Huge shoutout to my editor LitLThomas for this one, this is legit one of my favourite lore videos I've ever released because of the way it was edited, hope y'all enjoy!
@HiddenXperia, I can waste a whole day watching and listening to your content. I admire all the passion and dedication you put into it. Nice to see others who are as passionate about Halo as I am.
Fun Fact: Supposedly,The Covenant assumed Reach was the Human homeworld due to how well it was defended,the massive military presence and heavy population when compared to the other Colonies they had encountered along with how desperately humanity fought on Reach
That would make a lot of sense. To me Reach seemed more important than Earth by that point in the war. I mean we threw what Spartan 3’s we had left at Reach and deployed 60% of the fleet to defend it.
@@arizona-hunter6684thats because they knew had reach fell there was nothing to stop the covenant from landing on the last human planet which was earth and that reach was the last human foothold before eartg
In my opinion the Covenant would’ve been willing to throw everything they have a Reach to take it down. You know what would be bloody terrifying. What if the Flood showed up during the battle?
15:48 I felt this exact way when it came to Zuka 'Zamamee after reading Halo: The Flood for the first time! Love when they tie the books into the game and vice versa!
Man this extra lore is so cool. Even for someone who has read The Fall of Reach and played Reach many times, there is always something more in your lore videos!
This was definitely one of the reasons why Reach was my favorite Halo. The battle between these zealots and noble team felt like the war within the war. Especially at the end when you're the last one standing and still manage to kill a whole squad of them
It's interesting to think that the devoted zealots are easily one of the many cogs that brought the end of the covenant. They failed to destroy the autumn, which destroyed alpha halo, created a new arbiter, and created the Great Schism, allowing Humans and Sanghelli to work together during the battle of earth and Battle of Installation 00
This is by far my favorite lore of halo and favorite video of yours. It tells you so much on how the story of halo unfolds without those zealots, they likely would not have found the first halo
The fact six took down the field marshall and the other 2 sentries on his own is straight up badass and commands so much honor. He avenged his fallen noble squad that had taught him how to work and care for others as a team and went out like the lone wolf he always still had within him. He died a hero. God i love this game.
I need an animated show in the vein of castlevania that shows the covenants rise to what they eventually became and how they got all those races under control
That couldn't be the Fleet of Particular Justice at 10:20 since it didn't arrive until August 30th. The cutscene showing Noble 6 after his reentry from orbit shows the date as the 23rd. Love hearing about the Divine Sentries, they're definitely one of my favorite Covenant groups with how much lore they stuffed in for them.
Next week the Fall of Reach begins in the TV series and I'm not sure do I want to even see Noble team in it 'cause how poorly they have handled the MC and entire universe already.
The fact that the same field marshal elite from the first mission actually killed Kat and noble 6. Bro made this rumor a true lore about noble teams reconning.
Noble Six killed that field Marshal so he did avenge Noble teams death, but he was killed by a different Field Marshal when he got overwhelmed after hours of fighting
@@captaintristan1176 Yeah I don’t fault you, you have to know the lore on the dude before you even fight him to realize that it’s the guy, also Nah Arbiter couldn’t have been boots on the ground on Reach or else he wouldn’t have been able to chase the Pillar of Autumn
@@captaintristan1176 Six dies after the Pillar of Autumn leaves and Arbiter was chasing the Pillar of Autumn right from Reach, so the timeline of events just wouldn’t work out in favor of that theory Im afraid
I'd pay top dollar for a respectful, proper spinoff game starring an Elite faction that operated during the battle of Reach. Maybe have a pseudo-boss fight against Noble Team. Halo 2 and Wars 2's DLC dared to tell a story while playing as anti-human faction soldiers in the Covenant and the Banished. Playing as "the bad guys" and fighting humans would be refreshing.
Alright everyone hear me out… halo prequel trilogy 1 game about the insurrection and the arrival of the covenant. 1 about the early covenant war and then finally a halo reach remaster Then hear me out again an odst trilogy so 2 more odst games Then hear me out again a 3rd halo wars
With how the arbiter was punished for letting the halo be destroyed I'm sure the prophets didn't act too kindly when they learned that the devoted sentries let the halo coordinates escape from their grasp. They would've viewed it as a supreme failure and likely punished the group as a whole. Maybe by disbanding them and relieving them of their duties or something of the sort. This doubles as knocking down a group of powerful elites a few political pegs which we know is why they created the arbiter in the first place.
When you stop and think how 6 stood toe to toe with these guys and their units who were unto themselves extremely dangerous makes you wonder what could have been if he was a S2 instead of a S3.
The biggest difference is that S2 are more durable, their armor, and remain as deadly solo. S3 were created to be expendable. They worked best as a team and had less effective armor than the S2. For the most part, once a S3 squad loses a member is usually when they start to fall off. If I recall correctly, Kelly kicked a squad of S3's ass on Onyx even though they had cloaking. All she had to do was put one out of commission and the rest was just clean up.
@@moalex6617 you have to remember that the 3’s on onyx were freshly augmented 12 year olds wearing spi up against a fully grown spartan 2 wearing Mjolnir. They were set up to lose from the beginning. If you were to pit an adult Spartan 3 wearing Mjolnir up against a 2 then you’d have a pretty even fight on your hands.
@@moalex6617lol those were freshly augmented children. Sure they were “spartans” but that fight was one of their first. Spartan 2s got their asses kicked by their trainers during their first fights as well.
@@EAC197the 2s wiped the floor with trainers after augments. The trainers had exo suits to help boost strength and the 2s never had issues. Now pre-augment, they’d be pretty even but post augmentations the 2s out preformed. Most 3s were closer to the lower end of the 2s due to augments but most 2s were better. It was a small section of 3s that could go toe to toe with the 2s
Never really thought about how strong the elites really are until that Zealot picked Emile up, literally picked him up with one arm and flailed him about like he weighed nothing when he actually weighed a ridiculous amount.
Yeah considering how strong a typical brute is, it makes you wonder how tf did Master Chief survive his “fight” with Atriox? Especially when he got clobbered in the head with a laser mace. Plot armour is a hell of a thing I guess…
Reminds me of the one Elite following the Master Chief in the original Halo. At the end of the game an elevator full of enemies opens up and it doesn't make much sense, only to find out in the book it was a trap and usually ended the same way (with a rocket to the face).
I recently read the book and in my opinion its funny and sad how hard this elite tried to get the chief. Amd the Poor Grunt who thought he can get to safety if he rescues this elite .
I usualy go tonthe side of the gate, wait the squad to run out of the elvator, and run in it looking at them from behind the closing gate as the room blows them up.
I like the idea a Zealot/Marshall team picks off parts of Noble as Noble picks off parts of the Zealot team (like during Tip of the Spear) and at the very end, finally, the last Noble member (besides Jun) get snuffed out by a few Zealots and Marshalls
Damn, Carter essentially indirectly caused the death of his entire team for not killing a single elite. Also, I love the storytelling about how Arbiter was the one who basically destroyed Reach but then took down the Covenant later on in Halo 3
No, he prolonged Emile's life to the point he was able to make that critical difference at the end of the game by not ordering him to pursue. Spartans aren't power rangers, the player characters are literally the exceptions labeled "Hyper Lethal" and all sangheili, much less a Field Marshal, is much more powerful and capable than you think. Remember, the dude took sustained fire from how many Spartans in that ambush scene? And still just bodied his way past them. That Zealot lifted Emile with one arm, and Spartans weigh half a ton. Field Marshals don't get to their position for nothing, he may very well have been the Covenant's own Master Chief or Noble 6.
@@spikem5950I like this take, and the thought behind it, but the point to me is that the field marshal was so powerful, they couldn't afford to *not* kill him. He was able to do so much evil. They ought to have chased him down. That said, the events unfolding in Reach are a beautiful sequence and I certainly wouldn't change a thing about how the story was written. But I think it adds grit and weight to the story that Carter could have made a better order to keep his team alive. Granted, I don't think any turn of events would have saved Reach.
Yessir I'm so glad you're back on the Halo lore grind! I commented not too long ago saying these lore videos are how I gained most of my knowledge on Halo and I got a heart from you, nice to know you read the comments, too!
I've known about these Zealots for a few years now, but there was a lot about them that you mentioned here that I didn't know about them. Every time I see them in game, I subconsciously get more focused and serious when fighting them, but now I feel like that subconscious action is gonna intensify 10 fold now that I know even more about them.
Love that you're back with more Halo lore, you and Halo Canon were my 'Go To' youtubers for halo lore. I knew those zealots were important in some aspect but I always assumed they were just tasked with assassinating noble team. Hearing this clears a lot of my confusion, thanks man!
I think it was more because they had a bunch of other Spartans armed directly in front of them to contend to. He was not the immediate threat at the moment, and they knew it. Also, he took a swing at Jorge, so I don't think the "honor" thing was the real reason why.
@@BlueLightningHawkhaving your blood spilled in battle is considered a disgrace amongst the Elites; which is why they sometimes charge when their shields go down. And yes, killing unarmed combatants is considered dishonorable to them as well
@@BlueLightningHawk That swing at Jorge wasn't aimed and there was no follow through, and I think we all know damn well a Field Marshal of all things could've killed him in that moment. You can see in the motion that it wasn't meant to kill him, but to send him ducking so he couldn't react. Sangheili canonically do have this idealistic warrior's honor sort of culture. They're just smarter about it than what we see in most fiction.
Sadly I don't think that's coming to fruition since nobody really knows about that Elite except the Halo community, and 343i traded off the Covenant Remnants for the Banished after another retconning of their story. Nothing for nothing, the series likely was never meant to bring in ideas like this.
@@aztumtheknightofwumbo7060 I really hate 343i and their utter mishandling of the Covenant races. The Covenant collapsing should have led to such an interesting political landscape moving forward that could have led to so many potential plots but nah, most of it's written off in favor of another ultra powerful big bad faction.
I will not give that field marshall a tbag. He will get a nod of respect, as Kat killed me more than those bloody Zealots. Did Bungie let Martin O'Donnell mess with her driving AI. That was a game that broke my spirit. Beating that Solo on Legendary will forever be one of my finest achievements.
These guys are badasses. They hunted Noble team and picked them off one by one, and they are absolutely terrifying. Thanks for thr lore video on these awesome Zealots.
And all because Noble Six wounded the field Marshal on their first encounter and if you don't know what I'm saying go watch the first encounter cutscene on heroic you will see Elite Blood on the floor it was the field Marshals
@@skintChannel It wasn't because of that, sangheili are thicker skinned than having a blood debt with someone and hunting them across a planet for something as petty as "wah he hurt me." They didn't start hunting Noble until Noble team killed multiple Zealots and did a super underhanded move that destroyed their flagship and killed their Supreme Commander. That's when it got personal.
So let me get this straight: because Carter ordered Emile NOT to pursue the Field Marshal Zealot who ran away in the first mission, he ended up killing Kat, Emile, and inadvertently Six. So three members of the Noble Team died all because Carter didn't order Emile to kill the general? Holy crap Carter.
No, he prolonged Emile's life to the point he was able to make that critical difference at the end of the game by not ordering him to pursue. Spartans aren't power rangers, the player characters are literally the exceptions labeled "Hyper Lethal" and all sangheili, much less a Field Marshal, is much more powerful and capable than you think. Remember, the dude took sustained fire from how many Spartans in that ambush scene? And still just bodied his way past them. That Zealot lifted Emile with one arm, and Spartans weigh half a ton. Field Marshals don't get to their position for nothing, he may very well have been the Covenant's own Master Chief or Noble 6.
@@spikem5950 so basically you’re saying Emile’s risk of dying had Carter given the order was so high, that he wouldn't have been there to help save the Autumn? That makes sense, but I just find it humorous that one decision at the start of the game created a chain of events that led to everything going wrong.
reach is the most emotional halo game, when i was younger i didnt understand nor appreciate it. now that im older damn this story hits hard in the feels
Reach will be my favorite story, Book and Game. It speaks to the spirit of the Spartan Program and what is really important when it comes to the will of us as Humans.
This may be a controversial opinion, but I like the 343 zealot helmet more than the Bungie one. I think if they modified it a bit that it would look better than the Halo Infinite one.
What’s crazy is that I regard Halo:Reach as one of my all time favorite Halo games but I never connected these dots and were aware of this lore. Great video!
Really makes you wonder what could’ve happened and what impact Noble 6 would’ve had if he had decided to, or perhaps even had a better opportunity to, board the Pillar of Autumn, and fight along side the Master Chief
If 6 had boarded the POA, the cruisers would've probably destroyed it, also reach came out 9 years after CE so in my mind noble team wasn't thought up in 2001
@@rodrigomendes5111of course not hell the lore was generally pretty sparse it was halo 2 that furthered the story along halo reach just ended up retconning the rougher aspects of halo ce storyline including its books namely the fall of reach book go figure
Why do I have a feeling that the Bob found on the super carrier was a middle man that worked under Thell (Arbiter), who sent a distressed signal for back up......
Great video! Like you said, a lot of this is hiddenx in plain sight, but you lay it all out and make it easy to understand, thank you! Reach is probably my least favorite bungie game, but I actually have a much better understanding of it and a new appreciation for it after this video. I still wish we were with chief and red team like in the OG book defending the orbital defense generators, enacting the cole protocol in orbit, etc.
I would really love to see Hidden cover the onyx conflict or at least sum up the Halo books. They have some of the greatest moments in the franchise that not many people might know of
Huge shoutout to my editor LitLThomas for this one, this is legit one of my favourite lore videos I've ever released because of the way it was edited, hope y'all enjoy!
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@HiddenXperia, I can waste a whole day watching and listening to your content. I admire all the passion and dedication you put into it. Nice to see others who are as passionate about Halo as I am.
@@LitLThomas great job on the video
I need you to tell me where to get that plasma rifle replica
Fun Fact: Supposedly,The Covenant assumed Reach was the Human homeworld due to how well it was defended,the massive military presence and heavy population when compared to the other Colonies they had encountered along with how desperately humanity fought on Reach
That would make a lot of sense. To me Reach seemed more important than Earth by that point in the war. I mean we threw what Spartan 3’s we had left at Reach and deployed 60% of the fleet to defend it.
@@arizona-hunter6684thats because they knew had reach fell there was nothing to stop the covenant from landing on the last human planet which was earth and that reach was the last human foothold before eartg
In my opinion the Covenant would’ve been willing to throw everything they have a Reach to take it down.
You know what would be bloody terrifying. What if the Flood showed up during the battle?
@@arizona-hunter6684More dead covenant then
@SonOfPiratehunter I mean billions of humans already died so whats a few million more?
Super happy to see the lore vids make a return, and so frequently at that! Always been interested in that Zealot team, too.
15:48 I felt this exact way when it came to Zuka 'Zamamee after reading Halo: The Flood for the first time! Love when they tie the books into the game and vice versa!
Man this extra lore is so cool. Even for someone who has read The Fall of Reach and played Reach many times, there is always something more in your lore videos!
This was definitely one of the reasons why Reach was my favorite Halo. The battle between these zealots and noble team felt like the war within the war. Especially at the end when you're the last one standing and still manage to kill a whole squad of them
that zealot who killed six had to respect him in some way because he managed to put up a good fight in the end, they had some honor
It's interesting to think that the devoted zealots are easily one of the many cogs that brought the end of the covenant. They failed to destroy the autumn, which destroyed alpha halo, created a new arbiter, and created the Great Schism, allowing Humans and Sanghelli to work together during the battle of earth and Battle of Installation 00
Thats because noble 6 killed them
@@kamikazu4392because they failed to kill noble 6 earlier
Rip Noble, Remember Reach
This is by far my favorite lore of halo and favorite video of yours. It tells you so much on how the story of halo unfolds without those zealots, they likely would not have found the first halo
The fact six took down the field marshall and the other 2 sentries on his own is straight up badass and commands so much honor. He avenged his fallen noble squad that had taught him how to work and care for others as a team and went out like the lone wolf he always still had within him. He died a hero. God i love this game.
I need an animated show in the vein of castlevania that shows the covenants rise to what they eventually became and how they got all those races under control
That couldn't be the Fleet of Particular Justice at 10:20 since it didn't arrive until August 30th. The cutscene showing Noble 6 after his reentry from orbit shows the date as the 23rd. Love hearing about the Divine Sentries, they're definitely one of my favorite Covenant groups with how much lore they stuffed in for them.
Surely there is ties between the “Devoted Sentries” and Avu Med 'Telcam and the “Servants of the Abiding Truth”
Love these types of Lore videos, especially about the events of Reach, which is my favourite. Keep it up Xperia. ❤
Next week the Fall of Reach begins in the TV series and I'm not sure do I want to even see Noble team in it 'cause how poorly they have handled the MC and entire universe already.
The fact that the same field marshal elite from the first mission actually killed Kat and noble 6. Bro made this rumor a true lore about noble teams reconning.
Noble Six killed that field Marshal so he did avenge Noble teams death, but he was killed by a different Field Marshal when he got overwhelmed after hours of fighting
@@Antpoison Oh. It looked so similar to that one though. Then that leads to my other prediction. was noble 6 killed by thel vademi/The arbiter
@@captaintristan1176 Yeah I don’t fault you, you have to know the lore on the dude before you even fight him to realize that it’s the guy, also Nah Arbiter couldn’t have been boots on the ground on Reach or else he wouldn’t have been able to chase the Pillar of Autumn
@@Antpoison In some of the halo 2 terminals arbiter was in alot close combat battles.
@@captaintristan1176 Six dies after the Pillar of Autumn leaves and Arbiter was chasing the Pillar of Autumn right from Reach, so the timeline of events just wouldn’t work out in favor of that theory Im afraid
A field marshall isnt able to kill the hyper lethal vector, but one mission later a wheezy boy with a sticky gets me 😅😂
I'd pay top dollar for a respectful, proper spinoff game starring an Elite faction that operated during the battle of Reach. Maybe have a pseudo-boss fight against Noble Team.
Halo 2 and Wars 2's DLC dared to tell a story while playing as anti-human faction soldiers in the Covenant and the Banished. Playing as "the bad guys" and fighting humans would be refreshing.
The devs would need to get really creative to make Humans fun to fight from an FPS perspective tbh.
What's crazy about reach was that UNSC thought it could never fall
The Covenant obsessing over things reminds me of the Deceptions doing the same thing in Transformers Prime lol
I’m getting ready to do a halo campaign marathon for my birthday and I will be giving those zealots many extra teabags 🤙🏻
This is my first time seeing Hidden’s face. This is not a dig in anyway, but I wasn’t expecting him to be so handsome with beautiful blue eyes. 😍
if i recall, on xbox 360 reach, if you actually chased down and killed the zealot that was escaping, you'd get an achievement.
This gives me an entirely different perspective on halo reach now.
Originally I had no clue the elites where so brain washed.
I was very sad when Kat died, that was so unexpected at the time too.
I could have sworn you can see a jackal holding a needle rifle in the phantom in the cutscene where cat gets her haircut
Ngl Im not the biggest Reach fan but your video made me want to replay it
Great video as always 🎉
That was really good presentation
I was way a head of you bro JUSTICE FOR PLAYABLE ELITES
God i love this rich lore.
Like 15 videos have been made about this already
Lmao luc got held hostage 😭😂
So Hyper Leathal no amount of Zeletry could Protect them
Its a shame we didnt get to see more of this team throughout the game, named recurring elite characters are scarce in the Halo games
I wonder if those secret elites joined the Banished.
so happy to see lore videos mate nice 😎💛
This was awesome
Ima go replay reach since now Ik which elite to kill and tbag in the end😂
Their theme song goes pretty hard as well 🤷♂️
Very Zealous squidheads
I learn so much
Master chief in halo infinite said Spartans don’t go out quietly well noble didn’t go out quietly he or she fought until the end 🫡
I hope we see more reach lore videos or of hiddenxperia actually made alot of reach videos someone tell me.
Where did you get that to-scale plasma rifle??? I want one!!!
Can you do this for all the games?? Please?
I dont remember eer seeing this scene at 1:20 in Halo Reach...when does that happen?
trailer scene;
probably would be in the first mission when you're entering the final area
cut before release
@@cole8834 thanks buddy
Loved this video
Yurrrrr
hiddenXperia you should do a video about auren the absolute like U do the scp videos
I thought they were searching for Maethrillian, former capital of the Forerunner ecumene?
Where do the BOBs fit in?
so he killed my Katt glad i saved a spanker for just him
The edit
"Take me back to the night we met" 🥲
Alright everyone hear me out… halo prequel trilogy 1 game about the insurrection and the arrival of the covenant. 1 about the early covenant war and then finally a halo reach remaster
Then hear me out again an odst trilogy so 2 more odst games
Then hear me out again a 3rd halo wars
Why do we never get sequels of the good games😢
You have such blue eyes
If it’s not in the game, it’s not canon…
With how the arbiter was punished for letting the halo be destroyed I'm sure the prophets didn't act too kindly when they learned that the devoted sentries let the halo coordinates escape from their grasp. They would've viewed it as a supreme failure and likely punished the group as a whole. Maybe by disbanding them and relieving them of their duties or something of the sort. This doubles as knocking down a group of powerful elites a few political pegs which we know is why they created the arbiter in the first place.
When you stop and think how 6 stood toe to toe with these guys and their units who were unto themselves extremely dangerous makes you wonder what could have been if he was a S2 instead of a S3.
2’s and 3’s really aren’t that different, if you look into deep lore, mostly bc of better armour. Which noble team had.
The biggest difference is that S2 are more durable, their armor, and remain as deadly solo. S3 were created to be expendable. They worked best as a team and had less effective armor than the S2. For the most part, once a S3 squad loses a member is usually when they start to fall off. If I recall correctly, Kelly kicked a squad of S3's ass on Onyx even though they had cloaking. All she had to do was put one out of commission and the rest was just clean up.
@@moalex6617 you have to remember that the 3’s on onyx were freshly augmented 12 year olds wearing spi up against a fully grown spartan 2 wearing Mjolnir. They were set up to lose from the beginning. If you were to pit an adult Spartan 3 wearing Mjolnir up against a 2 then you’d have a pretty even fight on your hands.
@@moalex6617lol those were freshly augmented children. Sure they were “spartans” but that fight was one of their first. Spartan 2s got their asses kicked by their trainers during their first fights as well.
@@EAC197the 2s wiped the floor with trainers after augments. The trainers had exo suits to help boost strength and the 2s never had issues. Now pre-augment, they’d be pretty even but post augmentations the 2s out preformed. Most 3s were closer to the lower end of the 2s due to augments but most 2s were better. It was a small section of 3s that could go toe to toe with the 2s
You can hear carter already "Listen up, Noble Team". Those iconic scenes will never fail to be iconic
Never really thought about how strong the elites really are until that Zealot picked Emile up, literally picked him up with one arm and flailed him about like he weighed nothing when he actually weighed a ridiculous amount.
And Elites are a joke compared to Brutes strength wise, a berserk Brute is dangerous
@@ashleysmith9755True even more so when the berserk brute has a hammer
Yeah considering how strong a typical brute is, it makes you wonder how tf did Master Chief survive his “fight” with Atriox? Especially when he got clobbered in the head with a laser mace. Plot armour is a hell of a thing I guess…
@@bandanna2388 I still have nightmares from Tartarus in Halo 2, Atriox is going even further lol
@@ashleysmith9755Tartarsauce was scarier
Emile's "I'm ready! How bout you!?" was the best delivery of the entire game.
Right? It's so badass I've been saying it ever since I played Reach when I was like 10.
"I've got the mass" Carter gets me more tbh so condescending yet so meaningful 🤣
Reminds me of the one Elite following the Master Chief in the original Halo. At the end of the game an elevator full of enemies opens up and it doesn't make much sense, only to find out in the book it was a trap and usually ended the same way (with a rocket to the face).
*Chief enters elevator*
Elite: "I'm finally going to kill you demon!"
MC: "I don't think about you at all..." *yeets*
His name is Zuka 'Zamamee, the elite who secretly hunted Chief during CE
I recently read the book and in my opinion its funny and sad how hard this elite tried to get the chief. Amd the Poor Grunt who thought he can get to safety if he rescues this elite .
I usualy go tonthe side of the gate, wait the squad to run out of the elvator, and run in it looking at them from behind the closing gate as the room blows them up.
I like the idea a Zealot/Marshall team picks off parts of Noble as Noble picks off parts of the Zealot team (like during Tip of the Spear) and at the very end, finally, the last Noble member (besides Jun) get snuffed out by a few Zealots and Marshalls
Damn, Carter essentially indirectly caused the death of his entire team for not killing a single elite. Also, I love the storytelling about how Arbiter was the one who basically destroyed Reach but then took down the Covenant later on in Halo 3
No, he prolonged Emile's life to the point he was able to make that critical difference at the end of the game by not ordering him to pursue. Spartans aren't power rangers, the player characters are literally the exceptions labeled "Hyper Lethal" and all sangheili, much less a Field Marshal, is much more powerful and capable than you think. Remember, the dude took sustained fire from how many Spartans in that ambush scene? And still just bodied his way past them. That Zealot lifted Emile with one arm, and Spartans weigh half a ton. Field Marshals don't get to their position for nothing, he may very well have been the Covenant's own Master Chief or Noble 6.
@@spikem5950I like this take, and the thought behind it, but the point to me is that the field marshal was so powerful, they couldn't afford to *not* kill him. He was able to do so much evil. They ought to have chased him down. That said, the events unfolding in Reach are a beautiful sequence and I certainly wouldn't change a thing about how the story was written. But I think it adds grit and weight to the story that Carter could have made a better order to keep his team alive. Granted, I don't think any turn of events would have saved Reach.
This is basically the prequel to the Zuka Zammamee and Yayap story.
Or more like the block buster original to Zuka's straight to video sequel.
Pretty much!
That field marshal is basically zuka except not a comic relief character
Yessir I'm so glad you're back on the Halo lore grind! I commented not too long ago saying these lore videos are how I gained most of my knowledge on Halo and I got a heart from you, nice to know you read the comments, too!
I've known about these Zealots for a few years now, but there was a lot about them that you mentioned here that I didn't know about them. Every time I see them in game, I subconsciously get more focused and serious when fighting them, but now I feel like that subconscious action is gonna intensify 10 fold now that I know even more about them.
Love that you're back with more Halo lore, you and Halo Canon were my 'Go To' youtubers for halo lore.
I knew those zealots were important in some aspect but I always assumed they were just tasked with assassinating noble team.
Hearing this clears a lot of my confusion, thanks man!
6:16, I love how the Zealot could have easily killed Jorge but didn’t, cause Jorge wasn’t ready to fight, showing that elites have a lot of honor.
jorge the meathead would probably eat his energysword
I think it was more because they had a bunch of other Spartans armed directly in front of them to contend to. He was not the immediate threat at the moment, and they knew it. Also, he took a swing at Jorge, so I don't think the "honor" thing was the real reason why.
@@BlueLightningHawkhaving your blood spilled in battle is considered a disgrace amongst the Elites; which is why they sometimes charge when their shields go down. And yes, killing unarmed combatants is considered dishonorable to them as well
Didnt stop them with Kat.
@@BlueLightningHawk That swing at Jorge wasn't aimed and there was no follow through, and I think we all know damn well a Field Marshal of all things could've killed him in that moment. You can see in the motion that it wasn't meant to kill him, but to send him ducking so he couldn't react.
Sangheili canonically do have this idealistic warrior's honor sort of culture. They're just smarter about it than what we see in most fiction.
*Here’s a fun idea. Maybe the Devoted Sentries joined Sali Nyon. He’s seen as the true Covenant leader that even the Swords of Sangheilios respect.*
Sadly I don't think that's coming to fruition since nobody really knows about that Elite except the Halo community, and 343i traded off the Covenant Remnants for the Banished after another retconning of their story. Nothing for nothing, the series likely was never meant to bring in ideas like this.
@@aztumtheknightofwumbo7060 I really hate 343i and their utter mishandling of the Covenant races. The Covenant collapsing should have led to such an interesting political landscape moving forward that could have led to so many potential plots but nah, most of it's written off in favor of another ultra powerful big bad faction.
I will not give that field marshall a tbag. He will get a nod of respect, as Kat killed me more than those bloody Zealots. Did Bungie let Martin O'Donnell mess with her driving AI. That was a game that broke my spirit. Beating that Solo on Legendary will forever be one of my finest achievements.
Repeated Needler Rifle shots to the end damaged her frontal cortex a little.
Fighting against Elites during Reach was like a boss fight. They were no joke. Too bad the sequel trilogy didn’t portray them as formidable🥴
Even H:I's elites nowhere near good enemies compared to H:R's?
@@danielbedrossian5986Halo Infinite was the Brutes game, if anything they shoulda been as hard to fight as Reachs Elites. Sadly didn't live up.
I actually thought the Elites were pretty great in infinite, they seemed way harder to fight than the Brutes!
@mynameisgabe3244don't forget the banished shipmaster from wars 2
Edit: autocorrected to shipmates for some reason
These guys are badasses. They hunted Noble team and picked them off one by one, and they are absolutely terrifying. Thanks for thr lore video on these awesome Zealots.
And all because Noble Six wounded the field Marshal on their first encounter and if you don't know what I'm saying go watch the first encounter cutscene on heroic you will see Elite Blood on the floor it was the field Marshals
@@skintChannel It wasn't because of that, sangheili are thicker skinned than having a blood debt with someone and hunting them across a planet for something as petty as "wah he hurt me." They didn't start hunting Noble until Noble team killed multiple Zealots and did a super underhanded move that destroyed their flagship and killed their Supreme Commander. That's when it got personal.
"On the blood of our fathers, on the blood of our sons, we swore to uphold the Covenant!"
"Even to our dying breath"
Never Forget Reach. Never Forget.
Rip Noble, Remember Reach
So let me get this straight: because Carter ordered Emile NOT to pursue the Field Marshal Zealot who ran away in the first mission, he ended up killing Kat, Emile, and inadvertently Six. So three members of the Noble Team died all because Carter didn't order Emile to kill the general? Holy crap Carter.
Why Jorge should've been the leader, bro is a great face for the noble team and probably has more knowledge.
And umm it was the field Marshall's forces in the banshee that caused carter's death
@@wut-se8hz Carter is a great leader, I don’t think Jorge would be a better replacement because he lacks leadership skills.
No, he prolonged Emile's life to the point he was able to make that critical difference at the end of the game by not ordering him to pursue. Spartans aren't power rangers, the player characters are literally the exceptions labeled "Hyper Lethal" and all sangheili, much less a Field Marshal, is much more powerful and capable than you think. Remember, the dude took sustained fire from how many Spartans in that ambush scene? And still just bodied his way past them. That Zealot lifted Emile with one arm, and Spartans weigh half a ton. Field Marshals don't get to their position for nothing, he may very well have been the Covenant's own Master Chief or Noble 6.
@@spikem5950 so basically you’re saying Emile’s risk of dying had Carter given the order was so high, that he wouldn't have been there to help save the Autumn? That makes sense, but I just find it humorous that one decision at the start of the game created a chain of events that led to everything going wrong.
reach is the most emotional halo game, when i was younger i didnt understand nor appreciate it. now that im older damn this story hits hard in the feels
Definitely one of my fav halo campaigns ever
The amount of subtle details the Bungie Halo games had in them never fails to astound
Yooo, is this a mf ZUKA ZAMAMEE REFERENCE, BUNGIE?
Bro is going into deep lore lmao
Plot twist: the zealots were also being hunted down, by Chips Dubbo since he was there too.
Reach will be my favorite story, Book and Game. It speaks to the spirit of the Spartan Program and what is really important when it comes to the will of us as Humans.
Remember Reach
This may be a controversial opinion, but I like the 343 zealot helmet more than the Bungie one. I think if they modified it a bit that it would look better than the Halo Infinite one.
What’s crazy is that I regard Halo:Reach as one of my all time favorite Halo games but I never connected these dots and were aware of this lore. Great video!
Really makes you wonder what could’ve happened and what impact Noble 6 would’ve had if he had decided to, or perhaps even had a better opportunity to, board the Pillar of Autumn, and fight along side the Master Chief
It would be legendary but Bungie probably realized it would be incredibly difficult to write 6's role into Combat Evolved
If 6 had boarded the POA, the cruisers would've probably destroyed it, also reach came out 9 years after CE so in my mind noble team wasn't thought up in 2001
@@rodrigomendes5111of course not hell the lore was generally pretty sparse it was halo 2 that furthered the story along halo reach just ended up retconning the rougher aspects of halo ce storyline including its books namely the fall of reach book go figure
Why do I have a feeling that the Bob found on the super carrier was a middle man that worked under Thell (Arbiter), who sent a distressed signal for back up......
I feel better about Kat now knowing 6 avenges her personally
I still can't believe we haven't got a name for the Field Marshal after all these years. I'd love a canon fodder on him
Oof
Great video! Like you said, a lot of this is hiddenx in plain sight, but you lay it all out and make it easy to understand, thank you! Reach is probably my least favorite bungie game, but I actually have a much better understanding of it and a new appreciation for it after this video.
I still wish we were with chief and red team like in the OG book defending the orbital defense generators, enacting the cole protocol in orbit, etc.
Why do I remember kat being killed by a grunt
Will Xperia ever run out of halo lore?
no
never
@@HiddenXperia Have you read "Winter Contention"? It's new stuff about Noble Team.
I would really love to see Hidden cover the onyx conflict or at least sum up the Halo books. They have some of the greatest moments in the franchise that not many people might know of
what is it with elites secretly hunting us down in halo campaigns!?
Nice
I love it when people use the music as intended. Cortana theme when Cortana is on screen.
Love the little details like those Zealots! Also in Halo CE with the high tier spec ops squads you see at the end of the game, namely in The Maw.