Horizon Forbidden West's Greenhouse Really Drives Home Ted Faro's Destructive Tendencies
Despite being full of beautiful vistas and engaging human characters, the Horizon universe is a generally bleak place to live. The planet was torn apart a thousand years prior by a robotic singularity, and the remnants of the apocalypse aren’t as long gone as that length of time would suggest. Throughout her adventures in Horizon Forbidden West and Zero Dawn, Aloy has gotten used to coming face-to-face with old-world horrors.
For Horizon Forbidden West, Guerrilla Games has taken that expectation to a whole new level, from both a worldbuilding and narrative perspective. During the later stages of Aloy’s quest to save the biosphere, players will come across one location that exemplifies the destructive tendencies of ancient humans. Referred to as «the Greenhouse,» this dilapidated old-world location provides a dark window into one of the universe’s more prevalent antagonists, Ted Faro.
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Even though he’s rarely seen physically, players have gotten a detailed insight into the backstory and personality of Ted Faro over the course of Horizon Zero Dawn and its sequel. In many ways, the entrepreneur and business mogul is the primary architect of the apocalypse and various calamities that Aloy finds herself attempting to solve. As the founder and creative force behind Faro Automated Solutions, Ted was responsible for the automated military technology that drove humanity to extinction.
Through various collectible data points and holograms, players have gradually been able to form a psychological profile of Ted Faro and the motivations that drove him to doom the world. It’s clear that a deep-seated arrogance formed a cornerstone of his identity, alongside a
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