Since so many breach items talk about uniting and being one i think Xeshtula is actually the final form the breachlords strive to achieve,so after chayula awakes from his slumber, they reunite to form xeshtula combining their powers to conquer wraeclast.

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a super interesting theory! That could definitely be the case. Hopefully we learn more. The combination of names certainly could lean towards that explanation

Al Hezmin references the Molten One in one of his death lines - "Molten One, save me from this unending nightmare"... not sure if that helps!

@graemelindsell6740

2 жыл бұрын

It appears that Al Hezmin is/was a Redblade as well. Why he ended up with the rest of the Conquerors is a bit of a mystery - Zana, Sirus, Veritania and Baran are all Oriathans, and Drox doesn't talk about his background at all. Was Al Hezmin living on Oriath and exiled by Dominus or did they meet him elsewhere?

I'm not sure, but I think that Xeshtula might actually be a thing in lore. It is somewhat implied that Chayula is actually sleeping and might/will feed upon the other lords once they wake up. Somewhat implied by skin of the lords, which if it is a follow up from skin of the loyal, would mean that Chayula or someone even more powerful, uses the breachlords as a sacrifice.

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

It might be! I tend to think there are more lords as I do believe that Chayula uses lords as his “skin”. I just didn’t have any info on him and the name - (X)oph (Esh) (T)ul U(ul)-netol Chayul(a) - is just kind of silly. If it’s an in for more lore I’d love to see more!

@frissonize

2 жыл бұрын

@@KittenCatNoodle Yes, I reached the same conclusion; Xesht-Ula is clearly an overwrought portmanteau. It would be startling for it to be real lore when the Atlas passive tree it was introduced with (3.17) didn't offer any new potential lore otherwise.

Ayyy my Chalupa used well :) Edit: Good video!

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Thank you so much for that. It was the only image of chalupa I could find so y’all really saved me with that group smash

@maizena7646

2 жыл бұрын

@@KittenCatNoodle Happy to help :) hope you shake off the last vestiges of the rona quickly

Checking out these videos first time during Lake of Kalandra. The change Esh went trough - she found the lake

I love your content. I've watched and recommended it to everyone that has any interest in lore. You're an amazing researcher and narrator. You take time and care with audio and video editing. Please know I appreciate you as the complex mind that you are. My only request is to search around for possibly a different outro. I know it's your signature, but I can't help but feel that the street wise punk rock flow of itsyoboi noodle meshes with the amazing depth of character that you bring to the PoE community. Thank you for all you do, I look forward to your next video and I wish you a swift recovery from the C.

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that! I do take a lot of time and care with research, and I'm passionate about it because there is a great story to be told, and I want to help bring those pieces together for everyone. That said, the outro more reflects who I am outside of my lore stuff - I stream, and when I stream I'm not nearly as serious as my lore work might portray. I like the outro, but I can see how they seem disparate. I am a bit odd that way. A very goofy person who has intense passion for teaching and learning. Thank you for the well wishes on my recovery! Besides the choppy/deeper voice, I'm feeling much better.

I always had a soft spot for breach, i even designed a D and D campaign around it, largely in my act 2. I formulated the campaign around adventurers discovering the fate of Queen Atzri and looting her lost treasure tomb. They learn that Aztiei opened a portal to Chayula’s realm and attempted to steal its amulet in order to cure a terminal illness only to be stranded in a pocket dimension) I made it cause i heard a fan theory that the corruption from atziris realm (alluring abyss and apex of sacrifice) leaks into the breach realms.

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

I love that! I'm a big fan of D&D so that sounds like an absolutely awesome combo. How did the encounter with Chayula go? Are they skins now?

@soulstealer5625

2 жыл бұрын

@@KittenCatNoodle Unfortunalyu Covid threw the campaign on kinda permanent pause. I tried using discord for it but considering it was my first DM, I was too nervous and I called it off after a test session. We were still in act 1 of my campaign so we didnt make it to the breach realms unfortunately. My detailed plan (as much as a plan in D and D counts for anything i.e having a rough outline but also random encounters and improv to pad and connect the scenes) was: Party begin in a tavern and can choose to intervene or not when a vaal lady gets harassed by some Elven thugs. This vaal lady is Alva Valai (vaal in this world were basically humans but got to choose another racial trait hence why elves were kinda salty since the vaal empire in its prime had harvested racial traits to add to their own). She offers the party a quest to locate the lost treasure tombs of Queen Atzri, revealing her ancestor was Dorayni. Being her physician during the Queen's deteriorating health left him with secrets that he passed down in the family which is why Alva believes she is the best equipped to locate her missing wealth since her disappearance. In this world, the Vaal had ruled the majority of Wraeclast with the exception of the Karui archipeligo and Oriath which was firmly in the territory of the Templar which had tensions. Towards the end of Atziris reign, the Templar had launched an assault and were repelled but the various other races (namely the Tiefling and Elves) launched a rebellion and managed to topple the Vaal who were weakened from the Templar invasion. Atzri and several of her closest supporters and entourage were never discovered. Anyways, present day the party travel to the old Vaal Capital city now renamed Sarn and held by the Elven Queen Hyrii, they break into a musuem holding an artifact called the Cartographer (various hijinks such as a party member attempting to intimadate guards by stripping and one very valiant elderly lady guard standing her ground while the other guards fled in fear). Alva reveals that several key artifacts are operated by vaal blood and she activates the cartographer which reveals two key locations and a mysterious locked location. At this point, the party is free to do whatever but I make it clear the locations marked are where the story progression is. I still try to add some lore parts such as where they encounter a water hag at a lighthouse that is holding a corpse hostage for the enviromental damage he caused during his lifetime as an engineer for the vaal. Freeing him earns the party some loot and lore about the templar invasion. I also add in some potential allies for later in the story with the Hunters of Artemis and Jun Ortoi who is in the hunters as an undercover operative for the order of the djin. I also let the party make contact with several Karui escapees who jumped overboard from the Templar slave ships whose navy still heavily controls the seas. Eventually the party got to one key location which was the cybernetics facility. There they encounter horrific cyborg spiders and broken down machines (kinda like the guardians from Breath of the wild) and a strange gollum like creature who is fiercly protective of his precious. He sets the experimental project Argus on the party (omnidroid from the incredibles). I actually made the encounter too hard so I added a trait to nerf it (Decaying- 50% chance to have its AC and hit chance to be cut in half and disable its abilities, roll per round). They then found the gene lab as the 2nd key location. Unfortunately we had to cut here because of Covid. The plan was for the place to be lived in by a gang. Deeper in would be infested with miscreations and the Unholy Trio boss. The party would then finally find the Gollum creature who had fled before and discover he was Zilquapa. He had been working on a project to find solutions for Atzris terminal illness and discovered the breach realms. Towards the end of her reign, she had entered into the realms but a coup had occured in her empire from a group called "the light of the vaal". Seeking to remove her from power, they invaded the lab and attempted to close the portal to the breach realm. While atzri and her entourage failed to return, they had accidentally released several breach monsters into the lab and an amulet. Zilquapa had grabbed the amulet and sealed the lab. The amulet had then began to eat away at his mind and left him in this sorry state. His blood would then be used on the Cartographer to fully reveal the third location and the party would find the lab with a functioning breach portal. They would then be transported to Chayulas realm, a realm filtered with their darkest desires and brought before Chayula. He reclaims his amulet (eye of Chayula now the presence of Chayula) and offers the party blessings were they to slaughter the other breach lords so he could claim their lands. This act 2 would allow the party to stick to Chayula or to take up another breach lord to fight for. Each area would have its own theme and monster type. For example Uul-neetol would be a bloody arena with the final confrontation being a labyrinth where she abducts a player and stalks them while the rest of the party navigates the maze of bone. Each breach lord would have two commanders the party could go after before the breach lord to convert to their side or cripple a key defence. One commander would be monsterous and breach in nature (for example Uul-neetol would have Shakari as a commander) and a vaal commander (aisling). The key question I would want to install in players is why these breach lords have vaal commanders, why they have knowledge of the vaal language and why the covenant broke. This coveant is an agreement between the breachlords of cooperation and only recently has it been broken by Chayula. Shortly after, all of the breach lords have been corrupted and behaving in an extreme manner. Tul for example used to be a cold but fair judge but is now waging a totalitarian war against her own people. Once all the breach lords but the one they were working for have been struck down, the surving breach lord is revealed to be possessed by Atzri who now attemtps to use her new influence to force open a portal back to her homeland from the pocket dimension she is trapped in. Turns out Atzri had invaded Chayulas realm in order to steal his amulet to cure her disease. The coup had sabotaged her return portal and left her entourage in a pocket dimension tethered to the breach realms. Upon defeating this breach lord, the part would return to the homeland to find that the barrier between worlds has greatly weakened. Even before the breach realms, corruption from atziris realm leaked into reality and was warping the land. The effects were now magnified. The party would then need to get to Oriath as High Templar Dominus had made contact with Atzri and beleived her to be God, the top of his tower being the weakest link between the pocket dimension and reality. This would involve getting a boat and navigating through either Templar Patrolled waters or through the Bay of Malice with many notorious water monsters. They would then have to face dominus (these latter parts are more theoretical until I get a party here) and enter into the pocket dimension to finally stop atziri. Here would be revealed that Atzri had found a solution to her illness via a serial killer named Zerphi; sacrifice. However her illness demanded an increasing tide of sacrifice that her population could not sustain. Hence her plan was to return to the homeland and make one huge sacrifice to block the stream of life and death, obtaining immortality for all. Sorry for the long ass response, this has been sitting in my head and phone notes for a long time.

Love your vids Noodle! Always happy to see you dive into the depths of the lore and provide us with a clear and concise explanation.. with some sprinkles of speculation of course!

No one else does these! You do such a good job too! I've been using your poe lore videos to help me creat D&D campaign lore haha it's so great thank you!

Nice work on the video!

Love the Video NoodleSki :) I also love the Sunken City BossFight Music in the Later Half of the Video :) Awesome Tune

I played this league a looooooog way ago. Exited and then rejoined.

So happy that there’s new KCN lore vids still being produced regularly

Nice video. There's also a possible connection implied by the Betrayal dialogue when Haku betrays It That Fled: "HakuOfferBetrayalSix I bear no kinship with that... thing. It is not of this world and is entirely without honour." "ItThatFledReplyToBetrayalAcceptedTwo It That Protects would not squawk so if It knew what the Red Pyre teaches Its at birth" Haku says it has no kinship with ITF, and It replies that the Red Pyre has taught it something different. ITF also has an interesting comment when It offers to betray Jorgin: "It hates It That Is Hairy's brood. No thoughts, brood-mouths open, drooling power for the hated enemies from Before All. Animals, Its are. Diseased animals. It hates hates hates hates!" I think this implies that there's some ancient enmity between the First Ones and the Breach Lords. There are three members of the Syndicate that seem to me to have a priestly aspect: Haku with his Ancestors and the Karui gods, Jorgin with the First Ones and and obviously Elreon with Innocence. When It That Fled comments on the last two it seems to really hate & fear them; not so with Haku. Is one of the Karui gods actually Xoph by another name?

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know about one of the Karui gods actually being Xoph. That could be an interesting lead to look into. I did notice how much ITF seems to hate Elreon, talking about his glowing, and I'm not sure what to make of that. If the redblades do live on the island north/northeast of Ezomyr, that could explain part of ITF's hatred for Jorgin. If the redblades and Ezomytes have a bad relationship, and the redblades's caldera is on/part of the red pyre (or connected to it), maybe that's part of it?

@graemelindsell6740

2 жыл бұрын

@@KittenCatNoodle I've always assumed that Elreon's horrible glow is associated with Innocence, who is canonically an enemy of demons.

Cannot believe another lore video Sadly too late got to add it to watch later Get well soon

yay! more lore!! :D)

Recover well and stay sane :)

your videos are great and helps me connect to the lore very smoothly. a suggestion would be to lower the background music a little. you can maybe consider playing with your voice output a bit as well, to give a deeper, more mysterious tone so the storytelling is more captivating(?).

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

Man, I had such a hard time balancing the music this time. I think because it sounded OK on my speakers I assumed it was a decent level. I'll keep that in mind! Thanks for watching.

Great add to the oeuvre! You should be on GGG's payroll for the degree to which you hold their narrative team to account. Or as a consultant to their narrative team, frankly. Or otherwise put: you're not overbreaching, here. P.S. Thank you for confirming which Breachlords are male and which are female. I'm sure I speak for many here when I say I was always confused which was which.

korell does kind of look like a breach guy

This is come in *_handy_*

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

Nooooo

More Scourge lore please?

An other lore vid by noodle and sunday 😍. I knew only uul netul as female breach lord didnt know about esh an tul . So we as exile makin breach lords stronger and stronger every time we kill them hmm so far to flawless breach what can go wrong right ☺☺☺

POE is full of deep dark twisted beautiful lore full of mysteries and potentials... Guess what? IT ENDS WHERE IT STARTED!!!

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

BUT DOES IT START WHERE IT ENDS? O_O

Given all of the imagery and words about 'coming together', is it possible that the Breach creatures are from a dimension that was taken over the the Tangle? Perhaps Scourge or Beyond is a similar dimension taken over by the Searing Exarch?

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

That’s interesting! It could be taken over by the Tangle or even subservient to/worshipping of. The lords are made powerful by the mashing and “entangling” of masses. I didn’t think about that at all! That would also imply the Tangle has been aware of and hungering for Wraeclast, which was hinted at (although the jewel flavor text about tangle could have been describing another world). My question is - how close is the dimension with Breach and Beyond to Wraeclast? Is it on top of it, like parallel? Or is it a separate world with rifts connecting between space as well as dimension?

@NemisCassander

2 жыл бұрын

@@KittenCatNoodle Well, I think the only way to get a handle on this is to determine how similar the dimension Scourge is in/from is to the others... The Scourge dimension is clearly an overlapping dimension. I think Breach is a similar overlapping dimension... mostly. The fact that the Breach monsters are moving through a landscape that mimics the real one shows that they is an overlay here. The 'mostly' comes from the fact that the Breachlords' domains don't correspond to any known location on Wraeclast. Beyond, OTOH, has no real overlay sense. We can't tell, by the way the Beyond portals work, whether it's just a summoning portal that is moving through distance as well as dimension, or just one or the other. So, in all, in terms of likelihood of being parallel/overlaid/coterminous, I think Scourge > Breach > Beyond.

@Reshapable

2 жыл бұрын

I think a key difference is the tangle is implied to be a mass of still living and still individualized beings forced into one unwilling "body". Going by what's presented in this video, the breachlords are distinct individuals "fed" by the deaths of others. They're similar but the tangle is more abstract horror while the breachlords seem almost nature adjacent. And wasn't scourge effectively multiple parallel dimensions where various invasive beings or extremist practices proved victorious? I admittedly was only partly paying attention at the time but it was sort of a joint concept league where Chaos and several past leagues were present simultaneously.

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

@@NemisCassander You're totally right that the breachlords domains are totally different than any place we've seen on Wraeclast. Scourge seems like a complete overlap, beyond is a total mystery... Breach is somewhere in between.

i think that the breach lords and breach beings as a whole are the vaal, all the blood, scurge/beyond connections and sacrifices, its too similar imo, and besides the vall have to had gone shomewhere after their ritual, right?

not sure if anyone pointed this out but does that mean al hezmin was a redblade? because when you stab him, he says "molten one, save me from this unending torment"

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

Yep! He is a redblade as well.

love your videos I have a question fairly unrelated to the video but why vilenta decided to betray us in act 10? am i missing something? it kinda bugging me a bit after i rewatch your 10 act series.

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

Great question! My understanding is that Vilenta was a little crazy when we met her. She was jealous of Piety, upset about her research being destroyed/diminished, and generally uneasy with Kitava and his cultists lurking around. Vilenta thought if she gave the group up to Kitava, she could have a chance of escaping. Instead, she was turned into the monster we fight in Act 10.

2 жыл бұрын

@@KittenCatNoodle thank you so much! i was thinking when lani said vilenta betrayed us, she gave in to kitava to get back to her research on people or something like that and somehow turned into the monster.

thought the molten one was abberath

8:30 Northeast?

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

From the isle of skoth, which is where all current Ezomytes live... oh that's west. Derp. Good catch

HyperClap

hiii, where is sunday

@KittenCatNoodle

2 жыл бұрын

She sleepin

@vallexti

2 жыл бұрын

@@KittenCatNoodle tell her my cat said hello

Ok ... so the only breachlord i thought was female is the male one ... chayula sounds female tbh