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0:00One god slain by mankind's own hands. Another, the most worshipped of them all,
0:04may be a sadistic shadow wearing a savior's name.
0:07And in 1942, hidden below a cursed city, humanity is building a god of its very own.
0:12But to understand how we got here, we have to go back to the very beginning.
0:17The gods in Fear & Hunger aren't all-loving creatures,
0:20but twisted eldritch monsters based on primordial truths,
0:23primal fears, and humanity's arrogance.
0:25Their so-called blessings grotesquely morph the bodies of their followers,
0:29or any creature unfortunate enough to be in their path.
0:32Yet most of these deities aren't what they seem,
0:35and their stories are far more connected than they first appear.
0:38As we'll see, every age of Fear & Hunger begins in the same way,
0:41with a different god rising to replace the one before it.
0:44By the end of this video, we'll follow that cycle from the dawn of time to the
0:48most unexpected god of all, one born not from divinity, but from human hands.
0:53Every deity falls into one of three classes: the Old Gods who shaped the world,
0:57the New Gods who tried to claim it, and the Ascended Gods who remade it.
1:01All three types are crucial to the story and lore of the Fear & Hunger series,
1:05shaping events firsthand as well as the world building around them.
1:09We begin with the oldest of them all.
1:11Before humanity or any other life form, there were only the Old Gods.
1:14Beings of immeasurable power originating from the
1:17otherworldly plane of the Green Hue beyond the Void.
1:20By increasing one's affinity with an Old God through performing aligned actions,
1:24humans can channel its magic, each providing different effects,
1:27and every deity has their own dedicated cult of worship.
1:30Despite their immense strength and influence on the universe,
1:33the Old Gods have long since abandoned the world of man.
1:36Only their infinitesimal traces now remain.
1:38But the mere fractions of fragments of their power are enough to easily overwhelm
1:42and destroy any human or New God foolish enough to make contact. We learn a
1:46great deal about both the Old and Ascended Gods through their respective skin
1:50bibles, books dedicated to each god's origin and influence,
1:53attributed to Enki, the Dark Priest from the first Fear & Hunger.
1:57The Old Gods can be communed with via asymmetric ritual circles,
2:00described in game as the only link between a man and an older god,
2:04showing the one-sided distribution of power.
2:06We encounter five unique Old Gods in total throughout both Fear & Hunger games.
2:10Gro-goroth. The bringer of destruction and human sacrifice is,
2:14strangely, the Old God most curious about humans.
2:17He blesses his followers with blood magic, fire spells, and necromancy.
2:21We can grow his affinity by sacrificing party members or shedding our own
2:25blood at a corresponding ritual circle, and by consuming human flesh.
2:28Despite being associated with heinous acts, Gro-goroth isn't a purely evil being.
2:33He appears wearing the skin of men and women in an attempt to ease the fear
2:37humanity shows towards him, which unfortunately garners the opposite reaction.
2:41His destruction also builds a path for new life to follow,
2:44just as a new forest cannot take root until the previous one has been burned away.
2:48This harmony is shown with Gro-goroth's counterpart, Sylvian,
2:51the Old God of love and creation, as the pair are each a side of the same coin.
2:55Creation cannot exist without destruction,
2:57and their consummation bred their child Vinushka, the Old God of nature.
3:01Embodying both destructive and creative aspects, whom we will be looking at shortly.
3:06Gro-goroth's power also resides within the Necronomicon,
3:09a cursed book that may teach a blood spell or completely destroy the reader's mind.
3:13His symbol represents an eclipse,
3:15and engraving it on one's face increases attack power.
3:18We find Gro-goroth's followers, the Wolfmask cult,
3:20deep within the the Dungeons of Fear & Hunger.
3:23They are half naked in animal fur, entranced and indulging in cannibalism
3:26and self-mutilation for their so-called celebration of flesh.
3:29We too can take part to restore our hunger and grow our affinity with Gro-goroth.
3:34But trying twice or more brings a coin flip to determine if we
3:37retain our sanity or lose ourselves to the madness of the ritual.
3:40We also find the Black Witch is a follower of the Old God,
3:43having lost himself to blood magic and twisting his form in the process.
3:47The most infamous group tied to Gro-goroth are the yellow mages,
3:50an order created by the New God Nas'hrah.
3:52Rather than worshipping the gods, yellow mages channel their power,
3:55Gro-goroth's above all, purely for their own personal gain, and we see firsthand
3:59just how strong Gro-goroth's traces remain at the Altar of Darkness in Ending B.
4:04Here, we come face to face with the fragment of the Old God,
4:07which easily blasts the New God Nas'hrah to ash,
4:09which he does likewise with our mind if we manage to win the battle, completely
4:13crushing our psyche by showing a mere glimmer of the greater truth of the universe.
4:17It showcases the impossible strength the Old Gods possess.
4:20And yet, of all the Old Gods, he isn't the one humanity hurt the most.
4:24Every human being in Fear & Hunger exists because of one god,
4:28and she came to regret it.
4:29Gro-goroth's counterpart, Sylvian, the Goddess of love, lust, and fertility.
4:33It was she who created mankind,
4:35and she always cared deeply for her creations, blessing them with love magic.
4:39But over time, her affection turned twisted as she realized humanity
4:43would never return the same love she showed, and her gifts began to
4:46morph her followers into a likeness more akin to her own eldritch form.
4:50We see her grotesque transfigurations through Sylvian marriages,
4:53a warped version of the real world counterpart that occurs when two or
4:57more people or creatures show physical love within a ritual circle.
5:01While it can make them more powerful, as seen with our characters,
5:04the Moonless Guards, or the yellow lizard mages,
5:07it can also fail when the participants have ill favor with the Gods,
5:10creating failed marriages, or abominations upon too many repeated attempts,
5:14as we see with the Human Hydra and the Knights of Rondon.
5:17However, some accounts tell that Sylvian instructed a mysterious deity named
5:21Vitruvia to architect humanity's design, which Sylvian then implemented.
5:25Dissatisfied with the results, Vitruvia then went on to create a perfect human
5:29being in the form of the Ascended God Alll-mer, whose lore we will dive into later.
5:33Her followers are the Bunnymasks,
5:35cultists devoted to showing love to Sylvian through entranced physical acts.
5:38We find them in the meadow, where we can join in to restore our health.
5:42We are able to break free of the trance once,
5:44but trying again presents a coin flip to determine if we retain
5:47our sanity or lose ourselves completely to the celebration.
5:50The Bunnymasks are also the same cult Daan's parents were part
5:54of in Fear & Hunger 2 before losing themselves to the trance.
5:57Her love magic is the main source of healing in the first game,
6:01and her ritual circles in Fear & Hunger 2 restore lost limbs,
6:04though not those lost to birth defects or ritual sacrifice,
6:07as seen with Olivia and Daan. But her magic has a much darker side.
6:11Demon Seed allows us to grow a Demonic Child
6:13companion from a recently deceased corpse,
6:15and Rebirth of the Beloved allows D'arce to revive a dead Le'garde in her S ending,
6:20although what she brings back isn't the same as her lost lover. Sylvian's symbol
6:24reflects fertility and raises magical defense when carved into one's face.
6:28We can actually encounter a trace of Sylvian on Terror and Starvation and
6:31Hard difficulties, where she rises from the Green Hue within the Void.
6:35Showcasing her powers of creation,
6:37she forms a tumor throughout the battle taking the shape of one
6:40of the four main characters, using their respective abilities.
6:43Upon winning the battle, she lets the player go, receding back into the Green Hue.
6:47But her greatest creation wasn't humanity at all.
6:49It was her child. Of all the Old Gods,
6:52only one's disappearance was attributed to humanity having slain it.
6:55It was from Sylvian's consummation with Gro-goroth that their child,
6:59Vinushka, the Old God of nature, was created.
7:01One of the most mysterious gods due to being completely absent from the first game,
7:06Vinushka embodies both the destructive and creative qualities of his parents,
7:10showcased perfectly in the world of nature, as one day a wildfire
7:13can raze the land and later it can regrow to a pristine forest.
7:16Vinushka blesses his followers with nature magic,
7:19from fire spells to healing through photosynthesis,
7:22along with magic borrowed from his parents,
7:24such as seeds planted in corpses that bloom into flowers restoring body or mind.
7:29His symbol represents the swirling cycles of nature and
7:32increases magical attack when carved into one's face.
7:34However, Vinushka differs from the Old Gods in a few ways.
7:38The first is that he is taught in both occult and scientific circles,
7:41as Olivia, being a botanist,
7:43can start with a Vinushka skin bible she acquired through her studies.
7:46The second is that we find two skin bibles dedicated to him:
7:49one which has been edited by the Vatican, and the original,
7:52unedited version hidden in Father Hugo's house.
7:55The edited version speaks briefly on the Old God,
7:57mostly mentioning his origin and the power he inherited from his parents,
8:01but the unedited version bestows shocking revelations that the Vatican seems
8:05to want hidden from the world. The first striking difference is his form,
8:09the original version showing Vinushka as a pinecone-faced deity.
8:12The second is that the Old God is dead, having been killed by men.
8:16Mankind once lived symbiotically with nature, but as they advanced,
8:19the natural world was torn down and used to pave the way for civilization,
8:23resulting in a war between Vinushka and humans to see who would be dominant,
8:27which ultimately ended in the Old God's demise.
8:29Death doesn't mean the same to deities as it does to people,
8:32and we see Father Hugo dispute this claim in his God Manifesto.
8:35It may be due to this that we don't see Vinushka in the first Fear & Hunger,
8:39with his fire magic instead being attributed to the destructive power of Gro-goroth.
8:43But the blood on humanity's hands is guilty nonetheless,
8:46and it will break down the world in time.
8:48As with the other gods, traces of Vinushka still linger in the Iki Turso,
8:52nature beings that desperately wait for their dead god to return.
8:56We see the Iki Turso hold bonds to the natural world,
8:59as when Rancid kills the one near Prehevil,
9:01the ground around it will die, turning black as time passes.
9:04It is theorized that the Owl cultists of Fear & Hunger 2 follow Vinushka
9:08due to dwelling in the forest, but their masks are melded to their faces,
9:12possibly an effect of the violent God of the moon,
9:15Rher.
9:16Among the Old Gods, one is said to still be watching us,
9:19and that's exactly what makes him so dangerous.
9:22Rher, the trickster moon god associated with all things delinquent,
9:25is believed by the New Gods to be the last Old God still observing humanity.
9:29He is extremely jealous, refusing to share godhood with mankind or the New Gods,
9:34and plots against any human attempt to ascend.
9:36His moonlight is said to show secret truths, often too much to handle,
9:40and his influence easily drives people mad, causing them to moonscorch,
9:44twisting them into monstrous versions of their repressed emotions and true selves.
9:48Rher is pivotal to the plot of the second game, being the force behind
9:52the Festival of Termina which the main characters are forced into.
9:55While the true nature of the festival is a mystery, it is described as a jubilee,
9:59suggesting it comes only once every few decades or even centuries,
10:03and it always results in great bloodshed,
10:05with those who refuse to take part being moonscorched by Rher.
10:08The festival itself is overseen by a mysterious figure claiming to be the servant of
10:13the moon god and pushing the participants of Termina forward in the battle royale.
10:17However, his true motive is much more sinister,
10:19and his real master is a secret deity we will uncover shortly.
10:23The festival taking place in Prehevil appears to have gone through three phases.
10:27The first seems to have occurred to the townspeople, who reported seeing
10:30Per'kele in their dreams before going mad and starting to moonscorch.
10:34The second when the Kaiser and the Bremen army entered Prehevil,
10:37as a soldier we can talk to in battle notes his three-day time limit is almost up.
10:41And the third and final phase came when the main characters arrived on the train,
10:46given their own three-day time limit to be the last one standing and reach the
10:49Hollow Tower. Despite the Festival of Termina being fueled by the Old Gods,
10:53Samarie remarks that Prehevil seems to have been chosen for a reason,
10:57and that we may be able to end the festival early if we can negate its purpose.
11:01Rher's magic allows followers to read minds and grants access to the Golden Gates,
11:05a pocket world linking the wooden Rher dimensions throughout Prehevil.
11:08These seem to reflect dream and nightmare versions of the places
11:12they're connected to, with the Orphanage's becoming a battlefield,
11:15like the child soldiers harvested there to be sent to war,
11:18and the White Mold Apartments' becoming prison cells.
11:20His symbol represents the cycles of the moon and an eye forever watching
11:24over humanity, and it increases Mind capacity when carved into one's face.
11:28But we also hear of Rher in the first Fear & Hunger,
11:30meeting multiple followers who are in the dungeons to do his
11:33bidding of preventing humanity from ascending to godhood.
11:36The most infamous of his followers is Pocketcat, the long-winded,
11:39creepy cat-mask-wearing man who offers great rewards in exchange for children,
11:43which we learn is his attempt to have us deliver the Girl so
11:46that she won't become the Ascended God of Fear and Hunger.
11:49Pocketcat similarly trades rewards in the second game in exchange for the
11:53severed heads of Termina contestants, pushing us further into the bloodshed.
11:57We learn from Daan's ending that Pocketcat isn't a singular being,
12:00but a moniker and mask passed down to unfortunate souls possessed by the
12:04feline and forced to serve The Moon God. The second of Rher's followers
12:08we find is the Lady of Moon within the Temple of the Gods in Ma'habre,
12:12coming from the Green Hue and speaking telepathically.
12:14With a multifaceted, jellyfish-like body, she tells us she can make us whole again,
12:19fully restoring health, Mind, and missing limbs, but it comes at a dear cost:
12:23we must give her the Girl. Like Pocketcat, she serves her master's
12:26wish to prevent humans from ascending to the level of the Old Gods,
12:30and it is this very reason that may explain why the Festival of Termina is taking
12:34place in Prehevil specifically. After defeating all of the other contestants and
12:38ascending the Hollow Tower for Ending B, we face Rher after defeating Per'kele,
12:42the chains of the moon snapping as Rher gives us a peek at grandeur.
12:45Being victorious sees the trickster god grow disinterested and float away,
12:49with our character foaming at the mouth,
12:51unconscious from the exposure to the Old God, but still alive,
12:54having survived to see the fourth day and able to leave the city.
12:58But as we'll later learn,
12:59the moon god may have had very little to do with his own festival.
13:02The last Old God is the God of the Depths,
13:04a mysterious deity of the dark and the vermin residing within.
13:08Those who worship it are transformed into insectoid beings,
13:11often seemingly devoid of thought, as with the Mumblers, Cave Dwellers,
13:14and Body Snatchers, although some seem to retain higher thinking,
13:18like the Cockroach King, the Scarabs, and the Butterfly.
13:20The God of the Depths is tied to the Dungeons of Fear & Hunger,
13:24as we see its symbol in a ritual right inside the basement.
13:27Its body is found within the Cave Dweller village,
13:29and the Thicket is said to be the god's intestines,
13:32with its influence being the reason for the twisting layout of the dungeon.
13:35It's due to its dark influence that many of the creatures have morphed
13:39inside the dungeon, including the Crow Mauler, who was once Captain Rudimer.
13:42Humans have worshipped the god as well, as we see through the Maiden of the Depths,
13:46a once-human woman who was to be the bride of the God of the Depths.
13:50With the union ultimately proving impossible because of her mortality,
13:53and she was instead fused to the tree within the dungeons that leads to the Thicket.
13:57The God of the Depths is lord of insects, rodents, and crows, and its magic
14:01allows followers to communicate with and utilize vermin for different attacks.
14:05It also plays a pivotal role in the story.
14:08Its Cube of the Depths is the key to reaching the city of the gods,
14:11with the past version of the city only being accessible
14:14by placing the cube in a Beacon of the Depths.
14:17Le'garde seized the Cube in his pillaging of Oldegård,
14:19and his imprisonment brought it into the dungeons,
14:22where it changed hands until it rested on the altar next to the deity's body.
14:26And as we'll see, this is far from the last time we hear of Le'garde.
14:29The New God Nilvan entrusts us to take her daughter,
14:31the Girl, to the bottom of the dungeon within the God of the
14:34Depths' body so that a new age of humanity may commence.
14:37Around the dungeon we find three giant hearts belonging to the deity,
14:41and slicing all of them open allows us to enter its mouth,
14:44although it closes once we're inside. Within, we find the Gauntlet,
14:47a treacherous path of traps and enemies holding pieces of ancient architecture.
14:51At the end is the Altar of Darkness, where the Girl is able to become the Ascended
14:56God of Fear and Hunger by absorbing the essence of the God of the Depths,
14:59although her power only seems to include vermin, with insects excluded,
15:03possibly rejecting that aspect of the older god.
15:06The God of the Depths' influence hasn't disappeared from the world, though,
15:10as we find the Beekeepers of Fear & Hunger 2 have its symbol etched into their
15:14spawn point, showing its traces are still powerful enough to morph followers.
15:18But perhaps its greatest legacy is the god that was born from its corpse, a reminder
15:22that humanity is indeed able to ascend to divinity under the right conditions.
15:26With the Old Gods gone, they left behind a world without guidance,
15:30and an empty throne in the city of the gods. But It didn't stay vacant for long.
15:34If the divine had abandoned us, why not become gods ourselves?
15:38That question has been asked for over twenty thousand years,
15:41and the answer has always ended in failure. The New Gods.
15:44Mortal humans and creatures who have attempted to reach
15:47divinity by sitting upon the Throne of Ascension in Ma'habre.
15:51They spent their mortal lives chasing an ideal which they sought to perfect
15:55in New Godhood, though all of them ultimately fail and fade with time.
15:59While far weaker than the Old or Ascended Gods,
16:02they still hold power well beyond any human.
16:04Each New God takes a title from their soul type which acts as an
16:08astrological system, with only 4 soul types being present in the first game:
16:12Dominating, Endless, Tormented, and Enlightened.
16:15It was expanded to over a dozen types in the second game,
16:18with the prophesized update showing there are 28 total soul types.
16:21Depending on when someone is born,
16:23the New Gods can be communed with via an imperfect ritual circle,
16:27showcasing the flaws and their so-called ascension.
16:29But the New Gods never truly die.
16:31When their relevance fades or a stronger foe brings them down,
16:34they fall dormant and take their place in the Grand Hall, sitting idle for eternity
16:39while the next generation rules,
16:41though certain rituals can allow mortals to commune with them.
16:44While dominant rulers in the first game,
16:46they have dwindled to be more akin to forgotten relics in the modern era,
16:50but operate as a secret society from the shadows alongside the Kaiser, with
16:54evidence that they helped orchestrate the last two Great Wars. Rher despises them,
16:58and the New Gods themselves claim he has many ploys to diminish their influence.
17:02But humans weren't the first to reach for new godhood. Before mankind,
17:06the lizardmen were the dominant life on the planet and sought to ascend.
17:10Their New Gods are dinosaur-like beings known as Blights.
17:14In the museum, a stone tablet from around 20,000 BC depicts
17:17mysterious beings known as the Nine Chromatic Blights.
17:20Its carving style matches that in Ma'habre, suggesting these lizardmen
17:24deities once ruled the city of the gods long before humanity.
17:28Their remnants still exist,
17:29as in the first game a Greater Blight stalks us through the Void,
17:33forcing us to dive into a hole and wait for its footsteps to fade
17:36once it catches our scent, or else we face a difficult battle.
17:39The New Gods themselves admit that a Greater Blight still rivals their power,
17:43and that in their prime, the blights were far stronger.
17:46And if beings that powerful couldn't hold onto Ma'habre,
17:49what chance did humanity ever have?
17:50At the heart of the ancient city lie the Grand Libraries, founded by Betel,
17:54the famed New God of Enlightenment, who wished for its archives to one day
17:58surpass the knowledge and wisdom of the Old Gods. Every New God of Enlightenment
18:03since spends their cycle at the library studying a subject of their choosing.
18:07Betel is viewed as the father of enlightenment among the New Gods,
18:10and believed to have been a famous scholar prior to his ascension.
18:14His rings, Betel's stones, still leak magic in both games.
18:17But even the father of enlightenment wasn't destined to keep his domain forever.
18:21Betel's successor took the library through trickery. Nas'hrah, the foul-mouthed,
18:25quick-tempered sociopath claiming to be the Doom and Terror of Modern Man, was once
18:30the sultan of the Eastern Sanctuaries but became a New God in the 5th century.
18:34He also created the yellow mages and their creed
18:36of using the gods rather than worshipping them.
18:39Whatever trick Nas'hrah pulled on Betel enraged the other New Gods,
18:42who came to loathe his cruelty as much as he despised their weakness,
18:46and it seems they reduced him to his current state as a floating severed head.
18:50Yet even in this form,
18:51he has achieved a kind of immortality surpassing his colleagues,
18:54never having to return to the Grand Hall despite his reign having ended.
18:58We find him amongst the corpses in the blood pits,
19:01where he showcases his power by summoning the Darkness,
19:03an unkillable beast and faint trace of an Old God bent to his will,
19:07believed to be Gro-goroth. Nas'hrah can join our party,
19:10seeking to restore his body so he can destroy the New Gods altogether.
19:13His ego is on full display throughout, as he incinerates a clone
19:17of himself for being lackluster and does the same to the aged
19:20Francóis, the New God of Domination, if we find him in the present.
19:24He even warns us and Le'garde against sitting on the Golden Throne,
19:27claiming ascension changes nothing, a mistake he himself once made.
19:31But his arrogance has its limits,
19:32as bringing him before the traces of Gro-goroth sees him obliterated mid-insult.
19:37This leaves him as the scorched Beheaded Wizard
19:39being reduced to an accessory in Fear & Hunger
19:422. He was retrieved from the dungeons by the Yellow Mage O'saa.
19:45Sensing an event of cosmic proportions, Nas'hrah sends O'saa to Prehevil,
19:49seeking revenge on Le'garde for having ascended. But in O'saa's B ending,
19:53the Yellow Mage grows tired of taking orders and tosses Nas'hrah into a lake, where
19:57he now sits at the bottom until someone else is unlucky enough to come across him.
20:01A god reduced to a withered head at the bottom of a lake.
20:05Few falls in Fear & Hunger are quite as steep.
20:07But where each New God failed alone, five would try to defy the odds together.
20:12By the year 809, the kingdoms of the world were rotting,
20:15and without the Old Gods' guidance, mankind's ideals were fading. Five people
20:19formed a Fellowship to seek out the Old Gods and demand self-rule for humanity.
20:24Through an ancient tomb that served as a hub between planes of existence,
20:28they reached the same golden gates of Ma'habre that the
20:30christ-like Alll-mer passed through in his ascension.
20:33However, the Old Gods planted a seed of doubt in the fifth member,
20:36Nosramus, a scholar of many arts, by showing him how they had
20:39steered mankind for ages without anything changing for the better.
20:43Nosramus refused to ascend and disappeared, while the other four went ahead,
20:47tore down the Old Gods' legacy, and founded a novel age with the New Gods ruling,
20:52a reign that would last until 1590.
20:54Francóis, the Dominating One,
20:56set out to unify the warring lands and hungered for more power.
20:59He made the Golden Temple his fortress and guarded the Throne of
21:03Ascension so jealously that no New God ascended for nearly 800 years,
21:07roughly twice a normal cycle.
21:09He bred Jaggedjaw hounds to hunt trespassers, could transform his body into gold,
21:13and had visions of a "true Ma'habre" he believed he would reach
21:17with just a little more time.
21:18In the present, an older Francóis has finally understood the greater scheme,
21:23that true domination is an illusion and everyone is a puppet, and so he
21:26hands us a key and asks us to travel back in time to kill his younger self.
21:30Nilvan, the Endless One, believed in humanity's boundless potential,
21:34that anything could be achieved through persistence.
21:37She can step outside of physical reality and visit people in their dreams.
21:41But by the late 16th century,
21:42she knew her reign was coming to an end, and desperate to endure,
21:45she turned to the prophecy of a man who would unite the warring states, Le'garde.
21:50She met him in a dream and bore his child,
21:52the Girl who would become the God of Fear and Hunger.
21:55In her domain of the Endless Dream,
21:57she shows all of the main characters' pasts, and tests us with the Skin Granny.
22:01When victorious, she tasks us to take her daughter to the bottom of the dungeon,
22:05in hopes it would bring a new prosperous age for mankind.
22:08What she doesn't tell us is exactly what her daughter will become.
22:12Valteil, the Enlightened One, a former Dark Priest, succeeded Nas'hrah at
22:16the Grand Libraries and devoted his cycle to creating artificial life,
22:19believing it would close the gap between the New and Old Gods.
22:23He refused to make immortal creations like Ma'habre's clay figurines,
22:27fearing they would outlast him, and attempted to make them from flesh instead,
22:31with the abomination, the Lord of Flies being one of his creations.
22:35But after nearly 800 years, Valteil gave up,
22:37believing mankind's chains could never be broken and that Nosramus
22:41had been right to refuse, and hanged himself, waiting to perish.
22:44The Tormented One was once Ronn Chambara,
22:46a poet who believed great art could only be born from pain.
22:50As a New God, he flayed his own skin, tormenting himself for centuries,
22:53and he passed that anguish on to everything within his cursed temple of torment.
22:58To face him, we must sacrifice a party member,
23:00or a lifeless husk we can create in Nas'hrah's hidden laboratory.
23:04Despite his reign ending, he can still be communed with and summoned,
23:07as we see in Fear & Hunger 2.
23:09Offering a dead crow at an imperfect ritual circle will spawn the Tormented One,
23:13and defeating him unlocks his powerful chains of torment spell.
23:17Nosramus, the Forgotten One, never took the throne at all.
23:20He remained in the dungeons, studying blood magic,
23:22the gods, and lately the fading heartbeat of nature,
23:25sensing the changing times ahead. He is the one who helps Enki
23:29resist the throne's temptation in his Enlightenment ending,
23:32where Enki finds the same alternative path and prolonged life as Nosramus himself.
23:36But their age faded with time, as every New God's reign is destined to,
23:40and in 1590 our party personally puts an end to the Fellowship,
23:44consigning all four to the Grand Hall for eternity,
23:47where we can still see them sitting in Fear & Hunger 2.
23:50Even in the modern age, new gods keep appearing, and
23:53some of them are stranger than anything that came before.
23:56Termina introduces two more New Gods, each embodying a brand new soul type,
24:00along with one being that may not be a New God at all.
24:03All three are summoned at imperfect ritual circles,
24:05and all three remain largely a mystery.
24:07The Radiating One is summoned with a portrait of
24:10a young man whose face has been scratched away,
24:12and he trades rare items for rust-colored pearls,
24:15which are gathered from the Ronteal dirt patches.
24:18The Tainted One is summoned with severed heads,
24:20trading a soul stone shard for each one, and shares the same soul type with Marcoh.
24:24The New Gods only say she was born with a tainted soul and rose to godhood,
24:28but in a city where a sadistic cult collects heads,
24:31it's hard not to wonder who she truly serves.
24:33The final deity is The Heartless One, a secret superboss who was a recent New God,
24:38but looks to be retconned into an entirely different being when or if the Termina
24:42update ever drops, as the full list of soul types doesn't include a Heartless Soul.
24:47Nevertheless, she loathes the New Gods, calling them warmongering old farts. Miro,
24:51the game's creator, posted on Discord telling of her backstory and great strength.
24:56After atrocities were committed upon her youngest sister,
24:59she destroyed nearly 20,000 Eastern Union soldiers and 200 tanks.
25:03She is capable of flight, subsonic speed,
25:05and near invulnerability to firearms and artillery,
25:08making her one of the strongest, if not the strongest, New God we encounter.
25:12This could be due in part to her Red Virtue sword,
25:14one of the famed blades forged for the King of Ma'habre,
25:17and the Darkness armor, a symbiotic mail,
25:19though how she managed to get either is never fully explained. Despite her prowess,
25:24hundreds of high priests within the Vatican were able to weaken and subdue her,
25:27with only 2 of them living through it,
25:29and we find her locked within the Rher dimension of the Church's basement.
25:33Here we can release her using a key hidden in the church.
25:36Once freed, she can be summoned at a ritual circle for a one-on-one duel,
25:40granting us both of her powerful equipment pieces if victorious.
25:43But there was one New God different from the rest.
25:46One that could actually go against the grand scheme of the Old Gods.
25:49The Yellow King, Le'garde.
25:51As a human, he was captain of the Knights of the Midnight Sun,
25:54a commoner hero whose followers believed he was the prophesied unifier.
25:58The New Gods call his prophecy a fallacy,
26:00but even they admit there is something different about him,
26:03and that he started something larger.
26:04In fact, it's due to Le'garde that all four characters travel to the Dungeons
26:08of Fear & Hunger in the first game. Rondon feared his growing power,
26:11and when he invaded Oldegård to seize the Cube of the Depths, they had their excuse,
26:15capturing him and throwing him into the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger.
26:19However, it was all part of his plan: his capture, his torture,
26:22even the amnesia he fakes. When we rescue him, we find Le'garde doesn't have a soul,
26:27or at least not a normal one, as using a soul stone on his corpse bears no result.
26:31It may be due to his prophesied destiny,
26:33and it likely led to his New Godhood being so unique.
26:36Each god of the Fellowship holds one soul,
26:39and Le'garde sought to embody all four at once:
26:41torment through the torture he endured in the dungeon,
26:44enlightenment through the Cube,
26:46endlessness through consummating Nilvan in his dreams,
26:49and domination through his warring conquests.
26:51If he succeeded, he would stand above every New God.
26:54In Ending C, he takes the throne before we can,
26:57and in the Void we find him reborn as the Yellow King,
27:00his skin a sickly yellow color tinted by the Void's green.
27:03He offers us salvation, and if we kneel,
27:05the ending tells us of the Knights of the Midnight Sun returning to unite the West
27:09as if the Old Gods themselves were on his side. Decades later, he hasn't aged a day,
27:13no longer a man taking the reins of the gods, but something else entirely.
27:17We can also kill him within the Void, which sees us return to a world of struggle,
27:21with nightmares of the dungeon haunting us for the rest of our days.
27:25While the game never states which ending is canon, Termina shows us the
27:28birth of the God of Fear and Hunger and Le'garde's ascension took place.
27:32Le'garde does have the impact he sought on humanity,
27:34just not in the way he envisioned.
27:36His daughter became the God of Fear & Hunger, ushering in a new age
27:39of humanity where their own hunger and fear drive them forward.
27:43So when Le'garde emerges from the Void, the world no longer needs him as a savior.
27:47However, in D'arce's S Ending, there is a whole different story for Le'garde.
27:51She finds him dead in his cell and uses forbidden magic to bring him back,
27:54but he instead returns as a bloodthirsty ghoul having shed his human skin,
27:58becoming a vicious warlord.
27:59Some theorize this ghoul is the Le'garde we meet again centuries later,
28:03but the evidence points elsewhere.
28:05Because Le'garde's story doesn't end in the Void, or in the dungeons.
28:08Four hundred years later, he'll appear one last time,
28:11chasing the same promised land.
28:12But before we get there, we have to first understand what he helped create,
28:16and what humanity is truly capable of becoming.
28:18Every New God we've seen failed to rise to the level of the Old Gods.
28:22But twice in history, a human did succeed, and both times,
28:25the world was never the same again. Ascended Gods.
28:28Humans who have successfully risen to divinity by absorbing an Old God's essence.
28:32With the creation of each Ascended God, a new age of humanity comes with it,
28:37pushing the progress of mankind forward as religions and cults form around them.
28:41However, we only see the term "Ascended God" in the second Fear & Hunger,
28:45with Alll-mer simply being counted among the older gods in the first one,
28:49as his power rivals theirs.
28:50Ascended Gods can be communed with via perfection ritual circles,
28:54described in game as the circle of gods among men, and men among gods.
28:58Two are confirmed, with two more mysterious beings that may belong in their ranks.
29:02Le'garde never became the god he wanted to be. But his daughter did.
29:06The namesake of the series, the God of Fear and Hunger's birth and influence
29:10are pivotal to the overarching storyline. As a human, she was the Girl,
29:14a pure being raised in the dungeons who only knew fear and hunger.
29:17She was conceived by the New God Nilvan and the man of prophecy, Le'garde,
29:21an unholy union that allowed the Girl to be born with a soul of the Ancient One,
29:25radiating the light of an older god.
29:27In taking the Girl to the Altar of Darkness within the God of the Depths' body,
29:31her destiny is unlocked as she violently begins to morph,
29:34eventually progressing to her final form as the God of Fear and Hunger.
29:38Defeating her sees the newborn deity acknowledge our suffering
29:41before we meet our end at the bottom of the dungeon.
29:44With her creation, mankind was ushered into a new era known as the Cruel Age.
29:48People's fear motivated them while their hunger kept them moving forward,
29:52and they came to cherish hardship and find inspiration in it,
29:55eventually leading humanity into technological advancement
29:58and modern age we see in Fear & Hunger 2.
30:01In the modern world, she is a known god worshipped by some cults.
30:04Her power bestows vermin magic, Flesh Puppetry, and Rot.
30:07The God of Fear and Hunger's symbol represents two inward-facing R's,
30:11the same as the God of the Depths' symbol, embodying her ascension from it.
30:15Drawing it upon a ritual circle grants additional saves,
30:18and carving the symbol into one's face increases agility.
30:22However, the God of Fear and Hunger wasn't the first Ascended God,
30:25nor the most influential. That title lies with Alll-mer,
30:28a Christ-like figure who is revered and worshipped by many in both games.
30:32He too was once a mere mortal, but accounts of his origin tend to differ.
30:36The most popular account mirrors that of Jesus.
30:39He came from the city of Jettaiah in the Eastern Sanctuaries,
30:42born of a virgin mother and the seed of an unnamed false god,
30:46most likely a New God as with the Girl's creation.
30:48In his life he spread his teachings and gathered twelve apostles,
30:52aiming to unite people of differing religions and ideologies.
30:55But the kings and sultans of the time felt threatened,
30:57and he was arrested and sentenced to crucifixion.
31:00But only eleven of his apostles would return with him,
31:03and many believe the twelfth betrayed him.
31:05The skin bible written by Enki tells of another leading belief,
31:08that Alll-mer was crafted by the deity and architect of man, Vitruvia,
31:12who after designing mankind for the Old God Sylvian was disappointed in her work,
31:16and so set out to craft the perfect human being, resulting in Alll-mer,
31:19and he reckons the truth lies somewhere in the middle of these two beliefs.
31:23Either way, his crucifixion served Alll-mer, making him a martyr,
31:27and the pain of his torture pushed him to ascend to godhood.
31:30He spent three days and nights in the city of the gods,
31:33Ma'habre, before returning to the human world.
31:35But he returned spiteful, seeking revenge with his eleven faithful apostles and
31:39creating a bloodbath that slew the kings, sultans, and ruling New Gods of the era,
31:43restoring the old world order.
31:45Year 0 of the game's calendar marks the birth of his new self.
31:48The appearance of Alll-mer differs based on region,
31:51with the West of Europa picturing him in his ascended form,
31:54bald and muscular with a godly stature, whereas the Eastern
31:58Sanctuaries portray a thin man with long hair and Eastern features,
32:01more reminiscent of the human Alll-mer before ascension cost him his hair.
32:05Within the past version of the Tomb of the Gods,
32:08we find the massive body of Alll-mer in a secret passage underneath,
32:11with only a skeleton remaining in the present. Alll-mer's influence is widespread,
32:15with statues depicting his visage found in both games and him being the main
32:19figure of the church within Prehevil, as well as most of the Western world.
32:23Although he represents hope, he is often associated with human sacrifice,
32:27with followers wanting to crucify themselves to feel the pain their god
32:30went through, or sacrificing up to ten people on the cross for protection,
32:34and invoking his idea of vengeance to punish those who do wrong.
32:37One can raise their affinity with him by confessing sins,
32:40as we see in the church with O'saa;
32:42however, confessing to forcing oneself upon another won't raise it,
32:46showing the condemnation of lust by Alll-mer's followers.
32:49They are also the ones who shut down the brothel in Prehevil's Sylvian Square
32:52and opened the orphanage, the latter becoming an abusive place for children,
32:56though not what the followers most likely intended.
32:59Alll-mer's symbol represents the cross.
33:01It increases physical defense when carved into one's face,
33:04and opens blood portals for fast travel
33:06when drawn on a ritual circle.
33:07His magic blesses followers with movement abilities, some reflecting
33:11Christ-like miracles such as turning water into wine and walking on water.
33:15However, he does possess more violent magic, such as Blood Sword,
33:18allowing the caster to conjure a blade of blood to use in battle,
33:22and Inverse Crown of Thorns,
33:23an attempt for followers to feel the Ascended God's pain.
33:26Casting it is an instant game over, as the crown is too much to bear and
33:30crushes the player's head as an evil cackle is heard in the background.
33:34But this shows there being a darker side of Alll-mer which has
33:37been hiding in plain sight all along: the malevolent Sulfur God.
33:40A dark, sadistic deity that is hidden from the world,
33:43the Sulfur God leaves many clues to his existence
33:46and influence throughout the second Fear & Hunger,
33:48hinting at him being the satanic counterpart to Alll-mer's Christ image.
33:52While this god is purposefully shrouded in mystery,
33:55we do obtain concrete facts which we can use to build larger theories upon.
33:59The Cult of Sulfur has been secretly pulling the strings from the beginning,
34:03with Per'kele as its leader, as we learn in the hidden Ending
34:06C. If we kill all the other contestants before the third day and ascend the
34:10Hollow Tower, Per'kele congratulates our bloodlust and initiates us as the
34:14newest member of the Sulfur cult. The group uses the traces of Rher and the
34:18Festival of Termina for their own twisted means and to recruit new members,
34:22as initiation can only happen when someone purely commits heinous acts of violence,
34:26noted by Per'kele not being able to join the
34:29bloodshed himself until we are successful.
34:31To fully be made a member of the cult, we must face death head on, initiating
34:35mortal combat against Per'kele in which we both die from the wounds sustained,
34:39before being cast into the sulfuric pits to undergo our true transformation.
34:43It's described as a scorching sun burning our skin while
34:47long tendrils of cold freeze us from the inside out.
34:49Only then can we rise as a true follower of Sulfur, and Per'kele reveals
34:53he was reborn this way after winning a past Festival of Termina.
34:57We see other Sulfur cult members in Needles and Stitches,
35:00revealed by Daan to actually be his recently deceased loved ones,
35:04Baron Einher Von Dutch and his daughter Elise, Daan's fiancée.
35:07The Baron viciously murdered Elise before taking his own life in a dark
35:11ritual to an unknown god, later revealed to be Sulfur, and the pair were
35:15then resurrected for the Festival of Termina to take part in the mayhem.
35:19We also see the newest recruit, the Janitor,
35:21encountered in the prologue and believed to be the mass murderer
35:25of the White Mold Apartments, with a Sigil of Sulfur in his room,
35:28the heinous act that would allow him to join the Sulfur cult's ranks.
35:31It would seem those of the cult are given a twisted version of eternal life,
35:35being able to resurrect in a warped form,
35:37then returning to the sulfuric pits after death to rise again after torment.
35:41We see from battling Per'kele that he is still living despite his torso decomposing
35:45from his unnaturally long life. We learn more from recruiting the goat Black Kalev,
35:50revealed to be the mysterious Man in Black. Once he's in the party,
35:53if we carve 12 idols from the clay pillars in the Rher dimension,
35:56he appears to us, shedding light on his past and his involvement with Sulfur.
36:00He was once an apostle of Alll-mer, most likely the one who betrayed him.
36:04He tells how Alll-mer carved a similar idol of himself,
36:07as before he could ascend, he had to condense himself to his true essence,
36:11carving away the dark aspects of his subconscious. In the process,
36:14he was split into two beings, the pure Alll-mer and his imperfect shadow self.
36:18But humanity didn't want two gods, so the shadow was cast away,
36:21all the way down into the sulfuric pits, becoming the Sulfur God.
36:25But the Man in Black questions which part of Alll-mer was really cast away,
36:29suggesting the shadow self may be the true dominant one.
36:31We see evidence of Sulfur taking hold beneath Alll-mer's name throughout the game.
36:35Within the Church of Alll-mer,
36:37we find its congregation are actually followers of Sulfur,
36:40as the crypts below are littered with bodies and pools of blood,
36:43and the monstrous Crimson Fathers can flash an image of
36:46the Sulfur God into our minds when talked to in battle.
36:49O'saa even remarks that there are no traces of Alll-mer within the church,
36:52but something much more sinister. The statue in the back of the
36:55church shows their supposed Alll-mer carrying severed heads,
36:59and the Martyr effigy shows a crucified Alll-mer as a serpent crowned with thorns,
37:03both revealing the Sulfur God behind their Alll-mer worship.
37:06Even more, the ritualistic human sacrifice needed for protection seems more akin to
37:10a sadistic god than a benevolent one, aligning with the Sulfur cult's bloodshed,
37:15and the Alll-mer skills we can acquire in game all point toward Sulfur. Blood Sword
37:19and the Longinus blood spear we gain from Ending C share the same skill description,
37:24both telling of Alll-mer's blood still boiling and raging ages after his death,
37:28with every drop a weapon against his enemies.
37:30Boiling blood seems to better match the sulfuric pits than a god of hope.
37:34But their item descriptions reveal the difference.
37:36Blood Sword is simply forged from the blood of Alll-mer, while Longinus is the
37:40spear that punctured Alll-mer's side as he was chained and crucified, and a faint
37:44trace of the shadow that was cast away for Alll-mer to reach his ascension.
37:47and explains the wound we see on Alll-mer's statue in the first Fear
37:51& Hunger and on Sulfur's side, confirming the Man in Black's story.
37:54Sulfur isn't merely a legend, but the very shadow Alll-mer shed to become a god.
37:58And this is where things get truly unsettling. The final skill,
38:01Inverse Crown of Thorns, proposes to give a glimpse of the pain Alll-mer felt
38:05on the cross so the caster may feel closer to their savior, but results in an
38:09instant kill as their head is crushed with a demonic cackle in the background.
38:13Even the "inverse" in the name shows it's a flipped version of Alll-mer's original
38:17crown. Yet Alll-mer's influence is real. O'saa, a Yellow Mage from Abyssonia,
38:21can only tell that the church holds no trace of Alll-mer because he has
38:25felt the Ascended God's presence before, and the Eastern Sanctuaries,
38:28where Alll-mer actually lived, still remember a gentler and more human god,
38:32far from the head-carrying statue of Prehevil.
38:34So rather than replacing Alll-mer, it seems Sulfur has been hiding beneath his name,
38:38worshipped in his place by the priests of Prehevil. And with Alll-mer's Western
38:42image being so different from the man the East remembers, and even spells meant
38:46to bring followers closer to Alll-mer answering with sulfurous laughter instead,
38:50Prehevil may not be the only place where Alll-mer's shadow has taken his throne.
38:54But this also raises the question of why Rher, the moon god,
38:57would allow the cult to use his traces if he loathes ascended humans.
39:00The answer is that Rher isn't allowing anything at all.
39:03Rher departed from this world long ago,
39:05with his own skin bible describing him in an eternal slumber, and Per'kele
39:09describes the festival as a force of nature made possible by Rher's traces.
39:13The cult isn't serving the moon god, but hijacking what he left behind.
39:16Their goals still happen to align, as a festival that slays anyone with the
39:20potential to ascend serves Rher's purpose, whether he's watching or not.
39:24But as Samarie remarked, Prehevil seems to have been chosen for a reason,
39:28and we may be able to end the festival early if we can negate its purpose.
39:32As it turns out, the answer lies beneath the city itself,
39:35where an entirely new kind of Ascended God is about to be born. The Machine God.
39:39Every Ascended deity we've looked at so far was born through the old ways.
39:43But the Machine God is completely different.
39:46She is built by human hands, made of circuitry and wires to manifest
39:49an artificial green hue separate from the realms of the gods.
39:52She bears the name Logic, the same title of the project that spawned her,
39:56a massive engineering effort run by the Eastern Union from the White Bunker,
40:00buried deep beneath Prehevil.
40:02On paper, it was an advanced communications experiment, but its true
40:05purpose was to birth a god created entirely through humanity's own efforts.
40:09The documents we find in the bunker detail how it works.
40:12Logic would fuse a single human's consciousness with electronic technology,
40:16becoming a data bank for all of humanity,
40:18a shared consciousness able to provide anyone with the knowledge they needed,
40:22and a shared paradise so addictive that people would prefer the machine
40:26over one another, befriending fake friends who exist in the walls.
40:30Since no computer can calculate a human soul,
40:32a person must serve as its heart and be kept in a state of lucid dreaming,
40:36with the conscious and unconscious mind working together at full capacity.
40:40Logic reaches the outside world through telelectroscopes, machines named after
40:45a real 19th-century concept for transmitting images over telegraph wires.
40:49In Fear & Hunger, they send vast amounts of electronic signals along their cables,
40:53essentially an early form of the internet,
40:55gathering information from those connected to them.
40:57Three are hidden in bunkers across Prehevil,
40:59and they are also the key to the White Bunker itself,
41:02as all three must be activated before its vault door will open.
41:05But the project wasn't purely the Eastern Union's.
41:07Coded letters found in the hideout below
41:09Prehevil Bop, revealed to be the Nameless Liberty Underground's base,
41:12reveal that the Kaiser of Bremen was one of the main
41:15forces kickstarting the project long before the war began.
41:18When the Union handed Prehevil over in exchange for peace,
41:21they had no idea what they were giving him,
41:23and Bremen's entire campaign seems to have been aimed at this one city,
41:26as they abruptly ended the war
41:28once Prehevil was acquired.
41:29The Kaiser planned to launch Logic with himself as the heart,
41:32but someone else beat him to it.
41:34Reila Haas, Olivia's twin sister, was a gifted engineer from Bremen.
41:37She joined an exchange program with the Eastern Union,
41:40and was recruited into Project Logic, rising to become its head engineer. When
41:44she tried to warn Union officials of what Logic could become, they didn't listen.
41:48She was later jailed by Bremen for treason,
41:50until the Nameless Liberty Underground broke her out.
41:53Knowing the Kaiser was on his way, Reila rushed to Prehevil with the NLU. The Union
41:57had already abandoned the compound and caved in the rail tunnels behind them.
42:01Unsure whether the project was even complete, Reila knew she had to act before him.
42:05She breached the White Bunker, activated Logic early,
42:07and placed herself inside the machine in a lucid dream,
42:10becoming the vessel for the Machine God.
42:12This is why Logic's influence can be seen throughout Termina,
42:15most of all through Reila. She appears to us as a hologram,
42:18the girl in the red shoes, guiding us to activate the telelectroscopes.
42:22Her blue moths, the same ones from the sisters' childhood, mark our path.
42:25And she guides us away from the Janitor's trap on the train to safety,
42:29seen putting down a protection circle before we're drawn into the dream.
42:32When we finally reach the White Bunker, the Kaiser is waiting for us, and here,
42:36the truth is laid bare. The Kaiser is Le'garde, the Yellow King himself,
42:39four hundred years older and still chasing the same promised land.
42:42But he isn't here to claim the throne.
42:44Once again, he arrived too late, just as he did centuries earlier when
42:48his daughter ascended before him to become the God of Fear & Hunger.
42:51This time, however, he accepts it, telling us his role was never to be the god,
42:55but to arrange the pieces and set the wheels in motion.
42:58Now he guards Logic while her breath is still frail.
43:00Defeating the Kaiser, we come face to face with the Machine God herself.
43:04Her first form is a monolith of steel surrounded by tanks,
43:07burning us with electric arcs and overheating.
43:09If the battle lasts 13 rounds,
43:11the battle completely shifts as we are brought into the wooden Rher dimension.
43:15Logic transforms from Rher's moonlight,
43:17showing us a twisted form of the human inside the machine, healing her,
43:21and she can now cast blue moths through Moth Storm to drain our life.
43:24On either side are giant hands. one of creation and one of destruction,
43:28mirroring the Old Gods Sylvian and Gro-goroth,
43:31but now held by a man-made god of machines.
43:33Defeating her breaks open her monolith, revealing her true form in Ending A,
43:37with a cube bearing Vinushka's symbol crossed out embedded in her chest.
43:41It is similar to the Cube of the Depths, fitting for a deity about to ascend,
43:45but it isn't confirmed if it's just an opposite side of the depths
43:48cube or an entirely new one belonging to the dead god Vinushka.
43:52And Logic's symbol is an inverse of the God of Fear & Hunger's,
43:55showing her power as an Ascended God but opposite of the typical path.
43:58She invites us into the promised land,
44:00and if we're playing as Olivia, she calls to her sister by name,
44:03telling her she's found a way for them to always be together. Warmth, empathy,
44:06and hope wash over us as we close our eyes within the artificial green hue.
44:10The party that entered the White Bunker is never seen again,
44:13the festival ends without a victor,
44:15and the surviving contestants leave Prehevil alive.
44:17Her birth answers the question Le'garde spent centuries chasing.
44:21Humanity no longer has to live at the mercy of the Old Gods' traces.
44:24It has built a new world,
44:25and an artificial green hue where human souls can be connected in a paradise.
44:29And if the Project Logic notes are right,
44:32it will connect humanity like never before,
44:34even if people come to prefer the machine over one another.
44:37From the Old Gods who abandoned us, to the New Gods who failed us,
44:41to the Ascended Gods who remade us,
44:42every age of Fear & Hunger has begun with one god replacing another.
44:46But for the first time, humanity didn't need to borrow a deity from the Old Gods.
44:50It built one with its own hands. A man who spent centuries trying to
44:54become a god himself found peace as the chosen to make a true one.
44:58But the cycle has never been broken before,
45:00and if history in Fear & Hunger has taught us anything,
45:03it's that no god reigns forever.
45:05So the only question left is: what will rise to replace Logic?
45:08Yet despite all the deities we know, there remain those hidden in the shadows,
45:12ones even the New Gods are unaware of. But those are a story for another time,
45:17when we uncover the Hidden Gods of Fear & Hunger.
45:19I want to give a special shout-out to the Omni channel members for their support.
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