Horizon Zero Dawn Modder Gives NPCs Their Own Epic Stories
An imaginative modder has given minor Horizon Zero Dawn non-player characters their own unique backstories and video series. Like its sequel Horizon Forbidden West, Guerrilla Games' open-world action game takes players to a post-apocalyptic world populated by scattered tribes and animalistic robots. While Horizon Zero Dawn focuses on Aloy, a young outcast of the Nora tribe, each character in the world of Horizon has a story of their own.
The world of Horizon is made up of various different tribes, each bringing a unique style and culture to the sci-fi setting. The Nora tribe, for example, is a hardy hunter-gatherer society that follows a High Matriarch and worships a deity called the All-Mother. The Carja empire, meanwhile, is a city-dwelling kingdom which appoints a king and worships the sun. The world of Horizon Zero Dawn is a far-distant version of our own world, and each tribe is similarly inspired by real-world groups like the native American tribes or ancient Roman empire. Horizon Forbidden West introduced new tribes, like the Utaru and Tenakth, which helped broaden the fictional setting further.
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As reported by GamesRadar, a modder and YouTuber named Maqsimous has begun giving Horizon Zero Dawn non-player characters their own stories. The first video series, The Song of Kotakali, takes a nameless member of the Banuk tribe that players can spot in-game and transforms her into a complex protagonist. The character's design motivated Maqsimous to give her a name and backstory, and modding tools allowed them to bring this story to life in-game. Recently Maqsimous began The Nora Mother, a second video series that follows a Nora woman named Sequola
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