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The Ellians, referred to as The Ancient Ones by the Sirians[1], are an extinct race of aliens mentioned in the official Serious Sam backstory. Despite not being referred to much in the series, they do play a pivotal role nonetheless. Through anecdotal beliefs, it would appear that they were behind the creation of the Time-Lock, a mysterious device capable of sending someone backwards in time.[1]
History
Not much is known about the history or origin of the Ellians. From what can be gathered, they were an ancient and extremely advanced extraterrestrial race, and were perhaps one of the most advanced civilizations in the entire galaxy, having managed to establish a great empire that prospered and spanned in many star systems throughout the Milky Way.[1] One of the Ellians' greatest feats was being able to design a highly advanced and sophisticated device, the Time-Lock, which is a machine that is capable of sending someone back in time, or more specifically, to the date it was armed.[2][3]
Several hundred thousand years ago, the Ellian Empire flourished, the race named this era 'Tag'h Na-Mah', which meant "big order that oscillates", as the empires were in a constant state of expansion and decline. Still, the entire system was seemingly stable. Allegedly, the empires were usually governed by creatures called the 'Hum-Tah', the infinite beings. These entities were some kind of immortal beings whose exact nature is still unclear.
All seemed perfect for the Ellians, until one day, one of the Hum-Tah, or 'The Infinite Ones' as referred to by the Ellians, saw the species as a threat to the galaxy that had to be eliminated for unknown reasons. This Hum-Tah, who was very different than the other members of his species, deemed the Ellians to be a threat on a galactic scale, which he saw in all other intelligent life.[1] The Ellians referred to this age of genocide and turmoil as 'Ugh-Tan', of the infinite death. They wouldn't explain how it began, but it was described as a curse for intelligent life in the universe.
Eventually, the Hum-Tah annihilated the Ellians, which resulted in their extinction. With the species gone, nothing but small traces of their cilivization remained.
Many thousands of years later, another advanced race, the Sirians, became developed enough to begin colonizing other worlds, and many of them left their planet in search of intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy. They ventured on many interstellar expeditions, and on one particular mission, they discovered traces of the Ellians in an unknown part of the galaxy. The Sirians named this race the 'Ellians', or 'The Ancient Ones'. The Sirians had found Eillian legends of large empires spanning great areas of the galaxy for eons.[1]
As the most important clue for the events that followed, the Sirians left a fragment of an old Eillian song in rough and unclear translation meaning:
- "Of the infinite, there are three kinds:
Lost ones, they are lost in infinity
And useless.
Ones that create, they were our gods
They were finited.
Ones that destroy, they were banished.
But The One Infinite is still." - ―Unknown
Appearances
- Serious Sam official backstory (First appearance) (Mentioned)
References
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