![]() Heck, if they capture you and you have the device they opt to blow it out even when they know you'll prob be back. I think it's one of the reasons I wasn't that scared of them, they aren't really evil. But their motives certainly weren't evil, until the prisoner that is. However they were always portrayed as sinister. They did what they could to protect their universe and could be seen as heroes in a different story. It was pretty clear from the first few reels that they realized what the eye would do and were terrified. I found the portrayal of the owls to be kind of odd. I don't think it has gone super well for them. No creation, no novelty in their simulation, and they are all dead. I mean they sit around doing nothing but looking at slides of their old world, playing the same music (probably), etc. Also they obviously are insane and possibly going more and more insane the longer they are in the simulation, especially when they lack real bodies to be drawn from. They seemed to want to edit their history to portray themselves in a better light, they didnt want their full history known, and they were driven insane. They went mad from having wasted everything to get to what turned out to be, to their eyes, a trap. They portray the eye as killing everything and then grass grows on their bones, this could either mean they figured out the new universe, or they misinterpreted it as just a weapon of mass destruction only. But while they were able to find the eye where later the nomai could not, there's no guarantee that their scan was fully accurate. I'm pretty sure that not only were they just upset and "protecting" the universe from the eye, they were quite spiteful of the eye as well. Maybe the prisoner left them behind on the off chance someone finds the Stranger, or maybe it's just purely for gameplay reasons. I suppose it's possible that some were missed in the burning, but, others were clearly left behind with the intent purpose of them being found. What was the purpose of burning all the reels in the real world, but only leave some of them with certain slides burnt out. What I'm trying to figure out now is why go to all the trouble to hide this information. In the end, the Owlkin were just trying to ensure that no one would ever interact with what they probably thought was a weapon of mass destruction, and to protect themselves as well as all other life. If the universe wasn't dying and we knew what the eye would do, then we probably wouldn't have touched it, and I'm willing to bet the Nomai would have avoided it too, although they would probably be less angry about it. ![]() The only reason we ever interacted with the eye is because there is literally no other options left for us. The motivations for the Owlkin makes sense to me.
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