Risk of Rain - The Lore Behind Kur-skan the Heretic / The Artificer / N'kuhana's Followers
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This video was a lot harder to make than my last one. I went through many drafts of theories ranging from 3 pages long, to being extremely vague. Hope it was worth it!
These are my own theories of the story behind these characters, but it is highly possible that I have made some mistakes along the way.
If you have any questions, please leave them down below!
0:00 Intro
1:10 Kur-skan the Heretic
11:19 The Artificer
15:33 N'kuhana's Followers
23:10 Outro
Music:
Trevor Kowalski - And We Walk After
Hollow Knight - Crossroads
Hollow Knight - Dirtmouth
Hollow Knight - Fungal Wastes
Hollow Knight - Resting Grounds
Hollow Knight - Reflection
Bloodborne - Moonlit Melody
Chris Christodoulou - Through a Cloud, Darkly 
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Hello! Thanks for watching!
Please enable captions to help you follow the story.
This video was a lot harder to make than my last one. I went through many drafts of theories ranging from 3 pages long, to being extremely vague. Hope it was worth it!
These are my own theories of the story behind these characters, but it is highly possible that I have made some mistakes along the way.
If you have any questions, please leave them down below!
You should make a video about "Her" next, i know you touched up on it in the last one but a full in depth video theorizing about her would be great!
thank you for the amount of effort you put in your ror lore videos. I watch these videos literally smiling the entire time. My friends and I always talk about these videos. Keep the work up. If you need confirmation to see if ror lore videos are a good idea, Im that confirmation lol
This is really well done. Do you think you can cover some of the boss's lore? Maybe a theory as to why you have to kill them to teleport?
Are the teleporters powered by N'kuhana?
@@zendakongaming5159 The brothers created the teleporters. N'kuhana is not related in any way
@@thegrovetender
Well then why do they require us to murder bosses to pass? Is it related to the gift she gave him?
Or is it possible she gifting us the ability to use them in exchange for the sacrifices without us knowing?
Interesting to note that in a log from RoR1, the captain of the Contact Light said, "I can hear him coming" before he was killed, but now in RoR2 we know that Kur-skan killed him. So, funnily enough, the captain probably thought Kur-skan was the intruder in his final moments, and never even saw Providence. Neat how that lines up, even though they never could've planed that far ahead when they were writing the RoR1 lore.
Tbh, i think he was so occupied with Providence that he didn't notice Kurskan coming through the vents until it was too late
The only issue with this is that Kur-Skan is female. Maybe he was talking about Providence and just didn't know she was there, because I'm her log it seems like she was also killed by Providence after killing the captain.
@@coolio6855it's unlikely that the captain would have known Kur-skan's gender, because uh, she's a bird. The captain could've just defaulted to "he". On the other hand, he might've called her an "it" if he knew it was her because again, it's a bird not a humanoid. In that case, it could be that the captain knew Providence was coming but Kur-skan just got there first. It doesn't sound like it took long for Providence to show up after Kur-skan got there, so the captain could've known he was coming and his transmission got cut off by Kur-skan's... violent entry to the bridge.
the captain (pilot) did not die
@o330 the captain did, the pilot did not
The Artificier was scouting the planet before the events of RoR2. She was imprisoned and later "saved" by Safe Travels' survivors. So she joins them, hence the drop pod.
With the way the game keeps the lore so vague, it is such a treat to see that someone put the time and effort to interpret and visualize it; connecting the dots. I really enjoyed this!
i like it that way tbh it reminds me alot of dark souls lore too
@@draftsky12 Absence of content = content lol
@@La-ld9mnit’s not really absence of content. It’s all there, you just have to collect and piece it all together. From there people have theorized on stuff.
i love how you reenacted the N'kuhana segment ingame, such a nice detail. you put a lot of effort into this. good vid
20:40 you even recreated the scene from the lore of the dagger ingame... this video is a masterpiece. Thank you so much for your work!
It's nice to think that, lorewise, Artificer must have been thankful for being freed by the Survivors, which is why she ends up helping them. The experience of Petrichor V after defeating Mithrix also gives her a newfound passion to explore, not just for the Heavenly Plane, but the universe in general.
I think the "I" in Helfire Tincture's lore snippet is Newt. The Environment log for the Bazaar between time mentions that he is some kind of scientist and explicitly says he is elaborating a tincture. The chamber mentioned is probably the room behind Newt that he quickly closes behind him when the player enters his shop, and his species has strong ties with time, hence the multiple mentions of it. It's possible that as an outcast and a pariah he captured some of his brethren to experiment on them, maybe coerced by Mithrix, or maybe because he acted as his patron.
Then it would make sense that it repeats about "measuring the time" 4 times, since Newt is related to time
This would also explain the twitching and blackened arm of the newt in the shop. He might've locked that arm in time to prevent him burning to death
@@dopeynut -- That disfigured arm is what caused the rest of the pod to scorn the Newt, and that drove them to the bazaar. It's still possible that the Newt is responsible for the hellfire tincture rather than Kur-Skan, but the arm predates any involvement with Mithrix.
@@TlalocTemporalThe interesting thing with Newt is that, for his people, time is not lineal. They can travel through time like we can walk forward and backward. So any form of timeline for him is more like a circle
I like this theory
My favorite part to these ror lore videos is that he gives voices to characters we never see. It also changes my veiw of them (I just came from the overall lore video) like with the Grovetender, the logs are always in caps and the fight always felt more frantic than the others, I thought they were unhinged maniacs but giving them a more level headed and caring voice makes them fit better in the setting of a garden with the wisps as apprentices than unwilling watchers (Little Disciple is a broken wisp that the Grovetender strapped to itself to watch them tend to the garden)
This is so well presented. I love the environmental shots - can't wait to see what you'll do with the expansion.
You’ve got good taste in video games, from the look of your pfp.
Specifically, when Kur-skan gets that line from Mithrix, it's when Aurelionite shows up alongside her in the final fight, which wouldn't make sense since she was a servant of Mithrix. This explains why he asked "who pulls your strings" to her, since (if we take the theory that Mithrix sent her to the Contact Light) Aurelionite was an enemy of Mithrix.
The messages where he calls out the player having the halcyon seed occurs when he steals it, whereas the messages calling out when the player is the heretic happens at the very start. The "who pulls your strings" message happens after he steals it, too. I feel this makes more sense if you look at both being enemies of mithrix, as he would be using "vermin" as a plural since he is understandably very confused that two familiar figures from his past that he thought had nothing to do with eachother fight him at once.
Aurelionite is sealed by Mhitrix due being "imperfect" and "wrong ratio", made by his brother Providence with too much soul and be able to think and feel, which deem risky for Mhitrix
its honestly kinda sad that most people will either not look into the lore of Risk of Rain or just miss it entirely because its all pretty fire
been wanting to hear about these characters specifically for so long and in just your two videos i’ve learned more convincing theories about this games lore than from any other youtube channel. keep it up man this content’s amazing.
I feel confident the bird skull you can find on the very top of the Contact Light in RoR1 is the Heretic's head and a reference as to what happened to her.
There is actually a reason for her to be on the contact light! In the sirens call logs it talks about a distress beacon or smth that lures ships in, which is the alloy vultures desperately trying to get off the planet
I think we could get more lore about the High Court if we get a paladin type character in the next DLCs.
For those that don't know (or don't remember), a poll was held to vote on which survivor would come in the 1.0 update (which became captain). Afterward, another poll was put up to see what archetype of character was liked the most, and the one that won was the paladin.
Even though Hopoo said this "for fun" poll wouldn't have an influence on future character installments, I hope to see them implement a character with some religious background so that it connects to the High Court. A secretive organization that pulls strings from the shadows to further their own goal would make for some excellent lore.
Captain is the paladin im pretty sure, good close range offense, healing/supportive powers, cc and the ability to smite his foes from heaven
@@devolo5947 There is artwork for skill icons in the game code that most certainly look like a paladin character.
There's a mod for a paladin survivor. Not sure if Dev's will add another paladin
I would love for them to make the paladin the successor to the enforcer. A holy shield knight character would be awesome.
They still managed to make a bandit that is different from the bandit mod so I think they can make a paladin
You’re like the Vaati of Risk of Rain man. Keep up the good work!
as someone with audio processing issues, i wanna say thanks for including captions! it really does help and mean a lot to us
I’m hyped to see if you come back to touch on the DLC lore. These videos have been delightful!
I think it makes sense that N'kuhana would be the "She" that visited and that Mithrix was jealous of. Mithrix wanted to find other high deities like himself, and would mourn her loss. I'm interested in seeing if the new DLC will introduce more lore and potentially another higher being. The store page got updated, and it says the Void Fiend will be unlocked after defeating a new threat. Sounds to me like a boss, and I think it makes perfect sense if one of these beings were captured by the Reavers and held captive in the void. But now that the void is running rampant and things are escaping?
My god you were spot on
Oh my god the amount of heart and effort put into these vids! You even did captions too! Thank you so much for making these. I can't wait to see more
Just found this channel and its so high quality??? I love it! Please keep these up, the lore is so interesting and you have the perfect personality and voice to narrate it all! Def will watch anything like this from here on :)
This is incredibly interesting, it takes an amazing amount of knowledge and understanding to come up with theories based on so little information.
This video is SO GOOD
At this moment it have only about 800 views and it was randomly recommended to me, but the quality level is so high and all the effort you put in this, this is just incredible.
I'm so glad you made this video. All of these characters are so interesting!
I like that the skeleton is shaking while holding its head, showing that he’s still plagued with guilt for what he did even after death. He’s just gaslighting himself into believing that all of this had to be done and that he did it for N’Kuhana, even though he knows better.
I loved the effort you put into showing the N'kuhana worshipper, the supposed sacrifice of Morion and so on. Keep going!
I can tell you put alot of passion in these lore videos. RoR doesn't have alot of "easy lore" , so I appreciate your efforts to nail down the facts. I hope to see more full videos from you!
The first video was already super good but damn, that recreation scene of the killing of Marion plus all VOs has completely blown me away. Fabulous work!!
Your channel is definitely going to be a top lore channel for ROR and which ever games lore you choose to create content for.
I thought this was a big channel from the effort put into the video quality
Amazing work mate keep it up
Would love to see more of these RoR2 lore videos! Even just going deeper into specific item lore could be interesting, but definitely for the lore ahead in Survivor's of the Void. Thanks for the great work, these videos are fabulous!
These two videos are awesome!
Thank you for taking the time to piece these together and put out such polished vids
I really would love a High Court themed DLC - sounds really interesting!
Yea that would be pretty cool
Once again, another great video. I love all of the details you use to help visualize the stories.
Its always nice to see these videos start getting more attention, keep it up!
I personally want to see a comic made of all the risk of rain characters interacting with one another.
The old captain
The courageous commando
The skilled huntress
The sly bandit
The curious robot
The mysterious artificer
The clever engineer
The remorseless mercenary
The powerful loader
The strange contraption
The carnivorous lizard
The realistic rail gunner
The twisted void incarnate
And of course the heretical puppet.
the way you cover the lore is extremely captivating, thanks for the explanation!
With the hollow knight music in the background it sets the mood so well
These videos are so well done and entertaining! Thanks for this!
I want to give you serious props. I bought this game years ago and you've made we want to get back into it. You've captured an energy that is most similar to VatiVidya's Darksouls stories and I've not found that for any other game or at this level anywhere else. I will watch any content you make on risk of rain going forward. Excellent job!
>tfw you find a pog lore channel that only has 2 lore videos from 2 years ago
I’m watching this in 2022 and this really has me about to cry, feel scared and be absolutely mortified. Your voice is amazing
I loved this video and can't wait for more. There is clearly a lot of heart and love in this video, and I can't wait for the next one.
The effort in this video is amazing and I've always wanted to know more about the risk of Rain lore, because I know there is a lot more than meets the eye with this game. I love it
Man, I'm rewatching these before you (hopefully) continue this series, since the DLC adds SO MUCH to the evergrowing RoR puzzle. I'm specially intrigued by the new "construct" enemies.
This is such a high quality video I loved it so much I honestly just stopped myself multiple times to admire the editing! I loved the part where Mythrix measured Kur Skans time and how you voiced "perfect" literally gave me chills!
I appreciate the game even more after seeing your lore videos! Thanks for the great work!
i just found this channel and your videos are seriously some of the best content ive ever watched, thank you
Just a theory after watching this video. "Her" gift to providence was his extreme power to create. She loved balance, the order of life and death in unity. Providence embodied life, and mythrix brought death. However both took their roles too far, Mythrix obsessed over his creations that caused destruction and his urge to conquer, and providence valued life too much to let it go. Mythrix was right about "her" gift being wasted on providence if this is true. She sacrificed herself to attempt to attain balance across worlds, however two opposite concepts of life and death usually struggle to coincide.
I didn't realize this was a new channel when i watch the first vid. gotta say love the work. there is a lot of un-explained lore that is hard to piece together even after reading all the log entries
Man I am so glad I found your channel!
Been a fan of RoR since game 1 and it's lore was so convoluted I couldn't keep track.
Thank you!
I’m excited to see what you do next man, keep it up
The glacial elites' item is "Her Biting Embrace," which might also refer to N'kuhana. Cold is often associated with death, and enemies with this aspect have a special effect on death. This could be a stretch though.
Your videos are very cool and comfy. Great work :)
Once again amazing job with those voice lines! It really adds character and substance to the lore
Awesome video! Watching this and your previous video is almost like seeing VaatiVidya on Petrichor V
Thanks! I am honored to be called that ^_^
Amazing video my dude, Incredibly well done! :D
This was good! I'm subbing, just Imagine what we can see in the DLC.
Thanks, man! Really enjoyed it!
Thanks for explaining this twisted and interesting plot!
It's always heartbreaking when you find a new banger of a channel and they have so few videos 😭 subscribing and anxious to see what else you put out.
just watched both your vids and was sad to find no more, love the content!
I hope to see more of your videos ! I share them in every way i could, you make great work !
Oh wow, the acting for the discovery of N'kuhana's power was very good. Very much enjoyed both videos, so well-executed and concise.
I just saw your full explanation of the story of RoR and RoR 2, and I really like your formatting! especially with the voice acting on the EV logs, it's very well put together, and you do a great job of capturing Mithrix's personality in your reading of him. I look forward to seeing new content from you in the future, and am crossing my fingers for a lore update on the Survivor's of the Void expansion
love the lore videos!! ive always been confused and seeing both of them explained nicely is satisfying to hear. i do hope u plan on doing stuff for the void fields, but if not im perfectly happy with what u’ve shared thus far :)
Finally someone else as invested in the lore as I am so glad you connected everything I was having trouble understanding cant wait to see what you find in the dlc!
Love these vids, so well made!
I love this video, it really inspired me to take a closer look at the lore of this game. I'm just hoping to get some proper lore/explanation for the Newt and it's connections with Mithrix in the future. I feel like N'kuhana has potential to be a main antagonist in future games so I wouldn't be to surprised if she doesn't get more spotlight in the logbooks, but the Newt has very high potential to be DLC content.
The Newt being an entity that is outside of the reaches of time itself makes it very difficult for any sort of other character to get in contact with it, but Mithrix was very clearly stated to have been able to reach the bazaar. I imagine it's through what he described as "A greater gate to travel greater seas." maybe some sort of teleporter that instead of transporting matter through space, would transport matter through time. It could explain what that big blackhole looking thing is on the moon.
But even if that is the explanation for that question, many more arise. Like, if Mithrix was so keen on killing Providence after his betrayal, couldn't he just take a lunar seer portal back to the planet. Why did he opt for throwing down the beads of fealty and other lunar goodies to sway those under Providence's protection. Why did he help to get the alloy vultures (Kur-skan specifically) to board the Contact Light after luring it in if he didn't even need it in the first place, he already had a gateway to outside of time, why would he need a dinky little human cargo ship to take him off the moon?
God I love this game's lore.
Love your content, man. Keep it up!
Bro this is sick thanks man! Pls make more!
So...Survivors of the Void DLC came out. More juicy lore to dive into. If you have the time. Amazing video.
I’m just excited to see what comes in terms of your next vid.
otta love the bloodborne music in the background. Truly a testiment to the greatness of the soundtrack
this channel is so good. Thank you for making these videos.
Just ran through all the logs last night, so this video came to my recommendeds at the perfect time. (only one missing is Mithrix, and I got his by looking it up)
It seems the body in the cave isn't the worshipper, but Carney. He claimed to take the body to the altar and hid the altar in exactly the location that unlocks N'kuhana's Opinion.
There's a bunch of smaller log sets as well, like the one of naturalist D. Furthen and his friend/guardian Thurson. No real deep lore, but they are pretty funny, as Thurson shrugs off some sort of injury in every log. There's also the set of examinations of the boss items, such as the Shatterspleen, the Molten Perforator, and the Charged Perforator among others. There are other iteration tests like the Hellfire tincture, possibly developed by Kur'Skan. There are a few logs which seem to be from the perspective of the Captain survivor, and not just the Defensive Microbots log or his own bio. There's various confusions and experiments that went on, such as one soldier going crazy after collecting the Happiest Mask, another one who was deemed crazy after allowing the Supermassive Leech to stick to her despite claiming it made her feel even better and with no reported side effects, or a short story of two parents sending gifts to their child named Buu who is researching over at Neptune. There's origin of the Halcyon Seed and the resulting conversation between Mithrix and Providence, its connection to Aurelionite and why he was banished in the first place. There's the Garden, attended by the Grovetender and his wisps, creatures given life by his own hands via some sort of mystic practice. We can find Newt's origin, as far as we can tell, based on the atrophied left hand and his presence marking the sole representation of other "Newts" so far. Siren's Call environment log, while unclear, has possibility to be the bridge of the ship that Kur'Skan died in, as it makes mention of a lone male invader that was likely Providence, as Kur'Skan was unnoticed in her infiltration.
The game has some surprisingly good lore for people willing to dig into it, and every once in a while I get the itch to dig deeper.
Edit: I got Mithrix log in time for DLC, so now I've got them all!
My personal theory is that the blue portals on Commencement are only very short-range, which allows Mithrix to send Kur-Skan to The Contact Light as it passed, on the very low chance she could take the ship to him. He could have gone himself, but wasn't confident in having an altercation with his brother.
Kur-Skan subsequently realised this was a sucide mission, and Mithrix sent her to die as a pawn, so is on a path of vengeance in Risk of Rain 2. Notice the final messages refer to "they"; most likely a plural, implying that you're not just puppeteering Kur-Skan, but are sharing her body and enacting revenge (hence "avenged and lost", Kur-Skan avenged, and your Survivor lost in their new situation).
this video has immense amounts of quality dude, awesome job on the editing :)
Thanks for both videos, dude. Warmly waiting for the new one about the DLC.
Just watched your previous video a few days ago, good to see I came in at an opportune time
you're definitely going to be popular if you continue to do high quality videos like that
keep up the good work ☝
Yessss lore video of Risk of Rain 2!
Thanks for the subtitle man
I can't believe you've only got two videos up!! You've got the polish of someone who's been doing this for much longer. Loved the vids.
its incredible how high quality these videos are for a channel with only 2 total
just watched your 2 videos, i love the way you narrate things, imma subscribe, give you the like that you deserve, and send the videos to another friend that like risk of rain, keep the good work man
need more.
absolutely amazing.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THESE VIDEOS! THIS LORE IS SO COOL!!!
Thank you for your story, Grovetender. I look forward to your stories about the Void!
Now I want more YOU CANT LEAVE ME HANGING HERE!
This was so good, hope more are upcoming!!
Cannot wait until your video containing the DLC is completed!
Excellent videos, glad I found you
LETS GOOOOO im so happy you made another, youre gonna make it big brother
I'm loving the lore. I wish there was more. I don't think there is tho. Great videos mate. You off to a great start.
While I haven't paid much attention to ROR2's Lore, I gotta say that this has perked up my interest in it. Great video content-wise and edit-wise! I also didn't expect to start hearing one of my favorite video-game soundtracks during it, so good taste!
Love these videos so far! Id say keep up the good work but also dont overwork yourself
You did a great job!
i really enjoyed this and your other video. i love seeing these theories brought to light, and it sucks that there isnt anymore of them youve made. was hoping for a surviors of the void video from you. hoping youre just making a new video and just taking your time, cause these are really good :)
Amazing video! Good job!
I know these videos are pretty old but they helped me understand so much of the lore. I've fallen in love with Risk of Rain 2 (Haven't gotten around to RoR1 or the now RoR Returns) I've only read a handfull of the logs in-game and thought the lore was really intriguing. You really captured the characters and lore and told this story so well. I'm very excited for the Seekers of The Storm DLC! I applaud you for going through all the lore and putting all of this together.