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The exclusion of the Tigerman probably points toward the Awoken and Exo not being aliens, as the Tigerman (obviously alien, am I right, guys?) did not fit the vibe they were going for. The two that made the cut are most likely human variations, The Food Chain pointed out that the existence of aliens with similar facial features is highly unlikely.
This is a little long but almost all of it hasn't been gone over.
As ShadowSlayer218 and a few others alluded to, this is a mythic sci-fi game, the Awoken clearly represent the Elven element of this mash-up. Evidenced by the screenshot from the Destiny Character Development video, they appear to be identified with the Hunter, a ranger-esce class (note the yellow hued warm colors, and the left variant doesn't even have an exposed face).
As for the Exo, previously we couldn't see the full concept but The Exalener has provided us with a [url=http://puu.sh/2pNg2]suitable reference[/url]. That helmet doesn't appear to have enough room for a full skull, notice the back top portion appears either blown out, broken, or stylized to have a chunk missing from what would be a full head. Also notice the hands, particularly the the thumbs, where the webbing and muscle should be instead there are mechanical tendons and a blacked out gap. To me the hands appear mechanical with the legs and feet simply being armored, indicating the Exo is not fully machine.
Where does this put the Exo?
[i]outside, external, turning out, outward[/i]- medically and scientifically this term is used to prefix something that produces something else, such as energy or waste, or something that lays outside of something else.
The most prominent term we might think of is [i]exoskeleton[/i] but we know that all classes utilize some form of armor, so maybe this is an external skeletal feature or replacement that does not supplement but attaches at the end of the body as prosthesis.
With human civilization facing annihilation it could make sense for recovered casualties to be repaired and sent back into battle, their disabilities replaced with prosthetics, their damaged brains/humanity sutured and cropped (offering a more useful disability: a mental familiarity with and propensity for violence).
Or perhaps they've willingly subjected themselves to medical procedures and cybernetic alterations aimed at enhancing their [i]physical[/i] or [i]outward[/i] presence on the battlefield, whereas the Awoken (filling the role of the Elves) might have more of an intellectual/spiritual prowess, scrying abilities or mental connection to physics, or similarly, as most have proposed, a more intense magical presence.
What do you think of this speculation, it's effect on story, and the gameplay implications of this may be?
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11 Replies in this Sub-ThreadYour are on track with other discussions on the Exo and Awoken, "poll: is this human" and " huh - races". I like that you showed the three plate of the fallen. One of the plates (left) has been seen with the two other classes(thinking that this is a human, not Awoken). What I find interesting is that all three are female, suggesting that the Awoken are only female. Good!!
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Haha working for Bungie/game development was a dream of mine when I was an adolescent and an more active artist (that's not a cautionary tale, follow your dreams!) but no I took a different road. I mean there are the patrolling robots from the footage we've seen so I always considered that robots could make it in but people don't get as excited by mention of robots as they do by an undead Nazgul or a hybrid race like a Numenorean or [i]time traveling[/i] robots. So you never know but I don't think an Exo explicitly classifies as a robot unless they're being loose with terms to maintain the aura of vagueness. Joe and Chris (if I may be so bold as to use their first names) had this weird banter about the 'robot', at one point Joe (the writer, keep in mind) said something like "that's the best choice" [i]to[/i] Chris. It just made me think they were trying to maintain their press release faces and use 'robot', and then cracked an inside joke as to how saying 'robot' is the most blank, ambiguous, and uninteresting (for most) character trait to tack onto something else. Then again, the people at Bungie have been known, at times, to be steeped in mystery.
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Correct, they are being loose with their terms. They mentioned robot twice in their talk. If they said I've been playing a Warlock Exo and I'm playing a female Exo, that would have shown their hand. The black pyramids, we can talk about them. Your right, keep the mystery going, it fires people up (oh like us) and keeps the interest alive. In another thread someone maybe the robots wii be helping AI's. as you saw their patrolling the city, while the rest of us fools are out being hero's. If you match up what they say and the artwork, as we're doing you can get a good picture of where their going, which I think is exciting. All in all pieces of a puzzle.
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