The obfuscated tale of the beginning of time and everything since. Humanity was birthed to fail, let us return to whence we came. The Lore of Grim Dawn.
this is so well done. Good job and thank you for doing this! Grim Dawn has such a great, subtle, not in your face story. Im so happy someone's doing a pleasant summary for newbies to read/watch.
yeah, great video. Thanks! I'm really diggin' the mythology of Grim Dawn. It's well made. From the lore notes and npc conversations I had a slightly different impression differing in some points from your interpretation. i.e. I believe the Aetherials were created before man, to build the world. They were promised to inherit Cairn afterwards but they were betrayed by the gods and banished by them, not by Ch'thon. This betrayal explains their hatred towards man.
original korvaak is pretty close to a harsh but fair tyrant deity to humans. og korvaak want the humans to fully worship him without faltering, to recover his strength for his endless battle against the ch'tonians in cairn & beyond. but post-3-witches-usurpation-korvaak only cares about using humanity in whatever way he wants to destroy the 3 witches and the ch'thonians. which would most likely meant he want to turn all humans into his korvan rageflames fat dudes with claws for hands and magma stomach. we never know if original ch'thon cares about humans or not. because humans are created from ch'thon's blood after ch'thon's primordial celestial childrens (empyrion, korvaak, etc) shattered him so hard into uncountable shards of ch'thonian pokemons. we don't know how's the family dramas between ch'thon and his kids. now, shattered ch'thon is just a mad hate filled 'broken-in-pieces' god who only want to use all blood from humanities to make him 'somewhat whole' once again, and who knows what he'll do after that. void consumed beings are mostly mad creatures with fetish for violence, hatred and torture. the void and ch'thonic beings are the hell/demon/devil representation of grim dawn world. also, failed celestial creations are sent into the void by the celestials. so ch'thon is a doomed shattered failure of a god anyway. you can't glue together a shattered mirror. it will never be whole again.
Bravo, very well done sir. Very well read and edited. I hadn't really delved much into the backstory, but this all sounds very familiar. One thing I like about the lore of Grim Dawn is you don't need to dive headfirst into it to appreciate the world building. It's something that is present and consistent, but it works just as well sitting in the background. You get the sense of something unique and individual, not just the Elves Dwarves Orcs trope, and it doesn't overwhelm or interrupt the gameplay, but it's there if you want it, and it adds richness to the experience. Also sweet XP from Lore notes, very cunning there Zentai :D
Ooh, this was a nice surprise! *Very* well put together, sir! Short, sweet, gives gravity to what needs gravity with your pacing, and covers a long time in a paltry five minutes. I look forward to further books!
Very well done. I've been playing GD for so long that I have forgotten some of the lore. The so important lore. Thank you for making this, I hope you continue, because one of the things that sets this arpg away from the rest is it's incredible lore. I hope you continue this journey. Thanx again.
Re: the fascination with the blood of Ch'thon, back in the 1860's, a guy named Anotine Bechamp discovered that blood is alive. He called the little organisms "microzyma". I can't help but wonder if there's a thread of truth in all this mythology...
LOVE this! Fantastically put together, I'm a stickler for GD lore so I have a question: What's your source for Ulzuin as a Primordial? From the DLC notes I got the impression he was a celestial of the same generation as Ateph and Korvaak's other followers (and the same rank as Mogdrogen etc). The way I had understood it, the only Primordial-level powers (apart from C'thon and whatever Yugol is) we know about are Empyrion and Korvaak - they fought in the god war as you describe, but only Korvaak comes back to Cairn - and is quickly replaced by the Three. Every other God we see (Ulzuin included) was designated Celestial by Korvaak/Empyrion or Ascended under different powers
here's ulzuin's clearest background story: grimdawn.gamepedia.com/The_Korvan_Elegy_-_Part_3 he's stated as a god there. most likely a celestial god, not ascendant demigod like ateph, ran, and other 'gods' who were korvaak's subordinates. but ulzuin also called empyrion father in that elegy, so it is unclear if empyrion mated with other celestial or mortal to father ulzuin, or he picked up ulzuin as his foster child. ulzuin is like a rogue hidden god now. he's not a subordinate of korvaak, empyrion, or 3 witch gods. perhaps he'll do a grand dynamic entry into cairn in gd2.
@@kukuhimanputraraharja8084 See from that same lore note I read that Ulzuin isn't on the same level as Korvaak and Empyrion - Ulzuin is described as Empyrion's son (which I guess would make him one of Empyrion's Celestials left over from the God war and reassigned to guard Korvaak). Ateph, Mogdrogen etc. are all referred to as Gods as well so I don't think that supports the idea Ulzuin was an OG Primoridal
@@LordArcherdon the term 'god' in grim dawn universe are often confusing. the celestials can be considered the true gods. the primordials (c'hthon, yugol, empyrion, korvaak & perhaps several other unknowns) are the progenitors of everything. but there are also celestials that are just celestials, or like newer generation of celestials. we know that c'hthon can create descendant celestials. so its obvious from that korvan elegy lore note that ulzuin is a celestial born from empyrion. it is unknown if empyrion has a celestial wife, or like c'hthon, he made ulzuin just releasing some of his own essence (like asexual microbial reproduction). there are also titans like mogdrogen and ulzaad who can be considered artificial creation of the celestials, but are capable of attaining godlike powers too and gaining worshippers (mogdrogen is the best example). ascendants however, are mortals who are blessed by the celestials to become demigods. they can also pass this blessing to their descendants. rahn is an ascendant that had many, many incarnation throughout generations. ateph and other korvaak affiliates are ascendants too. ascendants, just like titans, can gain godlike powers and worshippers too (rahn, ateph & other korvaak ascendants, the 3 witch gods, and perhaps the aetherial invaders...). godlike powers are easy to get in grim dawn universe it seems.
@@kukuhimanputraraharja8084 I ma sure Ulzuin is A Titan like Ulzaad..like Mogdrogen....he is not an Primordial? if he is he clearly destroy the three witch god when they bind Korvaak!!!
@@ataberkin that's possible. many people in grim dawn lore had a hard time identifying the term 'gods' with primordials, celestials, titans, and ascendants. and with the 3 witch gods' case of ascending from mortal into 'gods', its possible that ulzuin is a titan celestial spawned from empyrion... because korvaak also make many eldritch spawn to fight us in forgotten gods. there's also the mysterious spawn of ateph gargoyle creature featured in bysmiel's final faction quest. if ulzuin is just a titan rather than primordial, its possible that he still had common sense when he's raging and destroying korvan capital. he knows korvaak was defeated and imprisoned by the 3 ascendant witches, and he knows he can't beat them, so he fled to who knows where (only the 3 witches knew), probably planning his vengeance on the 3 in his seclusion. this is just my conjunctional theory on where ulzuin's gone, based on mogdrogen (who's also a titan)'s choice to stay low to survive when uroboruuk's curse hit the whole arkovian civilization. maybe ulzuin will finally appear in gd2. mogdrogen is probably mobilizing his rhowari cultist for war against the 3 witches cults, because he's worried of what they're planning for cairn.
this is so cool! you neatly summed up this piece of lore and i have to thank you for that, as much as i adore this game's story i find it kind of hard to wade through all of the lore notes and dialogue to make much sense of it, haha. will you be doing any more of this?
she's probably hiding in the eldritch realm with sagon/solael & draelus/dreeg, to restore their power over the eldritch realm after korvaak destroys their binding over him.
