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The Incredible World of the Birrin | Part II (1x19)

Air date: Aug 14, 2021

Imagine the far future of an alien civilization. This is a breakdown of Alex Ries’s incredible worldbuilding art project: ‘The World of the Birrin.’ This video is the second part of a two-part series exploring the incredible speculative alien world of the Birrin. The world of the Birrin was realized by Alex Ries — an exceptional designer and worldbuilder who worked on the video game Subnautica. In the last video, we broke down the biology and early history of the Birrin, a six-limbed sentient alien race at the center of this fictional world. But there’s still a lot to cover. Which is why, in this entry into the archive, we’ll be chronicling the next several eons of Birrin history, following their incredible arc into the far future…