And with future DLCs for R2. I think it's a smart move story wise to start telling other stories that don't revolve around the root and their same deal. I've been much more invested in Nerud than I ever was on anything the root offered.
rhom and corsus both had cool worlds imo, and personally i saw a lot of n’erud and losomn as spiritual successors that also payed homage to other media that inspires the devs (alien and bloodborne being the most obvious 😂) both rhom and n’erud remained without root because they were essentially dead. corsus and losomn (i’m still clueless who is supposed to be the guardian for losomn is) have/had their guardian. rhom and n’erud both had highly advanced civilizations that were decimated. corsus and losomn both are experiencing some great change that’s leading to a sort of hive mind like mentality (most specifically from the dran for losomn). hell, even corsus had an industrial society just as losomn does, and also has the sort of “castles” in the form of the iskal lairs. idk about intentionality, but i found the similarities pretty cool
I wanna go back to Rhom there's so much more hyper-advanced tech hidden in the skeleton of a once grand city.What I like about Rhom and N'erud is their differences Rhoms tech was advanced yes...but it held an Eldritch feel too like the Black Sun which made most of their weaponry through the Kel'her compared to N'erud's sleek robots and beautiful harnessing of their universe yes it was advanced often beyond our understanding yet every so often you see a piece of tech and go heey I recognize what that's used for.
It depends. If this game the Root threat is finally finished, then what other reason would the protag of Renmant 3 would be willing to travel to potentially dangerous worlds when they could stay in the relative safety of Ward 13. Unless Remnant 3 will be about a completely different species. Idk, we will see what they do with the DLCs. If they are set ups for some other potentially dangerous multidimensional threat to replace the Root.
Nerud is my favorite location in Remnant 2. I love the themes of existentialism and hope opposed to cosmic dread and entropy. The aesthetic inspirations from things like Prometheus and Matrix are so awesome too
Agreed. There's also a cosmic horror aspect to it with Alepsis Taura and the things it could have held if the Drzyr had been more able to explore it. That drive towards knowledge while sacrificing everything else is very H.P. and I'm here for it.
Also Halo. The Dryzr are very similar in culture to the Forerunners. From their culture of having dedicated individuals with "life roles" aka jobs, to even the Artificial intelligence being the last remnant left of what they once were. N'Erud could have been the start to an entire game in itself.
You have done N’erud justice. The lore of Remnant 2 (Remnant in general) is amazing. I hope and can’t wait for you to make more videos on the lore. Keep up to good work dude. Much love.
even more interesting to me are the Phaetyr, the Dryzyr's warrior caste... people that toiled endlessly for a pointless endeavour designing weapons when the universe was void of any enemy they would ever need to fight. Also what irony that your arrival is all the Dryzyr would have ever dreamed of: intelligent alien life at last, and yet they didnt find you... you found them instead, well past any is left to celebrate the long-awaited discovery for which they sacrificed their entire civilisation.
@@Loup_DM well yes there is the rogue custodian that happened... But overall yeah out of that one event their role as weapon makers was kinda useless, to the point after that event no gun was battle tested (old description of the starkiller, the new description makes it a Rhom weapon instead which makes more sense considering its made of wood unlike any n'erudian item)
man nerud's lore is awesome, and it helps that besides the lore blurbs on the items, it packs lore onto scant audiotapes, so you dont keep finding tons of them all over the place and just phase them out. you find a message from what seems to be a message from one lover to another, one who stayed on their homeworld, the other who departed on nerud a message from one friend to another, comforting them that art does not have to be eternal or consumed to be worth making a leader expressing his excitement over what they have learned from alepsis-taura yet uneasy about their journey into it yet another recording, supposedly meant to be edited afterwards, yet found in its raw state, of two leaders conversing about their thoughts on their upcoming journey, mere moments before their jump meanwhile in losom and yaesha you have books, and i mean, what can you do, right? neither worlds particularly scream high tech, but losom couldve done some fun stuff with the magic they have. maybe magic hologram recordings a la the division
Totally agree. Nerud is a great example of world building in universe. Yaesha and Losom have more of the books than in the first game, which is nice but I agree. They could have had alternatives to the audio recordings. Maybe implanted memories in crystals in Yaesha or something like that. Sorely missed and I hope they'll develop this style further in DLC
I truly loved the story and the lore, amazing video. Here's some things I noticed on my playthru: -The custodian says that it took Nerud a century to make the voyage, so the 10 generations refer to the generations of people who perished not how long it actually took for them to die. -It is implied that the death was almost instant, stasis chambers turned tombs. -The Microcompresor ring says that what killed them was energies that mixed with heat. Therefore Talratha's chambers works by dispersing heat. -Theres also evidence that the void or anti life energy is from the black hole itself. -Nerud uses the black hole energy as fuel, the residue of this process is the black goo we see everywhere that Drzyr were consuming. -Theres also the Void Vessel Facility thats filled with pods and it's self explanatory. -There you fight the aberration "Fetid Corpse" and the black goo is also described to stink. -Not to mention that the Fetid Corpse takes you from the stasis pods and places you in the goo deliberately. -Theres also the recording of experiments using the black goo to improve the survivability of the DRzyr, so they were ingesting and experimenting with it. -Also the fact that the zombies are all Ofaldi or worker class with the exception of the navigator. Seekers and other normal DRzyr as show to just be dead not reanimated. Same with the engineer we find which is a xul(not Ofaldi) and is dead, not reanimated. -you can see that Talratha can smell the dead world of Nerud in the future, which is why he gets a hint that it isn't going to go so well thanks to the ambit ember he consumes. -Talratha and the ambit ember reminds me of the navigators in DUNE that used spice for the same thing. -its is implied that the conductor was at fault for what happened and it was a long time coming. It is also implied he was wrong in entering the black hole again in the description of the void heart
The ambit ember, Astropaths/Tal Ratha, the fact that the Dryzr are split into houses with different purposes and ideals... a lot of Ne'erud is a big reference to Dune. Well I think it's a hodgepodge of a bunch of Sci Fi references, from stuff like 2001: A Space Odyssey to Interstellar.
Out of all R2 worlds, N'erud is so far my favorite in terms of lore, and visual representation. I hope one of the dlc's will explore this world a bit more
The subtext in this world is on every wall you see. So much about this world is not what it seems. For example, the towers were never made with a stoney layer across them. That black rock coated them AFTER they entered Alepsis Taura. N'Erud was a veritable garden ark ship, with fields of green and glistening white spires. The place is a hellscape, all because of that black hole.
I imagine that within the Singularity there would be no light able to sustain any sort of biosphere and given that they spent a century or more, from their perspective, within Alepsis-Taura it's hardly surprising that it all turned to dust by the time they left. But that's just assuming that it happened inside the Black Hole, the decay of N'Erud's environment could have well happened after they emerged or have been underway by then.
@S3Cs4uN8 The recordings describe Ne'erud as beautiful, a paradise. Combine that with the fact that the whole planet is coated in a poisonous fog and it's clear Ne'erud was functionally put into the Alepsis Taura equivalent of a nuclear fall out.
The Virgin Elves/Fae(Long lived, functionally ageless, stagnates and becomes a lazy gaggle of mess ups) vs the Chadzyr(Long lived, Nigh on immortal, Keeps innovating, keeps improving and inherits the star, wants to pass on their greatness)
Been waiting for a lore video, N’erud has been my favorite biome and been waiting to find a vid of all the more because I’m sure I’ve missed things scouring the map
Your narration voice combined with the choice of soundtrack remind me of the old halo waypoint videos I used to stay up watching that described the various species of the covenant and all the different purposes they served. Awesome video dude.
I can't wait for more Remnant 2 lore, I didn't play the first game so I took pleasure in watching your lore playlist. Understanding things made me appreciate the sequel a lot more, Mudtooth, his son and Reji doing great recap of the events in town is also a really cool addition. I can't wait for you to explain the lore behind The Red Prince, The One True King, The Imposter and well.. Most of the Elven world. I found myself fascinated by the dialogue of this game. Keep up the videos, they are greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much. You also just listed off like 4 topics I have on my list for future videos XD. Im so glad you're getting into the lore, it is crazy expansive in places and R2 is doing a good job of diving into things R1 missed.
Your work is amazing, I've been trying to find a channel which talks about Remnant lore cause of how much I loved 1 & 2. Thank you for these videos! Can't wait for more! Subscribed!
From all the videos I saw, I can't help myself but to see huge similarities beween N'erud and the world of Scorn... somber, cheerless, tragic. Silent worlds echoing with despair.
Its funny and sad how if only humanity found nerud as their first world with the crystals, history would have played out very differently. The Drzyr would have found other life at long last, making their dream come true and helping humanity to advance rapidly while humanity would have had a way better chance to battle the root.
I'm excited for remnant 2 to get more lore videos. Remnant 1 didn't get as much popularity so not as many people did lore videos. I'm excited for this 😊
Fun fact, theoretically speaking the closer you are to a black hole the faster time passes for everyone but you. In essence, you could watch the universe die.
Or you’d be vaporized as all the light ( the background radiation included) that the back hole would ever eat gets compressed into a instant in time. Effectively you cooked by all the light of the universe hitting you at once.
Which is actually sorta what happened with N'Erud. To the perspective of the world-ship they spent only a Century or so inside Alepsis-Taura yet when they emerged the Universe they returned to was in the Heat-Death stage of its existence. I'm just making an assumption here but given their rather fruitless search for Sapient Life I think it's quite possible that the Drzyr were perhaps the very first civilization to emerge in their universe, and in the earliest possible timeframe for that to have happened. Meaning the life they were looking for simply didn't exist yet and by the time they re-emerged any life left in the Universe would have been huddled around Brown Dwarf stars or in orbit of other Black Holes if it had even survived to that point at all. It's entirely possible that any civilizations and lifeforms that emerged in the billions upon billions of years between the Drzyr's disappearance and return may have died and been little more than atoms buried deep in some relict Supermassive black hole. tl;dr: The Drzyr may have been both far too early, and far, far too late, to find Alien Life.
It gets even sadder once you realize that a certain reroll of N'erud will show Alepsis-Taura as a destination and always wondered how to get there...To be fair i wish i wasn't curious.
Nice video, but you miss a lot of details about the lore, for instance the star of N'erud was actually made by their homeworld's guardian. They captured and enslaved it into the core. Also the custodian isn't of the Dryzr, its an artificial supercomputer that has a remote controlled avatar that was designed to look like them to be easier to interact with.
thats because you arent after the root, you are after fragments from powerful beings, and one of them can be found on N'erud. And if n'erud is your first world, its just that you were pulled in it at random. A cruel irony that now that N'erud is dead, your very arrival was all the dryzyr had ever dreamed of... intelligent alien life at last. And ironically, you found them and not the other way around, despite all their search
That was one of my favorite aspects of this story. That the life they sought was probably in their home world all along but they never bothered to look. Theory video coming of what that home world could be soon!
@@crushingit5128 simply put, being stuck in the event horizon of a black hole for a handful of millenias... and if there was any survivors when the ship managed to get out, realising that thanks to time dilation, billions of year passed meaning the universe ENDED long ago by the time they came out, meaning all that was left of the entire universe is now N'erud, and Alepsis Taura itself... meaning if there was any other intelligent life to find in their universe, it was definitely long dead now. Add to that that the stasis pods may have ended up malfunctioning after this long without anyone left to maintain them, turning their occupants into zombies and yeah you can get why there isnt really a single Dryzir left sane, except maybe Sha'hala if he can be considered a Dryzir (the custodian is artificial, and the last living astropath... definitely mad now.)
@@thorveim1174what’s also interesting to think about, is that n’erud is probably among the few safe worlds because it is essentially dead, meaning that even if it has no guardian, the root would not be as drawn to overtake it, because it’s entire universe is has essentially met the root’s goal
Nerud lore is deeper that it looks. A lesson on how mechanistic metaphor and scientism philosophy leads to fates worse then death. Something our own civilization faces in a more subtle way.
At first i though n'erud was rohm when i went there, the desolate wasteland made me think thats its still is rohm after a few hundreds of years since the last remnant(since we go to a world without knowing if time pass the same time as ours or something. It feels weird that in the seeker story line where the custodian still lead the planet towards the blackhole despite meeting us and knowing they arent actually alone in the universe and seeing us meant that we got there somehow so if they were reeally smart as this video said, why couldnt the custodian fix up his world and try searching another way?? Losom story was very awesome tho, combining 2 worlds and the problem it brings makes it possible for remnant series to actual remove the root as the main problem in all realities!
The Custodian has no choice. Although it appears to be sentient, it has a prime mandate it must follow of preserving Ne'erud at all costs. That's why the Custodian went rogue in the first place (but it's unclear to me what the Custodian did when it went rogue originally, why it thought betraying the Dryzr was best for Ne'erud, or what even the betrayal was). Regardless, the Custodian you meet (whether it's the same one that went rogue or a different one, I'm not sure) is still trying to save Ne'erud - he says as much when you meet him. In his words (paraphrased), there's no other choice than to enter Alepsis-Taura. What else could save Ne'erud when the whole universe is dead? So when it meets you, it asks you to help it do the only thing the AI can think of to save Ne'erud.
I thought that when they went through or tried to go through Alpesis Tora, it caused an anomaly. The lifeless were given life and the living death. I'm trying to find the piece that mentions that. Also it was mentioned that the Dryzer didn't die but were repurposed. Also there is some hope for the Dryzer as the capsules that are used for an event mentioned eggs in a thick liquid so soe Dryzer have survived. I'll try and find the pieces that mention this but there is a ton of stuff to go through but yeah, N'Erud isn't dead, well not yet.
@@Loup_DM Well I checked all the items I had and I couldn't find it. I think it was a description on the Eidolon shard but I know for a fact that the spectral blade says the Dryzer didn't die and were repurposed. But I know the item description clearly said: It gave the lifeless life, the living death and the dead....I hesitate to think. But yes the future of the Dryzer is bleak . But that leads me to a theory. After the Custodian pilots N'rud into Alpesis Tarua, only the Blackhole can be visited, and with in is the Void heart. Crazy idea but knowing how dense a Blackhole is, I believe the Void Heart IS N'rud shrunken down under the influence of the Blackhole. Turning the heart so the white part is upwards made me think it could be the ship.
@@Loup_DM Well I've checked all the N'Rud rings, Amulets and weapons and nothing. So I believe the Edilon Shard has the description but since I have the Spectral Blade I can't confirm but thinking about it I believe I know what happened to make the Dryzr as they are. When killing Tal'Ratha he drops his Shining Essence Echo. I believe this is what was taken from the Dryzr by the entropy of Alpesis Taura. Without the spark of life so to speak, the bodies became empty husks, meat puppets wandering around without any goal or guidence.
Is it me or does N'Erud takes a lot of inspiration from SOMA? Organic beings fused with technology to try and stay alive but turned into zombies, the black goo reminded me a lot of the WAU too.
There's some visual similarities for sure. I think the stories are completely different though. Drzyr didn't really fuse with technology to survive, they just became hyper intelligent and their hubris destroyed them. SOMA is more a study on what it means to be human and the self. One of my favorite games for sure on story and concept alone
@@Loup_DM At first I thought the Drzyr zombies were an amalgamation of their tech and their bodies, due to how the Abominations are set up, reminded me a lot of the WAU monsters like I said but after properly finishing the world and reading on your lore explanation, concept wise it really is different. Still, SOMA's great and more games should have that aesthetic.
So they never actually went into Alepsis-Taura? Them getting caught in the event horizon makes much more sense. With how smart the Dryzir were you'd think they'd account for that
Also while I LOVE remnant 2, nearly played the game to complete completion myself, I can’t help but feel I miss some of the lighter worlds from remnant from the ashes and chronos like yaesha before it became corrupted, and the krell world, I certainly hope we get to see the latter of which again in a dlc.
If the course of the story is anything to go by, we'll be seeing more "living" worlds in future dlc. Hopefully it doesn't just become an "Okay now the Iskal are the new root." Which would be disappointing.
@@Loup_DM that's fine, im just pointing it out in case no one did, ive spent way to long on space hell already and have listened to the recordings a few times, like the intergalactic forklift instructions
Now I’m still curious, why did the drzyr become zombies and amalgamations of such, I get they all died once entering Alepsis Taura because within time passed exponentially faster relative to outside but how exactly did that turn them into headless zombies who sometimes float and throw flying disks and sometimes become massive conjoined moving piles of bodies.
Great question. I don't have a canon answer for you but my best guess is that it's due to a combination of the preservation liquid (the black goop) and the physical augmentations done to the Drzyr for working. Basically these things preserved the bodies and allowed them to keep moving. They tried to keep going with their routines due to their programming. This is based on the fact they aren't really hostile when left alone and will wander around areas of work. Darker theory is that the custodian kept them around and moving by controlling the mechanic parts of their bodies, similar to the drones that are still around.
Remnant 2's main quest line is incredibly bland but holy crap the stories and lore of each individual realm are so dense and thought provoking, N'erud is by far my favorite
That's how it was for the first one too. The main story is for the people who want to rush through to bosses and collect loot. The world is for the lore goblins
Well at least the first game had stuff in Ward 13/17/Prime. R2's main story has literally nothing except for item descriptions for the main story in the Labrynth/Root Earth and the fact that Root Earth is the original copy of Earth. @@Loup_DM
You'd think that a civilization that is capable of manipulating matter at the atomic level, has members with long lifespans and that is so desperate to find life elsewhere in the universe would simply decide to be the "seeders" of life around the cosmos, creating new forms of life, new civilizations, rather than succumb to the existential dread of loneliness.
Honestly with the way tal ratha acts as though “destiny” gives them authority to impose his will on someone “going against destiny” it’s probably very fortunate they never found life. They’d prolly have seen themselves as guardians of life while turning Nerud into a glorified zoo.
Oh yea, considering some items mention them wanting to "foster and help bring other lifeforms to their level" there's next to 0 chance they wouldn't overtake any life they had found.
@@Loup_DM NGL, I would have loved to see this hypothesis play out in a meeting between them and the root. Like a hipster tryna “befriend” a rabies infested raccoon.
The Astropaths would have loved Carl Sagan: "That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
@@Loup_DM It's called The Pale Blue Dot. He wrote it after seeing a photo of Earth from the Voyager probe. It looks like a tiny blue dot, floating away.
Question. When we hand Shahala the sperm tube, does he ingest it in the cutscene or do we still have it? I'm not sure but wasn't that the very last of the Dryzr species he just swallowed?? 😬 And before we go there, yea....I know lol...I know...😅😅
Lol, I still have it on my playthrough but I guess it depends on what the "canon" choice is. Him swallowing it just means it goes into that other dimension inside himself where he was keeping the "souls" of all the other Drzyr he ate. So when we get in there, we retrieve it....not that it matters since you know...Nerud gets swallowed into the black hole anyway....
@@Loup_DM I love your lore videos! I just didn’t know it was bad like that on pc… I’m on ps5 and I’m playing with uncapped framerates. I’m surprised they have uncapped frames on ps5 but having issues on pc :( I’m sorry!
Its not a frames issue, they are uncapped. They have really crap optimization on PC. Basically requiring you to have specific settings on and even with those, still sucks. I was due for a new PC so this was a great excuse to pull the trigger :D @@owlmangaming2076
@@Loup_DM they have the spark that contains the consciosness of the drazyr and they have the tech to manipulate matter. they can create the drazyr again
@@devilgrass310Tal Ratha can't leave his chamber. He runs on the ambit ember to stay alive - there's a recording where he mentions him and the people who were against entering Alepsis Taura hid in his chamber with a limited amount of food, but that if push comes to shove they can feed off the ambit ember. Tal Ratha's idea of "saving" the Dryzr is preserving the capsule of eggs in his pocket dimension for eternity. He's insane.
Drzyr: So, we built a ship big enough to hold our whole civilization. Eldar: Oh, we've got a whole BUNCH of those! We also store the spirits of our dead in the supercomputers on them. Drzyr: We kind of did that... Except it turned most of us into mindless zombies. Necrons: Did you at least get nigh invulnerable living metal bodies out of it? Drzyr: Nope, same bodies, just a bit rotten. Necrons: Damn, that sucks. Eldar: Hah! Stupid mon-keighs! Drzyr: Oh, stuff it. At least we didn't kill and screw ourselves until we ripped apart the fabric of reality and created an actual BDSM god! Eldar: ...shut up.
Great video, though its sad that you can't really help save nerud, and in fist version with Travel to Alepsis-Taura Storyline that makes sense cause literary everyone's dead. But why couldn't we save nerud in Tal Ratha and the Shining Essence Echo storyline is just buffeling and sad, because from ward 13 dialoge we know that after remnant from the ashes events earth does house transdimensional refugees including pan and even iskal queen (if i remember correctly), sure tal ratha himself might have gone insane so we only could "put him out of misery" but it makes no sense for custodian refuse to move out with Soul Spark Cylinder to completely new dimensions with acces to "alien beings" that they were looking for all that time and saving their species... (that we don't eve have an option to tell of the way out is...questionable) Surely post root recovering Earth could house an ai construct and a possible future kindergarten of Drzyr......???
It's essentially a mercy killing. Tal'Ratha would have them live for eternity. But there's nothing to live for. You're putting the Dryzr out of their misery imo.
N'erud and Losomn prove that the root is not necessary for the devs to be able to make remnant 3 a great game. well done bringing it to the forefront
And with future DLCs for R2. I think it's a smart move story wise to start telling other stories that don't revolve around the root and their same deal. I've been much more invested in Nerud than I ever was on anything the root offered.
rhom and corsus both had cool worlds imo, and personally i saw a lot of n’erud and losomn as spiritual successors that also payed homage to other media that inspires the devs (alien and bloodborne being the most obvious 😂) both rhom and n’erud remained without root because they were essentially dead. corsus and losomn (i’m still clueless who is supposed to be the guardian for losomn is) have/had their guardian. rhom and n’erud both had highly advanced civilizations that were decimated. corsus and losomn both are experiencing some great change that’s leading to a sort of hive mind like mentality (most specifically from the dran for losomn). hell, even corsus had an industrial society just as losomn does, and also has the sort of “castles” in the form of the iskal lairs. idk about intentionality, but i found the similarities pretty cool
I wanna go back to Rhom there's so much more hyper-advanced tech hidden in the skeleton of a once grand city.What I like about Rhom and N'erud is their differences Rhoms tech was advanced yes...but it held an Eldritch feel too like the Black Sun which made most of their weaponry through the Kel'her compared to N'erud's sleek robots and beautiful harnessing of their universe yes it was advanced often beyond our understanding yet every so often you see a piece of tech and go heey I recognize what that's used for.
It depends. If this game the Root threat is finally finished, then what other reason would the protag of Renmant 3 would be willing to travel to potentially dangerous worlds when they could stay in the relative safety of Ward 13. Unless Remnant 3 will be about a completely different species. Idk, we will see what they do with the DLCs. If they are set ups for some other potentially dangerous multidimensional threat to replace the Root.
@@Loup_DMsame with losomn, so much cooler lore than the root imo
Nerud is my favorite location in Remnant 2. I love the themes of existentialism and hope opposed to cosmic dread and entropy. The aesthetic inspirations from things like Prometheus and Matrix are so awesome too
Agreed. There's also a cosmic horror aspect to it with Alepsis Taura and the things it could have held if the Drzyr had been more able to explore it. That drive towards knowledge while sacrificing everything else is very H.P. and I'm here for it.
yeap and a bit of dead space to
Also Halo. The Dryzr are very similar in culture to the Forerunners. From their culture of having dedicated individuals with "life roles" aka jobs, to even the Artificial intelligence being the last remnant left of what they once were. N'Erud could have been the start to an entire game in itself.
Dune meets Lovecraft. I'm all for it.
and a bit of aliens and dead space@@thegreatoffendo4532
You have done N’erud justice. The lore of Remnant 2 (Remnant in general) is amazing. I hope and can’t wait for you to make more videos on the lore. Keep up to good work dude. Much love.
Much love back. and Much lore coming too
even more interesting to me are the Phaetyr, the Dryzyr's warrior caste... people that toiled endlessly for a pointless endeavour designing weapons when the universe was void of any enemy they would ever need to fight.
Also what irony that your arrival is all the Dryzyr would have ever dreamed of: intelligent alien life at last, and yet they didnt find you... you found them instead, well past any is left to celebrate the long-awaited discovery for which they sacrificed their entire civilisation.
Oh but the Phaetyr found many uses for their skills....video on that and the other Houses coming next week ;)
@@Loup_DM well yes there is the rogue custodian that happened... But overall yeah out of that one event their role as weapon makers was kinda useless, to the point after that event no gun was battle tested (old description of the starkiller, the new description makes it a Rhom weapon instead which makes more sense considering its made of wood unlike any n'erudian item)
I guess the dryzyr never saw the red crystals lettering their world.
man nerud's lore is awesome, and it helps that besides the lore blurbs on the items, it packs lore onto scant audiotapes, so you dont keep finding tons of them all over the place and just phase them out.
you find a message from what seems to be a message from one lover to another, one who stayed on their homeworld, the other who departed on nerud
a message from one friend to another, comforting them that art does not have to be eternal or consumed to be worth making
a leader expressing his excitement over what they have learned from alepsis-taura yet uneasy about their journey into it
yet another recording, supposedly meant to be edited afterwards, yet found in its raw state, of two leaders conversing about their thoughts on their upcoming journey, mere moments before their jump
meanwhile in losom and yaesha you have books, and i mean, what can you do, right? neither worlds particularly scream high tech, but losom couldve done some fun stuff with the magic they have. maybe magic hologram recordings a la the division
Totally agree. Nerud is a great example of world building in universe. Yaesha and Losom have more of the books than in the first game, which is nice but I agree. They could have had alternatives to the audio recordings. Maybe implanted memories in crystals in Yaesha or something like that. Sorely missed and I hope they'll develop this style further in DLC
I truly loved the story and the lore, amazing video. Here's some things I noticed on my playthru:
-The custodian says that it took Nerud a century to make the voyage, so the 10 generations refer to the generations of people who perished not how long it actually took for them to die.
-It is implied that the death was almost instant, stasis chambers turned tombs.
-The Microcompresor ring says that what killed them was energies that mixed with heat. Therefore Talratha's chambers works by dispersing heat.
-Theres also evidence that the void or anti life energy is from the black hole itself.
-Nerud uses the black hole energy as fuel, the residue of this process is the black goo we see everywhere that Drzyr were consuming.
-Theres also the Void Vessel Facility thats filled with pods and it's self explanatory.
-There you fight the aberration "Fetid Corpse" and the black goo is also described to stink.
-Not to mention that the Fetid Corpse takes you from the stasis pods and places you in the goo deliberately.
-Theres also the recording of experiments using the black goo to improve the survivability of the DRzyr, so they were ingesting and experimenting with it.
-Also the fact that the zombies are all Ofaldi or worker class with the exception of the navigator. Seekers and other normal DRzyr as show to just be dead not reanimated. Same with the engineer we find which is a xul(not Ofaldi) and is dead, not reanimated.
-you can see that Talratha can smell the dead world of Nerud in the future, which is why he gets a hint that it isn't going to go so well thanks to the ambit ember he consumes.
-Talratha and the ambit ember reminds me of the navigators in DUNE that used spice for the same thing.
-its is implied that the conductor was at fault for what happened and it was a long time coming. It is also implied he was wrong in entering the black hole again in the description of the void heart
The ambit ember, Astropaths/Tal Ratha, the fact that the Dryzr are split into houses with different purposes and ideals... a lot of Ne'erud is a big reference to Dune. Well I think it's a hodgepodge of a bunch of Sci Fi references, from stuff like 2001: A Space Odyssey to Interstellar.
Out of all R2 worlds, N'erud is so far my favorite in terms of lore, and visual representation. I hope one of the dlc's will explore this world a bit more
The world and lore of N’erud give me chills man. Thank you for this deep dive, awesome stuff.
The subtext in this world is on every wall you see. So much about this world is not what it seems. For example, the towers were never made with a stoney layer across them. That black rock coated them AFTER they entered Alepsis Taura. N'Erud was a veritable garden ark ship, with fields of green and glistening white spires. The place is a hellscape, all because of that black hole.
Man, you nailed it. 👏
Oh shit, I missed that part
Damn that's actually sad
I imagine that within the Singularity there would be no light able to sustain any sort of biosphere and given that they spent a century or more, from their perspective, within Alepsis-Taura it's hardly surprising that it all turned to dust by the time they left. But that's just assuming that it happened inside the Black Hole, the decay of N'Erud's environment could have well happened after they emerged or have been underway by then.
@S3Cs4uN8 The recordings describe Ne'erud as beautiful, a paradise. Combine that with the fact that the whole planet is coated in a poisonous fog and it's clear Ne'erud was functionally put into the Alepsis Taura equivalent of a nuclear fall out.
The Virgin Elves/Fae(Long lived, functionally ageless, stagnates and becomes a lazy gaggle of mess ups) vs the Chadzyr(Long lived, Nigh on immortal, Keeps innovating, keeps improving and inherits the star, wants to pass on their greatness)
Facts they're such a good race fr
Been waiting for a lore video, N’erud has been my favorite biome and been waiting to find a vid of all the more because I’m sure I’ve missed things scouring the map
Do I have some other videos coming up for you :)
beeeeeeeen looking for remnant 2 lore videos. We appreciate your efforts good work buddy
Glad you like them! Thank you for the kind words
Oh man, I binged all your R1 lore content a while back. Happy to see you're back :)
Thank you! Happy to be back
Your narration voice combined with the choice of soundtrack remind me of the old halo waypoint videos I used to stay up watching that described the various species of the covenant and all the different purposes they served. Awesome video dude.
I can't wait for more Remnant 2 lore, I didn't play the first game so I took pleasure in watching your lore playlist. Understanding things made me appreciate the sequel a lot more, Mudtooth, his son and Reji doing great recap of the events in town is also a really cool addition.
I can't wait for you to explain the lore behind The Red Prince, The One True King, The Imposter and well.. Most of the Elven world. I found myself fascinated by the dialogue of this game. Keep up the videos, they are greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much. You also just listed off like 4 topics I have on my list for future videos XD. Im so glad you're getting into the lore, it is crazy expansive in places and R2 is doing a good job of diving into things R1 missed.
Your work is amazing, I've been trying to find a channel which talks about Remnant lore cause of how much I loved 1 & 2. Thank you for these videos! Can't wait for more! Subscribed!
Welcome aboard! So happy you're enjoying them
From all the videos I saw, I can't help myself but to see huge similarities beween N'erud and the world of Scorn... somber, cheerless, tragic. Silent worlds echoing with despair.
You just gained a new subscriber. I really enjoyed the video. Hope you do more.
Welcome! Certainly will. New one every week.
glad someone made lore on this, its an incredible world for people who are fans of the HR biomechanical or dead space aesthetic
The Alepsis-taura turned out to be empty in the end. Except for the voidheart.
N'erud Sandstorm!😮
N'erud Sandstorm was a meme in my head my entire time there
I think we all had Darude Sandstorm playing in out heads, when we first saw this new world.
I throughly enjoy these lore videos. Particularly Nerud because it seems the most interesting.
Its funny and sad how if only humanity found nerud as their first world with the crystals, history would have played out very differently. The Drzyr would have found other life at long last, making their dream come true and helping humanity to advance rapidly while humanity would have had a way better chance to battle the root.
I’m so happy someone finally did this! Thank you for the work!
I'm excited for remnant 2 to get more lore videos. Remnant 1 didn't get as much popularity so not as many people did lore videos. I'm excited for this 😊
Fun fact, theoretically speaking the closer you are to a black hole the faster time passes for everyone but you. In essence, you could watch the universe die.
Or wait long enough for live to crop up.
Or you’d be vaporized as all the light ( the background radiation included) that the back hole would ever eat gets compressed into a instant in time. Effectively you cooked by all the light of the universe hitting you at once.
Which is actually sorta what happened with N'Erud. To the perspective of the world-ship they spent only a Century or so inside Alepsis-Taura yet when they emerged the Universe they returned to was in the Heat-Death stage of its existence.
I'm just making an assumption here but given their rather fruitless search for Sapient Life I think it's quite possible that the Drzyr were perhaps the very first civilization to emerge in their universe, and in the earliest possible timeframe for that to have happened. Meaning the life they were looking for simply didn't exist yet and by the time they re-emerged any life left in the Universe would have been huddled around Brown Dwarf stars or in orbit of other Black Holes if it had even survived to that point at all. It's entirely possible that any civilizations and lifeforms that emerged in the billions upon billions of years between the Drzyr's disappearance and return may have died and been little more than atoms buried deep in some relict Supermassive black hole.
tl;dr: The Drzyr may have been both far too early, and far, far too late, to find Alien Life.
Great video dude. Breathtaking!
It gets even sadder once you realize that a certain reroll of N'erud will show Alepsis-Taura as a destination and always wondered how to get there...To be fair i wish i wasn't curious.
And there's more than one way to get to it
Love the Remnant lore. New sub.
Awesome, thank you!
Was looking for rem2 lore and this is wayyyyy too good. Subbed
Thank you and welcome!
Fantastic video btw
Thanks this was amazing cant stop playing thìs
The artistic design and story is amazing! Never played 1st remnant, I may go back after I'm done here! Good video thanks
great, looking forward to more
finally some good R2 Lore content 🙌 great work
Nice video, but you miss a lot of details about the lore, for instance the star of N'erud was actually made by their homeworld's guardian. They captured and enslaved it into the core. Also the custodian isn't of the Dryzr, its an artificial supercomputer that has a remote controlled avatar that was designed to look like them to be easier to interact with.
Didn't miss it, purposely left it out and will be covered in a future video.
Absolutely amazing job. I really hope to see more! Subbed!
Thank you!
It amazes me how deep the plot is for each biome.
Question, why does the traveler need to go to this planet? It has nothing to do with the Root.
thats because you arent after the root, you are after fragments from powerful beings, and one of them can be found on N'erud. And if n'erud is your first world, its just that you were pulled in it at random. A cruel irony that now that N'erud is dead, your very arrival was all the dryzyr had ever dreamed of... intelligent alien life at last. And ironically, you found them and not the other way around, despite all their search
That was one of my favorite aspects of this story. That the life they sought was probably in their home world all along but they never bothered to look. Theory video coming of what that home world could be soon!
@@thorveim1174 any idea why their race went mad or devolved.
@@crushingit5128 simply put, being stuck in the event horizon of a black hole for a handful of millenias... and if there was any survivors when the ship managed to get out, realising that thanks to time dilation, billions of year passed meaning the universe ENDED long ago by the time they came out, meaning all that was left of the entire universe is now N'erud, and Alepsis Taura itself... meaning if there was any other intelligent life to find in their universe, it was definitely long dead now.
Add to that that the stasis pods may have ended up malfunctioning after this long without anyone left to maintain them, turning their occupants into zombies and yeah you can get why there isnt really a single Dryzir left sane, except maybe Sha'hala if he can be considered a Dryzir (the custodian is artificial, and the last living astropath... definitely mad now.)
@@thorveim1174what’s also interesting to think about, is that n’erud is probably among the few safe worlds because it is essentially dead, meaning that even if it has no guardian, the root would not be as drawn to overtake it, because it’s entire universe is has essentially met the root’s goal
Looks like HR Geiger but it's kind of like Warframe in the nitty gritty.
So is the black whole the next DLC 3
Nerud lore is deeper that it looks. A lesson on how mechanistic metaphor and scientism philosophy leads to fates worse then death.
Something our own civilization faces in a more subtle way.
Thank you. Pls more ❤
At first i though n'erud was rohm when i went there, the desolate wasteland made me think thats its still is rohm after a few hundreds of years since the last remnant(since we go to a world without knowing if time pass the same time as ours or something. It feels weird that in the seeker story line where the custodian still lead the planet towards the blackhole despite meeting us and knowing they arent actually alone in the universe and seeing us meant that we got there somehow so if they were reeally smart as this video said, why couldnt the custodian fix up his world and try searching another way??
Losom story was very awesome tho, combining 2 worlds and the problem it brings makes it possible for remnant series to actual remove the root as the main problem in all realities!
The Custodian has no choice. Although it appears to be sentient, it has a prime mandate it must follow of preserving Ne'erud at all costs.
That's why the Custodian went rogue in the first place (but it's unclear to me what the Custodian did when it went rogue originally, why it thought betraying the Dryzr was best for Ne'erud, or what even the betrayal was).
Regardless, the Custodian you meet (whether it's the same one that went rogue or a different one, I'm not sure) is still trying to save Ne'erud - he says as much when you meet him. In his words (paraphrased), there's no other choice than to enter Alepsis-Taura. What else could save Ne'erud when the whole universe is dead? So when it meets you, it asks you to help it do the only thing the AI can think of to save Ne'erud.
Could you pls do a video on what might have happened after we defeated the alternate boss (using the override key)?
Yes I can!
If the next DLC expands the story of nerud, will you do a video about it ?
I thought that when they went through or tried to go through Alpesis Tora, it caused an anomaly. The lifeless were given life and the living death. I'm trying to find the piece that mentions that. Also it was mentioned that the Dryzer didn't die but were repurposed. Also there is some hope for the Dryzer as the capsules that are used for an event mentioned eggs in a thick liquid so soe Dryzer have survived.
I'll try and find the pieces that mention this but there is a ton of stuff to go through but yeah, N'Erud isn't dead, well not yet.
If you find that let me know, that'd be a cool follow up but from what I've seen of the endings for Nerud, it doesn't have much of a future
@@Loup_DM Well I checked all the items I had and I couldn't find it. I think it was a description on the Eidolon shard but I know for a fact that the spectral blade says the Dryzer didn't die and were repurposed. But I know the item description clearly said: It gave the lifeless life, the living death and the dead....I hesitate to think. But yes the future of the Dryzer is bleak . But that leads me to a theory. After the Custodian pilots N'rud into Alpesis Tarua, only the Blackhole can be visited, and with in is the Void heart. Crazy idea but knowing how dense a Blackhole is, I believe the Void Heart IS N'rud shrunken down under the influence of the Blackhole. Turning the heart so the white part is upwards made me think it could be the ship.
oooooohhh that's such a cool idea. Totally agree! @@Freyafanboy90
@@Loup_DM Well I've checked all the N'Rud rings, Amulets and weapons and nothing. So I believe the Edilon Shard has the description but since I have the Spectral Blade I can't confirm but thinking about it I believe I know what happened to make the Dryzr as they are. When killing Tal'Ratha he drops his Shining Essence Echo. I believe this is what was taken from the Dryzr by the entropy of Alpesis Taura. Without the spark of life so to speak, the bodies became empty husks, meat puppets wandering around without any goal or guidence.
@@Loup_DM Not the original commenter but I believe they're referring to the Soul Shards you need to collect for Tal'Ratha as part of that questline.
Love the content but could you perhaps record/upload with more than 20fps?
Its very straining to watch.
Is it me or does N'Erud takes a lot of inspiration from SOMA? Organic beings fused with technology to try and stay alive but turned into zombies, the black goo reminded me a lot of the WAU too.
There's some visual similarities for sure. I think the stories are completely different though. Drzyr didn't really fuse with technology to survive, they just became hyper intelligent and their hubris destroyed them. SOMA is more a study on what it means to be human and the self. One of my favorite games for sure on story and concept alone
@@Loup_DM At first I thought the Drzyr zombies were an amalgamation of their tech and their bodies, due to how the Abominations are set up, reminded me a lot of the WAU monsters like I said but after properly finishing the world and reading on your lore explanation, concept wise it really is different. Still, SOMA's great and more games should have that aesthetic.
Agreed, another Soma would be fantastic. But im also glad the first one finished the story and didnt sequel bait @@Jonymago
Eh, not really. Has more similarities with halo/alien
They could manipulate atoms, but couldn't figure out what those red crystals littered throughout their world did.
So they never actually went into Alepsis-Taura? Them getting caught in the event horizon makes much more sense. With how smart the Dryzir were you'd think they'd account for that
why is your fps so low? btw good lore video.
Computer is kicking the bucket and r2 is poorly optimized currently for older rigs. Getting a new one next week 🙌
@@Loup_DM yeah even with a previous gen top of the line pc is having a hard time. im on performance dlss and medium, i still have dips to 40 fps :(
Hopefully in the next game there might be a Dryzer back
Also while I LOVE remnant 2, nearly played the game to complete completion myself, I can’t help but feel I miss some of the lighter worlds from remnant from the ashes and chronos like yaesha before it became corrupted, and the krell world, I certainly hope we get to see the latter of which again in a dlc.
If the course of the story is anything to go by, we'll be seeing more "living" worlds in future dlc. Hopefully it doesn't just become an "Okay now the Iskal are the new root." Which would be disappointing.
@@Loup_DM here’s hoping lmaooo
*foster it if necessary, not faster if necessary
Adobe Premiere Auto-Caption is not the best. Had to change Brassier to Drzyr several times
@@Loup_DM that's fine, im just pointing it out in case no one did, ive spent way to long on space hell already and have listened to the recordings a few times, like the intergalactic forklift instructions
But now you're space forklift certified @@jeffythebird3841
Would love to see a Losomn lore video
That's coming
@@Loup_DM HYYYYPE
13:48 R.I.P Pickle, we lost a good one today boys
never to be seen again, some say, they are still falling!
Four arms - are the drzyr the basha from Rhom?
*garbled excited noises*
Now I’m still curious, why did the drzyr become zombies and amalgamations of such, I get they all died once entering Alepsis Taura because within time passed exponentially faster relative to outside but how exactly did that turn them into headless zombies who sometimes float and throw flying disks and sometimes become massive conjoined moving piles of bodies.
Great question. I don't have a canon answer for you but my best guess is that it's due to a combination of the preservation liquid (the black goop) and the physical augmentations done to the Drzyr for working. Basically these things preserved the bodies and allowed them to keep moving. They tried to keep going with their routines due to their programming. This is based on the fact they aren't really hostile when left alone and will wander around areas of work.
Darker theory is that the custodian kept them around and moving by controlling the mechanic parts of their bodies, similar to the drones that are still around.
@@Loup_DM ooooh wow that was a hella solid answer, i never thought of those theories, much appreciated!
so when I put in the override key, did I do a good thing or a bad thing?
Does it really matter considering what happens at the end?
Whats truly sad about the dryzr fate is the werent wrong about the pattern and in theory about their universe not being governed by random elements
Remnant 2's main quest line is incredibly bland but holy crap the stories and lore of each individual realm are so dense and thought provoking, N'erud is by far my favorite
That's how it was for the first one too. The main story is for the people who want to rush through to bosses and collect loot. The world is for the lore goblins
Well at least the first game had stuff in Ward 13/17/Prime. R2's main story has literally nothing except for item descriptions for the main story in the Labrynth/Root Earth and the fact that Root Earth is the original copy of Earth. @@Loup_DM
You'd think that a civilization that is capable of manipulating matter at the atomic level, has members with long lifespans and that is so desperate to find life elsewhere in the universe would simply decide to be the "seeders" of life around the cosmos, creating new forms of life, new civilizations, rather than succumb to the existential dread of loneliness.
Honestly with the way tal ratha acts as though “destiny” gives them authority to impose his will on someone “going against destiny” it’s probably very fortunate they never found life. They’d prolly have seen themselves as guardians of life while turning Nerud into a glorified zoo.
Oh yea, considering some items mention them wanting to "foster and help bring other lifeforms to their level" there's next to 0 chance they wouldn't overtake any life they had found.
@@Loup_DM NGL, I would have loved to see this hypothesis play out in a meeting between them and the root. Like a hipster tryna “befriend” a rabies infested raccoon.
The Astropaths would have loved Carl Sagan:
"That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
I love this
@@Loup_DM It's called The Pale Blue Dot. He wrote it after seeing a photo of Earth from the Voyager probe. It looks like a tiny blue dot, floating away.
I was wondering why they deleted themselves like that after finish there world also wait 24 real time for them to delete themselves
You only have to wait 12 but yea, they had to go back. Gonna cover that next week
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Question. When we hand Shahala the sperm tube, does he ingest it in the cutscene or do we still have it? I'm not sure but wasn't that the very last of the Dryzr species he just swallowed?? 😬
And before we go there, yea....I know lol...I know...😅😅
Lol, I still have it on my playthrough but I guess it depends on what the "canon" choice is. Him swallowing it just means it goes into that other dimension inside himself where he was keeping the "souls" of all the other Drzyr he ate. So when we get in there, we retrieve it....not that it matters since you know...Nerud gets swallowed into the black hole anyway....
Ik one thing inside the middle “Void Heart”
Do the old gods or the creators of Neruda go above space and time tho? Coming from a power scaler
Assuming it's the same Creator that the Keeper talks about, I'd say yes. Presumably it created all the worlds everywhere
@@Loup_DMso outerversal then thank you!
hate the realm for the enemies but god damn do i love the lore of it been needing lore videos on them n the ship planet
I. Hate. The ghosts.
shit, I'm amazed.
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Honestly N'erud for me feels better than the Root story, I just love myself some idealist / entropy / existentialism / Gigeresque world 🎉❤
So true. I don't know how they can make something as fascinating and tragic as N'erud yet create such a boring main antagonist
@genericcatgirl fr....I swear...
Lore is great, but the frame rate was making me sick....
Believe me, me too. They still haven't fixed the issues. New PC coming soon, hopefully that'll help.
@@Loup_DM I love your lore videos! I just didn’t know it was bad like that on pc… I’m on ps5 and I’m playing with uncapped framerates. I’m surprised they have uncapped frames on ps5 but having issues on pc :( I’m sorry!
Its not a frames issue, they are uncapped. They have really crap optimization on PC. Basically requiring you to have specific settings on and even with those, still sucks. I was due for a new PC so this was a great excuse to pull the trigger :D @@owlmangaming2076
The Drzyr took a fat L tho
Wow. .
they tried to look for other life and when they find you their next step is to ram the ship into the blackhole again or eat you.. it doesnt make sense
By the time they meet us its too late. They've lost too much and finding life doesn't really matter anymore
@@Loup_DM they have the spark that contains the consciosness of the drazyr and they have the tech to manipulate matter. they can create the drazyr again
@@devilgrass310Tal Ratha can't leave his chamber. He runs on the ambit ember to stay alive - there's a recording where he mentions him and the people who were against entering Alepsis Taura hid in his chamber with a limited amount of food, but that if push comes to shove they can feed off the ambit ember.
Tal Ratha's idea of "saving" the Dryzr is preserving the capsule of eggs in his pocket dimension for eternity. He's insane.
Drzyr: So, we built a ship big enough to hold our whole civilization.
Eldar: Oh, we've got a whole BUNCH of those! We also store the spirits of our dead in the supercomputers on them.
Drzyr: We kind of did that... Except it turned most of us into mindless zombies.
Necrons: Did you at least get nigh invulnerable living metal bodies out of it?
Drzyr: Nope, same bodies, just a bit rotten.
Necrons: Damn, that sucks.
Eldar: Hah! Stupid mon-keighs!
Drzyr: Oh, stuff it. At least we didn't kill and screw ourselves until we ripped apart the fabric of reality and created an actual BDSM god!
Eldar: ...shut up.
Great video, though its sad that you can't really help save nerud, and in fist version with Travel to Alepsis-Taura Storyline that makes sense cause literary everyone's dead.
But why couldn't we save nerud in Tal Ratha and the Shining Essence Echo storyline is just buffeling and sad, because from ward 13 dialoge we know that after remnant from the ashes events earth does house transdimensional refugees including pan and even iskal queen (if i remember correctly), sure tal ratha himself might have gone insane so we only could "put him out of misery" but it makes no sense for custodian refuse to move out with Soul Spark Cylinder to completely new dimensions with acces to "alien beings" that they were looking for all that time and saving their species... (that we don't eve have an option to tell of the way out is...questionable)
Surely post root recovering Earth could house an ai construct and a possible future kindergarten of Drzyr......???
It's essentially a mercy killing. Tal'Ratha would have them live for eternity. But there's nothing to live for. You're putting the Dryzr out of their misery imo.
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