Servitors of the Eternal Ruins
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Things I click on immediately. Everytime.
Thanks, really appreciate it!
hear hear!
@Eternal_ruins idea bot builders machines created small ans grow tranform to parts like a toy like gumball machines of zelda
@Eternal_ruins what about gaint safe zones from robots were nature's takeover somehow and creators of them had chemistry: mutagenic/poisons/corrosive
@@Eternal_ruins maybe natural lifeforms mutation by energy of chemicals or spiritual or other etc and a location called the junk sea
"They seem to have no understanding that their roles are now meaningless." Me in my current job
Constructs in Tears of the Kingdom:
These guys seem like someone would ABSOLUTELY keep one as a pet
I have an idea for a wanderer who repairs and hangs out with them!
@@Eternal_ruins :O
@Eternal_ruins I was literally thinking this exact thought for the whole video! It just seems like the kind of thing that would bring purpose and light into a wanderer's life. What better cause than to take care of these robotic caretakers? They might be dangerous before you fully understand them, but the free labor they eagerly provide must be invaluable
@@Eternal_ruinsmaybe planes
Broken Servitors seem like the perfect vessel for a demon. They appear to inhabit inanimate objects, and what better than an object that used to be animate, but isn’t anymore.
This theory's already been tested out in franchises before, particularly Breath of the Wild, with it's ancient technology and "guardians." It would be interesting to see what sorts of ways the servitors could be corrupted in similar fashion...
Yeah mixing the different elements of the ruins like that is something I’m excited to play around with!
@@nierzh620 i was thinking the same
I love a good narrator with limited knowledge
Yeah it makes it so much more real if the narrator doesn't magically know everything
and it makes it much more mysterious, even makes you a part of the story, since you can come up with your own ideas
Surprisingly hard to write
@@kahlzun How come
I like the idea of a wanderer that has a servitor that follows her, because somehow it had a command to protect someone who looked similar
Or maybe someone managed to build a house on top of a large one and has a mobile home
The servitors make me think that the eternal ruins are the result of a paperclip scenario. an AI taking it's task too literal until only it remains.
more and more Eternal Ruins makes me think of what would happen if Ghibli or Nintendo were given the concept for BLAME! and I'm all here for it
God I hope this project gets big enough to get games, movies, merch and everything nice ever.
I am so on board that idea!
Me too! 😅
@@Eternal_ruins me three!
I'd love merch for this. Like, sprite plushies.
I was there when "Bone" (Jeff Smith Comic) was on Kickstarter and sprinted past the 100% mark in 35 minutes. With 2447 showings in 3 hours there is definite potential for this story!
"sad remnants of the past, trapped in an unending cycle of toil" Just call em retail workers, man
A nice addition to the Eternal Ruins that I see here is the difference in scale between things.
We've seen large structures and corridors before, but I think the giant warrior servitor is the first time the scale gets blown that much. Not only do we see building-like complexes in the image with the giant, but that giant, and the others the narrator mentions, had to be able to move around the ruins, which implies massive areas for massive beings.
To me, it's a nice way of expanding what type of environement we can see and what kind of being is meant to move in them. A great addition to the world you are building!
Thank you! Glad it helped build more of a vast image. I struggle with drawing perspective and architecture so it’s never easy to convey.
@@Eternal_ruins Thank you aswell! And for every drawings you've shown, there was nothing, to my knowledge, that jumped out to tell that something was off about the perspective. The illusion was maintained well all along!
@@Eternal_ruins Would be cool for the ruins to have "biomes" like games. For example closed ruins, open town ruins, factory-like ruins and so on.
I have an alternate idea. The warriors are why the ruins were created. The Wanderer says they're "eternal" but who says that's true,? Maybe whoever built the warriors couldn't stop them and instead built the ruins as an inescapable labyrinth to contain them. Worth a thought
@@Eternal_ruins Whatever struggles you face drawing architecture and perspective, you well overcome them in your works you share with us! Everything I've seen in your channel is awe inspiring. Downright awesome!
I enjoy the varied scale of servitors because the imagery of a giant mass of almost-stone structures continuing a job that likely has no actual need anymore scratches the right part of my brain
Mine too! Glad you like them
@@Eternal_ruins you’re really onto something with this worldbuilding idea I wish you so much luck on the project
So the Servitors turned capitalist?
3:08 I don’t know why, but the idea of a robot that eats people really freaks me out.
Bite of 87?
"their chambers decorated with strange symbols, and nothing seems to grow around them." immedietly reminded me of radioactive waste storage, and the messages we've tried to make to convey how dangerous those place can be.
-Servitor Moss Rock roast
Ingredients:
Servitor Moss
Only found on servitors
Rock meat
Commonly found rock meat
Salt
Found in the ruins
Soothing mushroom
Commonly found mushroom
First, clean the servitor moss with some fresh water and boil it. Next, prepare the mushrooms and boil them as well. Grill the rockmeat over a fire and add it to the boiled moss. Eat the mushrooms as a side dish. Next, add the salt and enjoy your dish!
-Evergreen
Thanks Evergreen, sounds delicious!
@@Eternal_ruins :D
Of course there is a recipe here in the comments
Servitors rebuilding the part of the ruins and "not caring if anyone gets hurt" would make a great in-lore explanation of why a player can't go near the chunks that are being regenerated. They would just be met by the hands of Servitors throwing them around and will take damage until they get away. Sorry, I can't stop thinking of this as a game, I wish I could walk in this world 😭
36 Seconds ago, another Eternal Ruins video?! Let me just drop everything and watch another masterpiece of Worldbuilding! Amazing video, as always :)
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
A few ideas I have from watching your video.
1. Are there Servitors who's role it is to repair other servitors? Maybe this is supposed to be the role of the Wanderers, which they've forgotten. Or maybe they're all preoccupied trying to fix one of the giant War Machine Servitors because they are designed to fix Servitors in the order that they came into disrepair. They can't seem to complete their task so they never move on.
2. I like the idea the the Guard servitors in a section of the halls simply carry the intruders to a broken jail cell, and a wanderer who's hopeless with directions just lets themselves get captured and has set up base in the cell they keep getting brought back to.
3. A Servitor who came across one of the benevolent spirits was given new purpose and now acts independently of it's original programming.
Are you in the discord? I think people would absolutely LOVE your first concept. It's super cool to me too.
All great ideas, thanks for sharing!
I really love all of your ideas! 💕
@@bludaizee24 It's just such an inspiring world!
@@Fluff_Noodles I'm not, how would I join?
I love how he says playthings because there just arent any toys in the ruins 😂
Haha yeah, always gotta think about my vocabulary with this world!
The giant war Servitor is amazingly terrifying and beautiful. You continue to amaze me with every update!
another certified ruined classic, I always find things dated "pre-setting" interesting, and these beings will no doubt yield great insight of their creators and the world they lived in
"The store is closed, please exist the building"
this is how cool the robots in BOTW *should* have been 😭
Servitor is such cool name.
He probably was inspired by Warhammer 40k but it could also be a coincidence
@spacecowboy5486 "Servitor" is just another word for servant, but it's a very common term used to refer to robots in media. So, yeah, likely a coincidence.
Last time I was this early, the ruins weren't abandoned
I'm imagining a cartographer who doesn't know the builders are a thing, increasingly distraught that their maps stop making sense very quickly. Finally seeing the builders for the first time sends them into a rage, maybe a companion has to hold them back lol.
A cool servitor idea is that a Builder ones command was to make a city, and it didn't stop, it just continued to make a city, getting more and more chaotic.
the ooze inside off a tough exterior shell make me think of bugs
It reminds me of the Living Armour in Dungeon Meshi.
There needs to be a Sisyphus reference in here with the Servitors. One that just keeps rolling the same bolder up the same hill time and time again.
Finally a new video, I love this whole concept so much❤️
Thank you!
For a reason, I heavily associate servitors with the track "Onwards" by Forest Swords. A whole vibe of soulless and damaged machines carrying out meaningless work somewhere in verdant ruins just perfectly aligns with everything depicted in this video. Amazing work on worldbuilding tho! Hope that one day I'll get to read the universe-based book or to play some cool metroidwania
This makes the Eternal Ruins a whole lot scarier.
The building servitors as an explanation for the shifting fractal nature of the ruins is so clean
MAJOR Blame vibes going on here, especially with the builder types. I’m so here for it!!
I love the art in this series
I can't stop thinking of this as a video game, like The Last Guardian
I have to assume that Fumito Ueda's works are an inspiration for the Eternal Ruins, albeit maybe indirect. Probably Hayao Miyazaki too. The servitors remind of both Castle in the Sky and Nausicaa.
@@DanielRisacherUeda's works are directly cited in the introductory video indeed
One comment - The wanderers can be used to date the ruins. If you can measure an average rate of decay, you can figure out how old they are and, by extension, how old the city is. Unless there are repair bits which repair other devices in which case it could be any age.
Hella cool! Reminds me of an idea i had once for a sci fi apoc game where the party would have to go into an auto city and if you followed the law you'd have no problems but if you even J-walked then the auto-cops would detain you "until their supervisor could release you", which just meant indefinitely since theyre long dead. The city was supposed to be alien and crazy designed, with all of the auto-robots trying to keep things organized and tidy but failing miserably
I find myself loving the ruins more with every video released. You seem to have a knack for making what I like most about these kinds of settings.
It's so nice to see the notification pop up and see you posted more of this project
Thanks for watching! Means a lot
Best world building series ever. You’re setting the standard.
i never heard about Eternal ruins before, but i was absolutely fascinated by this video, the story you are telling and the world you are describing
The idea of these servitors twisting what their role means in a world that no longer needs or can facilitate that role is a fascinating one! A great way to take the idea I’s reckon.
Adds a a weary sense of danger to these otherwise (mostly) completely impassive beings.
Would there perhaps be an example of a servitor doing this that a wanderer would find beneficial?
I find my self to always light up when I see e new video from this channel!!!
I love your work! The Servitors sound a bit like me! Creaking and hobbling, trying to carry on despite their failing state. This is exactly what getting old feels like to me! Lmao 💕
Same 😅 living for the grind
Every addition introduces us to more of the world of the Eternal Ruins, and even more mystery about the world.
Fantastic!
I can not get over just how COOL this world is. Your world building and character design continue to amaze!
As a DnD monster homebrewer, translating these things is gonna be fun! The idea of mechanizing oozes is such an imagination inspiring design space!
Every time when I get home I make sure to check for eternal ruins and watch it first chance I get I love this
Another positively exciting piece of lore of the Ruins!
This is one of my favorite things you've talked about with the Eternal Ruins! The Servitors honestly remind me of the builders from a manga series called Blame!
The builders are old machines that used to be directed by a system. When that system lost control, they continued to build and expand the megastructure, unguided, making weird and nonsensical structures and rooms as their programming decayed. There was even a reference at some point that this had been going on for so long that the megastructure had reached into the solar system.
but fr this project is absolutely breathtaking
The more and more videos we get, the more and more clues we get of what the original purpose of the ruins to be and who made and lived within them
Finally got time to watch the video. Loved every bit of it! Hope you have many blessings on your journey throughout the ruins.
Þe whole concept of þe Eternal Ruins is super unique & fun. I look forward to more lore
I love the design on these servitors. Especially the ones who aren't humanoids. (tho they're good too.) Not enough of those in the world i say.
The appearance also reminds me of the ancient Sheika's tech from breath of the wild, and the Zonai's tech from tears of the kingdom, which are both equally gorgeous and mysterious.
The wirey, worm like insides also reminds me of something, but i can't recall from where. Perhaps a Ghibli movie i've seen? All in all a very cool concept for motility and function.
Why i simply want to *know more.* haha It's some great work. Love to see creativity like this around. 👍
Man, I'm so jaleous of your drawing skills and the dedication you have to your project.
I hope to someday develop my own project and stick to it and your commitment is an inspiration to me!
I love the variety in the servitor designs!
I watched Castle in the Sky again recently, and the servitors remind me a lot of the robots in that film. Is this just a coincidence?
Fantastic video, as always, thank you so much!! 💕
No they are quite inspired by them, as well as a bunch of other stuff. There aren’t many ancient robots in media so I’m drawing inspiration from the few that exist
And yet what popped into my head was the Breath of the Wild Guardian theme. That’s what you get when you make robots look like pottery.
Ok I love this take that botw guardian aesthetic possibly my favorite video yet
This videos are just so good.
When I saw the final giant servitor with the spear piercing it, it actually sent shivers down my spine.
Love this! The designs are so cool!🙌✨
Thanks! Love your work, Heads and Tales is awesome.
Love it ! we can probably see a blame ref with the constructor
This world only gets more and more alluring! TTRPG when!?!?
Hopefully soon!
And now lost tech robots? It's like you've got a hold of my favorite tropes checklist. Awesome video as always.
Wow that's awesome! How you create all of this, making your world richer in so many new creatures and showing us all of this. I love this and I really have respect for your creativity
Thanks! It’s not easy but I’m really loving working on it.
@@Eternal_ruins Thank you for sharing with all of us, its lovely!
mad guardian vibes from them,love it
Phenomenal storytelling, world, and character building! I am hooked!
Absolutely beautiful as ever. Thanks for sharing.
This is one of the coolest world building projects I've seen keep up the amazing work
This will make such a rad art book someday
oh i love the servitors
Glad I ran across this. It has huge potential. The art style, the storytelling and the narration are all incredible.
This is becoming a colossal project.
The more I learn about this world, the more I see it becoming a procedurally generated maze exploration game. I imagine it could potentially be a Roguelike as well. Perhaps there are pre-generated structures like puzzle temples and dungeons like in Zelda that have a chance of randomly spawning. Finding unique ruin structures helps you piece together the puzzle of the nature of the ruins and the origins of all its oddities and curiosities.
Great episode, thank you. :)
just found this channel and immediately binged all of it, this art reminds me of my own, its so beautiful and calming. I love it so much and will 100% be keeping up with every single upload
So much cool lore potential! I love learning these little snippets. ^^
Fantastic! Love the formation of an incredible lore of the eternal ruins !
God these are so good. It's amazing to see that worldbuildung projects like this are flourishing on TH-cam. You've been a huge inspiration, keep up the amazing work!
I love these so much. This needs to be a game, or at the very least a Minecraft mod.
EDIT: I can also see WALL-E getting along with these servitors.
Oh, interesting. I imagined servitors to be really small, something akin to ancient artifical insects. Or even micro- and nano- bots, which part build, part "grow" the ruins, as their natural habitat.
I really love the world you are talking about so far 😊 It is both enchanting and alien, yet cozy.
It's interesting that, even more so than the ruins, the servitors speak to an actual society of some sort once existing. These things must have been _built,_ right? They have _purposes._ ...Right?
It's an intriguing world you've crafted, haha.
This world is getting more and more intresting! It takes shape in a really mesmerizing way! That's what makes it so unique and fascinating! Gorgeous!
Thank you so much, makes me happy to hear you’re enjoying it!
Every video of yours is so fascinating and has always so much mystery, that keeps one wondering.
These guys would be so cool to see up close! The lore you create for your characters is amazing!
I like this.
Hell, kinda first time I got into this sorta mechanical creatures doing endless task despite world's ruination was after reading BLAME - mainly talking about builder machines from that series.
With every question Answered 10 more Appear very good job
These guys are defenatly inspired by breath of the wild's ancient tech gaurdians, I absolutly love it
Definitely going to see about making a wanderer! Something about one that is trying to solve some history by studying the servitors as they seem to be the few things left behind. Seeing the rare ones for war Game them the idea their might even be rarer ones who might have ancient lore. Like some sort of librarian. Maybe not able to share knowledge but more of a keeper of sorts. As the labyrinth is always changing someone from ancient times may have used servitors as the only way to store information. Of course they maybe so old that most, of not all, of the information maybe completely lost. Maybe even intentionally
Absolutely love these guys! The robotic but almost magical form these take fascinate me 😊 make me think of the thing from Gibli’s “castle in the sky” or those monsters in “breath of the wild” but infinitely cooler as there is more then one design. I can imagine running from one who is just trying to ‘remove waste’ 😰
Very cool idea, I look forward to seeing your wanderer (if you have time!) Glad you liked the video 😊
Really very enriching information on this universe
I’d love to see more about the structure of the ruins, or any means of survival, like how do the inhabitants of the ruins find ways to eat or trade or find any tools for exploration. I love all these lifeforms but I’d love to hear how they live as well
Your videos made me start reread Blame!, because I can't get enough of this type of art. A beautiful project, I hope to see a game of this world someday.
This is so interesting! I really like the idea of these "robots", I'm also in love with their art style! I love your stories, keep it up! ❤
Thank you! So glad you like them!
Sometimes, I see servitors of an odd rectangular shape, which construct simple bridges across chasms. One time I stopped to watch one, and saw it attended by several smaller servitors, which served to add support and adornment to the fresh structure. Marvellous little beings! But the bridge-builder itself seems too specialized to be able to move to the next task. Perhaps its workers carry it?
I actually had to cut out a sketch of bridge builder due to time. It’s a cool idea!
Don't remember if I've left a comment before, but your narration, art, and artstyle is incredible! I click on a new video whenever it enters my feed. Your content is also a wonderful point of inspiration in fleshing out my own projects which occasionally walk along similar lines. Will continue watching this project closely!
Thanks for the kind words!
Watching your previous video about the endlessness of the ruins I was getting some hints but this video all but confirms the BLAME! inspiration...
Definitely getting some ghibli inspiration in those swirl designs
Thank you for sharing your world
You mean I missed one of my favorite youtubers while at work? Well, better late than never.