Planets or ALTERNATE REALITIES?! | Hytale Theory Talk

In this video we’re going to continue our dive into the lore of hightail by taking a step back and investigating the broader more universal mystery at large because you see the setting of hightail the zones the creatures the races and blocks that we’ve seen so far

Are all simply one small piece of a bigger puzzle one realm one world amongst a constellation of many so today let’s discuss what all this is and what defines the many ultraverses of hightail welcome back to quebec corner my name is connor and today on hightail theory talk

We stop to ponder whether these things are planets or something more have we seen anything from car pack do we have any clues about numdressel or nexus using in-game screenshots footage and a bit of science lingo we’re going to attempt to determine all of that here today

For those of you out of the loop the concept art for altar versus was one of the very first images we received way back in the early days of the hightail website the image showed us the planet that we’ll be playing on during adventure mode orbis and four others or at least that’s

What the majority of us thought i mean planets would be an obvious conclusion right spherical shape floating in space they all look a bit different i mean heck some even have their own suns but perhaps there’s something else going on here let’s take a closer look

If you haven’t heard of gaia and varen and wanted to catch up a little more you can check out one of the very first theory talks we did on them in the top right corner in short they’re like gods one representing the element of light and one representing the element of void or

Darkness guess which one’s which while gaia seemingly was present long ago she is now in a deep slumber and varan is dominating the world at large that world being the zones that join together to form the main landmass of orbis orbis is the homeland of the quebec’s troggs and all

Of the races that gaia supposedly created while some may suggest that the zones we’ve seen could be from those other planets we have to remember that the devs did say that altarverses were something they wouldn’t be working on right away something for the future it would be

Unlikely for them to tease features that are that far off in anything more than concept art right now but we can find some clues when looking to architecture and colour palettes for a long while now people have made the connection between gaia and nom dressle clearly the main gaian structures found

Around orbis look similar to the towering pillars of this planet and the going theory is that numgersol could in fact be gaia’s homeland and the place where the light element originated we know gaia isn’t too active at the time of playing and that’s reflected in the fact that numtracil has this huge

Engulfing shadow one that none of the other planets have thanks to the reddit user hightail source for pointing this out almost a year ago this is nexus and if the purple colour didn’t give it away perhaps the latin definition of the name meaning to bind together or

Bond will alluding to the fact that this is where varin or at least the void element originated from the words meaning is also descriptive of what the void is doing to orbis literally fusing with the zones and land bonding together the fact that there’s this sort of underlayer apache

Blueness to the planet also suggests that maybe nexus itself may have originally been a pure planet now lost to darkness i’d love to spotlight a great video here by rasputin called the color of corruption where he goes into depth on the history of purple and its representation of evil in gaming you

Should definitely check it out after this video the other two lesser-known masses are carpack a swirling desert with two sons and tor balin a seemingly fractured and destroyed husk of a planet a wasteland if you will using what we’ve seen of orbis so far as an example we can tell that altar verses

Are seemingly self-contained worlds each infinitely expanding to some degree much like a certain block game we all know and love but that doesn’t exactly sound like a planet to me i mean if you walk around the circumference of a sphere you’re bound to reach where you started again right

So what gives sure an ultraverse can contain landmass which is broken into zones and even deep ocean like orbits has but the team have even teased that beyond those very oceans will exist a set of infinite far lands if the surface of orbis could be infinite

It wouldn’t look like a sphere right and this all got me a thinking what if orbis isn’t a planet but more of a realm or well i guess i’ll just say it an alternate dimension i mean the clues in the name ultraverses alternate universes i mean there has to

Be some connection there right unless they were going for a really cool fantasy name something tells me that these locations aren’t necessarily planets in some weird ringed solar system in fact this isn’t even a solar system at all a solar system by its very definition requires a star at the center

You know so it can be solar and yes we do actually see stars or moons in the concept art but they’re unique to each planet not shared as if they’re only visible from those particular planets or the planets themselves are like white years apart but they’re not they’re all connected

And i guess you could theorize that the suns revolve around the planets but i don’t know what science class you’ve been taking no the only way this can truly make sense is if these spheres don’t actually show planets but represent dimensions in space and time each one like a pocket reality

Linked together by little tendrils the fabric of reality or perhaps even magic and come to think of it that would also explain why each ultraverse has a completely different astronomy like moons and suns they’re in their own separate solar systems in separate universes connected together through some form of distortion

Or wormhole or magic portal the effect of corruption on orbis is pretty significant by the time we join the game in adventure mode too purple plants warped creatures and even void related magical practices are on the rise an infection or spread of corruption and from previous videos i’ve theorized that

This is because varin appeared from another planet perhaps in some type of meteor but it would make just as much sense if he’d say hop through an interdimensional portal of some kind if nexus was some sort of alternate reality like the upside down from stranger things completely mutated and

Warped but with the ability to cross over and slowly start infecting other universes and i guess although we can’t say for certain that these aren’t planets all of this evidence kind of points pretty significantly to a more dimensional connection a much more akin to the realms in world of warcraft or

The nether and overworld of minecraft if you think about the ultraverses as planets the logic does start to get a little messy are they all just connected by some looping field of gravity would they not be orbiting around each other and therefore constantly intertwining their weird little connection tendril thingies

Nah no way this has got to be a lot more metaphorical these lines have got to represent something much more like a magic passageway going round in a circle side note i think others have mentioned this but perhaps that even means you can’t just reach nexus from tor berlin or

Car pack from orbis as they’re not actually connected requiring you to sort of route your way through other dimensions to reach the farther ones maybe gaia and varan are alternate versions of one another too perhaps tessa and kairos are simply two sides of one coin

We could go as far as to say that these aren’t just alternate realities but alternate versions of the very same world i mean why else would these five very specific ultraverses be connected in such a way surely there’s more than five ultraverses right maybe maybe not think about this what if there

Is only one ultraverse but the connection is that this is a life cycle the same realm at different points in time we’ve seen talks of memory mirrors so time travel could definitely be a thing looking at it like a cycle you start with numdrasil a point where gaia and her people ruled

Then the time of humans and quebecs then varen’s ultimate corruption of the planet followed by it turning to a desert wasteland and eventually crumbling into dust however i will say this life cycle thing is probably the most far-flung and least likely of my theories so far

But if i’m honest it’s all just really fun to think about in my opinion and hopefully you agree let me know what you think in the comments what are the altar verses and why are they connected with varon plan to be more of a background antagonist a distant threat for the launch of

Hightail it’s likely that we won’t get to see the truth about these ultraverses for potentially years to come but hopefully now you have a bit more insight and maybe we’ve rustled a few feathers at the hightail office as we guess and grasp at straws in anticipation for this epic game

Beyond the theory element of the altar verses it’s interesting to speculate what they’ll look like an entire new world or dimension or whatever to plan and add to your game is essentially like releasing a dlc when it comes to survival games with a carefully balanced meta however it can

Always be a struggle to add a whole bunch new content so how will hightail tackle these obstacles and will the addition of new altarverses feel satisfactory hopefully so what will playing on carpack or nexus feel like different atmosphere and sky color different build heights or laws of physics stronger gravity weaker punches the

Inability to breathe or the need to adapt to new conditions what new elements will they bear and what gods will the people of that world worship and well how are we going to travel to these places will portals be all it takes to travel interdimensionally or

Will we need some form of ritual or powerful block we’ve had a glimpse at portal travel before and fingers crossed it’s as seamless as in the trailer maybe if the ultraverse is really our planets then we could potentially see space travel at one point however

That’s a lot more sci-fi than i feel the team wants to go as usual it all remains to be seen until now because i want to see them i want to see what altaverse looks like right now and that’s where you guys come in we do love some good hightail fan art

On this channel so in the spirit of things it’s time for another hightail art competition i’m giving away a 20 steam gift card to three creative subscribers who tweet their fan art to at queen corner on twitter with the hashtag hightail art comp to win you have to create an image of

What you think one of the four ultraverses will look like in hightail your image of either car pack numdrissel tour berlin or nexus it can be a painting hand drawn a model a build inside minecraft a descriptive poem if you want anything all creative visions are considered and winners will be announced

Two weeks from today all winners and runners-up will also receive a special rank on the queen corner discord server which hosts thousands of high-tail enthusiasts such as yourself contrary to a joke at the start of my last video there’s more content than ever planned for this channel

We’ve just started back up the community minecraft server which can be accessed from the discord and is now on 1.16.2 the art competition begins today a long form big project is on the horizon as well as next week’s inevitable new blog post and of course the super super secret project i’ve been

Promising since january it’s still coming don’t worry just stay tuned either on my twitter or on my discord for updates thank you for liking subscribing and thanks as always for watching queen corner stay safe and keep free you