Now thatthe new DLC forRisk of Rain 2has been officially revealedunder the titleSeekers of the Storm, Gearbox has begun its pre-release promotional campaign for it. Its first major checkpoint? A short discussion ofSeekers of the Storm‘s main villain, the ominous-sounding False Son.
More specifically, Gearbox’s first officialRisk of Rain 2: Seekers of the Stormdeveloper diary is about the DLC’s all-new final boss and the lore behind its existence. Though lore hasn’t historically been a huge draw inRisk of Rainor its highly acclaimed sequel,Risk of Rain 2, it’s worth highlighting that the franchise has a significant narrative backlog going in the background of all the killing. And now, the False Son represents the consequences of what the Survivors have been doing on the planet Petrichor V.
Risk of Rain 2’s False Son is a tragic figure
In the events leading toSeekers of the Storm, the survivors of both the first and the second game’s respective planetfalls have taken on god-like entities, Providence and Mithrix, in order to escape Petrichor V. In the background,a mysterious creation of these entitiesaims to break free, terrifying the lizard-like Lemurian creatures who used to worship and adore Providence and Mithrix. To protect themselves, Lemurians create the False Son, as per Gearbox’s Kayla Larson, residentRisk of Rainloremaster, who adds that Mithrix ends up corrupting the False Son for his own purposes.
This already sets the stage for the False Son to be one ofRisk of Rain‘s most tragic boss encounters yet, and Associate Art Lead Claire Bian suggests that there’s more to the story yet. “[The False Son] is crucial for the lore,” she said, adding that she is “really excited about when the players who he actually is in the game.”
Seekers of the Storm‘s ultimate encounter is, then, supposed to be quite a big deal all on its own, and it’s bound to giveRORloreheads plenty to think about and discuss. The official release date forRisk of Rain 2: Seekers of the Stormis currently unknown, but it’s bound to be coming relatively soon.
