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"The lesson will be taught in due time, Aloy. Until then, we wait." This article contains heavy spoilers. Read ahead with caution.
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- "It is in my nature to take any and all necessary steps to preserve life on Earth, humanity above all."
- ―GAIA
The Eye of the Earth is the seventh main quest in Horizon Forbidden West.
Synopsis[]
After purging HEPHAESTUS from the core of Repair-Bay TAU, Aloy and her allies venture into the facility connected to the Repair Bay. Upon seeing their presence, MINERVA locks down the facility. Aloy scouts ahead, eventually reaching the system core where MINERVA resides and convincing it to merge back with GAIA. With MINERVA's cooperation, Aloy activates the heuristic matrix and finally restores GAIA. GAIA initially believes her to be Dr. Elisabet Sobeck, but recognizes her as Aloy after scanning data on her Focus. She then grants access to Varl and Zo.
While GAIA finishes initialization, Aloy explores the facility with Varl and Zo. GAIA explains it to be a Regional Control Center, intended for the early generations of new humans to oversee terraforming operations within the area.
Once GAIA's initialization is complete, she calls Aloy back to the control room to discuss matters with her. When she inquires about the mysterious strangers who attacked her at the HADES Proving Lab, GAIA reveals them to be linked to the source of the extinction signal that woke her subfunctions 20 years prior, which originated at a source 81 trillion kilometers away, the Sirius star system, the intended destination for the Odyssey. Aloy deduces that Far Zenith must have falsified the ship's destruction a thousand years ago for their own reasons, and their descendants are now back on Earth. GAIA manages to pinpoint the location of three of her subfunctions: AETHER, DEMETER, AND POSEIDON. HEPHAESTUS, while also revealed, poses a unique challenge. Unlike the other subfunctions, it's not confined to a single location, and at GAIA's current processing level, she's unable to absorb HEPHAESTUS until her own heuristic matrix had expanded enough through the acquisition of other subfunctions. With that, Aloy sets out to begin retrieval of the subfunctions, while Varl goes back east to find Erend and bring him to the Base. Zo decides to stay behind to familiarize herself with GAIA and the Old World.
Objectives[]
- Enter the Facility
- Climb the Elevator Shaft
- Search the Facility for MINERVA
- Examine the Console
- Go to the Lab
- Examine the Fabrication Terminal
- Explore the Base (Optional)
- Return to the Control Room
- Talk to GAIA
- Exit the Base through the West Door
Walkthrough[]
Collectables[]
There is one datapoint automatically collected upon completion of this quest.
Text Datapoint - Quests[]
Trivia[]
- Completing this quest awards the trophy "Established the Base".
- In New Game+, overrideable Sunwings become available once the western exit to the Base opens.