Now that the brand new DLC for Threat of Rain 2 has been formally revealed beneath the title Seekers of the Storm, Gearbox has begun its pre-release promotional marketing campaign for it. Its first main checkpoint? A brief dialogue of Seekers of the Storm‘s essential villain, the ominous-sounding False Son.

Extra particularly, Gearbox’s first official Threat of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm developer diary is concerning the DLC’s all-new remaining boss and the lore behind its existence. Although lore hasn’t traditionally been an enormous attract Threat of Rain or its extremely acclaimed sequel, Threat of Rain 2, it’s price highlighting that the franchise has a major narrative backlog going within the background of all of the killing. And now, the False Son represents the implications of what the Survivors have been doing on the planet Petrichor V.

Threat of Rain 2’s False Son is a tragic determine

Within the occasions resulting in Seekers of the Storm, the survivors of each the primary and the second sport’s respective planetfalls have taken on god-like entities, Windfall and Mithrix, as a way to escape Petrichor V. Within the background, a mysterious creation of those entities goals to interrupt free, terrifying the lizard-like Lemurian creatures who used to worship and adore Windfall and Mithrix. To guard themselves, Lemurians create the False Son, as per Gearbox’s Kayla Larson, resident Threat of Rain loremaster, who provides that Mithrix finally ends up corrupting the False Son for his personal functions.

This already units the stage for the False Son to be considered one of Threat of Rain‘s most tragic boss encounters but, and Affiliate Artwork Lead Claire Bian means that there’s extra to the story but. “[The False Son] is essential for the lore,” she mentioned, including that she is “actually enthusiastic about when the gamers who he really is within the sport.”

Seekers of the Storm‘s final encounter is, then, purported to be fairly an enormous deal all by itself, and it’s certain to present ROR loreheads a lot to consider and focus on. The official launch date for Threat of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm is at present unknown, but it surely’s certain to be coming comparatively quickly.