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Hey!
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Quick warning before we continue. This is
part two of three of the complete timeline of
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Fear & Hunger. If you haven't seen part one, yet
I'll leave a link in the description below.
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If you have seen part one already
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(or wants to watch this one
without watching the previous one)
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we'll continue from where we left off.
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Last video I said that I would tell you about the mysterious man of the prophecies,
and I plan on doing just that. He's Le'garde, if you didn't know.
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But right now we're just before the events of the first game,
so, I want to give you all an introduction of the
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main characters first before talking about
him specifically. So, without further ado.
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The year 1577. The winters of Europa grew colder
each passing year. Because of this a great hunger
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had spread throughout all the north. The finest
man of the capital of Oldegård decided to sail
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to the west in search of food and riches. Their
destination was Vinland, a place their ancestors
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talked about centuries ago. In that crew was
Ragnvaldr. As a man born with the Tormented Soul,
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his life was destined to be one full of hardships.
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The crew traveled for months with no end. Some died of weakness while others
embraced the depths of the cold sea.
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The remaining survivors had to resort to eat the corpses
of the fallen to survive.
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And after finally reaching Vinland they were
met with horrors beyond imagination.
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Grey clouds floated above the sky, the soil of the land consisted of minerals that
rejected sunlight making a everything black and
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hard to measure its depths. The trees and plants
adapted the same features as well, and even worse
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the land stored ancient deities and monsters never
once heard of. Some members of the crew lost their
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minds after witnessing its horrors while others pillaged anything
of worth as fast as possible before leaving the dreadful place.
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Ragnvaldr and the remaining survivors returned to Oldegård.
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They came to understand why the name Vinland, it meant
"Wine Land" for the sheer amount of wine needed
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to make one forget about the terrifying place.
During the trip an ancient artifact was brought
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from the dark continent, it was the Cube of the
Depths. Ragnvaldr knew it was mistake to bring it,
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but unfortunately he had no say on the matter.
And just a few years later the bad omens proved to be true.
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In the year 1590 Ragnvaldr returned
from one of his many hunting trips, just to be
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met with his worst fears. His village had been
attacked and it was in flames, not even his wife
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and child were spared. And even worse than that,
the raiders stole the Cube of the Depths. A dying
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friend described the army behind the raid, it was
the Knights of the Midnight Sun and its captain,
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Le'garde. Ragnvaldr would not let this stand.
Burning with hatred, he immediately left the
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village to get his revenge. His target would soon
meet the ire of the future God of Ultra-violence.
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D'arce was born a daughter of a noble
family of the kingdom of Rondon, the Cataliss.
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From an early age she was trained
to be a Holy Knight of Alll-mer. She endured all
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sorts of harsh treatments during that process,
one that was not easy, but she kept bearing it
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all because she believed she could protect the
people of her country as a knight. Time passed
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and D'arce proved to be a talented fighter. Only,
it was a shame when she found out and the royalty
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of the Kingdom of Rondon did not acted out what
it preached. All the rewards from the wars fell
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into the laps of the small elite of nobles who sat
comfortably behind the castle walls. The Kingdom
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kept expanding its borders though, making slaves
of the women and slaying the men. After learning
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this D'arce's devotion was shaken, she could
not keep up doing this even though breaking
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the oath would bring great shame to her family
that demanded her to keep being a knight.
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Her fate changed when she met the captain of a small
mercenary army that shared the same resentment
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against the nobility of Rondon, the leader of the
Knights of the Midnight Sun, Le'garde.
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A man of humble origins who gathered common folk around
him with his immense charisma and otherworldly stature.
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Le'garde seduced D'arce and with his
warm words and he asked her to leave it all
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behind and join him. And so, she did.
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Due to her skill she was given a high position in the army
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of the Knights of the Midnight Sun. That fit well
with her natural leadership skills as a bear of
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the Dominating Soul. The Knights of the Midnight
Sun kept growing fast in the western regions,
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both in size and influence. The Kingdom of Rondon
would use the mercenary army to its benefits at
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first, but with time they started to see them
as a potential threat to their sovereignty.
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Things changed when something also changed
within Le'garde, he developed an obsession
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with the occult. This gave D'arce ominous feelings
and haunted her nights with nightmares, but she
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stayed at his side through all of it. Until
one day things got out of hand when Le'garde,
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seemingly out of nowhere, decided to raid the
northern capital of Oldegård, killing everyone who
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stood between him and the artifact they possessed.
Later that raid was used an excuse by the Kingdom
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of Rondon to turn the population against Le'garde.
The Knights of the Midnight Sun were attacked by
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Rondon and D'arce was one of the few to survive.
Le'garde was imprisoned and taken as a captive
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for political reasons, and sent to the war prison
known as The Dungeons of Fear and Hunger. D'arce
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knew she hadn't much time before Le'garde was
sentenced to death, so she rushed as fast as she
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could to the dungeons to save her captain and her
beloved. And she would do so no matter the cost.
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Enki was born into a family of dark priests along
with his twin sister. It was a common tradition
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that only the eldest child would inherit the
legacy and the rites of the cult. But since
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he shared the title of eldest with his sister,
the two of them were forced into a death match
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using ritual daggers to fight. Unfortunately
for Enki, he was born with a fragile body and
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was overpowered by his sister. She had her dagger
on his neck at some point, but hesitated before dealing the final blow.
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Now, at this point Enki's
story comes to split. He either took opportunity
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from the mercy his sister showed him and stabbed
her in the spine as she was walking away, later
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he revived her using necromancy and turned her
into a ghoul as part of the ritual for becoming
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a dark priest. Or he refused to kill his sister
and was thrown into underground well, left to
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rot to the death. He survived the punishment
by learning the language of insects, turning
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them into his servants and making them help him
escape. Enki was born with the Enlightened Soul,
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he was destined to forever seek knowledge and the
secrets hidden from most. Either way killing his
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sister or sparring her, he dedicates his life to
the teachings of the dark priests anyway. Spending
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his days learning about the gods in all fields of
knowledge. Enki proved himself to be a prodigy and
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was acknowledge by the top scholars of the time.
He was granted pass to the great libraries of the
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Kingdom of Rondon. But even after having access to
all knowledge of history and science of the time,
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Enki felt he was reaching a breaking point.
Nothing he learned seemed to make him closer
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to enlightenment. He couldn't achieve great
conclusions or understand the Great Scheme of
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Things. Enki gave up and decided to offer his life
to Alll-mer. But right before being crucified,
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the new goddess Nilvan showed him visions of
the prophesied man, Le'garde, and how he was
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meant for greatness. Enki knew he had to learn
more, so he told the priests to let him down and
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went searching for the man. He knew Le'garde was
sent to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger. And so,
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he packed his things and decided to follow
the path towards true enlightenment.
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While still just a child Cahara was abandoned
in the streets of Jettetiah. He was born with
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the Endless Soul, a soul that made him yearn
for freedom and made him spark with creativity.
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Creativity had quickly put to use, as he resorted
for a life of crime in order to survive. As Cahara
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grew older he took part in various mercenary
armies and became an expert sellsword, to the
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point that when his brigade suffered an ambush
attack, Cahara was one of the few who survived.
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The mercenary lifestyle led him to settle down
in the Kingdom of Rondon, a place where silver
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was easier to get for the services he provided.
There he fell in love with a woman named Celeste,
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a slave and a prostitute who worked at the red
light district. Things seemed to get better for
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Cahara, even if just a bit, but there was still
something he worried about.
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Celeste was pregnant and he didn't want to child to go
through the same harsh life he did. Cahara wished there was
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a way he could buy Celeste's freedom and provide
for his family. And not much time later he was
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granted his wish. One day the officials of Rondon
themselves gave Cahara an ominous task. He needed
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to go to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger, a place
built by Rondon itself, and rescue Le'garde from there.
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For some reason they needed an outside
sword like Cahara to infiltrate their very own stronghold.
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Cahara knew something was off,
he heard the rumors about the place before,
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but Celeste's child was about to be born. The
reward was too high to pass, he couldn't let
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the chance slip away. And so, Cahara packed
his things and left for his last mission.
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Now, we finally finished introducing all the
four playable characters. But there's still one
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important character left to talk about, Le'garde.
I left him for last for reason, you see, I think
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he might be the main character of Fear & Hunger
1. After all, all the other characters and plot
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threads revolve around him. Everything that leads
to the game we get to play is because of him. So,
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let's do this for one last time and let me tell
you the tale of Le'garde, the prophesied one.
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Le'garde was a man born with humble origins, one
of villagers and simple farmers.
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But that's how we get to know about his past, really.
In the last section I've introduced the soul type of every
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character, Rag had the Tormented Soul, D'arce
the Dominating Soul, Enki the Enlightened Soul
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and Cahara the Endless Soul. The soul type of a
character is dictated by the time they were born,
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much like the star signs of the real world.
They seem to be related to the kind of life you will live and everyone has one.
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Well, except for the Le'garde.
You see, we know Le'garde has no soul.
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That fact is probably linked with his
role in the prophecies and that the game states
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in multiple occasions that there is something
different about him. While I have some theories
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of what that could be I'll leave the topic for
another video. So if you want to see me do a
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future video about him do me the whole YouTuber
thing right? Like and subscribe. Done? Okay,
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back to the lore. Le'garde found the mercenary
army of the Knights of the Midnight Sun with
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the approval of the common folk. They had a lot
of success and became very popular during their
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time. The thing is one day the new goddess Nilvan
started visiting Le'garde in his dreams. Remember
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back in D'arce intro when I said that Le'garde
developed an obsession with the occult. Most
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likely it was Nilvan's doing. She visited
him multiple times in his dreams and they had a very...
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wet relationship
(let's put it that way).
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To the point they even had a child, the Girl.
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Nilvan knew her Reign and the era
of The Fellowship was close to end and she
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was desperately looking for a way to prolong it.
She started her relationship with Le'garde because
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she believed that he was "the key for eternal
existence", a topic that will be important for
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the next video. So she wasn't doing all of that
out of her good will. You see, the game character
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try to imply that Nilvan was a benevolent goddess
but if we stop to analyze what she actually did it
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doesn't seem to be that way. She was most likely
the one to tell Le'garde about the cube that was
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in possession of the Oldegård and how he needed
it to visit the past Ma'habre and sit in the
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Throne of Ascension. She also wanted the Girl to continue from where
she left off, letting her grow starving and afraid inside the dungeons.
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While a lot about Nilvan is just speculation on my part,
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what isn't speculation is the fact that Le'garde
planned his own imprisonment. He made the attack
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against Oldegård brutal the way he did because
he wanted the backlash that would come from it,
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causing him to be sent to the dungeons along
with the Cube of the Depths. He planned his
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death sentence and the torture he went through.
He even seduced a woman named High Priestess
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Selene in order to be sent to the lower levels
of the dungeon. All for his great plan to sit in
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the throne of Ascension and become a new god, one
that would fulfill the prophecies told about him.
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Let's talk about the Dungeon of Fear and
Hunger itself. Like I said last video,
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the dungeons were built at top the ruins of
the ancient city of Ma'habre. It was a prison
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used by Rondon in war times, but eventually things
started to go wrong...
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Madness seemed to spread to everyone.
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Under dark creatures came crawling
from the depths.
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The darkness was so thick even torches
couldn't completely illuminate it.
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The screams of the prisoners being tortured filled the halls.
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Dark priests were given permission to
perform blood rituals and human sacrifices.
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Some people fell into madness while practicing rituals
of Sylvian and Gro-goroth, trying to not be consumed by the darkness.
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Bad men were turned into
atrocious monsters.
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And good men were turned into even worse
bloodthirsty abominations.
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It was hell.
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And while I could talk for hours about the horrors our
characters witnessed there,
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I figured it would take too long for this video?
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And I think it's best for you to find them for yourself. Oh, one
thing that's very important to mention for this video.
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The reason for the darkness in the dungeons
is that there is traces of an Old god sleeping
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under it, the God of the Depths. Represented
by the ninith sigil we find in the clock. Just
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the presence of their traces was enough to
spread darkness and corruption all the way
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to the surface. And who is that god? We actually
don't know much. He's a mostly forgotten god who
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worshiped by the forsaken and also forgotten. This
got is to a topic for a future video where I plan
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to talk about him more in...
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Depth.
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But for now, let's continue with the timeline shall we?
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There are already many good videos of people making
their own version of what happened in the game,
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so instead of making my own headcanon here I'll
give you the tools so you can make one yourself.
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I'll go first by what we know is canon and then what probably happened. And with it you can decide for yourself your own order of events.
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From now on there will be spoilers for the endings of
the first game first game, so keep that in mind.
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Let's get a few things out of the way first.
The members of The Fellowship were defeated.
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Chambara, Valteil and
Francóis where slain. Nilvan, on the other hand,
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offered her soul to the character willing to help
her daughter reach the Heart of Darkness, a place
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inside the God of the Depths. Now we can finally
talk about what endings we know are canon. First
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Enki's S ending. Most of you already know about
it, so we'll go quickly through this. Enki meets
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Nosramus in the dungeons who teaches him about
the Great Scheme of Things and that the Throne of
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Ascension is a trap. Nosramus incentivizes Enki to sit
in the throne to see the reflection of himself as
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a new god. But to protect Enki from being seduced
by the power Nosramus gave him the Spirit Anchor,
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an ancient relic that would keep his soul
from being tainted. Enki sat on the throne,
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but returned for the Void. Taking the Great
Libraries of Ma'habre as his own. He took care
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of the new gods that still resided in the city as
well as learned the secrets for a prolonged life,
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becoming the most powerful mortal to exist. And
with the enlignment he achieved he would write a
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series of books dissecting the true nature of the Old
gods these are the Skin Bibles we find in the second game.
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The second ending we know
happened for sure is Ragnvaldr's S ending.
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Rag basically kills almost every evil creature
inside the dungeons and leaves with a Cube
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of the Depths in his hands and Moonless
by his side. After leaving the dungeons
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Rag dedicated his life to eliminate all traces of
Darkness that existed hiding from the eyes of the
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oblivious world. He was responsible for making
most believe that monsters like the Bigfoot,
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Skin Walkers and Wendigos are all myths since
they never seen one of them before. After all,
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most of them are dead by now. He also created his
own clan of hunters that would follow his legacy
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for the upcoming centuries. The beasts that he
hunted down called him "The God of Ultra-violence".
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Pretty dope name I'd say.
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Now, there's a lot of discussion surrounding D'arce's endings.
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No one knows for certain which one of them happened. It
could be either her S ending, the C-2 ending or
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both of them. To keep it short, in her S ending
D'arce finds Le'garde dead in his cell and inside
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Ma'habre she learns a secret dark magic to
resurrect him as a bloody thirsty ghoul.
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We don't know if this actually happened but if it did
she didn't find Le'garde dead once she came to the
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dungeons. There are few dialogues by a headless
guy in termina that kind of proves that Le'garde
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was alive. So if D'arce's S ending happened, keep
it in mind he must have died after being rescued,
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only later was revived with dark magic. So what
about the other ending?
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In the C-2 ending (that might be canon) Le'garde reaches the Throne of
Ascension and becomes a new god. After coming back
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he would fulfill the prophecies and become a great
god who would rescue humanity out of the darkness.
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If only the next ending we'll talk about, ending
A, didn't happen. In this ending the traces of the
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God of Depths are killed. The path to the Heart
of Darkness opens and the Girl is taken there.
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Inside it she absorbs the traces of the dead Old
god and emerges as the God of Fear and Hunger.
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We know for a fact that this ending happened, but
we don't know exactly who helped her get there.
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The most likely candidate is Cahara. The reason
for that is that there is no mention of him Fear
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& Hunger 2 and from his dialogues we can get a few
hints that it was probably him. He must have felt
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sorry for the little Girl and decided to help her,
after all the only reason he came to this forsaken
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dungeons was to provide for his own family. So in
the end Cahara has that dad energy going for him.
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Unfortunately for Cahara he never made out,
that Darkness became his grave.
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The Girl, now ascended god, the God of Fear and Hunger,
spared Cahara from the darkness of the age
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that would follow her ascension. Gifting him
with a peaceful death. She ushered a new age,
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a period so full of fear and hunger
that it came to be known as...
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Eventually Le'garde returned from the Void as
a new god but he failed miserably at fulfilling
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the prophecy he was so desperate into making
a reality. The reason for his failure was none
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other than his own daughter, the God of Fear
and Hunger herself.
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When the God of Fear and Hunger ascended she did not answer
prayers nor promised salvation for the masses,
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instead she was a manifestation of their own misery. Giving
hardships for the world as her blessing.
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People died in thousands to the deity, but that was
not the end of it. For fear motivated people,
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while hunger kept them moving forward. She
freed Humanity from the stagnation they had
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experience so far by forcing it to rise up to
the challenge. She kept making things worse
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until she was finally bested by
humanity's own strength. One that
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did not rely on the gods for help and one
that did not came from the Old World Order.
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Even when the Yellow King tried to guide humans,
they had no need for another savior. For they
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had already found one in their cruel deity.
But Le'garde would not give up that easily,
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his failed attempts spired the man
into madness and his methods became
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more and more violent as a result. But his
attempts were to no avail and Le'garde went
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down in history as the villainous Yellow King
of Madness. Falling into darkness of oblivion,
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only to eventually return with
the new identity in modern times.
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Thanks for making to the end of part two. If
you want to know more about the Cruel Age,
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the return of Le'garde and
the events of Fear & Hunger 2
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click here to watch the next and
final part. Hope to see you there.
