00:00Kairos is effectively a prison planet ruled over by a dictator called the Timekeeper.
00:16He thrives on control and order, and when things are thrown into those mechanisms to create chaos,
00:24he only knows how to clamp down and sort of institute martial law.
00:29The Timekeeper's primary method of control over the years has been a cybernetic implant called a bolt.
00:35A bolt is installed on the base of someone's neck and can be used to monitor their activities and shut them down completely.
00:46The Timekeeper is able to use it to see through people's eyes and monitor what's happening on Kairos at all times.
00:53Enter our Vault Hunters.
00:58People are now hungry, hungrier than they've ever been to get off of Kairos and to fight the oppression that they've been living under.
01:06The Vault Hunters end up enmeshed in this battle on the planet, and all roads lead to the Timekeeper.
01:14We call them the Outbounders because they, kind of like our Vault Hunters, crash-landed on Kairos and have not been able to leave because the planet is on lockdown.
01:28They are desperate to go back home. They are desperate to go back home. They are ripe for revolution.
01:36The Outbounders are led by a guy named Rush, who is very much this coach-type character.
01:46And when the Vault Hunters shows up, helps them join the broader Crimson Resistance, that's when things really ramp up for the Outbounders.
01:54Each zone is ruled over by a commander.
01:57In the Fade Fields, we have Idolator Sol.
02:02Idolator Sol once lived inside the city and really wants to be the Timekeeper's right-hand man.
02:11And when he is sent to the Fade Fields after Opus arrives, he sees that as his opportunity to prove his worth to the Timekeeper.
02:24The Augurs are a long-standing culture on Kairos.
02:32They are the descendants of the original mining teams sent there centuries ago by the Timekeeper
02:39in order to get resources like Ordonite and other minerals and ores out of the mountain range.
02:46So in the mountains, we have the faction leader Calder, and he is part of the Augurs.
02:53He wants to take the flight to the Timekeeper, and the other council members are scared and they live in fear.
03:01In Terminus' range, we have Vile Lictor is our commander.
03:06Vile Lictor is an Augur.
03:09Since Alpus has arrived and brought Iridium to the planet, Vile Lictor has begun experimenting and doing things under the nose of the Timekeeper.
03:23We have the Electi faction and the leader is Levain, the gorgeous golden Levain.
03:35The Electi had previously lived in the city, an upper crust elite people that benefited from the Timekeeper.
03:45But when Alpus arrives, the Electi are left outside the city walls, and the city goes on lockdown, and they are not permitted back in the city.
03:57And so for the first time, they have to learn how the other side lives and how to survive outside the city walls.
04:05In Carcadia Burn, we have the Ripper Queen.
04:09When Alpus arrived, her perspective changed.
04:14She's realized that there's more to life than what she's been presented.
04:21And she rips her bolt as a means to be free of the Timekeeper's influence.
04:29When you rip your bolt out, there is a high potential for death, and if not death, insanity.
04:38And so her army is largely made up of raving, mad humans with a decreased brain capacity.
04:50She was able to convince a great number of her own soldiers to rip out their own bolts, and when they're not convinced, she does it for them.
04:58We also, of course, have the Timekeeper as our primary villain in Borderlands 4.
05:18And when we were approaching how to write the Timekeeper, we certainly looked back on all of our previous main villains.
05:28And considered how we wanted to approach the Timekeeper differently, so that he would stand out from anything that we've done before.
05:36We wanted to go back to this sense of dread about the villain of our game.
05:44The Timekeeper can reach out and control people with unshielded bolts, and that's a threat that is always hanging over the player's actions in the game.
05:57As we unravel things for him, though, we start to see the cracks.
06:01We wanted a villain who was a new type of character in the franchise, who is ever-present and not overstaying his welcomes.
06:15We brought back so much from previous titles that fans wanted to see again and that we wanted to put in the game again.
06:25The world is immense, and it's a new planet.
06:31You can come to Borderlands 4, whether you've played the previous titles or not, and you can hop right in.
06:39It is a turning point in our universe, and how it connects back to our previous titles, but also at the end where it will point, is worth playing for.
