Anyone else find it creepy the Skeksis had surpassed their life span so many times over that their bodies were calcified over one thousand years? The World of the Dark Crystal says the Skeksis used to be radiant and full of life when they first appeared, "like light along a blade", but by the time of the movie a thousand years later they were living fossils.
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Well don't you remember that they would replenish themselves to become young by drinking essences of beings including gelflings to Podlings of all beings?
"Questions Questions too many questions, want shard here!"-The Dark Crystal
I remember. Just the process on their bodies of having sustained themselves so unnaturally long.
shareSome of them died,anyway...but I don´t think of natural deaths,perhaps they were killed!
shareOnly the Emperor was allowed to drink the vital essence of the slave races, not the Skeksis in general. If I recall correctly. I believe the crystal shard ritual that involved absorbing refracted sun beams had something to do with sustaining them.
shareI seem to remember reading that the Skesis were orginally good however due to their fractured state they began to decay and eventually their souls changed to match their bodies..
shareI always thought that there had ben a lot more of them and they slowly were dying off. The emperor died of old age and thus so did Jens benefactor the mystic. It is odd tho that the emperor dies before the others even tho head had been allowed to drink the vital essence of gelflings. The alchemist says that the gelfling essence restoration would not wear off right away (like the podling essence).
shareBut the top mystic did not drink any Gelfling essence, thus the emperor had to die when his other half died.
shareOr the other way around, the top mystic would stay young?
What was the point in drinking essence?
Possibly it kept the emperor more sportive...until he died.
shareThink about media and mass culture, our obsession with beauty and youth, life that is prolonged at all costs.
*Also, not the similarities between the Skeksis and the Nazi's.