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Hyper Light Drifter || Barren Hills Aesthetics

This region was likely once the seat of technology in the ancient world. Machines are strewn everywhere and parts of the Titans lie, still active, deep within the bowels of the earth. The Monolith refers to the glory days of the distant past, when all races were working together for the greater good and creating technological marvels in the labs below.

A few drones are all that remain active, and many machine wrecks can be found on this land. Probably the machines that were used to fight with AND against the Titans. A smaller number of these machines is found scattered all around the World, the machines used to fight the Titans in the other cities.

The races living on this land had a deep set desire to advance. Just like humans in the real world, they had a great thirst for knowledge. However, their obsession was hubris and unhealthy and resulted in them giving up their faith and morals in search of a greater God, in machines and technology. God found in ones own creations. They succeeded, creating artificial and cybernetic life, and all the tanks in the lab below the desert can confirm. (The noninteractive machines and cyborgs, Bladebots, Dirks, Leapers, Robot Spiders...and of course, the area BossIcon bosses.)

However, another being can be found in these tanks: a man sized blue-skinned, black eyed creature. Likely the race that The Drifter belongs to is artificial and first created here, in these labs. Created by the coalition of ancient races. They are also likely the most advanced artificial life, the culmination of technology, as The Drifter is clearly sentient, where the other creatures from the laboratories are not. A Titan also lies beneath in the labs deep in the earth. We can believe the machines from the labs are attempting to follow their programming, or Judgement’s orders, and continue the artificial life project along with trying to salvage and repair the Titan. Many creatures can be seen being grown in test tubes in the lab, blue-skins among them. The cyborgs have also salvaged parts of the Titan, parts that could be used to reassemble the old, or create a new Titian. Its heart and eyes are still working.

As this was the region where the Titans were likely created/stored for study in the labs, as a result it was hit by the full force of Judgement’s armies, turning the area in a complete wasteland. Whatever city was once here has long been destroyed. It can be assumed that the landscape was always arid, but not completely barren as it is currently.

The Elder Lizard tells us the story of how his tribe rediscovered an elevator down into the labs, where they explored foolishly until they accidentally caused the release of a cybernetic life form, that killed a few of them as they scattered. Retreating to the surface, the lizards now live a meagre existence, sometimes eating their own tails to make ends meet.