00:00Kairos is effectively a prison planet ruled over by a dictator called the Timekeeper.
00:16He thrives on control and order, and when things are thrown into those mechanisms to create chaos,
00:24he only knows how to clamp down and sort of institute martial law.
00:29The Timekeeper's primary method of control over the years has been a cybernetic implant called a bolt.
00:35A bolt is installed on the base of someone's neck and can be used to monitor their activities and shut them down completely.
00:46The Timekeeper is able to use it to see through people's eyes and monitor what's happening on Kairos at all times.
00:53Enter our Vault Hunters.
00:58People are now hungry, hungrier than they've ever been to get off of Kairos and to fight the oppression that they've been living under.
01:06The Vault Hunters end up enmeshed in this battle on the planet, and all roads lead to the Timekeeper.
01:14We call them the Outbounders because they, kind of like our Vault Hunters, crash-landed on Kairos and have not been able to leave because the planet is on lockdown.
01:28They are desperate to go back home. They are desperate to go back home. They are ripe for revolution.
01:36The Outbounders are led by a guy named Rush, who is very much this coach type character.
01:46And when the Vault Hunters shows up, helps them join the broader Crimson resistance, that's when things really ramp up for the Outbounders.
01:54Each zone is ruled over by a commander. In the Fade Fields, we have Idolator Sol.
02:02Idolator Sol once lived inside the city and really wants to be the Timekeeper's right-hand man.
02:11And when he is sent to the Fade Fields after Opus arrives, he sees that as his opportunity to prove his worth to the Timekeeper.
02:27The Augurs are a long-standing culture on Kairos. They are the descendants of the original mining teams
02:36sent there centuries ago by the Timekeeper in order to get resources like Ordonite and other minerals and ores
02:44out of the mountain range.
02:46So in the mountains, we have the faction leader Calder and he is part of the Augurs.
02:53He wants to take the flight to the Timekeeper and the other council members are scared and they live in fear.
03:01In Terminus range, we have Vile Lictor is our commander. Vile Lictor is an Augur.
03:09Since Alpus has arrived and brought Iridium to the planet, Vile Lictor has begun experimenting and
03:17doing things under the nose of the Timekeeper.
03:28We have the Electi faction and the leader is Levain, the gorgeous golden Levain.
03:35The Electi had previously lived in the city, an upper crust elite people that benefited from the Timekeeper.
03:46But when Alpus arrives, the Electi are left outside the city walls and the city goes on lockdown and they
03:56are not permitted back in the city. And so for the first time, they have to learn how the other side
04:02lives and how to survive outside the city walls. In Carcadia Burn, we have the Ripper Queen. When Alpus
04:10arrived, her perspective changed. She's realized that there's more to life than what she's been presented.
04:21And she rips her bolts as a means to be free of the Timekeeper's influence. When you rip your bolt out,
04:31there is a high potential for death and if not death, insanity. And so her army is largely made up of
04:43raving, mad humans with decreased brain capacity.
04:50She was able to convince a great number of her own soldiers to rip out their own bolts,
04:54and when they're not convinced, she does it for them.
05:10We also, of course, have the Timekeeper as our primary villain in Borderlands 4.
05:18And when we were approaching how to write the Timekeeper, we certainly looked back on all of our
05:26previous main villains and considered how we wanted to approach the Timekeeper differently,
05:32so that he would stand out from anything that we've done before.
05:36We wanted to go back to this sense of dread about the villain of our game. The Timekeeper
05:45can reach out and control people with unshielded bolts, and that's a threat that is always hanging
05:53over the player's actions in the game. As we unravel things for him, though, we start to see the cracks.
06:01We wanted a villain who was a new type of character in the franchise, who is ever-present and
06:13not overstaying his weapons.
06:15We brought back so much from previous titles that fans wanted to see again and that we wanted
06:23to put in the game again. The world is immense, and it's a new planet. You can come to Borderlands 4
06:33whether you've played the previous titles or not, and you can hop right in. It is a turning point in our
06:41universe, and how it connects back to our previous titles, but also at the end where it will point,
06:50it is worth playing for.
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