New Gods: Failed Divinity | Fear & Hunger Lore
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Published 2024-05-16
The Pantheon of Fear and Hunger is central to the lore and narrative of both games. Humanity has long sought to emulate the Older Gods, many becoming the so called 'New Gods'. While these beings are powerful and long lived, they fall short of true divinity. In this Fear and Hunger Lore video, we explain the differences between all three categories of Gods and why the New Gods fail to achieve true Godhood.
Intro: 0:00
Hellofresh: 3:00
The Four Ages: 4:08
The Pantheon: 14:12
What is a God?: 28:12
Rher and the Moonscorched: 37:46
The Ascended: 48:27
Imago Dei: 57:47
Massive shoutout to @maxderrat - without Max's video series on Aion, this video would not exist.
Max's series on Aion: • Aion - Jordan Peterson's Nightmare - ...
This is an extremely expansive lore video that examines the lore of Fear & Hunger and Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. Specifically it tries to explain the story of the New Gods, Moonscorched and Rher as well as the following subjects: The Yellow King, Gro-Goroth, Sylvian, The Sulfur God, Alll-Mer, Tormented One, Valtiel, Nilvan, The God of Fear and Hunger, The Logic, Prehevil, The Termina Festival and much more.
Editor: Creators Studio - creatorsstudio.co.uk/
Commission Thumbnail art by Rio: twitter.com/rioyudha22
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All Comments (21)
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THERES NO FUCKING WAY! Smoughtown you absolute GEM. I’m so glad funger is getting a lot more recognition.
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Hey! Great work, man. You clearly understood what Jung was getting at and this video demonstrates it. Nice work applying the concepts of ego-inflation/shadow possession to the various Gods. That's something I completely neglected to include in my videos, but you did very well!
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i disagree that abella's moonscorched form has no bearing on her personality. The extremely muscular physique and masculine build i see as reflecting a repressed insecurity about her perceived lack of femininity as a result of her personality and profession of choice
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It's so intriguing to see how Fear & Hunger went from extremely obscure to every channel on YouTube doing a video essay about it XD I love it
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(In best Frapollo voice) Welcome to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger!
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The only thing I think you might have wrong is that the player character in FH1 and the contestents in FH2 have special souls. Souls are your astrological sign in the game, and according to Miro on twitter, have as much influence on your life as people who believe in horoscopes think astrological signs do. They kind of reflect your "default" response, but you can still act against you soul/sign. Everyone's got one. Miro's even somewhat recently posted a chart of which months and dates of birth coincide with which soul.
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A bit of a correction, synthesis between the Persona and the Shadow is a common thing that is supposed to happen repeatedly. A never ending cycle. Consider the example of someone who thinks themself as a nice guy, but is actually a huge creep. When confronted with the True Self (the creep, his Shadow)... His Persona breaks, and he must synthesize his Shadow into his new Persona. This gives rise to a new Persona, but since people are people, the Shadow remains. A full synthesis of the Shadow and Persona was theorized, but such a being would be akin to a god, and as such isn't likely possible within humans.
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I'm realizing that the entire Persona franchise from Shin Megami Tensei is basically a love letter to Carl Jung's philosophy.
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Fear and Hunger lore videos will be a treat!
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I also thought that Abella's moonscorch form was pretty obvious. Why would the community decide it has something to do with the Woodsman? She is a woman working as a mechanic in the 40's, she probably has a chip on her shoulder about her femininity ala Nouto from Persona 4. She becomes a muscular body with a TRUNK. Gee, I wonder what a TRUNK could symbolize...
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I'm 55 mins in and I wish you painted the Old Gods as concepts and forces of nature. It made things much clearer for me. The God of Fear and Hunger is interesting from this lense because, instead of a force of nature, she's a force found strictly within living beings. Destruction and creation know no bounds, but only the living experience fear and hunger. In this sense she's the closest thing to a pure Old God, unlike Alllmer, who's more of a perfect human. A juiced up new God in a way. Powerful and influential, but still at odds with his own ego, unlike the girl.
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Max getting the extended shout out, nice
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OH MY GOD NO WAY YOU ARE DOING FUNGER VIDEOS THANK YOU I LOVE YOU SMOUGH
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Frapollo, Wormgirl, and CDawgVA got me into Fear and Hunger and Termina. Im so glad you're exploring the grand and punishing world Miro made!
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For those curious about the game... It's brutal. It's unforgiving. And it's extremely frustrating. I went in blind and got reset a good six times before I figured out what the hell I should NOT be doing
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While the text seems to support Abella's infection, I can also see it as her seeing herself as a working animal. A brute relative to the dainty live she would prefer to live.
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I never expected you to dive into Fear & Hunger and am legitimatly excited that you are. Thank you!
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My theory about Abella is that because she's been forced in to a field (being a mechanic) mainly dominated males, she was forced to suppress her femininity and doesn't see herself as a proper girl, hence the masculine stature of her moonscorched form
