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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mystaros" data-source="post: 1938648" data-attributes="member: 3921">Coupla things...The DC of CoR is indispensible. It has a lot more on just what Riddick is... and he's definitely a "super-human" of some sort, though that may not be due to genetic heritage.Aeron of the Elementals explains that the Elemental philosophy is based on Plato, and that there are five elements, Air, Water, Earth, Fire, and Ether. I suggest that, as with all religions, she's leaving out some other things. For example, in the book the "half-dead" nature of the Lord Marshall is described as being astral in nature. The Underverse is described as being beyond a "rift" in the regular 'verse, called the Threshold, and is an actual location in the 'verse where the new Lord Marshall must go to and return from — as the Half-Dead.I think there are as many "elements" as one would want to put into the campaign, think of them not so much as classical elements as "platonic ideals," in which each different "'verse" represents the most ideal aspect of that "element." Thus, the Airverse would be for elemental Air, the Fireverse would be for elemental Fire, the Underverse for elemental Death, and the "Furyverse" would represent elemental animalism... as Riddick mentions, duiring cryosleep the most base, animalistic level of the human mind remains awake... and he is more or less conscious whenever he wants to be in cryosleep! Except, of course, when he gets whacked by the power of Shirah (in the book and in the DC).The recognized "Elemental" races of Air, Water, Fire, Earth, and Ether are all closely connected, and far mroe common than other "elemental" races, as those are indeed the five classic Greek elements... and the most common in general. The ancestors of Riddick's people must have settled on a planet that had close ties to "elemental animalism," or perhaps "elemental nature" in general, as the visions of Furiya (seen in the DC) seem very lush in general. Thus, like the Air elementals, the Furiyans absorbed "elemental animalism," and Riddick has been "chosen" to revenge the primal animalism of the Furyians, which still survives in the "Furyverse" personified by Shirah.As to Riddick being the "last" Furyian, that is misleading. The DC shows that the prophecy declared that the Lord Marshall would be killed by a "new-born" Furyian male... and thus they killed all the new-born males, strangling them with their own cords. Somehow, Riddick survived this, even though the Lord Marshall visited him while he was in his crib! (note the "new-born" thing is very classic in mythology). So while all the new-born males were slaughtered, any other survivors, even young boys and teens like the Purifier would have been at the time, would have been given the choice to convert or die! So many of the current Necromongers might even be Furyians! However, as the process of conversion also sterilizes the subject (as mentioned in the book), that would likely make Riddick indeed the last of the Furyians... unless there are other survivors, hidden elsewere...Oh, and I read somewhere that the Riddick DVDs have sold more than $90 million worth... so the odds of a sequel are looking better! Considering it is designed to be a trilogy (with Pitch Blakc as the "Prequel" along the lines of The Hobbit), we might even see two more movies on this 'verse... er, universe...</blockquote>

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