Being the lore geek, I remember reading the SC1 lore in the CD sleeve as a kid. I imagined what the super advanced race Xel'naga were like, the race omnipotent enough to create Zerg and Protoss from scratch.

I knew Blizz would revisit SC universe for sure and anticipated what Xel'naga would be like. They're not conventionally advanced like Protoss. Xel'naga created them.. they must be spiritual or exist in some crazy energy form of sort.

SC2 arrived.. we don't see Xel'naga at all. All we see is Protoss/Zerg hybrids. The only glimpse is the generic Protoss portrait representing Xel'naga as the Dark One.

What a disappointment.

Altar

United States577 Posts

August 02 2010 04:07 GMT

There's 2 other games btw

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

August 02 2010 04:10 GMT

I didn`t expect them to jump that far in the very first campaign. There are 2 more campaigns to go, they need material for people to be excited for. Nevertheless, I`m super excited for the Xel`naga as well =)

Thegilaboy

United States2018 Posts

August 02 2010 04:10 GMT

Man, two separate threads complaining about SC2. Like Altar said, we still have 2 more games for the story to unfold. We have glimpses of things to come perhaps, what with Duran's pseudo-appearance and if he is working for the Xel'Naga or some other force remains to be seen. Give it time my friend, I'm sure we will see more of them in the future

tru_power22

Canada385 Posts

August 02 2010 04:12 GMT

Dude, I don't think blizzard wants us to know what the Xel'naga look like. They want to leave it up to the imagination. If they wanted us to know they would have shown us - besides they're extinct.

/thread.

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ArghUScaredMe

United States712 Posts

August 02 2010 04:13 GMT

On August 02 2010 13:07 Altar wrote:
There's 2 other games btw

I have a feeling they'll disappoint me with their portrayal.... if they're just similar to Legion from War3, it'd be pissed off.

Remember, Xel'naga is NOT an evil race by ANY means. They created protoss and lived harmoniously with them through mentoring and teaching. It was Protoss that betrayed them and Xel'naga bounced.

Same with Zerg. Overmind went batshit crazy on them.

yeti

United States258 Posts

August 02 2010 04:21 GMT

The other two games will feature the (P)

Protoss &

Zerg races. Since they are the ones who were "created" by the Xel'naga, it seems likely that the Xel'naga will be more involved in the sequels.
I cant imagine a (P)

Protoss campaign without Zeratul seeking his creators to protect him from the
(Z)

Zerg. Howfully, Blizz won't take that as a que to add a 4th race. Didnt work in WCIII, WONT work in SCIII

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

August 02 2010 04:44 GMT

On August 02 2010 13:13 ArghUScaredMe wrote:

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Spoiler for the campaign:
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If you go back to the crystal after finishing the crystal missions, you can read the prophecy there. Note that it very distinctly distinguishes between "the Xel'naga" and "the Fallen One". There's no indication that the Xel'Naga as a whole are evil--just that "the Fallen One" (which is the dark being in that mission--and who is not even confirmed to *be* a Xel'naga) is.

Kezzer

United States1268 Posts

August 02 2010 04:47 GMT

Wait so the hybrids weren't Xel'naga? I thought that was the definition of the Xel'naga... Wow I guess not, since the Xel'naga made protoss and zerg. Did the Xel'naga create that hybrid then?

Leeoku

1617 Posts

August 02 2010 05:00 GMT

#10

No the hybrids are just infested protoss, just like how infested humans are called infested terrans, just that infested protoss are called hybrids.

Im sure the xelnaga will be revealed in zeratuls quest for the prophecy or w/e journey he goes on to find out the elimination of the swarm. the protoss expansion will prob reveal it and the zerg will prob be the final stop against the terran/protoss/xelnagas

bnanaPEEL

Canada138 Posts

August 02 2010 05:01 GMT

#11

Duran created the hybrids (as Zeratul found out in BW), and he's probably the Fallen One too. Probably.

KebertXela

United States322 Posts

August 02 2010 05:09 GMT

#12

Well, orignally Duran did create the hybrids, but SC2 makes no mention of him and hints that the Xelnaga made them. I hope he didn't get retconned, he was awesome.

Alventenie

United States2147 Posts

August 02 2010 05:13 GMT

#13

Duran worked for a greater power that no one in the brood war had known (he tells you in Dark Origins mission). You could assume that he worked for the fallen one in creating the hybrids for him. Would be nice to know where he went off to though.

Senorcuidado

United States700 Posts

August 02 2010 05:36 GMT

#14

On August 02 2010 14:00 Leeoku wrote:
No the hybrids are just infested protoss, just like how infested humans are called infested terrans, just that infested protoss are called hybrids.

Im sure the xelnaga will be revealed in zeratuls quest for the prophecy or w/e journey he goes on to find out the elimination of the swarm. the protoss expansion will prob reveal it and the zerg will prob be the final stop against the terran/protoss/xelnagas

actually, there is a difference between being infested and spliced together. The hybrids aren't Protoss who were infested, they are genetically engineered with the DNA of both species.

charlesatan

Philippines75 Posts

August 02 2010 05:51 GMT

#15

On August 02 2010 14:13 Alventenie wrote:
Duran worked for a greater power that no one in the brood war had known (he tells you in Dark Origins mission). You could assume that he worked for the fallen one in creating the hybrids for him. Would be nice to know where he went off to though.

It has been speculated that Duran is

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Dr. Narud (spelled backwards)

Also, other contenders for The Fallen One include Ulrezaj. (He did form the Taldarim)

RandomAccount#49059

United States2140 Posts

August 02 2010 05:54 GMT

#16

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ArghUScaredMe

United States712 Posts

August 02 2010 05:55 GMT

#17

This is wrong. It's even mentioned directly in campaign.

Swann (or was it Horner?): "Hybrids? So they're like infested Zerg?"

Raynor: "No, different. They're assimilated together".

Infested- Simply corrupted up by Zerg
Hybrids- Xel'naga's attempt to create a perfect race. See here: http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Xel'naga

heishe

Germany2284 Posts

August 02 2010 05:58 GMT

#18

the thing with the dark one is going to be SO like deathwing in the warcraft universe. one of the xel naga betrayed the xel naga and turned their creations against them 100%. blizzard formula ftw.

hellsan631

United States695 Posts

August 02 2010 06:34 GMT

#19

xel'naga didnt make protoss. They found them on aiur, and saw that they had great psyonic capabilities. They took them and gave them technology, and for that the protoss saw them as gods. The Xel'naga saw the protoss as having purity of form. Soon, the protoss broke out into civil war. They sought to destroy the xel naga, so they fled. They also didnt create the zerg. The zerg were a race of insects which mutated at a amazing rate. They took this and using their science, enhanced the zerg, and created the overmind, so that the type of "civil war" that happened with the protoss wouldn't happen with the zerg. They saw the zerg as having purity of essence.

quoting this:

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Xel'naga

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

August 02 2010 06:43 GMT

#20

If you finished the campaign, you might have seen a Xel'Naga. Don't know for sure yet, but I think it is the case:
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Kerrigan was not turned into a human. She became a Xel'Naga.