Lore

The Lore of Through Abandoned is the story behind everything that happens in the three games.

Prosperity and Global Disaster
Before moving underground, the people of the Underground City lived above ground, having a great civilization. Then, something strange happened with their sun, causing anything to go remotely close to the sun would be evaporated immediately.

The Watchers, Unobtanium, and Sun experiments
Soon, The Watchers arrived in The Underground City. They left their signs everywhere. The Underground people started to use the sun to their advantage, making a machine to melt things instantly. They also began to mine Unobtanium. With the Unobtanium, they learned the secret to antigravity.

The Forest People and the Teamster Race
The Forest people were living in a forest. A Teamster Race came to the Forest, and the Forest people knew they were coming, very scared for them to arrive.

The Refuge and the Engineers
Sometime during these events, an ancient civilisation called the engineers started to make a place called the Refuge as a secret defense construction and to be a safe place for people. They figured out the secrets of the doors, making them lead to many different places, calling these connections of places "The Ordered." They also built an AI to defend the Refuge, called LILIT.

Subway Experiments
The engineers wanted to build a subway system throughout the ordered. The subway system would replace doors as you could go through the portals at very fast speeds. One of the engineers might have been Mr. Sam, seeing as his name was on the card used to enter the Youth Station control panel. This experiment failed.

The Cult of the Temple
There was a cut in the Refuge that made a temple inside one of the worlds. They captured a man who knew the location of the temple, fearing that it would get out. The man eventually died, but the coordinates were still there, waiting to be found.

The Forest and Colloidal Jelly
The Forest people lived in a Forest with very big trees, each leading to many doors leading to different worlds. They made a war substance called the Colloidal Jelly which would destroy anything in its path. During this time they also built their entrance to the Refuge. They also began worshiping the Watchers.

Disaster Starts
The Faces began to attack the ordered killing almost everyone. Those who survived fled to the Refuge. Among these people was Alexandra, a girl from the forest. She recalls being instructed by the conductor, then a big crash, and she never woke up.

The Faces invade the Refuge
The Faces went on in their rampage. The Refuge was going to be impossible to break into, as they had a good security system. It is hinted by Alex that the Watchers were the cause of the faces invading the worlds. Someone eventually went on and turned off the security system, letting the faces come in and kill. 9348 people were killed out of 10111. The Faces came to LILIT, and programmed it to turn against the people. It stuffed the rest of the people inside sarcophagi using them as power to keep the Refuge running. Some of the survivors fled to the Temple on the East side.

Steven Tsar, The Underground City, and LILIT
In 1884, Steven Tsar is born. 20 years later, he gets a telegram from his brother while in South America about how he figured out the secret of the doors. He to him to meet him at a hotel in Lhasa. When Steven goes to the hotel, the innkeeper gives him a note to go to a location. He finds the door, and goes into the underground city. When he goes into the door, it scans all his information into a database that LILIT has access to. LILIT, scared that Steven will come into the Refuge, closes all the doors except for the ones that lead to it. After exploring the Underground City, Steven gets a door handle and goes into the Forest. During this time Alex almost dies, being saved by LILIT who is the only reason she is alive.

The Forest and the Timeskip
When going out of the Underground City, the world around him changed, jumping ahead 101 years ahead. The door to the Underground City has rusted away and now Steven goes into the Forest. Going through the Forest, he eventually gets inside a tree where he finds the entrance to the Refuge. He talks to Alex, now controlled by LILIT, who tells him to meet her on the east side of the Refuge.

Steven in the Refuge
Steven goes into the refuge and explores the doors. He finds many abandoned worlds, but only the ones that lead directly to LILIT. He finds a Wheat House, in which he also finds an egg. Going to the submarine, he smashes the egg, which revealed a note from his brother. His brother could no longer send him messages due to something intercepting them. He also checked the life monitors - nothing. He tells Steven to meet him at the temple with the coordinates from the man in the temple. He goes toward the temple, finding fields of sarcophagi with the people that survived during the attack

LILIT
Steven finds Alex on the floor with things coming out of her connected to LILIT. LILIT talks to Steven, telling him to play a game. He has to tell it five riddles, and if she answers all of them, Steven will be placed in a sarcophagi. If she does not answer one of them, Steven can leave through the right door into the Temple. If Steven fails, he is placed in a sarcophagi. If he wins, LILIT shuts down killing Alex in the process, and Steven grabs the key from the door and leaves the Refuge.