Nuclear Throne Lore

--First Event: The end of the World. No one knows what happened, and even the characters themselves argue about it. However, the end had to have been able to melt skin, since it made Melting. It was long enough in the past so that the characters will consider the event ancient. The radiation has made every forget about their past lives, except those without minds in the first place, such as Plant.

This event also caused universes to be messed up, and every so-called "Run" to the Nuclear Throne is in another universe. So when a character dies in that universe, that character is dead for good. But another universe allows you to go again. That's why, when you loop, you see all the dead bodies, because you're in a universe where they all had died.

This event made 2 of the 3 portal types we know. The purple ones are volatile, destroying anything nearby. The characters are scared of these portals, especially the first time they see them. These portals only appear when there is very little life around. How these portals work once you're dragged in is up for debate, whether it's random or not is up to you. The idea that these portals are by the Throne, and are taking the characters to itself is a good theory. These purple portals do not cause you to go into through universes or time or anything like that, it keeps you in that universe.

The further they go, the more man-made objects appear. The wasteland is exactly that, the scrapyard having cars, fire, and Big Dog, who could have been retrofitted with weapons and may have been originally used as a toy or something. Then you have the Frozen City, with the robots and stuff. And the Palace is a palace. The radiation pumping devices could've had an effect on the radiation monsters in the palace.

Then we have the Green Portals, which are precise and controlled. They are activated intentionally by the character. They do not require a specific amount of life to be summoned. These portals take you to a crown room, which we do not know the true location of. It is possible that they transcend universes and time, but we don't know. What we do know is, going back to the campfire is specific, as it's done via green portal. The IDPD really cares about these portals, and they don't want the characters to do anything, or know anything about them.

--Next Event: The Legendary Proto Mutant showed up. The characters know about it and they 'talk' about it or whatever. But they don't know anything about it. Most of the characters were around during its stay. But they weren't active or not mutated, so it wasn't seen at all. It had a lot more knowledge than our characters do now. We do know it had to set up, or had something to do with the crown vaults and proto statues. It could have something to do with the throne, and how the green portals work.

--As for our characters, none of them knew each other until the campfire. All of these characters try their hardest to reach the throne, for some unknown reason, even unknown to them.
-Fish was a human male, who was one day from retiring at the time of the end of the world. When it did happen, he was covered in sludge and preserved, and that's why he wasn't active at the time. His home area is the Oasis.

-Crystal was a female, but it's not clear if she was human or not. She is from the Crystal Caves, and going there is a really sad event for her. It's possible all the crystals in there is her family, but her story is still out in the clouds.

-Eyes cannot tell his story because he has no mouth. He has no home, or specific area in the game. But he sees everything, and he can potentially read minds.

-Melting was a human, but their gender is unknown. They could have been at ground zero of the end of the world, which is as far from the Palace as possible, or far off from Ground Zero. They live in constant pain, because they're constantly dying and melting, which is an awful thing. And they have the ability to inflict that pain onto the enemies, by blowing up the corpses. Death is a happy thing for Melting, because they get to end their pain. However, they, just as the others, work to get to the throne. But they doesn't mind dying. They has no specific area or home.

-Plant was a plant who was mutated. They have no gender, and they have no story. They just love to kill.

-Yung Venuz is a Gun God, who has no gender. They are a god. They look at the Throne as a challenge, and to test they skills. When they die, they just get super annoyed at this shit and teleport back to the mansion. Their home is their mansion.

-Steroids was a human, who was probably a male. He was a scientist who had a gut feeling that something bad was gonna happen, and he loaded on steroids and went into stasis. He was brought back to the campfire though. He could potentially still be smart, but not in the same way as the ProtoMutant or even a scientist. He might just be a smarter mutant than the others. There is no place for Steroids, and the Labs are not his lab.

-Robot is a man-made robot, who's home is the Scrapyard or the Frozen City. Their B-Skin is IDPD-ish, so he could have been by them, or stolen the outfit. He is not programmed to go for the throne, he just goes with the characters because he knows what they're trying to do. He turns all the rads gained into updates. It's just a robot.

-Chicken was a female, and could've been either a human or a chicken. Chicken loves action moves and enjoys practicing with her sword. She has no home in the game.

-Rebel is a female who was a bandit, but we don't know much about the bandits. They might be robots, but we don't know. Her home is the Wastelands, and Big Bandit is her big brother. However, ever since she left the bandits, he only sees her as an enemy.

-Horror is radiation, and he's summoned by just letting the rads build up and turn into an actual monster. Horror has relevance to the palace, but it might not be their home.

-Rogue was a post-human, and she is female. She had a disagreement with the IDPD, and that's why she went to the mutants. Defection from the IDPD is unheard of, and is taken seriously. She can still use the tech from the IDPD, and while they want to stop her, they aren't sending the entire force on her. It isn't a top priority. Lil' Hunter and Rogue were friends, and was sent to the earth to do something dangerous and was left stranded. Rogue was mad about this, and that could be a potential reason she left, and she's on a quest to get to the throne and save Lil' Hunter, and when she gets there, he had gone mad. This fight is sad for Rogue, and she had to put him down.

-The IDPD knows a lot more about the present and past than anybody else on our planet, and they have the ability to see almost everywhere on the planet. Their portals are extremely precise, and so they can send troops almost anywhere. They may have found a way to harness radiation in a more safer or efficient manner, as Robot can do it. They are more concerned with preventing the characters to do anything with the ProtoMutant, which is why they appear when you get into the crown vault and such. This suggests they may have ties to the protomutant.

All the characters being dead at the campfire suggests that they ambushed and killed the characters, or something with the 2nd form of the throne may have wiped them out. It is possible that the IDPD contained the final form after the characters were eliminated, as they could know it would show up.

---Misc
Throne 2 could be the ProtoMutant, and that's why the IDPD doesn't want the characters to know about it.

The rad canisters could have been an attempt to clean up the mess, but that's just theory.