Korroloka Tunnel Lore Question

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

for some reason I get the feeling the WoTG storyline is an alternate timeline, somehow I don't think I'm the only one in that

WotG spoilers!

It's not that it's an "alternate timeline" so much as a junction, an intersection of two possible timelines: ours and Lilith's. Subtle details may be different from how it's "remembered," but key points like "the Antican Empire stayed out of the war" wouldn't change like that.

At any rate, I'm sticking with my "mariners" angle. It's well-known that they're sea-faring; what we're seeing are shipwrecked sailors who found their way into the tunnels one way or another, much like all the other sea life we see down there.

It's the GBH's we should be wondering about. :P

[Zhronne]

WotG storylines are so packed full with retcon and plotholes that I'm not even sure up to which point we have to rely on them...
I mean, on one hand it's pretty clear they are "official" and in continuity, but on the other hand I'm kinda leaning to think that who wrote and thought the lore of races and world areas in the beginning didn't definitely see many things as they were showed to us in the silly WotG missions.

[Sotek]

Well, I can easily work around that (though I don't recall any quests stating they were neutral out of anything other than necessity). The Shadow Lord sent Gigas over to disturb their nests and lead them through Korroloka where they would come out from under Bastok and completely remove the city from the war. Even if they were neutral and simply repelling the Gigas in that scenario, the moment they enter Bastok they'd almost certainly be attacked and even if the Antican didn't launch an offensive after that, Bastok would have to redirect its forces to defend quite a ridiculous hole in their defense, weakening their war effort (and it was troops from Bastok which eventually beat the Shadow Lord, so...).

Of course, maybe the Gigas are just their to harvest those suggestively shaped pieces of coral.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

(though I don't recall any quests stating they were neutral out of anything other than necessity).

For the record, I'm referring to a cutscene in the Eldieme Necropolis [S] for the quest "Burden of Suspicion."

[Drivont]

Thank you all for the replies! :P But hands down, Proth's reply explains everything!

[Prothscar]

[Limecat]

They like to lick the spiders.