Flagellant (Darkest Dungeon II)

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"Zealotry—an undying blight upon the soul."

- The Academic

The Flagellant is a hero in Darkest Dungeon II.

Class Description

 * FRONT RANK
 * BLIGHT
 * DURABLE
 * SACRIFICIAL SUPPORT

Death (Miniboss)
Having defied her one too many times, Death—the mini-boss, that is—may personally ambush the party whenever the Flagellant is present. Though the Flagellant is a powerful class, care must be taken to ensure that he and the rest of the party do not fall prey to Death, or death, on their journey to The Mountain.

Token toxic.png (Token)
The Toxic token itself has the following effects:


 * Apply +2 to attackers when hit per Toxic token
 * Duration: Until end of combat
 * Limit: 3

Token pain heal.png
A self-healing token unique to the Flagellant.
 * Consumed at the end of the turn, healing the Flagellant for 10% per Pain token or 15%  per Pain+ token.
 * Cannot critically heal.
 * Duration: 1 Turn
 * Limit: 3

Skills and Paths
The Flagellant starts the game with Punish, Fester, Deathless, Endure, and Lash's Gift. Additional skills must be unlocked through the Shrine of Reflection. Wanderer= "To seek is to find." Default skills. Rewards candles upon reaching the second inn.





















Maniac= "Sacrifice and sensation to the last!" Sacrifice Blight potency in favor of flexible position, debuff, and disruption.

Affected Skills






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Exanimate= "Let me but sample the bitter taste of death!" Low health grants great potency to Blight and buff alike.

Affected Skills






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Scourge= "I am purged of beauty, empty of all but blight!" A role that revels in divesting other of their burdens. Toxic state gains new effects.

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Shrine of Reflection
🔸The Flagellant gains access to 6 skills over 5 Chapters through accessing memories in the Shrine of Reflection.

Unique Trinkets
🔸Each Hero has their own 3 unique Trinkets, exclusive only to them.

Signature Inn Item
Signature items is a group of inn items unlockable in The Altar of Hope. They serve as the final reward for upgrading your heroes.

Barks
Combat =

Landing a CRIT

 * Guided by pain! Favoured by destiny!
 * Bones for my becoming!
 * Darkness flees before my holy glare!
 * Through blood, you shall be transformed!
 * Each blow brings me closer to absolution!
 * Feel deliverance in the sting of my whip!
 * In my blight, be redeemed!
 * Suffer and know the truth!

Stalling

 * It's as though you dolts fear victory!
 * I move faster half-rotted than you do whole!

Bleed

 * Spill my blood! Draw me closer to glory!
 * Each spilled drop a blessing!
 * Let those who seek salvation find it on my flesh!
 * A few drops remain - have at me!

Blight

 * Venom's sweet sting!
 * I am pestilence! I bring your end!

Burn

 * Fresh torment, these burns!
 * Fine blisters for my collection!

Horror

 * Death's hoofbeats circle us!
 * They mean to drag me to the abyss!
 * Fresh, smooth skin - growing over my mouth and eyes!

Stress

 * The last shreds of my mortal heart - damn them!
 * Rot claim me not!
 * These lost souls need guidance!

Torch Decrease

 * *muted cackling*
 * Gloomy out. Heh heh.
 * *eager, off-kilter laughter*

Entering Death's Door

 * NO! Death shall not... claim me...!

Ally On Death's Door

 * Death can be bested!
 * Each drop you bleed, a sin forgiven!

Surviving Hit on Death's Door

 * I plant one foot in the grave! 
 * This blighted body surges to victory!

Ally Surviving Hit on Death's Door

 * Arise, baptised in blood!
 * I take no pleasure in seeing you fall!

Hit by CRIT

 * ECSTASY! I require more!

Ally Hit by CRIT

 * Fight on - prove yourself deserving!

Pushed by Enemy

 * At long last, a worthy adversary!

Meltdown (Toxic)

 * Gggh... I feel it spreading through me...
 * Drink from my veins! Take communion!
 * I STAND ON THE PRECIPICE!
 * Yield to me or your blood shall burn!
 * YOU KNOW NOTHING OF DEVOTION!
 * No flesh! No bone! A trifling interference!

Fog Appears (Shroud)

 * TBA

Fog Fades (Shroud)

 * TBA

Repairing Coach

 * My hands are a holy weapon - what is this!
 * I know not the carpenter's trade!

Don't Leave Me
Positive Act Outs=
 * You won't reach the mountain without me!
 * Turn your back on me - I dare you!
 * Cast me off and I shall have my revenge!

Stress Healing Partner - General

 * Rejoice, for our calling is sacred!
 * This next lash is for you, friend.
 * Our great work has barely begun!

Buffing Partner - General

 * The blight lends me power - now it is yours.

Healing Partner - General

 * My blood unto yours.

Combo Attack - General

 * Yes! Let my lashes guide you!

Retaliation - General

 * They tread a dangerous path, angering me!

Protection - General

 * I hunger for punishment. Behind me!

Praise for Support Skill - General

 * You deserve this place beside me!

Praise for Attack - General

 * You know just how to make it hurt.

Stress Heal in Coach - General

 * TBA

Stress Self in Coach - General

 * TBA

Stress Healing Partner - Hopeful

 * We stand on the threshold of greatness!
 * A psalm for you, writ in my blood.
 * Your blood is fierce! I can smell it!

Buffing Partner - Hopeful

 * I don't lend my strength to the unworthy!

Praise for Support Skill - Hopeful

 * You turn my cynical heart!

Praise for Attack - Hopeful

 * You stir what remains of my heart.

Stress Heal in Coach - Hopeful

 * TBA

Stress Healing Partner - Respectful

 * I shall lead you out myself if I must!
 * All life is suffering - accept it and know peace.

Retaliation After Partner is Attacked - Respectful

 * A necessary piece of my sacred plan, you are.

Combo Attack with Partner - Respectful

 * Follow my path and be rewarded!

Praise for Support Skill - Respectful

 * Clever, clever, yes...

Praise for Attack - Respectful

 * Your eye is uncanny.

Stress Heal in Coach - Respectful

 * TBA

Stress Healing Partner - Amorous

 * I know just the thing to clear your mind later.

Healing Partner - Amorous

 * Sweet torment from me to you, lover.

Protection - Amorous

 * Ecstasy in agony, lover mine!

Praise for Support Skill - Amorous

 * Save some of that for me later.

Praise for Attack - Amorous

 * Heh heh. You're giving me ideas.

Stress Heal in Coach - Amorous
Negative Act Outs=
 * Seek rapture with me.

Attacking Ally

 * You stand in the path of my rapture!

Stress Damage on Ally - General

 * No mercy for those who hold me back!
 * You alone could steer this crusade off course!

Insult for Support Skill - General

 * I may be rotting, but I'm not stupid.

Insult for Attack - General

 * To bleed is sacred, you undeserving wretch!

Attacking Ally - Suspicious

 * My trust, once revoked, is gone forever.

Stress Damage on Ally - Suspicious

 * You lack the conviction to bleed for our cause!
 * My trust, once revoked, is gone forever.

Stress Damage on Ally on Road - Suspicious

 * TBA

Insult for Support Skill - Suspicious

 * You plot to cut me down! I know it!

Insult for Attack - Suspicious

 * An agent of the abyss in our midst...

Stress Damage on Ally - Envious

 * Your scars! Your wounds! I will have them as mine!
 * You tag along on MY journey to salvation!

Stress Damage on Ally on Road - Envious

 * TBA

Insult for Support Skill - Envious

 * My gifts have been far too generous...

Insult for Attack - Envious

 * You'll make a fitting sacrifice.

Stress Damage on Ally - Resentful

 * We have furniture more useful than you.
 * I seethe at the very sight of you!

Stress Damage on Ally on Road - Resentful

 * TBA

Insult for Support Skill - Resentful

 * I require blood. Be careful.

Insult for Attack - Resentful

 * You'll wake to barbs in your bed, worm.

Attacking Ally - Hateful

 * Salvation through blood - yours.

Stress Damage on Ally - Hateful

 * I am a being of wrath - and you've earned it!
 * ''You aren't worth any punishment I could deal!'

Insult for Support Skill - Hateful

 * You won't be smiling when my blight finds you.

Insult for Attack - Hateful
Affinity=
 * Loathsome blood-bag. Fall on a blade!

Adding Buff

 * The divine flows through me!

Guarding Ally

 * Face me instead, blackguards!
 * Have at me, pale rider! I've bested you once!
 * Death shall be no master over you!

Adding Token

 * A glimpse of the power my pain has bought.

Follow Up Attack

 * Through suffering, strength!
 * Stray not - our burden is divine!
 * Through their flesh, our path to divinity!

Follow Up on Debuffed Enemy

 * They shrivel in the face of my purity!

Healing Ally

 * Every wound a doorway to the divine.
 * Make an offering of this flesh. Purify yourself!
 * Seek absolution and ye shall find.

Revenge Attack on Enemy

 * Ensure that I bled for purpose!
 * The curs hunger for my sacred blood!

Moving Positions - Positive

 * Know humility and let me through!

Removing DoTs

 * Draw strength from this suffering!
 * You dance on the threshold - here lies power!
 * Shrink ye not from what greatness asks!

Stress Healing

 * Wonders beyond compare await us.
 * Sip of my blood and know peace.

Jealous of Buff

 * You lack clarity and vision!

Jealous of Guarded Ally

 * Only I decide when I bleed!
 * You would let my suffering go to waste?!

Jealous of Token

 * Your heart cowers from me! I see the truth!

Jealous of Food (Unused)

 * How I've bled, and you'd STARVE me...!

Jealous of Healing

 * You see not the greater path before us!
 * You think me blighted, beyond hope!
 * My consecrated flesh! My calling! Damn you!

Moving Positions - Negative

 * Meddle not with my destiny! Away!

Jealous of DoT Removal

 * My blood alone is worth two of them! 
 * You play at strategy like a child with toys.
 * My glory is foretold, yet you would condemn us!

Positive Road Banter

 * I sense you are meant for glory.
 * Pass me that vial of holy vinegar, if you would.
 * ''I would hear your confession.'
 * ''Your resilience intrigues me.'
 * ''Oh, I have no plans to die. Heh heh heh.'
 * ''Spirited you are, even in the face of madness!'

Negative Road Banter

 * Another unbeliever at my flank...
 * I must meditate. Begone.
 * You flinch from my company! Weakling!
 * ''You imperil our chances at victory!'
 * ''I spit in the face of your so-called virtues!'
 * ''Defy my sacred calling and feel my wrath!'

Inn Items=

Armor Repair Kit

 * Pfeh. What good are leathers and plate?

Blasphemous Idol

 * Waste of good blood, heh heh.

Book of Bawdy Tales

 * An uninventive way to get one's blood hot.

BOOK: My time in the Desert

 * Distant wonder and sensation yet to be uncovered.

Book of Creative Insults

 * I have been called worse.

Poetry

 * No verse can capture life's sublime agonies.

Boxing Gloves

 * Eh heh heh heh.

Calming Incense

 * Soothing as a session with my prayer barbs.

Candles and Chocolate

 * My flesh is sacred. Have you something to confess?

Clarifying Poultice

 * Sharpen the senses that I may feel it all the more.

Clotting Poultice

 * *derisive snort*

Dartboard

 * How idle your mind must be.

Ceremonial Drum

 * Thunders like the pulse in one's ears!

Slime Mold

 * I taste little these days. Down it goes.
 * (If full) - I prefer to stay a little hungry.

Stale Bread

 * Dry, powdery, tastes of ash...
 * (If full) - Already too much.

Apple and Cheese

 * Another aimless indulgence.
 * (If full) - Do I look as though I require more?

Steak and Spuds

 * Only as much as I require to survive...
 * (If full) - Riches of the stomach merely slow me down.

Flapjacks

 * Very well - I accept.
 * (If full) - Heave your scraps elsewhere.

Holy Beads

 * I prefer my own - and their... modifications.

Impermeable Poultice

 * Heh heh. The blight will find a way in regardless...

Leeches

 * Such sharp little mouths you have.

Meditative Totem

 * Through blood and flesh, all can be consecrated.

Nightshade Concoction

 * Mmm. Another!

Pipeweed

 * Our senses are a blessing - you'd dull them?

Playing Cards

 * Look at all the swords in that fellow!

Restorative Herbs

 * My own methods usually do the trick...

Roast Pig

 * Replenishes the blood.
 * (If full) - Hunger hones me.

Songbook of Amorous Ballads

 * Hast thou mastered body and blood?

Songbook of Touching Dirges

 * I sing naught for Death - she hasn't earned it.

Songbook of Rousing Tunes

 * Yes! - feed your fury! Your passion! *whip crack*

Soothing Poultice

 * Only tend what you 'must', healer

Speed Bag

 * I must push this body to its limits...!

Invigorating Stew

 * Simple nourishment is all I require.
 * (If full) - What little flesh I retain is well-fed.

Stimulating Poultice

 * Hah! Yes! I am newly awake!

Stitching Kit

 * How about 'I' use this needle on 'you'?

The Wine

 * It burns my ragged lips just so. 

Tinned Delicacies

 * Careful you don't cut yourself. Heh heh.
 * (If full) - I sustain myself through prayer and penance.

Knotted Tug Rope

 * No hooks? No barbs? Just... rope?

Wax Inoculant

 * I shall not waste to some pathetic illness!

Whetstone

 * I'll be using this a while. Heh heh.

Whiskey Barrel

 * How easily simple folk find delight.

Whiskey Bottle

 * Cask strength? Pour some on my arm here...

Whiskey Flask

 * Best purify my wounds.

Whittling Tools

 * Crude. Cheap. Yet sharp. They'll do.

Wild Tea

 * My vision runs red, rapturous red!

Morbid Joke

 * Your blasphemes are tame... but amusing.

Improvised Strategy

 * I'll be your vanguard, old man.

The Very Best

 * TBA

Experimental Remedy

 * Your medicine profanes my flesh. Feh.

War Paint

 * TBA

Tar-Filled Colambre

 * TBA

Oddly-Tuned Lute

 * Pass me his sickle while his hands are occupied.

Precious Collection

 * I admire a man who can outwit Death at such length.

Guided Meditation

 * Why would you stray from your body?

Holy Hymnal

 * Your sermons move me no longer, but your passion...

Pain Box
Hero Shrines=
 * Would you like to witness a miracle?
 * Stand back - my great work continues!
 * Soon I won't even need the flail...

Shrine 1

 * If only they knew how precious their gift...

Shrine 2

 * Let all run red...!

Shrine 3

 * May this maligned world find solace through my flesh.

Shrine 4

 * None shall claim me 'til I summit the peak of agony!
 * My great work has only just begun! (after story, success)
 * TBA (after story, failure)

Shrine 5

 * Every rapturous lash drags me further from her grasp!

Shrine 6
Hero Stories=
 * My genesis is only beginning...

Story
Locations=
 * N-no! You shall not have me!
 * ''T-there is too much left to taste!
 * ''Such sweet suffering, such bitter delight!
 * ''Your reputation is overstated, hm?
 * ''I will endure this - and live forever!
 * ''Begone! Leave me to my morbid delights!

Exiting Crossroads

 * TBA

The Old Bridge

 * This is what I was made for!
 * Faster! Death nips at our heels!

Region Gate

 * On with it! To deliverance!
 * ''We cannot keep absolution waiting!

Oasis

 * To cleanse my flesh that I might stain it anew.
 * I am beyond such worldly needs.
 * I shall keep guard while you tend your weak, needy bodies.
 * We haven't the time for this foolishness!

Exiting Oasis

 * Ahh, something in this stings...! Mm.
 * How could you hope to purify what is already divine?

Creature Den

 * Away with you, foul things! (Fight)
 * My skin shall know the rake of their claws! (Fight)
 * Your jaws shall taste blight, mongrels! (Fight, 2 Crit self, but 1 Strength enemies)
 * Must we risk it? The dark draws nigh. (Avoid, lose Flame)

Creature Den Success

 * ''A taste of their own venom, heh heh.'

Creature Den Retreat

 * ''My wounds! How gloriously they seep!'

Resistance Encounter

 * TBA

Resistance Encounter Success

 * Unworthy witnesses to my becoming!

Resistance Encounter Retreat

 * You'd flee before I am through with them?!

Oblivion's Ingress

 * My path to deliverance lies through them! (Fight)

Oblivion's Ingress (Mountain)

 * I have heard your call, apex of suffering! (Fight)

Oblivion's Ingress Success

 * Undeserving of the pain they'd mete out!

Oblivion's Ingress Retreat

 * AT LAST! A worthy torment!

Exiting Oblivion's Ingress/Rampart

 * Feed me your transgressions.
 * Prostrate yourselves!

Assistance Encounter

 * Come, poor wretches - I am your confessor!
 * To me, sinners all!
 * My fellows are hungry! Feed them!
 * Through barb and blade, you shall know absolution!
 * Have you anything with an edge?
 * Repair this wagon! Guide us on to absolution!
 * The wheels are in splinters! Put them to work!
 * Gather round! Confess your secrets. (Flame, Scouting)
 * Do not turn away from me! Through fear, find strength!
 * Mine is a holy cause - join me, you rabble!
 * The sun draws low! Gather at my feet!
 * Split your knuckles! Free yourself of sin!
 * You have greater need of us than you know!
 * What use have I for baubles?
 * They can have the lot of it, if you ask me.
 * Riches hold no sway over me.
 * If there be some benefit to us - do it!
 * The most precious gift I can offer them - pain!
 * Abandon our work so some beggar stays fed?
 * Come, now. Just look at me. Hand it over.
 * The poor sinners will survive without us. (Avoid)
 * I count my wealth in scars, not relics.
 * Mere shiny annoyances. Off with them!
 * Come, come! It has been some time since my recitations...
 * We can give them glories greater than gold!
 * Their plight moves me not. Onward.
 * What need have I for mortal wealth?
 * These mercenaries are my ferry to greatness! They must eat!
 * Your metals, worms! I require them!
 * Labour shall not sully these consecrated fingers!
 * Ever had a duel against Death herself?
 * They wouldn't twice look our way were we in need!
 * O, death! Come to me! One more contest!
 * Those who cross me pay in gold or blood!
 * I know your sins and I judge you unworthy!

Exiting Assistance Encounter

 * They know not what a gift it is to suffer...
 * Meant for the plough, not the whip.

Valley Assistance Encounter

 * TBA

Exiting Hospital

 * It is a weak constitution that needs such things.
 * Her gods are no longer listening.

Exiting Hoarder

 * Creature comforts slow me down.
 * Burden me not with your salves and wraps!

Exiting Valley Hoarder

 * It calls to me, this weeping world.
 * Onward to the source! I must taste of it.

Exiting Watchtower

 * ... the throbbing of a putrefying heart...
 * *soft, wondrous gasp*

Academic's Study

 * ''I am always on the lookout for metal.
 * ''Don't you worry, clock. I know my time is borrowed!
 * ''What sharp little claws it has.
 * ''If they forged that cage here, there'll be tools.
 * ''My kind of altar.
 * ''A distraction, but an intriguing one.
 * ''It bores me, but it could feed you lot I suppose. (Formless Sculpture)
 * ''I am already damned - what's the harm?
 * ''I must have it. At all costs. Bring it to me!
 * ''Oddly familiar prominences. Nice and sharp.
 * ''True art is sketched upon the flesh!
 * ''I hear naught but discordant shrieking... in my own voice.
 * ''Anyone there? You have until three...!
 * ''Such a lovely shade of crimson.
 * ''Sacrelige, to let myself be distracted so!
 * ''See how it writhes when I prick its footpads!
 * ''I simply must make use of those nails!
 * ''True believers read not - they know verse by heart.
 * ''What an enchanting shade of red!
 * ''It does little for me. Have the lion's share. (Vintage Collection)

Exiting Academic's Study

 * More stimulating pursuits await.
 * Power lurks down unexpected corridors.

Tangle Lair Success

 * Carve your path upon me, lost little souls.

Tangle Lair Retreat

 * Leave them. Sad, dry things.

Foetor Lair Success

 * I've no interest in their looted luxuries.

Foetor Lair Retreat

 * To the lash with me!

Sprawl Lair Success

 * What a boring use for fire.

Sprawl Lair Retreat

 * My wounds are my own! Tend me not.

Shroud Lair Success

 * A thrilling distraction. To the next!

Shroud Lair Retreat

 * Damned sea-chill! I've gone numb!

Exiting Academic's Cache
Specific Boss Barks=
 * Do what you will with my share.
 * Mm, sutures - perhaps I could allow it.

Librarian

 * Spend your fire on a worthy target, coward!

Harvest Child

 * I must regain my strength! (Move due to debuff)
 * I'm ravenous! Another bite! Now!...

Focused Fault

 * It sees my end!
 * See now what hungers in me! Deny me not!
 * They will fell me before I can ascend!

Body Of Work - Face Your Failure
Quirks/Diseases= TBA Travelling Stress=
 * Behold my exaltation!
 * Come closer - be witness to my rapture!
 * My purpose! My apotheosis!
 * Shall you claim me now? At my pinnacle?!
 * More! Give me MORE!
 * You've given me a taste - now I shall ever crave it!

Travelling Stress Heal

 * I shall pray for you. Take comfort.
 * ''Be not altered by fear.
 * ''Bless the blood - and thee!
 * ''In the face of horror, deliverance!
 * ''Deviate not from our anointed path!

Travelling Stress Damage
Travelling Path Type Reaction=
 * 'Thin-blooded wastrels!
 * ''YOU shall not cost me my ascension!
 * ''Leave me to my barbs!
 * ''Your sloth will be your undoing!
 * ''Feckless good-for-nothings.

Safe Path

 * ''Pass me the caltrops.
 * ''Anything you wish to confess?
 * ''Any longer and my scabs will heal!
 * ''Allow these mortals a moment's rest.

Rough Patch

 * ''These souls and their complaints.
 * ''Heh heh.
 * ''Soon we shall face real threats!
 * ''Onward! Damn the roads!

Hazardous Path

 * ''Ours is a holy warpath!
 * ''Not even Death shall stop me!
 * ''We are cloaked in purpose!
 * ''We stall for none!

Combat

 * ''A pittance of a challenge...
 * ''Let them know regret.
 * ''Soon your veins shall burn!
 * ''Send them to their gods!

Oblivion Tear

 * ''Deep, numbing cold...
 * ''Perhaps I've steered us wrong...
 * ''No! You cannot rob me of my pain!
 * ''Is it true?! Have my veins bled their last?!

Trivia

 * The Flagellant is one of the eleven Heroes returning from Darkest Dungeon.
 * His predetermined name is Damian, in reference to Peter Damian, an italian monk and cardinal who's known for the introduction of self-flagellation as a method of religious discipline.
 * Despite his appearance, the Flagellant is not an undead, since Death failed to take him : his starveling body is caused by his own lack of care, to the point of his blood being rotten and toxic, while his face ended up being ripped by himself.
 * Flagellant's Signature Item Pain Box is a reference to Frank Herbert's novel Dune.
 * There's a placeholder image in the game files which depicts Flagellant being a Bleed-oriented hero instead of Blight.
 * The Torturer in Vestal's fourth shrine has been confirmed to be the same character as the Flagellant.