Horizon Forbidden West: Who Are the Ten?

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Between Horizon Forbidden West and its predecessor Zero Dawn, Guerrilla Games has done a remarkable job constructing a vibrant and believable universe. One of the ways that the studio has managed to achieve this is through the creation of an extensive cast of engaging characters. As the player and Aloy venture through its latest post-apocalyptic adventure on PS4 and PS5, they’ll subsequently come across intriguing people at a decent frequency. Unlike some of the other narrative-driven RPGs out there, it’s often easy to envision these characters having led full-lives before the encounter.

Being a series of games set within the ruins of humanity’s golden age, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Aloy will often indirectly run into characters that are long since dead as well. Even though these types of encounters have been a part of the Horizon universe since the opening mission of Zero Dawn, for the game’s sequel, Guerrilla Games has arguably taken things a step further. No group depicts this in action within Horizon Forbidden West better than the «Ten,» a group of enigmatic ancient humans who are still shaping the world over a thousand years after their deaths.

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Despite the fact that it’s easy to get lost in the Horizon universe’s predominantly post-apocalyptic narrative, the story of how humanity got to that point is often just as fascinating. Thanks to Horizon Forbidden West, there’s a sense that Guerrilla Games is aware of this, due to how the studio has taken its sequel as an opportunity to provide more details about the exploits of the ancient human race. Even though fans have been aware of how much trouble the Earth was in during the