Dead Cells - Lore of the Queen and the Sea DLC 

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Not only that, but there is an outfit called the "King's Servant Outfit", with the description "Was there a fourth Servant?" If we take the idea of the king's vassals being appointed to help stop the Malaise from the original Dead Cells lore video and run with it, its possible the Time Keeper was the King's Servant, who he tasked with using her magic to find a way to stop the Malaise.

Amazing theory!

Ik i am late but you might be right since in a lore room where we see 2 paintings of the king and queen.we see 4 flowers by the queens side probably reffering to the queen and her 3 protectors And in the king painting we see another flower reffering to the 4th protector who now works for the king and that being time keeper Edit:also time keeper knows who to use her weapons with chains which she learned from calliope Dash really fast from kleo And from eutrupe idk

This is solid, with pet good evidence to back it up. One quick comment, and it doesn’t even disprove your point, but doesn’t time manipulation work well with almost any team?

0 fucks given literally

@@brunopagnoncelli975 its his opinion dont get all pissed off that hes sharing it online

@@mordecaiandrigbone.5107 i'm not insulting his opinion i'm saying that the headless gave 0 fucks

@@mordecaiandrigbone.5107 why tho? ;-;

@mordecai and rigbone. Bro that gave me second hand embarrassment.🤣

Could be! The explosion that would have consumed her body is pretty similar to the one that happened when the Beheaded first destroyed his body, and he lived through that! Makes sense that the Queen could survive this, so we could see her in the future! Thanks for watching! :)

Dead cells co-op Please i need this

@@SquatchGamingChannel ooooohhh yeah 😯

I bet we’ll see her again without her body, like the Beheaded at the start of every run.

@@SquatchGamingChannel this could make her a New playable character, and whats best is a new Coop game :)

Smartest or most paranoid! He is definitely paranoid, and plenty of people probably thought he was overreacting! Lol. Thanks for watching!

@@SquatchGamingChannel maybe both

maybe he just had a bitter hatred towards scallops

In other parts of the game, he was sited as a raging narcissist, paranoid, and massively arrogant.

What was the scallop?

Stratagem

Hey, if logical fighting doesn't work, fight illogically

As long it works

She likes to stay in the background! Even what we have is VERY barebones. Still lots of mystery surrounding her. Thanks for watching!

@@SquatchGamingChannel can the queen come back to life in a new body just like the king does when his old body gets destroyed or the homunculus part of her was also destroyed making her death permanent?

@@burst1323 That’s a very good question. We don’t know for 100% certainty, but since we know what happens when the King dies, and the fact that when he comes back to the Lighthouse, she says, “You again,” I think it’s safe to assume she can take over a new body just like he can. However, why that body always has the appearance of her old one is unknown as well. Maybe she’s got some magic to make the body like her old one!

@@SquatchGamingChannel to me the apostates (if i remember their names correctly)are not really the type of people to be into magic-y stuff too much. so maybe they made extra bodies in case of the original one dying as a backup. maybe something like a doll or just a copy of the queen's body?

@@SquatchGamingChannel well, the king might also have the body thing since every darn corpse looks the same in this place down to the clothes they wear.

Sometimes it's him, sometimes it's her. Lol. Thanks for watching!

Man, it's a good thing these two never procreated when the malaise, because oh boy with that kid have been all sorts of fucked up.

I feel the exact same way! If it wasn't for these videos, I think I would hardly EVER stop to appreciate the backgrounds. Lol. Thanks for watching! :)

I'm always looking at a background tryna find a secret/hidden passage. I love this game

another thing, why is the king so smol compared to everything else

@@revanf3719 I think that's just them shrinking him down to be a player, the king was bigger before the beheaded retook his body

The Giant is literally undead. He was killed by the King via a spear to the chest, and dumped in the prisoner's quarters. Upon acquiring the first boss cell, his skeleton is reanimated, and he sinks and goes in to deepest part of the Caverns to turn it into his lair.

Maybe the yellow sap in the sewers is directly related to staphy in some way. It reminds me of world of warcraft where a very similar Eldritch God bleeds metal with strange properties. Is the Sap Staphy's blood, and that is what causes the Malaise? When we collect boss cells they are specially called "stem cells" which are commonly associated with babies and fetuses, maybe these are stem cells of a baby staphy, not yet fully grown to their full power. These cells are a part of Staphy in some way and that is what gives them their magical powers. Just a theory, but it's funny that Dead Cells gave me an H.P. Lovecraft from the start. The fishing village turned into monsters, a cult worshiping a strange God. It's all just WAY too convenient to not be related.

- we don't know. may be related to fractured shrines though. likely the shrines were build by the pagan cult or there when they arrived on the island - uncertain. it's possible he's an oddity (being human-like in appearance) and the result of some mutation or experiment - he may not be dead at all. in paintings in the castle he's still depicted as a skeleton. it's beyond me why the king tried to kill him with a spear to the chest but he's an idiot sometimes so who knows - it's just conjunctivius, but the king was suspicious that the sewers were the cause of the malaise (ultimately being contaminated by the sap in the sanctuary, that's plausible), so he locked it away - a mutated...sewer creature. what she was originally is unclear, but the malaise caused her to become extremely large etc. by infecting her before she hatched - ?? - different people. they're all Guillians (actual name of the race) - the Guillians seem to be uninfected. perhaps they're immune to the malaise, as we never see any infected Guillians (the agitated pickpockets in the bank are just evil) - the king, the servants, and the tutorial knight are all normal humans - don't know. most of that came from the alchemists experiments (librarians being exclusive to his lab). demons may not be literal demons, but simply a species native to the cavern. there's mention that the cavern's crystals have magical properties, so perhaps those are used, since cell experimentation wasn't done until much later - built by some precursor people. still very much mysterious. the sap in the walls may be the cause of the malaise, though -- it's certainly what contaminated the sewers - the source of the time keeper's power is uncertain, and since the queen is new, we know almost nothing about her either. it's possible the clock tower was created by the alchemist or from some supernatural thing, and it acts as a conduit for time manipulation -- the time keeper may not be special at all, but simply the only one able to use its powers (seeing as she only ever does so within the clock room). queen's reality powers are only present in her between-phases attack, so it may just be a property of her weapon, seeing as that happens when the beheaded uses it as well. where that weapon came from us unknown - see above. we don't know. could be from the pagan cult of the fractured shrines, or some ancient artifact left by the precursors, or forged by some magically-attuned person like the time keeper or alchemist - probably just some malaise creature - likely not. we see pictures of the tutorial knight in high peak so she was probably just part of the king's guard and left to guard the prisons later on - dark trackers are just ninjas of some sort. I don't think they specifically have any lore significance, although them and other enemies being able to teleport (even uninfected beings like the servants) is a bit odd and unexplained, though it may be there just for gameplay reasons - it's possible she's just a native to the sepulcher. I wouldn't imagine the king mined the whole place out, so there were probably catacombs there to begin with. maybe the rest of her kind are in hiding or infected by the malaise. I'm not sure she has lore significance at all, though, and may be there just to tell the player how the forgotten sepulcher works - no idea why stem cells exist. the fact that they have continuity through the time loop makes them difficult to talk about since how the time loop works is still very much up in the air. cells are apparently the 'essence of life itself,' being used to make the all-healing panacea and the homunculi. beyond that, we don't know what uses they have -- they are only given to the collector so he can make the panacea with them, after all. why we're able to extract them is unknown, perhaps the homunculi have some affinity with cells (seeing as the Queen can also pick up cells if she kills you it's not out of the question) - uncertain. likely some more cosmic thing, which we'll learn about later - apparently not. I think the castle used to be inhabited before it all got turned into a prison (it's not like they needed the extra living space with so many deaths from infection). it's possible there are other living areas that we just don't see in game - probably just a game design feature. they don't show up anywhere in lore rooms or whatnot. may have a tie-in to homunculi specifically, though, I dunno - we don't see that anywhere. while it makes sense, he didn't defend himself like the queen does, and since it's not mentioned anywhere I'm gonna assume it doesn't exist (yet)

How about hollow knight or don't starve?

Resolutiion is a good one to cover. That or Scourgebringer, the devs cite Dead Cells as their inspiration

@@sosoeddy Hollow Knight is kind of fully covered already, pretty tough to find lore that hasn't been discussed on youtube by huge channels like mossbag

Pathologic lore, Furi(you could essentially cover the whole lore in a single video), God of War, Hyperlight Drifter would all be great

Furi

Yeah and there were four beds too

They just stupid ,that is all.

We have a cure for cancer and we don’t cure all because for money

Immune? She became a homunculus, I dont think so

Ayy! Nice one! Lol. Thanks for watching! If people like you weren't watching, I wouldn't be making these, so it's all thanks to you! :)

Y'know, the king seems... reasonable, more than cruel, Yes, it WAS drastic how he handled the infection, but we have to give him credit, it was the only way, especially with the tech of his land

​@@SiphaSchola Yeah especially after seeing how infectious disease outbreaks are handled in the real world his response to a literal zombie plague seems a bit more reasonable.

Thank you very much! :) Is it now? That is incredibly interesting...! Another piece of evidence for the cosmic theory! Thanks for sharing that!

oooohhh, little by little the truth reveals itself

That means the creatures we saw earlier… Is the God of Dead Cells a giant Staphy? Also, with their similar appearances, I think they’re also Homunculi like the Queen and King/Beheaded, but perhaps considered failures by those that made them…

Happy to hear you enjoyed, man! The writing is honestly the hardest part for me - it just takes forever and I always get hung up on making it as good as I can - so thanks for complimenting it! :) And thank you for watching! If no one was, I wouldn't be making these! :)

Haha. Happy to hear you liked it, man! I think that's my favorite part of the video, honestly! Will things eventually play out that way? I doubt it, but it'd be cool if it did! Lol. Thanks for watching! :)

but the headless is the king tho

@@tristenthethicccat3253 yes but the only who knows that, is only the collector, by this point he is more the headless corpses than the king, what i mean is that the people thought the king save them but in ret it was just the headless having fun killing stuff.

@@vantasethatsit9903? All the citizens had become monsters already

@@tristenthethicccat3253 i believe I've written "goes back in time" There, because the time keeper is still alive and well.

Could be fun to go back in time and fight the king himself, with the king wielding the user's favorite weapon against them

Bro the king does not care about the disease 😂

I think enough people have gone into HK, specifically Mossbag, but I'd be down for HLD

I don't think I'll ever do Hollow Knight because I don't think I'd be adding anything of value to the discussions and plenty of other creators have made content on it (some of whom are huge), so I feel I'll just be lost in the crowd there. Hyper Light Drifter has been recommended/requested a few times, so maybe I'll take a closer look at that one! While it wasn't me, a good friend of mine made a series of videos on Celeste on the channel. There's a playlist of the videos so feel free to watch if you're interested in that! Keep in mind that it's not ME, but a friend of mine that made those, so it'll be different from what my videos are normally like. Thanks for the recommendations/requests, man! I appreciate it!

@@SquatchGamingChannel Didn't knew there was a team for this channel :) very cool There's indeed other videos I had already watched lmao, but you could get a hold on A short hike, Night in the woods, Life is Strange or Asura's Wrath. Great unseen stories too

@@SquatchGamingChannel there's also Rain World, which is a relatively unknown game with boatloads of unknown lore, only the very surface of the game's story has been discussed a lot.

yeah i was actually shock i get to understand this well because of hollow knight lore

Some people think it might talk about the goblin creatures that are seen with the Collector between levels. Could be interesting to learn more about them! Maybe they know something! Also, super side note: I just realized the other day that the goblins and the Time Keeper actually seem to have some design similarities (but didn't dig too deep into it). Maybe she's a female of that race? Thanks for watching!

Probably because it's supposed to be a conclusion to the previous two dlc's

Definitely. The last two DLCs gave us two biomes which each had their own Lore Rooms. These, in addition to the Level Blurbs (the Fatal Falls biomes had 7 blurbs each), really helped flesh out the story of the areas as well as some of the characters we've seen before and had yet to see. This DLC had no lore rooms at all (besides the Abyssal Trident room). Sure, by putting in an extra boss room, they lost out on one possibility to put lore rooms in, but the Shipwreck has nothing in terms of lore rooms which is pretty disappointing. I thought maybe I just got bad RNG at first, but I watched some other play throughs and I didn't see anyone else get any lore rooms either, so I think it was a deliberate choice by the Devs. They kind of made up for this by adding those two lore rooms in the Practice Makes Perfect update, and I guess they can always add more later, but it does make it feel like there's less lore. But the gameplay is why most people play Dead Cells, so I can understand why they wouldn't focus on lore too much. Thanks for watching, man! Happy to hear you enjoyed! :)

Sorry for the wait! Hope you enjoyed! Thank you for watching! If no one was watching these, I wouldn't be making them, so it's all thanks to you! :)

final boss, the literal fucking Island itself

@@revanf3719 Lmao 🤣🤣🤣

The beheaded definitely has an ego large enough for him to think taking on an eldritch being is going to be easy.

The Beheaded goes for himself. He does fight himself at the end of the true ending. WE STILL NEED IT.

Happy to hear you enjoyed! Thanks so much for watching! :)

Nice! I haven't unlocked any of the other Queen outfits, but there's a "Frozen" one that you can get! Maybe that's the exact outfit she wore in the portrait! Pretty cool! Thanks for watching!

Sorry for the wait! Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for watching! :)

@@SquatchGamingChannel thank you for making it. Was much fun learning about the dead cells lore

Just getting lucky, I guess! Lol. Thanks for watching! :)

Thanks so much, man! Happy to hear you enjoyed! :)

And the fact that the King is shorter than his wife is just Pale King moment right there

It was meant to be. Lol. I definitely recommend the game though! Although it can be difficult and frustrating at times (if you've never seen what it takes to see the True Ending, you're in for a ride), but it's still incredibly fun and addicting! You'll be surprised how much time you can spend going through runs trying to get the perfect set. If you pick it up and want any tips, let me know! I'd be happy to give out some pointers! Thanks for watching!

@@SquatchGamingChannel checking in. I killed the king for the first time yesterday. I'm having a lot of fun with the game so far !

Honestly? This time, _nothing_ aside from shit we've already established. The award for 'inadvertently screwing the island' this time goes to the Queen and her servants.

@@lolrus5555 Hahaha like husband, like wife 🤣

​@@lolrus5555eh, atleast the queen and her friends *tried* to find a way to save the island. The king is an ass and doesnt care for some reason

Sorry about the wait! Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for watching!

The Devs have mentioned that they want to experiment with more game modes, so maybe Co-op is something they're considering! I guess we'll see! I mean, the King is a Homunculus, and he survives some pretty devastating attacks... I think there's a possibility the Queen is still alive! Thanks for watching!

let's go game devs! co-op! co-op!

Well, the Queen is a humunculus, so maybe she survives, and just gets a new body.

I don't think a coop mode is completely impossible for Dead Cells, but if it happens it will definitely not have anything to do with the lore. The closest to that I imagine can happen is if in another boss fight the Queen joins you but like just fights in the background instead of being an active character

I haven't played through the new stuff on any of the higher difficulties, but I can't imagine it's very easy! I remember the Devs saying the Lighthouse on 5BC is more difficult than the Spoiler Boss which I can believe. Hope this could help show you some of the stuff that you wouldn't be able to see otherwise. Thanks for watching!

That would be pretty anti climatic

I've seen Pirates of the Caribbean once or twice - although not in years. Lol. Thanks for watching! :)

Happy to hear they helped! Thanks so much for watching, man! For patching the story together, I get a framework of what the story is in my head from playing the game, but also reading outside resources (like the game's Fandom wiki page). Then I use information from the game to fill that out into what you see here. For new content/games, like how these DLCs were when I made these videos, I can only use the game which is always a little worrying because I'm always scared that I'll miss something. That hasn't happened yet, but it's only a matter of time! Lol. And yes, that's me playing through the game. I do everything for these videos all on my own: playing the game; researching the story; writing the script; recording the audio and video; and editing it all together into the final product. It's a lot of work (even for short videos, it takes several weeks), but I enjoy it, and it helps people (or at the very least, entertains them for a bit), so it's pretty rewarding. I also know that I'm *very* fortunate to have as many people watch these that I do and I'm incredibly grateful for the time the spend watching these. Thanks again for watching, man (and reading this if you did)! Really appreciate it! :)

@@SquatchGamingChannel awesome awesome work! More power to you and your channel

Thank you very much! Happy to hear you enjoyed! :)

@@SquatchGamingChannel I really did, hard to think of what lore to check out next

@@SquatchGamingChannel I thought of a lore, do the rusty lake lore. Very interesting stuff in those games

Out of the three, I've only ever heard of Firewatch and I don't think it's been requested too much, so I haven't really considered it. I'll keep these in mind and we'll see what happens! Thanks for the recommendations! And Thanks for watching! :)

@@SquatchGamingChannel If you were to try any one of them I would suggest darkwood it's genuinely creepy and scary.

Dad died probably

I mean that’s how most thrones were passed down

I’m assuming it’s based on how strong and skilled the person is. The giant describes the king as a “model to us" and a description for the queen’s weapon blueprint praises her strength.

I'm going to guess it was passed down to him through his Father, but maybe he's the first King of the Island - the first one to consolidate all the regions of the Island under one ruler, and thus the first one to be King. We don't know for certain! Maybe it'll come out in the future!

@@SquatchGamingChannel A lot of the statues around the island and in HPC suggest he was a warrior, though. And with his skills he used to fight through the infected, it kinda backs this up. Could he have became the ruler through a revolution? The idea that he was a model for everyone might allude to this, as he would have been seen as the people’s king, as well as the implication from the Giant that the King was once a good and reasonable King, not a bloodthirsty one.

Because the whole kingdom was put in a time loop to keep the disease at bay and also to make time for making a cure but the making of the cure sorta got stopped and now everything is on a loop

@@pouncelygrin6699 So I suppose my second question has to be how the main character can be the king while also killing the king. How did he exist in two places at once in the same loop?

My understanding is that the experiment the Alchemist conducted on the King didn't destroy his old body to create the Homunculus, but merely removed the King's soul from his Malaise ridden body and attach it to the Homunculus, thereby "creating" two Kings in the world: one in the form of a Homunculus and one in the form of his former body. Hope that helps! Let me know if you've still got questions! And thanks for watching!

Oh, really? I never knew! Probably would make more sense than us fighting a God someday. Lol.

@@SquatchGamingChannel Actually, it's apparently "little staphy" and I believe (Although this one I don't remember exactly) the armored shrimps are reffered to as just plain "staphy." The skills are labeled "Summon little staphy," and the active afterwards "Little staphy stab." Maybe some sort of Apostate belief centered around the Armored Shrimps? I dunno, I'm just a guy who likes uberhards Also, we ARE fighting a god. Is dracula a god? I think dracula is a god.

Hey, it could! It did belong to "someone important!" Good eye, man! Thanks for watching! :)

That's a really depressing ending. Considering you can see a painting of the Fisherman inside High Peak Castle, we can assume he had some importance to the castle or maybe even the king. He managed to survive throughout all of the Malaise outbreak and the King's measures to contain it, only to die just before he could be free.

Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for watching! :)