The Timeless Wood

"You can recall it if you try - amber glow suffusing the city's window panes, the soft crackle of a fire in the hearth, the lap of gentle waves against sand. This kingdom was imperfect, but it was ours. Now it stands in ruin…until you can invest it once more with Hope."

- The Ancestor

The Timeless Wood is one of the Location in The Altar of Hope. Here the player can invest Candles of Hope to apply Memories to Heroes for their upcoming expedition. Heroes start with one memory slot but can earn up to 5 by investing candles. Only one memory may be applied to a Hero each time they arrive at the Altar of Hope.

Memories are a buff that are applied to a Hero and lasts as long as that hero remains alive and completes an expedition. This means the hero must survive the Confession Boss in order to retain their memory. Resetting a run will count as a death to the Hero and will reset them at The Crossroads.

Memoried Heroes
Heroes who survive a run with a memory (or memories) applied are called "Memoried Heroes" and retain all their attributes. Memoried heroes have their name, quirks, and diseases all locked in alongside their memories and will appear at The Crossroads as such for the following Expedition. If a player chooses to reroll a memoried hero at The Crossroads then they will lose all of their locked in traits, including all their memories. Heroes can have one memory added each time they arrive at the Altar (assuming they have the slots unlocked) and can have up to 5 memories total.

If a run ends at an Inn with "End Expedition", no memories will be lost (Previously all memories would be lost. This is confirmed in version 1.00.50439, but there is no clear source for when this change was introduced).

Trivia

 * The Token of Friendship memory is possibly a reference to the Crystal Pendant from the Color of Madness dlc.