The lore of Doors!
1 year ago I made 2 theory posts here on what I thought the lore of Doors was and now that there was an update I feel like this is a great time to make another theory!
This post will be divided into 3 parts: My old theory, my new theories and finally the complete timeline of events!
My old theory:
If you want to see my old posts I found 3 but you don't have to look at them because I'll be discussing them here:
In my old theory I talked about how if the game is secular how does stuff work in Doors? I concluded that the hotel was used as a hospital for WW2 but secretly it was also a base/lab and that's how the entities were made. On my theory about the Lights I concluded that the Guiding Light and Curious Light had a 3rd variant out there and the 3 were called architects who came here to stop what's going on in the hotel (It also said that we were brought here for that cause)
My New Theories:
My first theory is when was this hotel? Well it looks to be somewhere around the 1933 to the 1940s because there is a wine cellar which could have only been there at a minimum year of 1933 and at tops somewhere in the 1940s because of the furniture there! This would make sense why there is an infirmary to this place, in 1939 World War 2 began and it needed to heal wounded soldiers and there wasn't enough hospitals so places like hotels became hospitals for them.
My second theory (more of a mini theory) is that the figure was trying to leave before finding us, the reason for this is that after door 50 we see rooms that are destroyed and when we talk to El Goblino there is a chance to get this dialogue "Oye, that macho-meat-düd came in here a while ago, alm- uh- almost destroyed the place! Uff, man! Calm down!" which to me tells me that the figure was trying to find an exit by going to room 0 but got turned around when he met us and went back destroying his progress. There isn't much else to support this sadly.
My third theory is about the Architects. Who are the architects? Well if you use the crucifix a pentagram will appear and if you translate it and complete a cypher you get this message "OneOfTheThreeArchitectsMarkedByCelestialsAssistsYou." I believe the architects are the lights (Guiding Light and Curious Light) because in this it says 1 of the 3 architects are assisting you and in this moment the crucifix, the pentagram and the chains all turn blue! Only 3 things in this game are blue, the hunt but that's more of a dark blue, Halt however he is more of a dark greenish blue, and finally the Guiding Light! This works it's the right shade of blue and if you look at the Curious Light painting with modifiers on, you will see that there are 2 more symbols added, a blue moon and a red modifiers symbol, the blue moon is in the right shade as the Guiding Light. Why does this painting matter? Because if you look at the crucifix pentagram you will see moon phases, all of this evidence tells me that the architects have to be the Lights!
This is the Curious Light Painting but with modifiers turned on
However the crucifix said there were 3 architects. If that's the case then who is the 3rd architect. I think I know who it is! Whenever you use the crucifix on the figure or Seek the pentagram and crucifix will go red, now you could just say "It's a visual thing to show the guiding light is losing" but I don't think this because in the Curious Light painting is also has a red modifiers symbol on it while everything else is the 2 Architects, what if the modifier symbol is the 3rd Architect? Even when you enter this room the gate to the rooms is blocked by a red border which has the same shape as the Guiding lights particles. (Something I didn't include but is also interesting is that LSplash is blue and yellow like the Guiding and Curious Light but Redibles is well red, which also could mean the third architect will be red)
The gateway to the room when modifiers are turned on
My forth theory is discussing whether or not the Curious Light is evil. If you saw Matpat's most recent Doors theory then you would know that he thinks the Curious Light is evil however I really doubt this because in Floor 0 (The Hunt Floor) the Curious Light is here and actually helps us "I've given you a method to add more time to the clock. Look around for the levers I placed for you" it first of all goes against his idea that the architects cant affect the world and also makes me wonder if he is evil why doesn't he just try to get us killed? Another problem is the Red architect seems to act more of a villain than the Curious Light because the Red Architect stops the Guiding Light from saving us against the Figure and Seek plus the Red Architect blocks the gate to rooms which is the Curious Light's domain while the Curious Light does try to help us in rooms and floor 0 but he also encourages us to continue cheering us on.
My fifth theory is about where the hotel is located. I know the exact location of the hotel thanks to the Curious Light! When you die to the vacuum enough then you will get the message "Try to avoid falling out of reality next time." The vacuum has the same appearance has the outside of the hotel which tells me that the hotel was ripped away from wherever is was originally located and put into this void like place!
My sixth theory is about what are the subfloors? The Rooms and Floor 0 are considered sublevels by the devs which makes me wonder what are these places Rooms looks out of place for the hotel and floor 0 looks like it could work but also has aspects that make it out of place too. I think I know, when the Architects took over the hotel I think they changed the structure of the hotel which is why it is so random and also added different sublevels to spread the entities out away from one area! (Basically the main levels like floor 1 and 2 are real and were a part of the hotel but the subfloors like floor 0 and the Rooms were made by the Architects)
My seventh theory, who is she? When you die to Blitz for the first time you get this message from the Curious Light "Oh... Hello. I didn't expect to see you here. Let's see what you died to. Oh, one of my favourites. She said we should call that one Blitz. Well... I'll see you later, right? You'll come back? Haha... of course you will." at first I though she was referring to the Guiding Light however the Guiding Light never names these entities but says you named them so my best guess so far is that this she is a celestial and she told the Curious Light that this entity was named Blitz.
My eighth theory, if you go up to El Goblino he might say this "So... how'd you get here, düd? What? What do you mean you don't know?" we don't know why we are here at all and like I said before the hotel is in a void like area so the only 2 reasons we could be here is either A: we were here from the beginning (doubt that though) or B: The Guiding Light brought us here! I 100% think this is why we are here, the Guiding Light brought us to destroy this place, it can explain why the Red Architect is against us he either wants to do evil with this place or maybe he just wants to keep it contained and not destroy it
The Timeline of Events:
Here we are at the end with the timeline, this will put all 8 of my theories together into a working timeline. Now if you don't agree with any of these theories then let me know in the comments I would love to see your side of things!
Somewhere between UnknownDate-1938 a hotel was built, in 1939 WW2 began and places like this hotel were changed to be a hospital for wounded soldiers but secretly this hotel was a lab made to make bio weapons to fight the enemy, this hotel keep them locked up and away from the public so the enemy wouldn't know about them and try to make a counter weapon, some were kept in the greenhouse which was locked off to the public but some of the more dangerous ones were kept in a underground facility with only the only entrance being an elevator at the end of the greenhouse, these went on for years with great success but sadly godly beings known as the celestials saw this hotel and its evil experiments it kept locked up underneath and they knew this could not stay so they ripped the hotel out of reality and put it into a void like dimension, they then made 3 beings they called Architects and told them to watch over and contain this hotel and they did, somehow the entities got out and killed every human who left was inside when the hotel was taken out of reality but they seemed very powerful to the Architects, so much so that they feared they could figure a way out if the Architects were not careful so the Architects made sublevels to spread the entities out and gave the control to these sublevels to an Architect called the Curious Light. After a while of this place existing an Architect called the Guiding Light decided that this place was too dangerous to stay and wanted it destroyed so they took the player out of their world and put them in the hotel and Guided them to the end so that they could get us to destroy this entire place!
And that's everything! This isn't what I think 100% of the lore is at all there are many questions still left unanswered but so far I think this is everything the game is trying to tell us right now. Like I said before if you disagree with anything please let me know I would love to see your thoughts on the lore in the comments!