Explaining the Religion in Stardew Valley || Stardew Valley 1.6 Lore and Theory

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  • In today's video, I'll explain the lore behind the religion in Stardew Valley and tell yall about some theories I have :)) If you've got some theories or headcanons of your own, lemme know in the comments :))
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  • @GeorgiaLambkin
    @GeorgiaLambkin 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

    This makes the shadow people make more sense, at least for me. Being pulled from their peaceful nothingness into the chaotic everything of the material realm, fled down into the caves' depths and being hostile against anyone disturbing what little peace they have. Yoba bless.

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I am seriously curious if the random shadow people in the mines can talk, or if they're just super berserk

    • @lurkingone7079
      @lurkingone7079 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@sodorart Maybe they can talk but as they never encountered humans normally of course not in their language. Also honestly assume that after the war they had with the dwarves both species kinda evolved back their cultures and similar. Being well "shadows" of their former self.

  • @louischvs9395
    @louischvs9395 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    You didn't mention Yoba being depicted in an early CA comics. There we can see that he's a knid of sun, in fact the same we see on Emily and Haley's house.

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Ooooh I forgot about that, thank you for sharing!!

    • @louischvs9395
      @louischvs9395 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That apart it's a very good video !

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@louischvs9395 tysm!!

  • @lurkingone7079
    @lurkingone7079 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    The green rain could be a sort of cleansing Yoba does. Maybe thanks to the pollution of joja factories and the like to strengthen the plant life. Like moss is known to be rather tough. Can survive temperature changes. And is known to absorb toxins and cleanse the air. But maybe in the book of yoba there had been some "punishment" that involved that green rain and plants overgrowing some "evil" place or such. Or seen as "Yoba prepares to clean up".
    Also interesting with the dwarf as its kinda implied they come from space. Did they already pray to Yoba or just pick it up after they landed on earth. Or maybe thats why they came to earth. They saw a fertile planet taken care of by a god. So decided to settle. And maybe while they prayed they may have gained Yobas wrath. Maybe their technology they had was polluting the place or they were seen as too dangerous. Causing ruin and their war with the shadow people.

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That is so interesting! :O

    • @lurkingone7079
      @lurkingone7079 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@sodorart It also brings up the idea of the "vessel". Maybe Yoba is not as powerful or used more subtle powers like changing the weather or powering up people, giving them guidance, powers, knowledge. Using the shadow people to deal with the dwarves. As vessel. Maybe a sort of deal. "I free you from the void and you destroy the invaders"
      Is Yoba as deity bound to the planet or actually the creator of the universe.

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lurkingone7079 those are some interesting points 🤔

  • @lurkingone7079
    @lurkingone7079 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    Remembering your idea that Caroline comes from somewhere else. Maybe in her home they do not believe in Yoba. Maybe some other being. She says she is not religious but maybe thats because she cant safely express her religion in town. Seeing as both countries are at war.

  • @attaug
    @attaug 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Great analysis. But Yoba's symbol on the shield and graves is likely just a reference to people putting religious symbols on graves and the old European tradition of putting a Christian Cross on their shields for extra protection or simply for decoration.
    The symbol of Yoba being inverted on the gravestone that gives the player a zombie power up could be because undeath is seen as unnatural and unholy in most religions. In many religions inverting a religious symbol is sacrilegious as it's seen as an insult or opposing force to who or what is being worshiped.
    I agree that Yoba is probably a Deity of life and nature, decay does come with nature so there's that. Also, the void could be Stardew's version of hell. Just not the 'Hell' commonly portrayed in modern media. The old Jewish depiction of Hell is quite literally just the farthest point you can be from God, it's a place where souls who have strayed from God's Light go to rest. And by rest I mean quite literally, it's sleep. In some depictions it's also the place ALL souls go to until the Messiah opens the gates of heaven for the Jewish faithful, that being those of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. If CA is taking inspiration from this, the absence of light and Yoba making the void makes sense, the farthest thing from Yoba would be nothingness and darkness and the opposite of light is also darkness. We also see things twisted and corrupted by the void, things that have strayed from Yoba's light have been malformed by Yoba's absence. This'd make sense given if Yoba is a Deity of life the absence of Yoba would be death, but we clearly see things living in or being from the void so they are unnatural or supernatural entities.

  • @deivore3438
    @deivore3438 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    LORE VID LORE VID hell yeah
    That was pretty sweet, lovely to have all the info collated like this. I wonder if there would be enough material for a lore video on non-humans?
    Also, my headcanon is that the church entrance goes through Pierre's shop because he redesigned it that way, because Pierre.

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      LOL the ultimate money scheme ksjdfhksjdf

  • @micaiahleigh2449
    @micaiahleigh2449 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I know this isn’t on topic but your mic quality is really impressive. A lot of small channels are hard for me to watch because of the audio blowout and my sensory issues-but you are really easy to listen to, and not only that but your editing is really good as well. You make really quality content and your channel is gonna grow really quickly I bet!

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Tysm!!! It's honestly just a Blue Yeti Nano, a $50 mic for newbies, but I have a lot of filters on it and I make sure to edit out all of my sighing, breathing in between sentences etc. Thank you for the kind words!!

    • @micaiahleigh2449
      @micaiahleigh2449 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sodorart thank you! I’ve been putting off getting a mic and proper setup to film some video essays eventually but having a brand right in front of me makes things a lot easier to get myself in gear 😅

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@micaiahleigh2449 It really sucks as well because when you google "good mics to use" or whatever, the audiotechnicians come out of the woods and moan about how 'bad' the Blue Yeti Nano is. It's a great mic and people like us are just doing video essays or youtube videos, not a literal film or a soundtrack LOL If you need me to type out my OBS mic filters as well, lemme know!

    • @micaiahleigh2449
      @micaiahleigh2449 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sodorart that would be amazing, you’re so awesome ❤️ and yeah that’s kinda the issue I’ve been having-no one can agree on whether a mic is good or bad and I can’t tell if people are getting paid to say positive or negative things 😅

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Under the audio mixer (the middle panel in OBS), click the 3 dots next to your mic and go to filters, I have 3 filters: Noise Suppression - Method: RNN Noise , Gain (I have mine at 12.90 db, feel free to adjust) , and Limiter - Threshold: -5.00db , Release 60ms
      Hope this helps !!!

  • @TheOrangeRanger
    @TheOrangeRanger 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I've thought that the alter looks like the ark of the covenant.

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh wow, very interesting!!

  • @darklorna9652
    @darklorna9652 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You have very detailed breakdowns, you really are a thinking person, thanks for the theories ❤

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@darklorna9652 thank YOU for the kind words!!!

  • @annepandesal
    @annepandesal 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    awesome discussion ♡ i love ur lore videos

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@annepandesal ty!!!

  • @xeldaa_
    @xeldaa_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this was super informative and helpful! your content is super high quality, you absolutely deserve more of a following! best of luck in your content creation journey

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you so much!

  • @sricunto
    @sricunto 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    FIRST COMMENTTT😍😍 im looking forward to the theory COS U NEVER MISS💥💥

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In this theory......... a random Void Chicken is.... YOBA?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

    • @sricunto
      @sricunto 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sodorart LMAOO

  • @acmita
    @acmita หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i like thinking about the void as nothingness better than simplifying it as hell, but if you go a little bit deeper, wouldn't it be hell to “not exist” (?) or “being in the darkness” if the god itself is based on creating life and bringing light?
    also, i could be missing something in this video or another one, but i don't understand why krobus don't harm us and can even become our roommate, while the other shadow people are literally mobs (i mean enemies). i don't remember krobus saying they, he and his people as a whole, worship yoba. he states that HE believes in yoba, right? or am i forgetting something?
    anyway, if i'm right about it, then, another theory comes up: what if krobus isn't like his people? well, he already isn't, because, again, he is friends with us, unlike the other shadow people we see. what if worshiping yoba was something from the dwarves, but now it's lost because of their annihilation, and krobus, as an individual, chooses to believe in yoba because of some reason?

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's never stated if all shadow people believe in Yoba or anything like that, Krobus just mentions that he does, so it would be super interesting if he got that from the dwarves, as you said! We're not sure why he decides to be different and try to befriend humans and even live with us, he just has a line that states that he'd like it if humans and shadow people could co-exist, but he's unsure if it's possible. We're unsure what made him want this in the first place though

    • @acmita
      @acmita หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @sodorart thank you for replying to me and all of that explanation. now i find krobus even more cute!

  • @vitbur
    @vitbur 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!!

  • @niconico-tan
    @niconico-tan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    i haven't investigated the yoba lore myself, so it was cool to see it all put together like this. common sodor W

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      🥰🥰🥰

  • @TripleRoux
    @TripleRoux 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I love the mystic pagan vibe to all of this! Thanks for the cool video!

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching!! :D

  • @FelipeGames08
    @FelipeGames08 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    YOOOO im actually intrigued im the only one that knows this. So basically, the forge mural glymph HAS A TRANSLATION! just like the skull caverns too! Theres 2 in the skull caverns.
    the first says:
    "WIZARD
    SEALED US
    IN THIS PRISON
    UNTIL THE DAY A HERO
    PUTS US TO REST"
    And the other one is:
    "WE ARE CURSED
    TOO MUCH IRIDIUM"
    Aaand, the forge one says:
    "OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM THE SKY
    BUT MADE A NEW HOME BENEATH STONE"
    Just to clarify, the forge one is initially in dwarvish language, and when translated, you still need to interpret the words by speech. Still, cool fact. Hope this helps.
    EDIT: wow i really enjoyed this video tbh, good editing, good explainations, no drumrolling, and it even made me drift away from the ache im feeling from my current health issue (dont worry about that its not a big deal) and it made me really curious about all that Yoba related stuff. You really should have more subscribers, your content looks amazing. Got my sub!

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oooh ty for this!

  • @BuioPestato
    @BuioPestato 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    the name Yoba may come from the word YHWH which is the name of god in the hebrew bible, in more modern days changed to Yahweh

  • @savedbygrace1582
    @savedbygrace1582 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    To me, it looks like the statue standing over Rio de Janeiro, and YOBA just a different spelling of YHWh.

  • @Aubies333
    @Aubies333 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love your ideas/theories and lore of Stardew! Also didn't know that Shane was an atheist!

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you!! I love the diversity with all of the characters

  • @nightbane2889
    @nightbane2889 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Void could be similar to tartarus/the underworld (which is NOT hell, all spirits good and bad go there, with sections for each if I recall correctly).
    It was said spirits passed into the physical world.
    Considering magic is very real, maybe the life Yoba seeded were spirits taking various forms, and all return to the void someday

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I love this thought process, thank you for sharing !!

  • @EpicDuskk
    @EpicDuskk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    12 minute sodor video 👀

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      BIG lore drop :3c

  • @pigcatapult
    @pigcatapult 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I mean, if you think about it, Yoba *made* the void, didn't they? It wasn't there until the light parted to create it.

  • @akiramissy5267
    @akiramissy5267 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ur very underrated

    • @sodorart
      @sodorart  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ty!!!

  • @henriettanagy4523
    @henriettanagy4523 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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