@@dybek0062 and doesn't the trader say,"drifters, punished by God"and mentions villages, but there's no surviving villages nor villages that have been abandoned, only bunched abandoned houses without any abandoned merchant stalls and government-palaces, and also, how did the trader even live to tell the tale.?
well tbh I have a theory that the going underground having systems is true but to a bigger extent because if they needed to teleport it would require vast distances to cover but... the Resonance Archive is something im still trying to figure out where it fits into the big game of the world, but its odd how theres a Gigantic Bell in the end room-
Talking to the traders reveals that there are hidden villages where most of their people reside. Also, in the Resonance Archive, we learnt that the archive saved everything about the old civilization in a giant recording device. We also learn that an “old alchemist” is inviting us to come and find him. Is he perhaps Jonas Falx himself? Somehow still alive after these thousands of years, still trying to figure out how to repair the mistake he made?
I think it's anyone's guess as to what happened to falx, he could be long gone or he could just as likely still be around. For all I know, he could become a big thing for the player later on in development
@@LyleFaustino Falx blades are a real weapon that was used in human history. It's more likely that Falx was named after the blades so that the in-game ones would have a reason to seemingly be more useful against drifters
I wonder if it is Tobias as in one of his lore books it talks about him crawling from a deep cave and then researching something I forget for a few centuries.
From what I know, there are not only villages, but also the possibility that there are still small countries and city states spread across the world, like micro countries with remnants of civilization.
If you think about it, this video is in itself canon, being the fuzzy memory from awakening. If someone goes into the game blind: he forgot everything. If someone watches this and goes to play: he has some vague and unreliable idea of what had happened.
This lore is very similar to the Don't Starve lore. Ancient civilization went to the caves and found powerful material - Nightmare Fuel. They built "Gateway" to the other realm to get more of that fuel, but this realm leaked into the world and consumed entire civilization. They turned into Nightmare Creatures and they are very similar to drifters. After all, devs themselves said that they were inspired by the Don't Starve.
I believe the seraphs are the result of humans being changed (likely on purpose as an experiment by Jonas Falx to stem the tide of the rot) by the same energy that powers temporal gears. Somehow this may have made them immune to the rot, since the player can eat rotten food (for now) with no ill effects. This also may have made them naturally temporally unstable to a degree as human merchants that can be found in unstable areas don't seem to go crazy. This also explains how the player suddenly appears after thousands of years and does so again upon death, where their body likely reverts to a pre-death state at the last place they had anchored their temporal essence.
@@Gigutriel Diegetic reasoning for respawning always makes me happy. The first time I noticed such a mechanic was when I played SCP: Containment Breach. It was a welcome surprise and is now something I'm always happy to see in a game.
Vintage story is honestly terrifying…The lore just adds to it and I love it. This is true horror as it still leaves you with more questions than answers.
There's a few mis-spoken things in the Videos, Rift and drifters can appear anywhere, not just low stabile regions. Low stability makes it more common ( like going far underground, assuming you are getting closer to the lens. ) , but drifters spawn where it's dark. Anywhere it's dark. I believe drifters were humans swallowed up by the rust world , those that escaped the rot , but trapped in the alternate dimension , ruined their minds and bodies, or perhaps some eldrich horror made em that way to suffer. Seraph is not Seraphim btw. Maybe has some sort of relation, but more likely just a term that closely resembles each other, describing another " other worldly being ". The statement " returned" just means these peoples were there before. Its possible they raised from death, somehow , but none of the text pointed to any of those characters in the books being Seraph. Its entirely possible, Seraphs have their own dimension they dwell in, when on this world, are put into a more physical form. The "Other world" or Rust realm as we know it, would be the one side of the scale. It reminds me a lot of the rusty-hell-like scenes from Silent Hill. A total alien and incomprehensible realm, of what humans would find, inhospitable ... or in other worlds, hellish. ( complete with very bad things, that seem to hate you.) That's One side of the scales. The "world" would be the center point , or the balancing point. We can safely say, it's not earth. Just earth like. Also, technology seemed to peak at around late 14th century according to lore found, but the introduction to the pseudo-magic, pseudo-science Falx spear headed, would have altered technological progress. We can see , some of it even became religious by examining the ruins. The time of Rot and going underground , also contributed most likely to a "stall" in industry and natural progression. what Falx made, this lens .. his experiments, tipped the scales towards the Rust realm. Now, it's just me assuming , but to "balance the scales" and explain Seraphs , there has to be another "world" one more positive , also alien to Human understanding. More or less, "the good side" , and for countless amounts of time, the balance was either so normal, neither Rust realm, or where Seraphs are from, could effect it. Or, later teh balance tipped so far to rust realm, was impossible for Seraph's side to "return". As the Prime world , recovered and rejuvenated, the balance tipped back just enough for Serpahs to start slowly re-entering , assumingly to basically help rebuild it. In Our Myths of earth, often ancient peoples after huge catastrophes, would describe Strange people with knowledge would arrive suddenly, and help show others how to do things, like building cities, aqueducts, farming, use of metals and tools. Even alleged tales of Atlantis full of these mysterious people. So thats kinda how I see the Seraphs. They've returned to put the world right, or as best they can ... cause it's already effected by the Lens/Rust Realm. Seeing how, Seraphs seem highly negatively effected by the rust realm, even instable sensitive ... stands reason, they are from the far opposite spectrum and place. None of the human traders encountered so far, talk about the storms, rifts, or going insane, or being effected by "instability" , I kinda think if they fully experienced that, it'd be something they'd talk about. I do kinda think, devs left that part vague, just to have it make sense , you suddenly exist, spawn into the world .. and they came up with a race that no one can dispute , making it easier to swallow, having to do everything and progress from scratch.
The flavor text when choosing your classes suggests that the Seraphim are in some way connected to people that lived through the rot, maybe some reincarnation, or something more complex. I do agree that drifters were likely once human rather than being spawned from the rust world directly The spectrum of realms theory you mention would explain why the player takes damage in the rust world, but drifters can survive fine in the overworld, unfortunately there's nothing so far that points to the existence of a seraph home realm... maybe something will be revealed in the future that makes this theory more plausible
@@Gigutriel It could also be that they are 'copying' or mimicing what they have as records when they could still access the world. As a way they normally connect or integrate with humans when they arrive. But they are normally used to SOME kind of civilization they need to deal with and form a life in. Rather than unexpectedly ending up in the wilderness where them preparing to live a life and aid humans the best they can is wasted and they need to actually build a civilization from scratch rather than simply aiding and guiding a existing one/
These machines are something truly terrifying…I’ve never seen the larger machines so it adds a sense of mystery and fear…Imagine being in this guy’s perspective wandering a dark tunnel only to encounter a large metal construct that’s eerily human in design as it just…stares at you. An empty hollow stare…Also imagine if in game instead of starring at the player character they’re actually starring directly at you?…Considering the lore says the machine would stare at something else whenever he told his story then it’s very possible this…thing is starring at us…it know’s we are watching…
My theory is that Seraphs are a kind of Homonculi, machines or evolution of machines mentionned in the story became sentient and altered by the eldritch clockwork. This would explain the instrument noises, lack of clarity, "Waking up" as in "Turning on" maybe our temporal stability is also a way to describe our own winding mechanisms going haywire if influenced too much by temporal messings.
Whatever they are, I'm pretty sold on the idea that they reincarnate people, mainly that one "returned" tapestry's text makes me think that. Excellent theory!
The game is so Chill and terrifying at the same time it's not even the lore itself. it's just the world. one time you're just strolling down the woods and at the corner of your eye. a bear appears and chases you. prompting your flight and fight response because there's no WAY you can fight a bear unprepared
I would add one thing. Temporal storms add a wierd effect to the world around you in addition to the gears and distortions. The ground looks less like rust and more like it's melting, as do trees and if you can them to sit still long enough organisms. ((Thanks creative mode)) Plus there is this contant upwelling of black dust in the air. If you want my opinion the rot is still there locked away in the Rust World. I forgot the player takes poison damage if they stay in a temporal rift for to long. Check the damage chat and see. I also think Jonas set the Rot loose. AWhen the emporer called upon him to find a solutionto the rot Tobias states: "I remember finding it strange when for a moment his face ran pale and he seemed to shake with fright. But there was nothing strange about that, I see now." Why would he unless he already knew what they faced?
I probably missed a few good things. Part of that was just me wanting to finish the video after working on it on and off for months. If I ever make a follow up I will really go all out
I have a theory that the Seraphs (the players) are healthy people who were transported forward through time with their memories wiped clean. They don't remember anything except how to talk and survive the wilderness with the clothes they have on them. It makes me wonder a bit about the Traders though and if they have anything to do with bringing the Seraphs to their arrival point because every Seraph "wakes up" not to far from a Trader.
I think they are either a sort of reincarnation / immortality experiment, or people who were transformed by temporal instability, but I definitely think it was an effect of Jonas' work either way. And I've heard the traders are foreigners, from somewhere the rot didn't really affect things, or they just lived in the post-rot villages that their dialogue alludes to. i cut a part of the video that analyzed their dialogue, they have a whole religious ideology around wealth and using it for passage into a physical / spiritual ascension. That set of beliefs seems restricted to the traders, which implies they all came from the same cultural background
I think the players are time travelers from the past that travel to the future in a (vane) attempt to flee the Machine-God. Somehow the time-traveling erases part of their memories, but not all, and that is why they remember what they where before. And that actually explains why we have Blackguards, and other classes which seem to be from the Rot Times (I guess the malefactors are the rebels/criminals the Blackguards hunt). And i also think the drifters are those that did not travel to the future, transformed into machines by the Machine-God, the Rot, or even both. Because, when you have time travel, nothing is stopping the Machine-God of the future to send the Rot to the past to create himself. or some weird stuff like that.
I kinda doubt this for a few reasons. For one, seraphs are clearly physically distinct species from in-game humans. Two, malefactors exist, whose lore heavily coincides with the people banished to the surface in this video. This means that seraphs had to have existed during the underground era.
My thinking is that Falx' plan was to give humanity even more time by "breaking reality" - either he tried to dialate time to be able to work indefinetly on the cure as the rot is held at bay with "stasis" or break his way into a clear universe, a slate that was not rotting. From what people said here (if I understand this) player character is called a seraphim and I would agree that player's existance might be related to Falx' experiment- a being outside of time, a being that can die and return nearly indefinete amout of time
i find it peculiar the game's logo is a tree with hidden gears underneath. The characters having instrument voices? the huge mech creature in the temporal storm? The mechanical nature of the temporal gears and Jonas inventions? What if the Machine God recreated the world in a clockwork fashion. Humans reincarnated with the "prima materia" of time, regressed in a vessel made of cogs and gears? The storms might be the old world seeping in, or what is left of it. Edit: honestly the more i think of this the more it makes sense, temporal stability is like the old world recalling you. the loading screen is like a summon from the Machine God. idk if the reasons are positive or more like a "i have no mouth but i must scream" scenario.
Honestly this would be a cool twist. Perhaps the Machine God 'saved' the world by rebuilding it (or perhaps shifted reality) as the only solution to the Rot. What if, in this 'man vs machine' example, the Machine God is not exactly evil but benevolent however due to it's construct, it's beyond human understanding. So, as you mentioned, the 'true' world is long dead and due to temporal instability, it leaks/breaches into the constructed reality our player takes part in. In this version, Drifters could be the result of both the Rot and reality distorting, so when they breach the gap, they appear as monsters defying human reasoning. Could also tie in with why they drop gears.
@jeremymcarthur1930 that's totally fair! I prefer modding games to get "even more" content and creativity. Vintage Story also uses their modding community in the best way, and integrates some of the best into base game mechanics. The newest updates will have large sailboats- which has been a mod for awhile. I love their interactivity!
This is probably just me, but I thought that Jonas had discovered prima materia first and made inventions before the Rot appeared, which may have been caused by his meddling.
Fantastic work, you did a great job summing up the overarching lore and filling in some of the gaps in my knowledge regarding the emerging underground factions. My only complaint is that you understated just how dangerous the Rot was. In one of the passages, it talks about it covering the land, with the writer accidentally stepping in someone’s ribcage and questioning if that person was still alive. The way it’s portrayed here, it almost seems like a gray goo scenario. Otherwise, fantastic! Keep up the good work!
I mentioned how it consumes basically everything in its path, but I definitely could've played it up even more. Grey goo is a good comparison, it's definitely not just the flue on steroids. Thanks for your feedback and I'm glad you enjoyed!
I read the majority of the lore quite a time ago aside from some of the Chronicles, I do remember the child in the cave one tho. From what I recall I remember it being self implied that Tobias (Jonas Falx's childhood friend) was actually the person who managed to escape the rot at the end. The way it was described it sounded a lot like him. Also, he seems to have gained some sort of immortality somehow as it is stated by him talking about experience that he has had over the past hundred years or more. Aside from that he also probably stayed underground for another handful of hundreds years or maybe more.
one thing to add is that neither the human npcs nor the animals are effected by the temporal storms. seems like it's only the seraphim that are effected by them. after all you can ask the traders about drifters and other things. but they do not mention the time storms at all. could be it's just not implemented yet, or it's on purpose.
8:30 BOY AM I GLAD I DECIDED TO KEEP MY LIGHTS ON WHILE WATCHING THIS. In other news; I need to scavenge the nearby dumpsters for a clean pair of pants!
We can find a portrait of the pale-blue skinned warrior in the black armor called "Seraph". Obviously, they existed before the fall of the civilization.
That’s why I think they were made by falx, because what other way did people know how to make sound (like talking) other than music seeing as it was mid evil
Vintage story is one of the first minecraft style voxel game i've playef in a while that jsut feels right It's like minecraft, but doesn't neccesarly feel minecraft-y but it feels right
Great video! I knew Vintage Story had lore, but I didnt know it went this deep. Thanks for sharing this with us! I look forward to seeing what else you make.
showing this to my friends for sure because they never read the lore books we find and wont listen to me when i tell them we arent playing as humans! lol
I agree. It's just hard to tell where it fits in with what we have now. at one point I was wondering if Falx was just trying to make a Time Machine, but that would be a bit of a boring answer to me. I definitely think it goes deeper
tbh I wanted to discover a lot of the lore on my own but every time I spotted this video I got more and more curious as honestly, everything the traders say about the drifters and curious where you came from are very curious so I just gave in and watched. dang thats dark, a full on plague, a crazy scientist that may not know what he's even messing with, city of ember style underground city with BIG ASS ROBOTS. I wonder what else they got planned for the lore.
Drifters being humans is a common theory, but there's nothing that points to it directly other than the trader's folklore, and they are made of flax and metal. Maybe that's just what happens when you mess with the rust world, hope we will find the truth
I was expecting to hear more about Resonance Archives in this video. It's kind of a good thing since I still haven't been to there even though I got full steel. Thank you for not spoiling it I guess
I had found numerous pieces of lore in the game, but i never really put them all together. This video really helped me understand the greater picture and the chain of events
Superb work. As someone who never cared for lore, your narration is captivating. I will be checking on lore updates from you. Also nice to see VS creators poping up and thriving.
It's a fantastically beautiful game with deep crafting and all sorts of avenues for creativity, even though it's really only getting started. But it has a heart of darkness.
I felt personally attacked by the second monitor joke. Honestly though, I wouldn't have ever guessed that this was a first narration video, you did awesome!
It's super customizable so you can have a really relaxing easy play or a really difficult play. Plus, the mod community has stepped up generously to provide "more" of just about every aspect.
That was a cool closing. I lost track of the story, talking on discord, but I’m sure I’ll watch it soon. Nice video, from what I caught. This seems like a great game but I have 10 years worth of that other block game to catch up on already
It's quite interesting that "blackguards" were the enforcers of law and order in the underground, because "blackguard" is an actual English term, albeit very antiquated. It is pronounced "blaggard", and it means a dishonorable person, a scoundrel. "To blackguard" someone means to abuse them, verbally or physically. It's a telling choice for a name. Some of the other class names are also telling. "Commoner", "tailor", and "hunter" are innocuous enough. "Clockmaker" sounds equally innocuous until you know more about Jonas and his creations. "Malefactor" literally means "criminal", another bit of antique English. It's a particularly evocative name for a class that in any other game would simply be called "thief" or "rogue"; it is the opposite of "benefactor".
it should be noted how the character classes are also the former lives of humans, blackgaurds, hunters, clockmakers, and malefactors, who all seem to relate to old lore as its described. malefactors particularly, old rebels punished with being sent to the surface to gather supplies and as such have distinct skills for scavenging and hiding from threats
I noticed this recently too, Good catch! In my eyes this confirms that seraphim are connected to those that lived through the rot, either reincarnated or transfer of memories, etc
Just started playing Vintage Story a few days ago. And i saw some weord shit. Now it all makes sense. But I eager to find out more. I really get why people say that this game is a masterpiece. It's just getting better and better.
you do great in voice over man! you have a good voice and you're well spoken. i like that you put your thoughts on the material as you go through it rather than a clinical list of lore entries. well done!
I absolutely love this game. It's minecraft but more rewarding. I actually feel attached to the things i build and have a sense of pride and accomplishment when i'm done building or smelting or anything in the game. Currently in a new playthrough i'm working on a castle. It's taking a long time to gather the resources while staying alive but man when it's done it will be so worth it.
13 worlds, one abyss, one hell, one rotlands, one a future that never was, after fixing, a future made by exchanging (alchemy) all the rot & corrupt & monsters.
When I found the book, I imagined that account of the man digging through the underground to find the surface was a man who had, in some way, BECAME a drifter. I imagined the Rot as being the source of the Drifters, but their link to temporal instability puts that to question...
Im glad you did, I had really no clue how to flesh out the video so it basically just turned into me pulling relevant-ish pictures from google and footage in game
@@Gigutriel It turned out well. I've noticed that if a 'Tuber puts in the effort and personally enjoys their result, we will too :) Subbed btw, good luck!
Been going back n forth on buying this or sticky business game lately, I can only afford one rn but I think I have made my decision lol. This is soooo much deeper than I thought and I'm itching to get into it
Have you done the first story dungeon? The Archives do have a huuuuuge machine in the center, and plenty of interesting machinery within. It does have some great stuff to explore.
The lore of this game is so interesting and aparently only 10% of the game is done, I cannot wait to see what's in store for the rest! Also, phenomenal content for such a small channel, keep the content coming!
We LOVE Dave! Unfortunately, can't see him when there is a storm in our area. Took me a while to see him in my last playthrough because I'm in a humid area and it was always storming when he stopped by.
For those curious the tracks he’s using come from the album Aindulmdedir - Star Lore th-cam.com/video/SYMoZ70eGPc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rIf3f06MhfPBk270 I listen to this album casually funny enough so I recognized the tune.
I have a whole playlist of dungeon synth I usually use for studying and it fit the vibe perfectly. You're so real for recognizing it, and ill add the rest to the description
My friend and I are convinced that Temporal Butterflies have something to do with the lore. I'm not sure what. They show up in a ton of tapestries, they're the same color as temporal gears (which is also the color seraphs glow when we respawn). I'm looking forwards to your 1.20 lore video! 😄
Jonas Falx seems to be as much of an anomaly as the rot itself. Maybe the eldritch machine god exists outside of time, and influences the world to bring itself into being.
I haven't played Vintage Story yet, haven't gotten the money on me, but the story is very intriguing. The idea of a society drifting into the underground in the panic of a disease ravaging throughout their society is very unique, I am not the best writer for fictional universes myself but I really love this premise and kind of want to make something similar to it. Very cool, gotta play this game soon! Great video!
One day soon. I just learned about a really interesting real-life event that has next to zero videos talking about it, and I would like to dive into that. It's definitely a departure from a game lore video but I'm all for experimenting
Hold on but this is off topic but I noticed that when your video says subscribe it lights up the sub button (I'm on mobile, idk if it works on PC) I even rolled back the vid to see if it's only once but no it still lights up the button, pretty nice Here if you want to test it if it works in yours 16:32
Perhaps the Lens was a bigger/better version of the translocator. What I assumed from the info I have is that Jonas wanted to create a portal to escape the Rot. As Jonas is more of a mechanic and engineer rather than a medic or biologist. And in so doing he accidentally made a connection with the mechanical plane. Though it is of note that Jonas and the rest of medieval society had access to alchemy so perhaps they could have tried to develop a cure through this. However the Rot for all we know could have appeared from alchemy and/or another world (which in it self could have been reach by alchemy) such as the mechanical one. Perhaps even another world entirely. While we have very little info on the lore we can only assume that the Lens and the creature from the tale of "the boy who went down the tunnels" are the same. While I must admit that the theory of Jonas creating a machine so grand in design that it invoked an eldritch being is cool as hell, we can also assume that he went mad by looking at the other world through the machine. This would be in line with Lovecraftian horror as one can develop madness by seeing eldritch landscapes as much as from eldritch creatures. And the ever watching "machine" could be a creature conjured from the mechanical plane through the Lens. Maybe as a guardian of the Lens to maintain the connection between it's world and ours. It could also very well be that the Lens/machine Jonas made in the caves transformed into the ever watching machine of the story after the connection with the mechanical plane was made. Reeeeeally cool and interesting Lore over all and great vid by the way.
There's a rather interesting theory about seraphs being made by Falx with the miracle machine. As there is many ideas within alchemy of ascendance through transmuting the human body. The main idea being that the seraphs we're created to be the eventual solution of temporal apocalypse. Its a bit more involved than that but its at the very least interesting idea. And on an unrelated note certain item descriptions for clothing items also point towards the society before the apocalypse being quite literally just 1300s earth.
What i thaught is the temporal gear bar inside the player is the thing that hypnotize the player and he see portals and when comes close to it strange things happen
i feel like dave (the giant walking thing) will be more important later im not sure how as well as the idolines maybe we will see them later on rarely but hopefully
I hope beyond hope that we eventually get rot-beasts as enemies. The drifters are cool, but it feels a little bland only having one enemy (yes I know there's variations). I can just imagine the horror of a rotting monster chasing me through a dark forest.
I hope we get more effects of the rust world too... like temporally unstable regions corrupting the areas.. I'd love that type of dynamic aspect of gameplay
If you have any theories or things you'd like me to go into more detail on when I make an update, leave a comment!
the traders describe drifters exactly like the one who escaped tunnels unto florishing new world described himself. No legs, no joints.
@@dybek0062 and doesn't the trader say,"drifters, punished by God"and mentions villages, but there's no surviving villages nor villages that have been abandoned, only bunched abandoned houses without any abandoned merchant stalls and government-palaces, and also, how did the trader even live to tell the tale.?
well tbh I have a theory that the going underground having systems is true but to a bigger extent because if they needed to teleport it would require vast distances to cover but... the Resonance Archive is something im still trying to figure out where it fits into the big game of the world, but its odd how theres a Gigantic Bell in the end room-
Something that I haven’t noticed many people talk about is that in the Bible It mentions Seraphim. They stand alongside God’s throne
Just wanted to say this video is awesome and you're doing a wonderful work! God bless ya and Jesus loves ya!
Talking to the traders reveals that there are hidden villages where most of their people reside. Also, in the Resonance Archive, we learnt that the archive saved everything about the old civilization in a giant recording device. We also learn that an “old alchemist” is inviting us to come and find him. Is he perhaps Jonas Falx himself? Somehow still alive after these thousands of years, still trying to figure out how to repair the mistake he made?
I think it's anyone's guess as to what happened to falx, he could be long gone or he could just as likely still be around. For all I know, he could become a big thing for the player later on in development
I just realized that the Falx blade is named after him O_o
@@LyleFaustino Falx blades are a real weapon that was used in human history. It's more likely that Falx was named after the blades so that the in-game ones would have a reason to seemingly be more useful against drifters
I wonder if it is Tobias as in one of his lore books it talks about him crawling from a deep cave and then researching something I forget for a few centuries.
From what I know, there are not only villages, but also the possibility that there are still small countries and city states spread across the world, like micro countries with remnants of civilization.
If you think about it, this video is in itself canon, being the fuzzy memory from awakening. If someone goes into the game blind: he forgot everything. If someone watches this and goes to play: he has some vague and unreliable idea of what had happened.
Unreliable is definitely an accurate word, here's to hoping the next big update gives us a breakthrough
This lore is very similar to the Don't Starve lore. Ancient civilization went to the caves and found powerful material - Nightmare Fuel. They built "Gateway" to the other realm to get more of that fuel, but this realm leaked into the world and consumed entire civilization. They turned into Nightmare Creatures and they are very similar to drifters. After all, devs themselves said that they were inspired by the Don't Starve.
I don't know a thing about don't starve but that's pretty cool
Both of these take a lot from Metro 2033 tbh.
Also the instrument voices, definitely a reference to don’t starve
sounds like our world.
Kinda sounds like Unturned.
I believe the seraphs are the result of humans being changed (likely on purpose as an experiment by Jonas Falx to stem the tide of the rot) by the same energy that powers temporal gears. Somehow this may have made them immune to the rot, since the player can eat rotten food (for now) with no ill effects. This also may have made them naturally temporally unstable to a degree as human merchants that can be found in unstable areas don't seem to go crazy. This also explains how the player suddenly appears after thousands of years and does so again upon death, where their body likely reverts to a pre-death state at the last place they had anchored their temporal essence.
It's interesting how respawning would actually make sense in the games world with this line of reasoning
@@Gigutriel Diegetic reasoning for respawning always makes me happy. The first time I noticed such a mechanic was when I played SCP: Containment Breach. It was a welcome surprise and is now something I'm always happy to see in a game.
@@sam_wilds same as in borderlands (afaik, ive only played 1-2), you have a "New-U Station" that is basically a respawn machine
@@VertigoRoses I loved getting funny quips about my death from the Hyperion Lady
Vintage story is honestly terrifying…The lore just adds to it and I love it. This is true horror as it still leaves you with more questions than answers.
The scariest thing is the unknown. I'm glad vintage story utilizes that
There's a few mis-spoken things in the Videos, Rift and drifters can appear anywhere, not just low stabile regions. Low stability makes it more common ( like going far underground, assuming you are getting closer to the lens. ) , but drifters spawn where it's dark. Anywhere it's dark.
I believe drifters were humans swallowed up by the rust world , those that escaped the rot , but trapped in the alternate dimension , ruined their minds and bodies, or perhaps some eldrich horror made em that way to suffer.
Seraph is not Seraphim btw. Maybe has some sort of relation, but more likely just a term that closely resembles each other, describing another " other worldly being ".
The statement " returned" just means these peoples were there before. Its possible they raised from death, somehow , but none of the text pointed to any of those characters in the books being Seraph. Its entirely possible, Seraphs have their own dimension they dwell in, when on this world, are put into a more physical form.
The "Other world" or Rust realm as we know it, would be the one side of the scale. It reminds me a lot of the rusty-hell-like scenes from Silent Hill.
A total alien and incomprehensible realm, of what humans would find, inhospitable ... or in other worlds, hellish. ( complete with very bad things, that seem to hate you.) That's One side of the scales.
The "world" would be the center point , or the balancing point. We can safely say, it's not earth. Just earth like.
Also, technology seemed to peak at around late 14th century according to lore found, but the introduction to the pseudo-magic, pseudo-science Falx spear headed, would have altered technological progress. We can see , some of it even became religious by examining the ruins. The time of Rot and going underground , also contributed most likely to a "stall" in industry and natural progression. what Falx made, this lens .. his experiments, tipped the scales towards the Rust realm.
Now, it's just me assuming , but to "balance the scales" and explain Seraphs , there has to be another "world" one more positive , also alien to Human understanding. More or less, "the good side" , and for countless amounts of time, the balance was either so normal, neither Rust realm, or where Seraphs are from, could effect it. Or, later teh balance tipped so far to rust realm, was impossible for Seraph's side to "return".
As the Prime world , recovered and rejuvenated, the balance tipped back just enough for Serpahs to start slowly re-entering , assumingly to basically help rebuild it.
In Our Myths of earth, often ancient peoples after huge catastrophes, would describe Strange people with knowledge would arrive suddenly, and help show others how to do things, like building cities, aqueducts, farming, use of metals and tools. Even alleged tales of Atlantis full of these mysterious people.
So thats kinda how I see the Seraphs. They've returned to put the world right, or as best they can ... cause it's already effected by the Lens/Rust Realm.
Seeing how, Seraphs seem highly negatively effected by the rust realm, even instable sensitive ... stands reason, they are from the far opposite spectrum and place. None of the human traders encountered so far, talk about the storms, rifts, or going insane, or being effected by "instability" , I kinda think if they fully experienced that, it'd be something they'd talk about.
I do kinda think, devs left that part vague, just to have it make sense , you suddenly exist, spawn into the world .. and they came up with a race that no one can dispute , making it easier to swallow, having to do everything and progress from scratch.
The flavor text when choosing your classes suggests that the Seraphim are in some way connected to people that lived through the rot, maybe some reincarnation, or something more complex. I do agree that drifters were likely once human rather than being spawned from the rust world directly
The spectrum of realms theory you mention would explain why the player takes damage in the rust world, but drifters can survive fine in the overworld, unfortunately there's nothing so far that points to the existence of a seraph home realm... maybe something will be revealed in the future that makes this theory more plausible
Seraphim is plural of seraph
@@Gigutriel It could also be that they are 'copying' or mimicing what they have as records when they could still access the world. As a way they normally connect or integrate with humans when they arrive. But they are normally used to SOME kind of civilization they need to deal with and form a life in. Rather than unexpectedly ending up in the wilderness where them preparing to live a life and aid humans the best they can is wasted and they need to actually build a civilization from scratch rather than simply aiding and guiding a existing one/
These machines are something truly terrifying…I’ve never seen the larger machines so it adds a sense of mystery and fear…Imagine being in this guy’s perspective wandering a dark tunnel only to encounter a large metal construct that’s eerily human in design as it just…stares at you. An empty hollow stare…Also imagine if in game instead of starring at the player character they’re actually starring directly at you?…Considering the lore says the machine would stare at something else whenever he told his story then it’s very possible this…thing is starring at us…it know’s we are watching…
I honestly hope whatever force / entity that pulls at the strings isn't revealed entirely. Only seeing its effects is way spookier to me
My theory is that Seraphs are a kind of Homonculi, machines or evolution of machines mentionned in the story became sentient and altered by the eldritch clockwork. This would explain the instrument noises, lack of clarity, "Waking up" as in "Turning on" maybe our temporal stability is also a way to describe our own winding mechanisms going haywire if influenced too much by temporal messings.
Whatever they are, I'm pretty sold on the idea that they reincarnate people, mainly that one "returned" tapestry's text makes me think that. Excellent theory!
The game is so Chill and terrifying at the same time
it's not even the lore itself. it's just the world. one time you're just strolling down the woods and at the corner of your eye. a bear appears and chases you. prompting your flight and fight response because there's no WAY you can fight a bear unprepared
Agreed, tho once you get iron bears and wolves become easy for the most part, especially if you have iron armor or a recurve bow with iron arrows.
I would add one thing.
Temporal storms add a wierd effect to the world around you in addition to the gears and distortions.
The ground looks less like rust and more like it's melting, as do trees and if you can them to sit still long enough organisms. ((Thanks creative mode)) Plus there is this contant upwelling of black dust in the air. If you want my opinion the rot is still there locked away in the Rust World. I forgot the player takes poison damage if they stay in a temporal rift for to long. Check the damage chat and see.
I also think Jonas set the Rot loose. AWhen the emporer called upon him to find a solutionto the rot Tobias states: "I remember finding it strange when for a moment his face ran pale and he seemed to shake with fright. But there was nothing strange about that, I see now."
Why would he unless he already knew what they faced?
I probably missed a few good things. Part of that was just me wanting to finish the video after working on it on and off for months.
If I ever make a follow up I will really go all out
I have a theory that the Seraphs (the players) are healthy people who were transported forward through time with their memories wiped clean. They don't remember anything except how to talk and survive the wilderness with the clothes they have on them. It makes me wonder a bit about the Traders though and if they have anything to do with bringing the Seraphs to their arrival point because every Seraph "wakes up" not to far from a Trader.
I think they are either a sort of reincarnation / immortality experiment, or people who were transformed by temporal instability, but I definitely think it was an effect of Jonas' work either way. And I've heard the traders are foreigners, from somewhere the rot didn't really affect things, or they just lived in the post-rot villages that their dialogue alludes to. i cut a part of the video that analyzed their dialogue, they have a whole religious ideology around wealth and using it for passage into a physical / spiritual ascension. That set of beliefs seems restricted to the traders, which implies they all came from the same cultural background
I think the players are time travelers from the past that travel to the future in a (vane) attempt to flee the Machine-God.
Somehow the time-traveling erases part of their memories, but not all, and that is why they remember what they where before. And that actually explains why we have Blackguards, and other classes which seem to be from the Rot Times (I guess the malefactors are the rebels/criminals the Blackguards hunt).
And i also think the drifters are those that did not travel to the future, transformed into machines by the Machine-God, the Rot, or even both. Because, when you have time travel, nothing is stopping the Machine-God of the future to send the Rot to the past to create himself. or some weird stuff like that.
I kinda doubt this for a few reasons. For one, seraphs are clearly physically distinct species from in-game humans. Two, malefactors exist, whose lore heavily coincides with the people banished to the surface in this video. This means that seraphs had to have existed during the underground era.
@@someonerandom704 I concede that more lore information has come out since my comment that disproves my theory(s).
@@Sarafimm2 wait, what new lore content came out between this video and now? What I mentioned was one of the texts mentioned in the video
My thinking is that Falx' plan was to give humanity even more time by "breaking reality" - either he tried to dialate time to be able to work indefinetly on the cure as the rot is held at bay with "stasis" or break his way into a clear universe, a slate that was not rotting.
From what people said here (if I understand this) player character is called a seraphim and I would agree that player's existance might be related to Falx' experiment- a being outside of time, a being that can die and return nearly indefinete amout of time
i find it peculiar the game's logo is a tree with hidden gears underneath. The characters having instrument voices? the huge mech creature in the temporal storm? The mechanical nature of the temporal gears and Jonas inventions?
What if the Machine God recreated the world in a clockwork fashion. Humans reincarnated with the "prima materia" of time, regressed in a vessel made of cogs and gears? The storms might be the old world seeping in, or what is left of it.
Edit: honestly the more i think of this the more it makes sense, temporal stability is like the old world recalling you. the loading screen is like a summon from the Machine God. idk if the reasons are positive or more like a "i have no mouth but i must scream" scenario.
Make sense, i will play now with more fear than before, thank you
I would love to see this theory be proven true with future updates
Honestly this would be a cool twist. Perhaps the Machine God 'saved' the world by rebuilding it (or perhaps shifted reality) as the only solution to the Rot. What if, in this 'man vs machine' example, the Machine God is not exactly evil but benevolent however due to it's construct, it's beyond human understanding.
So, as you mentioned, the 'true' world is long dead and due to temporal instability, it leaks/breaches into the constructed reality our player takes part in. In this version, Drifters could be the result of both the Rot and reality distorting, so when they breach the gap, they appear as monsters defying human reasoning. Could also tie in with why they drop gears.
Ive been considering playing vintage story for a long time but this video sold it instantly
It's a great game with so much customization! And the mod community is flourishing if you feel the world needs "more" to it.
You won’t be sorry, it’s an incredible game, and beautiful.
I've played on and off now for years with no mods. Nothing against mods I just prefer not to use them. It's the best survival/voxel game by far.
@jeremymcarthur1930 that's totally fair! I prefer modding games to get "even more" content and creativity. Vintage Story also uses their modding community in the best way, and integrates some of the best into base game mechanics. The newest updates will have large sailboats- which has been a mod for awhile. I love their interactivity!
This is probably just me, but I thought that Jonas had discovered prima materia first and made inventions before the Rot appeared, which may have been caused by his meddling.
This is also what I've come to. Otherwise, Falx just came up with all of his inventions and knowledge completely by himself
Fantastic work, you did a great job summing up the overarching lore and filling in some of the gaps in my knowledge regarding the emerging underground factions.
My only complaint is that you understated just how dangerous the Rot was. In one of the passages, it talks about it covering the land, with the writer accidentally stepping in someone’s ribcage and questioning if that person was still alive. The way it’s portrayed here, it almost seems like a gray goo scenario. Otherwise, fantastic! Keep up the good work!
I mentioned how it consumes basically everything in its path, but I definitely could've played it up even more. Grey goo is a good comparison, it's definitely not just the flue on steroids. Thanks for your feedback and I'm glad you enjoyed!
I read the majority of the lore quite a time ago aside from some of the Chronicles, I do remember the child in the cave one tho.
From what I recall I remember it being self implied that Tobias (Jonas Falx's childhood friend) was actually the person who managed to escape the rot at the end. The way it was described it sounded a lot like him. Also, he seems to have gained some sort of immortality somehow as it is stated by him talking about experience that he has had over the past hundred years or more. Aside from that he also probably stayed underground for another handful of hundreds years or maybe more.
bro i was mad curious about the rot! jonas falx really innovate asf
one thing to add is that neither the human npcs nor the animals are effected by the temporal storms. seems like it's only the seraphim that are effected by them. after all you can ask the traders about drifters and other things. but they do not mention the time storms at all. could be it's just not implemented yet, or it's on purpose.
8:30 BOY AM I GLAD I DECIDED TO KEEP MY LIGHTS ON WHILE WATCHING THIS. In other news; I need to scavenge the nearby dumpsters for a clean pair of pants!
Clean pants.... In a dumpster..... Huh?
"better living, underground"
VAULT TEC CALLING!
keep up making this type of content! your storytelling is great!
It'll only get better 😉
calling me out on my second monitor got a chuckle out of me, thanks for the lore.
I knew it!! I knew I'd get someone!! (I do it all the time) glad you enjoyed
We can find a portrait of the pale-blue skinned warrior in the black armor called "Seraph".
Obviously, they existed before the fall of the civilization.
Maybe, but there is no other evidence, and we can't determine the date of the portrait...
That’s why I think they were made by falx, because what other way did people know how to make sound (like talking) other than music seeing as it was mid evil
@@FancyYT09 I hope we'll get more info in 1.20. Devs promised that we'll have to travel a lot, more points of interest - more lore details.
@@AnotherOne-Retro-Paladin I absolutely agree. Very excited for that next update
@@AnotherOne-Retro-Paladin they released a video showing off the new riding mechanics in 1.20, so far travels are definitely gonna be on the table
Vintage story is one of the first minecraft style voxel game i've playef in a while that jsut feels right
It's like minecraft, but doesn't neccesarly feel minecraft-y but it feels right
top quality video, only a true artist would see its imperfections.
Great video! I knew Vintage Story had lore, but I didnt know it went this deep. Thanks for sharing this with us! I look forward to seeing what else you make.
There's so much lore yet to be woven into the story of this game, and I'm all for it honestly.
showing this to my friends for sure because they never read the lore books we find and wont listen to me when i tell them we arent playing as humans! lol
Im surprised the strange skin colors and instrument voices didn't seem suspicious to them...
Finally someone did it!
Looking forward to more when the next update comes out
I find it vital to focus on the constant use of temporal people gloss over that but all of this ties into time distortion and maybe even travel.
I agree. It's just hard to tell where it fits in with what we have now. at one point I was wondering if Falx was just trying to make a Time Machine, but that would be a bit of a boring answer to me. I definitely think it goes deeper
Ahhh finally Jonah has awaken from the slumber
Good work. You revealed many things that even me, that have played Vintage Story a looot, don`t know. Thank you
Thank you! I'm glad I was able to dive that deep. When the next time comes around I will try to cover even more
tbh I wanted to discover a lot of the lore on my own but every time I spotted this video I got more and more curious as honestly, everything the traders say about the drifters and curious where you came from are very curious so I just gave in and watched.
dang thats dark, a full on plague, a crazy scientist that may not know what he's even messing with, city of ember style underground city with BIG ASS ROBOTS. I wonder what else they got planned for the lore.
I hope I can make my other videos as alluring 🐍
12:30 I love this stroy writing so bad it's so good!
I always get goosebumps when I heard or read those lines
on gigan can make me feel fear at 2:30pm
Reminds me of Arx Fatalis. In which a medieval society retreats underground to escape the cold surface, after their sun disappears
I'm not sure where I heard it, but I remember Seraphs beings some sort of beings made of clay, and that drifters used to be humans.
Drifters being humans is a common theory, but there's nothing that points to it directly other than the trader's folklore, and they are made of flax and metal. Maybe that's just what happens when you mess with the rust world, hope we will find the truth
you know I would like to see is like a bunch of twitch and TH-camrs making an SMP out of this game
Dont stop posting contnent like this dont let the numbers discourage you
OH MY GOD FINALLY A LORE VIDEO
This was some high quality content thank you for the video
Vicks sponsorship when??
I was expecting to hear more about Resonance Archives in this video. It's kind of a good thing since I still haven't been to there even though I got full steel. Thank you for not spoiling it I guess
I want to make a video on that place specifically, I think it deserves a closer look that what I would've managed in this video
I had found numerous pieces of lore in the game, but i never really put them all together. This video really helped me understand the greater picture and the chain of events
I think my favorite thing about Vintage Story,'s lore is that, based on what we can see... this all canonically takes place on Earth.
❤❤❤loved how you covered the lore so far! Felt like a VaatiVidya cover of dark souls lore. Keep up the amazing work!
That last part got me for real, because that is exactly what I'm doing!
Superb work. As someone who never cared for lore, your narration is captivating. I will be checking on lore updates from you. Also nice to see VS creators poping up and thriving.
16:10, nice callout on me hahah, need to play vintage story again
Loved this video. Thanks for the summary
Splendid work champ
Absolutely stunning video! I was so immersed that 16 minutes flew by like it was nothing. I really appreciate your story telling and editing abilities
just got the game and i’m loving it, and this lore is adding another layer to me lovin it
GOOSH GOOSH
Well, that was quite a bit more depressing than i expected :D
It's a fantastically beautiful game with deep crafting and all sorts of avenues for creativity, even though it's really only getting started.
But it has a heart of darkness.
I felt personally attacked by the second monitor joke. Honestly though, I wouldn't have ever guessed that this was a first narration video, you did awesome!
Enjoyable experience :)
I love the vs lore so far.
Nice video, it makes me wanna play this game even more as I didn't know about the lore. Maybe next year, if I have time to play I'll buy it.
Definitely recommend it. Outside of the story telling it's a great survival experience, and I know it'll only get better
It's super customizable so you can have a really relaxing easy play or a really difficult play. Plus, the mod community has stepped up generously to provide "more" of just about every aspect.
That was a cool closing. I lost track of the story, talking on discord, but I’m sure I’ll watch it soon. Nice video, from what I caught. This seems like a great game but I have 10 years worth of that other block game to catch up on already
It's quite interesting that "blackguards" were the enforcers of law and order in the underground, because "blackguard" is an actual English term, albeit very antiquated. It is pronounced "blaggard", and it means a dishonorable person, a scoundrel. "To blackguard" someone means to abuse them, verbally or physically. It's a telling choice for a name. Some of the other class names are also telling. "Commoner", "tailor", and "hunter" are innocuous enough. "Clockmaker" sounds equally innocuous until you know more about Jonas and his creations. "Malefactor" literally means "criminal", another bit of antique English. It's a particularly evocative name for a class that in any other game would simply be called "thief" or "rogue"; it is the opposite of "benefactor".
i just love it!! great narrative!
Very well executed video, excellent work, keep it up!
Insanely good video! Good job!
You are so real. More coming soon (I take eons to edit)
it should be noted how the character classes are also the former lives of humans, blackgaurds, hunters, clockmakers, and malefactors, who all seem to relate to old lore as its described. malefactors particularly, old rebels punished with being sent to the surface to gather supplies and as such have distinct skills for scavenging and hiding from threats
I noticed this recently too, Good catch! In my eyes this confirms that seraphim are connected to those that lived through the rot, either reincarnated or transfer of memories, etc
Just started playing Vintage Story a few days ago. And i saw some weord shit. Now it all makes sense. But I eager to find out more. I really get why people say that this game is a masterpiece. It's just getting better and better.
you do great in voice over man! you have a good voice and you're well spoken. i like that you put your thoughts on the material as you go through it rather than a clinical list of lore entries. well done!
Your video is incredibly well made! Im sure you'll pop off when the game fully releases :)
I absolutely love this game. It's minecraft but more rewarding. I actually feel attached to the things i build and have a sense of pride and accomplishment when i'm done building or smelting or anything in the game. Currently in a new playthrough i'm working on a castle. It's taking a long time to gather the resources while staying alive but man when it's done it will be so worth it.
Amazing quality you're doing great!!!
Only up from here 📈
Amazing quality content!!
Hey, Gigutriel. I'm from Venezuela and a big fan of this game. Thanks for making a video about Vintage Story's lore.
13 worlds, one abyss, one hell, one rotlands, one a future that never was, after fixing, a future made by exchanging (alchemy) all the rot & corrupt & monsters.
When I found the book, I imagined that account of the man digging through the underground to find the surface was a man who had, in some way, BECAME a drifter. I imagined the Rot as being the source of the Drifters, but their link to temporal instability puts that to question...
Thank you ,i needed this!
Haven't seen your channel before, but I enjoyed this style of video.
Im glad you did, I had really no clue how to flesh out the video so it basically just turned into me pulling relevant-ish pictures from google and footage in game
@@Gigutriel It turned out well. I've noticed that if a 'Tuber puts in the effort and personally enjoys their result, we will too :)
Subbed btw, good luck!
Been going back n forth on buying this or sticky business game lately, I can only afford one rn but I think I have made my decision lol. This is soooo much deeper than I thought and I'm itching to get into it
Have you done the first story dungeon? The Archives do have a huuuuuge machine in the center, and plenty of interesting machinery within. It does have some great stuff to explore.
I avoided including it in the video for the sake of brevity, but I might make a video taking a closer look at it and what it might be able to tell us.
thx for the summary of the lore, always was curious. tho i only play with friends. i prefer the roles assigned than being all rounder
The lore of this game is so interesting and aparently only 10% of the game is done, I cannot wait to see what's in store for the rest!
Also, phenomenal content for such a small channel, keep the content coming!
Thank you! I will have another video out soon... (maybe) (probably)
I appreciate the use of Dungeon Synth.
Real realizes real
Oh, right. I guess there is no writen info in-the game about Dave.
We LOVE Dave! Unfortunately, can't see him when there is a storm in our area. Took me a while to see him in my last playthrough because I'm in a humid area and it was always storming when he stopped by.
For those curious the tracks he’s using come from the album Aindulmdedir - Star Lore
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I listen to this album casually funny enough so I recognized the tune.
I have a whole playlist of dungeon synth I usually use for studying and it fit the vibe perfectly. You're so real for recognizing it, and ill add the rest to the description
Your very well made video and good music choice told me I had to subscribe to you lol
🤞
Excellent narration of lore for an underrated game
My friend and I are convinced that Temporal Butterflies have something to do with the lore. I'm not sure what. They show up in a ton of tapestries, they're the same color as temporal gears (which is also the color seraphs glow when we respawn).
I'm looking forwards to your 1.20 lore video! 😄
Jonas Falx seems to be as much of an anomaly as the rot itself. Maybe the eldritch machine god exists outside of time, and influences the world to bring itself into being.
I haven't played Vintage Story yet, haven't gotten the money on me, but the story is very intriguing. The idea of a society drifting into the underground in the panic of a disease ravaging throughout their society is very unique, I am not the best writer for fictional universes myself but I really love this premise and kind of want to make something similar to it. Very cool, gotta play this game soon!
Great video!
Thank you! I definitely recommend the game, it's pretty chill considering the cosmic horrors roaming about
@@Gigutriel just wanted to mention i loved the voiceovers, I cant wait to see some more content if ya push out anymore
One day soon. I just learned about a really interesting real-life event that has next to zero videos talking about it, and I would like to dive into that. It's definitely a departure from a game lore video but I'm all for experimenting
this is an amazingly edited video, especially for a first.
This is one of the best videos on youtube i have seen
It's funny, I love VS but the lore is a complete mystery to me! I also definitely avoid going into caves XD dark scary.
Hold on but this is off topic but I noticed that when your video says subscribe it lights up the sub button (I'm on mobile, idk if it works on PC) I even rolled back the vid to see if it's only once but no it still lights up the button, pretty nice
Here if you want to test it if it works in yours 16:32
Expanded biew distance and look in temporal storm
Perhaps the Lens was a bigger/better version of the translocator. What I assumed from the info I have is that Jonas wanted to create a portal to escape the Rot. As Jonas is more of a mechanic and engineer rather than a medic or biologist. And in so doing he accidentally made a connection with the mechanical plane. Though it is of note that Jonas and the rest of medieval society had access to alchemy so perhaps they could have tried to develop a cure through this. However the Rot for all we know could have appeared from alchemy and/or another world (which in it self could have been reach by alchemy) such as the mechanical one. Perhaps even another world entirely.
While we have very little info on the lore we can only assume that the Lens and the creature from the tale of "the boy who went down the tunnels" are the same. While I must admit that the theory of Jonas creating a machine so grand in design that it invoked an eldritch being is cool as hell, we can also assume that he went mad by looking at the other world through the machine. This would be in line with Lovecraftian horror as one can develop madness by seeing eldritch landscapes as much as from eldritch creatures. And the ever watching "machine" could be a creature conjured from the mechanical plane through the Lens. Maybe as a guardian of the Lens to maintain the connection between it's world and ours. It could also very well be that the Lens/machine Jonas made in the caves transformed into the ever watching machine of the story after the connection with the mechanical plane was made.
Reeeeeally cool and interesting Lore over all and great vid by the way.
Love this comment. A whole lot of excellent points, I might have to reference this later for theories once we know more
There's a rather interesting theory about seraphs being made by Falx with the miracle machine. As there is many ideas within alchemy of ascendance through transmuting the human body. The main idea being that the seraphs we're created to be the eventual solution of temporal apocalypse. Its a bit more involved than that but its at the very least interesting idea.
And on an unrelated note certain item descriptions for clothing items also point towards the society before the apocalypse being quite literally just 1300s earth.
What i thaught is the temporal gear bar inside the player is the thing that hypnotize the player and he see portals and when comes close to it strange things happen
Wonderful wonderful
i feel like dave (the giant walking thing) will be more important later im not sure how as well as the idolines maybe we will see them later on rarely but hopefully
loved the video it was very well made.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I like how you smuggeled in a Secret of Mana pic.
I hope beyond hope that we eventually get rot-beasts as enemies. The drifters are cool, but it feels a little bland only having one enemy (yes I know there's variations). I can just imagine the horror of a rotting monster chasing me through a dark forest.
I hope we get more effects of the rust world too... like temporally unstable regions corrupting the areas.. I'd love that type of dynamic aspect of gameplay