Fortnite’s new Titan Hand event has spawned all kinds of theories
Fans of Fortnite have scoured the books in an attempt to come up with theories rooted in Greek mythology to try and explain what’s going on in the game’s world. It all started when a giant stone hand appeared in the game world. This hand, which players call the Titan Hand, contained a mysterious locked chest. Players worked together and eventually destroyed the chains that locked the box, but there were consequences. It unleashed a fiery column of energy on the land. Now internet sleuths are trying to solve the puzzle of what happened and its deeper meaning.
The mini-event marks the end of the current season and the beginning of the Chapter 5 Season 2 patch, which releases on Friday. For some, it’s just another flashy event to entice people to play the game again. For others it is a sign of things to come and says something about the larger world of Fortnite. Fortnite Lore – yes, that’s really true – is a bit difficult to parse, because it’s a competitive online game without a clear main storyline. With each season and chapter, the developers have slowly strung together a larger yet vague story about the world and what’s going on. In Chapter 5, Season 1, a giant meteor hit the surface and the developers launched a new map. Now, the Titan Hand event has sparked a lot of speculation on platforms like YouTube and TikTok as people have parsed the world’s events.
People who want to follow the game’s larger story will need to pay close attention to various details of the world. Unlike games where you play as a specific character and experience a specific story, you’re not really pursuing a main story Fortnite, and no clear story happens. It’s up to superfans to piece together details of a larger story by observing events and the larger world and taking part in optional seasonal missions. For example, last season’s loading scenes showed a storyline in which Peely, the series’ banana mascot, was kidnapped and later released.
Let’s start with what we Doing know about Titan Hand. The upcoming season will have a Greek mythology theme, as confirmed by the new cinematic trailer, images teasing the new season and leaks showing the new Greek mythology-themed characters. Although content creators come up with theories that delve deeper into the bigger picture Fortnite When we want to learn about and speculate about bigger questions like current events and alternate universes, it’s easier to just look at theories about specific events and how they might influence future changes in the world. In this case, it’s fun to look at what the event means and why it has prompted many to come up with theories based on the stories told in Greek myths.
The chest is Pandora’s box
The most prominent theory circulating around the event is that the coffin appeared in Fortnite is basically Pandora’s box. That’s what people think Fortnite players opened the chest and unleashed all the evil inside on the world, just like in classical Greek myth. So far, players haven’t experienced the full consequences of releasing evils like death and disease into the world, but there has been some chaos. For example, players in Zero Build have been able to build buildings after jumping into the box. The whole point of Zero Build mode is that the classic isn’t possible Fortnite construction gameplay, so giving certain people that power led to a lot of speculation from the larger community.
This theory seems like a pretty safe theory to believe in. The decorations on the box appear to depict various ills of the world mentioned in Greek myth. We can see all the evil that Pandora has unleashed into the world, such as death, depicted by the Grim Reaper on the chest. Epic Games also shared a post from a creator who called it Pandora’s Box, which could indirectly confirm the concept and its interpretation. Now people are hypothesizing about what this will unleash on the world in the coming season. Some have joked that this means all loot drops will be worthless, but it’s possible this could indicate another seasonal game mechanic.
The hand belongs to a titan
Image: Epic Games
Many believe the hand belongs to a member of the group of divine beings known as the Titans and call it the ‘Titan Hand’. In Greek mythology, the Titans were the predecessors of the Olympian gods fathered by Zeus. As the stories go, Zeus and the Olympians fought the Titans, won, and later assumed their rule as gods and demigods over the world on Mount Olympus. Given the general theme of the next season and the leaks so far, fans are theorizing that the next season will create a scenario where we either fight the Olympians ourselves or fight alongside them. This can take the form of boss battles or in-game quests. Although this hand could belong to a Fortnite-specific character, it seems like it could very well be a Titan, given the group’s prominent role in Greek mythology and the game’s theme.
The beam emanating from the box has a mysterious connection to Hades
When players opened the giant chest Fortnite, the box emitted a gigantic column of light that seemed to contain swirling souls. When considering the leaked information, one creator theorized that the design could indicate a connection with the ‘river of souls’ or the River Styx. In the Iliad, this mystical body of water formed the boundary of the world of the dead and the underworld ruled by Hades. Now, some Fortnite players believe that the Underworld or the River could be a new location that will appear in the next update. Overall, it seems entirely possible that it’s coming to the game, as the latest trailer teased a sultry land with an ethereal body of water.
These are just some of the big theories. Fans can delve much deeper into different interpretations if they want to think about the larger lore of the world, and the potential for different timelines or alternate universes in Fortnite. Either way, it’ll be fun to see how the community specifically analyzes the larger Greek myths and their possible influences in the next season. In that sense it is a season full of Greek mythology Fortnite seems to fit the audience perfectly. There are a lot of young people playing Fortnite and perhaps even learn more about the mythological heroes who will star in the upcoming season. All we need now is for teachers to hop on the Battle Bus and teach a little in-game lesson as soon as it comes out.