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Moving further up I can hear some metallic stomping sounds, which remind me the Deathbringers although this doesn't seem to be quite the same sound. Some cultists and a Corrupted Scrapper go down, and looking up the hill with the power of PURPLEVISION I can see what I think is making that sound...a Corrupted Thunderjaw. Oh man, the game's pulling out the big guns on me. There's going to be a Corrupted Stormbird at some time too, isn't there? And I've still never even killed one of those so I'll little idea how to fight it...welp. Maybe it won't happen, but I assume it will. This Thunderjaw I at least know how to fight, if I can face it down without any other enemies noticing I feel pretty confident I can handle it without too much trouble. Unfortunately, it's surrounded by Eclipse, but as I get a bit closer to try to start picking them off, a cutscene plays. Sona and Varl are here and they're brought some reinforcements, waiting for their moment to strike...which they decide is right now. Epic battle time? Epic battle time.

That got uglier than I would have liked it to, mainly because with all the dead bodies and the heavy weapons dropped by two Eclipse guys, the Disc Launchers were too hard to actually find once they'd been shot off so I had to take that Thunderjaw down without using its weapons against it. Took a lot of damage but in the end, we won. Varl gives us a heads up on how badly the Nora have been hurt and also informs us Matriarch Teersa (remember her?) decided to ignore the taboo about non-Matriarchs entering the mountain in order to let people take shelter inside. Good old Teersa, not being an idiot. The other one, Lansra, objected but that's to be expected. Now time to head inside the mountain and see what we can learn...and probably also have a confrontation with the Matriarchs over the fact that we know their sacred mountain is actually home to one of Cradle sites from Zero Dawn, and thus a lot more mechanical than they'd probably like.

Well, the Matriarch business goes pretty smoothly, and we head inside. Seems like the facility had some serious problems that prevented it from working properly, and it eventually dumped people into the outside world only partially prepared. Looks like it at least worked out in the end though, and it certainly explains how the Nora came to view the mountain as a goddess. Then the big reveal...Gaia was forced to deactivate itself as a precautionary measure against some sort of mysterious virus that set all its subroutines running amok. However, Hades seemed to think that went against its role and tried to prevent it, which I guess explains why its still active. We need to head somewhere to try to reboot Gaia to get everything back under control. Oh, and Aloy was designed by Gaia in its final moments to be almost an exact clone of Elizabet Sobeck so she'd be able to enter the various DNA identity locked facilities, a reveal that shocks her and leads to more douchebaggery from Sylens.

On the way out, the Nora pretty much start worshiping Aloy, who gets pretty frustrated at the quick turnaround from the days when they shunned her as an outcast. She chews them out for it, Varl asks how he can help, and it was agreed that those who want to help her will be made Seekers so they can go to Meridian, presumably to form an alliance against the Shadow Carja and their efforts to help Hades fuck up the world. The Nora continue to be pretty worshipful of Aloy, which I guess she just decides to put up with?

We also learn Rost's story. This post is getting too full as it is so all I'll say is I didn't see it coming, I was expecting something related to the main plot instead. Kind of interesting, and yet another reason to think the Nora are kind of bozos.

Anyway. Off to "The Bitter Climb" to find Gaia PRIME and try to reboot it and get the world to unfuck itself before its too late
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