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	In that light, it's not surprising that a Nora should be the one to save the world.		In that light, it's not surprising that a Nora should be the one to save the world.

	==Far Zenith==		===Far Zenith===
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	The super-advanced precursor culture. Far Zenith was founded by a group of ultra-wealthy industrialists, influencers, financiers, and other rich-asshole types as an escape hatch from the Faro Swarm. They built a spaceship capable of traveling to Sirius and acquired all kinds of prototype technology to aid them in their endeavors, including personal energy shielding, advanced robotics, brain-uploading scanners, and a gene therapy that made them physically immortal. In ''Zero Dawn'', a text log states that their ship blew up before leaving the solar system, but in ''Forbidden West'' this turns out to have been a ruse the Zeniths pulled for no obvious reason. They made it just fine to Sirius and set up their colony, where they spent all their time immersed in personal simulations that let them do things like murder people for fun. They quickly got bored with physical immortality and being able to do whatever they wanted forever and decided to try uploading their brains so that they could achieve digital transcendence, but abandoned the project. Unfortunately for them, dumping the minds of a pack of selfish, amoral, narcissistic sociopaths into one database and leaving them to stew for a few centuries created an insane AI that was ''very'' unhappy about being abandoned. This AI, known as Nemesis, proceeded to massacre nearly the entire Zenith colony before sending the signal that triggered HADES in the first place, meaning that it's the true cause of all the problems in the Horizon series. The surviving Zeniths rock up to Earth to salvage more resources and kill some barbarians, but Aloy isn't having any of their bullshit.		The super-advanced precursor culture. Far Zenith was founded by a group of ultra-wealthy industrialists, influencers, financiers, and other rich-asshole types as an escape hatch from the Faro Swarm. They built a spaceship capable of traveling to Sirius and acquired all kinds of prototype technology to aid them in their endeavors, including personal energy shielding, advanced robotics, brain-uploading scanners, and a gene therapy that made them physically immortal. In ''Zero Dawn'', a text log states that their ship blew up before leaving the solar system, but in ''Forbidden West'' this turns out to have been a ruse the Zeniths pulled for no obvious reason. They made it just fine to Sirius and set up their colony, where they spent all their time immersed in personal simulations that let them do things like murder people for fun. They quickly got bored with physical immortality and being able to do whatever they wanted forever and decided to try uploading their brains so that they could achieve digital transcendence, but abandoned the project. Unfortunately for them, dumping the minds of a pack of selfish, amoral, narcissistic sociopaths into one database and leaving them to stew for a few centuries created an insane AI that was ''very'' unhappy about being abandoned. This AI, known as Nemesis, proceeded to massacre nearly the entire Zenith colony before sending the signal that triggered HADES in the first place, meaning that it's the true cause of all the problems in the Horizon series. The surviving Zeniths rock up to Earth to salvage more resources and kill some barbarians, but Aloy isn't having any of their bullshit.

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	Fortunately for everyone else, this clone was Aloy, who had spent her entire life shanking oppressors and assholes and wasn't about to stop now. Cue final boss battle.		Fortunately for everyone else, this clone was Aloy, who had spent her entire life shanking oppressors and assholes and wasn't about to stop now. Cue final boss battle.

	==Seyka==		===Seyka===

	A Quen Marine introduced in ''The Burning Shores''. She's basically a carbon copy of Aloy, as she's an intelligent, badass, resourceful machine-hunter who questions the Quen Empire's beliefs and doesn't hesitate to violate their taboos if it'll help her achieve her goals. Steals a Focus from a dead Diviner, which gets her into shit with the rest of the Quen until she proves that she can get results with it. Spends the DLC searching for her missing sister and developing sexual tension with Aloy until the finale, when she confesses her feelings for everyone's favorite redheaded Nora. Aloy has the option to return her affections or tell her she ain't got time for this romance shit.		A Quen Marine introduced in ''The Burning Shores''. She's basically a carbon copy of Aloy, as she's an intelligent, badass, resourceful machine-hunter who questions the Quen Empire's beliefs and doesn't hesitate to violate their taboos if it'll help her achieve her goals. Steals a Focus from a dead Diviner, which gets her into shit with the rest of the Quen until she proves that she can get results with it. Spends the DLC searching for her missing sister and developing sexual tension with Aloy until the finale, when she confesses her feelings for everyone's favorite redheaded Nora. Aloy has the option to return her affections or tell her she ain't got time for this romance shit.

	==Walter Londra==		===Walter Londra===

	The main antagonist of ''The Burning Shores''. Another Far Zenith member and former industrialist who took off for Los Angeles before Aloy and her crew fucked up the others in the finale of ''Forbidden West''. Once there, he finds some Quen who got separated from the others, including Seyka's sister, and exploits their reverence for the Old Ones to turn them into a cult of personality, then uses good old-fashioned ''1984''-style brainwashing to warp them into hyper-aggressive berserkers or submissive sheeple who will worship him without question. Is planning to flee the planet using a spaceship outfitted with a prototype engine that will fatally irradiate everything within a thousand kilometers, giving Aloy even more reason to put his mustachioed ass in the dirt beyond him being a narcissistic dickhead with a god complex. He sets up his supervillain base in a Disneyland knockoff themed around a movie series that is a mashup of ''Jurassic Park'' and ''Stargate'', which is admittedly pretty cool. Is voiced by Sam "Starkiller/Darth Maul" Witwer, so he sounds appropriately gruff and evil.		The main antagonist of ''The Burning Shores''. Another Far Zenith member and former industrialist who took off for Los Angeles before Aloy and her crew fucked up the others in the finale of ''Forbidden West''. Once there, he finds some Quen who got separated from the others, including Seyka's sister, and exploits their reverence for the Old Ones to turn them into a cult of personality, then uses good old-fashioned ''1984''-style brainwashing to warp them into hyper-aggressive berserkers or submissive sheeple who will worship him without question. Is planning to flee the planet using a spaceship outfitted with a prototype engine that will fatally irradiate everything within a thousand kilometers, giving Aloy even more reason to put his mustachioed ass in the dirt beyond him being a narcissistic dickhead with a god complex. He sets up his supervillain base in a Disneyland knockoff themed around a movie series that is a mashup of ''Jurassic Park'' and ''Stargate'', which is admittedly pretty cool. Is voiced by Sam "Starkiller/Darth Maul" Witwer, so he sounds appropriately gruff and evil.

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	===Quen===		===Quen===
	An imperialist empire who know more about the Old Ones than anyone. They live on a continent separate from that of Aloy and co., but high-tech compasses and fierce devotion to their ancestor cult enabled them to send a fleet of ships to the latter. Apparently not all Quen are evil, but it's hard to say because the token Quen character has spent her whole life being oppressed/censored/plagiarized by the tribe's elites, who control all knowledge of the past (their "Legacy", as they put it).		An imperialist empire who know more about the Old Ones than anyone. They live on a continent separate from that of Aloy and co., but high-tech compasses and fierce devotion to their ancestor cult enabled them to send a fleet of ships to the latter. Apparently not all Quen are evil, but it's hard to say because the token Quen character has spent her whole life being oppressed/censored/plagiarized by the tribe's elites, who control all knowledge of the past (their "Legacy", as they put it).

			The ''Burning Shores'' DLC is set in a Quen region.

	===Nora===		===Nora===

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	See, what we said above about fleeing to space being impossible? It was ''almost'' entirely true. A few ultra-rich still managed to get on a spaceship and flee Earth. There, alongside some scientists they kept for themselves, they managed to make themselves immortal and progress even further technologically than they were before. Now they're coming back to retake Earth for themselves, wanting to exterminate all the savages and "primitives" there (Really subtle, Guerilla Games). They used their own clone of Elisabeth sobeck (called Beta) to get their own copy of GAIA so they can terraform Earth to their liking. from there on the game amounts to Aloy collecting various subroutines of Gaia (since the version she managed to get is an incomplete one) while trying to find a way to fight against Far Zenith.		See, what we said above about fleeing to space being impossible? It was ''almost'' entirely true. A few ultra-rich still managed to get on a spaceship and flee Earth. There, alongside some scientists they kept for themselves, they managed to make themselves immortal and progress even further technologically than they were before. Now they're coming back to retake Earth for themselves, wanting to exterminate all the savages and "primitives" there (Really subtle, Guerilla Games). They used their own clone of Elisabeth sobeck (called Beta) to get their own copy of GAIA so they can terraform Earth to their liking. from there on the game amounts to Aloy collecting various subroutines of Gaia (since the version she managed to get is an incomplete one) while trying to find a way to fight against Far Zenith.

	Oh, and it turns out Faro also received a version of the immortality juice, but not a perfect one. This prompted him to decide to stand next to a nuclear reactor [[Derp\| to stabilize it somehow]], so he's spent the last millennium as a horribly mutated blob of flesh not unlike Metro 2033's Biomass, whom, according to scan readings, only has "minimal" brain activity. We don't get to actually see him but, from an holographic ~~display~~ of his bunker~~/complex's map~~, he's grown to be ''huge'' and is so horrifying to look at that the guy who did so immediately ordered Faro to be burned to ashes.		Oh, and it turns out Faro also received a version of the immortality juice, but not a perfect one. This prompted him to decide to stand next to a nuclear reactor [[Derp\| to stabilize it somehow]], so he's spent the last millennium as a horribly mutated blob of flesh not unlike Metro 2033's Biomass, whom, according to scan readings, only has "minimal" brain activity. We don't get to actually see him but, from an holographic map of his bunker, he's grown to be ''huge'' and is so horrifying to look at that the guy who did so immediately ordered Faro to be burned to ashes. And then the entire thing got flooded with magma, just to be sure.

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	===Banuk===		===Banuk===
	Tundra barbarians who live in nomadic groups known as "weraks". They know how to pacify machines by imitating their sounds, and unlike ~~all the~~ tribes live ''alongside'' machines, which they revere as spirits of the natural world~~. They still kill them for parts, of course, but mostly Banuk have escaped the superstitious fear of the Old Ones that cripples everyone else~~.		Tundra barbarians who live in nomadic groups known as "weraks". They know how to pacify machines by imitating their sounds, and unlike most tribes live ''alongside'' machines, which they revere as spirits of the natural world.

	Culturally, the Banuk are very artistic (in the areas of cliff painting and music) and spiritual. Weraks are led by a typical tribal chieftain and the group's best shaman, who uses the "Blue Light" (a metaphor for life itself) to command machines. Banuk are very socially-Darwinist: if you can't survive the ice, it's ''your'' fault and no one should respect you. Even their leadership is based around proving who's the toughest, regardless of ethnicity or leadership ability. They choose to live in arctic regions because they think hypothermia makes them stronger.		Culturally, the Banuk are very artistic (in the areas of cliff painting and music) and spiritual. Weraks are led by a typical tribal chieftain and the group's best shaman, who uses the "Blue Light" (a metaphor for life itself) to command machines. Banuk are very socially-Darwinist: if you can't survive the ice, it's ''your'' fault and no one should respect you. Even their leadership is based around proving who's the toughest, regardless of ethnicity or leadership ability. They choose to live in arctic regions because they think hypothermia makes them stronger.
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	===Tenakth===		===Tenakth===
	Bloodthirsty reavers from the southlands who fought at least one war with the Carja; they lost, but they managed to terrify and physically scar the Sun-King of that time. Tenakth inter-tribal drama is one of the major problems in ''Forbidden West''; their chief wants to reconcile with the Carja, but one of his top warriors didn't like that idea and started a murderous insurrection to get her way. <strike>Worst breakup ever.</strike> <strike>''Second'' worst breakup ever, considering what Aloy does to Tilda at the end of the game.</strike>		Bloodthirsty reavers from the southlands who fought at least one war with the Carja; they lost, but they managed to terrify and physically scar the Sun-King of that time. Tenakth inter-tribal drama is one of the major problems in ''Forbidden West''; their chief wants to reconcile with the Carja, but one of his top warriors didn't like that idea and started a murderous insurrection to get her way. <strike>Worst breakup ever.</strike> <strike>''Second'' worst breakup ever, considering what Aloy does to Tilda at the end of the game.</strike> The insurgents learned how to tame machines, which gives them a massive advantage militarily and logistically despite their leader's stupidity.

	Culturally, the Tenakth were inspired by US military relics, which they use a lot of terms ("chaplain", "bagging and tagging", etc) from. They lean even harder into social darwinism than the Banuk, so they accept Aloy and her RPG-protagonist mindset pretty easily- she will punch people to get what she wants, which they wholly approve of. The tribe's aesthetic is very desertpunk, with a lot of pointy armor and violently colored face paint.		Culturally, the Tenakth were inspired by US military relics, which they use a lot of terms ("chaplain", "bagging and tagging", etc) from. They lean even harder into social darwinism than the Banuk, so they accept Aloy and her RPG-protagonist mindset pretty easily- she will punch people to get what she wants, which they wholly approve of. The tribe's aesthetic is very desertpunk, with a lot of pointy armor and violently colored face paint.
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	An Utaru "Gravesinger", who presides over funerals and caused more than a few for the Carja who invaded her land. After the war, she advocated that Utaru leaders do something about the Derangement, but was unsuccessful...until two foreigners washed into her village. One of these two was Varl, her future husband. The other was Aloy, who healed a sacred machine with knowledge that seemed impossible. Zo saw an opportunity to make a difference, and led them to the protected cave where MINERVA was hiding...a cave Zo never really left, since Zero Dawn's goal seemed more important than anything she'd done in her old life. Going forward, Zo was instrumental in fixing the "Blight" starving her tribe and furnishing the team's base.		An Utaru "Gravesinger", who presides over funerals and caused more than a few for the Carja who invaded her land. After the war, she advocated that Utaru leaders do something about the Derangement, but was unsuccessful...until two foreigners washed into her village. One of these two was Varl, her future husband. The other was Aloy, who healed a sacred machine with knowledge that seemed impossible. Zo saw an opportunity to make a difference, and led them to the protected cave where MINERVA was hiding...a cave Zo never really left, since Zero Dawn's goal seemed more important than anything she'd done in her old life. Going forward, Zo was instrumental in fixing the "Blight" starving her tribe and furnishing the team's base.

	==Kotallo==		===Kotallo===

	An experienced Tenakth "Marshal" who guards and enforces the will of their chief. When he was young, Kotallo's combat prowess attracted the envy and paranoia of Tekotteh, his clan leader, who forced him to become a Marshal so that he wouldn't threaten Tekotteh's power. The joke was on Tekotteh, however: Kotallo served with distinction for years and was now in a position to smack down Tekotteh's attempts at insubordination. It was an unexpected life, but a happy one...		An experienced Tenakth "Marshal" who guards and enforces the will of their chief. When he was young, Kotallo's combat prowess attracted the envy and paranoia of Tekotteh, his clan leader, who forced him to become a Marshal so that he wouldn't threaten Tekotteh's power. The joke was on Tekotteh, however: Kotallo served with distinction for years and was now in a position to smack down Tekotteh's attempts at insubordination. It was an unexpected life, but a happy one...
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	''Another'' clone of Sobeck, made by Far Zenith to access Earth's data centers. Flee from them and rejoins Aloy to be free. Has a ''massive'' inferiority complex due to knowing who Sobeck was and being directly compared to her by the Zeniths, as well as feeling like Aloy has managed to live up to the original, making Beta wonder what's her "defect" for failing to compare to either of them. Really needs a hug.		''Another'' clone of Sobeck, made by Far Zenith to access Earth's data centers. Flee from them and rejoins Aloy to be free. Has a ''massive'' inferiority complex due to knowing who Sobeck was and being directly compared to her by the Zeniths, as well as feeling like Aloy has managed to live up to the original, making Beta wonder what's her "defect" for failing to compare to either of them. Really needs a hug.

	==Tilda==		===Tilda===

	A surviving Old One from Far Zenith's space colony. When she lived on Earth, she worked as an art expert and information broker; before even that, she was a isolated nerd traumatized by the death of her parents. She still is that nerd in a way, ignoring her loneliness by obsessing over two things: art, and her terminal case of oneitis towards Elizabet Sobeck.		A surviving Old One from Far Zenith's space colony. When she lived on Earth, she worked as an art expert and information broker; before even that, she was a isolated nerd traumatized by the death of her parents. She still is that nerd in a way, ignoring her loneliness by obsessing over two things: art, and her terminal case of oneitis towards Elizabet Sobeck.

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	See, what we said above about fleeing to space being impossible? It was ''almost'' entirely true. A few ultra-rich still managed to get on a spaceship and flee Earth. There, alongside some scientists they kept for themselves, they managed to make themselves immortal and progress even further technologically than they were before. Now they're coming back to retake Earth for themselves, wanting to exterminate all the savages and "primitives" there (Really subtle, Guerilla Games). They used their own clone of Elisabeth sobeck (called Beta) to get their own copy of GAIA so they can terraform Earth to their liking. from there on the game amounts to Aloy collecting various subroutines of Gaia (since the version she managed to get is an incomplete one) while trying to find a way to fight against Far Zenith.		See, what we said above about fleeing to space being impossible? It was ''almost'' entirely true. A few ultra-rich still managed to get on a spaceship and flee Earth. There, alongside some scientists they kept for themselves, they managed to make themselves immortal and progress even further technologically than they were before. Now they're coming back to retake Earth for themselves, wanting to exterminate all the savages and "primitives" there (Really subtle, Guerilla Games). They used their own clone of Elisabeth sobeck (called Beta) to get their own copy of GAIA so they can terraform Earth to their liking. from there on the game amounts to Aloy collecting various subroutines of Gaia (since the version she managed to get is an incomplete one) while trying to find a way to fight against Far Zenith.

	Oh, and it turns out Faro also received a version of the immortality juice, but not a perfect one. This prompted him to decide to stand next to a nuclear reactor [[Derp to stabilize it somehow]], so he's spent the last millennium as a horribly mutated blob of flesh not unlike Metro 2033's Biomass, whom, according to scan readings, only has "minimal" brain activity. We don't get to actually see him but, from an holographic display of his bunker/complex's map, he's grown to be ''huge'' and is so horrifying to look at that the guy who did so immediately ordered Faro to be burned to ashes.		Oh, and it turns out Faro also received a version of the immortality juice, but not a perfect one. This prompted him to decide to stand next to a nuclear reactor [[Derp\| to stabilize it somehow]], so he's spent the last millennium as a horribly mutated blob of flesh not unlike Metro 2033's Biomass, whom, according to scan readings, only has "minimal" brain activity. We don't get to actually see him but, from an holographic display of his bunker/complex's map, he's grown to be ''huge'' and is so horrifying to look at that the guy who did so immediately ordered Faro to be burned to ashes.

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Franchise

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	See, what we said above about fleeing to space being impossible? It was ''almost'' entirely true. A few ultra-rich still managed to get on a spaceship and flee Earth. There, alongside some scientists they kept for themselves, they managed to make themselves immortal and progress even further technologically than they were before. Now they're coming back to retake Earth for themselves, wanting to exterminate all the savages and "primitives" there (Really subtle, Guerilla Games). They used their own clone of Elisabeth sobeck (called Beta) to get their own copy of GAIA so they can terraform Earth to their liking. from there on the game amounts to Aloy collecting various subroutines of Gaia (since the version she managed to get is an incomplete one) while trying to find a way to fight against Far Zenith.		See, what we said above about fleeing to space being impossible? It was ''almost'' entirely true. A few ultra-rich still managed to get on a spaceship and flee Earth. There, alongside some scientists they kept for themselves, they managed to make themselves immortal and progress even further technologically than they were before. Now they're coming back to retake Earth for themselves, wanting to exterminate all the savages and "primitives" there (Really subtle, Guerilla Games). They used their own clone of Elisabeth sobeck (called Beta) to get their own copy of GAIA so they can terraform Earth to their liking. from there on the game amounts to Aloy collecting various subroutines of Gaia (since the version she managed to get is an incomplete one) while trying to find a way to fight against Far Zenith.

	Oh, and it turns out Faro also received a version of the immortality juice, but not a perfect one, so he's spent the last ~~millenium~~ as a horribly mutated blob of flesh whom, according to scan readings, only has "minimal" brain activity. We don't get to actually see him but, from an ~~holpgraphic~~ display of his bunker/complex's map, he's grown to be ''huge'' and is so horrifying to look at that the guy who did so immediately ordered Faro to be burned to ashes.		Oh, and it turns out Faro also received a version of the immortality juice, but not a perfect one. This prompted him to decide to stand next to a nuclear reactor [[Derp to stabilize it somehow]], so he's spent the last millennium as a horribly mutated blob of flesh not unlike Metro 2033's Biomass, whom, according to scan readings, only has "minimal" brain activity. We don't get to actually see him but, from an holographic display of his bunker/complex's map, he's grown to be ''huge'' and is so horrifying to look at that the guy who did so immediately ordered Faro to be burned to ashes.