Who Is Apollyon?

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8 ай бұрын

(This is a reuploaed and slightly edited version of an old video I released years ago on Apollyon. Due to copyright issues, the video was blocked world wide. I'm hoping that this version will do better.)
In this video, I go over the character of Apollyon from the For Honor game. Of all the video game antagonists I've seen, she ranks up there as one of the best, and it all comes down to her presence and ideology. In this video, I analyze her story, her presence, and her ideology to see why she's such an incredible villain and to explain where it all comes from. I hope ya'll enjoy.

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@mal1362 8 ай бұрын

I miss that old raven knight intro. It became less associated with the wulin dlc and more associated with "Ah its raven knight video" for me

@BeGoodTanya 8 ай бұрын

yesss bring it back

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

Want me to bring it back? ;) I just phased it out because I thought people didn't like it.

@Agreus-WolfsbaneYT 8 ай бұрын

@@RavenKnightYT please do, i loved that intro becusse you'd know it was about for honor or what you wanted to discuss about

@collinnicolazzo2065 8 ай бұрын

@RavenKnightYT yes I loved the old intro

@mal1362 8 ай бұрын

@@RavenKnightYT Yes! Bring it back!

@randobandobby6443 8 ай бұрын

The craziest thing for me that was said about Apollyon that might be true, is that Apollyon could have easily defeated the emperors champion. Or maybe it would've been an even fight. But it would still lead to the same conclusion, which is Apollyon winning. But Apollyon chose to lose, cause once she's dead, the reason why everyone is here is basically gone... So what are these 3 factions, which have literal centuries of bad blood between them and at this very moment, are tensed, angry and are ready for fight going to do next? I can't believe I'm saying this but she in a way became a martyr... a martyr of war. FUCKING BRILLIANT STORY WRITING!

@funbro99 8 ай бұрын

Wheres the "I can fix her" crowd when you need em.

@manz7860 8 ай бұрын

She exe.d them

@lavellelee5734 8 ай бұрын

@@manz7860besides why fix when you can destroy 😂

@michaelcerny3489 Ай бұрын

underated comment

@el_slender 8 ай бұрын

She's literally me

@Lancersilva 7 ай бұрын

“I’m gonna bust you up plum thumb, and I’m gonna wear your clothes”- Apollyon to Dante

@manz7860 8 ай бұрын

Apollyon would make such a bad ass sith. It's a shame SW has gone down the shitter

@user-dy9nr9yg4o 7 ай бұрын

Imagine you fought wars your whole life and let one village get torched. Then in your twilight years the sole survivor from a village you failed dragged you out of your home and slayed you. That’s crazy man. She’s so cool.

@Kyrian_W 8 ай бұрын

A shame the original was blocked world-wide, it was actually the video that made me found this awesome channel. Glad to see the reupload, just gives me a reason to watch it again, lol. Keep up the good work!

@hazulaf3503 8 ай бұрын

Appolyon to my favorite villain solely for the fact of she is evil, there is no ulterior motive. There is no I’m sad and you should feel sad for me. This is just who she is and I love it.

@gurun8071 8 ай бұрын

...except for the fact she isnt just "evil" She has rules, standards, shows compassion, and is consistent

@hazulaf3503 8 ай бұрын

@@gurun8071 fair, but she is pretty far from good, ig evil isn’t the right word but something close to it,

@danconti5984 8 ай бұрын

Apollyon would make Khorne proud.

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

That she would. She would be counted among his heroes I'm sure.

@YEY0806 7 ай бұрын

@@RavenKnightYT"heroes" is pretty far from what they are 😂

@Asclepioso2067 7 ай бұрын

I wonder if she would be given a prince status of khorne's army

@theonlyMoancore 8 ай бұрын

I might be the only one who'd actually want peace in for honor. Truce of Wyverndale made me happy for the characters, ofc it didn't change gameplay I wouldn't want that. But lore wise where large factions stop killing each other. They could use it as a way to rework the war map.

@darienmcdaniels2793 4 ай бұрын

I agree

@DanielChizh 8 ай бұрын

War. She is... war.

@theenderdestruction2362 8 ай бұрын

But unlike war she can never change, for war may never change it's brutality it changes it way of doing things

@Deatheater4444 8 ай бұрын

Our enlightened philosopher-queen, who guides us down the path of *edge.*

@geoshark12 3 ай бұрын

One interesting aspect I noticed with Apollyon is her desire to preserve and learn from the past . She seems to show distain for thing left to rot and decay , and while she calls leaving the decorations form previous owners on her castle as trophies her actions speak otherwise

@jaxonkurtz4592 8 ай бұрын

For honor could of been on of the best story’s ever man this game had so much potential with the story it hurts

@R451Ns 8 ай бұрын

Apollyon and The Lich from Adventure Time are my 2 favorite villains of all fiction because theyre just kinda evil, there isnt really a good side to them they have a goal and pursue is ruthlessly.

@reliantbelial2341 8 ай бұрын

you might like the night lords from warhammer 40k then

@R451Ns 8 ай бұрын

@@reliantbelial2341coincidentally, i am also a Warhammer nerd lol

@reliantbelial2341 8 ай бұрын

@@R451Ns we are alpharius, we are everywhere

@gavinziozios1431 8 ай бұрын

@@R451NsBLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

@Agreus-WolfsbaneYT 8 ай бұрын

I always like hearing you delve i to the lore of characters like Apollyon even if it is a reupload it's still nice to see this video

@emilysmite9356 8 ай бұрын

She is a cute war mommy :3 Btw just wanted to say, you're the reason I redownloaded the game. Idk how pvp will go (probably terrible) but yeah :]

@Prophetofthe8thLegion 8 ай бұрын

Apollyons character is much like the Joker in The Dark Knight. she’s an Agent of Chaos. To quote Alfred “Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

@madmunchkin7878 8 ай бұрын

This is the video that first got me into For Honor. Back then I just saw a cool looking knight lady and said “cool, got nothing else to do!” But when I watched this I just had to know more, and now it’s one of my favorite games. Thank you so much for the work that you do!

@SnakeLion123 7 ай бұрын

Its been awhile and I am Happy this video is back. This video was I would think about from time to time. Which made the fact that the original video being blocked all the more tragic for viewers like me and others. I am so thankful that its back. Thank you kindly and have a great Day 🐍🦁👑

@joshyboy9804 8 ай бұрын

The video that not only got me interested in the game (though I've never played it), but in your channel as well. I also wanted to add my two cents on Apollyon's view of peace: I believe that prolonged peace eventually breeds complacency and laziness.

@kiggs-piggs 8 ай бұрын

Keep up the amazing work Raven Knight😁

@x1heisenberg427 8 ай бұрын

The old intro, taking me back man

@christopherhoagland4407 8 ай бұрын

Bring back the old intro Raven. It's so chilling yet amazing at the same time. Their was so much uniqueness to it I honestly don't see other creator's do.

@luiscolon4777 7 ай бұрын

Wow this is awesome!!! I didn’t know a lot of this tbh like 70% of this

@rickplayzyt6277 7 ай бұрын

Raven ima need a list of the music you used, it's too good

@renderoftime3465 8 ай бұрын

you may not remember me But i asked about why the original was removed I am so happy to see you were able to get it back :)

@jim-hw4ci 7 ай бұрын

Masterful. Cheers to you sir.

@koskinen2246 8 ай бұрын

Oh how great is the longing to have the first experience again of for honors storyline

@DigitalLemon69 8 ай бұрын

congrats raven for 5k subs!!!

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

Hahaha. Thanks man.

@dylankosmos8358 8 ай бұрын

Hey raven a cool video idea I'd love to watch of yours would be you reading the lore of warmonger or Astria. From when she first arrived in the story to now. I don't know if lore cards or things like that even exist but would love to see it.

@iwantcider 8 ай бұрын

I can't be the only one who thinks Apollyon should be a guest character in Mortal Kombat right?

@Venneroth 8 ай бұрын

Apollyon is The Dark Knight version of the Joker (incidentally, there's a very plausible theory that he too is a broken trauma survivor, perhaps a veteran, trying to justify to himself what happened.) "These, 'civilized people? They'll eat each other." Now, I can certainly see the Major comparison, but I think Heath Ledger's portrayal is closer to the heart of the matter. Is Apollyon right? She has to constantly kill people who prove her wrong. She has to say, "everyone's a wolf or a sheep. What, you prove otherwise? Well you don't count." STAB Apollyon doesn't even know what a wolf is. Wolves spend most of their time in their packs, with their families. They hunt what they need to live, then call it a day. Violence is not their universal state of being. Nor can it be for humans. It takes a decade and a half to prepare a human combatant and only seconds to kill them. Peace has to be the default state or there are no people to fight at all. Nothing about her makes sense from a thinking point of view. She's not here to challenge our beliefs. She's someone that broke under the realities of a flawed world and is out to ruin everything.

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

I disagree. Apollyon was 100% right. Who does she kill who proves her wrong? Her philosophy is: There are wolves; the strong, who fight and kill as true warriors. Then there are sheep, the weak who are trampled and devoured by the strong. Who proves her wrong? In her entire story what character stepped forward to prove her wrong? Remember when she captured the remnants of the Iron Legion? Only two Iron Legion soldiers attacked her, she spared them because she saw them as wolves. The rest did nothing but wait to die...and she killed them because only sheep wait for their own death. No one proved her wrong. You're now discussing the nature of wolves vs Apollyon's analogy. Yes, wolves hunt in packs and they live for a family dynamic, but the analogy is not the nature of wolves, the analogy is wolf vs sheep. The sheep are weaker than the wolves. They are preyed on by the wolves. That was the point. Everything about her makes sense...I explained her philosophy in my video.

@Venneroth 8 ай бұрын

@@RavenKnightYT I'm puzzled you would say she is 100% right when you offered refutation of her notions in your own video, for instance, when you discussed the combatant to support non-combatant ratio that makes war possible. Or at the end when you suggested (I think, quite rightly) that her whole "philosophy" is just rationalizing her trauma. As for people she needed to remove to make people actually engage in kill-or-be-killed, predator or prey, there's a fair few she needed to kill and some she did. 1. The previous warlords of the Blackstones she thought were too soft. 2. All the other Legions in Ashfeld (outside of those that joined, obviously) 3. Jarl Gudmundr Branson and his men, entrusted by the other Jarls of Valkenheim to safeguard their supplies and seeds for the next year's planting in his fortress for the common good. 4. The Raider and their allies, who restore order, reunite their people and set to sorting their food problems. 5. Most of the Dawn Empire's Daimyos who stood by their ordered hierarchy and loyalty to their emperor and had to be stormed, first by the Vikings then by the Blackstones and killed off until only the most selfish scoundrels remained and said they would do what she wanted. Yes, she had them on their knees, but it doesn't matter. Even if they were on their feet, trying to bite her throat out, what she claims to approve of, she would still have killed them off because they wanted to unite and keep order in the land. 6. The Warden/Ayu/The Orochi that each rallied the survivors of Apollyon's purges in their respective lands and restored internal order. By the time Apollyon falls, the three nations (if that's the right word for them, perhaps factions?) are at war, but they are also reunified internally, protecting their own civilians, maintaining their own infrastructure and keeping their own internal peace, rejecting her false dichotomy. You are quite right to say she makes sense, but what she says doesn't. Combining your commentary with my own thoughts, she has no room in her binary madness for civilian support, tradesmen, mothers, teachers, children or any of the other parts of humanity that enable the species to keep existing. That last part is most critical. Her world has no room for children. That's what I meant about the fifteen years to make a combatant. In order to have her wolves, the wolves would need to, bare minimum, set aside war for anywhere from 1 1/2 - 2 decades to raise new wolves or have a population of "sheep" actively protected by the wolves raising the new wolves for them. In which case, the wolves aren't treating those "sheep" as prey, but protected, valuable kin that still aren't wolves. Either her binary breaks down or humanity breaks down. Anyway, thanks for the video and response. It was fun to revisit one of those villains who "just want to watch the world burn."

@TheRandumRussian 8 ай бұрын

Hey raven just an idea for you, an easy thing you could do for the how to build series is to make the characters from the trailers like vortiger or Sakura. Since they are kind of simple you could probably do multiple of them in the same video. Have a good day raven

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

Honestly the designs of Sakura, Vortiger, Sun Da, and Hulda are all just the default looks. But if you'd like me to do those four, I can.

@labodge7322 8 ай бұрын

bruh i got chills the entire vid

@Uh-Cool-Luh 8 ай бұрын

Love that intro 🤙

@typicalzay9032 8 ай бұрын

Yes this video is back

@1m_N0t_CrAzY 8 ай бұрын

How many years later and people still ask the question XD

@lukeshelton1349 8 ай бұрын

Could you do a full story line pretty new to game so behind on lore

@aaronburnett2261 8 ай бұрын

Great video again! Why did the 1st get taken down or something?

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

Yes, it was removed some time ago. I had to edit and reupload it.

@aaronburnett2261 8 ай бұрын

@RavenKnightYT I'd love to know why it was taken down. BTW that was so good I remembered sending it to a friend so we could discuss. Great work brother!

@TyroneMcgregor 8 ай бұрын

Babe wake up, a new RavenKnight video just dropped

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

Or rather, an old one rereleased.

@evmarekaj 8 ай бұрын

Always thought that way of appolyon

@zayzay4real587 8 ай бұрын

Apollyon is Khorne’s champion Heathmore

@banditdoggo 8 ай бұрын

My favorite villain

@imperialguard7418 8 ай бұрын

Judge Holden and Apollyon would be an insane power couple

@Lazypackmule 8 ай бұрын

Might as well watch again to give this video an algorithm bump Thinking about it, I'm still kinda mad that Warmonger was too safe and copied from Warden to be a proper representation of what an Apollyon-styled hero done justice would actually play like

@dwayneasher6765 8 ай бұрын

Can you do a video analyzing light from death note because now I really want to know your opinion on light from death note if you analyze him the way you did this video it would be a masterpiece

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

That would be fun. I might put it on my second channel.

@darienmole2701 7 ай бұрын

I loved this video

@ddrakcorviss9166 8 ай бұрын

To this day I still have the knights faction as Blackstones

@Sermentian1867 8 ай бұрын

Awesome

@fuentes196 8 ай бұрын

Who is Apollyon? Well she a female version of Ulysses from Fallout New Vegas of course. My argument for that: Both Apollyon and Ulysses uses animals to symbolize certain groups of people (Apollyon using "Wolf" and "Sheep" to refer to the strong and weak. Ulysses using "Bull" and "Bear" to refer to the NCR and Caesar's Legion.) Also they both like to tell lots of speeches explaining their beliefs, perspectives and philosophy.

@scribblerstudios9895 Ай бұрын

Now I am curious what a conversation between the two would be like

@gurun8071 8 ай бұрын

...wouldn't call apollyon an old style villain, she's very sympathetic, and her motives are very easy to understand, and are present in several real world philosophies and ideologies

@dwayneasher6765 8 ай бұрын

@RavenKnightYT what is your second KZbin channel

@nicolasdelpech9916 8 ай бұрын

Could someone tell me the OST name for the introduction of Appolyon in the beginning of the video? would be nice

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

The Akatsuki Theme OST from Naruto.

@nicolasdelpech9916 8 ай бұрын

@@RavenKnightYT thx you very much my good sir

@SuperPRguru 8 ай бұрын

What would think Apollyon of the 40k universe and its various factions ?

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

Shed consider it humanity at its most realized.

@DaedricHeals 8 ай бұрын

Reupload ohhhhh?

@gregorylabao9099 4 ай бұрын

Gratitudes 💌

@source3nergy203 20 күн бұрын

Nice

@GeneralFujikiyo 8 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@ViceN53X 2 ай бұрын

Here's something I've been wondering. Since both For Honor and Ghost Recon are made by Ubisoft, I'm curious, what would Apollyon think of Cole D. Walker's Wolves? Or better yet, imagine if she recruits the Wolves. Rated S for Stupid, I know. I'm only asking cause they both like to use the term, "Wolves"

@darienmcdaniels2793 4 ай бұрын

I agree conflict is a part of life but the day will come when conflict will be a thing of the past peace is the future something that will last forever

@max28818 4 ай бұрын

Como se menciona por un dialogo por ahí en for honor, vivimos prácticamente en una paz relativa, Apollyon tiene razón pero su filosofía desde luego no nos acerca a la paz

@RavenKnightYT 4 ай бұрын

No creo que Apollyon estuviera tratando de crear la paz a través de su ideología.

@brodywilhelm-rg4ml Ай бұрын

I'm Prussian royalty. WILHELM so my family lived with conflict. We were even the tectonic order. We were in the crusades. So with us we evolved for war. So I like seeing conflict a bit much.

@leodemarco8041 8 ай бұрын

What is the Warmonger update gonna consist of?

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

This is an old video that I had to reupload. Ignore that part about Warmonger.

@manz7860 8 ай бұрын

Maybe he meant the conquistador hero skin she got

@mal1362 8 ай бұрын

Just helping with the algorithm

@bailujen8052 8 ай бұрын

Hey Raven knight, when one christian reviewed LED’s Dragon ball video, he watched what you missed LED claimed because the Z fighters loved fighting, they claim it’s satanic. The Christian who watched the vid said people fight for their marriage or something like that and said, “if by your standard you shouldn’t get married”

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

That's a fair point. I agree with that.

@kix2702 8 ай бұрын

you should rerecord lines that you messed up to enhance the quality of your video rather than just leaving it in.

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

nah. I believe in the power of authenticity.

@kix2702 8 ай бұрын

@@RavenKnightYT thats the worst excuse ever.

@RavenKnightYT 8 ай бұрын

@@kix2702Let me be clear: I could have sat down and rewritten this whole video and updated it with the current lore involved, but what people wanted was this video rereleased. This is the video that brought people to me, and I wanted to give it back as true to what it was as possible, blemishes and all. If that’s an issue for you, I’m terribly sorry. But I’m not making excuses, I’m explaining my decisions.

@syborgcat3830 8 ай бұрын

What? What do you mean Apollyon isn’t relatable? I wanna put people against each other, the strongest shall survive

@KagekiriToriko 8 ай бұрын

YT WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO RAVEN'S ORIGINAL VIDEO????

@bobbobigson9205 8 ай бұрын

All peopoe always ask who ist Apollyon but never ask how is Apollyon

@RavenKnightYT 7 ай бұрын

Well she's kinda dead so....eh, she'll get over it.

@HaughsCausedit 8 ай бұрын

Man i love the campaign in For Honor, but i refuse to play it over because the movesets are outdated. Relearning the game after you play story is not fun.