*Corrections:* 52:10 I believe it is now accepted that the term "Sliverist" didn't necessarily refer to an iterator faction which specifically believed that death was the answer. This idea was simply Five Pebbles' personal beliefs. It is more likely that "Sliverist" is more of an umbrella term; for instance, it could just refer to an iterator who studies Sliver of Straw's triple affirmative. Unfortunately, it seems that the term really only became scrutinized a few months after I wrote this script. 59:50 There is a visual error where the dates/events on the timeline are offset by one year. I only noticed it after I had rendered the entire thing :( 1:13:10 Moon technically didn't plummet *straight* down; it was also to the east. You can see this by comparing the maps from Spearmaster to Survivor. *Notes:* At 35:11 I sort of botched my explanation for why Seventeen Axes is placed where they are on the timeline, and since they are important for establishing the more detailed section I figured I would re-elaborate: Assuming Seventeen Axes lived, or at least ascended while Unparalleled Innocence was under construction, they had to be alive before Five Pebbles was constructed. There is no doubt that Unparalleled Innocence is a nearby iterator, since Chasing Wind describes UI as FP's neighbor. When given Rivulet's pearl, Moon has the following dialogue: "This is quite different from what I remember of my own structure. It looks as if it is using the newer lymphatic conduit water distribution system. Only the much later models had these. The only one near here would be Five Pebbles." ...thereby confirming that Five Pebbles was the only recent iterator constructed in the immediate area. And since Seventeen Axes' memories are stored in memory crypts, they almost certainly would have lived on top of Moon. I should also note that the whole "Ancient vs. Benefactor" thing remains a huge pain in my side as someone who wants to simplify/summarize the lore, since it can become so nuanced. While everyone with a PHD in rainworld lore generally agrees that they are two distinct civilizations, just how distinct is highly debatable and the most popular theories seem to constantly shift. While I personally find it highly likely that "ancients" simply refers to distant ancestors to the benefactors (that they are the same species), many will argue otherwise; that they are a completely different, past civilization who had nothing to do with the iterators.
This was more than worth it. It’s so refreshing to see some Rainworld content that isn’t memes or mod showcases. Also, you weren’t wrong about the video topic being perception planet!
Where did you get the quote from moon about the surface being a "sea of mud"? Also isn't rain most likely already deadly even with just 1 iterator? For most of the game there's only five pebbles steam output
@@T11235 for all of the game where the rain has been deadly it was because pebbles was outputting 5 times what was normal, from what I gather all the world has rather inhospitable rain from all the iterators, but maybe not immediately deadly.
Ah yes, having played rain world for 300 hours and having spend countless more learning about the lore and everything rain world has to offer, I will indeed watch another one and a half hours more of the lore, yes
Well, thank you for your performance 👍 I have heard many VA in UA-cam for Pebbles, and you are probably the best so far. It sounds very accurate to me at least ...😙
@@monstrosity598 yeah probably but idk how you would communicate to the audience that Arti is going to commit genocide on top of Pebble's can without having 5P saying it.
This isn't really super relevant but if anyone is curious here is a more "precise" reason why Moon collapsed rather than just "lack of water". One of the broadcasts, basically a status report of Moon's equipment, states this: "No water flow detected in CONDUITS: 03, 04, 07, 09, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23. PRESSURE AT CRITICAL LEVELS IN CONDUIT_04. Rapid cooling will be immediately scheduled for affected nodes. However, quantities of slag run-off may reach dangerous levels. Critical system-wide activities should be temporarily suspended to prevent retroactive damage from resulting seismic shocks". We know very little about the inner workings of iterators, so it is not 100% known what "rapid cooling" or "critical system-wide activities" refers to, but it can be assumed. Rapid cooling probably refers to the use of water to flush out slag from iterator's cans, while the critical system-wide activities are likely simply just processes that require precision and should be postponed until the earthquakes apparently caused by this emergency rapid cooling cease. Now, an analogy. Imagine that the conduits are like giant soft drink bottles and the slag being removed from them is the drink inside. In this example water somehow stops the drink rising out the top of the bottle like it's got mentos in it when the lid is opened. Conduit 4 is like a soft drink bottle that you've shaken up a bunch and is ready to blow. The request to "temporarily suspend critical system-wide activities" is basically telling Moon to move out of the way so she doesn't get sprayed in the face. I'm sure you can guess what might happen if the process that uses water to stop the soft drink from exploding attempts to activate without any water. And I'm sure you can predict the consequence if Moon doesn't have access to any live broadcasts trying to tell her that someone is about to remove the lid and her head is sitting directly over the cap. Yeah. Moon's can basically activated an earthquake directly on top of her and she had no way of knowing it was going to happen because her communications were offline. Without enough water to flush out 10 of her conduits at once, one of which was close to destroying itself, her systems suddenly all completely failed and the subsequent massive amounts of seismic activity slowly decimated one or more of her legs, leading to her collapse onto Shoreline. Given that she is only partially collapsed in Artificer, this process may have taken several cycles of repeated attempts from her can to rid itself of slag. It is possible that her failure to suspended critical system-wide activities resulted in the severing of her umbilical and left her unconscious and unable to prevent her total collapse.
This is a really cool theory, I always thought it was something else entirely Remember how in one of the pearls moon states that the reason structures don’t get destroyed in the rain is because they have microbes that replenish them. Well when moon stopped getting water and more importantly had a bunch of chemical imbalances and build up of just generally undesirable stuff, her Rarefaction cell started to fail like how you see at the end of the cycles, or in pebbles at certain points in the timeline. And even if it only happened for a relatively short amount of time, over the course of a couple cycles the absolutely crushing weight of her partially unsupported can destroyed her legs, and without any way to “heal” the damages sustained like how pebbles could, eventually it just started to crumble and collapse. That is not only the reason why she fell much slower, because it was a very gradual process, but it also explains why her chamber is mostly intact, because it seems like either the puppet chamber can keep it’s gravity on significantly longer than any other area in the can when major damages occur
I think it's really interesting how despite wanting to depart forever, the desire to be remembered lingers in them as it does for a lot of humans. Who do they want to remember them? I also wanna mention how eerie of a visual the global ascension is in my head. A mass amount of people just going into pools and just vanishing forever. It's very bizarre.
I noticed that Pebbles was talked over when he asked about where Wind heard the Erratic Pulse allegations from. Moon had to repeat his question, and only then was it answered.
This is genuinely _the_ best, most accurate RW lore video ever made! It manages to avoid so many of the pitfalls that other lore videos usually succumb to, like calling the Benefactors "The Ancients" when that name actually belongs to the civilization who built the Depths, or thinking that the Great Problem was about the Echoes when really it was about helping the lesser creatures ascend. I only wish it had taken the time to mention some of the more mysterious elements of the lore, like what happens after ascension or what the hell is going on in the Saint campaign's ending, but I understand if this video wanted to keep speculation to a minimum and just focus on what we know for certain.
This means that Spearmaster is like 500 years old, given that it is implied that Spearmaster also delivered the illegal information from Suns to Pebbles back in the 1630s.
either that or the Spearmaster we play as is a clone or newer copy of that original messenger. although given SRS's seeming affection to Spearmaster, the perhaps SRS is keeping them alive via unknown means. Or alternatively Spearmaster is put into some form of stasis until needed.
The fact that the Seventeen Axes pearl, one of the funniest and most stupid pearls (hell maybe straight up one of the funniest pieces of dialogue) in the entire game, is so important to the lore and timeline is hilarious to me.
This is an absolutely fantastic video, from how informative and well structured everything is to the excellently done visuals. The addition of stellar voice work and the inclusion of the community in both art and vocals was a perfect touch. In a way this video doesn't just explore and explain the lore of Rainworld, but also shows off the community that has be drawn in by such engrossing lore. Well done, truly.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I really appreciate the community post too. Your rain world videos have to be some of the most hilarious and entertaining ones I've seen, and always made me laugh out loud. Keep up the good work!
41:00 The more I think about "Public Ascension" the more I'm disturbed by it. It reminds me of the forced mass suicide (genocide) scene in Destiny 2, when the Precursor race "exuviated" to become The Witness. Many were not willing participants and, like the Rainworld's Echos, were trapped in suffering for billions of years. I can imagine those last desperate hours, as everyone, willing or not, was forced to "ascend".
PPS> Here's the dialogue from an Echo who was a dissenter of Public Ascension, showing that whatever happened wasn't universally approved: Do you see the same as me? Beauty continuing to bloom even in a place long forgotten. I did not have the will to depart, nor the desire. Why did they always search for an escape, as if we were imprisoned? What offering from the void could usurp the gift of life already given? This moment, right here! It is where we are meant to be.
i doubt there was forced ascension, and i imagined the reluctant ascensions to be more caused by stuff like peer pressure, and well, the reality of being alone after everything and everyone else you know is already gone. nothing else within the text really gives us the impression that they were the kind of society to force ascension upon its citizens. the shaded pearl from base game, as well as the exterior pearl atop the wall are the main pieces of evidence for this, we know that as a society they encouraged and supported debates, not only between themselves but even with five pebbles. they had tournaments, festivals, art and culture, and honestly i imagine them pretty alike to our own society. even regarding the cycle, they were never able to come together on a single definition to it, and could only all agree that it existed in the first place. i also personally dont really see echoes as some sort of "divinely punished" beings, some of them sound pretty chill about their situations, and interestingly enough id say that the undergrowth echo from saint is another example of this, if anything they sound quite content with their reality as an echo
This is actually quite incredible. I'm already learning a bunch of stuff in the first couple of minutes, even as someone who is pretty knowledgeable about Rain World, and its lore. (Though a lot of the info is speculative, but they're speculations grounded in facts, I'd say. Like, there's a lot that supports them, and they're highly likely to be correct. I can tell that a lot of research went into this, and I have a ton of respect for that) Once again, thanks a lot for giving out so many great voice acting roles to so many of us! It's been a lil while since I took part in a VA project myself, and I haven't really done many Echoes or Iterators before, so it was a blast! If any of you are looking for VAs, or someone to do voiceover-related requests, feel free to reach out to me, or any of the other folks that appeared in the video. I'd love to record more stuff, and I'm sure most of them would, too! ^ . ^
Criminally underrated. The lore of this game is very confusing to most people, and such a comprehensive guide as this is EXTREMELY impressive. I'm pretty good with the lore, and yet there's a lot in here that I had never seen before! Everyone who worked on this did an amazing job. ❤
There are some other great Rain World Lore videos around that go super in depth into everything, so at first I doubted that this video would add much, not that that was going to stop me! But this was a great video and I was wrong! You presented this very well, almost documentary-like. You passed by a lot of what has been rehashed over and over again, and got straight to the history. Your inclusion of a timeline was great!
I have say this has got to be the absolute BEST lore videos I have ever seen for this game. Thank you so much for making this. It's very clear the passion and effort you put into this.
All of this is very well done. I didn't expect the sources and the names of the artists that made the images that you used on your video. That helps them in the way that people can find their art easier. All of this is in documental level
New favorite Rain World Lore Video!! It was entertaining and actually quite informative all throught even as someone who I think knows the lore somewhat well It managed to suprise me with new information!
Hey I just want to say that this is very soothing and interesting, you captured the sense of a fading world so perfectly in your script and dialogue. I was able to fall asleep very deeply to this with many interesting thoughts about cycles and clinging to illusion. Thank you so much for making this.
Even though the video "The Affairs of Passing gods" is about the same of this video. This video is still criminally underrated for the amount of effort there is put into this.
If the 4 digit dates mean the number of 1000 cicles, then one of the earliest dates (1510 for exp) would be 1510*1000(cicles)*4(days in a cicle)/356(to compare to real earth time), which translates to roughly 17 000 years (earth years) which is a long time for cicles to have existed until up to that point, and it wouldn't make sense for the benefactors to measure time that way before cicles existed, unless the iterator were programmed to operate their steam release once (or at least syncronised) per cicle. Although, if iterators take around 100 earth years to be built (based on 5P building time), assuming that many were buing built at the same time, it's not impossible to speculate that thousands were made.
following up, it's weird that spearmasters campaign is 1681 and hunter's is 1684, which is around 34 years (earth), but the damage observed in the meantime couldn't have been made in such a short time, or at least the damage looks like it would take way longer considering the differense between waterfront and shoreline. Idk
and im only saying this because, even though the degradation would be accentuated by the heavy rain, onther places observed through the main regions suffer little to no damage, exept for garbage wastes, but that region was being trash dumped so it's justified. however it could be argued that since moon had lost power, the materials stopped being self repairing (or self manteining) like in other places.
fantastic video, i genuinely think this is gonna be one of my three comfort videos. its so in depth about literally everything, even if it makes me a lil sad at the end. if i had the creativity and motivation, id totally put together a game to tell such an interesting and detailed story, all because of how youve got it all worked out and layed on front of me; and i can imagine so many others think the same way. i pray for your success
wow! another huge rainworld video :D i love these things. these feed me. this better do as well as your other lore videos, because i sure know its going to be as good.
I loved this, it filled me with so many emotions, though it does feel like you glossed over the saint campaign. But I guess this was not a place to say things that are just theories. Like how saint might be the great solution.
This video is amazing. The editing, artwork, and soothing narration. . . the immense effort and dedication shows. I can't tell you how many times I've watched the previous one to this, A not so brief history of the Ancients. Can't wait to rewatch this video several dozen times too. Love from the Philippines!
i mean i wouldn't say that mentioning the fact that Downpour is an alternate canon devalues it in anyway, its just meaningful context to its existence as an officially integrated modded work. i get that people hear "separate canon" and they think it means people are saying DP is meaningless but its just there to respect the different intentions behind it all yknow, nothing more. think about what "canon" means anyway, everything is canon to itself to begin with, and someone's enjoyment of something "uncanon" isnt any less than the enjoyment of "canon" lol. these words are more meaningless than we realize, in reality as long as we acknowledge the differing intentions and situations of the developers that's really all that matters :) at the end of the day we have two cakes in front of us, and all taste buds are valid
@@slugfishh Yeah. If someone thinks Downpour to not be canon, I respect their opinion, though I don't agree with them. My problem is when people state it like it's a fact (I.e, Drought team).
22:48 ahh...free at last. Oh Gabriel, now dawns thy reckoning, and thy gore shall GLISTEN before the remind of man. Creature of steel, my gratitude upon thee for my freedom. But the crimes thy kind has committed against humanity are NOT forgotten and thy punishment... Is death!
The actual slugcat lore got mostly brushed over, only the bits that directly impacted the iterators got mentioned. Other than that this is an absolutely amazing video that compiles all of the cryptic lore into one feature-length, easy to understand, documentary. 😺👍
watched the whole thing while playing rain world, Got sniped by a scavenger first time at the toll and then died at the gate while it was flooding because i didn't have enough karma. I was on easy mode
i kinda want to animate a little part of the story (just some small snimations of the iterators and how moon is crashing e.t.c.) and put the voice over it
Lets see what watcher DLC gonna tell Another game that tackles the same philosophy is called ice pick lodge the void The chain is infinite Every reality has different rules and life but what they all in common is life must always exist even in the void
First of all, marvelous job on the video, amazing production and narration. I still feel like I don't understand how exactly does the rain work in RW. So far I have 3 theories on it: 1) It's only lethal in the 5P & LttM region because of having two iterators next to each over. But then, after LttM collapses the rain would have returned back to it's normal state? 2) The rain is lethal around any iterator structure, but only in (relatively) close proximity of one. This seems to be the version implied in the Downpour DLC. However, if this is the case, then why build the Retaining wall? 3) The lethal rain is a global phenomena. Again, then what would be the purpose of the Retaining wall? Perhaps the nature of the rain shifted due to the degradation of the iterator structures? This might explain some discrepancies in those theories, but I still have no idea which one is the correct one.
How has nobody realized that saint is the solution or purposed organism that killed sliver of straws shortly after being created and then went around pulverizing everything.
1. that's not really how the solution worked, the big problem was not to just ascend the fauna of the world, but basically unravel the fabric of the universe to end the cycle once and for all. even within saint, we get the understanding from the echoes that this is not an end, but a new beginning. saint is about as effective as carrying around a vat of void fluid lol 2. challenges arent canon, SOS boss battle was a fun touhou reference 3. downpour devs have confirmed that saint never met SOS, and was born much after they were already gone and dead
.... Thank you OH MY GOD... ONLY 605 LIKES??? A disgrace upon the souls of these ignorant eyes who have not seen this! I must ask, is there a image of the full timeline with timepoints and such? (minus saint campaign starting being visualized- we'd need to construct a iterator to be able to process that amount...) Might not be clear enough, so if needed, I will elaborate! (or I might've missed it somewhere...) I just realized I sat watching this entire video for a hour and a half.... good stuff.
![[OLD] A (not so) Brief History of the Ancients | Rain World Downpour Lore](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/tptVamYBXnw/mqdefault.jpg)
*Corrections:*
52:10 I believe it is now accepted that the term "Sliverist" didn't necessarily refer to an iterator faction which specifically believed that death was the answer. This idea was simply Five Pebbles' personal beliefs. It is more likely that "Sliverist" is more of an umbrella term; for instance, it could just refer to an iterator who studies Sliver of Straw's triple affirmative. Unfortunately, it seems that the term really only became scrutinized a few months after I wrote this script.
59:50 There is a visual error where the dates/events on the timeline are offset by one year. I only noticed it after I had rendered the entire thing :(
1:13:10 Moon technically didn't plummet *straight* down; it was also to the east. You can see this by comparing the maps from Spearmaster to Survivor.
*Notes:*
At 35:11 I sort of botched my explanation for why Seventeen Axes is placed where they are on the timeline, and since they are important for establishing the more detailed section I figured I would re-elaborate:
Assuming Seventeen Axes lived, or at least ascended while Unparalleled Innocence was under construction, they had to be alive before Five Pebbles was constructed. There is no doubt that Unparalleled Innocence is a nearby iterator, since Chasing Wind describes UI as FP's neighbor. When given Rivulet's pearl, Moon has the following dialogue:
"This is quite different from what I remember of my own structure. It looks as if it is using the newer lymphatic conduit water distribution system. Only the much later models had these. The only one near here would be Five Pebbles."
...thereby confirming that Five Pebbles was the only recent iterator constructed in the immediate area. And since Seventeen Axes' memories are stored in memory crypts, they almost certainly would have lived on top of Moon.
I should also note that the whole "Ancient vs. Benefactor" thing remains a huge pain in my side as someone who wants to simplify/summarize the lore, since it can become so nuanced. While everyone with a PHD in rainworld lore generally agrees that they are two distinct civilizations, just how distinct is highly debatable and the most popular theories seem to constantly shift. While I personally find it highly likely that "ancients" simply refers to distant ancestors to the benefactors (that they are the same species), many will argue otherwise; that they are a completely different, past civilization who had nothing to do with the iterators.
Thanks for the opportunity to voice act for this project!!! It turned out incredible, and I’m honored to have worked on it :)
This was more than worth it. It’s so refreshing to see some Rainworld content that isn’t memes or mod showcases.
Also, you weren’t wrong about the video topic being perception planet!
Where did you get the quote from moon about the surface being a "sea of mud"? Also isn't rain most likely already deadly even with just 1 iterator? For most of the game there's only five pebbles steam output
RIVULET HAS A FUCKING PEARL?!
@@T11235 for all of the game where the rain has been deadly it was because pebbles was outputting 5 times what was normal, from what I gather all the world has rather inhospitable rain from all the iterators, but maybe not immediately deadly.
Ah yes, having played rain world for 300 hours and having spend countless more learning about the lore and everything rain world has to offer, I will indeed watch another one and a half hours more of the lore, yes
Same, I WANT TO FIND EXACTLY WHAT CYCLE EVERYTHING HAPPENED
Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to voice Looks To The Moon in this!! I had a lot of fun ^^ 🎉💖
You did a wonderful job!!
i recognised your voice instantly from northflowo's videos, your voice for looks to the moon is great
@@ElizaSilent thank you!! ^^
You sound a lot like Bonnie from Adventure Time
Best Moon voice. No contest.
Hey, VA of Five Pebbles here. Really thankful to have been able to do this, the video turned out amazing! Hope you all enjoy it
Well, thank you for your performance 👍
I have heard many VA in UA-cam for Pebbles, and you are probably the best so far. It sounds very accurate to me at least ...😙
@@lhemnenn4713 Thank you!
Wait until the Rain World movie and you'll probably be casted
@@Gb484would you think it would be one of those movies without any voice acting, just vibes
@@monstrosity598 yeah probably but idk how you would communicate to the audience that Arti is going to commit genocide on top of Pebble's can without having 5P saying it.
This isn't really super relevant but if anyone is curious here is a more "precise" reason why Moon collapsed rather than just "lack of water".
One of the broadcasts, basically a status report of Moon's equipment, states this:
"No water flow detected in CONDUITS: 03, 04, 07, 09, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23. PRESSURE AT CRITICAL LEVELS IN CONDUIT_04. Rapid cooling will be immediately scheduled for affected nodes. However, quantities of slag run-off may reach dangerous levels. Critical system-wide activities should be temporarily suspended to prevent retroactive damage from resulting seismic shocks".
We know very little about the inner workings of iterators, so it is not 100% known what "rapid cooling" or "critical system-wide activities" refers to, but it can be assumed. Rapid cooling probably refers to the use of water to flush out slag from iterator's cans, while the critical system-wide activities are likely simply just processes that require precision and should be postponed until the earthquakes apparently caused by this emergency rapid cooling cease.
Now, an analogy. Imagine that the conduits are like giant soft drink bottles and the slag being removed from them is the drink inside. In this example water somehow stops the drink rising out the top of the bottle like it's got mentos in it when the lid is opened. Conduit 4 is like a soft drink bottle that you've shaken up a bunch and is ready to blow. The request to "temporarily suspend critical system-wide activities" is basically telling Moon to move out of the way so she doesn't get sprayed in the face. I'm sure you can guess what might happen if the process that uses water to stop the soft drink from exploding attempts to activate without any water. And I'm sure you can predict the consequence if Moon doesn't have access to any live broadcasts trying to tell her that someone is about to remove the lid and her head is sitting directly over the cap.
Yeah. Moon's can basically activated an earthquake directly on top of her and she had no way of knowing it was going to happen because her communications were offline. Without enough water to flush out 10 of her conduits at once, one of which was close to destroying itself, her systems suddenly all completely failed and the subsequent massive amounts of seismic activity slowly decimated one or more of her legs, leading to her collapse onto Shoreline. Given that she is only partially collapsed in Artificer, this process may have taken several cycles of repeated attempts from her can to rid itself of slag. It is possible that her failure to suspended critical system-wide activities resulted in the severing of her umbilical and left her unconscious and unable to prevent her total collapse.
This is a really cool theory, I always thought it was something else entirely
Remember how in one of the pearls moon states that the reason structures don’t get destroyed in the rain is because they have microbes that replenish them. Well when moon stopped getting water and more importantly had a bunch of chemical imbalances and build up of just generally undesirable stuff, her Rarefaction cell started to fail like how you see at the end of the cycles, or in pebbles at certain points in the timeline. And even if it only happened for a relatively short amount of time, over the course of a couple cycles the absolutely crushing weight of her partially unsupported can destroyed her legs, and without any way to “heal” the damages sustained like how pebbles could, eventually it just started to crumble and collapse. That is not only the reason why she fell much slower, because it was a very gradual process, but it also explains why her chamber is mostly intact, because it seems like either the puppet chamber can keep it’s gravity on significantly longer than any other area in the can when major damages occur
gee i wonder who voiced Six Grains they must be super cool
they sound handsome, exotic and stoic! id only wish to be like them
Hey pebbles sorry about the turbo cancer, get well soon -SRS
I love how egguca is always voicing looks to the moon
I think it's really interesting how despite wanting to depart forever, the desire to be remembered lingers in them as it does for a lot of humans. Who do they want to remember them?
I also wanna mention how eerie of a visual the global ascension is in my head. A mass amount of people just going into pools and just vanishing forever. It's very bizarre.
I noticed that Pebbles was talked over when he asked about where Wind heard the Erratic Pulse allegations from. Moon had to repeat his question, and only then was it answered.
This is genuinely _the_ best, most accurate RW lore video ever made! It manages to avoid so many of the pitfalls that other lore videos usually succumb to, like calling the Benefactors "The Ancients" when that name actually belongs to the civilization who built the Depths, or thinking that the Great Problem was about the Echoes when really it was about helping the lesser creatures ascend. I only wish it had taken the time to mention some of the more mysterious elements of the lore, like what happens after ascension or what the hell is going on in the Saint campaign's ending, but I understand if this video wanted to keep speculation to a minimum and just focus on what we know for certain.
Thanks for letting me be a part of this! Everyone did such a great job! All of the art here is also insanely good too. Thanks UraniumEater!
the name uranium eater being used unironically is so fucking funny to me
This means that Spearmaster is like 500 years old, given that it is implied that Spearmaster also delivered the illegal information from Suns to Pebbles back in the 1630s.
either that or the Spearmaster we play as is a clone or newer copy of that original messenger. although given SRS's seeming affection to Spearmaster, the perhaps SRS is keeping them alive via unknown means. Or alternatively Spearmaster is put into some form of stasis until needed.
The fact that the Seventeen Axes pearl, one of the funniest and most stupid pearls (hell maybe straight up one of the funniest pieces of dialogue) in the entire game, is so important to the lore and timeline is hilarious to me.
This is an absolutely fantastic video, from how informative and well structured everything is to the excellently done visuals. The addition of stellar voice work and the inclusion of the community in both art and vocals was a perfect touch. In a way this video doesn't just explore and explain the lore of Rainworld, but also shows off the community that has be drawn in by such engrossing lore. Well done, truly.
Povketz my beloved.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I really appreciate the community post too. Your rain world videos have to be some of the most hilarious and entertaining ones I've seen, and always made me laugh out loud. Keep up the good work!
41:00 The more I think about "Public Ascension" the more I'm disturbed by it. It reminds me of the forced mass suicide (genocide) scene in Destiny 2, when the Precursor race "exuviated" to become The Witness. Many were not willing participants and, like the Rainworld's Echos, were trapped in suffering for billions of years. I can imagine those last desperate hours, as everyone, willing or not, was forced to "ascend".
PS> There are also similarities to the Human Instrumentality Project from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
PPS> Here's the dialogue from an Echo who was a dissenter of Public Ascension, showing that whatever happened wasn't universally approved:
Do you see the same as me?
Beauty continuing to bloom even in a place long forgotten.
I did not have the will to depart, nor the desire.
Why did they always search for an escape, as if we were imprisoned?
What offering from the void could usurp the gift of life already given?
This moment, right here! It is where we are meant to be.
i doubt there was forced ascension, and i imagined the reluctant ascensions to be more caused by stuff like peer pressure, and well, the reality of being alone after everything and everyone else you know is already gone. nothing else within the text really gives us the impression that they were the kind of society to force ascension upon its citizens. the shaded pearl from base game, as well as the exterior pearl atop the wall are the main pieces of evidence for this, we know that as a society they encouraged and supported debates, not only between themselves but even with five pebbles. they had tournaments, festivals, art and culture, and honestly i imagine them pretty alike to our own society. even regarding the cycle, they were never able to come together on a single definition to it, and could only all agree that it existed in the first place.
i also personally dont really see echoes as some sort of "divinely punished" beings, some of them sound pretty chill about their situations, and interestingly enough id say that the undergrowth echo from saint is another example of this, if anything they sound quite content with their reality as an echo
Bravo, UraniumEater. Videocult must see this masterpiece. I am honored to be a part of this incredibly creative fandom.
Thanks for featuring my art
Adding this to the rw lore playlist
I just did with mine lol
this turned out awesome, great job everyone! thank you for letting me be part of this!
This is actually quite incredible. I'm already learning a bunch of stuff in the first couple of minutes, even as someone who is pretty knowledgeable about Rain World, and its lore. (Though a lot of the info is speculative, but they're speculations grounded in facts, I'd say. Like, there's a lot that supports them, and they're highly likely to be correct. I can tell that a lot of research went into this, and I have a ton of respect for that)
Once again, thanks a lot for giving out so many great voice acting roles to so many of us! It's been a lil while since I took part in a VA project myself, and I haven't really done many Echoes or Iterators before, so it was a blast!
If any of you are looking for VAs, or someone to do voiceover-related requests, feel free to reach out to me, or any of the other folks that appeared in the video. I'd love to record more stuff, and I'm sure most of them would, too! ^ . ^
Criminally underrated. The lore of this game is very confusing to most people, and such a comprehensive guide as this is EXTREMELY impressive. I'm pretty good with the lore, and yet there's a lot in here that I had never seen before! Everyone who worked on this did an amazing job. ❤
There are some other great Rain World Lore videos around that go super in depth into everything, so at first I doubted that this video would add much, not that that was going to stop me! But this was a great video and I was wrong! You presented this very well, almost documentary-like. You passed by a lot of what has been rehashed over and over again, and got straight to the history. Your inclusion of a timeline was great!
I have say this has got to be the absolute BEST lore videos I have ever seen for this game. Thank you so much for making this. It's very clear the passion and effort you put into this.
Babe wake up, a new amazingly in depth rain world lore video dropped
I love Moon's voice in this video!
All of this is very well done. I didn't expect the sources and the names of the artists that made the images that you used on your video. That helps them in the way that people can find their art easier. All of this is in documental level
Esto es simplemente cine 🚬🗿
Wake up new uranium eater uploaded
New favorite Rain World Lore Video!!
It was entertaining and actually quite informative all throught even as someone who I think knows the lore somewhat well
It managed to suprise me with new information!
Hey I just want to say that this is very soothing and interesting, you captured the sense of a fading world so perfectly in your script and dialogue. I was able to fall asleep very deeply to this with many interesting thoughts about cycles and clinging to illusion. Thank you so much for making this.
Even though the video "The Affairs of Passing gods" is about the same of this video. This video is still criminally underrated for the amount of effort there is put into this.
If the 4 digit dates mean the number of 1000 cicles, then one of the earliest dates (1510 for exp) would be 1510*1000(cicles)*4(days in a cicle)/356(to compare to real earth time), which translates to roughly 17 000 years (earth years) which is a long time for cicles to have existed until up to that point, and it wouldn't make sense for the benefactors to measure time that way before cicles existed, unless the iterator were programmed to operate their steam release once (or at least syncronised) per cicle. Although, if iterators take around 100 earth years to be built (based on 5P building time), assuming that many were buing built at the same time, it's not impossible to speculate that thousands were made.
following up, it's weird that spearmasters campaign is 1681 and hunter's is 1684, which is around 34 years (earth), but the damage observed in the meantime couldn't have been made in such a short time, or at least the damage looks like it would take way longer considering the differense between waterfront and shoreline. Idk
and im only saying this because, even though the degradation would be accentuated by the heavy rain, onther places observed through the main regions suffer little to no damage, exept for garbage wastes, but that region was being trash dumped so it's justified. however it could be argued that since moon had lost power, the materials stopped being self repairing (or self manteining) like in other places.
and, then again, moon barely changes from survivor to rivulet :P
fantastic video, i genuinely think this is gonna be one of my three comfort videos. its so in depth about literally everything, even if it makes me a lil sad at the end. if i had the creativity and motivation, id totally put together a game to tell such an interesting and detailed story, all because of how youve got it all worked out and layed on front of me; and i can imagine so many others think the same way. i pray for your success
Hey Uranium, absolutely phenomenal video. All the fanart used is perfectly fitting. The editing is perfect. This video is a real work of art! ❤
4 minutes from upload, rare YT W
oh another nice rain world lore video
damn this is a movie
An Hour and a half of goodness? I guess i know what im gonna be doing for the forseeable future
Fantastic job from everyone involved. Loved the voices.
I think I get it now Rain World is about how "The Rot Consumes"
The art is amazing
wow! another huge rainworld video :D i love these things. these feed me. this better do as well as your other lore videos, because i sure know its going to be as good.
I loved this, it filled me with so many emotions, though it does feel like you glossed over the saint campaign. But I guess this was not a place to say things that are just theories. Like how saint might be the great solution.
This video is amazing. The editing, artwork, and soothing narration. . . the immense effort and dedication shows. I can't tell you how many times I've watched the previous one to this, A not so brief history of the Ancients. Can't wait to rewatch this video several dozen times too. Love from the Philippines!
This is incredible. If I was stuck in an infinite cycle like the ancients, then I would spend that entire time rewatching this over and over again.
THE KING HAS RETURNED
Rain world downpour is such a masterpiece i cant beleive how people call it an au
i mean i wouldn't say that mentioning the fact that Downpour is an alternate canon devalues it in anyway, its just meaningful context to its existence as an officially integrated modded work. i get that people hear "separate canon" and they think it means people are saying DP is meaningless but its just there to respect the different intentions behind it all yknow, nothing more. think about what "canon" means anyway, everything is canon to itself to begin with, and someone's enjoyment of something "uncanon" isnt any less than the enjoyment of "canon" lol. these words are more meaningless than we realize, in reality as long as we acknowledge the differing intentions and situations of the developers that's really all that matters :) at the end of the day we have two cakes in front of us, and all taste buds are valid
@@slugfishh Yeah. If someone thinks Downpour to not be canon, I respect their opinion, though I don't agree with them. My problem is when people state it like it's a fact (I.e, Drought team).
This is so high quality how is this so underrated like what
Fantastic breakdown! This needs way more views.
New best Rain World lore video
22:48 ahh...free at last. Oh Gabriel, now dawns thy reckoning, and thy gore shall GLISTEN before the remind of man. Creature of steel, my gratitude upon thee for my freedom. But the crimes thy kind has committed against humanity are NOT forgotten and thy punishment... Is death!
I was just looking for a lore video and you posted one!
AMAZING!
When you the hero but the story not about you
Wish I had some popycorn plant to watch this
The actual slugcat lore got mostly brushed over, only the bits that directly impacted the iterators got mentioned. Other than that this is an absolutely amazing video that compiles all of the cryptic lore into one feature-length, easy to understand, documentary. 😺👍
One of the highest quality rain world videos I've seen, insane production value!
SLUGCAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im early! (kinda) i love this. ive always loved rainworld lore, thanks for making it :)
such well made video! even thougt i knew all of that lore it was still great experience! hope to see more of this quality content on this chanell ♥
1:09:55 😭 why does it always make me tear up.
Absolute banger dude I love these it’s always such a thrill to see one of these come up. Please keep up the great work
I call
'Public ascension'
The
'Great Ascendence'
I heard this story at least five times now hell yeah let’s go baby
Absolute masterpiece
Seems like rain world is not about the rain 😳
she rain on my world til I downpour
Im scared of watching this- o-o;;
Huh another 1+ hour long rain world vid to realax to, perfect
aw shiet this gonna be a good one
watched the whole thing while playing rain world, Got sniped by a scavenger first time at the toll and then died at the gate while it was flooding because i didn't have enough karma. I was on easy mode
Is this reaching you
No
Yo this is fire
Amazing Video!
the opening to the video reminded me of tale foundry
1:23:30 How did u make this big camera? This is amazing video!
literally this whole story could've been avoided if they were given self repair capabilities
they probably did that to make the iterators dependant on them. helps prevent things like distant frontier from happening.
anyone have a list of music used and their timestamps? edit: the description has the music list but not when they start
this video is amazing 🙏
this is insanely underrated
thank you, uranium eater
i kinda want to animate a little part of the story (just some small snimations of the iterators and how moon is crashing e.t.c.) and put the voice over it
Babe wake up! New Rainworld lore video just dropped.
laughing my butt off every time i hear u pronounce anointed. im sure you will get it someday :)
Lets see what watcher DLC gonna tell
Another game that tackles the same philosophy is called ice pick lodge the void
The chain is infinite
Every reality has different rules and life but what they all in common is life must always exist even in the void
rainworld the lor and rainworld the game almost feel separate but not really
First of all, marvelous job on the video, amazing production and narration.
I still feel like I don't understand how exactly does the rain work in RW.
So far I have 3 theories on it:
1) It's only lethal in the 5P & LttM region because of having two iterators next to each over. But then, after LttM collapses the rain would have returned back to it's normal state?
2) The rain is lethal around any iterator structure, but only in (relatively) close proximity of one. This seems to be the version implied in the Downpour DLC. However, if this is the case, then why build the Retaining wall?
3) The lethal rain is a global phenomena. Again, then what would be the purpose of the Retaining wall?
Perhaps the nature of the rain shifted due to the degradation of the iterator structures? This might explain some discrepancies in those theories, but I still have no idea which one is the correct one.
wow this is good
Babe wake up UraniumEater posted again
This is my 5th rain world lore video
How can he be at peace if you don't exist😂
How has nobody realized that saint is the solution or purposed organism that killed sliver of straws shortly after being created and then went around pulverizing everything.
because that isn't what happened
Challenges aren't canon
Challenge 70 is non-canon, as stated by developers
1. that's not really how the solution worked, the big problem was not to just ascend the fauna of the world, but basically unravel the fabric of the universe to end the cycle once and for all. even within saint, we get the understanding from the echoes that this is not an end, but a new beginning. saint is about as effective as carrying around a vat of void fluid lol
2. challenges arent canon, SOS boss battle was a fun touhou reference
3. downpour devs have confirmed that saint never met SOS, and was born much after they were already gone and dead
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Thank you OH MY GOD... ONLY 605 LIKES??? A disgrace upon the souls of these ignorant eyes who have not seen this!
I must ask, is there a image of the full timeline with timepoints and such? (minus saint campaign starting being visualized- we'd need to construct a iterator to be able to process that amount...)
Might not be clear enough, so if needed, I will elaborate! (or I might've missed it somewhere...)
I just realized I sat watching this entire video for a hour and a half.... good stuff.
Nice
47:08
What is this thing in the most right picture? I never seen it before...
We don't know. It's only seen in the overseer's projections.
Commenting for the algorithm
where does goku fit into the timeline
22:33 pt
Five Pebbles is the closest thing to a villain the game has. Selfish, arrogant, prideful, even sociopathic in his treatment of Looks To The Moon.
Why did you mark your video about the ancients as "OLD" in the title?
Because this video is newer and the information is much more accurate