

It determines that she is a 99.47% DNA match to the woman that looks like her. Teersa believes that Aloy can open the door and when she tries she is scanned by a biometric scanner in the door. The Nora are against anything that has to do with the robots and where they come from, and entering such a place is strictly forbidden so you can imagine what being born in one would mean to the tribe. It’s some type of bunker that nobody has been able to enter, and it’s believed that she came from within, which is why the other Higher Matriarchs hate her. It turns out that she was found within the mountain in front of a large, steel door. The first is that they’re targeting a woman that looks almost exactly like her (could it be the mother nobody ever saw?), and the second is that they were able to find her through Olin’s focus meaning he’s in cahoots with the bad guys.īefore going to find Olin, though, Teersa has something to show Aloy, the place she was found. After examining it with her own Focus, she learns two things. She remembers that the enemies had Focuses and that she managed to take one off of them. After being told that so many people have died and that the killers are on the run, Aloy still has tons of questions. She’s there with Teersa and the other Higher Matriarchs. When he starts to cut into her neck with his dagger, she’s saved by Rost who gives up his own life to save hers.Īfter the attack on the village and the death of Rost, Aloy finds herself inside of the mountain where the Nora village is located. She continues to fight and it seems as if she’s going to push back the enemy until she comes across a large brute of a man who snatches her by her neck and moves to kill her. She finds it odd that she’d never seen another one before, but in the last couple of days, she saw Olin and now all these murderers with the same device she has. Aloy holds her own very well during the battle as she realizes that they too have Focuses. All of the other contestants, including the kids she used to watch from afar, are brutally murdered by a mysterious group of killers. Once Aloy wins, the village falls under attack. She does end up winning, but the joy of victory is not a long one as The Proving is also one of the major turning points in Horizon Zero Dawn’s story.

After speaking to him, it’s time to get some rest and focus on winning The Proving. It’s not clear why, but he seems to actively avoid you. It’s clear that he’s special as this kind of technology isn’t common, and is frowned upon by the Nora, so he’s one to keep an eye out for. While watching the ceremony that kicks off The Proving, Aloy senses a signal which turns out to be a Focus that Olin is wearing. Erend is an Oseram warrior while Olin is a scrounger who searches ancient ruins for artifacts. The two most important ones are Erend and Olin. This is because Teersa believes that Aloy was sent for a reason, and that her destiny will be to help the people of the planet.Īfter entering the Proving Grounds she is greeted by Teersa and introduced to several other key characters in Horizon Zero Dawn’s story. It is also her that allows Aloy to enter The Proving, a way to reenter the Nora tribe and return to its good graces. She always showed love and affection towards the young girl and was even kind to Rost, who it’s technically illegal to speak to for members of the Nora Tribe. There was one Matriarch who did consider the girl’s discovery a blessing, though, and that was Teersa. It was then that many of the leaders decided to make the young girl an outcast at birth and to not bless her. Aloy was found crying and alone by the Higher Matriarchs in a room that only they have access to. And it’s not that her mother died or something like that, nobody has ever seen her.

It turns out that she is shunned because she is “motherless.” Mothers are very important in their culture, so to be a child without one is something unnatural and taboo. This is quite confusing when first starting out, but it is explained a few hours later.
