Fortnite’s new Titan Hand event has spawned all sorts of theories
Fans of Fortnite have been hitting the books in an effort to spin up theories rooted in Greek mythology to try to explain what’s going on in the world of the game. It all started when a giant stone hand appeared in game’s world. This hand, which players call the Titan Hand, came bearing a mysterious locked chest. Players worked together and eventually destroyed the chains locking the box, but doing so came with consequences. It unleashed a fiery pillar of energy onto the land. Now, internet sleuths are trying to solve the puzzle of what happened and its deeper meaning.
The mini event marks the end of the current season and the beginning of the Chapter 5 Season 2 patch coming out on Friday. To some, it’s just another flashy event to lure people back into playing the game. To others, it’s a sign of what’s to come and says something about the larger world of Fortnite. Fortnite lore — yes, that’s a real thing — is a bit difficult to parse, since it’s a competitive online game without a clear mainline quest. With each season and chapter, the developers have slowly threaded together a larger but vague story of the world and what’s going on. In Chapter 5 Season 1, a giant meteor hit the surface and the developers launched a new map. Now, the Titan Hand event has prompted plenty of speculation on platforms like YouTube and TikTok as people have been dissecting the happenings of the world.
People who want to follow the larger story of the game need to pay close attention to various details of the world. Unlike games where you play as a specific character and experience a specific story, you don’t really pursue a mainline story in Fortnite, and there is no clear narrative happening. It’s up to superfans to piece together details of a larger story by observing events and the larger world, and participating in optional seasonal quests. For example, the loading scenes from the last season showed a storyline where Peely, the banana mascot of the series, was kidnapped and then
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