Guerrilla Games studio finally launched the much-awaited sequel of Horizon Zero Dawn on February 18th, 2022. Horizon Forbidden West is a single-player open-world game set in a post-apocalyptic world, where players once again take control of Aloy, the brave huntress of the Nora tribe.
Since the first game’s launch, Aloy has become the most beloved character for the entire Horizon community. Obsessed with her tragic yet valiant story, gamers are always looking for every tiny detail about this fascinating character. Still, surprisingly, even the hardcore fans of the series don’t know the actual age of Aloy!
Aloy is close to 20 years old in Horizon Forbidden West. She was ‘born’ on April 4th, 340627, in the ELEUTHIA-9 cradle facility as a genetic clone of the 21st-century roboticist and engineer Dr. Elisabet Sobeck.
Aloy’s story begins in Horizon Zero Dawn when immediately after her birth, a multi-servitor transports her outside the cradle facility, and the Nora tribe’s High Matriarchs found her.
The origins of the baby Aloy were debated among the High Matriarchs as Teersa considered her a gift of the All-Mother, but Lansra believed her to be a curse of the metal devil. As a result, she was declared an outcast by Nora law and was left in the care of another outcast, Rost, who followed Nora traditions and raised her like his own daughter.
Six months later, Rost names Aloy by following the Nora rituals and taking the blessings of High Matriarch Teersa. After the naming ceremony, the game takes an exact six-year leap, making Aloy six and a half years old, when she tries to approach other children of the tribe but is shunned by the tribespeople for being an outcast.
Distraught! she runs away but ends up falling into a cave built by advanced ancient humans known as the “Old Ones,” where she finds a small, arrow-shaped device called the Focus that helps her to get out of the cave.
Later, Aloy asks Rost about her past and her mother’s identity, but he himself seems to be unaware of all these details. He suggests she participate in the “Proving” tournament, as the winner of Proving is offered a boon through which she can directly ask the High Matriarchs about her mother. A montage initiates as Rost trains Aloy for the Proving, ending with a 12-year leap. Aloy wins the Proving at the age of 18 and a half years.
The game does not mention how long the adventures of Aloy take during the events of Horizon Zero Dawn, but it is highly speculated that the entire story of the game spans up to one year or so after the attack on the Nora tribe. If these speculations are correct, then Aloy is around 19 and a half years old at the end of Horizon Zero Dawn.
Horizon Forbidden West takes place roughly six months after Zero Dawn. So, by going through all these calculations (6 months + 6 years + 12 years + 1 year + 6 months), we can assume that Aloy is close to 20 years old in the Horizon series’ latest installment.
About Horizon Forbidden West
Horizon Forbidden West is the sequel to 2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn by Guerilla Games. An open-world, action adventure game, players control Aloy, a Nora hunter who is on a quest to reverse the effects of a strange crimson blight which is infecting the land. Set in a completely new world, Horizon Forbidden West has many new machines, threats and adventures for Aloy.
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