| “ | Who will face the half-remembered horrors of their past? | „ |
| ~ -The Academic |
The Shrine of Reflection is a node location in Darkest Dungeon 2. Found randomly on the map, their main function is to unlock new abilities for the heroes and reveal their past to the player. When entering the location, the player must choose one of the 4 heroes to start. Heroes can all access to 6 skills over 5 Chapters in The Shrine of Reflection.
Some of the nodes will present a short narration of the history of the hero while others will present a small mini-game in the form of combat where it must be successfully completed in order to unlock the skills.
Plague Doctor
Chapter One: The Good Student
Chapter Two: Head of the Class
Chapter Three: Extra Credit
Chapter Four: Failing Grade
Chapter Five: Do No Harm
Chapter One: The Good Student
🔸Unlocks 
Emboldening Vapours
| “ | Brilliant and bold, her unconventional theories created nothing short of a scandal in her fourth year. The mocking whispers and scornful glares of her peers and professors had an ironically invigorated effect upon her 'extracurricular experiments.' The mysteries of the human body - of life and death itself - hovered just above her scalpel's reach... If only she could acquire a corpse of sufficient freshness. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | The jeers, the whispers... they pushed me deep into my studies. | „ |
| ~ The Plague Doctor |
Chapter Two: Head of the Class
🔸Objective: Disprove The Professor
🔸Unlocks 
Plague Grenade
| “ | Her professor was a relic, hacking and wheezing his way through a hopelessly conventional curriculum! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | She delighted in the combative debate, and, behind her bookish glasses, reveled in their outrage and confusion. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | I was the smartest, but wisdom was not on the syllabus. | „ |
| ~ The Plague Doctor |
| Solution | |
|---|---|
| When Professor uses Lecture • Use Review Notes 
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When Professor uses Conclussion • Use Heated Rebuttal 
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Chapter Three: Extra Credit
🔸Unlocks 
Indiscriminate Science
| “ | By the second semester, her research was at a critical point. And regular supply raids of the University laboratories had become necessary. During one such expedition, she stumbled upon her professor, awkwardly slumped over his podium, a bloody kerchief on the floor. Here, then, was her ideal cadaver, her long-awaited opportunity. And she would not waste it. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Ostracized, I had to prove myself, no matter the cost. | „ |
| ~ The Plague Doctor |
Chapter Four: Failing Grade
🔸Objective: Stabilize The Patient
🔸Unlocks 
Cause of Death
| “ | Success! Vindication. The human machine, restored to action! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | The shrieking was horrible, but the silence that followed... was even worse. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | I could not say if it was madness, revenge, or naked ambition. | „ |
| ~ The Plague Doctor |
| Solution | |
|---|---|
| Impossible to Lose • Use Stab  to finish off Reanimated Professor
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Chapter Five: Do No Harm
🔸Unlocks 
Disorienting Blast and 
Magnesium Rain
| “ | Disposal of the body was a procedural affair, a carboy of acid would dissolve the thing, and no evidence would remain. In the weeks that followed, however, she found herself unable to focus, instead sitting motionless at her desk, paralyzed by the ceaseless wailing that reverberated in her mind. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Those screams will never leave me. | „ |
| ~ The Plague Doctor |
Grave Robber
Chapter One: Luxury's Lap
Chapter Two: Night Cap
Chapter Three: Embarrassment of Riches
Chapter Four: Filthy Rich
Chapter Five: The Afterparty
Chapter One: Luxury's Lap
🔸Unlocks 
Dead of Night
| “ | Born into money, and married into more, she spent her days on horseback and her evenings in the ballroom. She was the object of her husband's boorish lust and drunken temper, placating his worst tendencies with a veneer of gracious deference. All the while, indulging murderous fantasies of freedom... and the fortune that would soon be hers. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Tradition drove us into each other's arms. Or estates, rather. | „ |
| ~ The Runaway |
Chapter Two: Night Cap
🔸Objective: Enough Is Enough!
🔸Unlocks 
Repartee
| “ | What did Fate expect as She flogged me towards a vindictive action? | „ |
| ~ The Grave Robber |
| “ | Night after night of disrespect and abuse - enough was enough. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | She listened, smirking, as his empty apologies came in desperate, choking gags... | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Three: Embarrassment of Riches
🔸Unlocks 
Lunge
| “ | Years of decadence and financial mismanagement had left the estate in staggering debt. Humiliated and facing eviction, she wandered the empty halls, hurling inebriated indignities at the portrait of the deceased, whose hand had rested so possessively upon her shoulder. A gleam of gold on that painted paw reminded her that his rings were unaccounted for... and must have been buried with him. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | I cannot say I recommend impulsive murder. Always make a plan, love. | „ |
| ~ The Grave Robber |
Chapter Four: Filthy Rich
🔸Objective: Loot Your Husband's Tomb
🔸Unlocks 
Shadow Fade
| “ | He meant to leave me as a pauper or a corpse eventually. I'm certain. | „ |
| ~ The Grave Robber |
| “ | To preserve her social standing, she would pilfer the rings from his fingers - the gold from his teeth! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | She was awash in exhilaration, the glint in her eyes outshining the fistful of ill-gotten gains. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Five: The Afterparty
🔸Unlocks 
Pirouette and 
Glint in the Dark
| “ | Armed officials dispatched to oversee the eviction were shocked to find the front doors of the manor listlessly ajar. The lavish carpets were lousy with dirt and leaves. A heap of heirlooms gleamed on the ballroom floor - rings and broaches in a careless pile. The lady of the manor, however... was nowhere to be found. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | What use have the dead for such trinkets and baubles? | „ |
| ~ The Grave Robber |
Highwayman
Chapter One: Freedom
Chapter Two: Laying Low
Chapter Three: One Last Job
Chapter Four: Highway Robbery
Chapter Five: Shackled
Chapter One: Freedom
🔸Objective: Defeat The Guards to Escape
🔸Unlocks 
Point Blank Shot
| “ | Walls will never again hold me. | „ |
| ~ The Highwayman |
| “ | A prison riot! A fleeting chance to escape incarceration! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | He would be a fugitive, a hunted man, but a free one nonetheless... | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Two: Laying Low
🔸Unlocks 
Open Vein
| “ | Harried by a pursuing garrison, he took refuge in the foetid canals of the city. Concealment took its toll, and soon he began to see himself in the furtive, scurrying pests that formed an unfortunate portion of his meager diet. Freedom, once so fondly imagined, had become a vortex of degradation. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Freedom was nothing like what I'd hoped for. | „ |
| ~ The Highwayman |
Chapter Three: One Last Job
🔸Unlocks 
Highway Robbery
| “ | He was sick and starving. And in desperation, offered his expertise to an unscrupulous malefactor. Shackled once more to an unsavory task by an advance of gold, he lined his belly, girded himself, and prepared for One. Final. Heist. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Can't teach an old dog new tricks. | „ |
| ~ The Highwayman |
Chapter Four: Highway Robbery
🔸Objective: Rob The Coach
🔸Unlocks 
Grapeshot Blast
| “ | I was desperate...! I had to! | „ |
| ~ The Highwayman |
| “ | The stagecoach arrived, and he set himself to the business of bloodshed and robbery! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | He fulfilled his obligations with exceptional lethality, but his grim satisfaction would prove short-lived... | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Five: Shackled
🔸Unlocks 
Double Cross and 
Double Tap
| “ | The lifeless bodies of a woman and child, horribly mutilated by errant gunfire, stared spectrally through the remnants of the coach door. Arrested by the ghoulish sight, he felt the cold chains of remorse tighten around his heart. Guilt was a pursuer he could never outrun, a prison he would never escape. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Regret binds fiercer than any manacles. | „ |
| ~ The Highwayman |
Man-at-Arms
Chapter One: A Premature Promotion
Chapter Two: A Leader of Men
Chapter Three: One Eye Open
Chapter Four: Ghosts of the Past
Chapter Five: In the Trenches
Chapter One: A Premature Promotion
🔸Unlocks 
Bellow
| “ | The politics of a military career are perhaps as treacherous as war itself. Though untested in combat, his acumen for advancement was unmatched. Through a dubious campaign of influence and intimidation, he had at last claimed a coveted command, and was eager to bask in the glory of the victories that were sure to come. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | My ambition outflanked my fellow officers at soirees and mock skirmishes. | „ |
| ~ The Man-at-Arms |
Chapter Two: A Leader of Men
🔸Objective: Onward To Glory!
🔸Unlocks 
Stand Fast
| “ | Clever repartee and a poison tongue meant nothing on the battlefield. | „ |
| ~ The Man-at-Arms |
| “ | Behold the conquering General, marching his men to victory! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | A rout, massacre... a complete and total failure of command. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Three: One Eye Open
🔸Unlocks 
Retribution
| “ | Every night, the men of his regiment would interrupt his fitful convalescence. Mutilated and maimed, the spectral garrison clawed at his bedcovers, whispering hateful truths in his ears. The exhausted attendants in the field hospital would wake to the sound of panicked screaming and inglorious sobs. It was not the war that had taken his eye. It was pride. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Were they dreams or did I truly see scratches on my arms in the morning? | „ |
| ~ The Man-at-Arms |
Chapter Four: Ghosts of the Past
🔸Objective: Honour The Fallen
🔸Unlocks 
Courageous Abandon
| “ | I knew what waited for me back there, but I had no rank and they deserved rest. | „ |
| ~ The Man-at-Arms |
| “ | Demoted and disgraced, he returned to the battlefield, ready to endure the wrath of his regiment and grant them some small peace. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | At last, he would sleep undisturbed, and perhaps find some comfort in that murky abyss of dreamless wonder. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Five: In the Trenches
🔸Unlocks 
Command and 
Strategic Withdrawal
| “ | He resolved to spend his remaining years seeking atonement in the trenches of bloody battlefields the world over. For him, there could be no respite from the horrors of war. And when, at last, he was struck down, he would die alone and unremembered. Surely he deserved no better. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Someday, on some forgotten front, I'll spell contrition with my blood. | „ |
| ~ The Man-at-Arms |
Hellion
Chapter One: The Eve of Glory
Chapter Two: The Brave
Chapter Three: Night in the Woods
Chapter Four: Shame and Exile
Chapter Five: The Great Emptiness
Chapter One: The Eve of Glory
🔸Unlocks 
Bleed Out
| “ | She was young to join the warband, but any who challenged her readiness were met with clenched fists and violent indignation. Having bloodied that last of her detractors, the matter was considered finally settled. On the eve battle, she joined her clanmates in raucous celebration, her stein and her spirits overflowing with abundance. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | I was too young. Too loud... too certain... | „ |
| ~ The Hellion |
Chapter Two: The Brave
🔸Objective: Prove Yourself!
🔸Unlocks 
Bloodlust
| “ | The invaders came. And with them came countless fears. | „ |
| ~ The Hellion |
| “ | She was the tip of the spear - poised to sunder the enemy line, to live forever in the songs of her people! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Her entire life spent in preparation, but when it had mattered most... she had failed. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Three: Night in the Woods
🔸Unlocks 
Raucous Revelry
| “ | As the advancing army moved on, she huddled tightly in the tree's clammy roots, hoping to be somehow swallowed up into the earth. At dawn, she woke tormented by the exuberant cries of carrion crows, come to feast upon the corpses of her kin. When at last she stirred, the scavengers took flight, repulsed by sight of this undeserving revenant. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | I had no more courage than the buzzards feasting on my failure. | „ |
| ~ The Hellion |
Chapter Four: Shame and Exile
🔸Objective: Apologize to 10 Widows
🔸Unlocks 
Breakthrough
| “ | I had survived and I reminded them of those who had not. | „ |
| ~ The Hellion |
| “ | She had shunned a warrior's death, and her cowardice would be impugned! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | They cast her out. An exile - unwelcome, and unsung. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Five: The Great Emptiness
🔸Unlocks 
Adrenaline Rush and 
Howling End
| “ | Alone and untethered, she wandered the countryside fighting for sport, and soaking her wounds in wine. She sought death at every turn, desperate for a second chance to prove her mettle, but it seemed even that terrible wraith that forsaken her. Her isolation was absolute, her shame barely concealed by a fragile façade of fearlessness. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | It is said that even Death shuns cowards and fools. | „ |
| ~ The Hellion |
Runaway
Chapter One: The Pigs of Saint Martha's
Chapter Two: Beloved
Chapter Three: Drawn to the Flame
Chapter Four: Burnt Offering
Chapter Five: Ashes
Chapter One: The Pigs of Saint Martha's
🔸Objective: Steal The 2 Keys And Escape
🔸Unlocks 
Ransack
| “ | Her pious caretakers had marked her for the last time... Tonight, she would escape their cruelty at last. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | She ran blindly into the rain, the squeals of the pursuing Sisters lost in the howling wind. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | I only felt the pain from the brand the first time. | „ |
| ~ The Runaway |
Chapter Two: Beloved
🔸Unlocks 
Cauterize
| “ | Good fortune is a rare and wondrous thing. She straggled from place to place, drenched and hungry, until a kindly woodsman and his wife happened upon her. Childless themselves, they welcomed her into their home, where she warmed herself in the glow of their hearth and hearts. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | My painful memories hid from the warmth of their love. | „ |
| ~ The Runaway |
Chapter Three: Drawn to the Flame
🔸Unlocks 
Controlled Burn
| “ | She would stay up long into the night, tending the fire. Captivated by its shifting hues, she thrilled to the eerie dance of spark and ember, running her fingers absentmindedly over the scars that patterned her arm. The hearthlight seemed somehow alive, and in these private moments, she yearned to reach out and be touched once against by its searing embrace. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | How could this thing that warmed us on cold nights be terrible? | „ |
| ~ The Runaway |
Chapter Four: Burnt Offering
🔸Objective: Play With Fire
🔸Unlocks 
Dragonfly
| “ | If I made the fire my friend, it couldn't hurt me anymore. | „ |
| ~ The Runaway |
| “ | An accident, but surely there was time to contain the flames! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | The walls were alight! There was no stopping it now... | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Five: Ashes
🔸Unlocks 
Firestarter and 
Backdraft
| “ | She stood in the center of the inferno, transfixed by its swirling, kaleidoscopic beauty... Her rapturous fixation was cut short by a heavy beam falling from the ceiling, blocking the door. Panicked, she dove headlong through a window as the cabin bloomed into a pyre. Heaped upon the wet grass, she heard the screams of her adoptive parents... trapped and burning in their bedroom. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Fire itself is not evil. It can't choose what it devours... | „ |
| ~ The Runaway |
Jester
Chapter One: Some Strange Melody
Chapter Two: Music of the Night
Chapter Three: Play to the Crowd
Chapter Four: A Dark Song
Chapter Five: Finale
Chapter One: Some Strange Melody
🔸Unlocks 
Play Out
| “ | He was a layabout without aspiration or purpose, content to loiter on street corners languidly busking for passersby. Roughly ushered from the bustling commercial blocks, he wandered the forgotten corners of the city. An intoxicating melody drifted over a nearby cemetery wall, and he stumbled deliriously amongst the tombstones in search of the performer... | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | The accursed melody was a trap beyond all cunning | „ |
| ~ The Jester |
Chapter Two: Music of the Night
🔸Objective: Win The Duel
🔸Unlocks
Harvest
Hint:
This is the order by which the player should use their skills to complete this Hero Shrine:
- Round 1: Violinist (Verse), Jester (Chorus)
- Round 2: Violinist (Verse), Jester (Chorus)
- Round 3: Violinist (Break), Jester (Bridge)
- Round 4: Violinist (Missteps), Jester (Solo)
- Round 5: Violinist (Chorus), Jester (Verse)
- Round 6: Violinist (Chorus), Jester (Verse)
- Round 7: Violinist (Solo), Jester (Finale)
| “ | The song found ambition buried dead in my heart and made it dance... | „ |
| ~ The Jester |
| “ | He could learn this unearthly hymn... and claim it as his own! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Ambition, so long dormant within him, had been roused. He delighted in fantasies of fame, renown... and respect. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Three: Play to the Crowd
🔸Unlocks 
Echoing March
| “ | When word of his uncommon talent reached the palace, he was summoned to entertain King and Court. Anticipating an historic performance and enthused adulation, he was stunned to find himself instead the object of their debased ridicule. While his noble audience dined drunkenly, he was mocked, tortured, and subjected to an obscene array of decadent humiliations... | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | And so the trap snapped shut on me. | „ |
| ~ The Jester |
Chapter Four: A Dark Song
🔸Objective: Play 3 Melodies
🔸Unlocks 
Finale
| “ | Just as it was meant to, the song loosed the leash of my inhibitions... | „ |
| ~ The Jester |
| “ | He unleashed his resentment upon instrument and crowd, playing the demoniac melody with unrestrained fury! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | This was the song of the dead - and it had exacted a fitting tribute. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Five: Finale
🔸Unlocks 
Solo and 
Encore
| “ | Bowing low, he basked in the echoing applause of dripping blood. The scene of wholesale dismemberment drove him to fits of mirthless hysterics. He was laughing still as he placed the blade against his own hand, severing his connection to whatever twisted talent he had so fleetingly enjoyed. Aimlessly, he drifted from the hall, humming broken bars of a discordant melody he could not quite remember... | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Ask any animal if it was worth it to gnaw off a limb for freedom. | „ |
| ~ The Jester |
Leper
Chapter One: Shun Them Not
Chapter Two: Infection
Chapter Three: Treason
Chapter Four: The Purge
Chapter Five: A Beautiful View
Chapter One: Shun Them Not
🔸Objective: Foster The Sick
🔸Unlocks 
Break
| “ | A lion in the blood-soaked grass, circled by hyenas who move as a pack... | „ |
| ~ The Leper |
| “ | Despite the protestations of his royal advisors, he would visit with the sick and dying, providing what comfort he could. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | The ailing and infirm were far less repulsive to him than the venomous whispers of his scoffing entourage... | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Two: Infection
🔸Unlocks 
Revenge
| “ | Early signs could be ignored or concealed, but soon the reality was inescapable. Whether by some affliction of lineage or by direct transmission, symptoms of incurable disease began to openly manifest themselves. Wracked with pain, he summoned doctors and aides from the farthest reaches of his lands, all of whom concluded the worst: the King was dying. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | A hollow clanging echoed throughout the palace. | „ |
| ~ The Leper |
Chapter Three: Treason
🔸Unlocks 
Intimidate
| “ | Sedition, like any illness, spreads slowly. Rotten with a cynical opportunism born of longstanding entitlement, the scheming circle of advisors drafted mutinous plans. Though bedridden, he had long since divined their intent, and feared the disastrous results of their would-be rule. Summoning his blacksmith - and his strength - he hoisted his blade, and rose to meet the coming threat. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | With wicked plots, they forged the blade that slew them. | „ |
| ~ The Leper |
Chapter Four: The Purge
🔸Objective: Survive Their Treason
🔸Unlocks 
Hew
| “ | Fury and blade to excise malignance - no matter the agony! | „ |
| ~ The Leper |
| “ | He had shown his compassion. Now... he would show his fury! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | His blade had broken, but so too the treasonous plot. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Five: A Beautiful View
🔸Unlocks 
Bash and 
Ruin
| “ | Satisfied that the spirit of his benevolent tenure would endure, he abdicated the throne. People gathered at windows and along the roads. Weeping, some threw petals at his feet, while others watched in reverent stoicism. As he walked beyond the city gates, he marveled at the beauty of the world, and was grateful for his many blessings. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Ever present, sunlight throws aside the clouds to pour into the people's hearts. | „ |
| ~ The Leper |
Occultist
Chapter One: The Ritual
Chapter Two: A Door in the Desert
Chapter Three: Some Parts Must Die
Chapter Four: The Guest
Chapter Five: An Eternal Flame
Chapter One: The Ritual
🔸Unlocks 
Vulnerability Hex
| “ | On certain portentous evenings carefully selected for their astrological potency, he would gather his devotees around the ancient onyx table, and, joining hands with them, he would send his spirit out into the void. Safely tethered by their vital energies, he was free to wander the Outer Sphere in search of some dark communion and impossible power. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Few minds are ready for the other planes. | „ |
| ~ The Occultist |
Chapter Two: A Door in the Desert
🔸Unlocks 
Binding Shadows
| “ | He found himself in a vast expanse of windswept dunes. Ahead, the stone spires of a pyramidal temple called down jagged bolts from a roiling, angry sky. Undaunted, he crossed the threshold of the towering aperture, settled himself upon the central dais, and prepared for the coming sacrifice. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | That pyramid changed everything. | „ |
| ~ The Occultist |
Chapter Three: Some Parts Must Die
🔸Objective: Slay Your Virtues
🔸Unlocks 
Malediction
| “ | Back then, I was not yet wise enough to know fear. | „ |
| ~ The Occultist |
| “ | Terrible though it was, he would pay the price for power! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | The emptiness in him called out across the boundless gulfs of unknown space... for nature abhors a vacuum. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Four: The Guest
🔸Objective: Protect The Seance
🔸Unlocks 
The Burning Stars
| “ | It took too much and gained even more, but... | „ |
| ~ The Occultist |
| “ | Drawing vitality from the assembled mediums, he would hold fast against the thing, and harness a portion of its power! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Imbued with strange currents of infernal origin, his apotheosis was complete... | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
Chapter Five: An Eternal Flame
🔸Unlocks 
Anamnesis and 
Chaotic Offering
| “ | Emerging from his trance, he met the charred, steaming corpses of his acolytes with a shudder. He cound sense the eldritch entity stalking the edges of his consciousness, probing for weaknesses. He had become a beacon - a conduit to unknown regions... and would be assailed by those blasphemous forces all the rest of his days. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | I am shrouded by an endless night where they prowl and whisper all names. | „ |
| ~ The Occultist |
Vestal
Chapter One: Want Not
Chapter Two:A Momentary Lapse
Chapter Three: No God but Men
Chapter Four: Divine intervention
Chapter Five: Wrath
Chapter One: Want Not
🔸Unlocks 
Ministrations
| “ | Together with her sisters she tended the Order's sacred flame in pious humility. The Abbey's austere arches and sactified masonry afforded her a life of sheltered privilege that few beyond the walls could imagine. Discipline was paramount, and when forbidden desires would seek to distract her from monastic toil, she smothered them... reluctantly. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | The warmth of the Light, of belonging... | „ |
| ~ The Vestal |
Chapter Two: A Momentary Lapse
🔸Objective: Satisfy your curiosity 3 times.
🔸Unlocks 
Mace Bash
| “ | She was a paragon of duty and virtue, but reminders of her deprivation were... everywhere. Surely, she deserved some indulgence for her labours! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Immersed in her reverie, she started violently at the piercing admonitions of the furious Abbot. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | He called me faithless. Me! | „ |
| ~ The Vestal |
Chapter Three: No God but Men
🔸Unlocks 
Sanctuary
| “ | Her terrified wails rang off the transepts as the Abbot dragged her to the oubliette. As a deterrent of the congregation, her punishment would be more than commensurate with her blasphemy. Locked interminably in the Festering dark, she awaited retribution from the divine while suffering the mortal tortures of its enraged servants. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | That prison nearly turned my heart toward hate. | „ |
| ~ The Vestal |
Chapter Four: Divine Intervention
🔸Objective: Defeat The Torturer!
🔸Unlocks 
Consecration of Light
| “ | Vindication! A golden ray beamed affirmation into the stagnant blackness of the dungeon. No divine punishment awaited her - it was her captors who had strayed from the Light! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Radiant with revelation, she stormed the stairs to the cloisters! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Someday, all will feel what I felt. | „ |
| ~ The Vestal |
Chapter Five: Wrath
🔸Unlocks 
Divine Comfort and 
Mantra
| “ | Eager to share her emancipation with her convent, she rushed headlong toward the dormitory. But where the chamber door once stood, she was met instead by a sheer wall of fresh masonry. Her cries of jubilation died in her throath. From behind the drying mortar and sturdy stone there came a feeble scratching, then her sisters' last piteous gasps. The price of her wantonness would not be measured solely in blows from the flail.... | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | ... The verses have some lessons on pride. | „ |
| ~ The Vestal |
Flagellant[]
Chapter One: Baptism
Chapter Two: In Service of the Divine
Chapter Three: More, more!
Chapter Four: Death's Door
Chapter Five: Behold the Man
Chapter One: Baptism
🔸Unlocks 
Acid Rain
| “ | He was a listless shade of the city, indifferent to his penury. With his skeletal build and bleeding gums, he looked an easy target for a pair of drunks seeking an outlet for their frustrations. The blows rained down, a tooth cracked - and a feverish crimson eclipsed his vision. In pain... there was power. He rose above his panting assailants, and, reveling in the marks of their sin, forgave them their trespasses. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | If only they knew how precious their gift... | „ |
| ~ The Flagellant |
Chapter Two: In Service of the Divine
🔸Unlocks 
More, MORE!
| “ | Drawn to the sombre depths of the church's oubliettes, he pledged his life to the clergy. There, he inflicted death by slow, delicious degrees - each crack of the lash an honour, a gift, a morbid sacrament. But his zeal proved too ardent, his brethren too timid - they cast him out, rendered him once more unto the streets. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Let all run red...! | „ |
| ~ The Flagellant |
Chapter Three: More, more!
🔸Unlocks 
Suffer
| “ | He roved out in search of torment, consuming the sin of any who would purge their misdeeds upon his body. Each wound fueled his fervour, the rapture only found in baptism by the lash. Drunk on his bloody intinctions, manic with the need for some elusive apotheosis, he gouged at himself without mercy. As blood poured from his rended flesh, his conciousness faltered, and the thundering hoofbeats of Death rang violent in his ears. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | May this maligned world find solace through my flesh. | „ |
| ~ The Flagellant |
Chapter Four: Death's Door
🔸Objective: Defy Death
🔸Unlocks 
Sepsis
| “ | Her scythe promised numbing obliviation - a premature end to his sacred journey of sensation! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Gleaned from the world's gruesome delights, his power was enough to defy Death herself! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | None shall claim me 'til I summit the peak of agony! | „ |
| ~ The Flagellant |
Chapter Five: Behold the Man
🔸Unlocks 
Necrosis and 
Undying
| “ | Once more he wandered, ravenous for fresh suffering and delighting in its novelty and excess. Offering himself to blade and talon alike, he became an icon writ in flesh, a living prayer to whatever gods would turn an ear. Undying, he savoured his delicious declension. An eternity of pain and rot. Heaven on earth. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Every rapturous lash drags me further from her grasp! | „ |
| ~ The Flagellant |
Crusader
Chapter One: Labour the Land
Chapter Two: Hard Pressed
Chapter Three: The Great Crusade
Chapter Four: Blood in the Snow
Chapter Five: No Home but Hell
Chapter One: Labour the Land
🔸Objective: Bundle 3 Sheaves
🔸Unlocks 
Reap
| “ | Autumn's inexorable march was underway and the race was on to save the harvest from the first frost. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | Despite his exertions, their yield was paltry. Come winter, starvation would seat itself at the head of their table. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | A simple life can be a worthy one. | „ |
| ~ The Crusader (Success) |
| “ | All the Verses told of sacrifice... | „ |
| ~ The Crusader (Failure) |
Chapter Two: Hard Pressed
🔸Unlocks 
Battle Heal
| “ | The banners of the holy army snapped in the biting wind that scoured his barren plot. Taking the quill from the attending officer, he signed his name crudely upon the weathered scroll. He had no love of violence, but his absence would stay famine's hand. He accepted both tabard and blade, bid his wife and son a stoic farewell, and rode out reluctantly... to make war. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | An act of cruelty can be an act of virtue. | „ |
| ~ The Crusader |
Chapter Three: The Great Crusade
🔸Unlocks 
Bulwark of Faith
| “ | The cacaphony of conflict rang bloody in his ears; trumpets and drums, shouted orders, the screams of the dead and the dying. But in the maelstrom of mortal combat, he found a divine peace. He came to relish the cleaving blade and zealous bloodlust, losing himself entirely to the terrible delights of battle. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | No greater purpose have I ever known. | „ |
| ~ The Crusader |
Chapter Four: Failing Grade
🔸Objective: Defeat The Warlord!
🔸Unlocks 
Holy Lance
| “ | The enemy camp rang with the clamor of terrified recognition - they knew his frightful reputation! | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | At the moment of execution, he demurred. This one could live on in humiliation, a mockery of the mercy his enemies knew he did not possess. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | An instrument of Light - merciful, blinding. | „ |
| ~ The Crusader (Success) |
| “ | They whispered my name and cowered... | „ |
| ~ The Crusader (Failure) |
Chapter Five: No Home but Hell
🔸Unlocks 
Tenacity and 
Radiance
| “ | Motionless upon his warhorse, he contemplated the scene of stifling domesticity in the familiar valley below. The boy played idly in the muddy field, while the mother hung sheets upon a tattered line. From his saddle, he planted his heraldic banner in the thawing soil, tossing the whole of his earnings in its shadow. He blew hard into his war horn, then turned to rejoin his regiment. He did not look back. | „ |
| ~ The Academic |
| “ | I know my place - and it is not the hearth. | „ |
| ~ The Crusader |
| “ | Redemption awaits at journey's end! | „ |
| ~ The Crusader (Story complete, Avoid Shrine) |
Duelist
Chapter One: Academie Duello
Chapter Two: After Hours
Chapter Three: Insatiable
Chapter Four: A Taste of Victory
Chapter Five: The Perfection
Chapter One: Academie Duello
🔸Unlocks The Boot
| “ | She would wake before dawn, stretch, meditate, and portion her food with exacting care. The Academie expected discipline, but she sought to exceed it, shunning the earnest social overtures of her peers in favour of training exhaustively, long into the twilight. She did not grieve this isolation. Perfection demanded sacrifice. | „ |
| ~ -The Academic |
| “ | ... I was there to learn, not be liked. | „ |
| ~ -The Duelist |
Chapter Two: After Hours
🔸Unlocks Again!
| “ | Beneath her doublet, a swelling desire to go beyond her instructor's expectations, to earn his respect... and perhaps his attention. | „ |
| ~ -The Academic |
| “ | Nimble and sure-footed, her flawless form drew his notice... | „ |
| ~ -The Academic |
Chapter Three: Insatiable
🔸Unlocks Fleche
| “ | Under more direct tutelage, she blossomed - a formidable fighter, fastidious in the extreme and possessed of a ruthless singlemindedness. It was this absence of fear that gave her an uncanny edge. Between instructor and pupil, the intimacy of martial respect boiled over into a simmering entanglement, and soon, long hours of drills regularly culminated in amorous clashes as fierce as any rencontre. | „ |
| ~ -The Academic |
| “ | Mm. Oh, I haven't forgotten him... | „ |
| ~ -The Duelist |
Chapter Four: A Taste of Victory
🔸Objective: Duel to your Heart's Content
🔸Unlocks Meditation
| “ | In the afterglow of their exertions, playful teasing gave rise to a contest of skill... | „ |
| ~ -The Academic |
| “ | She had done as he had trained her to do - flawlessly and without hesitation. | „ |
| ~ -The Academic |
| “ | He knew me, yet still he pushed me. | „ |
| ~ -The Duelist |
Chapter Five: The Perfection
🔸Unlocks Coup de Grace and Ruthless Instruction
| “ | As she slid her blade free of her fallen lover, the purity of her pursuit shivered through her veins. Sport was an unacceptable abstraction; the true test of skill lay in contest to the death. She whispered tender thanks to him for this final posthumous lesson, then threw his cape over her shoulder. Hers would be a life steeped in violent hazard - until she found an opponent worthy of spilling her blood. | „ |
| ~ -The Academic |
| “ | Playfights can take me no further. | „ |
| ~ -The Duelist |
Trivia[]
- The Torturer in Vestal's fourth shrine has been confirmed to be the same character as the Flagellant.
- Of the heroes, only the Leper has no true regret facing his past. As such, he's the only one who faces the light.
- There's no bright light behind the Flagellant : instead, there's only green light reflecting his cadaveric abilities.
- Only stories that don't have gameplay can have their narration replayed in their respective character screen.