A Short-ish Summary of the Lore of Rain World Downpour

TO CLARIFY THE MISTAKES THAT I MADE: - Challenge 70 isn't canon lmao whoops. - SoS was confirmed to have been died before Saint was ever born. Overall this entirely fucks my theory over, but also Saint is so weird that there are at least 3 other solid theories that I could think of to fit it better, maybe I'll make a video on 3 Saint theories or something in the future.

Sliver really just "Dont worry guys i have a plan" - "Sliver has left the game:"

Ironic, the ancient created the iterators to help them but aren't allowed to die, and then one iterator did the same to the saint. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Rain world lore is very YouTube

Saint being echo makes so much sense, although he's not a normal one for sure I think his main distinction is in his earthly tether to the world is a sort of 6th secret urge. The urge to ascend/help others. One that is virtuous in nature, yet still binds him to the material world, as if a string that let him dip into the turbo acid and get pulled back over and over again, which is how Silver of Straw managed to create the triple affirmative. She created a being that CAN return from the point of no return, which was the most important step to solving the great problem Anyway floofy glock wielding scug is my favorite

23:29 This isn’t actually why there’s an absurd amount of rain during rivulet’s campaign, at least not from what I interpreted. The excessive rain is caused by Five Pebbles himself, in an attempt to slow down the rot’s progressive takeover of his can. This is said by 5P himself when he gives rivulet the task of retrieving his power cell to give to Moon, as he says that without it, he will lose the power to flush the rot out of his systems, and thus, he will slowly die, consumed by it. He will basically die of cancer faster than he would otherwise. It’s also why the rain returns to normal after the removal of the cell, since, as stated, Pebbles lost the power to pump out such enormous amounts of rain to try to slow his death.

The irony of sliver of straw creating saint as a way to solve their accession the same way the ancients made the iterators is very poetic. There are so many cycles in this game

I find it interesting that the iterators didn't adopt the naming strategies of the ancients. Moon named rivulet Ruffles instead of something obscure like idk pure waters illume or splintering streams.

How dare you not even talk about the super important official dating sim lore that is totally accurate and not made up at all.

The slugcats are sapient. They are quite aware of the environment they are in and can use it to their advantage. They can use a variety of tools with each one in versatile ways. And as we see in the advanced movements, they are very aware of what their body is capable of. They are capable of learning behaviors creatures, their strengths and weaknesses. They can trade, even learn the trade values. They can read the hologram picture/symbols the overseers use. They can even listen to complex commands the iterators give them. They can give moon neurons and pearls even though there's no practical benefit. They are capable of seeking vengeance. They are capable of being religious as we see with Saint.

A thing to add is something that Five Pebbles says is basically "your problem is the same as everyone's problem, from the microbes in the processing strata to me, who is godlike in comparison." When talking about ascending, implying it happens to everyone, not just semi intelligent creatures.

The scavengers are effected by the cycle, for instance if a scavenger dies when it wakes up again it will tell its raid party to go get you,

Its so good to see 18 bowls make his return to the series!

It's heavily implied that things can still die in the cycle, just from not their own perspective. basically, when you die you get put into a sort of alternate universe back in time where you didnt die yet, however, every creature in the old universe that you died in will still percieve you as dead. This was theorized even before downpour, but downpour does kind of confirm it since we see artificer's pups ACTUALLY dying, as well as other creatures dying forever.

A larger theory i have: The rainworld events of an ancient type race eventually getting ascension have happened hundrets of times. This means there is a larger cycle over the shorter hibernation cycles. This also explains why Karma 6-9 are just circles being more an more crossed out, progressed and why Karma 10 is a crossed circle, a circle that has been xed, a circle that has been broken.(also they reason why saint needs karma 10)

29:58 There is cute detail about his ending If you bring 1 or 2 slugpups they will show up in it And Monk ending assumes that you did bringed 2 slugpups with you

A lore summary truly worthy of a standing ovation. A game truly worthy of the title, "Game Of The Year." Das, thanks for everything. It's been an awesome journey discovering Rain World with you. I look forward to your future content and wish you great success. Also if it wasn't already official, you deserve the title of 'Offical Lore Master'.

here’s my take at the potential timeline of the Saint triple affirmative great problem solution process: •Saint goes to an iterator area •Saint ascends •saints’ greatest wish (and purpose) is to go back and help other’s ascend •the void “brings him back” •Saint is now once again some sort of semi echo •in this semi echo state, he becomes a sort of soul delivery container, which is why his karma goes up when he meets (and then absorbs?) the other echoes •once all echoes in the local iterator area are saved, he achieves max karma and gets cool mind powers (somehow) •he is now able to manually ascend the souls of pretty much whoever he wants, but stronger/higher beings take more attempts •(by what means? I have no clue. maybe he sends their souls directly to the void with his brain? Maybe he absorbs them into his own soul and brings them with him when he ascends?) •once he’s gotten all the souls of everyone, he goes down to where the void SHOULD be •the fact it’s gone maybe being proof he never completely left the void? his return to the surface was partly an illusion? As most of him was still within the void? •Maybe echoes see themselves as normal, while everything else sees them as weird dark squid things •the illusion breaks down and he falls out and past the void sea, to like a weird back rooms esque version of the real world •he climbs upwards to reach the void sea, (I guess since he escaped it it sort of resets?) •while he does not want to ascend, he can give those echoes within him to Another chance at ascension •he swims upwards, and then pisses off the void worms, so they refuse his ascension, and remove all the karma from his soul as he is “clearly not ready” to ascend • what these pissed off eldritch beings do not realize however, is that was NEVER the SAINT’S karma, but the karma of the trapped echoes he absorbed into his being. •when they take away his karma and essentially reset him, they’re just accepting those echoes into ascension. (who are probably more than quailed to ascend by this point) •the worms are mad at him( maybe meaning that the void fluid refuses to take his physical form?), and he doesn’t want to ascend, since both his physical and spiritual parts are intact, he’s back in the proper cycle and is no longer in that half echo limbo •because he’s back in the cycle proper, and can’t/doesn’t want to ascend, he’s spit out into the REAL real world. And goes to another iterator compound • he repeats this general pattern till EVERYONE is ascended

I feel as though one very important slugcat was missed out...

This video seems like a good place to put my thoughts at: So the Ancients had a calendar just like any advanced civilization would. A date in that calendar looks like this: "1591.290" or "1650.787". So it's obvious that the bigger the number the more time has passed, but what do these numbers mean exactly? Here's my theory: The second part (like "290" or "787") counts cycles. We do not see this number going above 1000, so I suppose when the count reaches 1000 cycles it adds one number to the first part ("1591" or "1650") and starts counting cycles over again. For instance, Five Pebbles increased his water consumption on 1654.108 and 8 cycles later on 1654.116 Moon used forced communications to contact him. I don't know how good this theory is, so tell me.