The BEST Halo Lore you didn't know Existed

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Halo's lore is as deep as it is wide, and so quite a lot gets buried in the vast ocean that is Halo's universe. So, today we dive into some of Halo's most obscure, creepy, cryptic and esoteric lore - lore that I can guarantee most have never heard of, let alone experienced.
Halopedia's archive of Iris: www.halopedia.org/Archive:Web...
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:23 - Halo Lore that Predates Halo
8:35 - A Classic Romero-Esque Flood Story
12:17 - The Man Who Survived a Certain Doom
14:29 - The Untold Story of the Beginning of the Flood Apocalypse...
18:04 - Halfjaw's Genesis
21:28 - I Love Bees
22:56 - Iris / Halo's Creepiest, Most Esoteric Piece of Lore
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@HiddenXperia Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget to add Warhaven to your Steam wishlist here: wehy.pe/y/2/HiddenXperia #ad Enjoy some more creepy lore friendos!

@kitmaelstrom1407 Жыл бұрын

I Actually heard of seaward

@michaelandreipalon359 Жыл бұрын

Pass on the game (unless and until proven otherwise), but thanks for the lore still.

@RetroGradeYT 5 ай бұрын

@@michaelandreipalon359uuuuuuu

@MrRoflWaffles Жыл бұрын

ilovebees truly walked so call of duty zombies could run 🙏

@horrorpleb249 Жыл бұрын

@HiddenXperia Жыл бұрын

Iris sprinted so gknova6 could super sprint 🤝

@corbz9868 Жыл бұрын

You watching this channel bro?!?! Y’all are some of the best gaming content creators

@horrorpleb249 Жыл бұрын

@@corbz9868 He's been viewing this channel for a long time man.

@corbz9868 Жыл бұрын

@@horrorpleb249 just hype bout it

@damienstitchman1981 Жыл бұрын

One piece of lore I love that I never see people talk about is the "Hunger" short story from the re-release of The Flood. It tells the story of a flood infection from the POV of the Infection form. It's creepy as hell.

@pododododoehoh3550 Жыл бұрын

Damn I thought I'd seen it all, this video covering ilovebees included but I've never heard of that! Gonna look it up now, cheers.

@pododododoehoh3550 Жыл бұрын

To anyone wondering its good, someone whent over it on reddit however I didn't realise you meant the book at first, that I actually have lol. Haven't gotten round to reading it yet, kinda hyped to now. Having lore reveal the independent portion of a flood forms consciousness is really interesting and I think it was done well, gave me chills.

@Noah-tn5bc Жыл бұрын

I believe it's actually written from the perspective of Captain Keyes even. Been like 5+ years since I read it in the book though so I could be wrong.

@SP117UNSC Жыл бұрын

This story is animated in Halo Anniversary termenal on Keyes

@johnfkennedyinanopentopcar8976 7 ай бұрын

Where is it in the Book

@Miguel-jq6ol Жыл бұрын

Following the whole Iris campaign with my older brother back in the day, really was something else. Really can't understate how unsettling it was just the whole vibe of being in the earlier internet days downloading videos off of the forums and waiting for them to buffer in quicktime just to unravel cryptic messages of star coordinates and mysterious microorganisms.

@Azrael_Equinox Жыл бұрын

Cortana letters make me nostalgic for something I never experienced. God Bungie meta lore is wild.

@mujigant Жыл бұрын

People will say this shit about literally anything I stg

@Azrael_Equinox Жыл бұрын

@@mujigant ???

@mujigant Жыл бұрын

@@Azrael_Equinox dw about it

@GoofyPoptart 10 ай бұрын

@@mujigantof course we're worried about you cause you said something dumb as shit.

@GunsAndAmmo3 5 ай бұрын

Catras moradu

@goddamnfish Жыл бұрын

As a Halo fan abroad (from Taiwan, to be specific), I've missed a lot of these ARG campaigns back in the days. Thanks to you, I now know what I Love Bees and Iris were all about!

@KaptainKarizzma Жыл бұрын

Hey, Halo fan from Taiwan here as well!

@legendarymasterchief7620 Жыл бұрын

WE LOVE HALO’S ANCIENT MYSTERIES

@Gus_frings_friedchicken Жыл бұрын

Same

@TheDirvish Жыл бұрын

Who needs Halos mystery and wonder when you could replace them with space Voldemort sith lords and shiny robot monsters

@Micmag- Жыл бұрын

i want to like the comment but...i cant break the holy number

@TheDirvish Жыл бұрын

@@Micmag- I broke it, saw your comment and then immediately corrected myself.

@Micmag- Жыл бұрын

@@TheDirvish sadly others have broken it but at least we can like it now!

@Spartan113 Жыл бұрын

As an Iris alum who was there from the moment the "protesters" were found in times square and recieving that very first email with the "hidden link" I was hooked. I was one of the first 200 to unlock terminals 1 and 2, and was there for the others but the community had decided we would share the rewards with others who hadnt yet unlocked them yet. Ive kept the Iris symbol as my profile picture ever since. My gamerpic, the Tshirts and my print of the cradle of life comic from the first terminal are some of my favorite possession i have in my gaming life. Iris will always be a part of my life as it was one of the most fun and memorable summers of my life. The community coming together at HBO and then the ARG spinoff forum were all some of the best people you could explore halo with. Thanks for the video Luc and for reviving so many great memories ❤

@justsomehalofan4386 Жыл бұрын

It kinda sucks that we don't see many cryptic/mystery stories and ARGs in general these days (at least ones that gain wide spread attention). Espically in an era where everyone is constantly online, and telling stories like these should be incredibly easy now since you can reach a vast audience. Which is why I love Kane Pixel's Backrooms series, because how mysterious and cryptic it is and it shares alot of classic ARG elements (despite not really being an ARG).

@O_Godz Жыл бұрын

Isn't Bungie doing an ARG with Marathon rn?

@Liquorice_Monster Жыл бұрын

It's actually BECAUSE everyone is constantly online that shit like this doesn't work anymore. A big part of alternate reality games is the blending together or real life and stories, and people are past the point where they want anything that involves the real world as part of the story. And because ARG's have happened in the past and gotten big, everyone is better at spotting them, and the second they see what's happening they go "Oh this must just be some stupid ARG" and they lose interest. There was a small window of time when this kind of thing worked, when the web was well established enough that people knew how to use it, but not enough that it was completely mainstream. The clearnet is dominated by a small handful of sites and companies that would never allow this shit to take place these days.

@creed8712 Жыл бұрын

@@O_Godzare they? That’s pretty on brand for the kind of franchise Marathon and the other one that isn’t related but is totally a prequel

@WaveOfDestiny 9 ай бұрын

@@creed8712they did one for the reveal trailer, the community had to solve a puzzle both online and with irl decrypters objects sent to content creators and stuff in order to get the link to the trailer, then revealed to the public after it was discovered. Bungie also kept doing this in Destiny, characters from the game have "sent" stuff irl to people, stuff that had to be found after solving an arg, idk if it was extra lore or something unimportant tho

@ghostlyswat12 4 ай бұрын

Problem is now a day they get solved within a hour

@JackDempseyOfficial Жыл бұрын

There’s nothing better than a good old Hidden lore video after a long day 🙌🏼

@FarzyMC Жыл бұрын

so so so good! love these Halo lore videos! o7

@hemandy94 Жыл бұрын

I just love your storytelling and emotions. It is really immersive and your love for Halo Lore is leaking. Truly ICONIC

@MrGanjie Жыл бұрын

I love the way soma saw the flood approaching during a beautiful sunset. Its like the opposite of that saying about dawn being the darkest before day. Right at sunset, when night begins and the darkness comes. She sees the of the end of days at the end of the day. Purely symbolic.

@FilthyCasualYT Жыл бұрын

While I won't say I learned anything new, it was great to hear you go over some of the old Halo mysteries and stories that made part of my childhood great. I miss talking about this stuff with a few irl friends and the great people that used to be on the halo wiki. Gods I miss those times.

@justinnyugen7015 Жыл бұрын

18:19 I've always wanted a Halo Reach spinoff where we play from the POV of the Succor spec ops crew during the Reach invasion, leading up to Alpha Halo. We could play as a customizable Kusovai, with Full-Jaw R'tas as our Carter and Thel as our Colonel Holland counterparts. Maybe foreshadow some Brute/Minor Prophet tension and some admiration for humans despite absolutely decimating them.

@sa-amirel-hayeed699 Жыл бұрын

Who tf is admiral Hackett?

@justinnyugen7015 Жыл бұрын

@@sa-amirel-hayeed699 oh snap lololol. I got confused with Mass Effect. I meant Colonel Holland 😆

@FrostbiteDigital Жыл бұрын

The 2000's era was a time that belonged to viral marketing campaigns. Seriously the way they were performed and how people manage to pull them off was phenomenal. We had Halo, District 9, Cloverfield etc. I remember being absolutely immersed in the Cloverfield viral marketing and I deadass thought some of it was actually real (I was 11 years old cut me some slack XD). As much as I wish we had more of this stuff in this day and age, sadly we will never get viral marketing campaigns on this level ever again due to how much the internet has evolved and how easy it is to debunk information. The reason they worked in the 2000's was because the internet was still in it's infancy and not many people knew if the information was real or fake. That's what made them so damn good.

@wingerding 3 ай бұрын

I mean they dont have to seem real. None of the things you mentioned ever seemed real, just cool and fun.

@dariansettle1861 Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, nothing like a lore video to get my nostalgia cogs going

@jamesarcher9324 Жыл бұрын

Dude your branch out content has been top tier, but I've missed these deep lore videos. Thank you for the amazing content!

@DoctaDoubleA Жыл бұрын

My favorite has to be the deep dive on how every level of ODST relates perfectly to Dante's Inferno. It is absolutely insane... Great video as always!

@Monsuco Жыл бұрын

My favorite piece of lore about ilovebees itself is that it existed on pay phones. During Hurricane Ivan a gamer went to one of the pay phones and the Bungie employee broke character and told him "Dude, it's a hurricane. Put the phone down."

@Tep_Music Жыл бұрын

Those Cortana emails feel so extraterrestrial and mysterious. Amazing!

@ambrose3560 Жыл бұрын

Imagine being a marathon fan back in the day, seeing these letters and then forgetting about them as you play Halo, only to then hear the letters again in Halo 3. I wonder if that was Bungie's way of saying Cortana was going rampant in 3.

@Jabronie1164 Жыл бұрын

I would honestly love to see a full video dedicated to ilovebees. I've always known about it via just being a bit of a lore junkie for halo but I've only ever heard of it and some parts of it. Never the full story so I'm so down to watch that!

@calebburrichter8452 Жыл бұрын

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@Tom-bf2nm Жыл бұрын

Videos like this make me fall in love with Halo all over again and then I feel low on what has become of it. The missed opportunities for lore, intrigue and a realised world for Halo Infinite.

@GunsAndAmmo3 5 ай бұрын

Ftrew kitrs bdrso

@A2AxPhoenix Жыл бұрын

It's a travesty I was too young to take part of the Iris campaign. The perfect marketing campaign 343i could develop to bring back fans to the franchise would be something like Iris. Could be about the Banished awakening the Flood or more Forerunner stuff, just the possibilities are endless.

@morningrose428 Жыл бұрын

Always enjoy your lore videos, especially when I can see you're excited and having fun. Can't wait to see you cover Marathon!

@plasmaowl5281 Жыл бұрын

Having been a subscriber for years I remember most of these in past videos, but still it's pleasantly refreshing to get a lore video again

@jo3y960 Жыл бұрын

Love how the flood take up most of these lol

@amius9676 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love this sort of mystery storytelling, please cover more of them and from other franchises!

@GunsAndAmmo3 5 ай бұрын

Trle wrtell mngreh ugor

@Jedi_Spartan_38 Жыл бұрын

Have you thought about doing a video based around revisiting Hunt the Truth?

@Gearzilla117 Жыл бұрын

Oh that would be amazing

@shawzymusic Жыл бұрын

I just listened to that again last week. Such an amazing series.

@crazytalk8120 Жыл бұрын

Its so crazy to see the IRIS campaign. Clearly Bungie was inspired to keep the creepy voice thing, if you play Destiny 2, tell me that voice didnt remind you of The Witness.

@TheStardustConspiracy Жыл бұрын

My favorite lore story is when they inserted an AI into the slip space and then in a matter of hours the AI lost reason and achieve a god like status, it also describes the presence of other beings in the slip space and since then they haven’t touch that again

@Kieratinous Жыл бұрын

Always love to see the extended lore of the Halo universe, always so well written and in depth, to a level reached by only a few other IP's. Only wish more of it was available to learn in the games themselves, like marathon did through completely optional terminals and environmental story telling, a codex of sorts could maybe introduced in a future game perhaps? Alas it is what it is, at least we get the lore in some form.

@michaelsnyman2800 Жыл бұрын

Ah nice to have a good old classic lore video again, fantastic job as always G

@GabrielRodriguez-oi2fm Жыл бұрын

OMG, thank you for this amazing video and recapping on a lot of lore I really loved it and think you keep up the great work

@ArthurGazzi Жыл бұрын

I need to say it, every time you post a video is a breath of fresh air.

@armzbrah6371 Жыл бұрын

Your lore videos covering Halo franchise is always cool, mate!

@tntbuffalogaming Жыл бұрын

This video was so well done. Thank you Luc!!

@JumpingJiraffe Жыл бұрын

I was confident watching this that I’d know all of them, but I gotta admit you got me with the Iris one

@ReconProductions117 Жыл бұрын

Dude that’s so crazy hiddenxperia! Thanks man it awesome!

@joshualarsen2285 Жыл бұрын

Marathon for the win!! Durandal is a fanastic game that I've replayed this week. Please bring that to back to the light!

@girthyhalo7675 Жыл бұрын

My personal favorite bit of halo lore that isn’t talked about enough is how Master Chief’s Mark VI Mjolnir armor auto jacks him off allowing for the chief to truly “finish the fight”.

@Soloong_Gaybowzer Жыл бұрын

HiddenXperia : Complains about the UK heat Texas : "This isn't even my final form!"

@mrblankface2172 Жыл бұрын

So much hype for flooded with flavor. Super underrated

@riloe1 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this kind of thing! Would also love to see similar videos on other franchises you like!

@texasgundam7746 Жыл бұрын

The mention of ARGs reminded me of the Cloverfield ARG. It's an interesting ARG.

@jacob_be_ez2374 Жыл бұрын

I leaned so much cool stuff about my favorite universe, thank you so much for this video man I really appreciate it🔥

@tjmaximous8263 Жыл бұрын

Yay more halo lore videos... It's almost been so long I've gotten... Nostalgic

@alexsantiago3181 2 ай бұрын

That ending is insane. And the Cortana Letters, oh man so cool

@xxwhitephoenix2071 Жыл бұрын

Damn dude the iris ARG was so in depth, I couldn’t imagine the hype I’d feel if we got something like that nowadays… a man can only dream lmao

@NoiriumIdk Жыл бұрын

Been a little bit since your last Halo lore video, I love this stuff. Also, are you still planning on doing SCP content?

@HiddenXperia Жыл бұрын

Yes actually! Video coming about future plans in a week or so, but things are going to be changing on the channel soon and SCP is included in that change :)

@NoiriumIdk Жыл бұрын

@@HiddenXperia Sounds fun, can't wait!

@ericnichols5732 Жыл бұрын

Alot of cool stuff in this video thank you for making this

@LinkTheTwilightsSoilder Жыл бұрын

3:57 “Oh wait,” Best song from halo five: plays

@asinatrafanatic2697 Жыл бұрын

I was listening to this video while playing forge on Halo Reach. Acted as great ambience and awesome inspiration. Great video, sir. Have a good day, and remember. Elliot was wrong.

@imperatoriacustodum4667 Жыл бұрын

When you said Tsutomu Nihei, I honestly choked. Dude did Knights of Sidonia, which is a manga series I've bought every volume of and enjoyed (he has little behind-the-scenes parts at the end of some and the main mecha in Sidonia was made by him irl by just kitbashing different things together)

@nchamp1991 Жыл бұрын

This kind of stuff just makes me feel old having been there from the start and reading these stories when they were published.

@crismaster7498 Жыл бұрын

I just realized an Halo EAS scenario for Halo would be cool as like a small piece of lore for the covenant invading Reach then an elite busts down the door or something. COME ON 343 YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO WORK WITH!!!!!!!

@TheKahos Жыл бұрын

We need more!!!! Love all the things you find out for us ! Super nostalgic 👍

@endeavortabarsi5158 Жыл бұрын

A character from Soma the Painter called the Auditor became one of the sub-monitors of Installation 07 called Adjutant Revendicate.

@Manky20 Жыл бұрын

My head cannon for Cortana showing up in the Domain after halo 4 is that because she has Alpha halos index she was assumed to be Forerunner in origin.

@benclark4823 Жыл бұрын

The domain isn’t forerunner but precursor 🙄

@dsdy1205 5 ай бұрын

@@benclark4823 sure didn't stop the Forerunners using it for a million years

@MyToastyToast Жыл бұрын

FYI “a classic Romero-Esque flood story” was in Halo: Fractures, not Tales of Slipspace, which was a comic series

@themadspartan Жыл бұрын

I love it when Halo's Lore goes dark, ominous and cryptic! its honestly the best kind of lore, would love to see that kinda lore return to the franchise someday.

@DigitalDNA Жыл бұрын

Just to clear something up. In the video you said that she packed up her painting equipment, and headed to her town? Town? There were other forerunners living in a primitive community? As I understand it, she was the only inhabitant on the planet when the brush generated the first flood image. As a trivia: there was an American painter by the name Wolliam Sommar. Somas name is pretty much based on Sommar. (If you say Sommar fast, it sounds Soma.

@4th1st73 Жыл бұрын

I have heard of every one of these, but I STILL LOVE to hear about them again!😊

@lsbc9666 Жыл бұрын

I had no idea about that iris arg I can’t believe that they projected that footage over random buildings. Nuts!

@DeathTempler Жыл бұрын

Yesterday I saw the Flood Wikipedia as a screenshot reference in a windows 10 help page for accidental shortcut bindings. Confused, but delighted.

@primroan5354 10 ай бұрын

I remember back in the day I went to the IRIS site. It had that spinning artefact thing that you could click on. It was so mysterious. The idea that I was reading science data from a SUPER advanced species at its wits end. Who just couldn't deal with the parasite. It was interesting, but also sparked dread.

@Gruntslayer356 Жыл бұрын

yaaay halo lore after a day of work. MY FAVORITE!

@VrillianChronicles Жыл бұрын

Loved this! Not sure if I had ever heard of Iris prior. Not sure if it is really your thing, but I'd love your analysis on other ARGs/analog horror series even outside of Halo

@Butter_Warrior99 Жыл бұрын

I always love me some Halo lore.

@GunsAndAmmo3 5 ай бұрын

Terus mrta eglito.

@dyveshisrael7133 Жыл бұрын

Return of the King of lore videos!

@wisteriapetals 10 ай бұрын

I'm so glad iris is being talked about. There was an incredibly comprehensive video way back when but it seems to be lost to time.

@gibson7392 Жыл бұрын

I'm a freak for halo and I didn't know any of these... Thank you

@JoeFilms5420 Жыл бұрын

Dude if Halo 7 was revealed today and was literally everything we wanted, it still would not have me as hyped as the return of Flooded with Flavour

@eater_of_beans7114 Жыл бұрын

8:35 I remember this story from a video of yours (at least I think it was) a long time ago! Been a fan of yours forever lol

@ITSSIRWAN86 11 ай бұрын

i love your lore videos so much mate

@scebseeb6462 Жыл бұрын

These we're all very great pieces of lore. I haven't heard about almost all of them!

@gesprite8971 Жыл бұрын

This upload is bound to make my day better let’s go

@jakespacepiratee3740 Жыл бұрын

Great Video! Im looking forward to your upcoming Marathon videos a lot! Are you still collabing with Byf for them? One idea i think you could potentially explore is the differences between Halo Rampancy and Marathon Rampancy. Ironically, now both can be survived.

@KzRFAUSTI Жыл бұрын

This video deserves a singular pogger, great watch

@dresnio1363 Жыл бұрын

WOOO HiddenXperia upload

@Arminius757 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing parts of Iris back in the day... Use to go on the forms often and stumbled into it early on. Halo has so much story that's wasted. What 343 has done to this franchise makes me so sad. Here is hoping that someday we get more Halo content. Love these videos. It has inspired me to listen to pretty much all the audio books!

@erikbuysbricks1562 Жыл бұрын

I’m just commenting to help with the algorithm, this guy deserves it.

@Mathiakle Жыл бұрын

Speaking of the Mona Lisa. It's also a Flood horror comic. Definitely worthy of Halo.

@haydentravis3348 Жыл бұрын

I love the layers of halo. Bungie really set down a framework for conspiracy and intrigue.

@DanReed98 Жыл бұрын

Straight to my favourites playlist

@nassim1173 Жыл бұрын

The vidéo i waited for for so long 😭😭😭 2016-2017 HiddenXperia lol❤

@jmantheman9605 Жыл бұрын

This whole video just blew my mind I swear halo has the the best lore ever 👍👍

@TheXV1CT0Rx Жыл бұрын

Bro I am glad you are bringing back the cooking channel! Moa burgers are OP!!

@samayoubi3408 Жыл бұрын

Conspiracy theories were awesome and that feeling being in it

@PackHunter117 Жыл бұрын

I wanna see in a future game or media the Banished obtain a forerunner planet building machine that restores Doisac and its moons. And then they try to use it to destroy Earth or something.

@SchneeflockeMonsoon Жыл бұрын

I love when you do fun stuff like this. If you hit Destiny one day, I know my brother will love that. I’m always a Halo guy, ship model maker specifically, but that would be fun to look into on the side.

@hussainmohd6298 Жыл бұрын

i remember reading this in the fractures book. was awesome along with bornstellar visiting mythrilian after the ring's firing

@regnumsolipsi5935 Жыл бұрын

While I will leave this video disappointed that I did not learn about any new unknown piece of lore that I may have overlooked (I have been pretty extensive in my research, as well) I am reminded that I actual am missing lore from my collection. While I am familiar with Soma the Painter, I have never actually read it or 'Wages of Sin' because I was an early adopter the original release of Halo Evolutions before it was split into two volumes. Thank you for reminding me that I need to invest in the later volumes to complete my lore collection!

@pearlcommodore4772 11 ай бұрын

I know I'm late to this but I'd have to say my favorite piece of halo lore, while not anything as mysterious in this video, is the short story Dirt. Such a good tale of just an ordinary soldier and the meaning of what home is.