Jak 3: Part 47: The TRUE Precursor Legacy of Jak & Daxter
8Together, Jak & Daxter, with King Damas of Spargus City, muscled their way through Haven City's palace ruins with the help of the Slam Dozer. Things were looking up for them...
But then, the Slam Dozer was violently tipped over by a Dark Maker attack from behind. It launched the duo from their vehicle, but Damas was lethally jawed between it and the hard ground.
Turned out that this lethal inconvenience was a fatal one, but Damas was not afraid. He was proud as King of Spargus to die on the battlefield.
In his last breaths, he revealed to Jak that Mar, the legendary hero and founder of Haven and Spargus, was Damas' own son. He pleaded to Jak to look for him, and gave him a very familiar amulet...
It was the exact same one that Jak, or rather his younger self in the previous adventure, had worn. Right as Jak realized what this meant, Damas had already passed on...
"Father..."
Indeed, as Veger appeared, he told Jak that he was Mar and thus the son of King Damas. Back when Jak first got into Haven City, he had him imprisoned for his Dark Eco experiments, but that all changed after he was able to escape and join Torn's Underground.
Veger showed up just in time for him to see that Damas never knew that Jak was his missing son, and mocked him for it. Jak was understandable pissed, so much so that he almost unleashed Dark Jak upon him.
But Veger didn't stay around the funeral, for the Catacombs were right in front of them, and Veger was eager to seek the Precursors deep within. Daxter uncharacteristically urged Jak to chase after him, because even he knew how wrong Veger was to mock Jak losing his father.
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This Catacombs stage is a bit longer and tough than the previous one, but it's not much of a difference as it's still a quick course either way. Just don't fall off and don't crash.
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After a fast course, it slowed to a cruising finish as Jak & Daxter reached the center of the planet, ready to communicate with the very Prescursors themselves to use the planet's defense system to destroy the Dark Maker Ship. It would take time for its Eco Sphere laser to charge. During that time, the Precursors were ready to give Jak one final Light power: Becoming a Precursor, himself.
But then Veger stepped in and claimed that it was his right to that evolution. The Precursors, surprisingly so, gave it to him with slight hesitation.
Afterwards, the Precursor urged Jak & Daxter to stop Errol themselves. Since the Precursors are basically gods, the duo had to wonder why they couldn't just stop Errol, themselves...
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And that's when things got... really REALLY weird...
The Precursor saw himself getting shoved around before vanishing, and the gate behind him opened up to reveal the what the Precursors *REALLY WERE THIS WHOLE TIME*.
The Precursors, the gods, lords and saviors of this game's universe... They were Ottsels... just like Daxter... "Oh my god", indeed.
Their act was up, and they even admitted that if everyone, from Samos and the like, were to know that their gods were actually "little fuzzy rats", no one would've taken them seriously. So they decided to go for a more ethereal approach to hide this from would-be nonbelievers.
To think, Jak was about to turn into one of them, and unfortunately for Veger, that's exactly what happened to him, instead!
But this wasn't all bad. This meant that Daxter had actually became a Precursor himself way back when he fell into that Dark Eco pool in Misty Island. Eco, be it Green, Blue, Yellow, Red, Light, or even Dark. They are all different forms of a Precursor's essence.
Back to business, these Precursor Ottsels really couldn't stop Errol, themselves. That's why they urged Jak to do it for them. The most they can do is send him and Daxter through a portal up to the Dark Maker ship and find Errol.
They... just need to do that before the Eco Sphere weapon finishes charging up and totally obliterate the ship, and after the duo left... those Precursors weren't confident that they'll accomplish this on time...
Such lousy, furry orange gods they are!