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The year is 1600. A remote
city, known as Prehevil,
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resides within the borders of the
nation of Bohemia as its capital.
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If you were to visit at the time you would be
met with a plethora of occult rituals being
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performed around its streets. The population
would still try to live in accord with the
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teachings of the Old Order, trying to appease
and gain the favor of the Old gods to this day.
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Cannibalism for Gro-goroth, *rgies for
Sylvian. Maiden sacrifices in the forest
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for Vinushka. Crucifixions for Alll-mer. And
masquerade parties for the [censored] God.
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People would willingly let their city be
a playground for these ancient beings,
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all while gathering around
imposing Hollow Tower at its heart.
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Bathing in the jealous and ever
watching Moonlight of Rher.
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Hi, my name is Shadow. And
this is the third and final
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part of our series making a definite
timeline for the events Fear & Hunger.
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If somehow you ended up here
without watching the previous parts,
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I'll leave links in the description just for you.
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I sincerely recommend you check them out before
watching this one. In any case, this time we will
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discuss what happened from the end of the first
game right up until the beginning of the second.
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We actually don't know what is canon in Termina
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to make a timeline out of it.
So that's the best we can do.
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However,
Today I won't
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be introducing the playable characters like I did
in part two. And there's a good reason for that.
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If I did this, this video would be like 10 hours
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long and I don't have enough mental
sanity to edit all of that, honestly.
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And also, my goal with the timeline series is
to help everyone get a basic understanding of
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the story. So in any future video I make or
you watch you won't get lost or be confused.
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*I get it*
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So since I won't be talking about the
main characters of Termina today -
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at least in depth -
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Let's make a deal. If the series goes
well (which I hope it does) I may talk
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about them in the future making analysis
of their characters and other fun stuff.
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So with that out of the way
let's continue with the timeline.
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The city of Prehevil flourished
during the 17th century,
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but fell from prominence as the cruel
age progressed. This city is special,
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very special, indeed, for it is
where the second game takes place.
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And not just that, at the top of the Hollow Tower,
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AKA, the Moon Tower there are still
traces of the Old god Rher affecting
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its citizens with his lunacy-inducing light
and creating distorted, dreamy landscapes.
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The faint traces of the dead god Vinushka
seem to be stronger here. And even after
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being absorbed by the God of Fear and
Hunger, The God of the Depths is still
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capable of spreading its influence
around the dark corners of the city.
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That is all to say, Prehevil is full
with the presence of the Old gods.
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We'll come back to it in a moment,
but right now let's continue with
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the timeline and see what else we
know happened during the Cruel Age.
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With the advancement of technology
the Old rites started to dwindle.
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Crucifixion, something that was used
to worship Alll-mer, became a taboo.
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The old gods fell Into obscurity as
they became something associated with
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the occult rather than being mainstream religion.
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Unlike the old gods who were forgotten,
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Alll-mer became the predominant deity. His
religion spread to all parts of the world.
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The dark priests, who once worshiped all
the gods, started to favor Alll-mer instead.
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It was also during that time they
probably stopped being persecuted
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and infiltrated the Vatican. We also
know that over time then influence
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and worship of the God of Fear
and Hunger started to decrease.
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Even though she was the primary deity
of the Cruel Age, the Vatican is likely
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responsible for trying to make
people forget her. In official
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religious books she isn't treated
as a true god like Alll-mer is.
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The Penance Knights were still very much
deployed by the Vatican. It seemed that
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vampires and witches became a threat to the
church. And so, they developed the Sabbath,
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a special sword to be used by the
Penance Knights during their hunt.
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Also, the yellow mages started diminishing and few
are left. We know that the remaining practitioners
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were separated into small groups that would travel
the world in search of knowledge about the occult.
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Fast forward a few centuries
that we don't know much of,
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we arrive at the 20th century. Remember the
city of Prehevil? Its brothel was closed.
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The church, currently run by Father Domek, wanted
to gain control over the population. So people
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without the option to see comfort in the brothels
would have to resort to the church for solace.
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Father Domek also created
the St. Domek's Orphanage.
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Like everything else in Fear and Hunger,
the orphanage also hid dark secrets.
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A man called Father Hugo also worked
in the orphanage. And remember those
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vampires I mentioned just a while
ago? Well, he was one of them.
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Donnovan Hugo was an occultist
and a priest. He used the blood
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of children to prolong his lifetime,
as well as performed rituals with it.
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Not the best person to run
an orphanage, if you ask me.
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I suppose it was also around that
time that another deity started
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gaining influence in Prehevil: the Sulfur God.
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There are many signs around Prehevil pointing
that the church is actually worshiping the
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god instead of Alll-mer. While the Sulfur
God worship is very similar to Alll-mer's,
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after all, he is part of Alll-mer,
there are some key differences.
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Sulfur worship is way, way more brutal.
People dance around the crucified victims
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for days straight, celebrating their pain.
And heads are offered in blood to send the
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souls of the victims to agonize in the
Sulfuric Pits, just like the god himself.
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It seems any kind of immense pain and torture
is good in the eyes of the Sulfur God.
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Sorry, I meant eye. No discrimination both
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good and bad people suffering
eternally the same way he did
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Around this time the First Great War
begins. While we don't know much about it,
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from what little information we can gather it is
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confirmed that Oldegård and the Eastern
European country, Voroniya fought it.
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What is more important than knowing
in which countries fought this war
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is knowing who was behind it. And that, we do know.
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The First War was a scheme
plotted by the New gods. Yes,
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the New gods that exist
within the Hall of the Gods.
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With time they became the
political leaders of the world,
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secretly pulling the strings behind
the shadows to stay in power.
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Even after the ascension of the God of
Fear and Hunger they haven't given up on
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surpassing the Old gods. And if the
blood of millions was necessary for
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this goal they believed it was small price to pay.
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In 1919 the First Great War ends. A great debate
is held in Prehevil by the mourning sides.
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You see, Bohemia itself was not part of the
war, but due to its strategic position it has
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historically always been caught in the
crossfire of the more powerful nations.
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Being a neutral force in the war was likely
the reason the debate was held in its capital.
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With the end of the war, the Nameless Liberty
Underground, or NLU, was formed. The group
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consisted of individuals that partook
in civil disobedience all around Europa.
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They were a decentralized group that does not
take sides in war and works behind the scenes
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in order to stop the accumulation
of power by the dominant countries.
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In 1922, Le'garde returns,
But this time he was Kaiser.
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A political figure surrounded by
mystery who brought into being the
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greatest popular movement Bremen had ever seen.
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He stayed in secrecy under his famous
yellow hood, but that didn't stop the
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people from being enchanted by his speeches that
seemed to unite both lower and higher class.
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After 14 years, that is the year of 1936,
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Kaiser officially became the chancellor
of Bremen by cutting down the opposition.
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Literally.
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Even though he had the support of the population
the Bremen officials refused to recognize him.
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Until he finally showed them his might as a
god and they had no choice but to concede.
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When Kaiser became Chancellor things started to
take a dark turn. Maybe in a way of reminiscing
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the old times when he was the captain of the
mercenary band, Kaiser formed Special Troops
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named The Marching Men of the Night's Day that
expanded Bremen's borders in an alarming rate.
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This rapid expansion alarmed the other nations,
and while his acts were considered monstrous,
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people of Bremen waited eagerly to see
if the ends would justify the means.
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Between the time of the First
Great War and Kaiser's ascension,
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the Eastern Sanctuaries merged with Voroniya
and Bohemia to become the Eastern Union.
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They started to develop something called
"Project Logic" in the city of Prehevil.
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Kaiser was one of the masterminds
behind the project, but was interested,
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very interested, in taking it all for himself.
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To the point he even pittied
Bremen against the Eastern Union,
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leading to the Second Great
War in the year of 1937.
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There is also the same year a
woman from Bremen, named Reila,
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joined the NLU forces. Her objective was
to infiltrate Project Logic at Prehevil
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while working for the Bohemian
section of the rebellious group.
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Reila was a young woman and a
prodigy in both computer science
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and engineering. Because of this
she was invited to participate in a
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special student exchange program between
the Bremen Empire and the Easter Union.
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She got hired to work at the top secret facilities
of the time, that is, Project Logic itself.
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The infiltration was a success.
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But it wouldn't last long.
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6 months before Fear & Hunger 2 starts,
Reila was captured by the Bremen Empire
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and accused of treason. She was
freed when NLU helped her escape.
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"Okay, Shadow. We get it. Le'garde's back and he's
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doing evil stuff again. But what is that
Project Logic you keeping talking about?"
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And I'll answer that in just a minute.
But we're finally at the year of 1942,
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the year that Fear & Hunger Termina takes
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place. So the only thing missing now is
explaining the plot of the second game.
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So I'll be doing just that.
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My goal here is to make things simple and
easy to understand without taking much of
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your time. So I'll make a summary of
what is Project logic in the amount
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of time showing on the screen right now.
Let's see if someone can beat that record.
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Ready... GO!
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Project Logic is essentially an attempt by the New
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gods to surpass the Old ones without
relying on the Throne of Ascension.
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By that point they must have realized that it
was a trap and decided to take another approach.
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Probably learning from what happened
with the God of Fear and Hunger,
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they want to artificially create an
ascended god, just like her and Alll-mer.
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For that, they want wanted to reach
something called a Collective Consensus.
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Now everything makes sense, right?
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Oh. It doesn't? Okay, I'll
explain it a little better.
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You see, the Old gods are manifestations of
concepts. They represent feelings and ideas.
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To dumb it down and make it
a lot easier to understand,
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imagine there was an Old god of YouTube.
What form do you think that god would take?
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PewDiePie?
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Mr Beast?
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MaPat?
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Frapollo94?!
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The correct answer is all of them.
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When you think about a YouTuber
a few of them come to your mind,
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but they are separate, different beings.
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The god of YouTube would be a fusion of
every single YouTuber into a single thing.
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Can you imagine it? I hope not because I
don't think that would be pretty at all.
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So when you think about
creation, destruction or YouTube,
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it could take many different forms and each
individual being has their own version of it.
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To artificially create a god we need to unify all
different views on something and then that god
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would become a thing. And that's exactly what
the Eastern Union was trying to achieve here.
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They wanted to create a machine
capable of absorbing and storing
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information about every human. The
machine would then unite all the
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data into a single entity reaching
a consensus on what is something.
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We humans would still not be
able to imagine it though,
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but the consensus would still exist within Logic.
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To build Logic the Easter
Union needed a few things:
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First: They needed a core. Someone to become
one with the machine and exist as its kernel.
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That's what Kaiser was trying to become.
That is why he started the war in the
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first place. He wants to hijack the
project and become Logic himself.
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Second: the person in the core of
Logic needs to be connected to the
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machine both in consciousness
and subconsciousness states.
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To achieve that the subject needs to be in
a constant lucid dreaming state. That's why
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the Eastern Union chose Prehevil to host
experiments. The influence of the traces
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of Rher is capable of creating dream worlds where
the subconscious part of the machine can exist,
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while the real, awake world
will have its conscious parts.
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Third: They needed a cube, one
much like the Cube of the Depths.
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Kaiser was probably after it
when he sent archaeologists
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of Bremen after the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger.
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monke: TAILS NEVER FAILS BABY COME ON
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monke: THAT'S WHAT I'M
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monke: FU-
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He isn't in possession of the Cube, though.
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And attempts to recreate it
by the Easter Union failed.
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Until one worked, Vinushka's Cube. They
managed to absorb the remaining traces of
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the dead god into a cube and it was then
used as a fuel for Logic's ascension.
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Remember the Green Hue from where the Old gods
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came? Logic would be responsible for
spawning her own Artificial Green Hue.
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That way she would be able to replicate the power
of the Old gods without having to rely on them.
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In short, Logic is the internet,
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but on steroids.
[Legend - Tevvez]
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If you're interested in learning more about Logic
I recommend Max Derrat's video on Fear & Hunger 2.
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I will stick to explaining the lore
aspects of Logic and he delves into
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the psychological and symbological ones.
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Miro, the creator of Fear & Hunger,
confirmed he was inspired by one of
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Max's videos when making Logic so
there's some credibility to it.
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Anyway, let's get back on track.
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Remember back in the first video
when I said Rher antagonized any
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mortal trying to become a God?
That would not be different here.
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Even as just traces, the Moon God started
to spread madness all around Prehevil,
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trying to stop Logic's ascension. These
were the Festivals of Termina we see.
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"Wait, festivals? There's more than just one?"
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Yes, there were three festivals
in Prehevil alone. One was held
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only by the prehivilean citizens. The
other happened when the Bremen Army
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invaded the city. And the third happens
when the playable characters arrive.
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Crazy, right? But these also weren't one the only
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Festivals of Termina. They seem
to happen all around the world.
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This explains all the crazy things going
on in Prehevil by the time we get to play.
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I mean, almost all of them.
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So, Logic and Rher are in opposite
sides and the characters got caught
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up in this whole mess. But there's a third party.
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Remember when I said that the Sulfur God started
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to gain influence in Prehevil?
Yeah, they're also involved.
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The Sulfur God hijacked the
festival for themselves,
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making all death and blood spill to
be used to give power for their deity.
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They use the festival and blood bath caused by
it to increase their numbers. Winners of the
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festival can join their ranks and become
sulfur cultists, just like Per'kele did.
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So now that we have a clearer
picture, let's recapitulate.
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The Easter Union and the New gods are
trying to create an ascended artificial god.
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Kaiser wants to hijack it
for himself and become the
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Machine God. So he starts the Second
Great War trying to conquer Prehevil.
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Rher is trying to stop Logic from being
complete, so he starts the Festivals of Termina.
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And the Sulfur Cult is using the
massacre to make their god more powerful.
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Quite the mess.
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Just before the game begins Kaiser,
invades Prehevil ending the Second
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Great War. The Easter Union destroys
the railways that lead to the compound
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of Logic but it's only a matter
of time before Kaiser gets there.
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To stop Kaiser, Reila fuses
with the Machine God before him.
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Rher wants to stop us from
activating the Telelectroscopes,
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terminals that need to be on
for the ascension be complete.
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And Per'kele and the Sulfur God want to recruit
the winner of the festival to their ranks.
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Will the Machine God become online?
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Will Sulfur for one day
return from the Sulfuric Pits?
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What happened to the characters?
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Only time will tell.
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But for now, this was the plot of Fear
& Hunger 2 Termina, I hope you enjoyed.
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And just like that,
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We're done.
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Thank you so much for making to the end.
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If you enjoyed what you just watched,
please consider subscribing.
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I'll be really releasing more Fear &
Hunger lore videos in the future.
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So you don't want to miss it. Also, before this
video ends I want to share a few words first.
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Huge thanks to everyone from the official
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Fear & Hunger Discord server
who helped me with the video.
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They answered a lot of my questions and taught
me stuff I had no idea existed in the game.
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For a game like Fear & Hunger it's
almost un impossible task to make
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a timeline. There aren't dates
for most of the important stuff,
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and you're forced to make guesses with the
clues they give you to fill in the gaps.
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I tried to keep the speculation to a minimum,
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for the series at least,
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focusing on what we know for
certain first and foremost. But, um,
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I had to speculate here and there eventually.
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I made a timeline with two things in mind:
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It had to correlate with the
information we have so far,
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without contradicting with anything we
know by the time I'm making this video.
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And I also wanted it to be in a way
that feels satisfying for the viewer.
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It can't be just a timeline,
it also needs to tell a story.
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If you disagree with the order of certain
events I presented here, feel free to do so.
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Adding to that I'll be releasing in
the future the document I made when
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making this timeline, with the references
for what I mentioned in the video.
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If you want to learn more details or
make your own version of the timeline,
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keep an eye for the community
tab. I'll be releasing it there.
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Anyways, that was it for now
thanks again to everyone.
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Until next time.
