Horizon Forbidden West DLC Should Bring Aloy Back to the Nora Sacred Lands
One of the most interesting things about Guerrilla Games' Horizon franchise is seeing how the Dutch studio imagines American landscapes in a post-apocalyptic future. Horizon Zero Dawn took place around various parts of real-world Colorado, Utah, and more states in that region; then five years later Horizon Forbidden West took players to the west coast of northern California after a journey across Utah and Nevada — including cities like Las Vegas.
With Horizon Zero Dawn's Frozen Wilds DLC bringing Aloy further north into Yellowstone National Park, now a territory called The Cut inhabited by the Banuk tribe, it's likely Forbidden West will receive something similar. There are plenty of areas for Aloy to explore, either heading south toward Los Angeles or north toward Seattle, and the introduction of the Quen from across the sea means another continent may be in the cards. However, circumstances at the end of the adventure suggest a return to Zero Dawn's Nora Sacred Lands would make sense as Forbidden West DLC. Spoilers for Horizon Forbidden West ahead.
Horizon Forbidden West's Quen Could Take Aloy Across The Ocean
In the Horizon franchise, humanity invests its technological prowess into fighting climate change some years after the current day, and this «claw-back» era brings a number of individuals and their tech companies to prominence. One such individual is Ted Faro of Faro Automated Solutions (FAS), who pivots his organization to military contracts. This leads to the construction of unstoppable, self-replicating robots that are powered by biofuel, and Project Zero Dawn is humanity's last-ditch effort to reseed the world after this «Faro Plague» strips Earth of all life.
Because Faro destroys Zero Dawn's Apollo database of
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