Thursday, September 5, 2019

Remnant: From the Ashes - Remnant's Lore (Story)

Remnant: From the Ashes - Remnant's Lore (Story)
In the 1960s, Mankind develops a means to connect what they call "Dreamers" to parallel realities.

Almost all of them connect to interesting worlds, many of which break physics as we know it.

Two important worlds: Gabriel's and Clawbone's.

Gabriel's world connected to a living organism the size of a planet and met lifeforms that worshipped his linked Guardian but then turned on him.

The Wards discovered via Gabriel that damage to the linked Guardian also kills the Dreamer.

They manage to reconnect a Dreamer to Gabriel's world and it's been taken by the Root which are hunting down the former inhabitants.

Worlds without Guardians are at great risk to Root invasions.

Haarsguard over at Ward 16 makes a breakthrough and connects a Dreamer to what they think is Nothing. There is no visual or audio output. Unbeknownst to them, they have connected Clawbone (Haarsguard's Dreamer) directly to the Root.

A burst of emissions in 1968 matches the timing of the death of another dreamer and around that time, Earth is invaded by the Root.

The above is from NPC dialogue at the logs stored in Ward 13's basement.

The below is from item descriptions and NPCs/Ingame items:

Mankind's armies got trashed by the Root such that Hunters were just resistance groups.

Bullets are rare in the world (yeah yeah, ammo box is infinite but nvm)

The Founder Ford goes nuts trying to save Earth from the Root. He tries visiting other worlds to work out a method. He dismisses Ezlan, the Undying King's method (Nuking the world). He eventually loses all hope of finding a way to defeat the Root and more importantly save his wife.

His wife, the Root Mother, sacrificed herself to the Root, suggestion seems to be she could use her latent psychic powers to keep the Root away from Ward 13.

Ezlan wants the Heart to allow Rhom to have a new Guardian, thus protecting it from the Root.

The Iskal Queen is a species alternative to the Root. A hivemind entity that is hostile to most despite their innocent message of "love"

Yaesha is infested by the Root already (Root Horror boss) but it's just beginning. Presumably this means the Tree of Immortality was their Guardian.

Earth has no Guardian, nor needed one. As the core (map centre of the multiverse) it was immune to Root... until we connected Clawbone and basically let them in.

By killing the Dreamer, we sever the Root from Earth... but we don't really save anywhere else (unless you gave the Heart to Ezlan). Hurray?

Credit to: U/YisouKou

Additional backstory
This game takes place after the events Chronos, where the world had already eneded. The "hero" of Chronos ventures into the Labyrinth to journey into the other world(s) in order to stop the Dragon, which is the source of the beasts' attack. When you "die", you are cast out and can only return once a year when the labyrinth re-opens. In-game, you essentially start back at the crystal, and are 1 year older. You age every time you die.

The worlds and their guardians are linked to "Dreamers" (people hooked up to machines, just like the final boss of Remnant). It's sort of like the Matrix. When they are killed inside, their host body dies as well. The Dragon is trying to find a way into Earth's world. Eventually, when you reach the end of the game, you defeat the Dragon by entering the dreamer's world (the room looks just the like final room of Remnant). You find that the Dragon orchestrated these experiments as way to create a bridge into Earth's world.

After its defeat, you find that everything you've done has basically been for nothing. The guardians you defeated were the Dragon's jailers keeping him bound. You are stabbed in the back and strapped to the table, essentially becoming the next Dreamer to host the Dragon.

The Dreamer we fight at the end of Remnant is the protagonist from Chronos. The room is the same, and it was in Ward 17. Ford tells us that the tower we have been seeking to get into is Ward 17.

Guide by Mr. New
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