Rob Lamb
speaker
6,505 appearances
29 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
Rob Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They spared only two individuals to serve as slaves in the castle of the Crystal.
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Here they aided the scientist Sketek in his vile research and spoke not a word of their species lost culture or the cruelty of the Skexes, for their mouths were sewn shut in a permanent, mournful frown.
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Now you might wonder how the last Grunach carried on without mouths, but the biology of Thra is exotic and diverse, and so is our own here on Earth.
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so we can turn to our own natural world for possible answers.
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For starters, are we sure that the Grunok need to eat at all?
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The Lunamoth is an example of a moth that does not eat as an adult.
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It possesses vestigial mouth parts, but they're functionless, as the adult flying forms don't live long enough to require sustenance.
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They do all of their eating during their larval caterpillar stage.
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While the Grunok are clearly vertebrates and not insects, perhaps they go through some sort of metamorphosis and, via a slow metabolism, live off of fat stores from their previous life stage.
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They are, after all, sloth-like in movement and appearance.
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Of course, it's also possible that they just don't need mouths to feed.
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From a technological standpoint, it's possible that they're fed through a nasal feeding tube, but they also might absorb nutrients through their skin.
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The hagfish, for example, can absorb dissolved organic matter across the skin and gill.
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Other primitive scavenger fish boast this ability as well, so perhaps the Grunok boasts some similar evolutionary legacy.
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Even in human beings, our skin has ability.
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absorption characteristics.
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It's also possible that the Grunok are an entirely different sort of organism, feeding off, say, soil nutrients, or the multisolar energy of Thra, or even energy absorbed from the great crystal itself.
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We will of course never know.
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The last Grunak could not speak, though they at least succeeded in helping to bring about the downfall of the General Skekvar, who played the central role in the downfall of their species.
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All right, there you have it.
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