Horizon Forbidden West's Quen Could Take Aloy Across The Ocean

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This article contains spoilers for Horizon Forbidden West.Horizon Forbidden West presents a larger world than its predecessor, expanding on the lore of both the old world and the modern-day of Aloy’s time by introducing new characters, machines, ruins, and tribes. The Quen is the first tribe that Aloy encounters that operates from beyond continental America, and the first tribe known to have access to shipping capable of crossing an Ocean.

The Quen have a lot of knowledge of the old world and have been able to create a large catalog of this information, much of it has helped them advance much further than the other tribes. However, they have been heavily affected by the Red Blight that Aloy is attempting to stop in Horizon Forbidden West, which is why they have set up a base in the ruins of San Francisco.

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With their immense knowledge of the highly advanced old-world humans, the Quen were able to cross the Pacific Ocean and make landfall on the Western shore of the Forbidden West. In their quest to protect the tribe, they are seeking more knowledge of the old-world, particularly data on agriculture to help feed the tribe.

Much of the knowledge the Quen gathered came in part from the use of the Faro Focus, which the Quen believed was entrusted to them by the old ones. The focus coupled with the belief that they were chosen by the old ones convinced them to seek out knowledge from different figureheads of the old worlds such as Ted Faro and Erik Visser, and the detailed knowledge they were able to uncover from them gave them formidable battle prowess and unrivaled knowledge of technology and machines.

Following the events of Horizon