Fear and Hunger - The Crow Mauler and the God of the Depths
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2024
- Music Used:
- Fear and Hunger OST: Prelude to darkness
- Fear and Hunger OST: God of the depths
- Fear and Hunger 2 Termina OST: Save room theme
- Cry of Fear OST: Crow
- Aphix Twin - Tree
- Jimena Contrares - Hopeless
- Fear and Hunger OST: Fear and Hunger
- Fear and Hunger 2 Termina OST: Memories - Ігри
Ran a dnd campaign a few days ago. The party traversed into a dark catacombs looking for the towns missing children, and when they delved deep enough into the darkness I played the *a terrifying presence has entered the room* sound file.
One of my players let out an audible and fearful sob. I had no idea she even knew about the game and she shouted to the other players "We need to get out of here, we need to get out of here RIGHT F@#KING NOW!"
On my first ever run where I really had to deal with the Crow Mauler I was the Dark Priest, with a resurrected skeleton and the little girl. After getting tired of getting killed by him I came up with this strategy: I cast pheromones on the skeleton just because I figured he was the most disposable, had the girl throw a red vial in his face to cut down his accuracy. What I didn't realize until later is that skeletons are actually immune to blindness because they already don't have eyes. Meaning that basically the whole fight I was free to chip away at the crow mauler's body while he just whiffed trying to hit my skeleton over and over again. (I was a dark priest and ghoul marriage so I was able to use a weapon that doesn't suck)
I used to think of Rudimer as a good or decent person. You're right though. He had power, authority, and martial skill, but failed to actually do anything about the evil things he witnessed.
Rudimer was a good person. But his loyalty was abused by forcing him to operate with no ability to make his own judgements in a place that is heavy with the spectre of terror and hunger. It wasn't just the prisoners that were being mentally broken.
this goes hard I didn't even realize that the crow mauler had lore
I mean, you should if you've played the game
@@eeavwinex7869 I'm a speedrunner I'm not looking at lore
@@thiev7 THEN WHY PLAY THE GAME LMAOOO 💀💀💀
@@eeavwinex7869 ??? am i not allowed to play the game bc I like going fast???
@@thiev7 no oc not I'm just saying that your missing out on a lot of a game and a core part of an experience if all you do is go fast
Heh, I think you are doing Rudimer a bit of injustice. More likely than not regarding Troturer and the Dark Priests the main issue was that he WANTED to act, but while being the Commander he had explicit orders NOT to interfere with them and lend them any and all support. The former was/is afterall a famed Knight and Warhero and his scientific contributions are noteable, not to mention that the creation of the penance Knights of the Holy See were only possible due to his 'scientific research'.
The part with the Dark Priests is probably conjecture, but my guess is that the rulers of Rondon were growing desperate with the Plague and it IS undeniable that the Dark Priests posess great knowledge and are... 'unburdened' by most scrouples that the vast majority of other people would have in the pursuit of knowledge and power.
Besides, both Ludwig and Seymour mention that Rudimer is a rather brave and tough man, then again, Ludwig isnt one to talk bravery and so we cant know for sure.
Ultimately Rudimer is a man who by ordinary means found himself locked in a supposedly prestigous position, but without the authority to act the way he wanted (and possibly needed) to, while unable to defy the orders of his hire ups. Chances are if he would have acted against the Dark Priests and/or Trotur he might have ended up in one of those cells.
And how would have/could have he fought the spreading madness and erosion of sanity and order all around him while time itself seems to have become a blurr?
The whole aspect about the banality of evil DOES suit quite well. It's a typical case of men who are considered to be honorable and brave, find themselves forced to stay their hand in the face of evil that disgusts them due to their own bonds of loyalty and duty that make up who and what they are, while forcing them to ignore atrocities right in front of them.
Orders are orders afterall and a good Soldier follows orders and a good officer understands the importance of the chain of command that bind them all, with only the rarest circumstances that allow one to go beyond that or make one's own decisions.
Also I want to point out that ALL Prisons are ultimately places of misery, hatred, pain and suffering - more so in medieval fantasy settings where there arent any guiding principles of human rights and were torture tends to be a common tool in the pursuit of truth in the justice system.
Then again you might have a point there, however I think like many things in the game it's meant to be ambigous and lacking a definite answer.
All in all, good video man, keep em coming! :D
Yeah probably should have elaborated what I meant more. So I think if you put Rudimer in a battlefield and tell him to kill the enemy, he'd do so without a problem. But ask him to make a morale decision on his own terms, and he buckles. I think I say in the video that being the captain of the dungeon was a doomed task for anyone from the start, and Rudimer definitely has a lot going against him, including his own nation and the religious institution of the vatican. Termina goes into a lot more detail on how society and systems can effect individual behavior. I'll admit I still wrestle with the question of what kind of character Rudimer is. I think Rudimer is a victim more then anything else, of his circumstances and the dungeon in general. But he's a fascinating character, definitely my favourite overall in the first game.
Yeah the dark priests are heavily influential in Rondon's politics. I do have a video planned that goes into more detail on what I think they're upto, but I'm still in the scripting phase sadly. But they're definitely taking advantage of Rondon's current woes for sure.
In any case thanks for the comment mate! :)
I agree with this take, Rudimer wanted to act but as a soldier, he was a pawn to his superiors who put him at his post in the dungeon. If he acted on his own and got rid of Trotur and Dark Priests, this would result in grave consequences for him. He accepted that he was just a cog in the machine, that could be easily replaced, if he lashed out against the horrors, that resulted in him following his superiors' orders.
He wasn't comfortable with how the dungeon was run and hid his true feelings behind the mask of indifference, as he felt there was nothing he could do. Only when he slipped into the madness as events escalated and the dungeon lost even the semblance of control, he tried to set things right and purge the evil in the dungeon. But he was too late and was crushed by the overwhelming darkness dwelling inside the dungeon.
But I wonder if he truly was too late. I doubt a single mortal with no clue about the bigger picture and cosmic mechanisms running the world of f&h could set things right even if he tried to do so from the beginning when even new gods were powerless to make any change. Even a party of hardened veterans under Buckman went out like sheeps to the slaughter when faced with the monstrosities of the dungeon.
Fate of Rudimer was truly tragic, as he was fated to be a pawn, first to the kingdom of Rondon, and later when this place has utterly corrupted him, a pawn in the hands of the God of the Depths.
great watch!! i’d love to see a part two about the role of active nihilism in f&h!
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Crow playing while talking about the Crow Mauler was unexpected.
Never even played the game, but got dragged in by the storytelling and the great musical choices.
Personally I think the god of the depths represents concepts like decay, and entropy. While in his domain the body and mind deteriorate at a supernatural speed, and physical forms begin to warp and degrade become feral, subhuman creatures. Only carrion eaters and those who feed on rot and decay gain true power under the god of the depths.
Cozy and informative videos, keep them coming ❤
I binged watch all your F & H videos in one go, brilliant analysis. Your humour is fantastic too.
Rudimers one of the nost fantastic characters in the series, complex amd nuanced and not saying a damn word. Well, theres crow cackle but that's brilliant. The horn that plays reminds me of the celtyx war horn used by the Celts, mournful and eerie. It sounds so sad. The notes of that ranged from playful to something like a woman screaming in pain. I love this goddamn game.
Looking forward to more videos.
Excited to watch this! A fear & hunger video from you is always welcomed.
Ooooo these videos are so good. Really shows the (no pun intended) depth of the game's storytelling. I personally havent touched F&H1 outside of videos but i cant wait to play through F&H2 myself
Wow, I had absolutely no idea how much detail went into the whole process with Rudimer, and the stuff involving passive nihilism and Rudimer’s own weakness. I chalked it up to losing madness, but this is a much more interesting and intelligent explanation for why there are still followers of the God of the Depths even in Termina. And that it was out of loyalty to the concepts of active nihilism and erosion of the ego that led to the evolution of Rudimer himself
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I've fallen asleep to this playlist so many times lmao, a chunk of these views are going to be from me alone
The God of the Depths walked so the God of Fear & Hunger could run.
I really love your funger videos, keep doing more!!
One thing i did to prevent the blindness was fighting the crow mauler in a ritual circle with a ghoul in my party, that way if i ever got blind i could just perform a marriage and recover my sight
Good shit bro
I wish there was a skill to... idk... close and guard your fucking eyes when a bunch of birds are about to attack you?
You think your eyelids will protect you from a crow's beak? Since apparently they are trained to blind you, you closing your eyes will at best prevent your eye from being taken out, and instead pummeled into mush.
Another banger video, I'd love to see your take on nashrah since his lines add a lot of context into f&h world
Really enjoyed this, something I can listen to so I can learn about Fear and Hunger in the background while working
Don't be so hard on Rudimer. He was a man of duty who did his best with the orders he was given. I think the point was to break Rudimer's heart so he would become a monster. Otherwise giving orders that tied his hands like that makes no sense.
Hell yeah glad you're still posting. I watched all the other FaH videos in one afternoon heheh
i like how ur playing crow from cry of fear!
I love your video, especially exploration of philosophical perspective, but there is a "e" sound and the end of Nietzsche.
18:31 the b-
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Why is the god of the depths so evil
Oh that why lol