"There are also many unseen creatures integral to future Oddworld stories that originally came from designs cut from previous games and are waiting to be revealed as Abe ventures closer to the center of the planet's consumerism.Gilray is also aware of a 'time encyclopaedia' written by Lanning that details a thousand years of the Oddworld planet's history, including other continents, species and civilisations only hinted at in previous games.