The lore behind Terraria (Full story)

while Terraria is similar to games like Minecraft where it appears there isn't any story that actually isn't the case for Terraria to celebrate terraria's eighth anniversary re-logic released some official lore for Terraria which explains the NPCs why you are there and your goal and the entire world in general that's why in today's video we will be taking a look at the story behind Terraria and all of its lore before jumping into this I want to quickly say that I will be basing this video off the official lore and not one-off messages from the creators as sometimes they can directly contradict each other with that out of the way let's begin firstly let's cover the Terraria world as it might surprise you the world you play Terraria in is a living thing with it actually doing far more than you might think which we will cover throughout this video but for now we will take a look at the different biomes and what their purposes are firstly almost all of the normal biomes like the forest jungle ice biome and a few others are just that normal by biomes meant to hold the World's Critters safely while those are the nice biomes the evil biomes are where the lore starts to come in starting with corruption since it's the best it is considered to be an infection to the world just like you got an infection and it grows by all of the quote-unquote vile actions and thoughts by all beings in the world the corruption's goal is to eventually take over the entire world and then afterwards destroy the world along with itself the Crimson on the other hand is a little darker with it being a living thing that takes control of people and creatures Minds in an attempt to take over the entire world with it already doing so in thousands of Worlds before yours the Crimson will take creatures and consume them before putting them back out in the world which is where we get the Crimson enemies finally the Hallow is probably the most interesting of the three with it also giving us the backstory on the wall of flesh in each Terraria world there is a world Guardian which has the ancient spirits of light and dark and that is of course the Wall of Flesh once you defeat the Wall of Flesh the ancient Spirits are released which is what makes the Hallow with the goal of it wiping out anything that is a threat to the world including yourself now that we got that covered let's get into the actual story the story starts a little bit before you get into your world and with a boss we have never seen in Terraria for ourselves which is Cthulhu this massive creature came to your world in an attempt to control everything that lived in it but the dryads in the world teamed up to try and fight Cthulhu in their fight almost all of the Giants were lost in the battle other than one which is the one you get as an NPC and they only kind of manage to win the fight while they didn't outright win they did break up Cthulhu into multiple pieces which is where we get the bosses I have on screen now including the removed okra after this the sole surviving dryad disappeared until you later came along and got her to spawn in and nothing really happened for a few years after a while a group 4 formed with the goal of re-summoning Cthulhu but they first needed a few supplies firstly they need to rebuild the summoning tablet that would summon Cthulhu so to have this made they kidnapped the mechanic NPC and also make the dungeon their home base which is why you find the mechanic tied up there the dungeon was once a living City with thousands of people but an unknown curse took it and caused everyone to die which is why the dungeon is decorated the way it is going back to the lunatic cultist and mechanic now while they were in the process of making the summoning tablet they also made the mechanical bosses which are replicas of the pieces that originally got broken apart by Cthulhu like Skeletron Prime after all of that is where you finally come into the story with the goal of undoing and fixing everything I just went over including the evil biomes I went over earlier now that we know the backstory let's take a look at what your specific role in Terraria is firstly your overall goal is to stop the cold from summoning Moon Lord stop the evil biomes from fully taking over the world and finishing taking out the remaining parts of Cthulhu you start this large journey in this new world with a guide NPC which is a part of the group named the order of the guides which passed down important knowledge down to one another over time with the goal of keeping the Terraria world safe while also remembering the history of it if your guide happens to die lore wise the next one that spawns in won't be the same one as before with them even mentioning the past guide who you had to use in the process to summon the wall of flesh besides all of that the story is roughly whatever your playthrough is up until you get to Moon Lord which is where the lore starts to get a little fuzzy moving on to moonlord the lore doesn't outright say if it is Cthulhu in fact it actually doesn't really comment on it at all other than implying it's likely Cthulhu himself instead of a separate being and whenever you summon him or defeat the lunatic cultist you summon him and his Celestial pillars are moonlord's final attempt at a full takeover of the world after you defeat him your world goes back to before you beat him but story wise there is an ending after this which we'll cover now for our final section of this video we will take a look at the ending of the lore which mainly focuses on the ending of all of the NPC's stories starting with the painter die Trader party girl and wizard since they all have the same happy ending they end up throwing a party together in the Hallow biome after that we have the tavern keep NPC going through a portal back to his original game dungeon defender 2. next up we have the merchant and traveling Merchant NPCs who are trying to work out a trade for an angel statue sticking with the merchants next up we have the skeleton Merchant who is shown digging around before pulling out a nice item which he will likely end up selling after that we have the pirate and angler NPCs who are sitting around a campfire on the beach showing off their catches before the angler goes and tries to summon Duke fishron next we have the golfer and zoologist NPC who also lost the curse she had and are now seemingly living happily together with the town pets sticking with happily ever Afters for NPCs we have the goblin tinkerer and the mechanic who are shown to be living a happy life together ending the super happy endings we have the demolitionist and arms dealer who are seen arguing before the nurse comes onto the screen and brings them to go get some food next up we have the dryad MPC which ends up becoming a tree after that we have the steampunker who is working on Cyborg and seemingly messes it up next we have Santa giving a gift to the tax collector up next we have the Princess and The Witch Doctor Who are living happy lives together up next we have the guide who is shown running off camera from a zombie he let into his house but we don't see what happens after and saving the oddest for last we see the Clothier chasing after the Truffle NPC likely because based on the clothier's dialogue he wants to eat truffle that wraps up the story behind Terraria and all of its lore if you made it this far into the video let me know by commenting order of the guide and also let me know what you think of the lore thanks for sticking to the end be sure to like and subscribe for more Terraria videos like this in the future and as always make sure to have a wonderful day

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Length: 7min 8sec (428 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 22 2023