Apex Legends is one of the most popular games in the world but the average player knows very little of the lore of the game. Well, we’ve scoured the ambient dialogue, trailers and other official sources to hopefully paint a fuller picture of these characters and the world.
The Games
The exact nature of the Apex Legends games is somewhat of a mystery. Is this an actual blood sport or merely a digital simulation? The way characters disappear upon death would imply that the game isn’t real but that is probably just a video game conceit. Either way, we know that these games are a “popular bloodsport” with hefty prizes for the winner.
Beyond the fact that games are “popular,” we’re still not sure how big the audience for these games are. Are they limited to just one planet or have they gone galaxy-wide? How are they broadcast? Premium streaming service? But we do know these games are held on a remote world in the frontier of space, several decades after the Frontier Wars, depicted in the Titanfall series, came to an end.
King’s Canyon
The IMC King’s Canyon facility was the brain child of General Stevens, who ordered this immense facility, with numerous defensive mechanisms, to be built on a remote world of no military significance, seemingly to funnel military money to a construction company his wife owned. When this fact came out in an IMC hearing, it destroyed Stevens’ career and led to the gradual abandonment of the already sparsely populated facility. The facility was eventually put up for auction and was purchased by a consortium of mysterious wealthy business men who retrofitted it for the games.
Bangalore
Bangalore is certainly one of the most badass characters in the Apex Legends roster. She was born into a military family and every single member of her family served in some fashion. She was top of her class at IMC Military Academy and was regarded as an excellent soldier. But her desire for “real combat” eventually lead her to grow tired of the peacetime military. She sought out mercenary work on the weekends and was eventually dishonorably discharged from the military for it. Whist this was a source of great shame for her parents, Bangalore took it in stride, told her parent to “go screw,” and dove head first into the mercenary life.
The first motion comic reveals that, before her time competing, Bangalore was best friends with a local robotic bartender by the name of Pathfinder. Although Bangalore is too stoic to ever admit they were friends. Unfortunately, Bangalore discovers that, on an early mercenary raid, she killed Pathfinder’s “primary code source” — the robotic equivalent of a father. She never told Pathfinder and, after this discovery, Bangalore went on a downward spiral that eventually led to her joining the Apex Legends games.
Caustic
Caustic is an interesting character for lore in that, in the canon, Caustic has been deceased for ten years when the games are commencing. Before he was Caustic, he was a scientist known as Alexander Nox and worked with dangerous pesticides on the frontier. He would initially test some of the lighter pesticides on himself and this had some effect on his mental faculties. This may be why he soon began testing highly toxic pesticides on local townspeople in secret. When local law enforcement came to stop him, he used his toxic gas traps to kill them and then turned his attention to massacring any townspeople who may have known about him. He was eventually taken down by a quirky five year old girl named Everly(new playable character?) who picked up her dead dad’s peacekeeper and emptied at least four shot into Caustic’s head at point blank range. How he is alive(or not alive?) and competing in the games remains a mystery.
Mirage
Mirage is the youngest of four brothers and spent most of his youth goofing around to get attention. Despite his outward appearance, his dialogue reveals that he suffers from poor self-esteem and has at least one prescription for an anti-depressant. He initially wanted to use the “holo-pilot” tech, that he and his mother(new playable character?) worked so hard to perfect, solely to keep himself alive as a lowly IMC grunt. However, he found the tech incredibly entertaining and used it in his post military life to entertain, finding success at colony fairs and on the talk show circuit. It is implied that he was forced into the games after pissing off a small-time mobster on a distant frontier colony gig.
During his military service, he killed Pathfinder’s secondary code source(mom).
Gibralter
Gibralter is the only confirmed homosexual Apex Legends character and generally seems like a good guy. He is the son of two SARAS (Search and Rescue Association of Solace) volunteers and, after being rescued by his own parents, he devoted his life to saving and protecting others.
In the comics, he can be briefly seen in the background giving his ice cream cone to a child.
Lifeline
Ajaj Che, known in the games as Lifeline, was the only daughter of two wealthy war profiteers. Ajaj choose to rebel when she discovered the damage her parents fostered. She joined the Frontier Corps, a humanitarian group that aids frontier groups in need, and has devoted her life to helping others.
She signed up for the Apex Legends games to get closer to Gibralter, whom she has a huge crush on. To date, no one has bothered to tell her.
Wraith
Years ago, Wraith woke up in an IMC Mental Hospital with no memory of how she got there or who she was. She quickly began hearing voices. These voices briefly drove her insane but she eventually learned to listen to the voices. These voices taught her to harness her powers, which allow her to create and travel through dimensional rifts. She used these powers to escape and fell in with a ragtag group of mercenaries, who kept her safe from the law.
It is unknown how she ended up in the Apex Legends games. The second to last motion comic ended on a cliffhanger with an elderly doctor named Octane(new playable character?) approaching Wraith after a victory and attempting to convince Wraith that these games were all the imagination of her delusional mind. And in reality, Wraith was still strapped to a chair in that same hospital with a loving family waiting for her. This will hopefully be resolved in a future comic.
Bloodhound
Bloodhound is known as the greatest hunter alive today and is a source of great speculation to many. He is a wealthy billionaire, a crazed murderer, a mutant half-beast or half-crow depending on who is talking.
But the most recent leaked comic reveals the woman behind the mask. Lorelai Gunderson is the witty thirty-two year old single mom of sixteen year old Lorelai “Rory” Gunderson and is known as Bloodhound when she is hunting. After getting pregnant at sixteen and refusing to marry the father, Lorelai had a falling out with her conservative wealthy parents and started a new life on her own as a single mom. She eventually settled into life in a small frontier town and found work as a hunter. She created the character of Bloodhound to keep her work life and personal life separate.
After Rory was admitted to the prestigious IMC Chilton Academy, Lorelai was forced to ask her stuck-up mother Emily for money for the tuition. It is implied that Lorelai joined the Apex Legends games in an effort to repay her mother and regain her badly wanted financial independence.
Lifeline is her best friend.
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