thrive in the face of many of dangers. As a solution, Thra created Aughra to be its voice. In the misty past of Thra, the planet became depressed that it could not communicate. Somehow on a molecular level, the Crystal (and therefore the planet) could be felt by every creature on the planet. Thousands of years ago, The Great Crystal sat within a mountain at the heart of Thra. Positioned in an unknown portion of space, Thra is hypothesized to be a flat, triangular planet. However, outside the confines of the film, the planet is known as Thra. The creatures and landscape project enough alienness to make further detail unnecessary. The audience knows it has a variety of biomes, ranging from mountains and swamps to meadows and deserts. As the film goes on, very little is mentioned about the world itself. The Dark Crystal hits the ground running and you either keep up or get left behind.
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Combined, these texts form the bedrock upon which the Netflix series is built.īut who has time to read all of that before The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance drops this weekend? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. There is also a four-book prequel novel series published from 2016-2019, and the 12-issue comic published in 2017 based on the never-produced film sequel to The Dark Crystal. Smith and 'The World of The Dark Crystal' table book from the perspective of in-world archaeologists. There was the novelization written by A.C.H.
To complement the film and help flesh out the world, Henson had a heavy hand in the supplemental materials. Everything from animation and matte painted backgrounds, to forced perspective and miniatures were used to bring the world created by Henson, artist Brian Froud, and screenwriter David Odell to life. A technical marvel of achievement in film, The Dark Crystal merged cutting-edge puppetry and animatronics with old-fashioned special effects.
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