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[[WMG: At least one of the news broadcast personalities will make a direct ShoutOut to TheSimpsons]]

** We only see Asaru when the Commander is connected to the psi-network, so it's more likely that Asaru is stuck in the psi-network somehow and is helping the Commander out from there. This also plays into the [[PlayerAndProtagonistIntegration "blank slate meant for the player to project themselves onto"]] status of the Commander -- players want their self-insert to actually BE a self-insert, not "ahaha, you thought you were playing as your own character, but you were really playing as OUR character all along!" The "Character is actually Asaru" worked in The Bureau because that character wasn't meant to represent the player, but it doesn't work for the Commander.

** We only see Asaru when the Commander is connected to the psi-network, so it's more likely that Asaru is stuck in the psi-network somehow and is helping the Commander out from there. This also plays into the [PlayerAndProtagonistIntegration "blank slate meant for the player to project themselves onto"] status of the Commander -- players want their self-insert to actually BE a self-insert, not "ahaha, you thought you were playing as your own character, but you were really playing as OUR character all along!" The "Character is actually Asaru" worked in The Bureau because that character wasn't meant to represent the player, but it doesn't work for the Commander.

** We only see Asaru when the Commander is connected to the psi-network, so it's more likely that Asaru is stuck in the psi-network somehow and is helping the Commander out from there. This also plays into the [PlayerAndProtagonistIntegration "blank slate meant for the player to project themselves onto"] status of the Commander -- players want their self-insert to actually BE a self-insert, not "ahaha, you thought you were playing as your own character, but you were really playing as OUR character all along!" The "Character is actually Asaru" worked in The Bureau because that character wasn't meant to represent the player.

* In ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad'', [[spoiler:one of the gang leaders is a psionic human supremacist whose driving obsession is with giving all of humanity psionic powers and mentally enslaving all aliens, starting with the Hybrid. She has clearly been experimented on and driven insane]]. However, there is no conclusive evidence that she is / is not Annette.

It's said in-game that the later events of X-Com was the Commander being used as a wet-ware computer, and that X-Com went down before EXALT showed up. It would integrate Enemy Within. For the first however many times, the Commander was 'running' Enemy Unknown, and as they tried to rebel they moved on to Enemy Within.

Durand is MIA, possibly the leader of the Templars or possibly killed during her rescue mission.

* Pretty thoroughly Jossed. The leader of the Templars is a former XCOM Psi Soldier named Geist that bears no resemblance to Annette. While the Chosen are former humans, they aren't the furies.

The Elders or Ethereals are a series of ancient beings seemingly of identical body type and outfit, with one notable exception, who speak as a united group. This troper believes that the seeming universality of there abilities and decrepit build would not be conducive to a species proper, even if humans went the accention route it is virtually certain that at least a few million would choose to stay behind and continue having children naturally. Rather this troper suspects that the Ethereals are all variations of same being coming from various different dimensions with the most powerful variation among them becoming leader.

Further more they are waging war across the different dimensions and have been extremely successful. With access to multiple dimensions they simply picking a fight with each species to learn its weaknesses then exploit them in the next dimension to conquer them and turn the new conquest on the originals. No species ever survived an onslaught like this because the enemy would always know exactly what weakness they had somehow and exploit it. That is until humanity got into the mix with our perfect blend of brain, brawn, and psionic potential.

The Ethereals saw in us something far greater then anyone before had presented [[spoiler: the chance at extending their dwindling lives. The Ethereals for all of their power and technology had reached the absolute limit of what they could do to preserve their bodies. More and more of them failed leaving the inhabitants as powerless wraiths kept existent by the psionic power they wielded but also trapped by it, left unable to rule from beyond the mortal coil. Humanity had just the right mix to be reengineered into the perfect shells for them to inhabit with all the strengths they currently had plus the might of the Ethereals.]]

The problems began almost immediately as we proved far, far more resistant and flexible then any other species had. To the point of actively fighting back against the invasion and winning but that was all part of the plan. Once it was clear they had lost the Ethereals jumped ship to a new dimension and tried again upping their game with the newly gained knowledge of the humans. It didn't work, for the first time in recorded history the humans didn't fall to the same faults as their counterparts in the previous dimension. Sure it worked for a time but as soon as they had self-analyzed and discovered the fault they would correct it and recover to win again.

Taking it as a fluke at first the Ethereals repeated the process again and again each time getting more creative with the attack itself but always met with failure. Too much variation, too much adaptability was slowly draining what they had left in terms of both vitality and resources. The defeats piled up as they scrambled for a solution until the an Ethereal itself fell into the hands of the enemy and suddenly the fight got much more serious. They hadn't pieced it together yet but it was now virtually certain that the particular world which had seized one of their own would eventually figure out how to cross dimensions and find the rest. It also happened to be one of the worlds they had brutalized most harshly giving the inhabitants ample motive for revenge.

The XCOM 2 Ethereals used the knowledge they had on XCOM itself to hunt down a world where the base shared coordinates with another they had already assaulted and launched an all out assault ending the war before it began in earnest. They captured the commander, the man who somehow had always managed to out maneuver them, and tried to figure out just what was so special about him. Nothing, that was the answer. By all rights he was just another human of the exact type they'd slaughtered millions of but somehow this one man just kept on beating them so instead of of trying in vain to discover some secret about him they put him to use analyzing human tactics from combat across dimensions while trying desperately to finish the project they'd started long ago while there were still Ethereals to saves.

The Ethereals hire them in the mid-to-late campaign as it's clear that none but their most elite and rarest troops can stand up to XCOM, and they can only afford to throw away so many of their own resources. It explains why the Andromedons are so different from every other species the aliens deploy in terms of biology, aesthetics, and technology, and why they never appeared in the first game.
* Possibly Jossed; ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad'' includes lore about Andromedon Enclaves, small communities of Andromedons who keep to themselves and share a community pool of argon gas to breathe. Unfortunately, a small horde of battleframes living together keeps everyone near them on edge and they have to socially distance themselves to prevent panic. Some Andromedons try to work for a terrorist group, but the general community excommunicates them.

The three Chosen are, by in-game standards, monstrously powerful, all of them exhibit some form of psionic power, Have ResurrectiveImmortality, massive health pools, they all make some comment on being human at one point, et cetera. I think that they were the earliest attempts for the Elders to making a new body for themselves. But instead of the current projects goal of using human genetic material and other aliens DNA to clone up a blank slate body, these first attempts were of making a host body from altering an already existing human body with purely Elder DNA, you will notice under the armor they seem to be quite thin, even the Warlock. The alterations worked well, but because they were not blank slates, the elders couldn't use them as hosts, only brainwash them into being servants, each Chosen seems to be a different attempt:

** The Hunter: He seems to be the earliest attempt, and an attempt to make an Avatar, using an adult Human male,[[spoiler: according to the books he was a Reaper, which makes sense]], but because of his already adult human body, his psionic abilities were low and only amplified his aiming skill.

** The Assassin: The second, Probably made using a psionic potential adult female, but not a high level one, she has more psi abilities than the Hunter, but because of her low level of psionics, she is quite limited, she is more loyal to the Elders, but still again, being more developed she is still only semi-brainwashed rather than outright blanked.

** The Warlock: Is probably the latest attempt before they abandoned trying to make humans with elder infusions, he is a confirmed high level psi (he blew up the facility he was in when he was a toddler), The Elders had high hopes for him, infusing a high level psi with Elder DNA just made his powers much more advanced, and meant he was constantly connected to the psi network, so he was again brainwashed, but his is outright, as he is fanatacially devoted to the Elders but that wasn't enough, again, not being a blank slate, sealed it.

They figured out that regardless of how powerful the psionic is, they could never make an Avatar for themselves with a human infused with Elder DNA, because there is already a mind there, they then moved onto the clone plan.

[[WMG:UFO missions meets Base Defence?]]

* With VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad this seems to be confirmed as the game seems to be set in between 2 and a presumable XCOM 3, and is about leading a SWAT team of sorts composed of a mix of human and alien agents to stabilize a city that serves as a model of peace and cooperation between humans and the non-Ethereal aliens left behind by the Elders' retreat.

[[WMG: thee IS no greater threat]]
all of the posturing, patheticly transparent excuses for attempting the cold-blooded genocide of humanity, Hypocrisy and untold trillions of Other Sentient Beings they've slaughtered in their millennia-long rampage of murder, subjugation and enslavement cover nothing more then their Physical deformity / degenerative condition, and an unwillingness to continue sustaining themselves with their PSI powers( as they are revealed to have been doing in the EU timeline in the autopsy/interrogation reports) long enough for a SANE cure, if not simply out of sadism.

TThey've CLEARLY survived their condition for hundreds to thousands of years on an individual basis (from Autopsy evidence in the EU Timeline), and with their level of technology and amount of resources at their disposal,there is ZERO ingame/universe explination given for the conveniently sudden "deteriation"in their condition, and, most suspiciously, there is LITERALLY no excuse for the pitifully crude, assembly-line techniques they use for harvesting Human Genetic material then simple laziness or pointless sadism (not to mention inefficient, since they are KILLING all their subjects for a short-term payoff of material instead of prolonged harvesting that could EASILY be implemented via regular gene clinic check-ups- or being honest and offering rewards for individuals willing to donate tissue samples for cloning- a technology they are allready confirmed to have mastered to the point of flawlessly replicating entire complex organisms, as the entire Sectoid race are VERY heavily suggested/ theorized by Vahlen in EU to be mass-produced clones due to the near identical nature of every specimen encountered- not to mention the ADVENT Trooper strains!)

[[WMG: EXALT was the Commander's subconscious attempts to rebel against the Ethereals.]] It's said in-game that the later events of X-Com was the Commander being used as awet-ware computer, and that X-Com went down before EXALT showed up. It would integrate Enemy Within. For the first however many times, the Commander was 'running' Enemy Unknown, and as they tried to rebel they moved on to Enemy Within.

* Jossed on the account of the Skirmishers. They're ADVENT soldiers who broke out of their microchip-based control.

Most likely, Meld was a fictional resource that existed only [[spoiler: within the tactical simulations that the Commander was running for ADVENT]], to:

[[WMG: The Ethereals are not a species. They are all one specific being with there numbers coming from across dimensions, and they're running from Humanity.]]

Then it happens again, even though they won they still haven't really won because someone somewhere on this tiny blue speck is still willing to fight. Not only that but in a matter of under two decades they not only free the one person who seems to always beat the Ethereals in the end but they've not go a whole lot more of the weapons and technology that the Ethereals fraught so hard to keep from them. Now they've got the resistance on one side doing that damnable thing humans always do, adapt to the situation, and something far worse at their backs out searching for them. An entire dimension of extremely pissed off and highly augmented humans whos capabilities put the Ethereals themselves to shame. The only consolation is that if they fail in creating the new avatar species to carry them through this conflict these two unstoppable human jugernaughts will probably kill each other when the Ethereals are gone.

Come the second game we find out the Elders are dying from some incurable wasting disease and desperately hoping to use human DNA to stitch together the best of all other alien genetic material. However we see that even if their bodies die they continue to exist as psionic energy, multiple disembodied ones appear, meaning the body is just their to interact with the physical world as well as amplifying their powers. That and they have so few troops left they can barely control their own cities and have to constantly cull the population of zombies they accidentally created constantly to avoid being overrun. They don't even regularly patrol the skys anymore only sporadically deploying [=UFOs=] to hunt their enemies.

Think about it, Gatekeepers are the most powerfull psionic enemy [[spoiler: except the Avatars,]] like the Ethereals of Enemy Unknown. They are probably not a subject species like the other aliens. It does not make sense that the Ethereals would leave such an psionically powerfull species alive, even less to give them a powerfull robotic shell.

But it would make sense if the Gatekeepers would be dead or degenerated Ethereals. Maybe in an attempt to cure their disease multiple Ethereals got turned into these mounds of flesh. And the other Ethereals , maybe to use their leftover psionic might or maybe out of respect to their lost bretheren , formed these robotic shells for the victims of this mishap.

This would explain a lot about the Gatekeepers. Their rarity and late game appearance would come from the scarcity of these beings,due to not being able or willing to make more of them. Their psionic power would spring from the Ethereal origins of the creature. And they look like the most "sophisticated" of the alien units , because the Ethereals designed their shell to remind themselves and their subjects of the authority the sad creature inside once commanded.

Finally Gatekeepers are tied to the Gate, the most trans-dimensional object in the game and the Ethereals themselves are often theorized to be trans-dimensional

The three Chosen are, by in-game standards, monsterously powerful, all of them exhibit some form of psionic power, Have ResurrectiveImmortality and massive health pools, They all make some comment on being human at one point, I think that they were the earliest attempts for the Elders to making a new body for themselves. But, instead of the current projects goal of using human genetic material and other aliens DNA to clone up a blank slate body, these first attempts were of making a host body from altering an already existing human body with purely Elder DNA, you will notice under the armor they seem to be quite thin, even the Warlock, the alterations worked well, but, because they were not blank slates the elders couldn't use them as hosts, only brainwash them into being servants, each Chosen seems to be a different attempt:

** The Hunter: He seems to be the earliest attempt, and an attempt to make an Avatar, using an adult Human male,[[spoiler: according to the books he was a Reaper, which makes sense]], but because of his already adult human body, his psionic abilites were low and only amplified his aiming skill.

* If this is the case, then what are the [[spoiler: weird purplish tendrils crawling out of the wrekage of the ethereal underwater base?]]

They figured out that regardless of how powerful the psionic is, they could never make an Avatar for themselves with a human infused with Elder DNA, because there is already a mind there, they then moved onto the clone plan.

[[WMG:Advent MECs were based on notes stolen from the original XCOM base.]]

[[WMG: The final threat the Ethereals warned us about has already been revealed]]
A combination of theories posited so far - Somewhere in time and space, an unknown "evil" race dominates not only their universe, but also spill out into alternative dimensions, where they encounter pre-XCOM1 Ethereals. Some of the members of this "evil" race try to encourage the Ethereals [[spoiler: to ascend]] by sharing their superior technology with them, while others bear a grudge against the Ethereals (for reasons that will be made clear shortly) and try to eliminate the Ethereals [[spoiler: with a degenerative virus]] instead. The Ethereals' [[spoiler: degenerating bodies makes them desperate and they ultimately]] search for dimensions not dominated by the "evil" race. In at least two of these alternative dimensions, they find the freedom [[spoiler: to experiment on lesser races in an effort to save themselves and ultimately ascend]]. However, in every single one of these dimensions, humans adapt and adopt the Ethereal's borrowed technology and use it to defeat the Ethereals. [[spoiler: What's more, the humans evolve beyond the capabilities and technology possessed by the Ethereals, and eventually conquer them and go on to dominate the universe. The humans ultimately spill out into alternative dimensions, where they find Ethereals that have never encountered humans before and have no degenerative virus. The humans are the "evil" race that create their own worst enemy. This would actually go some way towards explaining the Ethereals' words at the end of XCOM 2, where they claim that the humans are the original aggressors]]

[[spoiler: The humans-into-orange-vial process seen in XCOM 2's black site may have already been undertaken on the Outsiders seen in The Bureau by the time XCOM1 began.]] The Outsider Shard may be a technologically re-worked version of the orange vial seen in XCOM 2.

** Doesn't seem to be the case. UFO hunting an Avenger spawns after uncountered random Dark Event or automatically at certain point of plot progression. You are encouraged to avoid getting into proximity with it, but you seem to be reasonably safe just staying on the ground. Obviously, the more regions you have, the more space to maneuver you have. Even if UFO spots the Avenger, Bradford might be able to disengage, additional regions might be increasing the chances of this as well.

Ok, this is going to take some time to explain: After the original XCOM (as in UFO Defense), XCOM was disbanded as a military organization, and forced to become PrivateMilitaryContractors for [[CorruptCorporateExecutive F. Denman Williams]] during XCOM: Terror From The Deep. Considering TheStinger teases [[spoiler: a possible set-up for Terror From The Deep, with psionic energy bubbling up from the remains of the Avatar Project base]], it's possible that the post-ADVENT world would have the nations of the world reestablished by EXALT, and with F. Denman Williams or his counterpart serving the Councilman's role as a go-between for the privatized XCOM and their EXALT paymasters, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork with the two working together (barely) to fight against]] [[spoiler: [[BiggerBad whatever force destroyed the home planet of the Ethereals]].]]

Given his catchphrase 'We will be watching', and the Etheral's goal of testing humanity, particularly X-Com, and watching their progress, and his sudden re-apperance upon the recovery of the Commander, and the reveal of his being mind controlled in the game over of the previous game, it's possible that he was always being controlled by the aliens, who put X-Com into motion to see what humanity's best and brightest could do, with the Commander's rescue by X-Com after the war being enough to make them give humanity another chance after their previous failure.

** [[spoiler: Seemingly jossed - while allegedly part of ADVENT, it's ultimately clear that the Informant is really TheMole, and any proof that he would be a double agent is jossed when [[HeroicSacrifice he breaks into the Unity Tower to broadcast information to shut down the ADVENT, shortly before ADVENT guards burst in to gun him down]]]].

To start, I think they banned anything produced by Firaxis, as some of the background lines confirms Firaxis exists in the XCOM universe, and they banned anything with an alien badguy.

** Likewise, they'd probably ban stories of FullCircleRevolution, such as the works of Creator/GeorgeOrwell.

[[WMG: There will be a epilogue DLC about taking the fight to the alien's planets]]

* Alternately, [[spoiler: the Angelis Ethereal was simply replicating the Speaker's voice with their psionic communication since the turn before the Speaker starts goading XCOM, the Ethereal ends their speech by commenting to herself about how the Commander was unwilling to listen to her words or voice, ending it in a way as if musing that [[ManipulativeBastard a voice that's usually viewed with trust and respect by humanity]] would allow her to convey her message. Unfortunately, she didn't consider that the voice she picked wasn't so popular with humanity any more and was never trusted by XCOM to begin with.]]

[[spoiler: Remember how Thin Men could use poison spit? The Speaker might have used this ability while he was being mobbed. This unfortunately means that whoever attacked him suffered agonizing deaths by poison.]]

[[WMG:Every game of Xcom Enemy Unknown/Within happened in this canon, including victories.]]

[[WMG:The Avatar [[spoiler:controlled by the Commander in the last level was originally Annette Durand]]]]
* She is/was a ''very'' powerful psionic, able to create a shockwave without any psi training, and the aliens were ready to blow up a dam over her while EXALT was willing to fight their allies for her so she had to be quite powerful [[spoiler:and the Commander's Avatar is able to curb stomp three Avatars]].

* Again, counting [[spoiler: Annette]] as being the most powerful psionic being in the world (to the point that [[spoiler: the aliens used her as a conduit to en-masse mind control the personnel of XCOM's base long enough to begin their assault]]), being able to [[spoiler: survive being a WetwareCPU in the alien's Psionic Network and then winning a BeamOWar against multiple Ethereals]] is easily within her grasp. As for what she's doing [[spoiler: coming from Enemy Unknown?]] Well, it's been confirmed by WordOfGod that [[spoiler: The Volunteer, be it Annette or another XCOM member, managed to survive canceling the black hole caused by the Uber Ethereal's ship, with the implication they went somewhere else instead of dying. In this case, Annette/The Volunteer gets blasted to the past of XCOM 2, and tries to invoke a StableTimeLoop by becoming the Commander of XCOM - only to get overwhelmed by the aliens when the Commander of the Enemy Unknown/Within timeline held their ground, thus leading to their defeat and enslavement by the aliens]].

[[WMG:Dr. Vahlen is still alive, but leading her own resistance faction]]

[[WMG:There will be story DLC involving a search for Dr.Vahlen]]

[[WMG:ADVENT burgers are NOT people.]]
* There's just no reason for the aliens to waste good HumanResources on food, when they're working hard on the Avatar Project. Rather, the "meat" in ADVENT burgers is a genetically engineered and "vat-grown" meat substance, designed by the aliens for maximum flavor. All the best tastes humans generally agree on, combined with a few choice chemicals that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain, making them psychologically addictive. It's just another means of controlling the human populace. Gene Therapy clinics to cure disease and increase health and longevity, clean and shiny city centers with unlimited power and high-tech luxury devices, [[EvilIsSexy sexy snake ladies,]] and the best food you've ever had and as much of it as you can eat.
** On the other hand, there may be rejected candidates that don't have the juice for Avatar Project, or just a handy way to dispose the bodies of slaughtered dissidents and XCOM members without mass graves or furnaces.

** Human-alien hybridization (ADVENT troopers, evolved Mutons, evolved Sectoids).

** Gene therapy clinic development- the orange color associated with the "therapy beds" seems to suggest a use of Meld.

Acting on all this information, she decides to leak some intel. It's never specified ''where'' Bradford got the intel as to the Commander's location, just that he acted on it as soon as he got it. It could have come from anywhere- a file sent in an un-encrypted e-mail, a direct line to the Informant, or even rumors spread around the globe, piecing together a message.

** Vahlen is not found out, and continues working with the aliens, who fast-track the Avatar project after their key strategic asset is removed. Vahlen, a trustworthy asset, is put in charge of it, and she keeps leaking details about Avatar to the Informant- things like where their next facility will be built- but doesn't have full access to the data, which is why you need to find the location of [[spoiler: The Blacksite, the Forge, and the Psionic Gate]] via hacking into various things.
** Vahlen, paranoid of being found out, flees her center of research with files pertaining to the Avatar project. Advent doesn't catch onto her presence for a good while- she's a priority asset, she can be trusted, and probably did this prior to the Commander being rescued. She traveled to some far-off country of little strategic significance- probably living in slums of a city center in a third-world country- but eventually, has to pack up and leave, and, through various assumed names, travels the globe, taking revenge on aliens in rather... creative manners.

[[WMG:The Commander is one of the Missing Primarchs from Warhammer 40k.]]
It would explain his military ability, and the surprising lack of muscle atrophy from being immobile for 20 years. The reason no one notices anything is because of his Warp mutation - instead of growing wings or being a cyclops, he's of normal size and proportion.
* Alternatively, s/he's been quietly altered by Magnus of the Thousand Sons, having used his last bit of sorcery to affect the point where humanity first learned to [[AbsoluteXenophobe hate the alien]], making it so that the human most altered by the Ethereals (merging with the psionic network) survived and showed that s/he was still human in all the important ways. He did this to find [[RedemptionQuest some modicum of internal forgiveness]] by altering history just enough to be accepting of psykers (the Psi Lab actually creating them on relative command) and genetic alterations (the [[spoiler:Commander's Avatar]])-thus, starving the Chaos Gods of trillions of worshipers [[ThenLetMeBeEvil driven to their side]] and leading to a less grimdark future. Of course, [[MagnificentBastard Tzeentch]] knew about this, but decided to let it happen-a humanity more accepting of psykers and change [[XanatosSpeedChess means more fruitful ground for his own cult]]...

[[WMG:The final threat the Ethereals warned us about has already been revealed]]

[[spoiler: The humans-into-orange-vial process seen in XCOM 2's blacksite may have already been undertaken on the Outsiders seen in the The Bureau by the time XCOM1 began.]] The Outsider Shard may be a technologically re-worked version of the orange vial seen in XCOM 2.

[[WMG:The Commander is a Time Lord.]]

[[WMG:The Commander is being helped by a renegade Ethereal]]
[[spoiler: At several points during the game, we see an Ethereal silhouette doing hand waves in the camera's direction - when the Commander flatlines as the brain chip is being removed, and when the connection to the Avatar is established. My theory is that there is an Ethereal alongside the Commander's own mind within his brain. Initially, it was placed there to keep him under control, but it realized that Mankind had better chances of defeating the great menace that its own people. So it decided to help the Commander by keeping him alive and helping the connection with the Avatar. This explains why the other Ethereals call the Commander a 'betrayer' in the final cutscene - also it could just be them being hypocrites, since they forced the Commander to work for them in the past.]]

The three Chosen are, by in-game standards, monsterously powerful, all of them exhibit some form of psionic power, Have ResurrectiveImmortality and massive health pools, They all make some comment on being human at one point, I think that they were the earliest attempts for the Elders to making a new body for themselves. But, instead of the current projects goal of using human genetic material and other aliens aliens to clone up a blank slate body, these first attempts were of making a host body from altering an already existing human body with purely Elder DNA, you will notice under the armor they seem to be quite thin, even the Warlock, the alterations worked well, but, because they were not blank slates the elders couldn't use them as hosts, only brainwash them into being servants, each Chosen seems to be a different attempt:

The Ethereals hire them in the mid-to-late campaign as it's clear that none but their most elite and rarest troops can stand up to XCOM, and they can only afford to throw away so many of their own resources. It explains why the Andromedons are so different from every other species the aliens deploy in terms of biology, aesthetics, and technology, and why they never appeared in the first game.

Finally Gatekeepers are tied to the Gate, the most trans-dimensional object in the game and the Ethereals themselves are often theorized to be trans-dimensional

--> '''EXALT 1:''' [[ShoutOut Y'know]], [[VideoGame/PrototypeTwo the Vipers are still pretty hot if you put a muzzle over their fangs.]]