Everyone knows that Kenshi is the canonical sequel to Battle realms where in a not distant future, china ran out of water and rice, essential for the making of a china-man, causing massive famines 'till the australians attacked
I don’t know about that. It gets the recognition it deserves I think. It’s a great game but it has a lot of flaws and restrictions, it’s not as much of a free, do anything sandbox some people make it out to be. You also have to stuff it full of mods to round the game out.
@@Craig_Murray While I agree, you start to notice some of the games restrictions after playing for awhile, I played 50 hours with out any mods and loved every minute of it.
Its blatantly obvious that the hivers have been somehow .essed with by the previous empires. I would also posit that they were the original inhabitants of the moon, as they are the only ones not affected by the acid.
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 apparently the acid were the result of industrial pollution from the 1st empire, and the Hiver were mutated human who adapted to changing environment.
From what I gathered from the various tidbits of lore, Kebshi always seemed to me to be the result of a failed colonization attempt, with the ships for some reason crashing to the moon, and the survivors attempting to construct a civilisation from the ruins, but succumbing to consecutive AI rebellions, loosing more and more technology in the process.
@@nnk_ll2 They were the original colonists and their direct descendants still in posession of high technology. They were the ones who cybernetically modified the original inhabitants of the planet, the hivers, and attempted to utilize the skeletons to build their civilization. My point comes from the fact the the areas that show extensive habitation by a techmological sociezy are a lot smaller than where we find megastructural wreckage, which at least to me appears a lot like spaceship components.
There's also the possibility that much of this moon used have far higher water levels and was changed by several terraforming attempts. There are the large urchin-like balls near Squin, massive ribcages near Catun and Mourn, the desert sands seeming like a barren sea-floor without the water, and that there are only two types of fish left in this tidal-locked moon. The Ashlands are also reminiscent of deep-sea geyser plumes. The titanic Leviathans may also have originated from the sea. The skeletons and behemoths would have been really useful to colonizers in operating in hazardous environments but perhaps their terraforming attempts only got halfway through. Venge still burns under some kind of orbital bombardment, but the random pattern of beams may indicate more of an industrial operation than a military one.. Perhaps the absolutely gigantic frame around Mourn used to be the colony ship. Much of the human population may have died in the crash, the skeletons and automata they left on the moon during the terraformation process becoming the majority surviving population. Still don't know what the hell hivers are though. Its possible they may have been remnants of the great enemy that the First Empire fought. Perhaps the cybernetic augmentations on the queens hold a hint to their origins. Its also completely possible that the planet that Kenshi orbits is somewhere of interest, old maps depicting unknown locations may not be as fictional as the people on the moon think... Well just have to wait for Kenshi 2 it seems...
@@noellesato311 the terraformers are humans, right? So why, assuming they opperate with the same biology as us, would utilize a terraforming process with such catastrophic side effects such as complete desertification? I'm new to kenshi and even newer to the lore, sorry if these are dumb questions
I recall that the behemoths knew what was going to happen to them and went willingly, though they were not told. Also the skeletons that formed the second empire were those same ones who fought the first. And they actively work to cover up their activities and prevent those digging into the past finding out.
They are the ones who destroy the world. Almost everything wrong with the world of Kenshi is their fault, and now they live in constant regret and fear of the possibility that humans discover about it, and actually unite to destroy their race once and for all. The only group of people who kinda remember this some way is the Holy Nation, so there is a historical reason for their bigotry against the other races.
@@feliperisseto9113 I don't think it's out of fear of what the humans would do to them. The holy nation is pretty much destined to win the war between them and the UC because of rampant corruption and an constant attacks from anti-slavers and the holy nation nearly doubled their territory in the past decade or so, these people are already actively killing skeletons whenever they get the chance so the poor robots already fear this. I believe they cover up the actions of their past because of shame, and the absolute disgust they would feel for themselves if people found out. Many skeletons killed themselves before the second empire was founded because of 2 reasons, this did not have a purpose and they are logical creatures, so they didn't really have anything to do but kill themselves and the second reason is out of guilt for what they did to humans (who most likely invented them). They used mass biological attacks against humans and physical attacks (like missiles and shit). Sorry for the long tangent I just eat this lore up it's so cool.
@@jackspies444 Wait, what do you mean with doubled their territory? We have no clue how big the holy nation was 20 years ago. Also Most of their territory is developed with cities farms or military bases, so it's unlikely to be new territory.
I bought the game this summer on sale and just started playing last week and now I've got 130 hours into it. Now I'm starting with lore, your videos are amazing.
It's definitely much longer than every few years, and I'd bet is varies from Skeleton to Skeleton because both Cat-Lon and Tinfist still have their memories from the Second Empire, but Tinfist seems much, much more intact than Cat-Lon.
Now. Uh. Spoilers? But isn't it true that that factoid is actually something of a half truth? I recall being told by the skeleton researcher in World's End that fact, but heard something different regarding memory while chatting later that playthrough with a skeleton char. I can't for the life of me remember the specifics I just remember coming away going "Oh they're fuckin' lying to us"
@@thatdudeoverthere2188 it's said that depending on what each skeleton does plus a variety of other factors they might need to reset themselves anywhere from 1,500 years to 5000 or more, catlon is older and the founder of the empire, tin fist is younger and never had to run an empire so he hasn't had the need to reset yet since the second empire
Kenshi: "You're living in the post-apocalypse of a post-apocalypse. Everything you do will make things worse in some way. Go!" 3:20 -- Headcanon: The humans who erradicated the behemoths didn't 'pour in liquid metal'. They lased the area using what became The Eye. When you cross Obedience you are walking on the melted corpses of the Behemoths. (Obedience is my go-to area when I want to rave to people about this game: "...their blind obedience and unquestioning loyalty that walked them down into that pit, entirely unresisting.")
Possibly, but the robots are still alive. Planned content was that the arms in Obedience moved, it was cut because of technological problems with the engine. One of the biggest steam mods brings them back
@@cesaroliveira1982 except if you run the mod that animates the arms in obedience, very cool very spooky, puts life into the skeletons underneath the metal, also makes it more depressing and dangerous so fits the game even better
Skeleton rebelion likely happened becouse of Stobe, skeleton giant that probably rebeled becouse of events of Obedience, with normal skeletons following him in their desire for freedom and urge not to be executed. Great video! Keep it up!
As others have stated, It's likely Stobe either changed his mind after rebelling or never rebelled to begin with (which would mean he stayed loyal like all the other behemoths). As for who remembers him, ironically it's likely Stobe is actually Okran, the god of the Holy Nation. They worshiped him for the sacrifice he made for humanity but forgot somewhere along the line that he was a skeleton himself. Definitely fits the sad irony Kenshi is filled with.
The actual full name of the place or its origin I believe comes from: the price of obedience. The behemoths all (except for one)went along knowing they would be destroyed, they sat there as fire rained from the sky's in the form of massive lasers that melted them to slag, leading to a solid metal floor where you can now walk there and some characters will comment on
04:59 "machines do not forget" They actually do! The skelleton leader of tech hunters in world's end states that he can't recover ancient technology and history as he'd like to because "their memory is not as durable as their body". Meaning the data they stock on their brain eroses with time. Thus they need to "hunt" to recover this knowledge in ancient texts
He lies. If you aproach him as a skeleton he will says something like "dont worry, ill make sure that truth stays hidden", meaning that he actually remembers everything. I doesnt mean that all skeletons have perfect memory tho
People never really got into this game because to really figure out the lore you have to travel nearly the entire map and stop to read texts. Its definitely cool though especially when you find a certian Skeleton companion who will explain alot of why the world was destroyed not once but twice.
I think its because there's not a whole lot of content. Even for a sandbox. The escape from slavery thing was sick the first time I did it. But on my 3rd (likely final) run through, even with hefty mods there is a derth of anything structured to do. The bounties run out, the dialogue loops, the lore is all pretty simple and vague.
It seems Stobe´s sacrifice has much to do with the skeletons attempt to destroy humans, i believe he saw that they were taking things too far and did what he could to save who he could. By visiting black desert city you can see some skeletons who are broken from grieve, most likely regret for what they did during the fall of the first empire, which we can assume to be mass genocide. This theory is given strenght by the fact that Skeletons commited mass suicide after.
I wish this game would get more recognition. I have 180 hour put in kenshi. The replayability is unlike anything I've played before. The closest games I've dumped this much time into are like ARMA 2 and 3. Oh and DCS lol. I can't stop wandering around to new locations and trying to peice together what the environment is trying to tell me. I think I found the floodlands on my first playthrough before I died and seeing all the lost, towering, rusting technology, I knew there was more to this game than I initially knew. Then on another playthrough I visited obedience and many hours later I made it down to the Ashland and was like, "oh my god, I have to find out more!" Then immediately got slapped by a skeleton patrol of about 25... what a game.
Hearing about this game's lore and listening to its theme kinda makes me feel the guilt, pain and loss the Skeletons must have felt, as they're really the only ones who've been through all the tragedies of this sad, broken and dying world.
The first empire was doomed after Obedience because of the Skeletons, who I assume tried to wipe out all life with these bio weapons because they were afraid of humanity. Stobe though, sacrificed himself to end this war and save humanity and the planet. His sacrifice inspired Cat-lon and the skeletons to repent and found the second empire to reguide humanity to greatness again. He is also the inspiration for Chitrin in the Okranite Religion, the original deity who sacrificed himself to save humanity and was broken in Okran and Narko as a result. Just a little correction in your lore video.
Can't wait for Kenshi 2... Hope they make it just as brutal as Kenshi. It took me like almost 60 hours just to get used playing kenshi. The second game better be exactly as brutal.
My head cannon is that humans colonized the world of Kenshi thousands of years before the events of the game. Skeletons are just synthetic human minds created or copied, then stored in robotic bodies; think Battlestar Galactica. Hivers are the original inhabitants of the world and jus recently resurfaced (possibly literally). The Shek were created by the second empire to act as peace keepers and are a subspecies of human more capable of surviving the worlds climate/wildlife. Ashlanders are a natural adaptation to the world and another human subspecies.
*Scorchlanders. And weren't Shek as far back as the 1st Empire? Like, the oldest one, the Ancients and all that? But they were much less alien in appearance, without horns or the bone plates on their bodies.
What I love about the unique world of Kenshi is that it simply wasn't a single disaster that laid them low, it was an entire series of calamities. From their loss of communication to the Empire that seeded them, to the natural plagues and environmental disasters leading to the collapse of the 1st Empire to the faults of the 2nd Empire policing their own people to the point of extinction. Everything was not the fault of the celestial body of Kenshi itself. It all started with losing that connection to the peoples that seeded life on Kenshi itself. Kenshi is confirmed to be a moon and perhaps an intergalactic war, rebellion or alien, led to Kenshi being forgotten. Or perhaps something much more tumultuous or deadly? We don't even know what star system they reside in. Are they even in the Milky Way galaxy? We know now that the sea levels were lower due to Kenshi 2 blog posts but that's still going to be set in the 2nd Empire's Age. Which leads me to believe that Kenshi was heavily terraformed and perhaps the majority of all of that collapsed when we 1st lost that connection. Who knows what else has been lost to the sands of time. Or much more appropriate: The Dunes of Kenshi.
I like to figure out the history of kenshi, and that’s how I play this game. In my opinion, this game should have more fans and players. The only reason is that it’s too hard to play and enjoy at the beginning, however, that period is the most enjoyable time after hundreds of hours playing kenshi. Wish the kenshi2 could take me to the deeper story happened in second empire.
I watshed lore videos before I could figure out the lore by myself. I somehow regret that now. I denied myself the opportunity to explore the lore by myself. Also I discovered a very reliable but also time consuming way to train the melee attack and defense skill to lvl 70.
If you go to worlds end and talk to the skeleton scientist as a skeleton, and start asking questions, he says that he’ll make sure no one find south what caused one of the extinctions. So skeletons prolly used bioweapons or something like that in the past
Crazy idea but Stobe is Okran and the founder of the Holy Nation. theyve just forgotten over time that he was a skeleton. Okran was the "good" Skelton that saved them and Narko were the "bad" ones from the second empire that took their children and all the other unspeakable atrocities
tbf a lot of other stuff seems missing, like the shek in reality being genetically modified humans and the holy nation coming from a cult that was under persecution during the second empire
Is there a Source to the claim that the Behemoths were put in a Pit and buried in Liquid Metal ? Because honestly that seems pretty complicated.. I always assumed that they were just shot with the Verge Laser (which I assume was much stronger back then or Multiple) and that the Liquid Metal are actually from the Behemoths that melted basically
I hate how Kenshi does not have a story mode revealing the lore and actually having a goal beyond "Survive or Thrive" kinda deal. This lore is really cool and finding out about it after visiting places like Obedience makes sense. But knowing most of this is required to be dug up and 90% of the time you're getting snipped by blood spiders, ninja running for weed or eaten by bone dogs really makes me sad there isnt a deep story mode within the game. I can tell it was a more budget focused issues followed by its fairly flawed engine that makes things like cutscenes and voice acted dialogue impossible. I just hope Kenshi is more of a testing grounds and we get a sequel (or atleast spiritual sequel) of this beautiful game.
I personally found it refreshing to discover relics and clues along the way. It makes sense that a society utterly destroyed twice would have its history mostly destroyed. Makes it more rewarding to know information if you have to work hard to get it. But yeah I wish there was more dialogue and story either way...
fyi guys for your gaint robot problems first just ask if they can hybernate till we need them(then you dont have to fuck them over they will be asleep and not care)
Thanks for this video, I just started this game a week ago and I was looking for some lore informations ("Hey, why my skeleton and his shek followers fear Okranians? Ouch! Racists!"), but nothing in french and my understanding of oral english is not good enough for other videos. This one is slow and clear! ;)
You can see that the bigger of the two “moons” in the sky does not move like the smaller, more typical sized moon. This suggests that the body the observer (your character) is standing on is not a planet but a tidally locked moon. I believe devs confirmed this but I could be wrong.
at first i thoughtt ugh what game ios this but now i really enjoy playing it time flies by when playing kenshi i actually enjoy gaming again thanks to this GEM of a Game
Everyone knows that Kenshi is the canonical sequel to Battle realms where in a not distant future, china ran out of water and rice, essential for the making of a china-man, causing massive famines 'till the australians attacked
copied from Ssethtzeentach
@@vio4237 I don't deny nor confirm such claims good sir.
Hahaha
"Black dragon ninjas can go fuck themselves" - Ssethtzeentach
@@SerfsUp1848 it litrally is dude.
Kenshi sounds like one of those 40k worlds that was forgotten after that war against the machines
Yes a 40k mod would fit VERY well in Kenosha
I like this idea and even wanted to add it in this video lol
yeah what a great idea!
It sounds more like a mortal Kombat character
That fits too well. I'm scared
Kenshi is a criminally underrated game and an even more underrated lore and story
I don’t know about that. It gets the recognition it deserves I think. It’s a great game but it has a lot of flaws and restrictions, it’s not as much of a free, do anything sandbox some people make it out to be. You also have to stuff it full of mods to round the game out.
@Egg T Why what?
Guess you should find about kenshi2 ;)
It certainly is a rough gem, hopefully 2 polishes it up and makes it into a timeless spectacle.
@@Craig_Murray While I agree, you start to notice some of the games restrictions after playing for awhile, I played 50 hours with out any mods and loved every minute of it.
if you bring a bugman to the skin bandits they call you a "bio skeleton" of something along that line.
Its blatantly obvious that the hivers have been somehow .essed with by the previous empires.
I would also posit that they were the original inhabitants of the moon, as they are the only ones not affected by the acid.
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 A skeleton lumps hivers in with humans, saying "Be it shek, hive, or the original flavor."
@@melonman2064 That would line up with hivers in their current form being a human tool.
Could also be referring to the hiver's personalities, similar to a machine in their obedience
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 apparently the acid were the result of industrial pollution from the 1st empire, and the Hiver were mutated human who adapted to changing environment.
From what I gathered from the various tidbits of lore, Kebshi always seemed to me to be the result of a failed colonization attempt, with the ships for some reason crashing to the moon, and the survivors attempting to construct a civilisation from the ruins, but succumbing to consecutive AI rebellions, loosing more and more technology in the process.
Sounds like it. The moon was cursed from the start, an alien world never meant to be tamed.
Where did the First Empire spoken in this video come into play in this failed colonization POV?
@@nnk_ll2 They were the original colonists and their direct descendants still in posession of high technology. They were the ones who cybernetically modified the original inhabitants of the planet, the hivers, and attempted to utilize the skeletons to build their civilization.
My point comes from the fact the the areas that show extensive habitation by a techmological sociezy are a lot smaller than where we find megastructural wreckage, which at least to me appears a lot like spaceship components.
There's also the possibility that much of this moon used have far higher water levels and was changed by several terraforming attempts. There are the large urchin-like balls near Squin, massive ribcages near Catun and Mourn, the desert sands seeming like a barren sea-floor without the water, and that there are only two types of fish left in this tidal-locked moon. The Ashlands are also reminiscent of deep-sea geyser plumes. The titanic Leviathans may also have originated from the sea.
The skeletons and behemoths would have been really useful to colonizers in operating in hazardous environments but perhaps their terraforming attempts only got halfway through. Venge still burns under some kind of orbital bombardment, but the random pattern of beams may indicate more of an industrial operation than a military one.. Perhaps the absolutely gigantic frame around Mourn used to be the colony ship. Much of the human population may have died in the crash, the skeletons and automata they left on the moon during the terraformation process becoming the majority surviving population.
Still don't know what the hell hivers are though. Its possible they may have been remnants of the great enemy that the First Empire fought. Perhaps the cybernetic augmentations on the queens hold a hint to their origins.
Its also completely possible that the planet that Kenshi orbits is somewhere of interest, old maps depicting unknown locations may not be as fictional as the people on the moon think...
Well just have to wait for Kenshi 2 it seems...
@@noellesato311 the terraformers are humans, right? So why, assuming they opperate with the same biology as us, would utilize a terraforming process with such catastrophic side effects such as complete desertification?
I'm new to kenshi and even newer to the lore, sorry if these are dumb questions
I recall that the behemoths knew what was going to happen to them and went willingly, though they were not told.
Also the skeletons that formed the second empire were those same ones who fought the first. And they actively work to cover up their activities and prevent those digging into the past finding out.
They are the ones who destroy the world. Almost everything wrong with the world of Kenshi is their fault, and now they live in constant regret and fear of the possibility that humans discover about it, and actually unite to destroy their race once and for all. The only group of people who kinda remember this some way is the Holy Nation, so there is a historical reason for their bigotry against the other races.
@@feliperisseto9113 Yeah seems the skeletons have both tried to exterminate and save humanity at multiple points.
@Egg T theyr robats
@@feliperisseto9113 I don't think it's out of fear of what the humans would do to them. The holy nation is pretty much destined to win the war between them and the UC because of rampant corruption and an constant attacks from anti-slavers and the holy nation nearly doubled their territory in the past decade or so, these people are already actively killing skeletons whenever they get the chance so the poor robots already fear this. I believe they cover up the actions of their past because of shame, and the absolute disgust they would feel for themselves if people found out. Many skeletons killed themselves before the second empire was founded because of 2 reasons, this did not have a purpose and they are logical creatures, so they didn't really have anything to do but kill themselves and the second reason is out of guilt for what they did to humans (who most likely invented them). They used mass biological attacks against humans and physical attacks (like missiles and shit). Sorry for the long tangent I just eat this lore up it's so cool.
@@jackspies444 Wait, what do you mean with doubled their territory? We have no clue how big the holy nation was 20 years ago. Also Most of their territory is developed with cities farms or military bases, so it's unlikely to be new territory.
I bought the game this summer on sale and just started playing last week and now I've got 130 hours into it. Now I'm starting with lore, your videos are amazing.
"Don't worry. The humans won't find out. I'll make sure of it." -- Mechanist Iyo
how many hours do you have in it now? i’m at 245ish
Is it on xbox?
@@henryl5971 As far as I know it is only a computer game
@@SurprisinglyDeep Damnit
Don't forget. Skeletons need to replace their CPU every few years or they go crazy...like catlon. They lose all their skills but don't corrupt.
few years? the entirety of the timeline is about how frequent they need too.
It's definitely much longer than every few years, and I'd bet is varies from Skeleton to Skeleton because both Cat-Lon and Tinfist still have their memories from the Second Empire, but Tinfist seems much, much more intact than Cat-Lon.
Now.
Uh.
Spoilers?
But isn't it true that that factoid is actually something of a half truth? I recall being told by the skeleton researcher in World's End that fact, but heard something different regarding memory while chatting later that playthrough with a skeleton char.
I can't for the life of me remember the specifics I just remember coming away going
"Oh they're fuckin' lying to us"
@@thatdudeoverthere2188 it's said that depending on what each skeleton does plus a variety of other factors they might need to reset themselves anywhere from 1,500 years to 5000 or more, catlon is older and the founder of the empire, tin fist is younger and never had to run an empire so he hasn't had the need to reset yet since the second empire
not CPUs ,they have to format memory.
Kenshi: "You're living in the post-apocalypse of a post-apocalypse. Everything you do will make things worse in some way. Go!"
3:20 -- Headcanon: The humans who erradicated the behemoths didn't 'pour in liquid metal'. They lased the area using what became The Eye. When you cross Obedience you are walking on the melted corpses of the Behemoths. (Obedience is my go-to area when I want to rave to people about this game: "...their blind obedience and unquestioning loyalty that walked them down into that pit, entirely unresisting.")
Possibly, but the robots are still alive. Planned content was that the arms in Obedience moved, it was cut because of technological problems with the engine. One of the biggest steam mods brings them back
@@Jaded515 Which mods is this?
The price of obedience is death, as one can see when they enter the area
Obedience is a lake of liquid nitrogen what are you talking about
@@cesaroliveira1982 except if you run the mod that animates the arms in obedience, very cool very spooky, puts life into the skeletons underneath the metal, also makes it more depressing and dangerous so fits the game even better
Skeleton rebelion likely happened becouse of Stobe, skeleton giant that probably rebeled becouse of events of Obedience, with normal skeletons following him in their desire for freedom and urge not to be executed. Great video! Keep it up!
There is also the myth about stobe sacrificing himself for the greater good of the Planet
@Egg T there are kind of missile husks ironfists area
Stobe died protecting everyone, Skeletons and Meatbags. He deserves eternal respect. Though only Skeletons remember that, it seems.
@@stankobarabata2406 A true hero and Chad.
As others have stated, It's likely Stobe either changed his mind after rebelling or never rebelled to begin with (which would mean he stayed loyal like all the other behemoths). As for who remembers him, ironically it's likely Stobe is actually Okran, the god of the Holy Nation. They worshiped him for the sacrifice he made for humanity but forgot somewhere along the line that he was a skeleton himself. Definitely fits the sad irony Kenshi is filled with.
Holy shit that bit about the behemoths was sad.
The actual full name of the place or its origin I believe comes from: the price of obedience.
The behemoths all (except for one)went along knowing they would be destroyed, they sat there as fire rained from the sky's in the form of massive lasers that melted them to slag, leading to a solid metal floor where you can now walk there and some characters will comment on
Kenshi has one of the best lores of any game ive seen, and im so glad you verbalised some of the awesome history behind it thank you!
04:59 "machines do not forget"
They actually do! The skelleton leader of tech hunters in world's end states that he can't recover ancient technology and history as he'd like to because "their memory is not as durable as their body". Meaning the data they stock on their brain eroses with time. Thus they need to "hunt" to recover this knowledge in ancient texts
He lies. If you aproach him as a skeleton he will says something like "dont worry, ill make sure that truth stays hidden", meaning that he actually remembers everything. I doesnt mean that all skeletons have perfect memory tho
Talk to him as a skeleton
eroded*
Also looks like Kenshi 2 will take place during the 2nd empire which is super cool, and will bring more lore
Wait you can’t be serious, really?! Do you have a source?
@@TsuTsu2 the dev had confirmed that many many months ago lol
"But machines do not forget" - This, it packs a punch when i first discovered the truth behind a myth about Skeletons "memory reset".
4:58 that pic is actually so cool.
I can almost hear the rain hitting the metal on his head, and his silent, judgmental stare.
People never really got into this game because to really figure out the lore you have to travel nearly the entire map and stop to read texts. Its definitely cool though especially when you find a certian Skeleton companion who will explain alot of why the world was destroyed not once but twice.
Or you can just read the wiki lol
@@TovenDo.O.Video- yeah but that's cheap lmao
I think its because there's not a whole lot of content. Even for a sandbox.
The escape from slavery thing was sick the first time I did it. But on my 3rd (likely final) run through, even with hefty mods there is a derth of anything structured to do. The bounties run out, the dialogue loops, the lore is all pretty simple and vague.
@@thatdudeoverthere2188 yeah your right there isnt alot of content but I enjoy the idea that two apocalyptic events happened and stuff its interesting
@@thatdudeoverthere2188 there's so much to do in Kenshi besides what you listed
Your like the only one on RUclips who covers kenshi lore thanks bro, I wish more people gave kenshi more credit for the lore
It seems Stobe´s sacrifice has much to do with the skeletons attempt to destroy humans, i believe he saw that they were taking things too far and did what he could to save who he could.
By visiting black desert city you can see some skeletons who are broken from grieve, most likely regret for what they did during the fall of the first empire, which we can assume to be mass genocide. This theory is given strenght by the fact that Skeletons commited mass suicide after.
Yeah, this likely, in a twist of irony, birthed the Okranite religion who began as a cult worshiping Stobe for his sacrifice.
I wish this game would get more recognition. I have 180 hour put in kenshi. The replayability is unlike anything I've played before. The closest games I've dumped this much time into are like ARMA 2 and 3. Oh and DCS lol. I can't stop wandering around to new locations and trying to peice together what the environment is trying to tell me. I think I found the floodlands on my first playthrough before I died and seeing all the lost, towering, rusting technology, I knew there was more to this game than I initially knew. Then on another playthrough I visited obedience and many hours later I made it down to the Ashland and was like, "oh my god, I have to find out more!" Then immediately got slapped by a skeleton patrol of about 25... what a game.
The lore feeds meeeeeeee~
you forgot the part where the last behemoth saved humanity
I recall what happened to the behemoths with the end of the gumball machines as guards of the Candy Kingdom(AT)
Hearing about this game's lore and listening to its theme kinda makes me feel the guilt, pain and loss the Skeletons must have felt, as they're really the only ones who've been through all the tragedies of this sad, broken and dying world.
Don't feel bad they are just robots....synths if you will... flesh is strong
@@schizofrenzia1884 But they still have feelings.
The first empire was doomed after Obedience because of the Skeletons, who I assume tried to wipe out all life with these bio weapons because they were afraid of humanity.
Stobe though, sacrificed himself to end this war and save humanity and the planet. His sacrifice inspired Cat-lon and the skeletons to repent and found the second empire to reguide humanity to greatness again. He is also the inspiration for Chitrin in the Okranite Religion, the original deity who sacrificed himself to save humanity and was broken in Okran and Narko as a result.
Just a little correction in your lore video.
This. I've been commenting the same lol.
Holy fuck i play Kenshi a lot yet never knew it had such deep lore
Usually games with vague back stories and large worlds have heaps of lore to explore
You make the best videos on Kenshi lore thus far I hope to see your channel grow subscribed
Thank you for positive feedback, it means a lot :)
Can't wait for Kenshi 2... Hope they make it just as brutal as Kenshi. It took me like almost 60 hours just to get used playing kenshi. The second game better be exactly as brutal.
It’s gonna be based in the 2nd empire
i really liked this, i had no idea the lore went that deep and i have a hundred hours or so in this game. thanks.
Just jumped into Kenshi, is simply a magical universe... loved it
Kenshi would be the perfekt ground work for an animated series or a comic series.
Good work, very well put together video!
Subscribed, looking forward for more :)
Never played Kenshi, but I enjoy watching videos about it. And that music just hits the place...
Nice video :)
I've owned this game for a day. That violin theme hits like a behemoth.
My head cannon is that humans colonized the world of Kenshi thousands of years before the events of the game. Skeletons are just synthetic human minds created or copied, then stored in robotic bodies; think Battlestar Galactica. Hivers are the original inhabitants of the world and jus recently resurfaced (possibly literally). The Shek were created by the second empire to act as peace keepers and are a subspecies of human more capable of surviving the worlds climate/wildlife. Ashlanders are a natural adaptation to the world and another human subspecies.
*Scorchlanders.
And weren't Shek as far back as the 1st Empire? Like, the oldest one, the Ancients and all that? But they were much less alien in appearance, without horns or the bone plates on their bodies.
@@stankobarabata2406 he's getting them mixed up with ashlanders from Morrowind lmao
Not humans, the ancients formed the first empire and the Bugmaster is the last of his race on Kenshi
@@roojackaroo8517 wait... bugmaster isn't human?!?!
@@Covid--xs3yk nope, he's an ancient which is why he's alive after probably hundreds and hundreds of years
Amazing video my guy. I’m a lore head too and enjoyed this
Grats on 1k subs!!
Post more my man, please, your content is good, and you voice is soothing, keep going my man
came from reddit, great vid. Would love to see more like this
Hey, thanks a lot for your support, it means a great deal to me.
The second video is almost finished and should be up soon ;)
What I love about the unique world of Kenshi is that it simply wasn't a single disaster that laid them low, it was an entire series of calamities. From their loss of communication to the Empire that seeded them, to the natural plagues and environmental disasters leading to the collapse of the 1st Empire to the faults of the 2nd Empire policing their own people to the point of extinction. Everything was not the fault of the celestial body of Kenshi itself. It all started with losing that connection to the peoples that seeded life on Kenshi itself. Kenshi is confirmed to be a moon and perhaps an intergalactic war, rebellion or alien, led to Kenshi being forgotten. Or perhaps something much more tumultuous or deadly? We don't even know what star system they reside in. Are they even in the Milky Way galaxy? We know now that the sea levels were lower due to Kenshi 2 blog posts but that's still going to be set in the 2nd Empire's Age. Which leads me to believe that Kenshi was heavily terraformed and perhaps the majority of all of that collapsed when we 1st lost that connection. Who knows what else has been lost to the sands of time. Or much more appropriate: The Dunes of Kenshi.
I like to figure out the history of kenshi, and that’s how I play this game. In my opinion, this game should have more fans and players. The only reason is that it’s too hard to play and enjoy at the beginning, however, that period is the most enjoyable time after hundreds of hours playing kenshi. Wish the kenshi2 could take me to the deeper story happened in second empire.
I watshed lore videos before I could figure out the lore by myself. I somehow regret that now. I denied myself the opportunity to explore the lore by myself.
Also I discovered a very reliable but also time consuming way to train the melee attack and defense skill to lvl 70.
Great job man!
Watched all of your videos, keep it up! Great content
I'm begging you to return and keep doing Kenshi lore vids
This was so informative. Ty!
Great content. Love from Canada!
I'm a simple Greenfruit farmer
Great little video. Nicely done
Great work, especially liked the script.
Thank you for making this amazing video i was asking my self questions for years
Thanks so much! I'm actually going to use this video as a reference guide for my Ironsworn campaign, which will be based in this game. Cheers :)
600th sub! This was awesome
Dude, awesome video, keep up the great work, subbed/liked.
Quality content here, i'm definitely subscribing !
Amazing content, keep it up man!
Essentially a post post apocalypse. Really dope
Can you imagine that I've never heard anything about Kenshi until now?
That last image of the skeleton holding the bonedog is great, can you share the link of the original image, I would look great as a wallpaper
Imagine if we got to play a game where the inhabitants of Kenshi regain their technological advancements... Imagine what would that look like :0
Kenshi 5 in 2070 confirmed lol ?!
MORE VIDS BRO!!!
Nice video. Hope more comes soon.
Damn this game has me so ridiculously addicted
If you go to worlds end and talk to the skeleton scientist as a skeleton, and start asking questions, he says that he’ll make sure no one find south what caused one of the extinctions. So skeletons prolly used bioweapons or something like that in the past
miss your kenshi videos
Crazy idea but Stobe is Okran and the founder of the Holy Nation. theyve just forgotten over time that he was a skeleton. Okran was the "good" Skelton that saved them and Narko were the "bad" ones from the second empire that took their children and all the other unspeakable atrocities
10/10 good video
This lore video made me like the Skeletons more than I liked any android in Detroit: Become Human
The mod that makes the arms move in obedience. I can't recommend it enough.
I only recently found this game and so far ( apart from a few little bugs ) I like it. Looking forward to the sequel
Really cool video I love Kenshi's lore and asthetic
very nice video, thx for the lore.
well done my guy
Amazing video
Super! Very good video!
Thank you!
At 3:19 the scene with people throwing robots in the pit what's that from anyone?
Animatrix
Thank you SOO much. You can not even imagine how long Ive been looking for the name of it!
anyone know where the scene with the robots getting thrown away comes from?
it's from one of those matrix prequel animes, look around for it - it's really good and brutal
@@s0vrn thank you for recommending that, i enjoyed them thoroughly
Thank you for not using yucky voices for this lore video. So many of them do and it pulls me out of the story.
totally agree
The AI reading lore is something i find really annoying. This guy and A hero in his own head are probably the best lore masters for kenshi.
Good job well done.
Doing a solo run rn. Killing all the 2nd empire fools rn. Its tough!
Machines do in fact "forget" espically one that travels a very hostile world
How can you not mention stobe? 😮
tbf a lot of other stuff seems missing, like the shek in reality being genetically modified humans and the holy nation coming from a cult that was under persecution during the second empire
Is there a Source to the claim that the Behemoths were put in a Pit and buried in Liquid Metal ?
Because honestly that seems pretty complicated..
I always assumed that they were just shot with the Verge Laser (which I assume was much stronger back then or Multiple) and that the Liquid Metal are actually from the Behemoths that melted basically
I hate how Kenshi does not have a story mode revealing the lore and actually having a goal beyond "Survive or Thrive" kinda deal. This lore is really cool and finding out about it after visiting places like Obedience makes sense.
But knowing most of this is required to be dug up and 90% of the time you're getting snipped by blood spiders, ninja running for weed or eaten by bone dogs really makes me sad there isnt a deep story mode within the game. I can tell it was a more budget focused issues followed by its fairly flawed engine that makes things like cutscenes and voice acted dialogue impossible. I just hope Kenshi is more of a testing grounds and we get a sequel (or atleast spiritual sequel) of this beautiful game.
I personally found it refreshing to discover relics and clues along the way. It makes sense that a society utterly destroyed twice would have its history mostly destroyed. Makes it more rewarding to know information if you have to work hard to get it.
But yeah I wish there was more dialogue and story either way...
Does anyone know the music used in the background?
Kenshi ingame soundtrack
@@phoenixdash549 oh nice, thank you, it has good music
Good video but you take long pauses between points instead of explaining it feels like your reading bullet points
well done.
I've always felt " Dune " vibes in this game
What's the image used at 7:30 ?
The first race isn't confirmed to be humans like you mentioned at the very beginning, but it probably is. Otherwise awesome video 👍
fyi guys for your gaint robot problems first just ask if they can hybernate till we need them(then you dont have to fuck them over they will be asleep and not care)
are u sure that terrans from x series are the kenshi first empire???
This game runs like hot garbage even on my 9700K and 1080ti, and I fucking love it.
Thanks for this video, I just started this game a week ago and I was looking for some lore informations ("Hey, why my skeleton and his shek followers fear Okranians? Ouch! Racists!"), but nothing in french and my understanding of oral english is not good enough for other videos. This one is slow and clear! ;)
pacing is a bit off but overall i really liked it, thanks!
Now this is a pog
youtube suggested this to me, i really liked it, consider me a new subriber!
No idea if this would be reasonable or possible… but would it not be rad to find a functional space elevator?
i wander where you find info that it is not a planet but moon? would love to discus about it more :) i did not found any info about it anywhere :)
You can see that the bigger of the two “moons” in the sky does not move like the smaller, more typical sized moon. This suggests that the body the observer (your character) is standing on is not a planet but a tidally locked moon. I believe devs confirmed this but I could be wrong.
I love kenshi
at first i thoughtt ugh what game ios this
but now i really enjoy playing it
time flies by when playing kenshi i actually enjoy gaming again thanks to this GEM of a Game
You want my juicy lore, don'tcha no-hives