【Arknights】Sami and the Collapsals are Terrifying...

The following document is classified as a  Level 4 infohazard unauthorized access will result in termination through mimetic kill  agent proceed at your own risk Object Name: Collapsal Containment Class: Keter Special  containment procedure under no circumstance are Rhodes Island operators to approach the lands  of Sami observation of the Collapals must only be carried out through video and audio recording  equipment managed by the operators stationed at the Sami border, under no circumstance ca

n  these recordings leave Sami and must be deleted after an operator adequately rated for exposure  to cognito hazardous material has examined and confirmed the recordings follow containment norms  the operator that has viewed the recordings must then have their memory deleted by another  operator with the Originium Arts to do so to prevent them from being affected by the  infohazard if in case an expedition to Sami occurs follow all these guidelines to ensure the  safety of Rhodes Island operat

ors Sami has its own logic whenever you feel it's necessary silently  recite it to yourself if at that moment you start questioning Sami immediately run away leave Sami  Sami seems to have no logic at all whenever you feel the need to doubt don't hesitate show your  skepticism if you feel confident at a moment when you should doubt immediately run away leave Sami  people who speak can generally be trusted but if you encounter someone silent or the shadow of  someone speaking immediately run away

leave Sami respect the customs of the locals do not  touch the Trees of the local people let alone stroke the Shadows of the trees if you do  immediately run away leave Sami on nights when the Twin moons are dim do not spend the  night in the forest if absolutely necessary do not spend the night with your companions you  must separate out of each other's sight if the conditions do not allow this or if there are any  other factors around you that make you and your companions afraid of staying al

one immediately  run away leave Sami if you find that your inner thoughts receive verbal responses from others  do not answer immediately run away leave Sami if you keep these warnings in mind then when you  need to use them you will naturally know if you haven't kept These Warnings in mind immediately  run away leave Sami do not bring back things from Sami that should not be brought back if you  do immediately run away take it back to Sami So, now that Typhon and IS#4 are released we  finally g

et our first look into the stories and lore that is happening there so I think this  is the perfect time to talk about one of the most interesting parts of the world of Arknights in  my opinion, that is Sami and the demons living in the INFY ice Fields if you didn't know Sami is  located at the furthest North of the Arknight's world it's loosely based off of the culture of the  old Nordic and Arctic folklore some of the things that that make Sami and its lore so cool is how  much they lean into

Mystic animism. Animism being the belief that all objects places and beings have  a spiritual Essence that everything even plants rocks trees and even the weather as having agency  and free will we are able to very clearly see this in the traditions and practices of the people of  Sami from people listening to the heart of Sami by building settlements close to the trees two people  getting drunk and trying to befriend the trees the people of Sami believe that these trees are sacred  the shamans

of Sami would read prophecies through the bark of the trees and they would perform  rituals so that when they migrate the trees would migrate with them shamans and medicine  men being extremely important figures in Sami's culture understandably so as they are the ones  who would make all the big important decisions too Sami being a very isolated Society we barely know  anything about them it adds to the mysticism of the entire Place take one of the spirits of Sami  that we actually know of Amma

who is one of the spirits that protect Sami Amma here is actually a  lord of the beasts much like Dolly and the emperor being basically like a protector Spirit to Sami  the people worship her treating her like a goddess but why exactly is Sami as isolated a place as  it is sure we see in typhon's vignette event that the tribes of Sami are pretty hostile towards  Outsiders but there has to be more of a reason to this right enter the collapals. Collapsals are  the demons living north of Sami in th

e INFY ice Fields they are not unlike the Seaborne in a sense  that they are extremely dangerous threats to the world of Terror if they are left unchecked but  in what way are they dangerous you ask oh boy do I have some things to tell you that little intro  I made was obviously inspired by the SCP Universe I presented the collapsals as an infohazard and  a cognito hazard this basically means that they are dangerous to perceive through through one  of your senses and that it is dangerous to even

think about them so what would happen if you were  to make an oopsie and break one of the rules in the intro or delve too deep into learning about  the collapsals well here are a few things that can happen that would indicate the presence of  collapsals: plants would start to bloom in the form of flowers an unnatural Blackness that won't  be able to be caught on recording devices like cameras pitch black snowfall or black fog and if  you yourself are corrupted by the collapsals you would experi

ence black blood oozing through your  orifices your body would have black patches and your internal organs would be hollowed out also  your face will resemble that of black holes which we actually see on the enemies in game but I'm  getting ahead of myself okay it's dangerous to perceive them and it's dangerous to think about  them if you do that's already enough to manifest corruption once you're corrupted you would lose  all sense of self and basically become like a zombie just trying to sprea

d the collapse even  more okay sure that make sense already extremely dangerous and that alone is why people aren't  allowed to go in and out of Sami to prevent the influence of the collapses from spreading but that  isn't everything to an extent they can manipulate space-time they can cause hallucinations which  further develops the physical and mental corrosion of a victim they prey on this fear and even cause  this fear to manifest and even just being around them they would cause conventional

physics and  how we understand the world to break down Common Sense wouldn't be so common anymore so how  in the world are people still here and Tera isn't completely overrun by collapses well because  there have been many extremely powerful people in Tera that have went to Sami to push back against  the threat of the collapses from Emperor blades, Tianshi, even Wendingos from Kazdel* remember  people saying that Patriot in his prime is one of the most powerful characters that we'll ever  get t

o know partly because wendingos are just so naturally strong? you would also know that Patriot  was known to be the last pure-blooded wind dingo I wonder what happened to the rest of them but  of course the main Force pushing back against the collapsals are the Sami snow Priests of which  we know two that are named this guy he's dead now and Santalla who took his place even if they're  literally built to fight against the collapsals they don't win 100% of the time because we can  see the snow pr

iests fall to corruption too but regardless we know that they're strong enough to  earn the respective Patriot now how are they so strong I'm not 100% sure of this as I have not  seen anything to definitively prove it but it's probably because they are being helped by Sami's  will now you might be wondering why I'm treating Sami the location as a living thing remember me  talking about the beliefs of animism in the most literal sense Sami is alive from the trees that  the people have built aroun

d to the mountains that border the INFY ice fields we see this  in one of the frontier Memoirs of ending one: Magallan thinks she puts her hand to her chest  she feels her heartbeat and that of the tree she understands now it is no plant it is the heart of  Sami she has walked across Sami's spine challenged Sami's will she has descended into Sami's Scar  and wandered inside Sami's body through Sami's bones following the lights of Sami's neural  network Sami forgives her intrusion it has shown he

r its scars and vulnerability as a gift  to the Explorer no one knew of Sami's pain until now compassion from a kindly spirit gives Comfort  to its tired Soul so with all this said and done how does all this lore fit into the gameplay well  we see so much of it the main enemy type we see in is4 is of course collapses or at least the  people and things that have been corrupted by its influence and we see how much the collapses  want to spread seeing how fast they [ __ ] go we see these unfortunat

e people that have succumbed  to the corruption of the collapsals but we can also see just how a alive Sami is using one of  the most famous nodes in integrated strategies the sarkaz girl if you choose to loot her house it  [ __ ] comes alive and punishes you for it we get to see the various things that the collapsals have  corrupted from warriors of Sami tribes to the Sami snow priests even corrupted Emperor blades you get  a sense that nothing is safe from these bastards even the collapsal's m

ind-bending abilities is  in full display we get to see it via the collapse paradigms things like de quantification nonlinear  movement and pan Society Paradox describe how mind-bending being in the presence of a collapsal  is blurring the boundaries of numbers phrases like the shortest distance between two points  is not a straight line and the value of all products have become incapable of being explained  with common sense we even see how they feed off of and manifest your fears with emotiona

l entity  where innermost negative emotions become an actual Monster not to mention all the nodes where we can  see and have a more solid grasp of the culture and mysticism of Sami's lands it really is amazing and  engrossing to see all of them even when braving through and suffering with the higher ascensions  it's honestly just incredible and I loved learning about it and I hope I conveyed even just a little  bit about how terrifying and fascinating this all is but that's all I have for you in

this video I  really hope you enjoyed and I'll see you next time bye-bye