About the story

[keithwild]

Can anyone explain the story?I still know nothing about the story even when I finish this game

[Young Erusean Officer]

Its heavy symbolic. However, humans don't exist in this universe or least they don't in the current timeline. The normal enemies that appear to be human don't have brains of flesh and are cybernetic from birth. There's this tower called Citadel that used to be an utopia ruled by archons (who are the many bosses of this game), praticallly more machine than angel demigods. The citadel tried to make a god and was successful. However, although the god isn't evil, its existence is dangerous to people because it cause Lovecraftian tumors to grow and corrupt the minds of the people in it. Making them mad and violent.

The Archons were suceptible to it as everyone else and with their great power and being in charge of control of many aspects of life there only made things worse.

The main character awakens much later when the Citadel has long since fallen from grace and has been corrupted by the god's presence. She's called the Martyr. Likely through the merchant's machinations, she's able to fulfill her long denied task of making things right.

She defeats the archons, allowing them to be at peace since only death frees them from the god's presence and then kills the god who isn't even aware of anything or what its presence has done to the citadel. Of course, she becomes a martyr through and through. She destroys the god with a nuke and also herself.

Its unclear how the ending ties into the sequel. I guess we will know.

[pepitos]

Originally posted by Young Erusean Officer:

Its heavy symbolic. However, humans don't exist in this universe or least they don't in the current timeline. The normal enemies that appear to be human don't have brains of flesh and are cybernetic from birth. There's this tower called Citadel that used to be an utopia ruled by archons (who are the many bosses of this game), praticallly more machine than angel demigods. The citadel tried to make a god and was successful. However, although the god isn't evil, its existence is dangerous to people because it cause Lovecraftian tumors to grow and corrupt the minds of the people in it. Making them mad and violent.

The Archons were suceptible to it as everyone else and with their great power and being in charge of control of many aspects of life there only made things worse.

The main character awakens much later when the Citadel has long since fallen from grace and has been corrupted by the god's presence. She's called the Martyr. Likely through the merchant's machinations, she's able to fulfill her long denied task of making things right.

She defeats the archons, allowing them to be at peace since only death frees them from the god's presence and then kills the god who isn't even aware of anything or what its presence has done to the citadel. Of course, she becomes a martyr through and through. She destroys the god with a nuke and also herself.

Its unclear how the ending ties into the sequel. I guess we will know.

from an interview from the dev apparently humans do exist but turned to be more machines than humans with time, which is why everyone looks effeminate as since machines take care of everything in your body, your muscle don't do anything and do not develop

[Nim]

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Originally posted by Hydremajor117:

I remember having read about the plot of the game some time ago, all I can really do is try to share what I remember from some twitter posts from the develloper

first detail I remember is that the plot is inspired by a western novel

also bear in mind everything I put here may very well have been retconned so take it with a grain of salt...

anywho: here's what I remember of the plot as was described by the develloper fairly long ago

The story begins many years prior to the game
God has turned his back on the earth and abandonned it, as a result things we took for granted all started to go to hell

The planet's rotation slowed to the point that one side of the planet was in perpetual day and another in perpetual night, leading to both sides becoming unsuitable for life due to extreme temperatures, only a thin band of the planet that is stuck in a eternal twilight has liveable conditions.

Human genetics started to rapidly deterriorate and cases of malformations and genetic diseases started to multiply at an alarming rate, further this genetic degenerescence had a more immediate if benign consequence of blurring the line between human genders to such an extent it became nigh impossible to indentify one's gender besides directly looking at their genitals...

and thoses are just some of the things that were going down

In the midst of the crisis, creatures that lived deep within the earth came to the surface to see just what was going on, however fearing the humans' reaction to their appearances, they proceeded to amputate chunks of their bodies and replace them with prosthetics in order to make them seem "more human", theses creatures would come to be known as "Angels"

After a short period of conflict with some of the surviving humans during wich Harkonnen (one of the game's bosses and an Angel) found death, humanity threw their lot in with the Angels who had a plan

The source of all the problems on earth was a lack of a god to oversee it all, thus the solution was simple
Create a new god to watch over the earth

the Angels assured humanity that they would be able to do it, however the process would be long and experimental

Humanity could be wiped out in the meantime and as such measures had to be taken to slow down the genetic death of humanity as much as is possible

one such measure is the creation of "Martyrs", their task is to retain human genetics as much as is possible and if possible, give birth to offspring with "healthy" genetics to allow mankind to endure and avoid genetic death

Due to their roles in preserving the human genome, Martyrs were deemed absolutely vital and were thus kept as safe as was possible, one such way to keep them safe was a
high-end military training making them into the best trained combatants humanity had to offer, military augments to further improve their combat potential and a permanant link to a pattern buffer in a base of the Angels
(examplified in-game by having to restart a level when you die and have no pattern buffer active in a level, meaning the martyr had to trek all the way back down the citadel to that level, during wich citadel troops would just repopulate the area you died in)

Their role in fighting off genetic death has also earned them a great deal of respect and worship as they are seen as the sword-arm of the angels, if a Martyr shows up it means they are either looking for potential genetic material or a bloodbath is about to occur....


I MAY have forgotten a few things but thoses are the broad lines I do remember ...