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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 7819241" data-attributes="member: 5142"><p>No, and admittedly the opening narration of the film (and TV series) is misleading. If you watch the film again, you can notice that the crystal shard shows Jen a brief vision of a skeksis breaking the Crystal of Truth. So the skeksis and urRu would have split prior to that point.</p><p></p><p>The urSkeks were political exiles from their planet who were banished due to their own inner imbalance. (The sources are vague on the details.) On Thra, the urSkeks hoped to utilize the Crystal of Truth for the next Great Conjunction to purge themselves of their inner darkness and return to their homeworld, which also supposedly had a Crystal of Truth of its own. But the sorrow of one of their number* caused this ritual to fail, and instead the Crystal of Truth split them into the Skeksis and urRu. In the midst of this confusion and rage at their new selves, one of the skeksis cracked the crystal, and two pairs of skeksis/urRu also apparently died in this time.</p><p></p><p>* One of the gelflings who had been invited to the Great Conjunction was a bard who had secretly heard one of the urSkeks sing a sad song on a small island in the ocean years before. When the gelfling played this song at the Castle, it apparently had triggered a resurfacing of anger, nostalgia, and sorrow among that one urSkek. Since this urSkek was singing, some have speculated that this unnamed urSkek may have been SilSol, who split to become urSol the Chanter and SkekSil the Chamberlain.</p><p></p><p>The ritual of the sun gives some life but not as much anymore. I also think that the skeksis are creatures of habit who are numbly performing their rituals, much as urRu are said to be doing the same. So the answer is both.</p><p></p><p>The two gelflings in the movie were raised by urRu and Podlings, neither of whom are militaristic. So Jen and Kira do not exactly show a normative sense of how gelflings were prior to the Garthim Wars. The militarization of the gelflings is congruent with what we see in the prequel comic Creation Myths, which shows the initial formation of the Alliance of the Crystal between the skeksis and gelflings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 7819241, member: 5142"] No, and admittedly the opening narration of the film (and TV series) is misleading. If you watch the film again, you can notice that the crystal shard shows Jen a brief vision of a skeksis breaking the Crystal of Truth. So the skeksis and urRu would have split prior to that point. The urSkeks were political exiles from their planet who were banished due to their own inner imbalance. (The sources are vague on the details.) On Thra, the urSkeks hoped to utilize the Crystal of Truth for the next Great Conjunction to purge themselves of their inner darkness and return to their homeworld, which also supposedly had a Crystal of Truth of its own. But the sorrow of one of their number* caused this ritual to fail, and instead the Crystal of Truth split them into the Skeksis and urRu. In the midst of this confusion and rage at their new selves, one of the skeksis cracked the crystal, and two pairs of skeksis/urRu also apparently died in this time. * One of the gelflings who had been invited to the Great Conjunction was a bard who had secretly heard one of the urSkeks sing a sad song on a small island in the ocean years before. When the gelfling played this song at the Castle, it apparently had triggered a resurfacing of anger, nostalgia, and sorrow among that one urSkek. Since this urSkek was singing, some have speculated that this unnamed urSkek may have been SilSol, who split to become urSol the Chanter and SkekSil the Chamberlain. The ritual of the sun gives some life but not as much anymore. I also think that the skeksis are creatures of habit who are numbly performing their rituals, much as urRu are said to be doing the same. So the answer is both. The two gelflings in the movie were raised by urRu and Podlings, neither of whom are militaristic. So Jen and Kira do not exactly show a normative sense of how gelflings were prior to the Garthim Wars. The militarization of the gelflings is congruent with what we see in the prequel comic Creation Myths, which shows the initial formation of the Alliance of the Crystal between the skeksis and gelflings. [/QUOTE]
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