So I've finally decided to replay GeneForge 1 and go through the effort of touching all the stone pillars.
And I found the lore behind the Shapers and Sucia to be incredibly fascinating. How the Shapers went from shooting magic radiation at their enemies to give them cancer to discovering Genes and self-sealing (although not many people know either fact)
I love the irony when the Shapers denounce the natives as backwards savage, only to not only be their descendants but some have also repeated the Sucians' mistakes (attempting to transcend death via necromancy).
I'm sad that there wasn't more lore. Are there any more explorations of Shapers' history in later games? I hope I was missing something.