Spoilers. If you came to this thread, there are obviously going to be spoilers for BL1/TPS/2/TFTBL, so don’t expect any spoiler tags.
I will always have the need to categorize, List, organize, spread information. This is a giant compilation of all the data that we gots on them. So… This thread is where i will compile all three said things in a data collection. You could pretty much just look them up at the Wiki for borderlands, but there are things there that haven’t been confirmed, but are stated as if they are true. I may just be wrong about them but i think they are slightly untruthful information.
Eridians
Oh my god i friggin’ love Eridians. Almost as much as you know who. Since Eridians are in the top of the hierarchy, they go first. Ancient alien race which you pretty much already know. Most powerful race from what we can gather. They are insanely advanced as the can create advanced bio-mechanical weapons , such as the guardian. They colonized Pandora before even Dahl, Atlas, and Hyperion came along. The Eridians MUST be somehow, probably directly linked to the sirens, which i will obviously state later. I’m just going to list their accomplishments in an ordered list, as that is easier, and will describe each one.
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Eridians built the vaults. Just in case you are that one guy who doesn’t believe this, it’s been stated in the game that they built the vaults. The reasons they built the vaults is unknown, but they are all guarded by the guardians.
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Eridians aren’t necessarily destroyed like the wiki states.
but that isn’t necessarily true in this case, as the only evidence that supports this, is the ruins, the shape the vaults are in, and that you don’t actually see them in game (I’m going back to BL1 to verify if this fact is true, but i havent seen anything about them destroyed), but this can be proven different as the TPS vault is in pristine condition. Or maybe the Guardians actually did their jobs right in that vault.
Will write more on them later so i can write in the other sections and hurry to post this. The other Sections pretty much explain more about the Eridians and what they do, so there wont be much more to add to this section, but soon.
Guardians
The Guardians are bio-mechanical weapons created by the Eridians to guard the vault. It is stated that they may or may not be created the the looks of the actual Eridians. Their main duty is to stop prying-eyes from getting in to the vault to take whatever treasure that lie within. Just as the Eridians are separated into different hierarchical classes, so are the guardians. Not necessarily hierarchical, but some seem to be higher up than the other guardians by what they are called in game, size, or attacks. The list of all guardians includes:
Arch Guardian
Dominant Guardian
Elder Opha
Guardian Cheru
Guardian Pondor
Guardian Wraith
Guardian Specter
Guardian Reaper
Guardian Opha
Opha Superior
Principle Guardian
Putti
Sera Guardian
Vurtuos Opha
I will eventually list what each of them are, but as you can see, Opha Superior would be the highest in the list, as it is superior obviously, and it can pull out other guardians out of itself to fight for it; while the Puttti would seemingly be the lowest, as they are the smallest, and mostly just fly around an heal the other Guardians.
Some of the Guardians are a reference to Christian religion. Like the Sera Guardian, for example, that is only right outside the vault, just as the Seraphim Angels (Sera Angels) are Angels that sit near the throne of God. You get the point. I could explain all of them, but just search up the angel hierarchy and you can piece the rest together.
You will only find them in Eridian based locations, such as Eridian Promontory and the Voraogo Solitude. This is probably because they were programmed to guard Eridian structures and artifacts.
They have generally have thin bodies, aside from some of the Opha, because they use their bodies as hosts for the carrying of other guardians. Most have wings, and most have that head that just looks like a skull/mask/whatever words that would describe it’s looks.
Vaults
Made by the Eridians to protect their belongs and so others would quite touching their ■■■■. Vaults are used to house the treasures of the Eridian weaponry, technology, and knowledge. It could even contain a collection of their favorite Eridian porno magazines. The vaults are very secure. Here are some security measures of the vaults
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Guardians. They will murder you for as little as reckless eye ballin’ them. They are there to guard the vault, and they do it well, by shooting plasma blast at you to trying to cut you up and do who know what with the corpse of the latest victim.
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If the Guardians don’t kill you, then the wait will. The vault key has to recharge every time it is used. It takes 200 years for it to do so. So unless somebody hasn’t used the key within the last century and a few decades, you should be good. To add even more salt to the wound, you would have to find all 3 pieces to the key, witch could be anywhere in the known or unknown universe.
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If you are able to get the key pieces, fully charged, there MAY even be another guardian waiting there for you. We aren’t talking about the little kids anymore. These are monsters that will smash you with hands or tentacles, and has a large amount of health.
The Key of the Vault is needs to be assembled by a siren, even though it isn’t confirmed, in game-play, the vault is presumed only able to be assemble by a siren, with the exception of in BL:TPS, as the vault was already opened before the protagonist arrived there, and in TFTBL, it isn’t yet revealed if the vault key is assembled yet.
Known Vaults and their Contents:
Borderlands 1 Vault: Wealth
Inside the vault in Borderlands 1, the contents is Guarded by the Destroyer. After the vault key is pieced together by Commandant Steele, the Destroyer is unleashed. After killing it we are told that we missed our chance to get inside to get the loot, when the loot was released the moment the Vault was opened. The reward was a rare mineral call Eridium. This mineral is so rare, that you can even find it in cardboard boxes and dumpsters. It can be used to enhance the sirens powers, mutate the hell out of people, and weaken you enemies whenever you spray this substance on them. Eridium can be used to speed the charge of the vault key from 200 years to 2.
Borderlands The Pre-Sequel vault: Knowledge
Instead of finding a valuable resource such as Eridium, or money, or more weapons, they found true power. Knowledge. After fighting the Sentinel to death, the 7 vault hunters found a vault symbol floating in mid air. Upon touching it Jack sits on the throne, and sees visions of the future, including visions of the future BL2 vault.
Borderlands 2 Vault: Power
This vault contained 2 things. The first was the Warrior, it was capable of destroying all life on Pandora. It probably would have if the Vault hunters hadn’t killed it when int was still waking up. Jack planned on using it to create what he thought was a better Pandora, and was going to washing the world in fire. The other thing in the vault was the location of hundreds of other vaults.
The Vault of the Travler: Technology
One of if not the most important of the vaults. Although we havent seen it yet, the Vault of the Traveler is a vault that sends you to any point in the universe. Whether the traveling includes time travel, it is yet to be known.
Sirens:
Sirens, and how they came to be is yet to be know, but they are almost directly linked to the Eridians. Sirens have blue tattoos, and abilities that are quite mysterious. Sirens can gain increased power as long as they are using Eridium as a booster, and are willing to take damage to their health as a risk, or even their life. Sirens abilities have to do with another dimension, but if this is true for all sirens are still an unknown. There can only be 6 sirens at any given time in the universe, no more, no less, but somehow they just keep coming to Pandora. there are currrently 4 known sirens, 2 of which have died, so there are 4 unknown sirens at the moment.
Sirens are currently the only ones who are known to be able to piece the Vault Key together, and may be the only one. Said by Patricia Tannis, the Vault, the Sirens, and the Eridium are all connected on a deeper level than we know.
The following is a list of the known sirens:
Lilith:
Most likely the first siren you will encounter, she is also known as the fire hawk. Her ability is to teleport, but is known as phase-walk, stepping into another dimension, and appearing in another location. When buffed by Eridium, she can teleport entire cities and people to a location many miles (or kilometers, whatever you prefer) away, and send out blasts. She is also a Crimson Raider and had a cult dedicated to her.
Angel:
The Daughter of Handsome Jack, her ability is unknown. She appears in Borderlands 1 and 2 to guide the vault hunter through the story. When she speaks to you, you see her differently than you would somebody using an echo device. She was kept prisoner by her father after whatever she did to her mother. She, under the order of Jack, manipulated the Original Vault hunters into opening the vault, and telling them that it was too late. Jack used her to speed up the charging of the vault key with the use of Eridium. With such prolonged exposure to the stuff, when she withdrew, it lead to her untimely death.
Commandant Steele:
Even though we dont learn of her abilities, Commandant steele is a high ranking Atlas personell, who was killed by the destroyer upon opening the vault, and again upon being revived by Claptrap.
Maya:
Maya’s ability is to lock enemies in another dimension for a short period of time. She is a Crimson raider, and she was born on the planet Athenas, and raised by the Order of the Impending Storm. She eventually killed her handler and fled to Pandora to find answers about her abilities.
I will write more stuff in each of the categories later for sure. Use this information to speculate stuffs. I love Eridian/Siren/Vault speculations in 4th place of borderlands things i like. THis wall of Text is only going to get longer. In fact, i will add a speculation section of each of the posted speculations, because i really love making really long text walls. The longer the better.