New Names, New Pets and New Theories!

Good morning, Readers!

Okay, okay, I know I'm blogging about this game more than the other games I've played, with perhaps the exception of Skyrim, but an inordinate number of pets require names, and I need help to name them all.  Well, this time I have new names for some pets and also have new pets that requiring names.

First, the names I've decided on belong to my two jaguars.  That's right.  I have two of them now.  The most recent, the rare black jaguar was acquired during last night's stream.  At the end of the stream, their names struck me.  Ladles and jellyspoons, I'd like to introduce you to Aztec and Maya:

Aztec

Maya

As usual, I still require names for my white wolf.  My friend Jerry suggested the name Tao during the stream (though I'm not sure which animal he intended it for), and I quite like that name for my white wolf.  I may go with it, unless a better name is offered.  For now, I'm listing him with my new wolf pet (who is just a regular wolf), who is also in need of a name.

Pupper needs a name!

Tao. Probably.

I also acquired a brown bear, who is in need of a name.  A few were offered, but were terribly stereotypical names for bears, and didn't feel right, really.

Bear needs a name. If it helps, he can't climb or jump up on ledges, apparently.

Okay, onto a new theory I have about one of the tribes in the game, the Izila.  Right, these folks are new-comers to Oros, apparently, but that is not the most interesting thing about them that I've found.  The first thing I noticed is that they painted themselves with woad (blue).  Their skin also appears to be paler.  During last night's live stream, I encountered a number of standing stones that were also painted blue, and were carved with designs that were very similar to the carvings you get in, for example, Newgrange.  Also, they built a giant passage tomb that was extremely reminiscent of the afore-mentioned passage tomb in Ireland.  It was the Tushwarha Outpost that I conquered last night.  It even almost had a corbelled roof, and alcoves for bodies (though far too many entrances to be a true passage tomb).  Also present where there are many Izlia are a number of stone henges (not technically henges), with the same structures that can be seen in the famous example of such a site on Salisbury Plains (the Stonehenge (not technically a henge)).

All of this leads me to believe that the Izila are, in fact, the developers' imagining of the proto-Celtic culture that came to Europe in the late Palaeolithic.  At least, I will contend that they did, as I am a subscriber to the Upper Palaeolithic Continuity Theory (now pretentiously labelled the Upper Palaeolithic Continuity Paradigm).

You have no idea how much I was geeking out about all of this last night.  I mean, viewers of the stream would, because they were there, but my anthropologist heart was in a flurry, and my anthropologist brain was exploding.

Anyway, headcanon accepted.  Takkar's tribe, the Wenja, must be anatomically modern humans/early modern humans, with the Udam being Homo Neanderthalensis, and the Izila being the more modern Homo Sapien Sapien.  They all existed together at one stage in history, why not here?

Now, I have it on good authority that there is an unofficial Ubi-verse, and that the Assassin's Creed universe and the Far Cry universe are the same.  With Takkar being the beast-master, all the pieces lead me to think he's the ancestor of the assassins (who form strong psychic bonds with eagles... hawks?  One of those birds of prey... and can control and see via those animals the way Takkar can with his horned grey owl).  Perhaps, due to a lot of mixing with the Udam and Izila, the beast master abilities were diluted until it was just the eagles?

If that's the case, I greatly wonder then if the Izila are not the ancestors of The Templar, or at least their ideology?  I don't know.  I haven't had much interaction with the Izila in game yet, beyond several clashes and I'm not certain what their motives are (other than the typical inter-tribal conflict).  With the Udam, at least, it has been established that these poor people are dying off and they don't know why; they're scared and confused, and fighting against their own extinction.  I feel quite badly for them, to be honest.

Alright, alright.  I'm geeking out too much, I know.  I do have things to do, too.  But it's all so damned fascinating.  I should let you go then.

Don't forget to help me name my new pets.

​Ciao!