A (not so) Brief History of the Ancients | Rain World Downpour Lore

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MUSIC:
~Intro~
Black Moonlight
~Chapter 1~
Ancient
~Chapter 2~
New Else VIII
Scapeless Doubt
~Chapter 3~
Else III
Random Fate
Deep Energy
~Chapter 4~
Cracked Earth
Flicker
~Chapter 5~
Random Gods
Random Fate
~Chapter 6~
Rain
~Chapter 7~
Obverse of the Old Wind
Stargazer
Overcast
~Chapter 8~
Interest Pad
~Chapter 9~
Silicon
Sparkling Pendulum
Halcon Memories
~Chapter 10~
Ascent
Bloom
Fragments
~Chapter 11~
Past Echoes
Moondown
~Credits~
Slaughter
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction
1:32 - Chapter 1 - Ancient Biology
7:36 - Chapter 2 - The Great Cycle
13:14 - Chapter 3 - Before the Revolution
18:14 - Chapter 4 - The Void Fluid Revolution
24:55 - Chapter 5 - Random Gods
29:39 - Chapter 6 - Ecological Disaster
33:06 - Chapter 7 - Evacuation
40:38 - Chapter 8 - Apostate Superstructure Abomination
45:19 - Chapter 9 - Metropolis
50:15 - Chapter 10 - Global Ascension
55:15 - Chapter 11 - An Era of Decay
1:01:40 - Conclusion/Credits
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[@phalamy9180]

Ironically chances are the Slugcats and the Scavs are the next advanced civilisation. They already figured out art, crafting and cooking.

[@retroflame3104]

I think that scavs are to ancients as chimps are to us.

[@consueno753]

@@retroflame3104 And slugcats are like elephants, in intelligence scale at least

[@RMH2075]

​@@consueno753or Dolphins too, but not so creepys as tjem

[@SphaeraZ]

​@robertomejia2075 Nah... the slugcat has two voids for eyes. They're built for sucking your soul out of your body.

[@speltincorrectyl1844]

​@@retroflame3104 The scavs seem as intelligent as humans. Their culture is more advanced than the social interactions of a group of chimps, and they can hold items and throw things.

[@shreyaspamaraju262]

*five pebbsi*

[@Zer0cip]

Looks for the water

[@shreyaspamaraju262]

*proceeds to drink up every drop of moon's water supply*@@Zer0cip

[@Zer0cip]

@@shreyaspamaraju262 *Moon Screaming Sounds*

[@quentinfaget708]

Imagine an iteratore running with fivepebsi

[@Idiocracy882]

Seven red guns

[@nonameinserted912]

“touch some grass“ Instructions unclear, the grass has consumed me

[@PoggerFoxy]

aw hell nah, not the grass near farm arrays

[@1God1Fury]

"Touch some grass" excuse me, but that's is threat in Rain World

[@retnoartanti1976]

I think you touched the wrong grass

[@lilyawoodburn]

Holy shit the prequel to "The Affairs of Passing Gods" just dropped y'all Seriously though this video was so good, I'm gonna have to rewatch it just to find all my favorite parts again but as a recent member of the fandom, this video did a phenomenal job of consolidating both lore and game files into an easy-to-follow timeline that neither pearls nor wiki pages could quite convey. Bravo my good sir!

[@MendaSonOfMyself]

We should make a playlist of all these great lore essays entitled The Pearls of Sullied Stories

[@astrophynix179]

@@MendaSonOfMyself why did so little people see this comment. oh my god. that's brilliant.

[@riottherioter]

I gotta mention that moon's rain siren sounds terrifying, like imagine its night time and your trying to sleep and then you hear THAT

[@starcraftgem]

That tells you when it's bedtime lol

[@chuckbuck5002]

@@starcraftgemyeah close your eyes before the demons come😅

[@TRak598]

One thing that I came to notice after watching lore videos is how different Pebbles is from Moon to how he interacts with the Ancients. Putting aside their opinions or how pleasing or unpleasing the whole thing was, Pebbles seems to look at his creators like they were his parents, just as they do look at him as their "golden child", spoiling him to no end; Moon, on the other hand, as one of the earliest iterators built to "pamper" a flourishing civilization as they enter an era on incredible discoveries, looked at her creators as troublesome children, if often also interesting and even adorable.

[@satinizer8021]

hm, i don't think Moon looked at ancients as adorable. she did call them skin parasites, after all. she appears very polite otherwise, so i don't think she would use that metaphor if she truly respected them, even if in the next line she backtracked. but i still think it was out of politeness, like "oopsie maybe i shouldn't be saying that", as if someone could still hold her accountable. she implied she doesn't miss the times of when they would inhabit her city. she could appreciate some things her creators would do, like the beautiful festivals, but overall, i feel like Moon was more tired of them.

[@Schnort]

15:00 Its very important to note that Moon says this after collapsing and losing most of her memory. Its not that iterators in general do not recognize it, its just that one with severe brain damage cannot.

[@finnduggan4422]

Although you are correct in saying moon has brain damage it is both very funny and extremely mean lol

[@Schnort]

@finnduggan4422 why is it mean?

[@johnnodwarf1201]

Agreed

[@blackwell4701]

​@@SchnortBrain Damage has become a term similar to "stupid" in slang on the internet these days. Casually saying you or someone else has missing brain cells or brain damage is used in humor to denote something about your behavior is off or you're "not working right".

[@soupladoal2300]

@@blackwell4701but she literally has missing brain cells

[@luistarry257]

The thing about Elite Scavengers' masks is that they have practically the same description as other Vulture masks, with only a remark on how they were altered (probably by scavengers) from their original form. Though I do think Vultures' masks themselves were designed by the Ancients to mimic their own, since Vultures without masks will get harassed to death by other Vultures.

[@galaxxy_foxx2583]

Or inversely the Vultures were the organisms that the Ancients took after when modifying their genomes, if that happened.

[@TRak598]

"One Nissan Ultima, Fourteen Outstanding Tickets" LMAO

[@Exile_Sky]

19:54 A simple explanation. Placing void fluid into a vacuum (held there by magnetics? So it seem) purifies it. Pure void fluid works like the edge of a blackhole. You drop matter into it and that matter is violently ripped into its base elements and spit out with velocity. This process creates a lot of heat. Thus they created fission reactors that run on dirt.

[@lonelysheepling]

Hm, so the void fluid revolution is sort of like if the Industrial Revolution was us going from steam engines to nuclear power plants

[@dr.cheeze5382]

I don't quite enjoy the use of the term "like a black hole" in this example. I think it's more reasonable to describe it as the ancient did, as a universal antimatter, that anahilates everything leaving behind only pure energy in the form of (thermal) radiation.

[@Exile_Sky]

​@@dr.cheeze5382 The reason I used "like a black hole" is because what I'm describing is essentially the same process that makes accretion disks. Its not like antimatter, because antimatter would have the same violent heat reaction to air, which void fluid pointedly does not seem to do (in fact it appears to have no reaction to the air at all). The way its described is that solid matter must be processed, so it has more in common with heavy elements being ripped apart and generating heat through the process of atomic spaghettification caused by black holes. It's not gravity performing the task so its not a perfect 1 to 1, but the output is so similar that it is the closest parallel process in our world. Spaghettification would also explain why air doesn't really generate heat while in contact with void fluid, thus explaining why everything is getting colder over time. The air is already largely composed of lighter, smaller elements, or component elements. The air simply moves on or skips off the void fluid, or the void fluid doesn't interact because there's simply not enough mass there to interact with. Antimatter wouldn't care about a requisite mass, it would just interact. Though this is all from a person who took far too much time to think of how a mechanism works that is not explained in detail in the world that it applies to. So take it with a grain of salt.

[@TheHatManCole]

One last comment before bed The comment:@@Exile_Sky

[@magesticwafl]

I believe that the mixed number of digits on the ancients could have been cultural, where they take off digits and could even cut of the hands to be ‘prettier’ as all the iterators have 1 digit hands and you’d make your robot as pretty as you could

[@matoyuwu3748]

I thought something similar I thought it more as a religious thing mixed with a status symbol. The richest ones that had the void fluid more available to them (at least at the start) wouldnt need to work as much as the one with less resources so, why would they want to have extra of something they dont use? And with greed or ego being one of the taboos wouldn't it be logical to chop the parts of the body that they find useless? After all, the mural that is representing ego/greed/self preservation (the one with the ancient with 2 shields 00:03:15) doesn't have any bandage on and just keeping a physical feature could still count as a way of showing ego. Maybe the clawed/tentacle feet are the original ones and maybe they still had a tail and as they were growing up or as they started preparing for the void fluid bath they started cutting off limbs and when the void fluid was more accesible to all, most kept doing it because they were already use to that kind of rituals

[@magesticwafl]

@@matoyuwu3748 Very cool! 👍

[@archdruidbookwalter951]

Another possibility is that the art depicting the ancients is simply taking creative liberties on how many digits they had. Think about how often human art depicts humans or fictional humanoids with only four or three digits.

[@magesticwafl]

@@archdruidbookwalter951 yes thats very true, think about like gravity falls for instance they only have four fingers so like yeah sorry I’m on two %

[@matoyuwu3748]

@@archdruidbookwalter951 Ancients version of "Animal Crossing hands" is TENTACLES

[@bnnymew]

21:20 I believe the purpose slug cats were meant to serve was originally cleaning pipes. The magenta Shoreline pearl reads: "It is the genome for a purposed organism. A small slug to clean the insides of pipes." At the end, Moon states: "So it's highly likely that you are the descendant of a purposed organism yourself!" I think the end note is to contextually clue the reader that your species started as a slug and later became a slug cat. (Due to them being very close in name, and you crawling through pipes throughout the game.) (P.S. I especially enjoyed the section about their anatomy and possible body modifications. The foot binding theory is a cool take.)

[@NuniaBiznaz]

Pretty sure if you bring that very same pearl to Five Pebbles he comments on the fact that the slug has unneccessary features(such as eyes and I think limbs) that indicate to him it was a blueprint for a domesticated variant of the pipe cleaners, meant for use as pets/companion animals rather than cleaners. And I'm 99% certain one of the adds/images you can see being broadcasted in the iterator city features a slugcat implying they were kinda popular?

[@Ss33dz]

Sentient pipe cleaner my beloved

[@Devilcakes]

The "slugcats" are rodentia. They're rats, Harold.

[@Immys_Art]

Touching Rain World’s grass would be a very good way to make our lives quite finite.

[@CaptPatrick01]

My theory on the Ancient's naming convention is that it is merely a translation quirk. Kind of like how I would be translated as _The Nobleman_ with _Grey Hair._ Also notice how the Ancient's names as from the pearls and their echoes have two pairs of phrases whilst the iterators have only one phrase. Their names sounded directly could be something as simple as Alexa.

[@brendathevehicon]

I heard somewhere they have Buddhist connotations. Like the beads in "A Bell, Eighteen Amber Beads" (Echo) have some specific meaning in that context - meaning I can't currently recall. I know I heard it sometime before the DLC, because I haven't messed around with Rain World in a couple years.

[@wildfire9280]

Sitting Bull is the _chief_ example of this for Americans.

[@jbelly8946]

I believe you might also be able to differentiate cultures (differing times or place or wealth) based on names, as some followed the "number noun, number noun," while others had "number noun relation to number noun," while others still had a description of scenery. Because we know so little this means almost nothing, but I still think it's neat

[@brightboi4291]

The iterators: They all ascended. Lore videos: The ancients ascended. AUs: They all ascended. Any other fan: All ancients ascended. Me: *T h e y w e n t t o s p a c e*

[@Alpha_mindustry]

lol

[@Sigmanins]

Incredible video! Your efforts are appreciated - the ancients can be quite confusing, but your video does an amazing job of putting everything that is known about them in a cohesive package that is really well presented!

[@neenah45]

SIGMA PLS ADD ME TO THE COOL CLUB

[@wolfleader17]

This is wonderful, great job. Learned lots of things from it I previously hadn't been aware of. The story of the Ancients has so much to unpack. Their influence is felt in every corner of the game. Videocult did a fantastic job crafting it.

[@springfaux6991]

12:55 there's been theorized that there is a sixth sin which is *ADVANCED VIOLENCE* (the urge to help others ascend or ascend others) Downpour thingy Saint would most likely being guilty of that sin thus not ascending

[@UraniumEater]

me when I commit advanced violence

[@Not_Lost_Leviathan]

I loved every moment of this: the visuals and editing were astounding along with the incredible writing. This is an underated masterpiece. 10/10

[@IaruEmbyr]

Powerful stuff, and very insightful! I had never considered that ascension might have veeb mandatory, or even forced upon others. It really was a wild thing to consider.

[@willowkay]

Even if it wasn't forced, it would be so hard to avoid. All of your friends, your family, your coworkers and employer, businesses you frequent or services you enjoy all ceasing to be. Everyone you know, or at least most of them, gone to kill themselves leaving behind a husk of empty infrastructure. It wouldn't be something you'd want to stay around in. Everything would become so much more difficult, that giving up and just going with them would be the easier choice by far. Especially when under the pressure of doing it with those friends as opposed to alone when you can't stand the loneliness any longer. And every individual who gives up is another body gone for the more persistent to lose, wearing them all down one by one. Societal and religious pressure on top would be almost impossible to endure.

[@rodrodrodrodrod]

As a rain world music enjoyer, I must say noticing that the music for chapter 1 was ancient made me laugh a little more then it should have

[@joaopina5113]

One of my headcannons that i had before downpour was this: the ancients, either through recent discoveries or just boredom, indulged in interstellar travel and settled in other planets, likely building other iterators there (hence why the astral bodies visisble in game are green, resembling the lightning beneath the superstructure).

[@brightboi4291]

I have that headcanon too!

[@straferthesluggo3096]

It could be possible since they do have a strange obsession with space like naming the iterators looks to the moon or seven Red suns... And in moons chamber during spearmaster the pearls orbit like a moon around a planet it would make sense if they went to other planets thinking they would escape the cycle by leaving theirs

[@TheTrueReiniat]

Note also that stars can't ever be green; a typical scifi trope is that green stars are a sign of artificial stellar objects.

[@UraniumEater]

Edit: Thank you all so much for 10k+ views and all of your comments!!! I really appreciate it ... Note: Rain world lore is extremely deep and complicated, especially when it comes to the ancients. Many things stated in this video aren’t necessarily wrong, but could have other interpretations. I tried my best to be as unbiased as possible, but (in general) I went with the most popular or accepted interpretations. Slight correction: at 54:12 I put "Rhinestones Above Shattered Glass" but it should actually be "Rhinestones Beneath Shattered Glass" The real pablo piccaso (thumbnail): www.tumblr.com/kociamieta Help support me: www.buymeacoffee.com/UraniumEater www.youtube.com/@UraniumEater

[@soaricarus]

"rhinestones above shattered glass" is actually named Rhinestones beneath Shattered Glass!

[@magesticwafl]

Wait,… your comment is 2 days old and the video is 1 day old

[@queen_simp]

the fact that this video has less than a million views is beyond me, this video deserves all the recognition it gets and MORE, great video mate.

[@UsedNameTag13]

Less than a thousand at the time of writing this

[@littlehorn0063]

My friend, the video just have appeared. Of course nobody have viewed it yet

[@T3sl4]

I mean, there's probably not even a million users of RW itself, and only sporadic interest outside that, for topics as niche as this. That said, videos (and games) like this might be a master class on how to write vague, mysterious, yet incredibly deep worldbuilding, and I wonder if (or hope that?) such authors look to content like this..!

[@justplainninja]

Awesome video, right up there with "Affairs of Passing Gods". This is my favorite game and its great to see the Ancients and their culture and flaws presented so accurately. I'm super happy that someone finally explained why what they did to their planet and the fate of the iterators was so awful. But I think I've got a kinda different take on Rain World's 'Great Cycle' than most of the community, which is that its not actually a time loop and dying doesn't mean you just wake back up again in the same body to do the day over. I know that's how the respawn system works in game, but I think that's more to highlight the frustration and futility of what it means to be 'trapped in the cycle of rebirth'. It's a metaphor. I think the actual cycle the iterators refer to (based on how closely the Ancient's religion is to actual Buddhism) is the cycle of getting reborn as an entirely different organism every time you die, with what you're reborn as being based on your karma. (There are a bunch of different types of 'beings' you can be reborn as in more traditional Buddhist beliefs and they're all based on karma and some of them are seriously fucked; this shit gets so wild.) Hence why to progress to different areas in game and get closer to ascension, you need certain 'levels' of karma to make the gates work. The Ancients were obviously still fanatically obsessed with ascension and destroyed themselves and almost everything else because of it, but I don't think they entirely lacked the ability to die. My opinion is that they just hated the idea of being reborn and having to live another life, because they made their own world such a crappy place to exist. That's just my opinion though. I don't think how the cycle works, whether via respawn/functional immortality or actual rebirth, is ever confirmed in canon, so take it with a grain of salt. And I'm a Buddhist so I'm probably just nitpicking based on what I want to see. Doesn't change how great the whole video was.

[@Kuba_K]

The cycle in rainworld is really confusing. Reincarnation although requires deeming whole gameplay respawn mechanic non canon is definitely really good interpretation. Especially considering DLC events.

[@TheCubifyer]

One thing I keep thinking about is if it is reincarnation then how do the ancients know about it? How would they know that the person they saw die reincarnated to be something else? Unless they keep their memories after reincarnation which could be a possibility I guess.

[@justplainninja]

@@TheCubifyer I think Moon says something about how the Ancients used to eat karma flowers to see their past lives. Or maybe after the Void Fluid Revolution they figured out how to track spirits across different bodies, since they also figured out how to make techno-spiritual stuff like the karma gates. I'm not sure.

[@TheCubifyer]

@@justplainninja That could be a possibility, but I guess we'll never truly know unless a new dlc comes out.

[@mothgirl326]

My interpretation was sorta a mix of the two that they were reborn the next cycle but as the same thing as before

[@Daszombes]

this video is great! a fantastic elaboration that really needed to be made

[@UraniumEater]

thank you tardigrade man

[@fantoast6932]

you blew my mind, I hadn't even thought to consider that the ancients to the ancients might've constructed the depths. or that there were ancients who predate our ancients. i love the worldbuilding in this game so much. its genuinely a masterful work of art. thank you for such a top notch video. i hope you that when you move on to the next topic, whatever it may be, you keep this level of dedication to your craft. its beautiful dude.

[@miriamdonahue6188]

I think all the people who cover the rain world lore should get together and make one MASSIVE video covering all of it

[@UsedNameTag13]

I didn’t realize how unknown this video went until I looked at the comments. You deserve a lot more for this level of skill

[@Alliflowerr]

This was so incredibly amazing and useful!!! There are two things I love the most about Rain world, the gorgeous pixel environment and the lore. This was so helpful to really get to know everything about the ancients and when and how everything happened. Thank you so much for releasing an amazing video!!

[@morebagels]

long, detailed documentary on my favourite niche subject of an already niche game?? you're too kind

[@EakiTurtle]

love this !!! its so well produced!! also to my friend jaga that thumbnail is amazing omgg

[@jaga4269]

EAKI

[@EakiTurtle]

JAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELLO!!!!!@@jaga4269

[@matchedpowerofthesun]

on the topic of ancient naming conventions, i feel as though it might be similar to how real world names have meanings and translations - we’re just given the translation of ancient names though, rather than the original name

[@Foregoner]

This honestly my favorite Rain World lore video I've watched so far, it's criminal how underrated it is. I've had a good idea of the ancient's lore for quite some time, but this video placed the timeline neatly and helped me view things from a different angle. Thanks for making this video, I look forward to more!

[@sharkray3938]

The only thing I can say is that many of the creatures in rainworld as of when you are present in it are not all purposed organisms entirely anymore. Moon calls you a likely decendant from a purposed organism meaning that she knows that it has been enough time for the organisms the ancients designed to have evolved in the time they were gone. That would explain the existance of creatures that seemingly are useless to the ancients. Otherwise this has the best video I've seen beaking down the history of the ancients. Great job.

[@UraniumEater]

Very good point and something I missed! In my opinion, though, it is *very* likely that the animals we see as the slugcats would have pretty much been exactly the same as the purposed organisms the ancients created. And there's a few reasons for that: 1. We can do a rough calculation of how many years have passed between the ancients and the first slugcat (spearmaster). There are a few times that dates are mentioned in certain pearls/broadcasts, and deciphering them requires a few educated assumptions and comparisons. But using this metric, it seems that (at most) ~170,000 cycles passed between the ancients ascending and spearmaster's campaign. Assuming 1 cycle = 1 day, that's ~450 years, which isn't a whole lot of time for the creatures to evolve. 2. Saint's campaign takes place FAR into the future, and some animals are only able to evolve fur - and they still look very similar to the animals in the other campaigns. But more importantly, we don't see any new species of animals, even though it's probably 10s of thousands of years into the future. 3. It's hard to say whether a creature was useless or not to the ancients, because you would have to know exactly what that creature was designed for. And there was at least three categories (ignoring the microbes): they were either made for industry, security, or spectacle. So, sure, while everything we see is *technically* the descendent of a purposed organism, I think it's fair to say that there really isn't a difference between the fauna in most of the slugcat's campaigns and the fauna that existed while the ancients were alive.

[@sharkray3938]

@@UraniumEater That makes a lot of sense. However I'm not entirely convinced. Most creatures didn't change that drastically between rivulet and saint yet some did adapt with new physiological traits in that span of time as of the strawberry lizard. Now we do not really know how long a cycle actually is in our own time, but in the game it refers to the slugcats as "hibernating" when you sleep in a shelter. This implies that it is a larger span of time between one cycle and another. Not that it makes a cycle as long as a year. The slugcats may not be an entirely new species of animal but they probably did develop from their purposed organism ancestors after the collapse of the ancients. They may not have been used anymore and by that be forced to develop traits that aid in their own survival. Creatures may have changed less than others, such as the miros birds and garbage worms while others changed more such as the lizards maybe. I don't believe that the iterators would be around for millions of years so the fauna is probably very similar to the purposed organisms before although in my opinion that dousn't mean they are still purposed as they once were.

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

Or just creatures that weren’t genetically modified at all,probably like caramel lizards or maybe jungle leeches

[@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544]

@@UraniumEater​​⁠assuming a cycle is a day is a huge assumption. For all we know it’s a week, a month, a year. And this is not exactly terrestrial biology, these creatures were rapidly evolved in labs - we don’t know how fast they can adapt. Perhaps they settled into their ecological niches pretty quickly after escaping or exhausting their original purposes and had little drive to evolve further. Looks To The Moon states that most purposed organisms looked like metal boxes - I think things must have changed.

[@retnoartanti1976]

21:07 it looks like the lizard is trying to eat that scav

[@SonixYakuzaFanAccount]

OH MY GOD THE THUMBNAIL IS INCREDIBLE, IS THAT THE CRITIC? as the guy who put that in, it's amazing to see the artwork, it feels amazing to know my graffiti was used in this video too. Great vid as well. Also, it's called critic because the pose is from a discord emote of the nostalgia critic. I've seen people calling it pepehands, but the truth is much worse.

[@SonixYakuza]

I probably should have used my main acct for this comment but oh well

[@UraniumEater]

Its file name "sonix - critic" makes SO much more sense now lol No but it's definitely one of the best graffiti in the game especially when it comes to the ancients so I had to have it as the thumbnail The fact that it's based off of nostalgia critic is actually so funny LOL

[@swagfather_6nine532]

>Ancients destroy the world, failing to destroy themselves >Ancients create life (Iterators), and damn it to their fate, but fail to destroy themselves. >Ancients destroy themselves, but leave behind magnitudes more destruction. >Ancients destroy those who do not want destruction I'm getting the idea that the true lesson is that ascension is to...lift the spirits. To find purpose and happiness in the long life you're given. Your life, after all, will not be suddenly ripped from you. There is no frail mortality. And think too: Every Scug (barring Saint) has an ending that isn't Ascending. Hunter...definitely should, Arti is happier that way (maybe?) and Saint But those who have community, brotherhood, and labour yet to wrought - those are where the happy endings are found.

[@wanderingvagrant1551]

I have a small theory: the game videocult is developing, the one with the hover bikes where you play in the city, i think that's an ancient city, you play as an ancient, i am one karma symbol away from proving it.

[@T3sl4]

Twist: it's the violence karma symbol and they've got a gun~

[@wanderingvagrant1551]

@@T3sl4 pretty sure it is

[@omegaxxzmega8266]

I really would like to see what's out there? More iterators? Maybe living ancients? A massive desert? A gigant tundra? A enormous jungle?? Maybe all of them or none of them Like the región concepts of dazombes

[@Watcher_Yeah]

I have time to watch this

[@colfy3961]

IVE BEEN BLESSED BY THE GODS. A 1 HOUR VIDEO ABOUT RAIN WORLD ANCIENTS?! I AM TRULY THE LUCKIEST PERSON ON THIS PLANET, THANK YOU!! dawg, im going to watch the fuck out of this video.

[@snailed__]

Fantastic video. There were only a very few minute details that i think were inexact, but for the overwhelming majority, this is a fantastic interpretation of what happened in the world of rain world. Beautiful editing. Good job

[@altforauditions9279]

"Got touch some grass or something" I tried, but it just pulled me into the ground and ate me 😔

[@matoyuwu3748]

I realy love how the community can find so much in a game that leaves everything up to interpretation I've been thinking about this kind of stuff for months and this is amazing Personally, I imagined the Ancients being a little bigger with the slug cats being chihuahua sized bc my chihuahua has the size to get into tubes and narrow places when im not looking just like slugcat slides everywhere

[@illusionist1872]

“Touch some grass” -UraniumEater, guy who made multiple hour long videos about a video game about slugs that can do backflips /j

[@Petalb_rry]

Holy shit this is so underrated How does this not even have 1k views? Seriously great job dude!

[@temitelko4413]

Great video! The attention to detail, love it! Only spottet one mistake: The slugcats where purpose beings to cleane the insides of pipes.

[@DeadHopeYT]

One hundred and eighty blenders, thirteen apples.

[@GeneralDino]

Never thought it is possible to make such a long video on this! Absolutely majestic

[@retnoartanti1976]

Three kings, Eleven peaks.

[@VenikHue]

Astounding work!

[@snowyborne]

This video is a gift to the rain world community. Seriously, this is very, very good. I consider myself well versed in the world of this game, but I still learnt a lot of small details I hadn't realized before this video. Great work! Looking forward to your next works.

[@sneeze_organ]

this was an amazing in depth look at the ancients! thank you so much! i thought i knew all i could about rain world lore, and this type of video is the type i wish i could make myself. thanks for your effort!!

[@34ghlot99]

after having actually watched some of the video im here to leave an actual comment you did a great job making this video. You didnt just read the lore pearls to us or tell us the events/campaigns or whatever but went deeper, telling us about their biology and culture which i dont remember other videos really doing

[@ackkid5430]

This video is incredibly well crafted

[@UsedNameTag13]

Came back to the video after a day, so glad you’re getting the love you deserve

[@m_29]

Man, this video is so friggin great! I love it! It captures all that I love about this game so much!

[@memeyartist5591]

this video is absolutely incredible. you earned a subscriber 100x over! talk about some masterful analysis dude, wow

[@DaydreamsOfSleeplessNights]

This was great! I love Rain World content and this was an amazing almost documentary like experience about beings long gone without ever existing. Thank you and congratulations for this amazing work

[@enwyz]

this is an actual masterpiece good job dude

[@Dishsoap4357]

This is truly amazing. Great job.

[@thexdfacedgamer2306]

**"Ancient-industrial-society and its future."**

[@lebraza]

You got all very neatly covered, an hour long video, I really enjoyed every minute of it, great job man!!. But oh my god, every time i read the echoes dialogue I get very sentimental, Rain World truly is a very precious experience.

[@gabrielquist6120]

I don't remember where I heard it or how reputable the source is, but I remember hearing online someone say that the purpose of the Slugcat was to clean pipes. This would explain how they seem to move through pipes with great ease. It would also explain why, despite the player ultimately being in control, the slugcat seems to immediately know what to do when confronted with the Void Fluid. One of their tasks (if this theory holds) was to clean the pipes used to transport Void Fluid. This would have them be in the same spot when the ancients jumped in. The presence of the fluid would also explain why Slugcats seem to be so rare. Personal side theory: The Scavengers were either inte intended for construction or as there name suggests, scavenging supplies. We do see them doing things that feel like construction with the tolls. The scavenging part would explain why they seem to hoard spears more beyond them being wepons. They would probably have less contact with Void Fluid, explaining why they're so much more common than Slugcats.

[@gabrielquist6120]

I was trying to add this to the comment in the Scav part, but KZbin is being a pain in the butt. The Scavengers being intended for scavenging lends credence to why they can hold more spears than Spear Master and Hunter.

[@verygoodjobsofar5179]

As far as I remember, one of the pearls says that “slugs” were used to clean pipes, the analogy is not difficult to draw. Btw, I like your scavenger theory.

[@gabrielquist6120]

@@verygoodjobsofar5179 But hay, that's just a theory. A G A M E T H E O R Y.

[@BonkExclamationPoint]

Congratulations!! This was a beautiful video to watch, enjoyed it all the way through! Thanks a lot for making it, i love watching rain world stuff like this, it's definitely one of the most interesting games to watch aside for the actual game since it's so mysterious and a lot to talk about. Great work and good luck in the future!

[@pandoragoldspan7012]

GREAT video. surprised to see your number of subscribers and that it's your third ever!!

[@T3sl4]

I'm blown away! You've hit on pretty much every lore beat I can think of, plus a couple I hadn't yet put together! There's really only one point I can think of that I disagree with; and not outright, but more by omission. And to be clear, such a minor critique is hardly an embarrassment, indeed, that it's the only point, should be taken as high praise indeed! Anyway, the pearl projection in Metropolis -- which I hadn't noticed before either, or at least its background (and thus geographic context) -- I suspect it might've been more as either an attraction to _visit_ (a somewhat treacherous but worthwhile pilgrimage, given the surface conditions at the time), or indeed to experience, as in to take or exchange pearls to view and experience their contents -- it was something of a hallowed library, after all. A _reminder_ to place ones' pearls or other offerings there, certainly works too -- it just seems less likely to me. On a related note, it's interesting to think what Ancient life might've been like in the later days. The loneliness in public must've been palpable, even as populations dropped say from millions to 100k's; let alone to thousands or less. This would be only mildly offset by exploring that library -- why else to record ones' experience, collected thoughts and words, memories, and possessions, than for others to also experience them? (An egotistical conceit perfectly suited to the Ancients, especially those rich enough to have ascended earlier!) It seems to me, the dynamics of ascension might've been something like -- at least in some cities or subcultures, not necessarily Pebbles' -- take your time, experience the cycles (whatever that means, whether literal as in-game respawning, or any other time-traveling or metaphysically-interwoven loop; procreation might even be included ("progeny") -- though we don't of course know when Nineteen Spaces lived/ascended, aside from after Pebbles' construction), and when you are good and ready, having experienced everything your civilization had ever experienced -- to give up your attachments, whether by sheer force of will, or abject boredom, and finally ascend yourself. At least, that that would be one possible implementation of it, but it would seem in our particular case, the cultural mandate was _much_ stronger, that _everyone_ shall ascend, whether they privately wished to or not; and so we have echoes like Rhinestones. Perhaps shutting down the freight system was done not for efficiency (who was left to care?), but for coercion: without perishables at least, but perhaps without even more critical consumables like any food and drink (not just their preferred brands of Nectar (...or "Pebsi" :) )), the final stragglers had no choice but to ⦻ themselves out, whether they were (psychologically, spiritually) ready to do so or not. Thanks again for an excellent production!

[@DaFreak860]

I hope the passing god that is the youtube algorithm picks this up soon, it is quite sad to see such a good work be left at only 15k views.

[@RyanTheScar]

That was top notch! Hats up!

[@TheCatsBrigade]

This was so good!! Thank you!! : )

[@user-ti1ru2jp6n]

so cool , thanks for this long video❤

[@XxguaxinimxX.]

That was amazing! Really great video! One I'll probably not forget! 👍👍

[@colfy3961]

excuse me for the second comment but ive just finished the whole video and ENJOYED EVERY SECOND OF IT. I am personally very obsessed with ancients and, MAN, you did as much research as I did, huh? haha! I had no problems with this video at all and i cannot think of anything you could fix, as it is perfect (say for some very specific details that were left out such as the possibility of very few ancients probably still being alive post-global ascension and the fact some ancients possesed pen names that went outside their naming convention. but I'm not disappointed as im already satisfied by the fucking fact youve mentioned the foot binding, naming convention, and other such small details when no other youtuber would!) this is seriously now one of my favorite yt videos of all time and i just cant help but appreciate every single detail in this video from the SPECTACULAR editing, overall structure, and THE FACT THAT ITS AN HOUR LONG KZbin VIDEO ABOUT ANCIENTS HOLY SHIT I MUST BE DREAMING!! Youve worked so well on this, you deserve a long rest after this splendidly (but likely exhaustingly) long video. cheers, man! (btw ive subbed and secretly wish for more despite the pain it might cause for you to create another one of these)

[@Galaxyyy22]

This video was well explained. Rain world's lore is too deep and complicated but you and your team made it like a good detailed story that everyone can understand. I really appreciate the effort into the video, the editing, the information gathering and etc.

[@gavin5410]

Have not watched this video yet, but for being the third video ever on this channel I'm very impressed by the ambition

[@SiphonRayzar]

This video was amazing. Thank you.

[@Dorvendor]

Welp Guess my "Ancient" name would be two dwarves one door....

[@sofiaarango8235]

This video is so insanely good I wish it was longer.

[@lildooma]

ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ASLEEP BUT IT LURED ME IN THE LORE AND MADE ME DECIDE ON GETTING A RAIN WORLD TATTOO

[@supposedly2478]

the way my eyes expanded when i looked at the title and then the video length. I'm so excited

[@The.Corrupt]

Honestly, the lesson of the ancients is one that a lot more people should learn.

[@kiwowo3421]

holyyyy, that was amazing video

[@isaic7398]

This is very nice!

[@gatosorprendido5279]

Great Video!

[@lancelee338]

Incredible video, great job

[@tinypinetree8909]

HOT DAM THIS IS LIKE ONE OF THE GREATEST ESSAYS ON RAINWORLD LORE EXISTING?? Dude good job!!!! The message in the end was a good touch whaysuqhwa

[@soynasty]

Great video. The slugcats yes, they are purposed organisms served to clean pipes! You can confirm this by taking the colored pearls from shoreline to Moon (I think it was the Pink one, the one that is above a tower) and she will say that the slugcat served to clean pipes

[@bigbossnass9240]

OMG I just made the connection between the 5 virtues of the ancients that they have to embody in order to transcend and the 5 different slugcats in downpour! They each embody one of those as well as what they do in the story.

[@1MDA]

[@bruhbruhied6885]

Wow dude, impressive. This is actually sick man I completed the game and now looking at this masterpiece

[@oversees740]

I love to see these ancients have microwaves and car batteries for heads

[@Ethan-iv8fs]

This a fantastic video. I can't wait to watch it a bazillion times.

[@Gordon_Freeman484]

Its a federal crime that this video isnt among the ranks of KZbinrs like dazombes or the like. This video is amazing. A whole hour of documentation on the ancients? I couldn't have asked for anything better

[@thomasamara1453]

Wow. What a great storytelling you got there.

[@techpriest2854]

could be that the various appearances of the ancients are due to the time that passed, there was never any one form of ancient. many iterations of evolution which slowly changed. when a person can live for eons they may slowly look less and less like the decedent's in time. it might also mean that there are a few branches of ancient which have been created by these elder ancients. names could be another abandonment of identity forsaking proper names in favor of descriptions similar to "the one who did that" with purposeful vagueness so not to properly give personage to a name.

[@sorenkaip2314]

Great video man! You earned yourself a sub!

[@ThornsXD]

awesome! i know im a bit late to the party but this is a great video, well crafted, interesting and complete :D

[@z.mp3.wav2]

great editing man🫶

[@BurnsyRuns]

Rain World lore is my favorite lore. Probably of any game. This was also a really well made video, thanks!

[@Gamerboi7260]

Me when my civilization was just ruins for the true dominant species called the scugs: