Not to get emotional about my big dumb bird friends but, I love my big dumb bird friends.
If you watch Sunwings in the late afternoon, they will keep their wings outstretched to catch the last sunrays on their solar panels. Then as soon as the sun sets, they panic. They'll frantically flap up towards the west, squawking and flailing, before landing and booting up their shields - they'll repeat this pattern over and over again until dawn. But why raise their shields when there is no active threat? My theory is, they're scared of the dark. Their source of energy and light is gone and their tiny bird brains don't know it'll come back again because they aren't programmed to know about "morning". So they boot up their glowing shields, wasting their power, so they have some light against the dark.
Then the sun rises in the opposite direction and they go "...OH." and turn around to sunbath and recharge again.
I’m throwing this up as a reference. It’s just fun speculation and I know a lot can happen during development. Horizon is known for leaving little bread crumbs leading into the next game. So, in going off this, and a statement from writing director Ben McCaw, I believe these are mainline quest points for the next game…
Before you speak with Sylens at the end of BS, he’s looking over specific spots on a map of North America. I’ve done my best to surmise what those specific locations are.
Location 1: The northern most point in Canada I could not find any significant settlement names (Canadians help me out here if you know). It all looked like a huge wildlife park preserve. Potential Ban-Ur location?
Location 2: The spot below to the left is very close to Edmonton or Calgary. Maybe Banff? Most likely candidate for Ban-Ur.
Locations 3&4: The two close together is Salt Lake and I think Boise, Idaho. Or some other location in eastern Oregon. Salt Lake is the FAS facility mentioned in the data point collected from Londra (Dagger in my Boot). Most likely Boise is The Claim homeland of the Oseram, and potentially, Elysium. As Elysium was stated to only be “miles” from GAIA Prime.
Location 5: And at the very bottom we have Houston. Hard to pinpoint that because of how much the coastline has changed. However, that’s a very important NASA base so I’m very curious to see what that could entail.
Anyway! If we do get a map this size, WOW. I’m deeply excited at the prospect of finally visiting the homeland of the Oseram and Banuk. Banuk especially.
It's been a VERY exciting and productive Ereloy week so far - all of you creators are amazing and we've been GORGING on your beautiful work!!
In light of the celebration week, we figured this might be a good time to welcome any new (and existing!) Horizon fans into the fold and let you all know about the Two Minutes discord server! HFW just released on PC and is bound to bring in new faces, and we know how vital it can be to connect with fellow fans when you have The Brainrot™.
We're always excited to make new friends, and would love to have you in our community! We are primarily an Ereloy server, but eagerly welcome any Horizon fans that love Erend and don't mind us screaming constantly about our blorbos. 😂
If you'd like an invite, feel free to comment here or send a DM to this blog. We are a warm, friendly bunch and would love to see you there!
We can't wait for you to play it and know what you think about it 💖
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Finally, I have a submission for Mutton Chop Monday! Here is Erend seeing Aloy for the first time in the Daunt. Before he remembers that he's mad at her. lol