A Detailed Explanation of the Story of Risk of Rain

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This has been a small side project that I have been working on for the last couple months, but I am finally ready to say that it is finished!
This is my own interpretation of the story, but it is highly possible that I have made some mistakes along the way.
If you have any questions, please leave them down below!
0:00 Intro
2:26 Part 1: A Story of Two Brothers
8:46 Part 2: The Betrayal
24:26 Part 3: The Story of Risk of Rain 1
31:08 Part 4: The Story of Risk of Rain 2
39:51 Outro
Music:
Hollow Knight - Crossroads
Hollow Knight - Dirtmouth
Hollow Knight - Fungal Wastes
Hollow Knight - White Palace
Human Fall Flat - Clear Sky
Human Fall Flat - Tomorrow
Human Fall Flat - Don't Leave
Human Fall Flat - Stand Up
Chris Christodoulou - Con lentitud poderosa
Chris Christodoulou - The Dehydration of Risk of Rain 2
Chris Christodoulou - Parjanya
Chris Christodoulou - Through a Cloud, Darkly

[@thegrovetender]

This has been a small side project that I have been working on for the last couple months, but I am finally ready to say that it is finished! This is my own interpretation of the story, but it is highly possible that I have made some mistakes along the way. Please enable captions to help you follow the story! EDIT: Wow! This is now my most viewed video on my channel! I truly cannot thank you all enough! New video is up! Please go check it out! If you have any questions, please leave them down below! I did in fact make a few mistakes throughout this video, but nothing that would impact the overall story. I will quickly summarise them down below: There is a unknown "space sickness" mentioned in the A Moment Fractured log that seems to only affect the two brothers. This prevents the brothers from using ships/travelling through space without the Teleporters, which is why Mithrix never managed to leave the moon. The Devs have mentioned that it is NOT: Radiation, Extreme cold, Lack of oxygen, Basically anything that can be solved by having a spaceship/closed environment. It is best just to leave this as a plot device to explain why they can't use ships, as we do not have a confirmed reason as of yet, and nothing logical seems to be the reason. It is theorized that the gift that the unknown "Her" gave to Providence was a way of being unaffected by this sickness. Mithrix was not the ONLY person to make the lunar items, he actually had a lot of help from his followers, but he was the one to spread them. The "Greater Gate" Mithrix talks about in the Commencement Log is actually the arena you fight him in! There was also a teleporter somehow already on the CL, though they did bring more on board. There is actually a UES [REDACTED] which arrived at the planet sometime between RoR1 and 2. Not much is known about it, but we do know that REX was on that ship, not on the safe travels. They start in a drop pod purely due to gameplay. The bulwark portal was also altered by people on board this [REDACTED] ship. The Void Reavers aren't space police, they just take what they want to better themselves and become stronger. I also didn't mention that the void juice gets turned into the gems we see around the map. I said that the Artificer was looking for a way into a moment whole, but truly no-one knows how/why she was suspended. It seemed like the widely accepted theory at the time, but there isn't anything to suggest it. (thanks reddit 😒) Anything else I got "wrong" I usually say ""I theorize this is the reason" which basically means there is no confirmed information why. Hopefully this clears a few things up, and thanks for reading/watching!

[@terrarian7910]

holy hell dude this is underrated, hope you get more popular in the future.

[@Zhuvz]

Best thing is with time to come this will get more and more views, hopefully when u have time u keep making more videos about the lore, great work.

[@d34dlymop]

Godspeed on the heretic video. I need moar lore

[@freddysimon7617]

thank you for this I agree with all of these details (minus one I think mercenary is the same from the first game but other than that we have no discrepancies) Thank you for compiling the information into this much more easily understood format.

[@thegrovetender]

@@freddysimon7617 It was confirmed by the developers that Acrid is the only character that is the same from the first game

[@martinr7728]

truly a story of tragedy. Also I love the idea how some random human can just arrive and become more powerful than anything else in under an hour.

[@SeanTheShinigami]

When you consider history and the fact that some of our most important advancements/evolution steps were lucky, RNG does fit humans best.

[@a.parker7362]

I wonder how much of that is a difference in technological advancement and the rest just a "that's rough buddy" in chance encounters. I also wonder if the difficulty build-up has a lore explanation for that too

[@sshadyh]

I imagine the in game time is longer than the real life time

[@Lazarultos]

@@sshadyh Yeah I always imagined the game's speed to be a fast-forwarded version of the adventures of the survivors.

[@Gurnium]

Humans, the fastest adapting species. we literally evolve on the fly when needed so it makes sense

[@Zack-The-Wack]

Mithrix might not even be aware of Providence's death. He was trapped up on the moon for so long, planning out his revenge. You may of ended a long lasting feud, but god damn don't I feel bad about it.

[@marcelodiaz8692]

i though the sword that can be found on a rock in risk of rain 2 (petrichor V) was from providence...

[@TlalocTemporal]

@@marcelodiaz8692 -- Providence's sword doesn't have the focus hole thing, it's solid all along the blade. That sword placed among the rocks might be some kind of tribute to Providence, but the design is much closer to Mithrix's hammer and the other weapons found in the arena of blood, which all share that hole with gear teeth detail.

[@Dickheaddotcom]

Mithrix calls out for his brother when you kill him, not knowing that he is already dead. I wonder if Providence knew how much Mithrix came to hate him as he stared at the moon, remembering Mtihrix's last words of only wanting him to smile again. I wonder if Mithrix thought he could hear him as he called for him.

[@DeFriender]

One important detail about Mithrix is some of the text he says after you kill him. He has three(?) different lines where he calls out to Providence with his dying breath. Ex. "THE PLANE GROWS DARK... BROTHER... I CANNOT SEE YOU... WHERE ARE YOU...?" Yes, he hated Providence for his ideals and values. But even in the end, he was still his only brother.

[@nathanielyanez481]

I know it for some reason then makes me feel guilty for killing him in the end

[@patrickbicking4933]

BROTHER...HELP ME. WHY...WHY NOW?!

[@Noah_Carbonara]

BROTHER... PERHAPS WE WILL GET IT RIGHT... NEXT TIME. omg this is actually so sad. This also shows mithrix's care for his brother.

[@corvusgaming2379]

There are some people that, no matter how much you want to, you just cannot hate.

[@pete5516]

@@corvusgaming2379there are also terrible people who still love their family. Loving your brother doesn’t make you worthy of respect.

[@artisticvisionary00]

The Devs should make this an official lore breakdown. Literally captured all the ambiance and tone with the voice overs and effects. Very well done, thanks!

[@thegrovetender]

That's very kind, thank you!

[@Hurbs-kun]

Dude could've voice acted an entire game, but he made this video for us instead

[@lulhighman3428]

@@thegrovetender Not an exaggeration either, you singlehandedly got me interested in the lore of this game with the top notch atmosphere you give these videos

[@michael95621]

Accurate, I actually didn't realize it was the poster doing the voice over until half way through. I actually thought this was from the game and I somehow missed these cut scenes.

[@halotrixzdj]

No kidding, I was in the car listening, and I thought it was in game dialogue I missed!

[@bugjams]

It's interesting seeing both sides of the brothers' stories. At first, it's easy to write Providence off as "the good one," and Mithrix the bad, but they are really just two ways of looking at the same problem. What do you do with a destructive species that is doomed to wipe itself out? Providence's answer was to save them, because they have soul, but he did not save them for their sake. And, in the end, if they truly are doomed species, "planet killers" as Mithrix puts it, is saving them only delaying the inevitable? Mithrix's answer on the other hand, was to let natural selection play its course and to not interfere - but to seek others of their kind. This might be seen as selfish, but interfering with nature can have drastic consequences, even if one means well. What's interesting is that both brothers are selfish. As I said, you might think of Providence as the "good" one, but he is also selfish. Maybe not as much as his brother, but if the logs are to be believed, he only saved creatures with soul because he likes soul - not the creatures themselves, as evidenced by the Grovetender log. He ignores the very lives he saved, and spends most of his time staring at the moon, holding a grudge against Mithrix. It's almost... childish. Mithrix was right about one thing he said though, that, "together, there is no force or obstacle we cannot overcome." If only they had just worked together, embracing each other's differences instead of fighting over them, who knows what they could've done? Mithrix could have constructed entire worlds for the creatures Providence saved, while using the gates to find more of their own people. Threats like the imps could have been staved off by Mithrix's more... combat-oriented designs. Instead, they let their grudges control them, and both partook to doing things only to upset the other, never for any sort of benefit or larger purpose. Also, it's really funny imagining that Mithrix's most loyal servant, a Scavenger, just randomly picked up his beads one day for no reason - and Mithrix saw that as loyalty. That's hilarious to me. I wonder if he just sits in A Moment, Whole, wondering what he's doing there. Sitting alone because Providence murdered all the other bead-holders. I just imagine the Scavenger stumbling into the portal to A Moment, Fractured, by pure accident while holding the beads. Meanwhile Mithrix is thinking he's swayed a new follower to become his new servant... lmao.

[@Kaxology]

While it is noted that either are "good guys", it is important to note that either ruling in absolute is not sustainable and both ruling together is maybe, too conflicting. Whoever made these two godlike beings should've taught them the errors of the past gods and how to avoid them, understanding that the necessary suffering and compromises that must be endured to achieve equilibrium, thus two personalities. It would seem that Providence is the younger brother who had gained compassion but do not understand the need for natural selection while Mithrix had gained ambition but do not understand the need for other life other than the ones equal or higher than himself, both of which is needed to create independent life. Perhaps it was the realization of past gods that creating such independent life would render them somewhat unwanted or neglected in the long term or even create life forms such as humans that can work together and rival the strength of gods such as themselves that will betray the gods. It is unknown if humans are known to invade planets to drain resources in this universe but maybe Providence had seen humans as invasive species like imps that would drain what he had created, believing us to be unreasonable or too smart to inevitably betray the gods. Perhaps it was lack of strength, too much compassion or just brotherly love that Providence chose to imprison Mithrix instead of killing him. His naive thought maybe when he saw Mithrix kill worms as a kid, he couldn't be reasoned with when perhaps a compromise would've been made if Providence simply tried to discuss it with Mithrix. When he started his own reign, he has quickly seen the problem of reviving every creature and not adhering to natural order. I think he started out liking the creatures but soon they grow too many, making altars of him and society capable of cruelty and disobedience that made him reevaluate what he'd done. I think perhaps him staring at the moon is him contemplating if he should release Mithrix, maybe Mithrix will forgive him and they can just be brothers again but at this point, he's too afraid but as we see, Mithrix's last thoughts were to talk to his brother again, signifying Mithrix still had love for his brother even after so long. If Providence admitted his mistake at the start and freed Mithrix, perhaps things would've been gone well but instead, Providence let Mithrix's hatred boil for far too long. I'm also pretty sure Scavengers decided to join Mithrix was on their own accord. After all, the beads promised riches and scavengers would have to find the portal and commit to a ritual that would otherwise kill them to swear loyalty.

[@RemaiFaint]

I wonder if both did not see that they were just as wrong as the other. I never played the first RoR and I only experienced it through my friend and other videos about it on KZbin. So finding out that Providence was dead was a bit of a shock when I first heard of it. But then I also wonder if Mythrix new of his death. Because if he didn't then he stews in his own feelings of hatred. If he did know then he is complacent in my eyes. I know it's stated that he cannot exactly escape this prison but what point do we have in killing him if that's the case? I honestly think Mythrix is the weaker of the two which is why before he dies he resorts to self-destructing the Moon. In doing so he also dooms the planet however. But it seems fitting his hatred would end in a terrible calamity. I understand he saw every other being on the planet as lesser than himself. But that only amplifies my view of Mythrix being the worse of the two. For as far as Providence went he never destroyed planets as far as I understood. The whole thing is just puzzling.

[@kingofredlions7709]

so what you're saying Is that instead of hugging and making up they decided to do a masove amount or Trolling and eventually got themselves killed

[@Stinker0610]

@@RemaiFaint mithrix doesn’t detonate the moon himself, void reavers do because mithrix isn’t able to prevent it anymore

[@XxjazzperxX]

No? Liking souls is not selfish. To work and dedicate your entire excistence to save souls is as anti-selfish as you can become. To commit mass genocide and to save civilisations is not two sides of the same coin. Complete nonsense.

[@doug8232]

There's a small glass frog in the centre of the teleporter of the last stage after Mithrix is killed. I love the ending of this, that there was hope for better times, but they all lie in the past. Purity's log remember's two brothers, chasing glass frogs in the sun - maybe that's what he remembers as he perishes.

[@Ferjo404]

This comment almost made me cry

[@MooMooCow95]

Dang, I really took this game's lore for granted. It's not necessarily the most complex or interesting story I've ever experienced, but it's a lot more than I made it out to be! Great video :)

[@thegrovetender]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@tonyg9775]

The DLC adds a bit more lore with the logbook for Egocentrism where Mithrix talks more about how he should’ve gotten the gift, and that Providence loves the “vermin” more than him who took care of him. It also gives us more lore about the void. Any creature can be corrupted by the Void, but gains an insatiable desire to kill and consume so that its friends can be joined to the Void as well. The Void Fiend and the Railgunner were supposedly two people who went into the void and survived, and the void fiend was a commando who got corrupted. He fights within himself to either get rid of his powers or embrace them. Most void creatures serve the Voidling, a creature that resides deep within the void and that asks its servants to bring it “gifts”. This could be one of the purposes of the Reavers outside of simply being multiverse police. Not sure how it fits into the overall story, but the player character can go into the Void and kill the Voidling even after defeating Mithrix, so maybe the new DLC is an epilogue or an alternate ending after the defeat of Mithrix, in which the player character is captured by the Reavers but survives, and goes into the Void and kills the Voidling. However, since they are in the Void, they can never leave, which is why the ending after defeating the Voidling is still “fate unknown”

[@nachothepug7868]

This is just an engineer major vs architect major 😭

[@viperblitz11]

The log for the Bighorn Bison supports your theory about Providence. The bison were native to one of Saturn's moons and were endangered due to overhunting, until one day they all mysteriously disappeared.

[@gavinlibbey4824]

damn dude i was halfway thru this and just assumed it was the go-to explainer vid on RoR lore, then i realized its got less than 100 views! the voice acting was hella clean and you put this nutty world together better than any other vid ive seen, good stuff. deserves way more hits!

[@thegrovetender]

Thank you! It really means a lot ^_^

[@epicme48]

yeah I got to the end and he said "I am a small youtuber". and I went to check his channel to call bs. The video is just so clean and well written. deserve major props.

[@Drekromancer]

@@epicme48 With this kind of quality, he won't be a small KZbinr much longer.

[@epicme48]

@@Drekromancer true that

[@lagplus]

This aged well

[@MegamanZ9000]

I lost of count of how many times I read the Imp log but it NEVER occured to me that it states it's own species; always thought the log was talking about a group of survivors trying to beat the teleporter challenge and go home, but could never beat the Imps.

[@Breaker_Of_Sieges]

"And thus, ends the story of Risk of Rain, as a whole." I'm very, very glad that this statement is now rendered false. I do hope we'll see a video explaining the lore of all the new stuff with the Void and the Void Reavers when the expansion comes out! Or sometime after it releases. I know reading through all the lore and connecting it takes time.

[@DisputedOrigin]

I really appreciate the amount of work that went into this video, from an audio/visual standpoint this is the best risk of rain 2 video ive ever seen. I wish I could make stuff this good, amazing work.

[@thegrovetender]

Wow i've seen some of your videos! Thank you so much and thanks for watching!

[@braixendon5496]

You have explained the void reavers so well, thanks alot! I finally realise why the moon ‘just disappears’ on mithrix’s death

[@joshuahendershot196]

The Void Reaver's are just Gru, except they succeeded in stealing the moon.

[@rodrigopereira7104]

@@joshuahendershot196 he also succeeded, he just didn't get to keep it

[@joshuahendershot196]

@@rodrigopereira7104 Fair, it has been a bit since I've seen Despicable Me.

[@goblin-boblin]

Also if you die when you do not reach rescue shuttle, you got the same message, as if you die from reavers.

[@thefatherinthecave943]

Mithraax loved order, ratios, shapes and the craft of subservient machinations. But Providence loved soul. He loved life, the shape of unique life molded by incalculable variables.

[@norton_antivirus]

I dont think that mithrix is the one making the moon explode due to the fact he has fallen and the end credits do show how flowers are growing around his skull nearly immediately (possible rebirth?), but i do think that it is the void reavers causing it happen, where the moon seems to be detonating from the void reavers forcefully "voiding" the moon.

[@misere4]

But after you killed him his attacks are going bonkers all around the moon as you go to the shuttle It can also be possible that he is somehow trying to save the moon from the void reavers as they are teleporting in in huge numbers so he is just slamming his attacks all around the place... dunno

[@norton_antivirus]

@@misere4 ah that makes alot of sense, defeating mithrix leads to some sort of barrier being broken and void reavers are like flys they go to whatever they want to seal up when it is at its weakest, in this case mithrix and the moon, and mithrix is trying to prevent this by swatting the flys, yes that makes alot more sense as they are similar to mithrix's carnival attack

[@Drekromancer]

The Hollow Knight soundtrack was a really nice touch. Very appropriate for the atmosphere and mood of the story. And this video was just really well done. Subscribed!

[@strangetentacle4386]

I was just about to comment about that. The Hollow Knight soundtrack is absolutely perfect with this.

[@LvnarNeko]

I've been looking around for complete Risk of Rain lore for a while now and most didn't feel fun to watch or something else bugged me. This is the first one I enjoyed watching and loved every second of it. I myself haven't done the deepest of dives into Risk of Rain lore, but from the tidbits here and there of playing the game and reading some of the logs I've picked up, this video made a lot of sense from my experience of playing the game and slowly figuring out everything on my own. The void reavers and their subsequent "consumption" of the moon was fascinating and was something I was always curious about! Thank you so much for making this video, please make more follow up videos! I love the narration and sound effects and especially for having an actual closed captioning option.

[@thegrovetender]

Thanks! It's nice to see my video actually being recommended ^_^ Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Wimbleknob]

Holy shit, I was hoping somebody would pull a Vaati with RoR. Great voice acting, and the chronology is perfect. This video has an abundance of soul.

[@Hurbs-kun]

I watched the whole thing thinking this had like 300k views or so (currently at 2k). Great quality video, thanks for helping me realize how great Risk of Rain is.

[@thegrovetender]

Glad you enjoyed it ^_^

[@mariusw_24]

I have a friend who played risk of rain 2 recently and I must say it not only looked fun but I was drawn to it for some reason. The world I was seeing through my friend's gameplay made me want to play the game and find more about the lore. Because of exams and some other games I completly forgot about the game....until now. All I can say is THANK YOU SO MUCH! I love all the voice acting and the atmosphere you created, really made me shed a tear at the end because of how amazing and wild this story was.

[@BlueBeardedDevil]

I was always curious of the many logs and bits of lore here and there, but figuring out how they all connect seemed like too big of a task, after watching this I have a pretty good sense of it all, thanks for the great vid! Now to finish my hunt of achievements and find out more about the world of Petrichor V!

[@thegrovetender]

Thanks, and good luck!

[@JachymorDota]

Risk of Rain 2 feels like the origin story of the Greek pantheon but in the middle aliens arrive, genocide the local population and kill the first and only two gods this planet has.

[@felipeabarca6232]

The general quality of this video is really good and relaxing. I literally could watch this for hours and wont be boring. What an absolute masterpiece. It shurely deserves a sub

[@thegrovetender]

That's so kind, thank you! ^_^

[@mrkaboom3268]

I keep coming back to re-watch this over and over again. Again, absolutely phenomenal job man! Can't want to see the new ending in the new expansion.

[@FrostmilkDragon]

I am so glad to finally find a great lore dump for Risk of Rain. I have wondered about the story for so long, thank you for this.

[@noahbaxley]

This was really well done! Definitely looking forward to seeing the other lores explained

[@camelshoe]

this was amazingly done. and i believe you are pretty spot on on the lore save for some dlc logs that may change our understanding. I personally would love to see the lore on each survivor and monster.

[@ziwimiwi]

This is genuinely my favorite Risk of Rain video on here, it's so well put together and voiced and really tells the story in a beautiful cohesive way. I find myself coming back to rewatch it constantly.

[@Elemental-Phoenix]

This is probably the best summary of the lore I've seen so far. Amazing video.

[@benjoffe948]

This is.... Simply amazing. Very clear explanations, good presentation of evidence and reasoning, and just entertaining as hell. Can't wait to see what else you put out, Grovetender, and here's hoping more people find your little gem of a channel! (:

[@JMO777X]

This video was an incredible compilation of the logs and events spread across the two games! Definitely a must watch for anyone who is a fan of the games. Very well done, thank you!

[@xKnightGuy]

I appreciate the amount of work you put into this. Most will think you slapped some music on in-game backgrounds while reading a script but I can tell you worked hard on this. Thanks for the great watch.

[@sgtepic4659]

The perfectionist styles of a designer and the imaginative mind of the constructor

[@WaffleGeneral]

I love this little game so goddamn much and to think the entirety of its lore so far can be explained in 2 videos isn’t exactly disappointing, more like it leaves me hungry for more :) can’t wait for more lore videos for the dlc. keep it up man!

[@Crowald]

I used to read these lore snippets and record them to play around with audio mixing and modulation effects. I've always wanted to do a video like this of my own, but I appreciate how thorough you were with all of it. This is a wonderful video, and the fact that you only have 5.5k subs is a travesty. You definitely deserve more. Nevertheless, you have my sub. I look forward to watching your other videos. Cheers for this, man.

[@someguy1365]

What a fascinatingly written story. I've never played a Risk of Rain game, but that's some damn fine writing and lore.

[@thepotatotaxi2430]

Play it. You can start on 1 or 2, 1 is a platform PvE shooter and 2 is a 3rd person PvE shooter. You can play both games with friends.

[@thepotatotaxi2430]

There isn't enough lore in the gameplay for it to matter if you play 2 first. I played 2 first.

[@shauni_jade]

This is so good dude... the ambientation, the voice acting. Good freaking job

[@estevanra534]

This was extremely well made. Thanks a lot for your effort in telling this story.

[@hyoutan8421]

amazing video, it takes real effort to read every single lore from both games and formulate a concise narrative gr8 job

[@williamjackson4606]

Brilliant video, exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much for taking the time to make it, so comprehensive! 10/10

[@thehatman7051]

A small correction about the section discussing the heretic, the wording in her lore would imply that she didn’t repair an already downed contact light, but rather that she attempted to steal the ship *while* Providence was attacking it (it also states that she was the one who killed the captain), really good video though, I didn’t know most of this, super interesting!

[@TooFewSecrets]

She was probably trying to get it to crash on Commencement.

[@stagknight3504]

Can't wait to see this channel grow, I have been waiting for content like this!

[@atienzo98]

I come back to this video every couple days and listen to it. Really good video

[@spoonz75]

criminally underrated!!!!!!! best story (personally) so far

[@AlonGamshi]

This video is amazing dude, I love the dedication and hard work you've put into it (and to the other video on this channel as well). Thank you and I hope to see more videos like this in the future, perhaps after the DLC hits and we get more lore entries to explore

[@0rpheus75]

Very well done, thank you for taking the time to learn all of this and to share it with all of us. Keep up the good work!

[@MrBlinky10101]

Can't believe this video doesn't have 100k views or more. It's so in depth and well made. Great video!

[@akae8130]

Finally watched the whole video, watched it in parts whenever i had free time. It was super interesting, and you did a great job telling the story! I'm new to playing Risk of Rain 2, but visiting the moon now feels very different than it did before watching this video.

[@Meatblasting]

THANK YOU FOR THIS. I can't wait to see your interpretation of the new void update!! Hopefully will shed more light on not only the void stuff but the newts as well

[@ToasterPig2346]

I can't wait for the DLC that adds another final boss and most likely a lot more lore. Hoping that you'll making another amazing lore recap, keep up the good work, man.

[@incrediblebat]

this was genuinely a great video. the voices and pacing are perfect. felt like only 5 minutes. you earned this like

[@itsterra9381]

My friends convinced me to play this game, and surely enough I got hooked. I needed to understand the lore and my inquiry brought me here, to this awesome vid. Truly great stuff

[@jsshemeth]

This was amazing. If you have the time, plz make the lore for more stuff in the game. Well done. This was better than almost every other lore on ror i've seen.

[@LeToplache007]

I've been feeling really down from all the bad games the industry has put out in recent years. Like, I couldn't find any good games that I could play consistently that would make me feel like I was achieving something. Risk of Rain 2 changed all of that, recommended by a hardcore fan of the series who is a friend of mine. It is one of the best games I have ever played, it is so good that it's just insane. I've only put about 50 or so hours in it because of a tight time schedule I got on my hands, but I'm gladly looking forward to putting at least 950 more hours in it. The lore of this game is very well hidden and it is difficult for me to understand with all.of the item logs and stuff. You sir did a wonderful job at getting out a lot of information and yet the video still felt very interesting. You've earned a subrscriber and I would love to learn more about all the item lore and all of the events that happened in between or parallel with the events of both games, like the Heretic, or Artificier etc. I'll be waiting patienly. I hope I've made your day.

[@coco_jumbo]

Man, I just loved this video SOOOO much. Thank you for taking the time to make this. It was really amazingly done.

[@willaguilera4226]

yes on all of those! every topic you mentioned at the end sounded interesting and I'd watch a video on each.

[@razml]

Very good explanation and lore logs reading, I think I understand almost everything now. thank you very much!

[@joshishd1400]

Please keep making lord videos for this game, you did an excellent job here and I’d love to hear you cover the other corners of this game’s world and its characters.

[@CaptainKzonie]

Oh my Mithrix, this video is absolutely fantastically well done. It explains the lore incredibly well, has an amazing feel to the whole video, and your voice is perfect for this kind of thing. Thank you so much for making this!

[@TiresAreForCars]

wow amazing work man. very high quality and organized. hope you continue pursuing projects like this in the future

[@tazeywazey3624]

Most amazing story telling i've seen in a while really interested in this game and its lore now

[@MentalTorments91]

Just found this video, and I have to say: incredible job, omg! I love lore videos, and I think you have done it just right. Just like lore in Dark Souls, when it is written in logs and items it can be difficult to put all of the pieces together, and you have done it wonderfully. This lore leaves me kind of melancholic... Mithrix seems to be the only "evil" to mess everything up, being labeled "ambitious". I wonder if the upcoming DLC will talk more about his reasonings and the creation of him and Providence. Thank you so much for your time and effort, I am subscribing and ready to watch the other videos. Keep up the good work!! :D Edit: Mithrix spelling

[@honeysstar]

Gosh, this video goes so hard. I was not expecting all of this rad lore, but I'm so glad this video was here to bring it to light for me. Thank you so much for making this! Now I just appreciate this game even more!

[@HunterHydriad]

Great video! I never played risk of rain 1, but always planned on it. It was a nice surprise to find out that both brothers were a part of the actual games themselves and not just the lore!

[@Bazzabazeman]

Excellent analysis, this is the kind of content I live for. Subbed.

[@nosalgodemiPC]

Dude, this explanation is not only so good, it also captures the feeling of the story with all the music, the voice acting, and the narration. Nice job!!

[@Trakesh]

The alogrithm liked your video enough to recommend it to me. Sounds like the explanation you put together is very solid.

[@marx2686]

I’ve rewatched this video many times since it came out I love the way u explain their story better then any listening story thx for makin this

[@ameersher]

Very well made really helped me understand what's going on better. Great job

[@degenerateastronaut]

So good!! I loved your analysis. What an amazing watch. I can easily see all the love and work that went into this project. Thanks for the video.

[@thegrovetender]

It's you! This video was months in the making, but I have seen your video multiple times to confirm my information, and to try to avoid anything too similar. Thank you so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed it! ^_^

[@axionn5253]

Sums up the base story really well and I appreciate that you dont speculate about lore too much and rely mainly on the logs

[@vetda]

The audio and voice acting from Siren's Call gave me chills. This was a fantastic video

[@d2cuadrados510]

Ok, this was just incredible dude! I've played this game for hundreds of hours and never knew there was story there. My favorite part is the corrupted Scavengers and the beads. It makes perfect sense why they would be there.

[@claedx]

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[@meteormashup8497]

This video was great! The voice acting was superb, the presentation was excellent, the explanation of the lore was really well done. I love it!

[@thegrovetender]

Thank you so much!

[@sercancoban5329]

Thanks for making this video! The beginning is so nice!

[@jamestapp8576]

solid video man, listening to it in the background of my 20 stage commando run is nice

[@nathandupuis5174]

Loved the video, it's really well done :D Huge thanks for making me discorver some of the lore behind risk of rain, I've played 200 hours without even noticing how deep the lore goes ^^'

[@rip1597]

I am an advocate and all-knower of the lore, and here is my contribution: Unguided theory, perhaps the Newt is the father, or creator, of the two brothers. Glass frogs, the Glass Newt. Watching them, writing the making the effigy (and thus its description) as he grieves for his sons, and, it would explain his resistance against the void reavers. And his great power, commanding time.

[@dextersummers8381]

Coming back to this the night before the update. Still in awe of how well made this is and how much love there is for this game. (Especially considering so little is present within the gameplay, yet how fascinating it is.)

[@TheVision_13]

Really love the way you presented this all, fantastic video

[@hunterthemadman]

I've watched this video and the follow-up one probably three times at this point. This is a really impressive video 'project' and I hope you continue making lore / theory videos. Excellent voice acting and audio effects, with a greater music mix from the OST. My only big complaint is that the item and environment logs are too small and in the bottom left, making them hard to read.

[@deusexmachine2834]

That is awesome. You’ve made a great job so far. Thank you so much for your curiosity and a desire to demonstrate this beautiful game lore to others!

[@savgeking7134]

This was awesome! I can’t wait for future videos!

[@FriedGrenburr]

This is a wonderful vid, can't believe I didn't see it until now! I really liked the formatting, it made it clear what came from canon and what was your interpretation (though I'm considering that to be canon, too)

[@titan_uprising]

I only recently picked up the risk of rain series and I have noticed there is a severe lack of content creators for such an amazing game! I loved this video and think that you deserve way more subs than currently just based on this video. new sub from me my guy. Keep pumping out quality content like this and you'll be much bigger in no time!

[@UltimatTacoman]

My first reaction: "Wait, Risk of Rain has lore?" My reaction midway through: "WAIT, RISK OF RAIN HAS BETTER LORE THAN MOST AAA GAMES?!"

[@gomeezzzzz5213]

This was such an amazing breakdown! I loved your script and I'm confused as to why you don't have more subs

[@LegalTaxFrauder]

I would gladly have a follow-up video! This is the most amazing Risk of rain lore runthrough ive ever seen, keep up the good work!

[@thegrovetender]

Thank you! ^_^

[@voidska]

god i dont know why but just the contact light and providence teleporting there, striking his sword down into the ship silently, as everything then gets wrecked and creatures start boarding the cargo with alarms blarring and the SOS things going on is just so chilling and i ADORE IT because of that, the voice acting in this through the video is just good and it feels so panicked it just gives me chills aa-

[@ZippyZapZong]

Why in the fresh fuck does his high quality and in-depth lore video not have more likes this is criminal

[@jrknsOFF]

Holy shit, that was amazing! I really enjoyed the voice acting you did for the logs, especially the sounds that the speakers were described to make in the audio logs/dialogues scenes. This video actually introduces me to your channel, and what a great introduction it is - will check out the rest of your content now!

[@supershinystar5515]

I had never heard of Risk of Rain until a friend of mine showed me it. It isn’t my kind of video game but the small bits of lore that we came across made me really curious as to the lore of the game. This popped up in my recommended today and I really enjoyed it! Thank you Grovetender. Your video is very comprehensive to a Risk of Rain newcomer!

[@Ian_Boni]

Please do more RoR lore videos! I loved this one, and would also love to see more!

[@qwp1884]

This is a really good video but I have a few questions You explained how and why some characters are on the ship; bandit sneaked in, mercenary was also taken on the rescue mission and so on but the prief explanation of you freeing acrid doesn't really explain how he got onto the ship A theory i have is the "she" that visited the planet and eventually die was nkuhana Her corpse is on the planet and she has a cult following which could he connected to her power That's all I have to say but I really REALLY enjoyed the video and I can't wait for hopefully more, with the new alt final boss dlc I can't wait for more lore

[@thegrovetender]

Good question! Acrid was never on the ship in the first place. Acrid is the only character that does not spawn in using a drop pod, and the animation that plays instead shows acrid exiting a void field portal. I think acrid being on the ship during the character selection screen is purely gameplay design. I didn't include this because it wasnt important to understanding the overall story. I have an upcoming video about N'kuhana but I will mention here that I do not believe that she was the one to sacrifice herself. Though it would make a lot of sense, I can't imagine Providence taking power from a being that encourages so much death. I could be wrong in my assumption though. If you read the Wetland Aspect log, you find out the corpse found isn't N'kuhana, but instead a follower who hid there to worship N'kuhana after sacrificing their friends. Thanks for the questions, and thanks for watching the video! ^_^

[@TheDJBrojo]

@@thegrovetender maybe the power n'kuhana gifted providence was the one of being super strong, not necesarily tied with death but the one to protect, will explain why mithrix says that her gift was wasted on him, because providence doesn't "kill" (will do if it means a threath to petrichor V) and mithrix would use it to avoid any confrontation that his brother would bring (the aurelionite, for exampl, even if he considered it a mistake, he needed to be ready to fight, and n'kuhana blessing would bring that)

[@veerigo]

this is a super good video- i’ve watched it 3 times over and it’s just as good every time

[@damienjones1487]

I love the story-driven explanations. Good shit