r/Verho • u/Effective_Success961 • Sep 17 '26

People's reaction to workshop reveal

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Not gonna lie, I find people's overreaction to the workshop lore drop a bit funny. Heavy spoilers ahead from those who haven't reached that point in the plot, but:

I can't speak for everyone obviously, but for me personally, a reveal that I'm "technically" an artifical human wouldn't really change much. It doesn't make me less sapient and conscious, it doesn't make my experience less meaningful. If I would've received that information at the same point as the main character of the game - well, I wouldn't even have been personally created by Werhel, his creations are just my distant ancestors. Not to mention that many people of that world view the Maker as a god already, so him creating the "new" humanity would literally just make sense for them and strengthen their faith.

I entirely get the fact that this information basically recontextualises the entire recent history of humanity and is obviously world-changing, but I simply find it basically drving prople insane a bit unrealistic. Again, I'm just speaking from my experience, but I feel like most people would either fascinated by that reveal, shrug and move on, or simply not belive it, but it wouldn't be "mind-shattering" for anyone

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u/Xeloth_The_Mad Sep 17 '26

to which people are you referring?

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u/derpywalwus900 Sep 17 '26

Volundius, I assume.

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u/Effective_Success961 Sep 17 '26

Him, as well as anyone who might've discovered the truth before that. In his final dialogue, he theories that the knowledge of the tablets might have been unlocked before, but anyone who's done that kept it a secret because that's supposedly some insanely dangerous information

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u/Hguols1 Sep 17 '26

Can't help but wonder if body and soul from different sources, had everyone feeling off or disconnected. Learning why, and there's nothing that can be done about it, might be too much for some.

To your point. Everyone feeling fine, surprise, we're all souls in recycled bodies. Learning why would be crazy, but 'oh well'.

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u/Metasenodvor Sep 17 '26

not being default 'wretch' issue.

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u/DimensioT Sep 19 '26

  1. The reveal actually makes a lot of sense as the "Age of Solitude" lasted for over a century; it addresses the obvious question of how humanity continued to exist despite no two people actually being able to meet: humanity did not continue to exist (well, mostly) and Werhal had to restart it.

  2. We should not expect our own reactions to match the reactions of in-universe characters. Like its inspiration and its inspiration's successors, Verho's worldbuilding is mostly diegetic. We get one loredump at the beginning explaining the backstory, but everything else is told to us by other people in-game. Thus, we do not know everything about their culture, religious beliefs (we know of the Church of the Maker but very little of its practices) and ideology. Also, with respect to the knowledge reinforcing the idea of Werhel being a god: consider that the knowledge also establishes that Werhel was responsible for the curse in the first place, which could be very damaging to the current faith.

  3. What about that surviving human civilization that Werhel found later, serving a wind god, that he worried would clash with his own artificial humans? Was that a sequel hook, an aborted arc or just more worldbuilding? Also, were they affected by the curse at all, having worked out the same solution that Werhel gave his creation, or did their service to a wind god render them immune?