Uncovering Runescape's Greatest Threat - The Anti-God of Shadow Realm Xau Tak EXPOSED - RS3 LORE

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  • Please enjoy this video as it took over 100 hours of research and editing to get it out to you!
    Some resources i cite are as follows
    The Promised Gift
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    The Shadow Realm
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    Umbral Diplomacy
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    2017 Runefest - cosmology
    • RuneScape Lore Maratho...
    2018 runefest -
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    #lore #rs3 #runescape
    ‪@runescape‬
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  • @bulletproofboy10
    @bulletproofboy10 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Gg bro u earned a subscriber today top notch content your channel needs to blow up imho

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Shit bro tyssssm literally this kind of feedback makes it worth it. This lore is awesome and I'll make sure to continue making fun stuff man!
      ❤ Thank you again I'ma pin your comment it legit made me happy man

  • @z_Blitzy_z
    @z_Blitzy_z 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    We did it Pride! We successfully solved Runescape's biggest mystery!

    • @oraannaromans6033
      @oraannaromans6033 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Guess we gonna have to maybe tell them about the sixth elder god next 😉

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My phone died while I was out so I replied to my wife's account 😂

    • @z_Blitzy_z
      @z_Blitzy_z 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @prideslayer77 oh man I can't wait to tell everyone about the 6th

  • @byever1
    @byever1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Jack is single handly keeping run scape alive

  • @WillBillya
    @WillBillya 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was hoping you were gonna make a video about this😁 Amazing work as always

  • @Lyriok
    @Lyriok 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Keep up the work brother, binging your lore vids is getting my hyped for future bosses and making my IFB grind easier.

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's what I like to hear bro!! Thank you for the comment motivates me to make more

  • @letsdiscussrs
    @letsdiscussrs 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome video man I’m glad its spreading around, congratulations and amazing content. Always looking forward to the next one

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey man thanks! ❤

  • @RsStroke
    @RsStroke 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great thorough vid man, I know you put a ton of research and effort into it. Looking forward to your next one!

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      hey thanks for all the help during production bro!

  • @Ruggedhobo
    @Ruggedhobo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great storytelling and lots of contextual information - very nicely done 😄

  • @YewNutsB
    @YewNutsB 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I had no clue about banite ore! So many things going on in the background

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Bro that's why this game is the best ever!

  • @oup6009
    @oup6009 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    In osrs's Desert Treasure 2 quest, the shadow realm pops up before you fight the Whisperer. There are 2 items that "Help to protect you from the influence of the Shadow Realm", the Shadow Blocker (some kind of lamp thing) and the Revitalizing Idol which is a flower in a jar. The Revitalizing Idol is weird as it's just nature in a jar but that's basically like an Idol to Guthix! Maybe Guthix/Nature can repel shadow?

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I wanna do an entire video on it for sure, tbh it all matches the RS3 lore and it makes me wonder if they consulted them!

    • @oup6009
      @oup6009 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@prideslayer77 Would love to see you do osrs lore too!
      I'm sure they have a loremaster around at Jagex keeping things consistent across the games

    • @Santafe4115
      @Santafe4115 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      actually the worlds already diverge quite a bit, osrs wont be getting as wacky as rs3 got... yet lolol@@oup6009

    • @djert24
      @djert24 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      in rs3 guthix is dead and you lose the powers he gave you when yoy banish zamorak vack to infernus which means you can become a god if you're not one already.

  • @byronsmothers8064
    @byronsmothers8064 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video provided a ton of context that peftectly supports an item design I didn't know I needed:
    Necromancy=Shadow=Erebus
    Banite=fossilized shadow leviathan blood
    And dragonkin experimenting with shadow anima.
    The item: a t90 super d-fire shield involving the Rot6 shields and a baneite based mounting bracket for the draconic visage.

  • @Cahoooters
    @Cahoooters 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You never miss.. always Delivering Banger after banger!

  • @prideslayer77
    @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It's here!!!

  • @ironcoachh
    @ironcoachh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude. Dope vid. The research you've put in here is amazing. AND YEAH COSMOLOGY VID PL0X!

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bro coach!!! Thanks for watching man! 💕

  • @IronAraxxor
    @IronAraxxor 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    finally got around to watching this one
    good work compiling this stuff! wish it was more digestible in-game

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am quite certain this storyline will have huge implications soon

    • @IronAraxxor
      @IronAraxxor 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@prideslayer77 I hope so! I've always preferred the story of the gods and powerful beings over the low stakes fort stuff we have had recently

  • @cody66knox
    @cody66knox 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bro I'm horrible with lore but with this video i feel like i was able to understand everything and got more out of ur video lore wise then i've gotten from quest

  • @moze3302
    @moze3302 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Its....Its beautiful❤ Great work man!!!

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Love you Moze 💕

  • @kebays1
    @kebays1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey odd thing probably nothing but have you noticed the golden mouth piece behind Zaros throne looks like the bottom half of sliskes mouth ,I know it’s probably nothing but sliske probably has something to do with everything that has happened. There might be a big thing with sliske jumping inside the adventurer just a thought great content man!!

  • @marcanderson7989
    @marcanderson7989 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I always love your videos

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You're awesome 😎 couldn't do it without your day 1 support bro 💕

  • @mytralaalaa
    @mytralaalaa 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    holy moly, this is great. just as good as azzanandras quest tying up all the stuff with guthix. i hope more stuff comes out about VOS + zaros angle. zaros will save us all!

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Zaros, will return wielding the darkness as our champion!

    • @mytralaalaa
      @mytralaalaa 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@prideslayer77 it will be glorious!!!

  • @DarthChosen
    @DarthChosen 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    this is what ive been waiting for

  • @LoreLoversRS
    @LoreLoversRS 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The lore in this game is so fun! Main reason I recently returned to the game

    • @InTheMindOfficial
      @InTheMindOfficial 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Oh quests suck, quests are boring"
      People who say this are the same people who spacebar through every quest lmao

    • @LoreLoversRS
      @LoreLoversRS 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@InTheMindOfficial yea, it takes all kinds, but I personally couldn’t be invested with almost anything in the game without a lore reason behind it. Need the “why” behind the “what” (for the most part)

  • @TheRSGuy
    @TheRSGuy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great video.

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I bet you were happy to learn that the beam we skip during the ambassador is from Erebus 😂 ❤ thanks again for the Help Ryan!

  • @ethannieves8201
    @ethannieves8201 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing video dude gw - also for the love of all that is holy I will be so disappointed if the player doesn't ascend to godhood with the help of other gods to defeat Xau-Tak

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      we got a big teaser for new content that im working on rn, itll blow your mind and.... :) it might have some of those themes for certain

    • @ethannieves8201
      @ethannieves8201 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@prideslayer77 Hell yeah my dude, super excited to hear that. can't wait :) Keep it up

  • @ProfessionalGasLighting
    @ProfessionalGasLighting 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Solid video

  • @tylerbergen1175
    @tylerbergen1175 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was AWESOME!

  • @anialator1000000
    @anialator1000000 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So the shadow is from somewhere else, and it slowly fills up the universe up to even Gelinor. What if the point of the Elder God cycle is to actually either clear out the shadow, or "move" to a new place in the universe not yet corrupted by shadow. This would likely be tied into the reason the elder gods must die and be reborn, such as maybe they are trying to either cleanse themselves of the shadow that slowly corrupts them as they live in an area it has infested, or evolve into beings that can handle/resist/control it. Maybe this also is tied into the reason why they keep wiping out life and rebuilding it, hoping to create life that can do it instead of them, so that they either control that life or assimilate it to obtain that ability.
    That would actually lead to a big plot point in the future, that Guthix actually was their great success, though if they know it or not is unclear. Guthix infused the World guardian with Shadow, which is why we were immune to the Divine Anima of the Gods letting us fight against them. Our Soul is part shadow and as it is the antithesis of Gods magic, their spells would be repelled by it rendering us nearly completely immune. In this Theory, Guthix was the great success of their plan, a being who could control shadow. But he failed in that he was too kind and died. But he left a successor, a being who is now part anima and part shadow, the World guardian. "do you really think you can save them", well, we may be the only being in the universe who even could stand a chance. The gods may be forced to ally again, and maybe even the elder gods too, to pour power into the World guardian, who can convert it into shadow power to fight against the Shadow leviathans.

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      you hit the nail on the head, to add maybe - i've pondered if the reason it's always known our name is because of the cycle of reincarnation. it's touched upon in lady himikos journal regarding Xau Tak, but there is a full cosmology talk that Mod Stu does at 2017 i included some of, it's almost like the elder gods are constantly going "up" and away from the shadow that engulfs the universe. imagine the deep sea if you will. theyre constantly and forever a bouy of anima and life constantly escaping the predator beneath. THE DEEP. haha also i love how much you know about the lore, glad to have a nice conversation on it this morning. i'm gonna do a life and death of guthix soon but i will be doing another vid like this on the sixth Elder God revealed - The Ancient Sleeping Enemy to Sentience.

  • @Minop45
    @Minop45 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    29:43 Xau-Tak power level is not -1 but the square root of -1, i.e. the imaginary unit i. If taken literally, then the magnitude of Xau-Taks power is 1 (Tier 1) but it is measured along a different axis to the other (elder) gods.

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agreed, in the case of the ambassador story we know that just a small shard of Kreath Takla broke his curse from jas so I wonder what the true extent is. It kind of seems limitless, where welcome. I think that's the trope tbh, someone pointed out how when the black hands come from ed1 and 2 the music is diff than 3 because Kranon gave consent, so either way I love the thought it's on a different axis (which your thought is supported by evidence) thanks for watching bte I love that people are as into this as I am lol

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also my fault on the oversight

  • @byever1
    @byever1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Mind = blown.

  • @fijician6307
    @fijician6307 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    your content rocks

  • @jeremygreenwood1021
    @jeremygreenwood1021 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    fascinating

  • @divineretribution9605
    @divineretribution9605 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Worth mentioning that steel isn't pure iron, in fact you deliberately add impurities in the form of carbon when making steel, which results in a much stronger alloy than pure iron.

  • @magemanscrub2954
    @magemanscrub2954 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This makes me want to play again

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is probably the greatest compliment I can hear brother

  • @alxcombs
    @alxcombs 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Each video is better than the last and honestly I don’t know how you do it. I’m just truly blown away. You’re a top creator in the RS3 and you easily stand side by side with the OSRS vets!

  • @oup6009
    @oup6009 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    One and done

  • @WitherFang
    @WitherFang 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Do you really think you can save them?

  • @eurowarrantydisc
    @eurowarrantydisc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jagex need to hire you for story development. You have vision!

  • @mrbonjangle
    @mrbonjangle 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just feel like they should be bringing back Sliske. I don’t agree with the voices being your “conscience”.

  • @OsMd5173
    @OsMd5173 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I dont play RS3 at all, but I really love the lore videos you create and see how RS3 lore lines up with OSRS. The lore between the games lines up to a certain extent, but os definitely goes down it's own path. Have you ever considered doing lore videos for osrs?

  • @zepaduse97
    @zepaduse97 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Xau tak isnt just -1 its square root of -1 which also means its value is “i” which means imaginary.

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My apologies

    • @zepaduse97
      @zepaduse97 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@prideslayer77 oh no its all good! A lot of people don’t usually care but it does make you wonder why is the power level of Xau Tak an imaginary number and not just -1 though? You could figure out the significance of what that would mean!

  • @WH40KHero
    @WH40KHero หลายเดือนก่อน

    29:46
    What he wrote is not -1, but the Square Root of -1, which is *i*, which is an imaginary number.
    in other words, Xau Tacs tier of godhood can not be understood by us mere mortals, it is imaginary.

  • @djert24
    @djert24 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your player character, killed sliske who killed guthix and then went on to sacrifice thier guardian powers to banish zamora back to infernus who then after became an extremely powerful necromancer, so by any means your character is technically a demi God and can indeed save ghilenor from Xau Tak but who knows? just waiting for the quest line where ur character finally becomes a god.

  • @emeraldpichu1
    @emeraldpichu1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never thought about bane coming from the leviathan but it makes so much sense. Chances are it broke through the rift and needed all 4 elders to take care of it and then the codex was built to prevent further incursions.

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thats a great point! i also thought what if the codex is the artifacts from the prior revision? like maybe they used those to make it? idk im speculating but now youve got me thinkingz!

  • @apophis456
    @apophis456 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Those ai images in the thumb?

    • @apophis456
      @apophis456 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Also Taraket only looks the way he does because most of the dungeons reused assets. Taraket was just given a recolored version of Tarakets mid transform

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I would say it's intentional even though it's re used, due to tarshak being one of the individuals that saw the hands prior, a long with the several other pieces of evidence regarding the physical similarity between the two.
      Even if the NPC were completely different they still share almost all properties but in a less pure state.
      Once a Dragonkin, now something else. I just don't think there's multiple forces accomplishing the same things, called the shadow, that summons black hands ultimately.

  • @Waltaere
    @Waltaere 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Prideslayeeer 😃

  • @Fridge_Fiend
    @Fridge_Fiend 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Narrator: "They had in fact forgotten about him"

  • @zeldapro18
    @zeldapro18 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Aren't the Elder Gods at their weakest before their rebirth? That's why they lay there eggs on the perfect world and absorb the anima to replenish themselves. Would be different if the shadow leviathan dragged Jas into Erebus after absorbing all planets anima in the universe. Xau-Tak and Erebus is so interesting like the gods were back in the day before The World Wakes quest. Would love to see more on Vos. I wonder, are Xau-Tak and Vos dead Elder Gods or a amalgamations of many from countless Revisions? The giant beings, Shadow leviathans, hunt for any light(anima) and have pure hatred for it. Shadow Anima could have been from the first universes and gained strength over time or when the elders die, there energy darkens. When a young god dies their energy is dispersed where they die. Same could be for the elders. Necromancy and Erebus/Shadow Realm are directly related. On a side note, the pristine or pure anima of Iaia prevented the non-sapient life from reproducing much and they nearly went extinct, wonder if that will play a part way later.

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That pure anima thing you bring up blows my mind that makes me wonder if corruption is necessary

    • @zeldapro18
      @zeldapro18 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@prideslayer77 For the universe to exist?

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zeldapro18 well in that example I was kind of thinking about for the planet but yeah, I did a documentary a while ago on Zaros and during his mother apparently in the previous revisions would destroy sentient life before it could arise. So it's almost like without the shadow we wouldn't exist

    • @zeldapro18
      @zeldapro18 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@prideslayer77 I just remembered a line from BSD, "Every living thing contains a darkness, but I am made from it." Would that be our souls?

  • @ManaSpring
    @ManaSpring 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fuckin BANGER video

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      made it just for you mana

  • @dang2015
    @dang2015 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Still no Xau Tak counter.

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Too much work lol

  • @morephenek
    @morephenek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    whos to say what we see as tendrils aren't roots, ever growing and spreading. like a shadow croesus.

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ooooo i love that, tbh i think that croessus (even tho it is explained a little) definitely has ties to XT especially considering WHERE it was created. but theres more to the monolith, ill be covering the sixth elder god in the next lore video so i hope you check it out too!

  • @mattstor555
    @mattstor555 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm not yet convinced that Xau-tak is the size of erebus itself. 1) We've seen Erebus, and no Xau-tak. 2) If Xau-tak is that size, there is no point even comparing him to the term 'elder god,' because he's way more powerful. Yes, I know that Jas lost to a Leviathan, but wasn't Jas not yet full grown when that happened?

    • @prideslayer77
      @prideslayer77  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      its not the size of erebus, not once did i ever say that but also wrong in pieces of hate it reaches directly out of erebus. i assume then 12 different instances of its followers using erebral energy for no reason, and developers stating it will always appear with necromancy isnt convincing enough.
      i cant comment on it being no point, i could apply that to anything.
      Jas was fully grown and the mightest being in existence, so also wrong. however most leviathons are the size of worlds so the one that folded her was incredibly small comparatively.

    • @mattstor555
      @mattstor555 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah okay, thank you.@@prideslayer77

  • @HIACliffRS
    @HIACliffRS 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    chik fil a LMAO

  • @lordlynx6174
    @lordlynx6174 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sorsherersh

  • @SuicidalMonkey
    @SuicidalMonkey 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What dye is that armour your wearing at point? The blue flashing one 😅

    • @emeraldpichu1
      @emeraldpichu1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Aurora or soul dye