#diaspora obviously wasn't a focus in the series and is rarely touched upon when it collides with adjacent topics like memories of lorien

[new-lorien-artist]

I know that Loric culture wasn’t a huge focus, even on the world-building of the series, but it would’ve been cool to explore diaspora through the Garde who know so little about their home planet, and yet finding all these pieces of their history and presence on Earth that lasted for millennia and yet not having anyone around who knows exactly what this is or why the Loric put it there. The feeling that as a Loric they should know what exactly this is, because this is a part of their culture, a sign they existed here, but they don’t know anything about it and none of the other Garde can help, and the Cepans who may have had an idea of what this are dead now

This whole loss of identity that has you holding onto a thread and grasping at anything that can give you a better idea of where you come from, trying to connect back to your roots that were forcibly taken away from you, wishing you knew how to read your native language again and have someone to speak to with your native tongue, reforging your Loric identity after years of self-reflection and slow discovery, now with the comfort that you won’t let it be taken away from you again, and having an even greater reason to protect who’s left of your people and what’s left of your culture