User blog comment:JediSpectre117/Regarding the surviving Prothean./@comment-118213-20120219185803/@comment-10363089-20120221230249

Well technically the prothean doesnt look like a collector, the collectors look like the Prothean, as they came before. Say in the future, aliens wipe us out, and other civilizations find out statues, statues of animals or abstract art. They wouldnt assume that an abstract statue of this http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/images/nrpUEL/UELTH072c.jpg, would be a human. We make random statues they would too. Modern cultures think jesus is a man with a beard and robes on, or ganesha as an a multiple-armed elephant man. The protheans simply could have worshiped the very tall zoidberg-esque humanoids as gods. As bioware stated, they intentionally left it very vague so they could expand on it