Who The Far Zenith Are In Horizon Forbidden West

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Horizon Forbidden West and its predecessor are lore-heavy games, with players expected to keep track of two casts of characters living a thousand years apart, including an organization known as Far Zenith. Although the sequel has, for the most part, a self-contained narrative, those who didn't play Horizon Zero Dawn before Forbidden West may find themselves almost immediately lost. Forbidden West picks up not long after the conclusion of Zero Dawn, but puts players in control of Aloy as she's in the middle of exploring the ruins of a mysterious, ancient organization known as Far Zenith.

To the tribal denizens of Horizon's rebuilt planet, the members of Far Zenith would be considered Old Ones. The term «Old Ones» refers to those who lived in the 21st century (Horizon Zero Dawn starts in the year 3040), whose ruins lie throughout the wilderness but remain almost a complete mystery to the layman. Throughout the first game, Aloy learns that the Old Ones went extinct as a result of the Faro Plague, a swarm of war machines that became self-sufficient, multiplying by feeding on the Earth's biomass.

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There is a lot players need to know from Horizon Zero Dawn, but Far Zenith played an exceptionally minor role in its story. Far Zenith was a collective of the planet's ultra-wealthy who, assuming Earth was doomed even prior to the discovery of the Faro Plague, aspired to make humanity an interstellar species. The organization was quite secretive, with spokesman Osvald Dalgaard the only publicly known member. A few years prior to the Faro Plague, Far Zenith acquired and repurposed a defunct spacecraft known as the Odyssey. According to a Datapoint in Zero Dawn, the