Before achieving through abnormal circumstance a godlike omnipotence and omnipresence, the Ellimist was originally a Ketran named Toomin. He lived on the Equatorial High Crystal with his friends Inidar, Aguella and Wormer. Toomin could be best described as a “gamer”; he frequently played a life simulation game called Alien Civilizations, very popular among his people, which gave each player an alien species and tasked them with slightly modifying their environmental or evolutionary aspects, so as to cause change over time. The aim of the game was to keep the species alive for as long as possible; if the species became extinct, the player lost.
So, far before the main storyline of Animorphs, the ancient backstory is roughly ‘once there was a race hyperintelligent elf-dwarfish creatures, of whom some played very advanced life simulator / god games, and, following a series of extraordinary events, the last remaining one of their kind basically became an actual god / a dimensionally transcendent being.’
… and, the particular one of these that ended up essentially becoming god, well, he was originally … pretty much a hikkikomori NEET nerd ‘failure to launch’ ‘professional gamer’ kid/adolescent, going by the cultural standards of his species, before it was genocided.
So… its like an ancient alien dork who was really into life simulator / god games just ended up gaining so much knowledge and power that he became able to treat reality itself as one of his games.
Kind of. Sort of. Its more complicated and strange than that.
Animorphs is just actually a really good book series.
Yep, the covers are ludicrous.
But to me, Animorphs is basically on the same level as Redwall, very, very good series of books to give to a kid to entertain them, make em more literate, and also expose them to some pretty serious and ‘big’ ideas and concepts.
A million times better than an iPad.
Also, I guess at this point, they also serve as a pretty good time capsule into 90s/00s culture/lifestyle.
Would you believe that that is basically an actual plot point / lore detail in Animorphs, if you read all the non mainline series books as well?
Never heard of it before. I’ll have to look it up.
Ok I want to know more
https://animorphs.fandom.com/wiki/Ellimist
So, far before the main storyline of Animorphs, the ancient backstory is roughly ‘once there was a race hyperintelligent elf-dwarfish creatures, of whom some played very advanced life simulator / god games, and, following a series of extraordinary events, the last remaining one of their kind basically became an actual god / a dimensionally transcendent being.’
… and, the particular one of these that ended up essentially becoming god, well, he was originally … pretty much a hikkikomori NEET nerd ‘failure to launch’ ‘professional gamer’ kid/adolescent, going by the cultural standards of his species, before it was genocided.
So… its like an ancient alien dork who was really into life simulator / god games just ended up gaining so much knowledge and power that he became able to treat reality itself as one of his games.
Kind of. Sort of. Its more complicated and strange than that.
That’s a lot more than I expected. Thanks! I’ll read more
Animorphs is just actually a really good book series.
Yep, the covers are ludicrous.
But to me, Animorphs is basically on the same level as Redwall, very, very good series of books to give to a kid to entertain them, make em more literate, and also expose them to some pretty serious and ‘big’ ideas and concepts.
A million times better than an iPad.
Also, I guess at this point, they also serve as a pretty good time capsule into 90s/00s culture/lifestyle.