The Mystery of the NEW & SECRET Covenant Species
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- In the dark, far reaching corners of the Covenant exist species that we've never seen - species that very few know about. This group are known as the Covenant Fringe, and today we're covering the mystery of the secret species that dwell within this covenant fringe, including some new species!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:06 - Species #1
8:15 - Species #2
11:06 - Species #3
13:32 - Species #4
17:29 - Venturing Into the Fringe of the Fringe...
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A Sharquoi, Slugman and Staff-Wielding-Fish-Guy walk into a bar...
Ouch
I swear, if we don't get shark elites in the next game I am modding them in.
@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778 now I'm just imagining elites with shark fins and gills. maybe a tail and webbed hands
I could see the yonhet selling legendary variants of guns that you can later get from weapon droppers thru a menu afterwards in halo infinite campaign. Give us more open world, make some shopkeepers or even factions of them, such as a few camps of jackal traders who perhaps also give quests, which can definitely be done. Also, if arbiter were to join the fight again we could get playable eilites... And if we had a friendly set of brutes they could be playable as well. Basically bring back the partner function but make it so you choose who you bring, and then if you don't player two is whoever they pick, or if partner is there you can each have one and have an elite partner ai, brute, or Spartan. Let us unlock these partners with things that we do. Basically just give us a deploy screen before mission start, and let us access it from the garage or something
Maybe they are the Elite version to mermaids?
I believe the slugmen are actually the sub species of lekgolo called Khantolekgolo. Both of their lore is based around lost records after the fall of high charity and I think it’d be cool if 343 intertwined both of them together lol
The one thing that really annoys me is; if that element harvested from the fragment of Installation-04 was so deadly to humans only...how did even a number of those present in Ground Zero survive? Locke himself was barely 10 feet away from it, yet he wasn't even affected as far as I remember. It's one of the many, many, MANY gripes I have with that movie. It had a lot of promise, but it slipped through so many cracks there was barely any surface.
They just needed a silly reason to have Locke and the cast go to that fragment of Alpha Halo. Bad writing.
He just “built stupid “
...reasons
There’s always varying levels of immunity
halo 5's bread and butter @@user-xx7kl7sr6i
If we're going back over lore, could you do a video covering the kilo 5 trilogy? I think it's one of the greatest stories in Halo and is super underappreciated.
Depends what you wanna see, I've covered quite a lot of the ONI-related stuff before, anything in particular?
@HiddenXperia I just finished re-reading the trilogy. So, it's hard for me to pick something specific. Some points might be Juul Umdama's story, Admiral Osmond's rise to power, and maybe the alternate viewpoints through which Dr. Halsey and the Spartan 2 program are seen (Osmond, Staffan Senske, etc. Vs Chief's viewpoint that we see in the games). Idk. Just some ideas. I think it's one of the Halo universe's greatest hidden gems.
@@HiddenXperia can you do a lore video on the creatures of halo both on planets and the rings?
@@HiddenXperia A video focusing on Staffon Sentzke's story would be amazing.
@@Andrew-qe3fd Guess I spelled it wrong. That's what I get for relying on audiobooks. Lol
Perfect video to watch while I’m waiting at the doctors, Halo lore always helps to pass time
Hope everything's okay!
Hi Xperia Dude.
Through the 'dark times' of 343, there are very few content creators who soldiered on with our childhood dream game, but you did it. And for all your hard work and dedication I deeply thank you in admiration, you got real main character energy like Arby 'n the Chief do xD
Would love to see you in some games of Halo one day
Peace
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Couldn't agree more, like the RvB guys on Crows Nest, Xperia and Act Man debating something as a couple marines is a must at this point
I could definitely see a Covenant Master controlling a Sharquoi being a boss fight in a future game/dlc. A Covenant (rebranded) Banished Master challenges the Chief with the Sharquoi, after killing it you fight the Master. Then once you kill him it’s revealed that there was one or two more Sharquoi that are now out of control and you now have Banished Forces helping Chief and UNSC take them down. Only to immediately ho back to killing each other
That would be cool. Only difference I’d make with this is instead of banished working together with us, you’d hunt the remaining sharquoi and witnessing then mauling many banished troops. It would be almost like another boss fight except the sharquoi are fighting you and the banished, and the banished are fighting you and the sharquoi. A three way fight that makes the boss easier because more things are attacking it but also the setting is harder because you have more enemies after you too
9:16 Another theory as for reason for the Slugmen being chosen for artifact retrieval missions could be because they maybe have a trait similar to that of the Thanolekgolo from Halo Nightfall which can "sense technology", perhaps making them useful in navigating large Forerunner constructs and networks?
Ahhhh yeah I like that
@HiddenXperia Yeah, I mean we all know how confusing it can be navigating Forerunner structures (*cough cough* 343 Guilty Spark and Assault on the Control room)
Didn't High Charity use specially trained singular Lekgolo to dig through the more ancient parts of High Charity? The Slugmen could be entire gesalts formed out of these worms as a sort of spec-ops crusader priests
It indeed would be neat to see many of these species in new or expanded games, animations, and novels.
Both for gameplay combat and for the astropolitical lore.
Can you please do a deep dive into multiplayer armor and it’s canon lore; more particularly the more goofy looking armours. I like the slugmen the best for sure though.
I absolutely love the design for the alien trooper, it's elongated body and stance gives off a very 'alien' vibe which is fitting. It screams late 90's/2000's design to me 😁
A game where you play as a Covenant Master that is the lead of a group of Sharquoi and your sole purpose is to eradicate either humans and or heretics would be awesome. Bit different to just a run and shootem up but has the slight RTS feeling with it too controlling all the different Sharquoi and or the Lekgolo walker tanks.
Initially you were supposed to kill humans in Halo 2 as the arbiter but that didn't really jive well with the modern warfare of the time and people's sensibilities.
That sounds somewhat similar to the Overlord games, the ones where you play as a lich controlling undead to do combat while also in the fight themselves. At least, that's what i got from the few times I looked at the gameplay, without going into the actual story of the games themselves.
Although Halo and Marathon were possibly designed to be set in the same Universe, this definitely isn’t the case anymore, both in Lore and Legal senses.
Sometimes I like to go back and watch old lore videos because I forget a bunch of stuff but this works just as well. Good stuff keep it up 👍👍
I completely forgot about Halo Nightfall existing lol, Halo in live action has really not done well... Love this video, I want slug men in a game. 😊
Loved the video as usual, great to hear more about the fringe again, definitely least favorite are the yonhet, favorite might be the aquatic lads tbh, them or the covenant masters, they both sound dope, can't wait to see more remastered videos from you soon!
I enjoyed the remake a lot! The Yonhet could really use a redesign, if the covenant can go from their 3, to their 4 designs, then back to their roots in Infinite, then we can get better looking Yonhet
The original fringe video was one of my favorites I am incredibly glad you remade it :)
Seeing some fresh covenant units in the game would be so cool!
Loved this video! Never heard of the Dazreem! Love their shark/sanghelli vibe!
I am a little surprised the ‘Breakers’ didn’t get a little mention here, unless they didn’t count.
I can get why ya left em out tho given they are technically Banished.
If im not wrong they were originally gonna replace the hunters in infinite.
Crusher*
Never heard of these guys before, but they look neat, sort of like a mini kaiju from Pacific Rim
@@rootsnootthnute8598I searched the Halopedia for Breakers species and got nothing. Are they canon? What are they?
@jakespacepiratee3740 The initial commenter meant Crushers, they correct that in a second comment. I looked that up and found a video of a pair of strange reptilian creatures with two bony fins on their head fighting a spartan player. There was also a version that had armor, unlike the two that were naked. They seem to be either animalistic creatures, or based on their semi-humanoid form, some sort of primitive sapient.
The Covenant Fringe sound interesting, but what I want to know more about are The Interlopers, which couldbe many Alien species or even Forerunner.
that first creature, the banished arc in Halo is the best time to use them imo, you have probably the most intelligent and physically powerful brute ever leading an army that could beat the Covenant. if they controlled those creatures I feel they'd be a more intimidating army than they already are.
The only ones we know of are the lekgolo, but how many other alien species did the Covenant meet before or after who weren't a legitimate enough threat to pose a major obstacle who also destroyed Forerunner structures and were summarily exterminated?
If there's one thing I love about Halo's lore and world building, is all of the alien designs (except for one of course), especially with how they're not just 'humans with alien features' (except for one of course). The Alien Trooper at the end there is a perfect example of this, it's so strange that I actually recoiled from how it looked, but immediately got intrigued by its design and how it could use those weird sections of its body to perform very unique and potentially very combat effective tasks. I hope more of these alien races become properly canonised either in the games (preferably) or in other media, and that other sci-fi universes follow this trend of 'alien aliens' rather than 'human-like aliens'. Not to say that human-like aliens are bad, just look at Star Wars and Star Trek, but some more unique designs are always welcomed with open arms.
This really was one of the first times in history that we were able to experience aliens in media that weren't just people in costumes- at least for extend periods.
CGI was still hella expensive, and non-human aliens were otherwise puppets, animations, or sprites in the case of previous games.
Around the dawn of the 21st century was the first time millions of people could immerse themselves in the company of all these literally alien body plans moving around in real time.
And Halo was one of the most nuanced and beautiful examples, that really gave you a chance to soak it all in.
Right off the bat, an Iconic scene of Cheif getting ready to finish the fight.
This is great, a lot of your old videos treated very interesting topics keep it up.
Would be intersting if colony has a few slug men lying around in his ranks.
The Mystery of the Sexy San'shyuum. . and its Covenant Fridge.
Really neat video. The Covenant fringe is a part of the lore that it's a shame we've never seen and rarely hear about. It'd be nice to be able to see more of the Covenant fringe, but I guess this video will suffice for the time being.
Ah yes. " Fringe Lords "
bro wtf the last covenant fringe video you posted was literally recommended to me last night after none of your videos have been in my recommended for a while...
the rothschilds are up to something i swear
It’s always a good day when Hiddenxperia uploads. I’ve been waiting for a video about this for a long time
I would LOVE to see the Trooper integrated into Halo's Cannon! I would like to see something directly between the Grunts and the Elites.
We need to see Fringe species in a game, ASAP. The more alien races added to the Halo universe, the more I wish we could get a Mass Effect-esque game where we can freely visit locations around the galaxy. Imagine a place like Omega in Halo, (Venezia perhaps), where we can walk into a seedy bar or club and encounter various Halo species like Brute mercenaries or Jackal traders around the place. If they're going back to Halo: CE concept art and making unused aliens canon, then I think it would be neat to see some unused aliens from other canceled games made canon as well. The Sentients and Sigma from the canceled "Titan" game could be developed into something interesting.
I know you’ve talked about Xytan ‘Jar Wattinree before but was hoping you’d go over the lore behind him and his rising popularity with the covenant and intention on creating his own sangheli lead covenant that got him exiled to being the fleet commander over the covenant fringes. I’m disappointed that him and his flagship were taken out in that nova bomb on that sangheli colony😢, would’ve loved to see him in a game with that massive size difference
Great video! When I saw this on my fy page, I thought it was the old one. I was pleasantly surprised. I think a good idea for your next video should be covering the latest short story on Halo Waypoint about operation combined arms. Great read, and adds some cool details about the human- sangheili alliance. Anyway, great video, and have a good one! 😁
The trooper with the gun coming out of its chest would be awesome if it could like skitter up walls and shoot at you like a horror movie monster with a glock. But also drop down and move around like a humanoid and use more traditional tactics, give them shields and it'd almost be like fighting eldritch abomination Spartans.
These are the kind of species i've always wanted to see after Halo 3, It's what the Banished should have been. With so many unknown area's in the Convent and beyond, there's bound to be other races that can be used to replace the baddies we've always been shooting at. We don't need Grunt, Jackles, Elites/Brute and Hunters specifically, just other aliens that take up those same roles. 343's over reliance on the just fighting the Covenant/Banished over and over is making the franchise stale.
I'm going to say it. The Prometheans were a good direction as a replacement for the Flood, the issue was the way how they designed them. Knights teleporting, Watchers bringing them back to life, soldiers coming to late to the party (And TELEPORTING!!!!). They should return, but we need something this drastic for the Covenant role as well.
Plus, can you imagine how sick it would be if we got to fight a new rising alien power, while teaming up the old badies? Ughh... please!
Anyway, great Video! I've been a lurker on your channel for a few years now and always look forward to your Lore videos. Unless it UNSC, i tend to sleep on those.
Also, if you ever get invited to visit 343, please twist their nips until we get to playable Brutes or Elites. I miss my Elite and his big kissable split jaw.
This was really good can't wait to see more
When HiddenXperia releases a new video its a good day.
The Yonhet were also called out in Cortana's message in halo 5, there was also one in halo renegades.
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Ayyyy appreciate ya chief, thank you! 🫡
I think the Pfhor looked at the Covenant and Banished, saw what they got right, and considered what they got wrong
YES YES YES!!!!!! Keep ‘em coming!!!
LOREEEEEEEEEEE. Your storytelling ability is dare I say ICONIC
Honestly you could probably make an entire series of videos about all the Halo cut content that ended up getting canonized. Personally I’d love to see one about “ambient wildlife” like Thorn Beasts and Blind Wolves.
The tankbeast looks like something you'd come across on a blackstone fortress in the 41st millennium.
6:00 be cool to see these guys appear in a Halo game maybe with another of those Vertex relics being found or made in some Forerunner facility
Enjoyed the video!
Always thought the Alien Trooper was pretty cool. Never knew about the Dazreme, cool video as always!
Lekgolo have so much potential, we've just scratched the surface of the cool forms they could take
Amazing video, would love to see that underwater species in a game tbh
I dunno the Yonhet sound interesting to have in game especially in some plot where they're helping the Banished by either smuggling items to them or for them to help fund their pirate warband
Woooohoooo!!! New videos!!!!!! I'm excited
Listening to this bad boy as I loathe going to chemistry, thanks for the temporary paradise dude!
I bet the tankbeast is what inspired the skitterers in Halo wars 2. Look and sound very similar
The last Alien Trooper... the head bears a bit of resemblance to that Endless boss lady's head in Halo Infinite. Not the rest of the body, but the head does a bit. Maybe it could be re-canonized as part of that species, albeit with a redesign.
This was awesome
I would really love to see a remastered sharquoi. I would love for 343 to make some Halo DLC games that have all these lesser known species and the lesser known flood units!
I would believe the tankbeast is likely a predecessor to the scarab. It could even be one of the first tank designs for the convenient, I could see them not wanting to muddy the water with too many lekgolo vehicles and scrapping it.
Out of all the Halo content creators, I love HiddenXperia's vibe the most. Great energy.
I am hyped for all these remake videos!
One thing I have noticed about Bungie is they like to use Lekgolo to be different things and ideas
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Oosa was ever actually a part of the covenant. So if that's the case does that mean that the Covenant Masters armor style is
an original Sangheli design? Would be pretty cool to see a video on something like that
Here we go boys, another Covie vid!!!!!
The covenant trading for relics is strange to me I figured they’d just take them all by force lol
I really like the Dazreme. Ripjaws was my favorite Ben 10 alien and they kind of remind me of him.
I would like for there to be a Covenant splinter faction composed entirely of fringe species. They could either be led by the Masters or the Dazreme.
I know you talked about doing lore videos from other universes and that Warhammer was a popular one, but watching your Marathon ones I think you could really give some justice to other old shooters, like Doom, Quake, Half Life, etc. But then again, I just like your lore videos a lot. And you know I love me some covenant fringe. 😂
I really like the Yonhet. Like the Huragok, it's nice to get into lore with more than just new combat roles and leaders.
I wish the Yonhet got a redesign to look less like a guy in makeup and prosthetics. Maybe give them a serpent tail instead of legs
Is that the real concept are for the Dazreme??? The lore on those guys is so appealing! Where do they pop up in canon ???
After the Banished I want to see a Covenant Resurgence so badly.
Imagine having the Prophets return (including Prelates as boss fights), Drones return, even have the Dazreme as the new "elites/brutes" of this new reformed Covenant, would love to see slugmen and sharquoi too
babe wake up, Luc posted a new lore video
6:30 I think that in perspective they were removed and rarely seem again because they are impractical, they may be tough but not invunerable to weponry and there are other units like the Hunters (Lekgolos) who already occupy the niche of "tough armed big guy" much more effectively from a "gameplay" and storical perspective.
My childhood is waking up, I've been watching HiddenXperia since 2014
2:02 I still have mine too, booklet and all :D love it.
You should do a therory of what happened to the UNSC Spirit of Fire and where they are as of 2560 during halo infinite, are they still on the ark? What happened to Dr. Ellen Anders? What the status of the Ark's flood infection if Atriox and the Banished are gone? Ive also been wanting to ask you, do you think the whole "atriox is dead" was ever something that was true, the banished have this newfound unity as a result of Eshuram seemingly lying to the Banished about Atriox's death and id love to hear your thoughts
Infinite killed all these plot threads
@cosmictreason2242 Regardless it would still be fun to theorize about it. Just because 343i won't continue weaving the intricate threads of lore, doesn't mean we can't try it ourselves.. Personally I would love to see a video about it, even if it's merely conjecture, it's better than abandoning the story like 343i did.
I love your videos
It's awesome seeing you excited about Halo again after the last few rough years the franchise has given us!
Loved the first remake video man i cant wait for more maybe one of the ones avout the precursors or the primordial
They’re already in the works 🫡
Cool a remastered up to date lore vid of the Covenant Fringe species.
I hope we fight these in future halo games
the slugmen serving as agile stealth units, having armor on their rear and giant shield like shoulder pads, being very fast but exposed, and can switch to being tankier but slow, kinda like flood ranged forms.
Sharquoi as super melee tanks, much like flood juggernauts.
And the Fish creatures serving as very athletic melee enemies that can hop around the battlefield, cling to walls like Drones, and upon entering water, can swim at extreme speeds, but they have low health and halo 3 brute power armor.
And the Yonhet, having the same health and strength of marines, with covenant armor and new, original weapons, like a spike rifle, shooting small metal shards at the same speed of a brute spiker and ECT
Just some ideas for possible enemy types in future halo games
Great video as always thx hidden
For the first time in a long while, I'm actually learning about Halo's story. Exciting!
You should definitely make more remake videos, this stuff gets me through my work days.
*When the artists at Bungie designed the Sharquoi, they based them on my physique.*
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Lets go these type of videos are why i subbed. Gettin shmaked after work listening to halo lore fun times
Ending the videos with “blow me away” is so classic
Marathon 1 was a crazy game to play back in the day.
Since you are doing remake videos, how about doing remakes on the "Halo Lore before the Games" videos?
Also updating the biographies of the Arbiter, Locke, Buck, the Didact, Rtas Vadum, 343 Guilty Spark, the Warden Eternal (lol😂), Lasky, etc. would be nice.
Also, I'd be so down to seeing more Marathon videos, and maybe even some Call of Duty Zombies lore remake videos (since I know you used to do those too back then).
It would cool if in the future they make in a game it turned out these races built a new covenant and went to war with the banished and humans then all 3 factions are at war with each other and each side has different weapons in the sandbox
I’ve read about the Sharquoi in Halo Envoy. There’s also that one in Nightfall which is mentioned in Halo 5
This is so cool also I'd love book reviews ofthe new halo books!
Those first guys are so big they'd work perfectly in Infinite. If they decide to scrap Infinite then hopefully they'll use a modern engine like CryEngine, Frostbite, UnrealEngine or similar that could support cool new stuff.
Dudes why do the covenant masters remind me of the metal heads from jak2?
Kool video idea man. I loved the old lore episodes
Who would win in a fight: a Sharquoi or a pair of Hunters?
I think Halo should introduce new contemporary species and maybe even more alien alliances/empires that have nothing to do with the Covenant and the Banished, some of these unused creatures feel very consistent aesthetically yet not similar to the Halo aliens we've seen thus far
Good job