Manuals!
The official notes on units, items and spells bring a fresh look into the workings of the game and the developer’s minds. Too bad all share similar discrepancies between the final game release and themselves.
Apparently in earlier versions the Romek tribe were somehow the inventors of Poison and Fire Arrows, and the Resurrection was an elven spell instead. Makes sense that the tribe with Rangers would use bows and arrows, but Radumba was kinda left with nothing.
Unfortunately the Manuals don’t answer the question of Rangers’ or Warlocks’ origin. Only the Elves are mentioned as having been created by some sort of rite.
There is however some info on the pantheon of Jurassic gods. Read on!
Also some bonus from the sequel here if you are crazy for more lore:
- A translation of The Ranker expansion by Jirka! A pdf and some other goodies in this google drive.
- And this English translation of Jirka’s The Ranker pdf uploaded to the Internet Archive with the Wayback Machine.