Here's an interesting detail, revealed through the Vengeance Artifact

[Dylan]

If the boss title of the Umbra(Shadowy clone) spawned by it is anything to go off of, each survivor has their own title.
Which are, in the following order:
Commando: Cornered Gunslinger
Huntress: Judge, Jury, and Executioner
MUL-T: Right Tool for the Wrong Job
Engineer: Fortifications Expert
Artificer: Herald of the House Beyond
Mercenary: Hired Blade
REX: Symbiotes
Loader: Bionic Powerhouse
Acrid: Test Subject

Just a little detail I thought was interesting.

[Gabe The Mage]

Thank you for posting this, when I did the trial of vengeance I was playing mercenary and I saw the "Hired Blade" Title and I was wondering what the other ones were.

[Dylan]

No problem! It is a pretty interesting detail, after all.

[screeno42]

Huntress, Artificer, and Acrid's titles are interesting. Is Huntress' meant to hint at her being the canonical survivor of RoR1? What is "the House Beyond" that Artificer is herald of? What was Acrid being used to test?

[Dylan]

"The House Beyond", referred to in Artificer's title, could potentially be referring to the Lunar Bazar. And as for Acrid, is a mystery. But that was their title in the first RoR, when you fought them as a boss, so it's a been a mystery for a while. Huntress's, I haven't the slightest. It could refer to a lot of a different things.

[Radon]

Reviving the thread!
Can anyone get Captain's Umbra title? Mine doesn't seem to show a hp bar at all.

[Lodestar]

Originally posted by The Usual:

Reviving the thread!
Can anyone get Captain's Umbra title? Mine doesn't seem to show a hp bar at all.

captain: tired veteran

[Radon]

Thanks!
So many snippets of lore to tie together, and I haven't even played the first game.

[Conga Lyne]

The captain seemed bugged, it doesn't have a spawning indicator, it doesn't have a boss health; also it can be targetted by grove sprite so... maybe it's bugged to be an ally... kind of?

[Shovel]

Originally posted by Dylan:

"The House Beyond", referred to in Artificer's title, could potentially be referring to the Lunar Bazar. And as for Acrid, is a mystery. But that was their title in the first RoR, when you fought them as a boss, so it's a been a mystery for a while. Huntress's, I haven't the slightest. It could refer to a lot of a different things.

The House Beyond isn't the Bazaar, it's referenced in the Artificer's Logbook entry:

Originally posted by Logbook:

With the intense belief that heaven is a planet, not a mystical place, the High Court search deep into space for the Promised Land.

Intensely driven by both dogma and science, the High Court holds amazing technological marvels - with nearly all of them hidden deep within their halls.

The House Beyond represents the most ambitious of the High Court's followers, spearheading Zone 5 deep space travel. With the advantage of their unique ENV Suit, the House Beyond have gone deeper in space than any other House in the High Court by an order of magnitude. The ENV Suit, worn by the Artificers of the High Court, is an engineering marvel - able to calibrate to the conditions of any environment. The technology behind the ENV Suit, like all other High Court technology, is still undisclosed.

[Nova225]

Originally posted by screeno42:

Huntress, Artificer, and Acrid's titles are interesting. Is Huntress' meant to hint at her being the canonical survivor of RoR1? What is "the House Beyond" that Artificer is herald of? What was Acrid being used to test?

Huntresses log book indicates she's a bounty hunter of sorts. It tells a short story of a thief escaping with something secret and important, but getting an arrow to the brain just when they think they're safe.

[Guyzilla]

Originally posted by Nova225:

Originally posted by screeno42:

Huntress, Artificer, and Acrid's titles are interesting. Is Huntress' meant to hint at her being the canonical survivor of RoR1? What is "the House Beyond" that Artificer is herald of? What was Acrid being used to test?

Huntresses log book indicates she's a bounty hunter of sorts. It tells a short story of a thief escaping with something secret and important, but getting an arrow to the brain just when they think they're safe.

Yeah, I think its saying that as a bounty hunter, she plays the role of Judge, Jury, and Executioner for the bounty she is hunting.

"Judge, Jury, and Executioner" is a phrase used to describe a person who has the ability to decide someone has committed a crime, and then to punish them however they see fit without any oversight. Obviously, its not a system that lends itself well to justice. That person's bias could easily lead them to punish people who are innocent.

I don't think it quite works for Huntress though. As a bounty hunter, she would only be working as an Executioner. Whoever puts out the bounty is acting as Judge and Jury.

[Kerstab]

Why did I just realize that the name of Acrid’s umbra is the same as his name in the first game