Hello! Thanks for watching! Please enable captions to help you follow the story. This video was a lot harder to make than my last one. I went through many drafts of theories ranging from 3 pages long, to being extremely vague. Hope it was worth it! These are my own theories of the story behind these characters, but it is highly possible that I have made some mistakes along the way. If you have any questions, please leave them down below!
thank you for the amount of effort you put in your ror lore videos. I watch these videos literally smiling the entire time. My friends and I always talk about these videos. Keep the work up. If you need confirmation to see if ror lore videos are a good idea, Im that confirmation lol
This is really well done. Do you think you can cover some of the boss's lore? Maybe a theory as to why you have to kill them to teleport? Are the teleporters powered by N'kuhana?
@@thegrovetender Well then why do they require us to murder bosses to pass? Is it related to the gift she gave him? Or is it possible she gifting us the ability to use them in exchange for the sacrifices without us knowing?
With the way the game keeps the lore so vague, it is such a treat to see that someone put the time and effort to interpret and visualize it; connecting the dots. I really enjoyed this!
@@La-ld9mnit’s not really absence of content. It’s all there, you just have to collect and piece it all together. From there people have theorized on stuff.
The Artificier was scouting the planet before the events of RoR2. She was imprisoned and later "saved" by Safe Travels' survivors. So she joins them, hence the drop pod.
Also, detail to add. While onboard the Safe Travels, the commando and the artificer were training in zero gravity combat and the artificer started jerking him off with her mind.
Why do you think it was before ROR2? I am just curious since the bazaar between time seems to be a place where time doesnt move wouldnt that imply she could also be from the future. I am just curious
@@outland2874I’m not sure that would be how that works. We’ve never encountered a time where we could see time moving backwards. Moreover, time just pauses when in the Bazaar Between Time. She probably fell in there at some point, and was frozen in time somehow.
@@Oliver-Thyella well i was thinking of it more like the world between worlds in star wars or the TVA from marvel where you kinda exist at every time at the same time
@@outland2874 I was thinking about it in a more game logic way. They implemented the fact that the Bazaar Between Time is between reality and time by stopping the timer, so I was thinking that, if they wanted to make it so that it follows the logic of it being between every time, they would allow us to roll back the difficulty by one, or something like that.
It's nice to think that, lorewise, Artificer must have been thankful for being freed by the Survivors, which is why she ends up helping them. The experience of Petrichor V after defeating Mithrix also gives her a newfound passion to explore, not just for the Heavenly Plane, but the universe in general.
I think the "I" in Helfire Tincture's lore snippet is Newt. The Environment log for the Bazaar between time mentions that he is some kind of scientist and explicitly says he is elaborating a tincture. The chamber mentioned is probably the room behind Newt that he quickly closes behind him when the player enters his shop, and his species has strong ties with time, hence the multiple mentions of it. It's possible that as an outcast and a pariah he captured some of his brethren to experiment on them, maybe coerced by Mithrix, or maybe because he acted as his patron.
@@dopeynut -- That disfigured arm is what caused the rest of the pod to scorn the Newt, and that drove them to the bazaar. It's still possible that the Newt is responsible for the hellfire tincture rather than Kur-Skan, but the arm predates any involvement with Mithrix.
@@TlalocTemporalThe interesting thing with Newt is that, for his people, time is not lineal. They can travel through time like we can walk forward and backward. So any form of timeline for him is more like a circle
Interesting to note that in a log from RoR1, the captain of the Contact Light said, "I can hear him coming" before he was killed, but now in RoR2 we know that Kur-skan killed him. So, funnily enough, the captain probably thought Kur-skan was the intruder in his final moments, and never even saw Providence. Neat how that lines up, even though they never could've planed that far ahead when they were writing the RoR1 lore.
The only issue with this is that Kur-Skan is female. Maybe he was talking about Providence and just didn't know she was there, because I'm her log it seems like she was also killed by Providence after killing the captain.
@@coolio6855it's unlikely that the captain would have known Kur-skan's gender, because uh, she's a bird. The captain could've just defaulted to "he". On the other hand, he might've called her an "it" if he knew it was her because again, it's a bird not a humanoid. In that case, it could be that the captain knew Providence was coming but Kur-skan just got there first. It doesn't sound like it took long for Providence to show up after Kur-skan got there, so the captain could've known he was coming and his transmission got cut off by Kur-skan's... violent entry to the bridge.
I feel confident the bird skull you can find on the very top of the Contact Light in RoR1 is the Heretic's head and a reference as to what happened to her.
My favorite part to these ror lore videos is that he gives voices to characters we never see. It also changes my veiw of them (I just came from the overall lore video) like with the Grovetender, the logs are always in caps and the fight always felt more frantic than the others, I thought they were unhinged maniacs but giving them a more level headed and caring voice makes them fit better in the setting of a garden with the wisps as apprentices than unwilling watchers (Little Disciple is a broken wisp that the Grovetender strapped to itself to watch them tend to the garden)
Specifically, when Kur-skan gets that line from Mithrix, it's when Aurelionite shows up alongside her in the final fight, which wouldn't make sense since she was a servant of Mithrix. This explains why he asked "who pulls your strings" to her, since (if we take the theory that Mithrix sent her to the Contact Light) Aurelionite was an enemy of Mithrix.
The messages where he calls out the player having the halcyon seed occurs when he steals it, whereas the messages calling out when the player is the heretic happens at the very start. The "who pulls your strings" message happens after he steals it, too. I feel this makes more sense if you look at both being enemies of mithrix, as he would be using "vermin" as a plural since he is understandably very confused that two familiar figures from his past that he thought had nothing to do with eachother fight him at once.
Aurelionite is sealed by Mhitrix due being "imperfect" and "wrong ratio", made by his brother Providence with too much soul and be able to think and feel, which deem risky for Mhitrix
been wanting to hear about these characters specifically for so long and in just your two videos i’ve learned more convincing theories about this games lore than from any other youtube channel. keep it up man this content’s amazing.
There is actually a reason for her to be on the contact light! In the sirens call logs it talks about a distress beacon or smth that lures ships in, which is the alloy vultures desperately trying to get off the planet
Your channel name The Grovetender fits perfectly, as the Grovetender's monster log details him telling stories to curious Wisps. And you translate that to videos, spinning beautiful tales of Risk of Rain history to Wisp viewers
I think we could get more lore about the High Court if we get a paladin type character in the next DLCs. For those that don't know (or don't remember), a poll was held to vote on which survivor would come in the 1.0 update (which became captain). Afterward, another poll was put up to see what archetype of character was liked the most, and the one that won was the paladin. Even though Hopoo said this "for fun" poll wouldn't have an influence on future character installments, I hope to see them implement a character with some religious background so that it connects to the High Court. A secretive organization that pulls strings from the shadows to further their own goal would make for some excellent lore.
I like that the skeleton is shaking while holding its head, showing that he’s still plagued with guilt for what he did even after death. He’s just gaslighting himself into believing that all of this had to be done and that he did it for N’Kuhana, even though he knows better.
Just found this channel and its so high quality??? I love it! Please keep these up, the lore is so interesting and you have the perfect personality and voice to narrate it all! Def will watch anything like this from here on :)
I think it makes sense that N'kuhana would be the "She" that visited and that Mithrix was jealous of. Mithrix wanted to find other high deities like himself, and would mourn her loss. I'm interested in seeing if the new DLC will introduce more lore and potentially another higher being. The store page got updated, and it says the Void Fiend will be unlocked after defeating a new threat. Sounds to me like a boss, and I think it makes perfect sense if one of these beings were captured by the Reavers and held captive in the void. But now that the void is running rampant and things are escaping?
This video is SO GOOD At this moment it have only about 800 views and it was randomly recommended to me, but the quality level is so high and all the effort you put in this, this is just incredible.
The first video was already super good but damn, that recreation scene of the killing of Marion plus all VOs has completely blown me away. Fabulous work!!
This has to be why the puppet item is called "Forgive-me". It's a "Forgive-me for killing you to save the others". The effigy was made as a constant reminder of her sacrifice. Wich is why it triggers every item wich has items on kill. It's just repeating the memory of death over and over.
Would love to see more of these RoR2 lore videos! Even just going deeper into specific item lore could be interesting, but definitely for the lore ahead in Survivor's of the Void. Thanks for the great work, these videos are fabulous!
I love this video, it really inspired me to take a closer look at the lore of this game. I'm just hoping to get some proper lore/explanation for the Newt and it's connections with Mithrix in the future. I feel like N'kuhana has potential to be a main antagonist in future games so I wouldn't be to surprised if she doesn't get more spotlight in the logbooks, but the Newt has very high potential to be DLC content. The Newt being an entity that is outside of the reaches of time itself makes it very difficult for any sort of other character to get in contact with it, but Mithrix was very clearly stated to have been able to reach the bazaar. I imagine it's through what he described as "A greater gate to travel greater seas." maybe some sort of teleporter that instead of transporting matter through space, would transport matter through time. It could explain what that big blackhole looking thing is on the moon. But even if that is the explanation for that question, many more arise. Like, if Mithrix was so keen on killing Providence after his betrayal, couldn't he just take a lunar seer portal back to the planet. Why did he opt for throwing down the beads of fealty and other lunar goodies to sway those under Providence's protection. Why did he help to get the alloy vultures (Kur-skan specifically) to board the Contact Light after luring it in if he didn't even need it in the first place, he already had a gateway to outside of time, why would he need a dinky little human cargo ship to take him off the moon? God I love this game's lore.
I can tell you put alot of passion in these lore videos. RoR doesn't have alot of "easy lore" , so I appreciate your efforts to nail down the facts. I hope to see more full videos from you!
I want to give you serious props. I bought this game years ago and you've made we want to get back into it. You've captured an energy that is most similar to VatiVidya's Darksouls stories and I've not found that for any other game or at this level anywhere else. I will watch any content you make on risk of rain going forward. Excellent job!
Man, I'm rewatching these before you (hopefully) continue this series, since the DLC adds SO MUCH to the evergrowing RoR puzzle. I'm specially intrigued by the new "construct" enemies.
Imagine if Hoopoo Games create a Side Risk of Rain game About Kur-skan, where *you're* actually Kur-Skan once you spawn and proceeds the lore events that happened to the Actual Kur-Skan
Just a theory after watching this video. "Her" gift to providence was his extreme power to create. She loved balance, the order of life and death in unity. Providence embodied life, and mythrix brought death. However both took their roles too far, Mythrix obsessed over his creations that caused destruction and his urge to conquer, and providence valued life too much to let it go. Mythrix was right about "her" gift being wasted on providence if this is true. She sacrificed herself to attempt to attain balance across worlds, however two opposite concepts of life and death usually struggle to coincide.
Loved the video, I liked the performance reading the logbook entries, also love how you went through the effort to include captions into TH-cam. Though I am wondering, how'd you get those free cam shots whilst keeping the game running? All I can think of is the PhotoMode mod but that freezes the game. Again, great video, will stick around for more of these
Hypothesis: If the Contact Light already had a teleporter on it and Mithrix was bound to the moon of P5 because of his brother's use of the lock on the P5Moon of P5 teleporter, it seems likely that he deliberately sent Kur-Skan to the Contact Light in order to take the teleporter from it specifically which he could then use to return to P5 and enact his vengeance. I think your point about the original route deviation of the ship being related to the artificer's organization is logical, and it would tie nicely into Mithrix wanting to take advantage of the ship and its cargo through Kur-Skan rather than him seemingly trying to take the whole ship with the route deviation itself. We know that Mithrix considers items that the player collects (and as such, basically anything humans make) to be 'trinkets' and 'scrap' from his in-game dialogue so it would make much more sense for him to have targeted the teleporter specifically through Kur-Skan's intervention. With that said, I don't know exactly how the blue portal would tie into it. I personally have a theory that the newt acts very much like courier for Mithrix as it both peddles his lunar items and knows how to manipulate the teleporter system to make the player emerge at particular locations. If we assume that this is true then it's possible that Mithrix used the newt's portals to put Kur-Skan on the ship in order to then get a functional teleporter back to the moon, but then it does raise the question of why Mithrix would even need a teleporter to get back to P5 in the first place. It's certainly not a flawless theory, but I'm curious as to your thoughts.
The glacial elites' item is "Her Biting Embrace," which might also refer to N'kuhana. Cold is often associated with death, and enemies with this aspect have a special effect on death. This could be a stretch though.
Followup video let's gooooo I commented this in the previous video, but I think TH-cam Shorts for some of the smaller pieces of lore would be cool too. I'm personally a fan of the Parent/Grandparent/Child/Planula life cycle, but I don't think that gives enough material for a full-fledged video, unless you do an enemies' or bosses' compilation (?) Edit: I believe the skeleton you find in the Wetland Aspect is Carney's, not the follower's, as they say they hid his body in the Altar, which is that cave, and he was _big_ -- on the other hand, the pose (comically distraught face, eternally trembling in a fetal position) would also make sense for it to be the remnants of a haunted follower of N'kuhana
Just ran through all the logs last night, so this video came to my recommendeds at the perfect time. (only one missing is Mithrix, and I got his by looking it up) It seems the body in the cave isn't the worshipper, but Carney. He claimed to take the body to the altar and hid the altar in exactly the location that unlocks N'kuhana's Opinion. There's a bunch of smaller log sets as well, like the one of naturalist D. Furthen and his friend/guardian Thurson. No real deep lore, but they are pretty funny, as Thurson shrugs off some sort of injury in every log. There's also the set of examinations of the boss items, such as the Shatterspleen, the Molten Perforator, and the Charged Perforator among others. There are other iteration tests like the Hellfire tincture, possibly developed by Kur'Skan. There are a few logs which seem to be from the perspective of the Captain survivor, and not just the Defensive Microbots log or his own bio. There's various confusions and experiments that went on, such as one soldier going crazy after collecting the Happiest Mask, another one who was deemed crazy after allowing the Supermassive Leech to stick to her despite claiming it made her feel even better and with no reported side effects, or a short story of two parents sending gifts to their child named Buu who is researching over at Neptune. There's origin of the Halcyon Seed and the resulting conversation between Mithrix and Providence, its connection to Aurelionite and why he was banished in the first place. There's the Garden, attended by the Grovetender and his wisps, creatures given life by his own hands via some sort of mystic practice. We can find Newt's origin, as far as we can tell, based on the atrophied left hand and his presence marking the sole representation of other "Newts" so far. Siren's Call environment log, while unclear, has possibility to be the bridge of the ship that Kur'Skan died in, as it makes mention of a lone male invader that was likely Providence, as Kur'Skan was unnoticed in her infiltration. The game has some surprisingly good lore for people willing to dig into it, and every once in a while I get the itch to dig deeper. Edit: I got Mithrix log in time for DLC, so now I've got them all!
I didn't realize this was a new channel when i watch the first vid. gotta say love the work. there is a lot of un-explained lore that is hard to piece together even after reading all the log entries
This is such a high quality video I loved it so much I honestly just stopped myself multiple times to admire the editing! I loved the part where Mythrix measured Kur Skans time and how you voiced "perfect" literally gave me chills!
I know these videos are pretty old but they helped me understand so much of the lore. I've fallen in love with Risk of Rain 2 (Haven't gotten around to RoR1 or the now RoR Returns) I've only read a handfull of the logs in-game and thought the lore was really intriguing. You really captured the characters and lore and told this story so well. I'm very excited for the Seekers of The Storm DLC! I applaud you for going through all the lore and putting all of this together.
@@ArchWizardCj To my knowledge there isnt a tutorial, I just figured it out on my own since I was already familiar with the Debugtoolkit mod. But it is a very easy process. The freecam mod is super simple to use, and you only need DebugTK if you want enemies to move while in stopped time. It's as easy as opening a console and just typing in a command. Unless you mean a tutorial on how to download the mods, which uses the R2modman launcher. There are plenty of tutorials on how to install that, which makes modding super easy to download.
@@thegrovetender I got both mods I'm just tryna figure out if there's a way to see what the commands are for the camera mod and how to screenshot etc. I also wanna navigate the debug tool so I can take screenshots and record enemies that smoothly
I would absolutely love some update to these videos. they obviously wouldnt need to be an entire retelling of these lore videos youve done. but since Risk of Rain Returns has some new content. maybe there is some lore worth mentioning? or when Seekers of the Storm comes out. thatd be so cool. I bring this up because some of the new items and enemies in Returns seem to have links to some of the bigger concepts like N'kuhana. but i dont really know how deep that goes. if its too shallow then no need for a video really haha
Finally someone else as invested in the lore as I am so glad you connected everything I was having trouble understanding cant wait to see what you find in the dlc!
The effort in this video is amazing and I've always wanted to know more about the risk of Rain lore, because I know there is a lot more than meets the eye with this game. I love it
just watched your 2 videos, i love the way you narrate things, imma subscribe, give you the like that you deserve, and send the videos to another friend that like risk of rain, keep the good work man
I just saw your full explanation of the story of RoR and RoR 2, and I really like your formatting! especially with the voice acting on the EV logs, it's very well put together, and you do a great job of capturing Mithrix's personality in your reading of him. I look forward to seeing new content from you in the future, and am crossing my fingers for a lore update on the Survivor's of the Void expansion
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This video was a lot harder to make than my last one. I went through many drafts of theories ranging from 3 pages long, to being extremely vague. Hope it was worth it!
These are my own theories of the story behind these characters, but it is highly possible that I have made some mistakes along the way.
If you have any questions, please leave them down below!
You should make a video about "Her" next, i know you touched up on it in the last one but a full in depth video theorizing about her would be great!
thank you for the amount of effort you put in your ror lore videos. I watch these videos literally smiling the entire time. My friends and I always talk about these videos. Keep the work up. If you need confirmation to see if ror lore videos are a good idea, Im that confirmation lol
This is really well done. Do you think you can cover some of the boss's lore? Maybe a theory as to why you have to kill them to teleport?
Are the teleporters powered by N'kuhana?
@@zendakongaming5159 The brothers created the teleporters. N'kuhana is not related in any way
@@thegrovetender
Well then why do they require us to murder bosses to pass? Is it related to the gift she gave him?
Or is it possible she gifting us the ability to use them in exchange for the sacrifices without us knowing?
With the way the game keeps the lore so vague, it is such a treat to see that someone put the time and effort to interpret and visualize it; connecting the dots. I really enjoyed this!
i like it that way tbh it reminds me alot of dark souls lore too
@@draftsky12 Absence of content = content lol
@@La-ld9mnit’s not really absence of content. It’s all there, you just have to collect and piece it all together. From there people have theorized on stuff.
The Artificier was scouting the planet before the events of RoR2. She was imprisoned and later "saved" by Safe Travels' survivors. So she joins them, hence the drop pod.
Also, detail to add. While onboard the Safe Travels, the commando and the artificer were training in zero gravity combat and the artificer started jerking him off with her mind.
Why do you think it was before ROR2? I am just curious since the bazaar between time seems to be a place where time doesnt move wouldnt that imply she could also be from the future. I am just curious
@@outland2874I’m not sure that would be how that works. We’ve never encountered a time where we could see time moving backwards. Moreover, time just pauses when in the Bazaar Between Time. She probably fell in there at some point, and was frozen in time somehow.
@@Oliver-Thyella well i was thinking of it more like the world between worlds in star wars or the TVA from marvel where you kinda exist at every time at the same time
@@outland2874 I was thinking about it in a more game logic way. They implemented the fact that the Bazaar Between Time is between reality and time by stopping the timer, so I was thinking that, if they wanted to make it so that it follows the logic of it being between every time, they would allow us to roll back the difficulty by one, or something like that.
i love how you reenacted the N'kuhana segment ingame, such a nice detail. you put a lot of effort into this. good vid
20:40 you even recreated the scene from the lore of the dagger ingame... this video is a masterpiece. Thank you so much for your work!
It's nice to think that, lorewise, Artificer must have been thankful for being freed by the Survivors, which is why she ends up helping them. The experience of Petrichor V after defeating Mithrix also gives her a newfound passion to explore, not just for the Heavenly Plane, but the universe in general.
I think the "I" in Helfire Tincture's lore snippet is Newt. The Environment log for the Bazaar between time mentions that he is some kind of scientist and explicitly says he is elaborating a tincture. The chamber mentioned is probably the room behind Newt that he quickly closes behind him when the player enters his shop, and his species has strong ties with time, hence the multiple mentions of it. It's possible that as an outcast and a pariah he captured some of his brethren to experiment on them, maybe coerced by Mithrix, or maybe because he acted as his patron.
Then it would make sense that it repeats about "measuring the time" 4 times, since Newt is related to time
This would also explain the twitching and blackened arm of the newt in the shop. He might've locked that arm in time to prevent him burning to death
@@dopeynut -- That disfigured arm is what caused the rest of the pod to scorn the Newt, and that drove them to the bazaar. It's still possible that the Newt is responsible for the hellfire tincture rather than Kur-Skan, but the arm predates any involvement with Mithrix.
@@TlalocTemporalThe interesting thing with Newt is that, for his people, time is not lineal. They can travel through time like we can walk forward and backward. So any form of timeline for him is more like a circle
I like this theory
Interesting to note that in a log from RoR1, the captain of the Contact Light said, "I can hear him coming" before he was killed, but now in RoR2 we know that Kur-skan killed him. So, funnily enough, the captain probably thought Kur-skan was the intruder in his final moments, and never even saw Providence. Neat how that lines up, even though they never could've planed that far ahead when they were writing the RoR1 lore.
Tbh, i think he was so occupied with Providence that he didn't notice Kurskan coming through the vents until it was too late
The only issue with this is that Kur-Skan is female. Maybe he was talking about Providence and just didn't know she was there, because I'm her log it seems like she was also killed by Providence after killing the captain.
@@coolio6855it's unlikely that the captain would have known Kur-skan's gender, because uh, she's a bird. The captain could've just defaulted to "he". On the other hand, he might've called her an "it" if he knew it was her because again, it's a bird not a humanoid. In that case, it could be that the captain knew Providence was coming but Kur-skan just got there first. It doesn't sound like it took long for Providence to show up after Kur-skan got there, so the captain could've known he was coming and his transmission got cut off by Kur-skan's... violent entry to the bridge.
the captain (pilot) did not die
@o330 the captain did, the pilot did not
I feel confident the bird skull you can find on the very top of the Contact Light in RoR1 is the Heretic's head and a reference as to what happened to her.
My favorite part to these ror lore videos is that he gives voices to characters we never see. It also changes my veiw of them (I just came from the overall lore video) like with the Grovetender, the logs are always in caps and the fight always felt more frantic than the others, I thought they were unhinged maniacs but giving them a more level headed and caring voice makes them fit better in the setting of a garden with the wisps as apprentices than unwilling watchers (Little Disciple is a broken wisp that the Grovetender strapped to itself to watch them tend to the garden)
This is so well presented. I love the environmental shots - can't wait to see what you'll do with the expansion.
You’ve got good taste in video games, from the look of your pfp.
its honestly kinda sad that most people will either not look into the lore of Risk of Rain or just miss it entirely because its all pretty fire
Specifically, when Kur-skan gets that line from Mithrix, it's when Aurelionite shows up alongside her in the final fight, which wouldn't make sense since she was a servant of Mithrix. This explains why he asked "who pulls your strings" to her, since (if we take the theory that Mithrix sent her to the Contact Light) Aurelionite was an enemy of Mithrix.
The messages where he calls out the player having the halcyon seed occurs when he steals it, whereas the messages calling out when the player is the heretic happens at the very start. The "who pulls your strings" message happens after he steals it, too. I feel this makes more sense if you look at both being enemies of mithrix, as he would be using "vermin" as a plural since he is understandably very confused that two familiar figures from his past that he thought had nothing to do with eachother fight him at once.
Aurelionite is sealed by Mhitrix due being "imperfect" and "wrong ratio", made by his brother Providence with too much soul and be able to think and feel, which deem risky for Mhitrix
been wanting to hear about these characters specifically for so long and in just your two videos i’ve learned more convincing theories about this games lore than from any other youtube channel. keep it up man this content’s amazing.
There is actually a reason for her to be on the contact light! In the sirens call logs it talks about a distress beacon or smth that lures ships in, which is the alloy vultures desperately trying to get off the planet
You’re like the Vaati of Risk of Rain man. Keep up the good work!
as someone with audio processing issues, i wanna say thanks for including captions! it really does help and mean a lot to us
Your channel name The Grovetender fits perfectly, as the Grovetender's monster log details him telling stories to curious Wisps. And you translate that to videos, spinning beautiful tales of Risk of Rain history to Wisp viewers
(Im sure thats why you picked it, i just like how much it fits)
It is indeed! Glad you noticed ^-^
I’m hyped to see if you come back to touch on the DLC lore. These videos have been delightful!
I think we could get more lore about the High Court if we get a paladin type character in the next DLCs.
For those that don't know (or don't remember), a poll was held to vote on which survivor would come in the 1.0 update (which became captain). Afterward, another poll was put up to see what archetype of character was liked the most, and the one that won was the paladin.
Even though Hopoo said this "for fun" poll wouldn't have an influence on future character installments, I hope to see them implement a character with some religious background so that it connects to the High Court. A secretive organization that pulls strings from the shadows to further their own goal would make for some excellent lore.
Captain is the paladin im pretty sure, good close range offense, healing/supportive powers, cc and the ability to smite his foes from heaven
@@devolo5947 There is artwork for skill icons in the game code that most certainly look like a paladin character.
There's a mod for a paladin survivor. Not sure if Dev's will add another paladin
I would love for them to make the paladin the successor to the enforcer. A holy shield knight character would be awesome.
They still managed to make a bandit that is different from the bandit mod so I think they can make a paladin
>tfw you find a pog lore channel that only has 2 lore videos from 2 years ago
I like that the skeleton is shaking while holding its head, showing that he’s still plagued with guilt for what he did even after death. He’s just gaslighting himself into believing that all of this had to be done and that he did it for N’Kuhana, even though he knows better.
Oh my god the amount of heart and effort put into these vids! You even did captions too! Thank you so much for making these. I can't wait to see more
Just found this channel and its so high quality??? I love it! Please keep these up, the lore is so interesting and you have the perfect personality and voice to narrate it all! Def will watch anything like this from here on :)
I think it makes sense that N'kuhana would be the "She" that visited and that Mithrix was jealous of. Mithrix wanted to find other high deities like himself, and would mourn her loss. I'm interested in seeing if the new DLC will introduce more lore and potentially another higher being. The store page got updated, and it says the Void Fiend will be unlocked after defeating a new threat. Sounds to me like a boss, and I think it makes perfect sense if one of these beings were captured by the Reavers and held captive in the void. But now that the void is running rampant and things are escaping?
My god you were spot on
Honestly that’s what I thought when I found her items and saw how thay referred to her
This is incredibly interesting, it takes an amazing amount of knowledge and understanding to come up with theories based on so little information.
This video is SO GOOD
At this moment it have only about 800 views and it was randomly recommended to me, but the quality level is so high and all the effort you put in this, this is just incredible.
Your channel is definitely going to be a top lore channel for ROR and which ever games lore you choose to create content for.
The first video was already super good but damn, that recreation scene of the killing of Marion plus all VOs has completely blown me away. Fabulous work!!
I really would love a High Court themed DLC - sounds really interesting!
Yea that would be pretty cool
I loved the effort you put into showing the N'kuhana worshipper, the supposed sacrifice of Morion and so on. Keep going!
This has to be why the puppet item is called "Forgive-me".
It's a "Forgive-me for killing you to save the others".
The effigy was made as a constant reminder of her sacrifice.
Wich is why it triggers every item wich has items on kill. It's just repeating the memory of death over and over.
I thought this was a big channel from the effort put into the video quality
Amazing work mate keep it up
Would love to see more of these RoR2 lore videos! Even just going deeper into specific item lore could be interesting, but definitely for the lore ahead in Survivor's of the Void. Thanks for the great work, these videos are fabulous!
I love this video, it really inspired me to take a closer look at the lore of this game. I'm just hoping to get some proper lore/explanation for the Newt and it's connections with Mithrix in the future. I feel like N'kuhana has potential to be a main antagonist in future games so I wouldn't be to surprised if she doesn't get more spotlight in the logbooks, but the Newt has very high potential to be DLC content.
The Newt being an entity that is outside of the reaches of time itself makes it very difficult for any sort of other character to get in contact with it, but Mithrix was very clearly stated to have been able to reach the bazaar. I imagine it's through what he described as "A greater gate to travel greater seas." maybe some sort of teleporter that instead of transporting matter through space, would transport matter through time. It could explain what that big blackhole looking thing is on the moon.
But even if that is the explanation for that question, many more arise. Like, if Mithrix was so keen on killing Providence after his betrayal, couldn't he just take a lunar seer portal back to the planet. Why did he opt for throwing down the beads of fealty and other lunar goodies to sway those under Providence's protection. Why did he help to get the alloy vultures (Kur-skan specifically) to board the Contact Light after luring it in if he didn't even need it in the first place, he already had a gateway to outside of time, why would he need a dinky little human cargo ship to take him off the moon?
God I love this game's lore.
I can tell you put alot of passion in these lore videos. RoR doesn't have alot of "easy lore" , so I appreciate your efforts to nail down the facts. I hope to see more full videos from you!
These two videos are awesome!
Thank you for taking the time to piece these together and put out such polished vids
bro please make more of these im starving for ro2 lore detailed in your style
I want to give you serious props. I bought this game years ago and you've made we want to get back into it. You've captured an energy that is most similar to VatiVidya's Darksouls stories and I've not found that for any other game or at this level anywhere else. I will watch any content you make on risk of rain going forward. Excellent job!
you're definitely going to be popular if you continue to do high quality videos like that
keep up the good work ☝
So...Survivors of the Void DLC came out. More juicy lore to dive into. If you have the time. Amazing video.
Man, I'm rewatching these before you (hopefully) continue this series, since the DLC adds SO MUCH to the evergrowing RoR puzzle. I'm specially intrigued by the new "construct" enemies.
Imagine if Hoopoo Games create a Side Risk of Rain game About Kur-skan, where *you're* actually Kur-Skan once you spawn and proceeds the lore events that happened to the Actual Kur-Skan
Awesome video! Watching this and your previous video is almost like seeing VaatiVidya on Petrichor V
Thanks! I am honored to be called that ^_^
Its always nice to see these videos start getting more attention, keep it up!
I’m excited to see what you do next man, keep it up
Just a theory after watching this video. "Her" gift to providence was his extreme power to create. She loved balance, the order of life and death in unity. Providence embodied life, and mythrix brought death. However both took their roles too far, Mythrix obsessed over his creations that caused destruction and his urge to conquer, and providence valued life too much to let it go. Mythrix was right about "her" gift being wasted on providence if this is true. She sacrificed herself to attempt to attain balance across worlds, however two opposite concepts of life and death usually struggle to coincide.
Amazing video my dude, Incredibly well done! :D
1 Wait for rude customer to appear
2 Suspend them in time
3 Sell that customer for more profit
Thats some chad move from newt
These videos are so well done and entertaining! Thanks for this!
Your videos are very cool and comfy. Great work :)
I loved this video and can't wait for more. There is clearly a lot of heart and love in this video, and I can't wait for the next one.
I appreciate the game even more after seeing your lore videos! Thanks for the great work!
Once again, another great video. I love all of the details you use to help visualize the stories.
This was good! I'm subbing, just Imagine what we can see in the DLC.
Thanks, man! Really enjoyed it!
Very good production value and understanding of this medium for a new youtuber, I look forward to your following stuff. Keep up the good work!
Yessss lore video of Risk of Rain 2!
Thanks for the subtitle man
Loved the video, I liked the performance reading the logbook entries, also love how you went through the effort to include captions into TH-cam. Though I am wondering, how'd you get those free cam shots whilst keeping the game running? All I can think of is the PhotoMode mod but that freezes the game.
Again, great video, will stick around for more of these
It is the photomode mod! But I'm also using DebugToolKit and using the time scale 1 command
Thanks for explaining this twisted and interesting plot!
Hypothesis: If the Contact Light already had a teleporter on it and Mithrix was bound to the moon of P5 because of his brother's use of the lock on the P5Moon of P5 teleporter, it seems likely that he deliberately sent Kur-Skan to the Contact Light in order to take the teleporter from it specifically which he could then use to return to P5 and enact his vengeance.
I think your point about the original route deviation of the ship being related to the artificer's organization is logical, and it would tie nicely into Mithrix wanting to take advantage of the ship and its cargo through Kur-Skan rather than him seemingly trying to take the whole ship with the route deviation itself. We know that Mithrix considers items that the player collects (and as such, basically anything humans make) to be 'trinkets' and 'scrap' from his in-game dialogue so it would make much more sense for him to have targeted the teleporter specifically through Kur-Skan's intervention.
With that said, I don't know exactly how the blue portal would tie into it. I personally have a theory that the newt acts very much like courier for Mithrix as it both peddles his lunar items and knows how to manipulate the teleporter system to make the player emerge at particular locations. If we assume that this is true then it's possible that Mithrix used the newt's portals to put Kur-Skan on the ship in order to then get a functional teleporter back to the moon, but then it does raise the question of why Mithrix would even need a teleporter to get back to P5 in the first place. It's certainly not a flawless theory, but I'm curious as to your thoughts.
Bro this is sick thanks man! Pls make more!
i just found this channel and your videos are seriously some of the best content ive ever watched, thank you
Man I am so glad I found your channel!
Been a fan of RoR since game 1 and it's lore was so convoluted I couldn't keep track.
Thank you!
Love your content, man. Keep it up!
LETS GOOOOO im so happy you made another, youre gonna make it big brother
Love these vids, so well made!
The glacial elites' item is "Her Biting Embrace," which might also refer to N'kuhana. Cold is often associated with death, and enemies with this aspect have a special effect on death. This could be a stretch though.
just watched both your vids and was sad to find no more, love the content!
Followup video let's gooooo
I commented this in the previous video, but I think TH-cam Shorts for some of the smaller pieces of lore would be cool too. I'm personally a fan of the Parent/Grandparent/Child/Planula life cycle, but I don't think that gives enough material for a full-fledged video, unless you do an enemies' or bosses' compilation (?)
Edit: I believe the skeleton you find in the Wetland Aspect is Carney's, not the follower's, as they say they hid his body in the Altar, which is that cave, and he was _big_ -- on the other hand, the pose (comically distraught face, eternally trembling in a fetal position) would also make sense for it to be the remnants of a haunted follower of N'kuhana
its incredible how high quality these videos are for a channel with only 2 total
Just ran through all the logs last night, so this video came to my recommendeds at the perfect time. (only one missing is Mithrix, and I got his by looking it up)
It seems the body in the cave isn't the worshipper, but Carney. He claimed to take the body to the altar and hid the altar in exactly the location that unlocks N'kuhana's Opinion.
There's a bunch of smaller log sets as well, like the one of naturalist D. Furthen and his friend/guardian Thurson. No real deep lore, but they are pretty funny, as Thurson shrugs off some sort of injury in every log. There's also the set of examinations of the boss items, such as the Shatterspleen, the Molten Perforator, and the Charged Perforator among others. There are other iteration tests like the Hellfire tincture, possibly developed by Kur'Skan. There are a few logs which seem to be from the perspective of the Captain survivor, and not just the Defensive Microbots log or his own bio. There's various confusions and experiments that went on, such as one soldier going crazy after collecting the Happiest Mask, another one who was deemed crazy after allowing the Supermassive Leech to stick to her despite claiming it made her feel even better and with no reported side effects, or a short story of two parents sending gifts to their child named Buu who is researching over at Neptune. There's origin of the Halcyon Seed and the resulting conversation between Mithrix and Providence, its connection to Aurelionite and why he was banished in the first place. There's the Garden, attended by the Grovetender and his wisps, creatures given life by his own hands via some sort of mystic practice. We can find Newt's origin, as far as we can tell, based on the atrophied left hand and his presence marking the sole representation of other "Newts" so far. Siren's Call environment log, while unclear, has possibility to be the bridge of the ship that Kur'Skan died in, as it makes mention of a lone male invader that was likely Providence, as Kur'Skan was unnoticed in her infiltration.
The game has some surprisingly good lore for people willing to dig into it, and every once in a while I get the itch to dig deeper.
Edit: I got Mithrix log in time for DLC, so now I've got them all!
I didn't realize this was a new channel when i watch the first vid. gotta say love the work. there is a lot of un-explained lore that is hard to piece together even after reading all the log entries
Cannot wait until your video containing the DLC is completed!
This is such a high quality video I loved it so much I honestly just stopped myself multiple times to admire the editing! I loved the part where Mythrix measured Kur Skans time and how you voiced "perfect" literally gave me chills!
Can you please talk about the lore of the void from the DLC ?
I would love to see you do more lore videos, whether it's risk of rain or something else!
I hope you take this a compliment, but your reading of the N’Kuhana log gave me some serious Magnus Archives vibes in the best way.
I’m just excited to see what comes in terms of your next vid.
I know these videos are pretty old but they helped me understand so much of the lore. I've fallen in love with Risk of Rain 2 (Haven't gotten around to RoR1 or the now RoR Returns) I've only read a handfull of the logs in-game and thought the lore was really intriguing. You really captured the characters and lore and told this story so well. I'm very excited for the Seekers of The Storm DLC! I applaud you for going through all the lore and putting all of this together.
hey dude, how are you recording these cinematic shots???
Photomode mod, with the Debugtoolkit mod with the "Timescale 1" command so enemies can move in stopped time ^-^
@@thegrovetender oh thats SICK. Is there any tutorial on how to do that or is it simpler than it sounds ??
@@ArchWizardCj To my knowledge there isnt a tutorial, I just figured it out on my own since I was already familiar with the Debugtoolkit mod. But it is a very easy process.
The freecam mod is super simple to use, and you only need DebugTK if you want enemies to move while in stopped time. It's as easy as opening a console and just typing in a command.
Unless you mean a tutorial on how to download the mods, which uses the R2modman launcher. There are plenty of tutorials on how to install that, which makes modding super easy to download.
@@thegrovetender I got both mods I'm just tryna figure out if there's a way to see what the commands are for the camera mod and how to screenshot etc. I also wanna navigate the debug tool so I can take screenshots and record enemies that smoothly
Once again amazing job with those voice lines! It really adds character and substance to the lore
otta love the bloodborne music in the background. Truly a testiment to the greatness of the soundtrack
I would absolutely love some update to these videos. they obviously wouldnt need to be an entire retelling of these lore videos youve done.
but since Risk of Rain Returns has some new content. maybe there is some lore worth mentioning? or when Seekers of the Storm comes out. thatd be so cool.
I bring this up because some of the new items and enemies in Returns seem to have links to some of the bigger concepts like N'kuhana. but i dont really know how deep that goes. if its too shallow then no need for a video really haha
Love your RoR videos, man. I hope you'll upload more. You're the only one doing these kinds of videos in the RoR community AFAIK.
this channel is so good. Thank you for making these videos.
Love these videos so far! Id say keep up the good work but also dont overwork yourself
Finally someone else as invested in the lore as I am so glad you connected everything I was having trouble understanding cant wait to see what you find in the dlc!
the way you cover the lore is extremely captivating, thanks for the explanation!
Watching the artificer story now gets more interesting after reading the log entry for the seeker
*shows up*
*drops 2 amazing videos*
*elaborates greatly*
*leaves*
Stay tuned for the DLC!
I'm loving the lore. I wish there was more. I don't think there is tho. Great videos mate. You off to a great start.
The effort in this video is amazing and I've always wanted to know more about the risk of Rain lore, because I know there is a lot more than meets the eye with this game. I love it
just watched your 2 videos, i love the way you narrate things, imma subscribe, give you the like that you deserve, and send the videos to another friend that like risk of rain, keep the good work man
This man is becoming the moss bag of ror, and I’m here for it
I learned so much from this video, More so about the heretic. i didn’t even known you could play as them 😔. Thanks so much
I just saw your full explanation of the story of RoR and RoR 2, and I really like your formatting! especially with the voice acting on the EV logs, it's very well put together, and you do a great job of capturing Mithrix's personality in your reading of him. I look forward to seeing new content from you in the future, and am crossing my fingers for a lore update on the Survivor's of the Void expansion
With the hollow knight music in the background it sets the mood so well
It's always heartbreaking when you find a new banger of a channel and they have so few videos 😭 subscribing and anxious to see what else you put out.
This man only makes slappers but releases like 2 per year. Joking but kind of not, hoping for more vids soon
this video has immense amounts of quality dude, awesome job on the editing :)