 Originally coming from discussions about a sequel to "Stranger's Wrath", "The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot" is a standalone game, independent of the Oddworld Quintology, originally announced in an April 2005 issue of Game Informer.The story is set in a rural land resembling Afghanistan far from the continent of Mudos where the first four Oddworld games were based, inspired by the "United States propaganda approach" of pretending to free the region, but really wanting to "rob it and slaughter it and leave it as rubble".The invaders are a foreign species resembling an Eastern European or "Russian mafia" whose genetics include traces of feline DNA.