DEMETER Profile and Backstory

This character profile is all about DEMETER, a character that appears in Horizon Forbidden West. Read on to learn about DEMETER's backstory and its interactions with other characters in the Horizon series.

Warning: This page contains spoilers for the story of Horizon Zero Dawn and potential spoilers for Horizon Forbidden West

DEMETER Basic Information

DEMETER
Voice Actor	None
Appearances	・Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) ・Horizon Forbidden West (2022)
Relationships	・ Tanaka Naoto (creator) ・ GAIA (Subordinate Function)

DEMETER Profile and Backstory

Personality

DEMETER is presented as having no hostility toward humans whatsoever. This is particularly noticeable when Aloy retrieves it and offers to bring it home to GAIA.

Horizon Zero Dawn

DEMETER was planned to be deployed after AETHER and POSEIDON, using the newly purified air and water to grow and sustain plant life on Earth. This processes was carried out with seeds banks and caches of genetic material, further assisted by machines created by HEPHAESTUS.

Horizon Forbidden West

When HADES was infected by the Mysterious Signal, GAIA destroyed herself to prevent it from taking over. During this period, an unstable and semi-conscious DEMETER fled to a processor somewhere in the Forbidden West. Aloy obtains DEMETER in the main quest Seeds of The Past, after traveling a vast expanse of wilderness along the far western coast.

Seeds of the Past Walkthrough

DEMETER is also responsible for the Metal Flowers found throughout the world. As a tribute to its creator, Tanaka Naoto's love of poetry, DEMETER emebeds poem verses in the form of code in these flowers as a tribute.

Skills and Abilities

Power over Flora and Vegetation

DEMETER was responsible for replanting Earth's flora and other forms of vegetation. Its ability to do reforest the Earth at such a fast rate was further enhanced by working with machines created by HEPHAETSUS

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