A tribal machine lure.[1]
Machine Lures are devices that emit a machine-attracting signal, which brings them to wherever the lure is.
Description[]
A Far Zenith machine lure.[2]
A tribal machine lure is small enough to be held in the hand. It is cylindrical in shape, with a red, blinking beacon-like light, and produces a pulsing noise at an interval of approximately once per second.
A Far Zenith lure is far more advanced, resembling a signal tower with wings.[2]
Any machine within an unspecified radius of the device is drawn to its location by this signal. While the distance is never confirmed, it appears to be able to reach a few hundred meters at least.[1][3]
History[]
Horizon Zero Dawn[]
The Oseram Warlord Dervahl had a number of machine lures in his possession.[1][4] He had them at a workshop atop the Eastern Ridge. The Carja trader Shahavad discovered the workshop's location. Unaware of the device's nature, he took a lure from the workshop, intending to sell it to Carja nobles interested in ancient artifacts. He eventually realized the device was causing Glinthawks to incessantly attack Pitchcliff, but was unable to disable it. The Nora huntress Aloy found him desperately trying to turn it off. She destroyed it and, on learning of the workshop's location, went there and destroyed the others.[4] Dervahl himself used a machine lure to attract Glinthawks against Aloy when she foiled his attempted bombing of the Carja capital Meridian.[1]
The Carja criminal Ranaman used a machine lure to summon machines to his father's estate, where they killed all present except his sister Daradi, whom their father saved by locking her in a room when the machines arrived and attacked. Should Aloy save Daradi and discover the lure, Ranaman would subsequently attempt to kill the women with a second lure: however, in an instance of irony, Ranaman would be the only casualty of the attempt.[5]
The Oseram trap-maker Rasgrund constructed a machine lure while incarcerated in the Carja prison Sunstone Rock. He used it to attract two Behemoths to the prison. While the machines attacked, Rasgrund and some other prisoners were able to escape.[6]
Sylens used a machine lure to bring his three overridden Ravagers to the Sun-Ring in Sunfall when he rescued Aloy, who had been thrown into the ring by the Eclipse leader Helis to be killed in a public execution. The Ravagers covered their withdrawal, attacking and preventing pursuit.[7]
Horizon Zero Dawn (comic book)[]
The Oseram fugitive Korl used a machine lure on two occasions to slow down his pursuers after he murdered a trader in Pitchcliff.
Horizon Call of the Mountain[]
Asera and the remnants of Dervahl's followers made use of machine lures and experimented with them in their attempt to destroy Meridian. Using the ruins of Talonreach, they used an antenna to amplify the signal of one, drawing in machines into the valley of Dawn's Grasp. This group would later override several Tallnecks and attach machine lures onto them, using the Tallnecks to amplify the signals emitted. This plot would ultimately be foiled by Ryas.
Horizon Forbidden West[]
Far Zenith set up three advanced machine lures managed by the AI Julius in the Tenakth's Valley of the Fallen, to draw in machines to kill anyone in the valley. At Nakko's request, Aloy investigated and found the Zenith lures. In overriding them, she inadvertently caused the Julius to self-terminate.[2][8]
One of Regalla's rebels holding a machine lure.[3]
A machine lure were used by one of Regalla's rebels at the Rot, where he drew in a Tideripper in order to kill Aloy, Amadis and Talanah when they attacked the prison. However, after Amadis crushed the lure under his foot, the three hunters were able to defeat the Tideripper.[3]
Associated Quests[]
Horizon Zero Dawn[] |
Horizon Forbidden West[] |
Gallery[]
Screenshots[]
Horizon Zero Dawn[]
![Dervahl holding a machine lure.[1]](/wiki/File:Machine_Lure.jpg "Machine Lure.jpg (253 KB)")
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered[]
![Dervahl holding a machine lure.[1]](/wiki/File:The_Sun_Shall_Fall_(HZDR;_134).png "The Sun Shall Fall (HZDR; 134).png (2.08 MB)")
![A machine lure on Sylens' lance.[7]](/wiki/File:The_Terror_of_the_Sun_(HZDR;_184).png "The Terror of the Sun (HZDR; 184).png (1.38 MB)")
Horizon Forbidden West[]
![One of Regalla's rebels holding a machine lure.[3]](/wiki/File:Rebel_with_machine_lure.png "Rebel with machine lure.png (2.11 MB)")
![A Far Zenith machine lure.[2]](/wiki/File:Valley_of_the_Fallen.jpg "Valley of the Fallen.jpg (841 KB)")
References[]
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| Technology | |
|---|---|
| Devices | Black Box - Ectogenic Chamber - Focus - Gene Locked Hatch - Machine Lure - Ornament - UltraWeave Mk7.1 |
| Facilities | Cradle |
| Robots | @lfred - Machine - Multiservitor - Survey Drone - Thrasher - Ti-D-O |
| Signals | Extinction Signal |
| Software | AI - Poly-Phasic Entangled Waveforms |
| Vehicles | Ascension - Odyssey - Vert |
| Other Technology | Biomass Conversion - Mutiny Suppression Protocol - Override |