History of the Investigations

The Hundegni Investigation specifically concerns decoding the HUNDEGNI videos uploaded by Man Gled on Youtube, and strictly speaking it isn't necessary at this point to look outside the HUNDEGNI videos to solve the codes.

However, some of the references in the videos refer to an earlier ARG known as the Pointing Ninja of Xi, which itself took place in the PlayStation Home game, Xi. As such, if you're interested in trying to piece together the story being told by the HUNDEGNI videos, it would be helpful to understand

Evidence of the connection between HUNDEGNI and Xi / The Pointing Ninja Investigation:

* The HUNDEGNI videos (and Twitter account) were created shortly after the Pointing Ninja Investigation came to a rushed end when PlayStation Home was closed.
* HUNDEGNI\_1.1 shows the Xi logo.
* HUNDEGNI\_2.1, and several of the videos in Series 2.x, use assets from the Xi games including graphics and soundtracks.
* HUNDEGNI\_2.4 shows a number of the "characters" from the Pointing Ninja Investigation.
* The monarch butterfly that appears in many of the HUNDEGNI videos recalls the butterflies (clues) in Xi, and the wing/flight symbolism common in the Pointing Ninja Investigation.
* In a general sense, fog and guilt were common motifs in the PN Investigation; they especially recall certain statements made by UnhingedShadow.

Xi
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Both the Pointing Ninja Investigation and the later HUNDEGNI Investigation involved the locations and imagery from the PlayStation Home game, Xi. Though there were actual scripted plots for the Xi games, the events of the Pointing Ninja investigation were not apparently connected to the "main" plot in any way, being totally independent mysteries in their own right. Information about the Xi games is included here to provide a backdrop for the PN and Hundegni mysteries.

### Original Xi

The original game of Xi was released on March 23, 2009 and lasted through June 10, 2009. It was an innovative game that blurred the line between "fake" in-game events and "real" investigative techniques that required collaboration from users all over the globe. The plot centered around the disappearance of Jess, inventor of the mysterious Xi, which a pair of rival tech corporations were fighting for. It featured a twist ending that revealed that the whole thing had been fake, and Jess's REAL allegiance was to a mysterious organization looking to recruit elite investigators (the players) for some unknown purpose.

The Xi Alumni Hub was added to PlayStation Home in July 2009 and was essentially a hang-out location that featured assets from the popular, now defunct, original Xi.

### Xi Museum

Xi Museum was added to PSHome on December 23, 2010 and replaced the Xi Alumni Hub, which had been removed in April 2010. It was also essentially a hang-out location.

### Xi: Continuum

Xi: Continuum was released on December 23, 2012 as a sequel to the original Xi and lasted through February 8, 2013. Xi: Continuum was once again highly collaborative in nature and altered over the course of its lifespan. The plot of Xi: Continuum had to do with stopping a bomber from destroying the Continuum and PlayStation Home as a whole.

## Pointing Ninja Investigation

### 2010

Kingofthesun5 was the chosen investigator, working alongside his friends in Eyes in the Sky. At some point during their investigation, GeneralCamera was turned into a Shadow by Arrows of Heaven. King then found "it" (solved the mystery), was "changed" (into Y2hhaXJz), and disappeared. Ajingnitniop searched for King and at some point was offered a deal by the Suited Man in exchange for information about his lost friend.

### 2011

Dehart67 was the chosen investigator. Nothing is known about his partners (if any) or process. Ajingnitniop would have been assisting him as an agent of the Suited Man at this time. After finding "it" (solving the mystery), Dehart was adopted into Arrows of Heaven as a Shadow as well. As a Shadow, he at least sometimes appeared in the classic Pointing Ninja garb, and later was seen most often in a black suit of armor, silent and vigilant.

### 2012

Trooper4Good was the chosen investigator. Nothing is known about his partners (if any) or process. Ajingnitniop would have been assisting him as an agent of the Suited Man at this time. After finding "it" (solving the mystery), Trooper was adopted into Arrows of Heaven as a Shadow as well. UnhingedShadow later described Trooper as "rare", but it's not clear what that means. Trooper also appeared in a strange photo for one of the "LOSS" results of Y2's quiz; the other LOSS results show the AOH logo, so perhaps Trooper's photo here was a warning to current investigators about the risks they were taking by continuing to pursue the Pointing Ninja mystery. He only appeared once to later investigators, as a silent, vigilant Shadow.

### 2013

The chosen investigator for this year is unknown, but possibly Dominic or tothemax9. Dominic started writing publicly about the investigation at this time. At some point, tothemax9 left the investigation team, citing personal issues. He was later seen as a silent, vigilant Shadow.

### 2014 - early 2015

AdmiralThrawn000 was the chosen investigator. Ajingnitniop discusses wanting to find "a Shadow that speaks", and eventually tells Admiral all the details of his deal with Suited Man, including the timeline of the chosen investigator and Ajing's inevitable aging and "death". After his reveal, he disappeared from Home, having apparently broken Suited Man's rules of engagement.

Shortly thereafter, UnhingedShadow appeared in Xi Museum, running around erratically and shouting nonsense. Over time he became more understandable, eventually revealing to Admiral that he had been "freed" from the slavery of being a Shadow by "AJ, apparently Ajingnitniop, and that his current madness was a result of the terrible conditions he suffered.

Y2's "personality quiz" (frequently referenced by Unhinged as well) led to "pointingninjawatcher.com", which led to the Silver Arrows site, which had a 6-item to-do list written in code. OperationPN appeared in Xi Museum around this time.

UnhingedShadow eventually identified himself and several others as the founders of Arrows of Heaven, telling the story of Brett's sad demise and the Suited Man's corruption. He also professed that the pointing ninjas and 5890 codes meant nothing at all. After this, fearing the Suited Man's revenge, he disappeared from game. Not long after, the Compass Rose video was posted to the Brett Supco Youtube page, showing Ajingnitniop's avatar dissolving into whiteness and signed "~Unhinged" on the last frame.

Admiral managed to complete the 6-item to-do list at this point, and Unhinged sent him one final message: the link to Silver Sun Forever.

After a lot of persistence, Admiral finally cracked GeneralCamera's silence and she took off, never to be seen again, apparently freed from AOH.

The calendar on the "Silver Schedule Board" photo is for April, 2014, though it isn't clear what the importance of that month specifically was to AOH. The Arrows of Memory photos were uploaded in November of 2014.

PSHome was shut down on April 1, 2015, bringing the investigation to a sudden halt before Admiral could quite tie all the loose ends together. It was implied that with their history laid bare and members beginning to flee, AOH was unlikely to continue outside of their stronghold of Xi.

## Hundegni Investigation

### late 2015 - 2017

The Pointing Ninja Investigators continued to discuss the mystery on their forum, but the trail had seemed to go cold with the closing of PSHome.

Matt Hawthorn created his first overview video of the Pointing Ninja of Xi investigation on July 19, 2015.

The @Hundegni account on Twitter was created on July 28, 2015. The account created 100 private Tweets.

The Man Gled Youtube account was created on August 2, 2015. The first four HUNDEGNI videos were uploaded on dates that were never repeated in future uploads. However, by (the unlisted) HUNDEGNI\_1.5, he had settled into the upload schedule that he would follow reliably for the next four years.

On October 24, 2015, a new user named AlexPref posted about the HUNDEGNI videos on the unexplained-mysteries.com forum asking for other users' opinions. He didn't receive much of a response until by chance AdmiralThrawn000 found the post and connected the HUNDEGNI videos with the Pointing Ninja of Xi investigation. Admiral and the other Pointing Ninja Investigators began discussing the HUNDEGNI videos on their forum, convinced they must be connected to the Pointing Ninja saga somehow.

### 2018

The Pointing Ninja Investigators decided to move venues and created the Hundegni Hunters discord in January of 2018. GreatDan began to reach out via Reddit for help with some of the videos they had not yet been able to solve. The discord server began to grow in membership.

On February 16, 2018, an obituary was found for "Brett Conners" with a strange elegy that mentioned "arrows" repeatedly and a distorted photo labeled LUCID with a series of numbers. Mere hours later, a user named LUCIDnum16 appeared on the HundegniHunters discord and claimed responsibility for the obituary, saying that they would be deleting the obit since the Hunters were not the intended audience. The user deleted their account shortly thereafter.

In July and August of 2018, a Twitter account named LUCIDnum4 sent aggressive tweets to the Hundegni Twitter account but did not receive a response from @Hundegni or Man Gled.

The Hundegni Hunters created a subreddit on December 15, 2019.

LUCID tweets @Hundegni threateningly again on December 30th.

### 2019

On February 7, 2019 a user called LUCIDnum19 made a post on the Hundegni Hunters' subreddit promising assist the Hunters with solving videos in exchange for help on an undisclosed project at a future date.