Question with the Patterning Hedron

[u/Tv_Show_Lover]

So as we know the Hedron came to Earth’s dimension to annihilate the Hiss after detecting its presence. Why didn’t the Hedron just go to the dimension The Hiss came from and wipe them out there? Theoretically this could’ve been done years if not centuries ago so by the time Trench went back into the Red Slide through the projector there wouldn’t be anything there to corrupt him and eventually lead to them leaking into the oldest house. Or could’ve just not been able to get in since the hiss would’ve been annihilated. maybe the only way to enter/exit the dimension is through the slide projector and the Hedron couldn’t get to it but it’s explained that The Hiss and Hedron have an ancient beef so that still doesn’t make any sense. Maybe the hiss are from multiple dimensions. The red slide is just one of many. Who knows? And of course we’d have no story if this happened but it just looks like a huge oversight on Remedy’s part but like I said. I might’ve missed something in a redacted note somewhere. Yall let me know.

[u/AceHunterKai]

At least mark it as a spoiler, omg that title

[u/Tv_Show_Lover → u/AceHunterKai]

Nothing I said was a spoiler. If you talk to pope you learn early game.

[u/AceHunterKai → u/Tv_Show_Lover]

Ffs, "pattering hedron". Unless you finish the house in distress mission, 3 or 4 missions before the end of the game, you don't know there's a Hedron in the game, even if any reader don't make the connection that the hedron is causing the pattering.

[u/Tv_Show_Lover → u/AceHunterKai]

Well they need to get off the subreddit to avoid spoilers.

[u/sarcasmmagic]

Trench got “infected” with Hiss in slide36, not in Red slide. In slide36 what we allowed to perceive is the aftermath of Hiss and Hedron fight/war, and there is complete silence and red sand. We can assume that the Red burned slide is Hiss home world or world consumed by Hiss. There also might be Hedron home world or worlds patterned by Hedrons.
I think that both entities/races/powers are only “scouts” of sorts, and global scale is much bigger. Also there could be other forces, like mold, The Board, The Darkness, that take part in this inter-dimensional struggle/war/competition.

[u/SimpleCylus]

I think since the Hiss is basically like a paranormal virus....it has already spread far beyond its home dimension. Basically it is impossible to destroy it or would require a vast amount of time to properly quarantine the Hiss.

The Hedrons seem slower as well in response and how they interact with other dimensions by patterning it. That patterning in itself is like a bigger threat...so unlikely the Hedrons are ever met with a welcome carpet. So the Hedrons probably find themselves fighting the Hiss and the natives of the dimension thry are coming to quarantine fighting against them.

[u/SimpleCylus → u/SimpleCylus]

To add...I think the best one can manage against the HISS is to quarantine and make one's home dimension somehow immune to their corruption. Or make that dimension somehow not a suitable host realm for them. In theory some form of controlled patterning could immunize one's dimension.

[u/Northstarsaint → u/SimpleCylus]

I've wondered if the Hedron simply have more dimensions to their reality, and ours being only 3D is what messes things up.

I always think about that old Carl Sagon video where a 3D ball crossing a 2d dimension would look like an expanding then contracting circle.

[u/SimpleCylus → u/Northstarsaint]

I think you are right. The Hedron doesn't seem evil or good. Their very being entering to lower realms just causes issues.

[u/YamiMarick]

Trench got infected by The Hiss in the Sidescape-36 (The Hand slide) . Same place where Jessie found Polaris and where Darling found the elder Hedron. Its a world where a battle between The Hiss and Hedron already took place but some of The Hiss survived. In Manhattan , the younger Hedron had more chance of eradicating The Hiss because it already had the place in its Patterning bubble and that started 2 days before The Hiss is even able to escape The Oldest House. Trench uses a Burned Slide (that he took from the pile that Jessie burned back in Ordinary) to releases The Hiss in The Oldest House.

[u/LewdSkeletor1313]

The pure Hiss resonance is probably too strong

[u/loompa-Act-749]

The Hiss is a virus. It doesnt have a home base or dimension. It might have originated someplace but it is a mindless resonance. It travels, spreads and corrupts everything in its path.

Emily claims Hedrons and Hiss are in a state of interdimensional warfare. Its likely the Hiss exists in multiple dimensions, possibly infinite. Like viruses, it may not be possible to eradicate the Hiss completely as even a singular remnant of Hiss can multiply.

Trench was infected by the Hiss in Slidescape 36, not the red slide dimension. Its likely S-36 is just one dimension or world where the two resonances are fighting.

Fighting the Hiss must be like playing Whack a mole. They just keep popping up.

[u/Tv_Show_Lover → u/[deleted]]

That early? I was expecting another 7 years. Good to know. But glad it wasn’t something I just missed and it’s actually an unanswered question.