Coricus
Woom-em-my?
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It doesn't elaborate much, but there's a certain level of. . .mystery surrounding a few things.
The Corruption. Is there, is slowly overtaking the world, is full of angry rotten worm monsters. No one has any idea why, but it's clearly significant. The most common monsters are called Eater of Souls and the boss of the area is called the Eater of Worlds, really big epic names. Yet we don't know much about them beyond that.
The Crimson. Counterpart to The Corruption, horrific gore-vore theming. This one is where the lore speculation starts to take off, because it's exclusive boss is the Brain of Cthulhu. And there's already a boss in all possible worlds named the Eye of Cthulhu. That are both barring the absence of anything resembling an actual Cthulhu exactly what they say on the tin. And during the later stages of the game Crimson enemies start dropping ichor, which is the blood of a god. And one of the possible backgrounds for The Crimson has a -huge- skeleton in the distance. This has led some people to start speculating that The Crimson is actually what's left of the corpse of Cthulhu, just kinda. . .taking on a horrible new life of it's own. This could be confirmed or deconfirmed next month, but if it did turn out to be a thing then I guess you could say he's gone but not Fh'tagn.
The Old Man. Why was he cursed into becoming Skeletron? Who or what did this to him? How long had he been guarding the Dungeon? Why is it that when you're a horrible enough person to kill him he actually seems to regain his curse in his dying moments?
The Underworld. Just. . .everything. Why is there a voodoo doll of the Guide specifically that you need to sacrifice? Why does the Guide TELL you to go looking for a voodoo doll down there, ESPECIALLY since he's the one that eats it? What in the world is the Wall of Flesh? Why does killing it release the "Ancient Spirits of Light and Dark?" And since it's related to the Ancient Spirits question, what exactly is the Hallow Biome that is created afterwards? Is it just as evil as The Corruption and The Crimson just with a prettier surface, or is it just an amoral and indiscriminate force of sparkles neither truly good or evil? Or is it just Lawful Stupid?
The Moon Lord. The final boss of Terraria, we know a couple things about him already. For one, prior scrapped final boss fight concepts were respectively Cthulhu himself and later on the literal moon as a vertical Wall of Flesh type boss, two ideas which the Moon Lord seems to reconcile. And secondly, the Moon Lord is more specifically Cthulhu's brother. He also has a small following of cultists capable of summoning him, and is heralded by the arrival of what appears to be the populations of four alien planets, or perhaps alien moons. But as for that last part. . .why are all these things connected to him, aside from respectively eldritch cults and space being roughly associated themes? Does he have a motivation for destroying the world? Is he mad about his brother falling to an unfortunate fate and you slicing up his body parts/entrails?
So there's. . .yeah. There's a few things that could use answers. Probably doesn't hurt the fandom's curiosity that NPCs actually talk with you and have distinct personalities, which also begs the slight question of where all of them came from sans the Goblin Tinkerer that we explicitly know was tied up and ditched by an invading Goblin Army that you just sliced/shot your way through. And we know bits and pieces about Terraria goblin culture from said NPC, but more elaboration couldn't really hurt either. Like where they came from themselves. Also the whole of Terraria seems to be locked to an island, which is kind of. . .another thing? I'm just saying the fandom has questions that answers would be cool to.
