Elements: Plasma, Shadow, Crystal, Spirit
Ethereals wake up surrounded by alien Meadows after their home blips out of existance under their feet. While exploring, they encounter strange new monsters, including Spirit elementals, relics from an eons-old mistake.
Elements: Shadow, Mech, Poison, Spirit
Grumpyre, Petalaje, and Membrunn find a way past the Meadows' thorny barrier, and find themselves in a swampy Lagoon. Hidden within, allies old and new await. At the Lagoon's core, Petalaje recieves a warning.
Elements: Plasma, Crystal, Poison, Spirit
The plot thickens. A warm forest north of the Lagoon harbors secrets and betrayal.
Elements: Time, Wisdom, Life, Death
Take a look into the mindspace of the enigmatic Whispering Willow, and meet all its Voices! Perpetual Passage is a Takeapart style island, a concept coined by Sublime.
Each of the 5 core Exploration of Ether Islands consists of 3 Ethereal Elements, as well as the Spirit Element. Thus, each island's makeup is as follows:
3 Ethereal Singles
3 Double Ethereals
1 Unstable Triple Ethereal (precursors to Workshop's Stable Triples)
Petalaje, the Spirit Single
3 Double Spirits
3 Triple Spirits
1 Quad (native to the island)
Side Islands each function in a unique way, and are designed with storytelling as a priority, rather than adhering to a specific format.
The Storyline of Exploration of Ether is distributed across a variety of sources, allowing for viewers to engage with as much depth as they please. The following is a comprehensive list of all the places parts of the storyline can be found in, ordered from most valuable to most niche.
Island Trailers
Full Song Descriptions
Monster Bios and Island Specific Descriptions
Individual Sound Video Lore Segments
Plot Recap Videos
Fankit Slideshows
Discord Server Posts
Community Post Artworks
Side Islands each function in a unique way, and are designed with storytelling as a priority, rather than adhering to a specific format.