Many were killed and Aloy herself only survives because Rost - though forbidden from attending the Proving - was watching, and intervened to save her at the cost of his own life. But at the moment of her triumph, masked outlanders attack, specifically targeting Aloy. The Proving only leaves Aloy with more questionsĪloy spent her entire life training to win the Proving, finishes in first place. With this boon, she could finally get the answers she wants. And if she wins the Proving, she’ll earn a boon from the Matriarchs - one request that they cannot deny. There’s one way to gain that acceptance: when Aloy comes of age, she can enter the Proving, and if she completes the challenge she will be welcome into the tribe again. What crime was so terrible that the Nora would put an infant out in the cold? And what became of her mother? Only the Nora Matriarchs know. Eventually, she even learns to “tame” hostile machines to help her.ĭespite the fact that Aloy doesn’t quite believe in Nora ways, she’s desperate for acceptance into the tribe, because someone there can tell her why she was cast out. The Focus lets her scan items, helping her track creatures, giving her insight into machines and technology, and allowing her - unlike the rest of her tribe - to interact with the ruins of the old world.
She finds a Focus, a device that served the ancients as something akin to a PDA, a smart phone, and an augmented reality device all in one. But Aloy is unafraid: as a young child she falls and finds herself in an ancient ruin, but instead of cowering in fear, she explores. The Nora avoid the rusting remnants of the old world, viewing it as cursed -they believe the Old Ones served the Metal Devil, and their cities were tainted and left to ruin because of it. Even visiting such a ruin is reason to be cast out of the tribe. It was forbidden for Nora to even speak to an outcast, and she grew up isolated from the tribe, not even knowing why she was cast out.Īnd that’s crucial to the rest of the story.
You play Aloy, an outcast from the Nora tribe who fights - and even tames - these robotic dinosaurs. She was cast out when she was a newborn, and was entrusted to another outcast named Rost. So what’s the deal? How did this all happen? If you’re planning to jump into Horizon Forbidden West and haven’t played the first game - or you haven’t played recently and need a refresher - here’s everything you need to know to understand what’s happening in Horizon Forbidden West.Īloy is an outcast, which gives her a unique perspective
Humanity doesn’t know where they come from or understand the technology that powers them, having returned to a Neolithic way of life, though in some areas you see they’ve advanced to Bronze Age technology. That’s not exactly a remnant of Earth as we know it. Horizon Forbidden West, due out on February 18, is the sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, an RPG set in the post-apocalyptic American Southwest where by robotic dinosaurs roam the land.
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