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[[WMG: You are bringing about the final apocalypse.]]
The reason Kenshi 2 is a prequel is because Kenshi is the end of the road for this world. This is really just a hunch but by the beginning of the game every nation except the Holy Nation is on it's last legs. There's pretty much a reason to fight every faction in the game (except for the western hivers). As you hoard technology and wealth you will almost certainly come into conflict with some of them. Eventually the player will probably decimate at least one faction. This destablization could destroy the world. This is how I think this apocalypse would come about. A single wanderer decides to head out to carve out their niche in the world. Whether they start out as a theif, bandit, assassin, bounty hunter, or even an honest laborer they eventually decide to put down roots. By this time they've gathered a small but extremely loyal crew. This faction creates a settlement but is limited by its technology and bothered by its neighbors. So the Wanderer decides to search the world for technology while fighting the bandits threatening their work along the way. Almost inevitably they come across Narko's trap and they decide to defy the Holy Nation. This causes the Holy Nation to try to purge this upstart faction. For awhile the new faction is able to hold off the Holy Nation due to the scientific breakthroughs they've had. But eventually attrition takes its toll. So despite their potential run ins with the Shek the wanderers asks for an alliance. They're then sent on a fools errand to take down the Bugmaster. But through proper preparation the Wanderer achieves the impossible and takes down the Bugmaster. The new faction has the means to fight the Holy Nation but the Wanderer is gripped by an obsession. The Bugmaster had a map leading to the Ashlands and someone even stronger than him. The wanderer decides to head to the ashlands and uncover its rumored riches. The wanderer's faction heads to the forbidden zone and along the way incurs the wrath of the United cities perhaps by fighting back against noble hunters or by freeing slaves. Now backed into a corner the new faction plunges into the Ashlands. There they encounter Cat-lon and enough research material to uncover the last of the Second Empire's technology. The faction makes it's move waging war alongside the Shek kingdom against first the Holy Nation and then the United Cities. The world has been freed but at what cost? The Shek can't rule the continent they have barely enough people to fill their own lands and they barely control them. The wanderer decides that their kwn faction has to restore civilization but their next move dooms it instead. The wanderer decides to take over World's end in an attempt to organize the scientists of the world. But while the wanderer is highly charismatic and able to command ultimate loyalty from their followers they ultimately lack the ability to create a government. So the wanderer has become the most powerful person in the world but in the process has destroyed the last civilizations and is unable to build a new one. So the world is doomed to completely fall apart once the wanderer and their companions die. Or maybe there isn't a sequel because you pave the way for civilization to be rebuilt and life becomes boring but it seems doubtful.
The reason Kenshi 2 is a prequel is because Kenshi is the end of the road for this world. This is really just a hunch but by the beginning of the game every nation except the Holy Nation is on it's last legs. There's pretty much a reason to fight every faction in the game (except for the western hivers). As you hoard technology and wealth you will almost certainly come into conflict with some of them. Eventually the player will probably decimate at least one faction. This destablization could destroy the world. This is how I think this apocalypse would come about. A single wanderer decides to head out to carve out their niche in the world. Whether they start out as a theif, bandit, assassin, bounty hunter, or even an honest laborer they eventually decide to put down roots. By this time they've gathered a small but extremely loyal crew. This faction creates a settlement but is limited by its technology and bothered by its neighbors. So the Wanderer decides to search the world for technology while fighting the bandits threatening their work along the way. Almost inevitably they come across Narko's trap and they decide to defy the Holy Nation. This causes the Holy Nation to try to purge this upstart faction. For awhile the new faction is able to hold off the Holy Nation due to the scientific breakthroughs they've had. But eventually attrition takes its toll. So despite their potential run ins with the Shek the wanderers asks for an alliance. They're then sent on a fools errand to take down the Bugmaster. But through proper preparation the Wanderer achieves the impossible and takes down the Bugmaster. The new faction has the means to fight the Holy Nation but the Wanderer is gripped by an obsession. The Bugmaster had a map leading to the Ashlands and someone even stronger than him. The wanderer decides to head to the ashlands and uncover its rumored riches. The wanderer's faction heads to the forbidden zone and along the way incurs the wrath of the United cities perhaps by fighting back against noble hunters or by freeing slaves. Now backed into a corner the new faction plunges into the Ashlands. There they encounter Cat-lon and enough research material to uncover the last of the Second Empire's technology. The faction makes it's move waging war alongside the Shek kingdom against first the Holy Nation and then the United Cities. The world has been freed but at what cost? The Shek can't rule the continent they have barely enough people to fill their own lands and they barely control them. The wanderer decides that their kwn faction has to restore civilization but their next move dooms it instead. The wanderer decides to take over World's end in an attempt to organize the scientists of the world. But while the wanderer is highly charismatic and able to command ultimate loyalty from their followers they ultimately lack the ability to create a government. So the wanderer has become the most powerful person in the world but in the process has destroyed the last civilizations and is unable to build a new one. So the world is doomed to completely fall apart once the wanderer and their companions die. Or maybe there isn't a sequel because you pave the way for civilization to be rebuilt and life becomes boring but it seems doubtful.
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[[WMG: The bug master is a proto queen or the predecessor form]]
All queens are augmented and one hive actively has taken up use of a robotic unit. Alongside this both current hives are found near ruined outposts and building material constructions not first empire tech labs suggesting they are not in fact products of the first empire but the second empire like the sheks. Meanwhile the bug master a human who has seemingly existed for centuries possibly longer given that 2nd empire made the sheks to fight the bugmaster which later became their old age martyrdom against him. He has control over skin spiders which share a tone with both hiver queens.
[[WMG: The different hives were experiments in differing sources of biomass ]]
The different hives of kenshi western and southern were experiments by cat-lon during the twilight years of his empire to create a perfect workforce. Given the fact both hive queens can be found near ruined storm houses rather then ancient tech labs suggesting their creation was much more recent. This in addition to the farms found at the western hive queen and the the king suggest that the western hive source their bio mass from green fruit and the southern from blood via crushing with the king. The fogmen are likely a fallen hive after a queen died leaving them without a method of emitting pheromones' or repopulating and their princes turning to directly eating other non fogmen to make more in a much cruder process then the queens I can only really theorize what the northern hive would've sourced its bio-mass from.
All queens are augmented and one hive actively has taken up use of a robotic unit. Alongside this both current hives are found near ruined outposts and building material constructions not first empire tech labs suggesting they are not in fact products of the first empire but the second empire like the sheks. Meanwhile the bug master a human who has seemingly existed for centuries possibly longer given that 2nd empire made the sheks to fight the bugmaster which later became their old age martyrdom against him. He has control over skin spiders which share a tone with both hiver queens.
[[WMG: The different hives were experiments in differing sources of biomass ]]
The different hives of kenshi western and southern were experiments by cat-lon during the twilight years of his empire to create a perfect workforce. Given the fact both hive queens can be found near ruined storm houses rather then ancient tech labs suggesting their creation was much more recent. This in addition to the farms found at the western hive queen and the the king suggest that the western hive source their bio mass from green fruit and the southern from blood via crushing with the king. The fogmen are likely a fallen hive after a queen died leaving them without a method of emitting pheromones' or repopulating and their princes turning to directly eating other non fogmen to make more in a much cruder process then the queens I can only really theorize what the northern hive would've sourced its bio-mass from.
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[[WMG: The Fogmen are enacting an AssimilationPlot across Kenshi's world.]]
As players affect the major state of the world, such as destroying factions or raiding settlements and cities, Fogmen will quickly begin to dominate large swaths of the map. It's never stated in game why this is, but given the fact Fogmen are a sub-species of Hivers and the direct implications that both Hivers and Shek are decended from ancient Humans of Kenshi's history. It stands to reason then that there must have been some way to initially create Hivers before the Queens. Perhaps the Fogmen figured out how to create more of themselves and turning whoever they don't eat into Fogmen.
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This overall paints an image of a Holy Nation that was more benevolent, and more egalitarian in terms of gender, than the one we see today,]. And perhaps one that the current Inquisitors are trying hard to keep covered up.
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This overall paints an image of a Holy Nation that was more benevolent, and more egalitarian in terms of gender, than the one we see today,].today. And perhaps one that the current Inquisitors are trying hard to keep covered up.
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[[WMG: The Holy Nation was not always as sexist as it is today.]]
The Book of Grace and Book of Sacrifice's descriptions say they are forbidden in the Holy Nation. (There's no actual consequence for having them in your inventory, and they can be found in Temples. This WMG assumes this to be a case of GameplayAndStorySegregation.) And furthermore, they are supposedly ancient texts by unknown authors.
The Book of Grace tells the usual "never yearn for pleasures of the flesh" that you occasionally hear from Paladins, but it also says "Let us show kindness to our brothers and our sisters, never harm them, never feel envy or animosity towards them." The fact it includes "sisters" in there speaks volumes, considering the Holy Nation's usual attitude towards women.
The Book of Sacrifice tells an origin story for Okran and Narko, the two having spawned from a being named Chitrin. However, Narko is spoken of here in a VERY different way than other Holy Nation texts. Narko is portrayed as more of a grim reaper-esque figure, rather than actively evil, and their gender (along with Okran's, for that matter!) is never mentioned at all.
This overall paints an image of a Holy Nation that was more benevolent, and more egalitarian in terms of gender, than the one we see today,]. And perhaps one that the current Inquisitors are trying hard to keep covered up.
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One of the Holy Nation books gives instruction on how to spot Skeletons living among humans, which only makes sense if Skeletons used to look exactly like humans. Perhaps they were originally called skeletons not because they resemble skeletons, but because they are the literal bare skeleton of a type of robots with skin.
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One of the Holy Nation books gives instruction on how to spot Skeletons living among humans, which only makes sense if Skeletons used to look exactly like humans. Perhaps they were originally called skeletons not because they resemble skeletons, but because they are the literal bare skeleton of a type of robots with skin.skin.
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The Whistler is a DummiedOut model of a headless giant female robot that exists in the Ashland. Given that Cat-Lon is known to decapitate fellow skeletons to enthrall them, it's highly possible that the Whistler is one of his victims and turned against mankind. The sheer terror of a giant headless robot massacring them leads to humaniry creating the figure of Narko based on the Whistler.
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The Whistler is a DummiedOut model of a headless giant female robot that exists in the Ashland. Given that Cat-Lon is known to decapitate fellow skeletons to enthrall them, it's highly possible that the Whistler is one of his victims and turned against mankind. The sheer terror of a giant headless robot massacring them leads to humaniry humanity creating the figure of Narko based on the Whistler.
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One of the Holy Nation books gives instruction on how to spot Skeletons living among humans, which only makes sense if Skeletons used to look exactly like a human. Perhaps they are originally called skeletons not because they resemble skeletons, but because they literally are the bare skeleton of a type of robots with skin.
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One of the Holy Nation books gives instruction on how to spot Skeletons living among humans, which only makes sense if Skeletons used to look exactly like a human. humans. Perhaps they are were originally called skeletons not because they resemble skeletons, but because they literally are the literal bare skeleton of a type of robots with skin.
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The Whistler is a DummiedOut model of a headless giant female robot that exists in the Ashland. Given that Cat-Lon is known to decapitate fellow skeletons to enthrall them, it's highly possible that the Whistler is one of his victims and turned against mankind. The sheer terror of a giant headless robot massacring them leads to humaniry creating the figure of Narko based on the Whistler.
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The Whistler is a DummiedOut model of a headless giant female robot that exists in the Ashland. Given that Cat-Lon is known to decapitate fellow skeletons to enthrall them, it's highly possible that the Whistler is one of his victims and turned against mankind. The sheer terror of a giant headless robot massacring them leads to humaniry creating the figure of Narko based on the Whistler.Whistler.
[[WMG: Skeletons used to be indistinguishable from humans]]
One of the Holy Nation books gives instruction on how to spot Skeletons living among humans, which only makes sense if Skeletons used to look exactly like a human. Perhaps they are originally called skeletons not because they resemble skeletons, but because they literally are the bare skeleton of a type of robots with skin.
[[WMG: Skeletons used to be indistinguishable from humans]]
One of the Holy Nation books gives instruction on how to spot Skeletons living among humans, which only makes sense if Skeletons used to look exactly like a human. Perhaps they are originally called skeletons not because they resemble skeletons, but because they literally are the bare skeleton of a type of robots with skin.
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[[WMG: Narko is the result of Cat-Lon's attempt to enthrall an ancient robot]]
The Whistler is a DummiedOut model of a headless giant female robot that exists in the Ashland. Given that Cat-Lon is known to decapitate fellow skeletons to enthrall them, it's highly possible that the Whistler is one of his victims and turned against mankind. The sheer terror of a giant headless robot massacring them leads to humaniry creating the figure of Narko based on the Whistler.
The Whistler is a DummiedOut model of a headless giant female robot that exists in the Ashland. Given that Cat-Lon is known to decapitate fellow skeletons to enthrall them, it's highly possible that the Whistler is one of his victims and turned against mankind. The sheer terror of a giant headless robot massacring them leads to humaniry creating the figure of Narko based on the Whistler.
