@@Jman0163I once heard a theory, that since the Hatchling never hears anyone playing the instrument on the stranger, at the eye, the music from the instrument is just the sound from the owlks singing.
I think it's interesting how their slide reels are all ring-shaped. Elegy to the Rings could reference both the planet's rings, and the slide reel rings.
see, i never wondered what they were doing. i thought they were just having a chill choir night to sing and remember old times. only for a wack lil frog to run in and ruin the moment.
That's wonderful. The game came out 6 years ago and there are still somethong new to find or explain. Thank you for giving us this 8 minutes of our homeworld
I had no idea the Hotel Owlk looking to reels turned off the projection if you focused your lantern on it... Amazing detail. As time passes on, I love this game more and more.
Another possibility is that they congregate there to pay their respects to the forbidden knowledge without actually accessing it (or at least they originally chose this location with such intention, likely forgetting it by this point), much like the quantum pilgrimage of the Nomai brings them as close to the Eye as possible without allowing them to reach it. The difference, of course, being that there is nothing stopping them from doing it in the inhabitants' case other than the mental barriers they've set for themselves. Fitting, given the themes of EOTE.
Part of me wonders how hastily the Stranger was constructed. My theory is that some sections of the simulation may only be partially finished. Unlike the other failsafes of the sim, this section in the Party House could just have a temporary fire wall (pun intended) that the inhabitants need to guard manually to prevent intrusion. Having the elder standing directly in front of it helps to ensure no one else gets any ideas like the Prisoner did to try and access the Forbidden Archives.
I dont really think thats the case. The sim seems to be coded via staff based off their thoughts. I think its probably pretty well "thought through"! ::D
Hey, I'm new in this place, but I've already seen a couple of your videos. I have to mention that the level of effort and detail that this game has is incredible. One thing that seems interesting to me is the fact that the trees in the outer wilds are very op organisms because according to what we see they are capable of colonizing various inhospitable places and developing perfectly (an example of this, inside the comet we find Nomai trees) and adding to it the fact that they seem to survive for centuries (the Nomai trees in the hanging city in Brittle Hollow or those found on the Nomai ship).
If you look closely youll notice those trees are sort of special. The bark of the tree is multicolored. You can find the plants origin in the vessel. The Nomai sort of spliced and engineered them to be so sturdy and long lasting because they needed a plant that will provide them oxygen while exploring space!
It's interesting that in the main game, it's all about exploring- facing the dangers of leaving home and going out into the unknown. And overcoming your fears allows you to find the truths out there. In the DLC, on the stranger, it's all about journeying inward to find things that are hidden. About what happens to the truths you already know when you don't overcome those fears. In certain branches of psychology there's an idea that truth is health, and that the thing you most need to find is in the place you least want to look. That there are parts of yourself, or of your culture in general, that are unconscious and un-seeable. It's technical name is the "shadow", and that it is what you "project" onto the world around you. That the fears and frustrations inside you are the things you see everywhere in the world. On the stranger, the visuals are all about literal projections and shadows. All tied to Falsehoods, memories, longing. To the extent that if you walk away from the lantern literally projecting the dream world around you, all of the shadows go away and you can see everything for what it is. And the deeper you look into their secrets, the closer you get to finding what they're hiding, the more fear you need to face to overcome it. They were living in regret over everything they lost and their fear and resentment about what they believe the Eye to be. They are so angry and hurt they literally built a dream world to hide away in. When someone finally decided the truth about the Eye needed to be known by others, they buried him in the deepest darkest place they had and then left him there to be forgotten. That's why the prisoner is at peace when you tell him everything that had happened because of what he did. Bringing the truth about everything to light allowed him to let go of all the regret and hurt he felt from the thousand of years spent all alone, never truly knowing if he did the right thing.
Interesting theory... that's a possibility I hadn't considered. The best theory I'd thought of was that they were gathering because they *knew* the dam was damaged and about to break. Some of them could have been getting reports on conditions in the real world, instead of trying to forget it existed.
@@Vijver mabye they detect the supernova;s approach? and relies that the outside world hasnt been maintained. so theirs no telling how the jostle from the sails opening would effect them? i dunno.
@@redsapling253 you can actually go to the control panel of the Stranger, and the screen there will show an indicator of the supernova's progression. Seems to me like they set that up to automatically detect the supernova and deploy the sails without the need to inform the Strangers. They just didn't anticipate that the momentary lapse in power (the sails deploying uses a lot of it) was enough to critically weaken the dam.
i tried to explore this sub-area first, and sadly it gave me a really bad impression of the DLC. i dont think it was bad, it just really threw off my expectations with how different it felt from the main game, with the survival horror aspects and the claustrophobic level design which, to be clear, does a great job of making it feel more unsettling. i'm sure i would have it liked it more after i had visited the other areas and got a better grasp on the "rules", and i wish i hadnt reacted like that - it stopped me from enjoying the other segments nearly as much
@@TheLoreExplorer yeah, 100%. i appreciated it a lot more looking back, especially having watched your video - i didn't realise just how many details there are in one small area. the series of mural you show at 5:09 was one of the most moving moments for me in the whole game
Wow. Thank you. Thats so kind. One of my favorite parts of the game came in an update for the dlc as well. The mural they added in the prisoners house in the sim. Its just....amazing
An elegy is a lament for the dead, they ruined their home pursuing the eye only to find it ends life. They are mourning the death of their home and how there is no way to return
Is it actually supposed to be secret though? Or is it only so seemingly secret because we arrive at night where you can't see so well? All the inhabitants seems to know exactly where it is after all, even at night, so it's likely they've gone there many times before during the day.
I agree and i wish i didnt because every new thing i learn about them makes me indescribably sad. Your attention to detail is always asounding though i love it
I'm glad you're back.. a video idea I have for you is, why do the innhabitants look "younger" even tho irl they look.. well.. dead. And how does the simulation know how the hatchling looks, cuz we know the simulation isn't an actual place and just a programmed world.
That indeed is an interesting topic! I’ll add it to the list. To answer the question(which you’ve probably thought through a bit). The inhabitants staff has the power to scan things. But it isn’t because of the staff. It’s the fire. The fire scanned the inhabitants at the age they entered. As we see in reels they were as they look in sim. This same fire scans us as we enter. And boom! We enter as is! ::D. Thanks so much for the comment!
Completely unrelated to this video’s topic but there’s something i just realised about outer wilds If you ever return to the Observatory on Timber Hearth after the first loop is over, Hal and Hornfels will be at the Nomai statue, discussing how it’s eyes are now open This means that at the beginning of every loop, one or both of them had to have gone past the statue since otherwise they wouldn’t see it with its eyes open in following loops Which means that if they were just a bit slower, there’s a high chance the statue could’ve connected to THEM instead of the Hatchling once the probe found the Eye, which means we were extremely lucky to even be the one to connect to the nomai statue How facinating is that?
This video makes me feel bad for them. But I can't help but still question why they attack us? The only thing I can think of is that they don't want us snooping around their stuff. Otherwise, why not think of us as their friends. If we don't do anything to them, why should they do that to us?
Yeah. Thats a large part of it. They dont want us to find any of their secrets. But after their experience with the eye the inhabitants have become afraid of the unknown. If we take the warp core and die to enter the simulation, we get a special ending in which they stop trying to deload us and just accept us as part of the sim. But this is after so long of not trying to find the secrets. They arent mean or bad at heart. Just scared.
I played the DLC with VR and omg its fucking terrifying. The DLC for me was not too much when playng on PC but on VR I cannot with the fucking owl people
Hey dude it's good to see you back. Would you be open to doing lore videos on Rain World? It has a similar vibe to outer wilds and I'd love to see your thoughts on it.
@@TheLoreExplorer I follow a bunch of Dark souls/Fromsoft lore creators too, and watching some of the stuff they branch out too and analyze as deeply as dark souls is awesome. Outer Wilds will never stop being special and I'll always be back for more of your videos on it, but don't be afraid to explore a bit. It's your name after all. People don't watch your videos because they're about Outer Wilds, they watch them because you made them! Can't wait for your next upload
I have never thought it was a party, but a ritual ceremony because the song was too sad for beeing a celebration. It was melancolic et even if, at the end, all you desire is to hear their scream when they die after they have prevented to access to the Forbidden Archives (or if, like me, you are an historian with a degree who hate the autodafes or censury), you can only to be sad, hearing this song. I saw sometime many similarities between the Strangers and the Nomaïs in their careless quest of the Eye. The Strangers have give up everything they have destoyed their own planet, not giving themselves the way to return because their faith, to go for this "Promised" Eye of the Universe. It's a total faith, crazy for not doubt about their discovery. They have a religious rapport based on the belief on It, building church (and burning them)... The Nomaï have a part of this crazy quest of verity : they have shrine to ask questions about the nature of the Eye : Good ? Bad ? Indiffernet ? Shearching Chosen Ones ? But, big difference, their talks are metaphysics, scientifics, philosophic. they don't believe a truth, they ask questions and accept it, like Solanum who, when a child, thought the Eye bad to have killed her clan, but who, after many question, have decided to shearche the true. Shearching the truth is the religion of the Nomai, it doesn't matter if this truth is horrible (end of the Universe) or good (you will give birth to a new universe by your experiences). But they have a part of crazyness in them for their quest of knowledge.The Vessel has made its distorsions without the Captain attempts to call the others clans, and because they can't lost time, they don't verify their coordonates and they have finished in Sombronce... They are totally crazy : they jump in Black Hole by pleasure, theses crazies idiots and their plan was to explode the sun in Supernova. Yes, it's working, but it's a little radical as a plan ! Howewer, before the Big plan, they have asked question about the ethic, promised to stop if the project had the ltllest risk to destroy everything, choosing another mine because they didn't want to prevent the cute creatures in the water to evolve (in the Atriens). They have a big respect for all form of knowledge. It's their religion and it wont disapoint them never, even if it's harsh truth. The Strangers burn their knowledge when the truth doesn't equal their belief and don't accept it (except one). But, faith and reason has driven an Atrien, shearching the truth, to go in the Eye of the Universe. The both forms of thoughts aren't so dissimilars.
I did a big double take seeing the title of this video. Completely independently, in my recent first playthrough, I called the ritual rooms/buildings “party houses” since, well, that’s where all the Owlks seemed to go to party around a bonfire before they died. I had no idea people used that term to refer to what I referred to in my head as the “music house”. 😂
I have a theory: there are 3 archives that was sent to the dream world. We don't know what was there, but we have one story slides from each section. The first one is about the Ringed Planet, the second about the travel to the Eye and the third about creation of the Dream World. What if all other slides are also from these periods respectfully? Which means owlks have free access to the recordings of the first period (homeworld), but they locked the other two (travel and simulation), because they want to remember the Ringed Planet, but don't want to rewatch what happens next?
It would make a lot of sense if it were time based. But I dont know about the last part. Remembering their home planet any furthur than the fake one in their sky it would just remind them of things they want to forget
@@TheLoreExplorer they don't want to forget their homeworld, they want to forget it's loss. Rewatching old recordings would help them remember their home and believe they are still there. That would be the reason they return to the first archive over and over
Imagine if you timed it for the exact moment of the tidal wave... [PartyOwlkLeader]: Begone, outsider! _PartyOwlkLeader (and 4 others) left the game (Kicked: Artifact Extinguished)_ _PartyOwlkLeader (and 4 others) were banned! (Banned: Player body deceased)_ [Hatchling]: ........ok then?
I always thought it was a concert, because they’ve been in the simulation for hundreds of thousands of years, I assumed it was one of the ways they entertained themselves. I do think your idea had merit though, never really considered that possibility.
Why does this world feel so depressing? Is it always night time? Do the Owlks always act this sad and on alert? Everyone just seems so scared and sad. And for good reason too
Yeah. They dont always makes things easy. I had to look up a couple things in the base game. I wouldve never figured out how to enter the quantum tower on brittle hollow. Do nothing. Who would think of such a thing? ::D
@@TheLoreExploreri have. one *crazy*, motherfucking story to tell. one time i was on brittle hollow just explorin around looking for something new learn, and then i saw the funny underground tower with an incomplate path, ive seen it a couple times by now so i was like "welp why not give it a shot". i tried jumping and jetpacking, and it didnt work, and then i tried to wedge my ship through the holes in the outer rock wall. it was so miserable that i had to carefully analyze each hole for like 2 minutes to see which one had the biggest chance of my ship fitting through so i could land it on the gravity path, and i chose the one on the side of elevator because it looked like the biggest. after spending almost the entire loop rotating and shuffling and nudging my ship around that one hole, i heard a really loud bang and then noticed that my vision was a little off, "why is the bottom of my screen.. warped?? hold on am i actually-" *SHWOOM* "oh, thats how you do it." it was right then and there that the end times theme played, and i hurriedly scanned all the shit inside that tower. every copy of Outer Wilds is personalized.
I agree that they may be getting ready to go down and watch some reels (Owlk movie night). I don't agree that the archives weren't general knowledge in the Owlk community. Since all reels were available in the real world until the prisoner released the signal (unless i misremember?). I think all the security for the archives are just for the off chance that someone finds the ring-world. I mean, cloaking to stop inhabitants makes no sense, and presumably (my understanding) all the Owlks worked together to make the simulation. And we don't know their language, so the name "the forbidden archives" is just made up by the hatchling.
Hmm. I see why you say that. But the entire point of those measures are to forget about them over time. So they can believe the sim is the real world. So the cloaking would go in this vein. They’d stay so long in the sim without using them they’d forget the cloaked passageways. And hopefully the archives themselves. I have an interview with a couple of the devs after the dlc came out. You may find it interesting!
Is there a content difference between what's in the vaults? Might be that this is where they put the reels they wanted to remember, and the other vaults are where they put the reels they wanted to forget.
From what we see there is only one different reel in each. The rest of the reels have the same images we see in every archive. But considering how many there are this is just a design choice. My guess is they are all basically identical except they each house one unique reel regarding their story. But consider it this way. They want to forget all the reels. Even ones of good times. Because they want to forget they are in a sim. And no matter which way you cut it the reels documented from their time in the real world is the antithesis of that.
@@Splatcake this video was only posted about a month ago. As of right now I’m learning how to make custom animations and scenes like you saw in this video to make better videos!
Its a nuanced question. The goal of the sim is to make them forget about the real world. So ideally , no. They would have forgotten a real world or separate living body even exists. In practice its hard to say if it worked for everyone. I think some do remember though. Such as the owelks we find in the party house and the prisoner.
@@TheLoreExplorer It’s a weird concept to me, I know they eventually stopped coming back in the real world But them dying makes it pretty dangerous let’s say one of them wants to wake up for some odd reason and extinguish their lights. I found nothing about it but I think at least one would have died trying it. Perhaps they know they’ve been in for way too long and are too scared to try it. Im guessing they used to wake up using the bell and one day it stopped working and so they never came back. They go great length to forget about the end and make themselves feel safe but their confort zone is pretty much a prison in disguise they definitely did not forget.
Time is a strange thing. At some point reality would just be the sim. The bells would be something to avoid on fear of death. They would have essentially evolved into a new reality where your lantern is your lifeblood. For the prisoner it is even more so a prison. A single tower. But as you mention the two aren’t that different. The sim is just a slightly larger version of the prisoners vault.
i'd always thought they were playing music together, but i now notice none of them are actually holding instruments
i always thought they were singing
@@Jman0163I still think they were singing. Just hanging out and singing.
@@Jman0163You can hear some kind of bass strings being plucked if you stand just outside the entrance
@@Jman0163I once heard a theory, that since the Hatchling never hears anyone playing the instrument on the stranger, at the eye, the music from the instrument is just the sound from the owlks singing.
@@Cepterman thats really cute...
And here we are, gathering for a Lore Explorer party to revisit our memories of an experience we will never be able to return to with a fresh take.
If your party doesn't look like this, don't you dere to invite me!
I think it's interesting how their slide reels are all ring-shaped. Elegy to the Rings could reference both the planet's rings, and the slide reel rings.
That’s genius, never thought of that!
woah
And the Stranger, another world they abandoned, is itself a ringworld. I doubt they want to remember that one, though...
I've always loved how mournful and sad the Elegy for the Rings song sounds. I really feel their sorrow for the lost homeworld.
The Echoes of the eye is so lore vast and amazing for a DLC, probably one of if not the best dlc out there.
see, i never wondered what they were doing. i thought they were just having a chill choir night to sing and remember old times. only for a wack lil frog to run in and ruin the moment.
That's wonderful. The game came out 6 years ago and there are still somethong new to find or explain. Thank you for giving us this 8 minutes of our homeworld
5 years 1 month 28 days actually 🤓
Thanks for joining me for those 8 minutes!
1:00 "our disregard for life is threefold" is a sentence i did not expect to understand
::D
I had no idea the Hotel Owlk looking to reels turned off the projection if you focused your lantern on it... Amazing detail. As time passes on, I love this game more and more.
I felt the same way! The more I learned about it the more I loved it!
@@TheLoreExplorer I saw them turn it off and heard them growl and I took off cuz I thought the owlk was going to come after me for interrupting, LOL!
Another possibility is that they congregate there to pay their respects to the forbidden knowledge without actually accessing it (or at least they originally chose this location with such intention, likely forgetting it by this point), much like the quantum pilgrimage of the Nomai brings them as close to the Eye as possible without allowing them to reach it. The difference, of course, being that there is nothing stopping them from doing it in the inhabitants' case other than the mental barriers they've set for themselves. Fitting, given the themes of EOTE.
Part of me wonders how hastily the Stranger was constructed. My theory is that some sections of the simulation may only be partially finished. Unlike the other failsafes of the sim, this section in the Party House could just have a temporary fire wall (pun intended) that the inhabitants need to guard manually to prevent intrusion. Having the elder standing directly in front of it helps to ensure no one else gets any ideas like the Prisoner did to try and access the Forbidden Archives.
I dont really think thats the case. The sim seems to be coded via staff based off their thoughts. I think its probably pretty well "thought through"! ::D
I don't think The Stranger was constructed hastily, I think it took many, many years.
Hey, I'm new in this place, but I've already seen a couple of your videos. I have to mention that the level of effort and detail that this game has is incredible. One thing that seems interesting to me is the fact that the trees in the outer wilds are very op organisms because according to what we see they are capable of colonizing various inhospitable places and developing perfectly (an example of this, inside the comet we find Nomai trees) and adding to it the fact that they seem to survive for centuries (the Nomai trees in the hanging city in Brittle Hollow or those found on the Nomai ship).
If you look closely youll notice those trees are sort of special. The bark of the tree is multicolored. You can find the plants origin in the vessel. The Nomai sort of spliced and engineered them to be so sturdy and long lasting because they needed a plant that will provide them oxygen while exploring space!
It's interesting that in the main game, it's all about exploring- facing the dangers of leaving home and going out into the unknown. And overcoming your fears allows you to find the truths out there. In the DLC, on the stranger, it's all about journeying inward to find things that are hidden. About what happens to the truths you already know when you don't overcome those fears.
In certain branches of psychology there's an idea that truth is health, and that the thing you most need to find is in the place you least want to look. That there are parts of yourself, or of your culture in general, that are unconscious and un-seeable. It's technical name is the "shadow", and that it is what you "project" onto the world around you. That the fears and frustrations inside you are the things you see everywhere in the world.
On the stranger, the visuals are all about literal projections and shadows. All tied to Falsehoods, memories, longing. To the extent that if you walk away from the lantern literally projecting the dream world around you, all of the shadows go away and you can see everything for what it is. And the deeper you look into their secrets, the closer you get to finding what they're hiding, the more fear you need to face to overcome it.
They were living in regret over everything they lost and their fear and resentment about what they believe the Eye to be. They are so angry and hurt they literally built a dream world to hide away in. When someone finally decided the truth about the Eye needed to be known by others, they buried him in the deepest darkest place they had and then left him there to be forgotten.
That's why the prisoner is at peace when you tell him everything that had happened because of what he did. Bringing the truth about everything to light allowed him to let go of all the regret and hurt he felt from the thousand of years spent all alone, never truly knowing if he did the right thing.
Interesting theory... that's a possibility I hadn't considered. The best theory I'd thought of was that they were gathering because they *knew* the dam was damaged and about to break. Some of them could have been getting reports on conditions in the real world, instead of trying to forget it existed.
Consider that the dam only started breaking down after the solar sails were deployed, while this party definitely starts before that happens.
@@Vijver mabye they detect the supernova;s approach? and relies that the outside world hasnt been maintained. so theirs no telling how the jostle from the sails opening would effect them? i dunno.
@@redsapling253 you can actually go to the control panel of the Stranger, and the screen there will show an indicator of the supernova's progression. Seems to me like they set that up to automatically detect the supernova and deploy the sails without the need to inform the Strangers. They just didn't anticipate that the momentary lapse in power (the sails deploying uses a lot of it) was enough to critically weaken the dam.
i tried to explore this sub-area first, and sadly it gave me a really bad impression of the DLC. i dont think it was bad, it just really threw off my expectations with how different it felt from the main game, with the survival horror aspects and the claustrophobic level design which, to be clear, does a great job of making it feel more unsettling. i'm sure i would have it liked it more after i had visited the other areas and got a better grasp on the "rules", and i wish i hadnt reacted like that - it stopped me from enjoying the other segments nearly as much
i really struggled with the stealth/horror aspects too. i had to take like a 6 month break from the game, but when I came back I loved it even more
It really is strikingly different. I feel like it holds up on its own but when you come in expecting more base game it really does throw you off.
@@TheLoreExplorer yeah, 100%. i appreciated it a lot more looking back, especially having watched your video - i didn't realise just how many details there are in one small area. the series of mural you show at 5:09 was one of the most moving moments for me in the whole game
Wow. Thank you. Thats so kind. One of my favorite parts of the game came in an update for the dlc as well. The mural they added in the prisoners house in the sim. Its just....amazing
An elegy is a lament for the dead, they ruined their home pursuing the eye only to find it ends life. They are mourning the death of their home and how there is no way to return
Love your videos, and this theory is very interesting!
Glad you like them!
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They also seem to be traveling there in secret through the hidden passage
Is it actually supposed to be secret though? Or is it only so seemingly secret because we arrive at night where you can't see so well?
All the inhabitants seems to know exactly where it is after all, even at night, so it's likely they've gone there many times before during the day.
These Owlks scare the ever-living shaiza out of me, but I do respect them. Lovely beasts.
I still cant beleive this game is real. Every choice they made had some story signifigance.
I agree and i wish i didnt because every new thing i learn about them makes me indescribably sad. Your attention to detail is always asounding though i love it
I'm glad you're back.. a video idea I have for you is, why do the innhabitants look "younger" even tho irl they look.. well.. dead. And how does the simulation know how the hatchling looks, cuz we know the simulation isn't an actual place and just a programmed world.
That indeed is an interesting topic! I’ll add it to the list.
To answer the question(which you’ve probably thought through a bit). The inhabitants staff has the power to scan things. But it isn’t because of the staff. It’s the fire. The fire scanned the inhabitants at the age they entered. As we see in reels they were as they look in sim. This same fire scans us as we enter. And boom! We enter as is! ::D.
Thanks so much for the comment!
Completely unrelated to this video’s topic but there’s something i just realised about outer wilds
If you ever return to the Observatory on Timber Hearth after the first loop is over, Hal and Hornfels will be at the Nomai statue, discussing how it’s eyes are now open
This means that at the beginning of every loop, one or both of them had to have gone past the statue since otherwise they wouldn’t see it with its eyes open in following loops
Which means that if they were just a bit slower, there’s a high chance the statue could’ve connected to THEM instead of the Hatchling once the probe found the Eye, which means we were extremely lucky to even be the one to connect to the nomai statue
How facinating is that?
This video makes me feel bad for them. But I can't help but still question why they attack us? The only thing I can think of is that they don't want us snooping around their stuff. Otherwise, why not think of us as their friends. If we don't do anything to them, why should they do that to us?
Yeah. Thats a large part of it. They dont want us to find any of their secrets. But after their experience with the eye the inhabitants have become afraid of the unknown.
If we take the warp core and die to enter the simulation, we get a special ending in which they stop trying to deload us and just accept us as part of the sim. But this is after so long of not trying to find the secrets. They arent mean or bad at heart. Just scared.
I played the DLC with VR and omg its fucking terrifying. The DLC for me was not too much when playng on PC but on VR I cannot with the fucking owl people
Hey dude it's good to see you back.
Would you be open to doing lore videos on Rain World? It has a similar vibe to outer wilds and I'd love to see your thoughts on it.
Yes! That'd be incredible!
ya know. Someone did randomly send me a a steam key for it through email recently. I can at least promise to play it and see what I think ::D
@@TheLoreExplorer I follow a bunch of Dark souls/Fromsoft lore creators too, and watching some of the stuff they branch out too and analyze as deeply as dark souls is awesome.
Outer Wilds will never stop being special and I'll always be back for more of your videos on it, but don't be afraid to explore a bit. It's your name after all.
People don't watch your videos because they're about Outer Wilds, they watch them because you made them! Can't wait for your next upload
I have never thought it was a party, but a ritual ceremony because the song was too sad for beeing a celebration. It was melancolic et even if, at the end, all you desire is to hear their scream when they die after they have prevented to access to the Forbidden Archives (or if, like me, you are an historian with a degree who hate the autodafes or censury), you can only to be sad, hearing this song.
I saw sometime many similarities between the Strangers and the Nomaïs in their careless quest of the Eye.
The Strangers have give up everything they have destoyed their own planet, not giving themselves the way to return because their faith, to go for this "Promised" Eye of the Universe. It's a total faith, crazy for not doubt about their discovery. They have a religious rapport based on the belief on It, building church (and burning them)...
The Nomaï have a part of this crazy quest of verity : they have shrine to ask questions about the nature of the Eye : Good ? Bad ? Indiffernet ? Shearching Chosen Ones ? But, big difference, their talks are metaphysics, scientifics, philosophic. they don't believe a truth, they ask questions and accept it, like Solanum who, when a child, thought the Eye bad to have killed her clan, but who, after many question, have decided to shearche the true. Shearching the truth is the religion of the Nomai, it doesn't matter if this truth is horrible (end of the Universe) or good (you will give birth to a new universe by your experiences).
But they have a part of crazyness in them for their quest of knowledge.The Vessel has made its distorsions without the Captain attempts to call the others clans, and because they can't lost time, they don't verify their coordonates and they have finished in Sombronce... They are totally crazy : they jump in Black Hole by pleasure, theses crazies idiots and their plan was to explode the sun in Supernova. Yes, it's working, but it's a little radical as a plan !
Howewer, before the Big plan, they have asked question about the ethic, promised to stop if the project had the ltllest risk to destroy everything, choosing another mine because they didn't want to prevent the cute creatures in the water to evolve (in the Atriens). They have a big respect for all form of knowledge. It's their religion and it wont disapoint them never, even if it's harsh truth.
The Strangers burn their knowledge when the truth doesn't equal their belief and don't accept it (except one).
But, faith and reason has driven an Atrien, shearching the truth, to go in the Eye of the Universe. The both forms of thoughts aren't so dissimilars.
Rejoice, for our lord hath returned!
And here I thought they were gathered to scare me into screaming out loud! 😅
Well , that too! ::D
I did a big double take seeing the title of this video. Completely independently, in my recent first playthrough, I called the ritual rooms/buildings “party houses” since, well, that’s where all the Owlks seemed to go to party around a bonfire before they died. I had no idea people used that term to refer to what I referred to in my head as the “music house”. 😂
I have a theory: there are 3 archives that was sent to the dream world. We don't know what was there, but we have one story slides from each section. The first one is about the Ringed Planet, the second about the travel to the Eye and the third about creation of the Dream World. What if all other slides are also from these periods respectfully? Which means owlks have free access to the recordings of the first period (homeworld), but they locked the other two (travel and simulation), because they want to remember the Ringed Planet, but don't want to rewatch what happens next?
It would make a lot of sense if it were time based. But I dont know about the last part. Remembering their home planet any furthur than the fake one in their sky it would just remind them of things they want to forget
@@TheLoreExplorer they don't want to forget their homeworld, they want to forget it's loss. Rewatching old recordings would help them remember their home and believe they are still there. That would be the reason they return to the first archive over and over
I wonder if they knew the universe was dying, and that's why they gathered there one last time
Love your content bro keep it up!
Glad you enjoy it!
Imagine if you timed it for the exact moment of the tidal wave...
[PartyOwlkLeader]: Begone, outsider!
_PartyOwlkLeader (and 4 others) left the game (Kicked: Artifact Extinguished)_
_PartyOwlkLeader (and 4 others) were banned! (Banned: Player body deceased)_
[Hatchling]: ........ok then?
lmao mutant owlk
or actually looks like two tried to fight for you 💀
love to see more videos from you
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Great video dude, keep it up :)
Thank you for the kind words!
I've never played a game like this,its special ❤
Agreed
HE CAME BACK
My theory was that this inhabitants knew that the dam would break and so they joined together in one last song.
I always thought it was a concert, because they’ve been in the simulation for hundreds of thousands of years, I assumed it was one of the ways they entertained themselves.
I do think your idea had merit though, never really considered that possibility.
Another great video! Keep it up!!!
Why does this world feel so depressing? Is it always night time? Do the Owlks always act this sad and on alert? Everyone just seems so scared and sad. And for good reason too
If you look at the horizon at the end of the loop you will see the sun starting to raise. But , yeah. They usually act that way.
I wouldn't for the life of me figure out how to get through the owlks in that house without a guide...
Yeah. They dont always makes things easy. I had to look up a couple things in the base game. I wouldve never figured out how to enter the quantum tower on brittle hollow. Do nothing. Who would think of such a thing? ::D
@@TheLoreExploreri have. one *crazy*, motherfucking story to tell.
one time i was on brittle hollow just explorin around looking for something new learn, and then i saw the funny underground tower with an incomplate path, ive seen it a couple times by now so i was like "welp why not give it a shot".
i tried jumping and jetpacking, and it didnt work, and then i tried to wedge my ship through the holes in the outer rock wall. it was so miserable that i had to carefully analyze each hole for like 2 minutes to see which one had the biggest chance of my ship fitting through so i could land it on the gravity path, and i chose the one on the side of elevator because it looked like the biggest.
after spending almost the entire loop rotating and shuffling and nudging my ship around that one hole, i heard a really loud bang and then noticed that my vision was a little off, "why is the bottom of my screen.. warped?? hold on am i actually-"
*SHWOOM*
"oh, thats how you do it."
it was right then and there that the end times theme played, and i hurriedly scanned all the shit inside that tower.
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I agree that they may be getting ready to go down and watch some reels (Owlk movie night). I don't agree that the archives weren't general knowledge in the Owlk community. Since all reels were available in the real world until the prisoner released the signal (unless i misremember?). I think all the security for the archives are just for the off chance that someone finds the ring-world. I mean, cloaking to stop inhabitants makes no sense, and presumably (my understanding) all the Owlks worked together to make the simulation. And we don't know their language, so the name "the forbidden archives" is just made up by the hatchling.
Hmm. I see why you say that. But the entire point of those measures are to forget about them over time. So they can believe the sim is the real world. So the cloaking would go in this vein. They’d stay so long in the sim without using them they’d forget the cloaked passageways. And hopefully the archives themselves.
I have an interview with a couple of the devs after the dlc came out. You may find it interesting!
Is there a content difference between what's in the vaults? Might be that this is where they put the reels they wanted to remember, and the other vaults are where they put the reels they wanted to forget.
From what we see there is only one different reel in each. The rest of the reels have the same images we see in every archive. But considering how many there are this is just a design choice. My guess is they are all basically identical except they each house one unique reel regarding their story.
But consider it this way. They want to forget all the reels. Even ones of good times. Because they want to forget they are in a sim. And no matter which way you cut it the reels documented from their time in the real world is the antithesis of that.
Hell yeah!!!
Where did this channel go
@@Splatcake this video was only posted about a month ago. As of right now I’m learning how to make custom animations and scenes like you saw in this video to make better videos!
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Why, if you send a scout to a black hole inside the planet, the signal is cut off, even if you go through the black hole yourself?
personally, i believe its because that scout is sent to a parallel universe.
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I love your videos. It's a shame I have to use Spanish subtitles to understand your videos.
@@kitsu2310 is there anything else that would better help you understand them?
@@TheLoreExplorer no
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Do the owelks know they are dead in the real world
Its a nuanced question. The goal of the sim is to make them forget about the real world. So ideally , no. They would have forgotten a real world or separate living body even exists. In practice its hard to say if it worked for everyone. I think some do remember though. Such as the owelks we find in the party house and the prisoner.
@@TheLoreExplorer It’s a weird concept to me, I know they eventually stopped coming back in the real world
But them dying makes it pretty dangerous let’s say one of them wants to wake up for some odd reason and extinguish their lights. I found nothing about it but I think at least one would have died trying it. Perhaps they know they’ve been in for way too long and are too scared to try it.
Im guessing they used to wake up using the bell and one day it stopped working and so they never came back.
They go great length to forget about the end and make themselves feel safe but their confort zone is pretty much a prison in disguise they definitely did not forget.
Time is a strange thing. At some point reality would just be the sim. The bells would be something to avoid on fear of death. They would have essentially evolved into a new reality where your lantern is your lifeblood.
For the prisoner it is even more so a prison. A single tower. But as you mention the two aren’t that different. The sim is just a slightly larger version of the prisoners vault.
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yoooooooo they took this game off ps plus literally the day after i beat it 😭😭😭