Path of Exile Acts 1 - 5 | Lore Compilation

hello Exile and welcome to Noodle's first video in the lore series on Path of Exile this video covers act one let's get started Path of Exile is an action RPG that takes place on the fictional continent of Rey classed rayclast has been devastated by a massive apocalyptic event called the cataclysm that took place 300 years before you start the game to the southeast of rayquast is an island called oreath which has remained Untouched by the cataclysm in the beginning of this game you choose one of seven characters banished or exiled from oreath you are sent to rayclast by ship as punishment for your crimes in oreath by the high Templar named Dominus it is currently the year 1599 IC which stands for imperialis conceptus or conception of the Empire The Empire conceived was called The Eternal Empire and its people were called the eternals the Empire ruled from rayclast but it rules no longer now the high Templars of oreath are in power written history of Ray class dates back to 900 Bic but it is believed that long before then people and gods themselves roamed the world the high Templars rule oriath from the capital city of Theophilus and its people are the oreath the continent of reyklast has many different peoples currently living on it the asmiri the eternals the marakeheth the esomites some kurui captives and other Exiles of oriath like yourself the cataclysm has had many different devastating effects across Ray class for the past 300 years on our journey from oriath to rayclass are ship wrecks we wash up on the coast just south of a small town called lionize watch as we travel around Ray class we discover the rich history of civilizations past and present and while many terms and people I'm about to name may be unfamiliar pieces will fall into place as we continue lionize watch is an abandoned Eternal Army stronghold of marcius lion eye who defended against attacks led by kelm leader of the karui 300 years ago Marcia's lion eye was a gemling captain of the Eternal Army supported by the emperor chidis parandis a gemling is a person who has been implanted with virtue gems to give them more power we will learn more about these soon calm's attack was plotted by high Templar Vol who led the Purity Rebellion which we will learn more about later as well I know it's a lot of information trust me we will hear more about this at the time the high Templars were a religious order not rulers calm LED his karui to this South Coast on canoes the same Coast we wake up on to lay Siege to lionize watch marcius lie and I so named because he was missing an eye but had it replaced with a golden gem met The Siege with his gemling Legion after some fighting the karui turned and fled and Marcia's lion eye and his army followed assuming calm had given up it was known by many including marcius that the karui only fought with blades in melee combat as was their tradition thus when calm's melee Army fled marcius believed that was his entire force as no ranged tactics were used by the karui traditionally however the clever hearing calm's niece had noticed this tradition spoke only of men so with calm's permission she and all the kurui women trained with voll's greatest archers and when Marcia's Army gave Chase to the kurui led by calm hiri and her Beau women laid waste to them with that around 1319 I see lionize watch fell to the karooi the karooi turned lionize watch and its surroundings into the first karooi settlement on rayclast as the crew are native to the island namakanui when the cataclysm began the watch was abandoned and eventually taken over by some Exiles of oreath when our chosen Exile wakes up on the beach we must fight through Undead and monsters to find the entrance to lionize watch which is guarded by a very large Undead man the blacksmith hillock hillock was an exile himself accused of raping and killing many people including children back in oreath he has been terrorizing the area around lionize watch once we kill hillock we are let into lionize watch to meet three other oriathan Exiles Nessa Vestal and tarkly Nessa is a kind woman originally from theopolis who takes care of the Exiles in this watch Vestal the only survivor of the marigold shipwreck is an aspiring poet and targley's a former pirate and now protector of lionize Watch having proven ourselves fit and uncorrupted by slaying hillock these Exiles ask for some help with simple tasks such as fetching a medicine kit and exploring the Carnage around the watch we discover that the cataclysm has not only risen the dead in the area but also corrupted the wildlife quests have us traveling farther north to search for additional supplies or impending threats on lionize watch as we make our way further Inland on rayclast we learn through carvings what befell calm and his karui that lingered in the area when the cataclysm began 20 years after the fall of lionize watch to the karooi as mentioned the karui's home is namakanui which is an island to the south of rayquast and west of oreath the kurui have long been captured and enslaved by Ori Athens and eternals High Templar Vol asked King calm to assist in the Purity rebellion and in return the enslaved karui would be freed calm agreed and successfully overthrew lionize watch as mentioned calm and his remaining Warriors slaughtered the local Eternal citizens while creating their settlement once the cataclysm hit the dead on both sides of that battle rose up and began to attack the remaining karui near lionize watch the normal practice of the karui was to bury their dead to honor them but quote the Earth of reyklast rejects the Dead the Black Spirit of storm and dream now reaches into the ground and raises up our slain Imperial foes it leads the Fallen from their graves and drives them to fight us beyond the end rotted tooth and Jagged nail our own remembered have joined their cursed ranks now calm instructed his people to begin burning the bodies that had risen however the cataclysm also corrupts the living the local animals turned into monsters and from writings we can infer that calm himself was driven to Madness by the cataclysm kalm resumed ancient and abandoned traditions of the karui including sacrificing and consuming the Flesh of his own people kelm's Journey from Triumph to desperation to Madness are written across act 1 on the weathered carvings many of the writings about this time are from lavianja calms advisor some are from calm himself calm claimed he could hear the ancestors call to him including the karui god tukahama calm had dreams that tukahama left an offering that will save the kurui so calm LED his people North farther Inland the continent of reyklast calm brought his 500 finest Warriors all the way to Highgate into the mines under mount veruso which we will learn more about in act four as we make our way Inland up the climb we run into a kurui woman named navali navali is being held in a cage surrounded by goat men when we approached the Goatman I'll scatter or get crushed as a much larger goat man named the Fawn appears when we kill the Fawn we free navali akarui hatungo or wise woman who is actually an undead however she seems friendly and competent and tells us that she can see visions of the Future these visions of the future can be purchased from navali from this point onwards using silver coins what silver coins represent or where they come from is unknown but prophecies from navali are their only use the Axiom prison sits at the top of the climb seemingly abandoned returning to lionize watch we learned that the warden Brutus still resides in the prison and has since the Purity Rebellion Brutus was turned into a monster using thomaturgical virtue gems don't worry I will explain more about these gems but fun fact the gems we use skill and support gems are virtue gems Chevron of Umbra was a gifted thermaturgist working as a student under Malachi who we will also discuss more in a later video is defined as Miracle working but in the context of Path of Exile it refers to the practice of magic specifically related to magic and experimentation involving these powerful virtue gems following the success of calm Siege on lionize watch Malachi was concerned the karui would turn their attentions on the empire Chevron was instructed to have Brutus stop the kurui from ever reaching the Inland of reyklast Brutus as he aged had become interested in Darker Arts to preserve his life and strength Brutus agreed to keep the kurui from passing and also agreed to chevron's thamaturgy in hopes of becoming a more powerful being after an agonizing days-long experiment Chevron was successful in implanting a thermaturgical gem into Brutus but Brutus was too powerful and killed Chevron and all her aides once he awoke any remaining guards fled the prison and locked him inside it is said Brutus beat his arms to a bloody pulp trying to break free for 300 years Brutus has resided in the prison as this pharmaturgical monster as we approached the warden's quarters of the prison a woman stands above us looking through chevron's Notebook on thamaturgy that was left behind this woman is piety who we will come to know quite well in our adventures she is surprised to see an exile in the prison and leaves quickly to continue on to Inland Ray class we must defeat Brutus upon his defeat we exit the prison into an area called prisoner's gate we follow the road north and find piety again standing at the gate using her own powers of thamaturgy piety locks the gate and bars access inland we must find Our Own Way Inland exile after the Purity Rebellion Chevron had created this thermaturgical gate as a second defense against the karui traveling Inland it seems piety has thamaturgical power to rival that of Chevron from 300 years ago you will learn much more about piety in future acts but for now we know piety as a woman from oriath who works with a group called The blackguards the black guards work for the high Templars Who currently rule oriath we need to find a way past the gate and as we explore the area we find a path to the ship graveyard a gloomy Coastal landscape since Brutus has remained alive trapped in the prison we can infer calm never bothered going through the prison it seems kelm and his followers have traveled here as well as indicated by the weathered carvings likely taking this path or canoes from the coast to this ship graveyard we read a carving that tells of how calm and his 500 finest Warriors continued on while the remaining karui of the settlement led by counts nice hiri took canoes back to namakanui in this ship graveyard we run into the ghostly Captain fairgraves who is stuck on the coast with his ship until we can retrieve his all Flame their graves warns us of mervale a siren who lives in the caverns to the north and also asks us to retrieve his all flame from the slave girl who stole it from bestel we learn a bit about fairgraves himself he was a poet and a famous sailor who worked for high Templar Dominus using kurui's slave labor he traveled around Gathering documents about thamaturgy for Dominus he had been missing for the last 30 years apparently stuck right here in the ship graveyard when we returned the all flame to fairgraves he reveals that the allflame could revive fairgraves by taking life from others planning to take our life for his own jerk after a fight fairgraves disappears for now the caves to the north can take us further Inland but as Fair Graves warned they are home to mervale and her daughters this cave system is called Sirens Cove mervale is the final boss of act one and one of the saddest stories we come across mervale was a beautiful oriathan woman who traveled to Rey class to attend the fights in the Grand Arena of sarn she was spotted by the soon-to-be champion and King of Swords duresso as he fought when doressa won his title he shouted out to mervale to marry him and she accepted teresso's engagement gift to mervale was the star of reyklast a beautiful but cursed necklace the star of Ray class held a virtue gem that was implanted in the throat of a woman named Kalisa Moss an opera singer she became a prolific singer through the power of this gem to a terrifying extent a sarn poet named Victorio wrote that quote the gem at kalisa's throat sparkled with Starlight Brilliance as her C sharp shattered every pane of glass in the auditorium Kalisa died at her final Opera performance and her gem was removed and put into the star of Rey class at first she simply coveted the necklace wearing it constantly and lashing out at anyone who touched it you know clawing out the eye of a girl who touched the star of Ray Glass at a party normal behavior it had given her a beautiful singing voice but it began to change her Marvel would sneak out into the night wandering the streets coming home cold and covered in seaweed and slime her body became covered in odd lumps her skin was blotchy her teeth grew long and sharp mirvale was pregnant at the time with duresso's child and began to talk excitedly about the children she would have how they'd be as beautiful as she was becoming duresso snuck out in the middle of the night and fled to sarn to find a cure for this curse finding doresso gone mervale ran to the Sea and screamed she waited on the beach for days eating fish as her transformation continued he never returned transformed into a terrifying tentacled siren mervale crawled into nearby caverns and gave birth to her first daughter the cave systems under the continent of rayquast are immense spanning from oreath to Sirens Cove and farther east as we will discover in act six she has remained in these cave systems ever since still wearing the star of Ray clast using her siren song she lures Sailors to their death hence the ship graveyard to feed herself and her daughters given the number of Marvel's daughters it is possible she also mates with the Shipwrecked Sailors before eating them she still believes Teresa will return on one hand cursing him for leaving and not seeing her beauty on the other pining for him upon killing mervale we exit the caverns and find ourselves in the southern Forest which is the beginning of act two welcome back exile to another video in Noodle's complete lore Series this video covers act two let's get started we emerge from the caves of sirens Cove we are in the Lush Southern Forest it's a short trip to the forest encampment located at the southern tip of Lake Constance in the Friesian Forest this small gathering has four new characters grossed yina silk and aramir Roost Ina and silk are all asmary a people from the asmerian ranges to the West their culture is older than the Empire and older even than written history it was the asmirian tarkus varuso who descended from the mountain ranges to found the Eternal Empire in one eye sea groost is a warrior for the asmiri currently in the forest encampment who is protective of his people and mistrustful of foreigners silk is a hunter but also a Storyteller which Gina claims have some truth behind their embellishment silk and groost seem to be rivals yina is a compassionate woman who can speak to the spirit which gives her guidance we learn from groups that a group of orieth guards traveled through the encampment and headed east aramir is an exile like yourself he was formerly a scholar in The Great Library of oreath and his vast knowledge of asmary History has given him acceptance although tentative for some into this asmary group aramir used to work for high Templar Dominus collecting and translating documents primarily about thamaturgy from the likes of fairgraves and duresso airmir claims to regret his work for Dominus but it has given him much knowledge fun fact Zanna calls aramir Uncle as he also worked alongside valdo caesarius who is Santa's father and spoilers The shaper we make our way East to follow the black guards and find the aptly named Crossroads we follow the Path North to the Chamber of sins the ruling emperor during the Purity Rebellion chidus parandis had this thermaturgical laboratory known as the Chamber of sins built for a man named Inquisitor malaguaro malaguaro like Chevron was another student of Malachi in thamaturgy malaguaro considered himself an artist interested in studying the most extreme of human emotions the Chamber of sins was built for malaguaro to create more powerful and diverse thamaturgical tools more potent than existing virtue gems in the center of the first floor of the Chamber of sins is the reverie device which many players will recognize as a map device there is a note on the device from Malachi to Inquisitor maligaro telling him he must mentally prepare for his experimental transformation of virtue gems and to master conscious dreaming which is a cryptic hint to the use of the reverie device we make our way downstairs and enter a long chamber where we see piety running away towards us but on the other side of a large Chasm and she escapes piety challenges us to find her in the city of sarn as she leaves just ahead a woman is hiding and warns us of a thing that has slaughtered everyone here we encounter the monstrously deformed Spider-Man named fidelitas the morning please forgive my pronunciation of this name I have no idea how to pronounce it correctly fidelitas was once malagara's assistant a man named Rallo Rallo was highly devoted to malaguaro and his work and some believe raulo was in love with malaguaro Rallo allegedly offered himself as a test subject for malagoro's thematurgical experiments malaguaro took advantage of this devotion and injected ralla with calabric extantia which is the essence of a virtue gem and Rallo became this monster which malaguaro named fidelitas after Fidelity or loyalty fidelitas has been here since before the Purity Rebellion began in 1319 IC after killing him the woman steps out of hiding and introduces herself as Helena Helena was a Black Guard working for piety piety had come to the Chamber of sins seeking one of Inquisitor malagara's Creations called The baleful Gem which we have picked up after defeating fidelitus apparently piety was not aware of fidelitas's presence and the entire blackguard group besides piety and Helena were killed piety deserted Helena and escaped as we saw and now Helena swears to help us track down and stop piety the baleful gem is one of malagara's experiments on enhancing virtue gems apparently the experiment itself was a failure but Helena tells us that the baleful gem and Venom from one of malagara's arachnids can create a powerful poison called the black Elixir Inquisitor malaguaro has made the black Elixir before claiming it as the most potent poison in existence Helena returns with us to the forest encampment and tells us what piety's plans were in this area besides the baleful gem piety was looking for the instrument for injecting calibrick extensia or Essence of virtue gem which is referred to as malagara's Spike Helena's arrival stirs mixed feelings in the forest encampment most are distrustful but we have proven our power by defeating fidelitus so the members of the encampment ask us to help with other quests in exchange for helping us find piety yina has already asked us to kill a large bear called the Great White Beast if you have she will ask you to go to the fell Shrine ruins and retrieve the good man's hand aramir asks us to handle three abandons that live in camps across the Friesian Forest who are fighting for control over the area apparently each Bandit took a piece of a small pyramid that the encampment held an artifact that granted enhanced strength if we collect the three pieces we can make the small pyramid whole and Grant some peace to the encampment we learned that the overly large beasts in the area are all experiments of malaguaro including the Great White Beast and a large spider to the West named the Weaver silk tells us that he had malagara's Spike not knowing its history and that it was his favorite weapon but he lost it trying to fight the Weaver to the south of the crossroads are the fell Shrine ruins the fell Shrine ruins were once the freesia Cathedral presided over by Archbishop Joffrey Joffrey was a Templar and starkly anti-thomaturgy he was horrified that Emperor chittis had allowed malagara's laboratory a place for extreme thermaturgical experiments on beasts and people alike to be built so close to his cathedral in part due to this disgust Archbishop Joffrey plotted with the leader of the Purity Rebellion High Templar Vol to kill malaguaro and destroy the laboratory that Joffrey himself dubbed the Chamber of sins malaguaro learned of this plan when Joffrey sent men to attack the laboratory they were killed and maligaro sent his own men to kill Joffrey in his Cathedral and succeeded Archbishop Joffrey's Spirit was brought back to life by the cataclysm and remains in the ruins of the cathedral to this day at the Golden Hand Shrine where he was killed you can kill Joffrey to safely get the hand or avoid his attacks and take the hand leaving his Spirit there the three Bandits vying for power over the Friesian Forest are Creighton Oak and alira all three are oriath exiles the three were assisting a woman named Lily Roth who we will meet later in retrieving an artifact called the teardrop from the Templars in theopolis the three Bandits reside in different areas of the forest and you can either help one Bandit and receive their reward or kill all the bandits and receive aramir's reward with either choice we can collect the three parts to complete the small pyramid called the Apex that was stolen from the asmiri Creighton lives east of the crossroads on the broken bridge Oak is Northwest of the encampment in the wetlands alira is in the western forest in this Western Forest we also see the other side of the gate piety sealed in act one we can kill her lover Captain arteri to unlock this gate the small pyramid is an ancient artifact that has resided with these as Mary descendants for some time but the asmiri are not known for pyramids there is an ancient civilization come and gone that lived alongside the asmiri that are known for pyramids a civilization we will learn much about called the vowel in the western Forest we find groups of trees covered in spider webs indicating the entrance to the Weaver's Chambers where malagara's Spike was dropped we must fight our way through a maze of spiders to find and kill the Weaver a large spider that was once malaguaro's experiment we know that malaguaro's Spike was used as a tool to inject calibrick extensia but we can also use it to contain Venom from the Weaver which combined with the baleful gem makes the powerful poison black elixir up in the wetlands there is an old tunnel covered by the roots of the great tree lorata aramir says this is the oldest tree in this part of the continent which means it must die we learned that this entrance is likely to an old Val ruin Helena tells us that piety along with studying The Works of Malachi's students is greatly interested in the vowel piety Helena and the blackguards had tried to enter this area beneath lorata's roots to no avail with the black Elixir we are able to poison the roots of this great tree and enter the vowel ruins the vowel ruins are filled with sarcophagi and aramir refers to the place as a tomb the vowel civilization lasted from at least 900 Bic the recorded first contact with the asmary people until the fall of the vowel in 400 Bic piety is interested in the vowel because the vowel were a people who use thomaturgy and virtue gems which they called tears of Maji pardon pronunciation again the vowel were the first to create and use virtue gems that we know of fun fact the difference between regular skill gems and vowel skill gems is the need for sacrifice killing enemies and harvesting their souls to utilize a vowel gym while we eventually learn a lot about Val culture and its various traces found in modern Ray class the significance of these particular ruins are a mystery as we make our way through the maze-like ruins we must break an ancient seal that blocks our path forward once we release the seal the entire Forest is blanketed in darkness by releasing the seal we have awakened something when tarkus baruso founded the Empire he intentionally did so on the ruins of the vowel saying the vowel closed their eyes to flesh and stone to blood and bronze we are not Val we are asmiri for now and forever our eyes are open it is written by trinian historian of the vowel and eternal Empire and intellectus Prime during the cataclysm 300 years ago that in 5 IC shortly after the Eternal Empire was founded a Darkness overtook the lands around sarn some believed it to be a strange weather pattern described as Perpetual night Emperor kaspiro the second Emperor was found dismembered by something referred to as a dark being only five years after he began his reign in 35 IC General Alano freesia led a group into the lair of this beast in the former Realm of the vowel and sealed it away for eternity wink ending the Perpetual night it is likely that the seal we release that causes the darkness is this same seal from General freesia in 35 IC it's also possible this forest was named after friesia for his heroism in stealing this dark being so good job us for undoing that we continue past the broken seal through the Northern Forest to the caverns which sprawl underground and eventually dump out into the base of a large vowel pyramid we Ascend the levels of the pyramid ending up in the Apex where a dark altar sits the altar is missing the very top of its pyramid which is the same size as our small pyramid we restored from the bandits placing our pyramid onto the altar a rumbling begins and a large being called the vowel oversoul looms before us the altar itself seems to be the body of this strange mechanical Beast this dark being is what killed emperor kaspiro rather than stealing the dark being away once more we fight it upon defeating the vowel oversoul a feat no one before us could accomplish the darkness dissipates another rumbling is heard and a passage opens up from the top of the pyramid leading us to the outskirts of sarn welcome back exile to another video in noodles complete lore Series this video is covering Acts 3 and it is a doozy so buckle up and let's get started when we emerge from the vowel pyramid of Act 2 we find ourselves in the outskirts of the city of sarn we follow the chitus river up north getting closer to the city's Center on our way we run into a woman being held hostage by pieties black guards this is Clarissa an exile of oriath when we defeat the blackguards surrounding her Clarissa tells us that she and her boyfriend Tolman were found by piety herself and piety has taken Tolman she asks us to find Tolman for her and agrees to meet us at the encampment by the Grand Arena of sarn sarn is the first city founded in the Eternal Empire by the asmiri tarkis varuso established in one IC baruso came down from the esmerian mountain ranges through the doomlands to azala Val where Queen Ed series reigned until the fall of zaval sarin is built on these vowel ruins we saw other ruins of the vowel in Act 2 as the vowel were a powerful sprawling culture from 900 to 400 Bic Russo sealed off everything Val including the pyramid we escaped from and banned thamaturgy and those who meddled with it the city of sarn was the seat of the Empire until the Purity rebellion of 1333 IC Soren is where the final battle of the Purity Rebellion took place in 1334 IC with high Templar Vol leading his many armies against sarn and the reigning emperor chidis parandis Bowl gathered support from the karui led by calm as well as the esomites and the maracath Vol even so distrust of Emperor chidus amongst the common people of the Empire and those concerned with the use of virtue gems and thamaturgy that shitis coveted now that the high Templars are in power and the cataclysm has wrecked array classed they rule from oriath the sarn encampment is built near the ruins of the Grand Arena of sarn which stands in the middle of sarn surrounded by the Waters of the chitus river within sarn there are two temples one for the sun god Solaris and one for the moon God lunaris there is an expansive Marketplace a library and the cathedral built by Emperor chidus Clarissa is at the sarn encampment along with hargan marimoa and grigor we learned that Clarissa was once into thamaturgy herself and is known piety since before she took the name piety piety when she was known as vinya used to purchase ingredients for thamaturgy from Clarissa back in theopolis Clarissa was exiled to rayclast because her father gambled away their money and the family had to do illegal work to keep fed in fact hargen helped procure Clarissa and her family this work back in theopolis hargan is an oreath who seems knowledgeable of Black Market dealings and the underground past and present he's quite jovial but the others warn you he does not give anything without expecting something in return marimoa is a kurui but was exiled from oriath as well marimoa is a warrior but she is also extremely knowledgeable about history grigor is an esomite man who is horribly disfigured from the thamaturgical experiments piety practiced on him he was caught by General grievicius one of piety's black guards while trying to find the remains of the fabled gemling queen in the Solaris Temple provisius gave grigor to piety as his punishment Clarissa knows General gravesius as well from back on oriath where he was working for the current ruler High Templar Dominus both piety and gravesius are now on rayclast knowing that piety has Tolman we exit the sarn encampment into the slums to find them we wander past a locked entrance to the sewers and eventually find the crematorium the crematorium itself is pretty self-explanatory although it seems to have prison cells as well when we enter we can hear screams which we can presume are tolmen we find piety and her black guards around a chair which Tolman has been strapped to we attack piety but at the last minute she escapes once again Tolman has unfortunately passed and we retrieve his bracelet to return to Clarissa as proof we had found him we returned tolman's bracelet and Clarissa gives us keys to the Sewer we passed earlier which can be navigated to get deeper into the City and hopefully find piety hargan tells us if we're going through the sewers to watch out for three Platinum busts that a man named Victorio the people's poet had stolen from emperor chidus during the Purity rebellion and smuggled into the sewers fun fact one of the busts is of marcius lion eye the gemling captain defeated by calm at lionize watch Victoria was a popular poet around the time of the Purity Rebellion who wrote in support of high Templar Vol and the people he wrote his observations on the power and destruction of The Virtue gems that Emperor chittis so valued another fun fact one of his writings is about Kalisa the opera singer whose virtue gem became the star of Ray class that transformed mervale Victoria's writing stirred unease in the people about Emperor chidus and thamaturgy which helped Vol and his Purity Rebellion gain support Victorio dubbed Emperor chidus The Monkey King and we can find graffiti all around sarn condemning The Monkey King his gemlings and his shadow Victoria was also known for being a thief so many fun facts Victorio is the one who stole malagaro's initial black Elixir created from malagara's Spike and the baleful gem that we recreate to kill the tree lorata and enter the Val ruins Victorio had operated in these sewers to help the rebellion and spread descent in the sewers we pass a monstrous puckered barricade called the undying blockage which blocks the path to another area of sarn for now we continue to our only exit which leads us to the parandus marketplace the marketplace is a sprawling open-aired location overrun by the undying or Undead gemlings and living statues when Emperor chidus parandis ruled he was obsessed with thamaturgy many of the nobility of sarn and the empire were interested in having virtue gems embedded in their skin or implanted surgically like Brutus these people were called gemlings and both the Empire's Army and its civilians took place in this type of thamaturgy a material called thematic sulfite was leftover material from refining virtue gems and was used in multiple ways including as a softening agent for the statues seen in sarn when the cataclysm struck jemmling people transformed into these undying and these statues formed with thematic sulfite came to life clearly the link between the cataclysm and thamaturgy is strong the marketplace itself is as old as the city of sarn and the Empire while the marketplace isn't officially named The parandis Marketplace it was founded by the parandis family and made the family incredibly wealthy the parandis family were influential figures in the Empire even before chitus parandis became emperor in 1319 IC we traveled through this Marketplace to an area called the Battlefront in the Northeast part of sarn the Battlefront connects to the solare Temple the docks and a bridge to the ebony Barracks which has been magically blockaded by the blackguards the bridge is guarded by Captain aurelianis we kill aurelianus and take a treasure he was protecting a ribbon spool of mysterious origin while many seasoned players will skip straight to the docks at this point it makes more sense lore wise to continue on to the Solaris Temple the Solaris Temple is one of two temples in sarn which give worship to the gods Solaris and lunaris the Sun and the Moon rigor tells us that the eternals revered sun and moon as the two eyes of their God the right eye judging Solaris the left eye merciful lunaris we know that grigor was caught and experimented on by piety for trying to find the remains of a person called the gemling queen in the Solaris Temple we searched the temple and end up finding more than just remains of the gemling queen she is still alive this gemling queen is a woman named dialla we can clearly see multiple virtue gems protruding from her head and shoulders lady dialla has an interesting way of speaking that is poetic and rambling but her history is absolutely fascinating whether her odd behavior is the result of the cataclysm giving her Madness how she's always been or simply eccentricities from surviving alone for 300 years is hard to say lady dialla was one of Emperor chitta's parandise's Mistresses apparently if chitis got annoyed or tired of a mistress he would hand that mistress over to his thamaturgists dialla was given to Malachi when she lost favor Malachi the teacher of both Chevron and malaguaro embedded The Virtue gems into dialla and she became the gemling queen dialla loved Malachi and was willing to do as he asked dialla tells us that Malachi was massively influential in Judas parandise's interest in virtue gems in Victoria's poems about The Monkey King chidus the shadow of the king is referring to Malachi maybe not so fun fact during the Purity Rebellion diala killed the poet Victorio's lover Marilyn as punishment for his writings against the empire Malachi told shitis that these virtue gems could make citizens of the Eternal Empire more eternal it was with chidus's approval that Malachi was able to enlist students of dhamaturgy and have many thermaturgical experiments take place across Rey class it is shocking that dialus survived not only the Purity Rebellion but the cataclysm without turning into an undying we find out that Malachi also survived the Purity Rebellion even though he had been working so closely with the defeated emperor chitis apparently Malachi convinced High Templar Vol leader of the Purity Rebellion that he could create a device to put an end to all thamaturgy Malachi through his and his students studies had discovered the source of dharmaturgy an entity which Malachi called The Beast for over a year Malachi and dialla stayed in this Solaris Temple working on Malachi's invention called The Rapture device she tells us that Malachi convinced bull that the device needed to be taken up north to cleanse rayclass ophthalmaturgy forever Malachi diala and Vol all traveled to this location with Malachi's Rapture device where Malachi astiala to sacrifice herself to complete the rapture dialla refused and somehow Malachi's use of the Rapture device has caused the cataclysm that has devastated rayclast you will learn more details of Malachi and his Rapture device in Act 4 but for now we know dialla the gemling queen has survived by hiding out in the Solaris Temple the ribbon spool we found in the Battlefront is her device used to make the living ribbons we have seen floating around and attacking us diala refers to us as not a cockroach because she considers these black guards to be cockroaches who feed on the corpse of a dead Empire because we return this dangerous spool to dialla she tells us that we can destroy the undying blockage in the sewers with thematic sulfite if we can bring it to her the same leftover material from refining virtue gems that animates the sculptures of sarn Malachi had shipments of thematic sulfite come in via the docks on the docks we can find the Thematic sulfite in question but we also run into a familiar face Captain fairgraves it turns out that all flame didn't fully work when he tried to kill you in act one and he now exists somewhere between human and ghost still chained to his ship he would like you to help him die because once dead the allflame will resurrect him again hopefully correctly fairgraves wants you to collect the decanter spiritus and the chitus plum for his quest the decanter spiritus is an invention by none other than Malachi it is a vessel that can turn any liquid quasi-apparitional in nature as Fair grapes describes apparently Malachi was interested in something called ghost wine or at least turning regular liquids into something corporeal the chitus plum grows from a tree planted over Emperor chidus's body we learn through this Quest that on the day Bull and his supporters marched on sarn Emperor chittis was stabbed by Lord ondar mayor of sarn Emperor chidus was a jembling himself with a gem implanted above his heart book 5 of the Purity Chronicles says that chitis empowered with rage and strength from his virtue gem sliced ondar in half before he died the chittest plums are said to cause great Agony and possibly death on consumption when fairgraves mixes the chitus plums juice into the decantersphirtus he is able to drink it but for some reason the all flame has gone out and we can assume that fairgraves will not be resurrected after this final agonizing death we bring diala the Thematic sulfite from the docks and she creates infernal talc which is a substance that can destroy the undying blockage diala knows that this sewer route will lead us to the ebony Barracks which the blackguards have been barricading art fact dialla knows about the sewer systems because she was given to Malachi when she asked Emperor chittis where the town's poop went seriously we head back to the Grand Arena grigor urges us to find and kill piety as revenge for piety deforming and torturing him we know from diala and marimoa that the Black Arts and piety have been seen with General grievicius gravisius is the current High Templar dominus's right-hand man everyone would like to see General grievicius dead as well crevisius and piety are working for Dominus on Rey class for reasons still unknown but we now learn the Dominus himself is also on Rey class instead of an oreath dominance has set up a thermaturgical laboratory of his own at the top of the scepter of God formerly known as the chitus cathedral rigor tells us that Dominus gets up and down this tower via elevator afraid of the monsters inside it but that the tower itself has been locked of course there is the Eternal Labyrinth here and the lore of Ascension how chitta's parandise came to power unfortunately act 3 is already jam-packed there's no way we can squash all of that information into any of the ACT videos so I will be doing a separate video about the lab we use the infernal talc to destroy the undying blockage in the sewers and emerge in the ebony barracks on the northwest side of sarn farther west is the lunaris temple where we believe piety is hiding we see more black guards here and run into General grievicius travisia says some not so nice things to us so it's a pleasure to kill him on everyone's behalf unlike the Solaris Temple which seemed relatively untouched the lunaris temple has been desecrated by the likes of piety and other thanaturgists the first level has black guards in it but also necromancers and the evidence of thamaturgical experiments one such experiment is coal who is reminiscent of Brutus from act 1. Cole was grigor's bunk mate when captured by gravisius a rapist from oreath exiled as punishment Cole was also one of piety's experiments like grigor and his similar build to Brutus suggests piety may have learned something from her studies of chevron's texts back in the prison in act 1. as we descend to the second level the evidence of piety's thamaturgy becomes grotesque the temple is a horror scene everything is covered in blood literal pools of blood taking up the majority of the floor horror failed experiments are impaled on Spears amidst the blood pools corpses begin piling up on the floor as we make our way through this maze following the ever-growing Carnage leading to piety finally we see her follow her to the final room and begin to fight but who is piety really we have chased her around Rey class trying to stop the Havoc she's been causing piety was once named vinya and was a prostitute and thamaturgist in oriath we know she used to purchase ingredients for her thamaturgy from Clarissa since the short reign of high Templar Bowl after the success of the Purity Rebellion thalmaturgy has been outlawed in oreath the Purity rebellion was an attempt to fight the monstrosities the Empire's interest in thamaturgy had created and to purify rayquast and Oria the ruling High Templars since the Rebellion have also stood against thamaturgy and Binya was condemned to death for her crimes vinya was brought before high Templar Dominus and they shared a dinner so Dominus could hear her confession after this dinner and discussion vinya was not killed Dominus renamed her piety and became heavily interested in thamaturgy himself we ourselves have seen the power of thamaturgy in the enemies we fight and The Virtue gems we use to kill them the power of thamaturgy and its potential uses is highly persuasive piety has been ordered together gather all the information about thamaturgy she can from rayclast and bring that information to Dominus it was only after vinya became piety and inspired dominus's interest in thamaturgy that oriath criminals began being exiled to rayclast rather than killed we can speculate this was so piety had people to experiment on away from oriath to keep her experiments secret judging from the Carnage in the lunaris temple piety has been doing a lot of experimenting piety has been learning all she can in particular about Malachi and his Works henser studies of Chevron her interest in malagara's equipment and her attempts to find the gemling queen in the Solaris Temple we can now make our way towards the scepter of God where Dominus himself likely resides we now know that Dominus is behind all of piety's undertakings the Imperial Gardens lead to the scepter of God but also the sarin Library the sarin Library itself is pretty self-explanatory inside however is a ghost named siosa who is attached to a painting of himself siosa was a kurui slave who became a scholar and survived the cataclysm by having his Spirit bound to this painting he asks us to find four pages written by istius parandis who was translating valtex in the library when siosa was alive these pages are in The Archives which siosa cannot reach because he is stuck to a painting we find the hidden entrance to the archives begin Gathering these golden pages and find something interesting the first three pages are written by isseus translating valtex regarding their interests in thomaturgy in their communion with something called nightmare the fourth page is a direct note to siosa complimenting sioso's humanity and saying that his slavery will cause them to overlook you a rather cryptic message at the end of the fourth page siosa tells us that there is a note from Malachi to CS which reads my dearest isseus I have been enlightened Beyond expectation your work in translating these artifacts is worthy of the highest recompense and thus I am delighted to offer you a position in my personal laboratory please do not give your escorts any consternation I would be most pained to see such a precious asset damaged in any way Malachi Malachi kidnapped istius to use him and his knowledge for his work from what we've seen happen in the Laboratories of other thermaturgists we can imagine that istius did not meet a pleasant end while siosa was overlooked for his work in the library because of his background as a kurui slave fun fact The Scholar trinian the intellectus prime who wrote of the vowel and founding of the Empire is an undying stuck in these archives we leave siosa and the library to head to our final destination in act 3 the scepter of God but what is the scepter of God it used to be the chittest cathedral before the Purity Rebellion it is actually the site on which emperor chidus paranus was betrayed and murdered by Lord mayor odar the fact that high Templar Dominus has taken over a cathedral once dedicated to the emperor most embedded in thamaturgy is no coincidence neither piety nor Dominus actually enter the scepter of God themselves but we must enter and fight our way up the tower the scepter of God is overrun by gemling creations and creatures finally we get to the top floor and take some stairs to the roof where Dominus Waits Dominus is the current High Templar ruling oriath but he is also the person responsible for our Exile from oriath and now we know why beyond our crimes Dominus has been using Exiles as fodder for his and piety's pharmaturgical experiments the roof has been transformed into a thermaturgical laboratory like those we have seen before Dominus and piety are convinced that the use of thamaturgy can bring them closer to God and the betterment of mankind overall by experimenting on the bad Exiles they could give knowledge back to oriath this is why vinya was spared and became piety forgiving Dominus the vision of leadership through thamaturgy Dominus still sees himself as a man of religion utilizing the tools of thamaturgy rather than scorning them us Begins the fight relatively normally using powerful Magics to attack us he screams at us about the power of God such as shrink not from God or the touch of God when it seems we've killed him he shouts this world is an illusion and resurrects in a monstrous form a giant bug rising from the ground with the same mask Dominus had been wearing here we witness the true face of thamaturgy I mean God on killing High Templar Dominus diala appears to congratulate us for embracing death and generously sharing it with those that stood in our way she opens the door to the aqueduct a channel built to move water and we follow this aqueducts path to begin act four hello again Exile welcome to another video in noodles complete lore Series this video covers act four so let's begin after defeating High Templar Dominus on the roof of the scepter of God we leave sarn via the aqueducts to the north we end up in Highgate which was a mining town during the Empire's existence it sits at the base of the asmiri mountain ranges in particular Mount veruso from the beginning of the Eternal Empire the first emperor varuso has used Minds in these mountains to seal away The Virtue gems of the vowel that had been left around Rey class after the fall of the vowel in 400 Bic during Emperor chitta's parandise's Reign starting in 1319 IC the Eternal Empire used its karui esomite and Marquette slaves to mine the mountains near Highgate for these virtue gems Highgate is inhabited by the maracath the americath are a matriarchal society native to the vestiri plains to the east during the Purity Rebellion High Templar Bowl entreated the maraketh to join the Rebellion to fight the slavery of the Eternal Empire and to take down a man named General titusius who worked for Emperor chittis specifically to hold the vastiary plains from the conquered marraketh cytosis was known as the scourge of the marraketh the americath's leader at that time was second madeshret and we will discuss titusius and dashret in detail later but after the success of Bull's Purity rebellion deshret and her akara which means tribe stayed in Highgate specifically to guard these mined mountains Deseret sealed off the mines so that nothing could enter or Escape them the NPCs of Highgate are onion Kira and tasuni all marakeheth and a couple named petaris and Vanya the owl of the gemling queen has joined us from sarn oyan is the current secuma or leader of the maraketh Kira is a descendant of Deseret and a dakara meaning Warrior of the tribe tasuni is her brother a blind man who suffers from strange Visions tasuni was born blind and it is marraketh tradition to discard any weak or disfigured children much like Spartans he was left out in the visteri plains after his birth to die but somehow survived which had never previously happened thus he is allowed to live with the tribe tasuni seems to have communion with the Beast or nightmare that Malachi sought and that the vowel had written about petarus was a captain of the black guards under Dominus and piety Vanya was a witch exiled from oriath imprisoned and soon to be experimented on by piety be the Taurus let Vanya free and they escaped together to Highgate diala tells us that Malachi's Rapture device the device High templarble allowed Malachi to create to destroy thalmaturgy is within the sealed mines under mount veruso Vol Malachi and dialla all traveled to Highgate with the Rapture device and took it down into the mines to use on this entity called the beast which Malachi claimed was the source of all thamaturgy Malachi entered the lair of the Beast by himself and his communion with the Beast and its powers of nightmare was the cause of the cataclysm in 1336 I see as we've seen the cataclysm killed many caused others to go mad and reanimated the dead Vol was no exception and he turned into a bloodthirsty monstrous version of himself Oyen tells us that he still wanders around the dried lake off of Highgate the dried Lake was once a large natural lake but it has been siphoned out to the city of sarn via the aqueducts we traveled along the undead Bowl has been terrorizing the maraketh in Highgate since the cataclysm from his new home in this stride Lake Vol stands by his confession I vowed to care for this Empire with my eyes open I lied to my people I lied to myself blinded by my Lust For Purity I placed my faith in the most corrupt of men I have failed you my Empire of Purity do not forgive me but please I beg of you survive me Vol was the leader of the Purity Rebellion before the cataclysm but before he became the emperor after this Purity Rebellion he was the high Templar the high Templars are a religious order of oriath the Empire when founded by tarkus varuso believed in Banning and burying all thamaturgy past or present but Emperor chidus parandis was heavily invested in thamaturgy the high Templars believe in Purity and Vol in particular believed that Purity was the opposite of the thamaturgy rampant under the reign of emperor chidus in his time high Templar Bowl was seen as a champion of freedom and Justice he was a hero to the common folk and those oppressed by the Empire his reasons for the Purity Rebellion were Noble to save Humanity from unchecked Power political orthometergical the maracath had been terrorized by a gemling general named Hector titusius titusius's Duty was to control the bastiary plains the native land of the marraketh and keep it secured for the empire titusius was a virtue gem Enthusiast allowing Malachi to replace every joint in his body with implanted virtue gems he was particularly violent towards the maracath and so Vol promised to help the maraketh led by sakama deshret take down titusius Vol and his operatives discovered Imperial spies within the americath and gave them false information about America's Uprising knowing the info would get back to titusius titusius LED his Legion to the false location where Deseret and her akara were waiting the marakeheth were able to track the dust storms of the vastiary plain and they planned a day in which this location would be hit by a fierce storm deshret and her akara used the cover of the dust storm to their advantage as they killed titusius's entire gemling Legion it is said that Deseret skinned titusius and used his skin as heroa saddle thus High Templar bull helped the Americas defeat their main Foe and reclaim their homelands and in return deshra and americath helped full succeed in his Purity Rebellion against chitus and the empire after the cataclysm many people in Rey class were killed turned or brought back to life deshret had seen many of these monstrosities and she was aware that the source of the devastation came from within the minds under Highgate she sealed the mines and commanded her akara to remain to guard them both himself ended up as an undead monster after a squirting Malachi and the Rapture device to the minds of Mount veruso the undead vole wandered to the dried Lake violent and crazed and killed deshret himself desperate carried a banner with her which was the key to opening the sealed off mines because of Bull's terrible power the rest of her akara have stayed away from the dried Lake it's sad to think that the leader of the Purity rebellion was turned into a thymaturgical nightmare himself and killed an ally he'd worked with so closely to open the minds we must go to the dried Lake and kill the undead High Templar vole he drops deshred's Banner which will allow us to open the mines in act 1 we learned that after the cataclysm count began having visions he believed were from tukohama to lead his people to an offering that will save the kurui he led 500 of his greatest warriors North into reyklast and the final destination of the group was in the mines below Mount baruso deshret witnessed Cowman as karui disappear into the mines some years before she sealed them tasuni is able to hear the Beast and we know from dialla that Malachi's destination with the Rapture device was inside the mines but to Sunni claims that he also hears the spirit of deshra herself deep within the minds we opened the seal with deshred's banner and begin our descent into Mount veruso the minds are littered with terrifying creatures monsters of melded Flesh likely mutated from the thamaturgical waste and tears of Maji AKA virtue gems buried Within there are three levels of the minds upon entering the mines the entire system shakes seemingly in anticipation of our arrival on the second level we are able to find the spirit of deshret even though deshret did not physically die in the mines somehow her spirit had been trapped down in the mines since her death we free her from the grasp of a ghostly hand and continue into the minds the third level is called the crystal mines and we can see this is where many of The Virtue gems were likely stored or perhaps just what's left after Emperor chidus sent his karui mariketh and azomite slaves to mine for gems in here at the end of these crystal mines we find dialla waiting for us standing next to the Rapture device and to portals the two portals next to diella are called calms dream and duresso stream and diala tells us that Malachi lured both the spirits of calm and duresso here for his own purposes the voice that called to calm under the guise of tukahama was actually Malachi using the beast's power of nightmare calm and duresso's Spirits are now both trapped here each eternally reliving the peak of emotions for calm it is Fury and for duresso it is desire calm's dream takes us to our first map like instance it is a recreation of the path which count took his 500 best warriors on in search of tukahama's offering for the kurui tukohama is the warrior god of the karui legend has it that the kurui were peaceful Farmers before tukahama put Stone axes in their hands and the hunger for Conquest in their bellies calm calls himself a son of tukohama and has extreme reverence for the traditions and gods of his karui ancestry as we travel farther on the path count took we read on carvings that count believed his warriors were crushing the Servants of kitaba the karui god of hunger and took pride that he let not one of his 500 fall as they traveled but when calm reached what he believed was tukahama it asked him to kill his 500 Warriors as a sacrifice and calm did so willingly we crushed the Servants of kitaba beneath our heels as we marched across the land I allowed not one of my 500 to fall we descended Into the Heart of rayquast and there he came to me to kahama he asked of me a sacrifice I gave it willingly my ax fell 500 times the Jade drinking its fill of kurui blood tukahama was pleased this Pinnacle of calms Fury is what calm's dream represents when we reach calm and kill him we receive the eye of Fury and bring it back to dialla the second portal takes us to duresso's dream which is a Reincarnation of the Grand Arena of sarn where duresso fought when he was alive unlike calm it is unclear whether duresso physically entered the minds but as we've seen with destret one does not have to physically die in the mines to have their Spirit trapped here by Nightmare duresso's dream shows us his desires from a young age to become the greatest Gladiator in the Empire but it also Chronicles the story of how he met mervale we killed mervale in Act One a woman transformed into a monstrous and crazed siren by a necklace called the star of reyklast this necklace was a gift from doresso and he left Marvel in the middle of the night to find a cure for her transformation we know duresso never successfully found a cure but now it seems duresso's Spirit was captured by Nightmare and forced to relive this desire for Glory and his wife forever when we slay duresso we received the eye of desire and bring it back to dialla after we've brought dialla both the eye of Fury and of Desire she tells us we shall be able to activate Malachi's Rapture device when Malachi first used the Rapture device to find the Beast he asked dialla to sacrifice herself to power the device whether or not this was actually necessary is not yet clear either way dialla now willingly gives herself to the Rapture device to blow open an entrance into the core of the Beast when the device activates the gems embedded in diala across her head and body are ripped from her to power the machine before us stands a shriveled husk of a woman looking how we might expect a 300 year old woman to appear dialla ushers us onward into what is called the belly of the Beast this Belly of the Beast is a path of literal entrails where the Beast begins and ends it is hard to say but it seems we have literally entered the insides of this Beast the nightmare that Malachi resides in and piety sought as we travel through the intestines we end up finding an old friend reborn under the influence of nightmare piety who we killed in act 3 has been found and resurrected as a nightmare version of herself and stands before us in the belly of the Beast after seeking The Works of Malachi and his students for so long now Malachi and the Beast have sought out the spirit of piety piety has become similar to one of the experiments she performed on so many Exiles of oriath she has been horribly mutated but when we fight and kill her she returns to her previous and familiar form Heidi tells us that Malachi students Chevron malaguaro and a witch named we're the ones to transform her piety after being the victim of the type of experiments she herself performed is now wanting to take down Malachi while she reveres the power of the Beast she sees now that Malachi's vision is Warped she tells us that she does not regret what she sought to do only how she did it and she says prior to meeting malaguaro Chevron and duedre I rather admired them their work their accomplishments sheer Genius as it turns out genius is something better appreciated from afar deseret's Spirit was also a puppet of Malachi's students tortured continuously by them but never succumbing to their torture hence remaining as a spirit rather than a monstrous Recreation we follow piety into the Harvest getting close to the core of the Beast there are writings left by Malachi and through them we find out Malachi had never wanted or needed dialla to sacrifice herself for the Rapture device to work Malachi planned to enter the Beast and control it on his own and he wanted diala to leave and escape the cataclysm he knew would happen so he lied to Vol and diala about his true intentions with the Rapture device all of Malachi's work was leading to his entering and controlling the Beast the nightmare the source of thamaturgy in the world piety Waits For Us by the entrance to the Black core where Malachi resides apparently Malachi has resurrected his three students to guard three of his organs these organs are what keep Malachi tied to mortality rather than being completely absorbed by the Beast even though Vol killed and burned malaguaro and duedre after the Purity Rebel alien and Chevron was killed by Brutus Malachi was able to resurrect them for his purposes we have already seen the works of maligaro and Chevron but there is the third student we haven't yet encountered named duedre duedre dark tongue was a spellcaster and student of the Inquisitor malaguaro malaguaro himself removed duedre's tongue giving her the nickname dark tongue may be the most sick and depraved of Malachi's students she was interested in taking people apart to find the wonders of the universe and used her own body for thermaturgical experiments duedre was a fan of curses and transmogrification as we can see from our battle with her for Malachi's lungs in which she appears as a horrifying bloated apparition we kill Chevron and malagara for the remaining organs bring them to piety to open up the Black core and face Malachi Malachi is the inspiration for piety's Pursuits and the dire state of reyklast is due to the cataclysm Malachi caused during Emperor chidus paranus's Reign Malachi was an ambitious thamaturgist he studied the works of the ancient vowel alongside isseus parandis whose writings we recovered perciosa in the sarin library in these writings isseus translated texts from doriani of the vowel who spoke of the Beast Malachi now resides Within Malachi was smart and manipulative and his rediscovery of ancient knowledge and Technology previously buried and forgotten swayed chitis parandis to the powers of thamaturgy it was Malachi who began the trend of implanting virtue gems into people which spawned the gemling legion Malachi convinced emperor chitis that not only would virtue gems make his army and citizens most powerful and most eternal but that his Creations would be ultra loyal to chitis that the heart of each Soldier beats in time with the heart of his emperor if the emperor wishes that beat to stop it stops and this was true for Malachi had implanted above chidus's heart a virtue gem that would connect him to all of his gemling Legion this is why the majority of gemlings turned into the undying when Emperor chittis was slain in 1334 during the Purity Rebellion according to Malachi's own journals the first time Malachi came in physical contact with the virtue gem he began to have dreams where he spoke with the Beast he called These Dreams lessons cloaked in Nightmare and says these dreams are the source of all his ideas for thematurgical experiments the Beast has been given many names throughout history including Beast Nightmare and darkness according to tusuni Malachi is the one who knew the beast's true name and understood its impenetrable nature Malachi's ultimate Pursuit was to control the Beast because it is the source of balthamaturgy in act 3 grigor tells us when piety was experimenting on me I met a presence intelligence power immensity beyond the limits of my pitiable mortal senses I heard piety speak to her lackeys of the Beast it is the source of her thomaturgy and the object of her Ambitions I believe piety's beast and that dark entity are one and the same it would not be a stretch of reason to consider the Beast the source of all malformation in Rey class a secondary Pursuit was to create the perfect gemling which is where diala comes in since Malachi was the only one to understand the Beast and know it was the source of thamaturgy he was able to convince full and trick diala into believing that Malachi could and would kill the Beast to end pharmaturgy Malachi wants to remake the world in the image of nightmare Malachi with the beast's power is able to influence the outside world and has since the cataclysm we enter the Black core of the Beast with piety who transforms multiple times between her original Self and Malachi's nightmare version of her under his control eventually she is killed and we follow Malachi Into the Heart of the Beast itself once we slay Malachi it seems we have slain the Beast as well such as their connection at this point perhaps Malachi sought immortality but his decision to keep his organs a Sentimental mistake allows us to kill him and the Beast that has so long influenced the world with its power of nightmare he returned to Highgate where we are congratulated by most on our bravery for killing the Beast that caused the cataclysm everyone but to SUNY while tasuni tells us of a path to oriath that is opened on the Mountaintop he seems less than enthused at the death of the Beast with this foreboding in mind we make our way to a portal to oriath welcome back exile to another video in noodles complete lore Series this video covers act 5 and our return to oriath let's get started at the end of Act 4 we travel to the top of Mount veruso and find a large device called the resonator that activates a portal to Oria this device was left by Dominus and is how piety and Dominus were able to travel between rayclast and oreath without raising suspicion we enter the portal and end up in the slave pens of Theophilus capital city of Oria as we heard from marimoa in sarn and the maracath of Highgate oriyath has continued the Empire's tradition of enslaving the karui marakeheth and azomites oryath's slave enforcers attack us as we make our way through the pens but we also see slaves who are friendly and also fighting these enemies all across the ground you can see corpses and greats were hands desperately reach out to escape a slave rebellion has begun we fight our way through the pens until we come across overseer Crow when we kill him a ladder is lowered from above allowing us to escape the rebellion in the pens to the overseers Tower the overseers tower was once run by the oreath who controlled and sold the slaves below but it is now the Refuge of a strange mixed group of survivors of the Rebellion hiding in the tower are utula Lani and Valenta utula is a kurui who has been a slave in oriath he started the slave rebellion we just fought through in the name of the kurui God kitaba who utula calls the tormented one the Tula says Catawba The Immortal slave understands our plight like no other in regards to the slaves he has rallied into Rebellion Lani is a half kurui half-oriath woman she was raised as an oreath and not a kurui slave but in this Rebellion she sided with the karui slaves and fought two overseers herself which left her mortally wounded Lonnie credits Valenta with saving her life Valenta is an oriath woman who specializes in medicine she was actually experimenting on the kurui slaves before the Rebellion but when she saved Lonnie's life Lani insisted that Valenta be allowed to live Valenta and piety worked for Dominus together and Valenta says piety and I have devoted ourselves to the betterment of the human condition as for our methods piety had a saying that summed it up nicely would you consider the feelings of the stones when constructing a glorious cathedral in the name of God when piety left for Rey class Valenta was Furious as Valenta felt she had devoted her life and her work to piety's Vision she created a tool called the miasmeter which she used to keep an eye on rayclast particularly piety Valenta tells us that through this instrument she heard the Beast scream as it died and she knows it was our doing Valenta had to leave the miasmineer behind during the slave rebellion and she wants us to retrieve it Lonnie wants us to find and kill just a car castacus the man who supplied karui slaves to Valenta for her experiments we leave the tower to the control blocks which is where Valenta used to experiment on on slaves we travel through this Maze of a slave pen and find valenta's miasmeter and also run into just carcasticus who Valenta used to work alongside just a car casticus is a member of the Templars which high Templar Dominus used to lead we killed just a car casticus and make our way out of the control blocks into the large open area of the oriath square center theopolis this Square connects to every major area of Theophilus these areas include the Templar courts the cathedral the ossuary and the reliquary the Templars have been their own power in oreath since before the Purity Rebellion but the founding of oriath itself is unclear A Man Named Templar devaro a contemporary under high Templar Dominus studied artifacts brought from Ray class to oriath about the vowel through his research there is evidence that the vowel were on oreath as well for now oreath was Untouched by the cataclysm that plagued rayclast but there has clearly been unrest the death of high Templar Dominus seems to be a partial Catalyst for this change but something else seems to be motivating this Rebellion the Templar courts and the Chamber of Innocents are the center stronghold for the Templars the Templars are a religious order and as we make our way through the courts to the inner Chambers we learn about their God innocence innocence is an ancient god and in the chamber of Innocence we read his Origins on the ornate stained glass innocence and sin are brother Gods from the mother of two the story says that innocence listened to their mother and was rewarded for his virtuous nature sin stole and lied and so innocence told the mother that sin was beyond Rule and Redemption and sin was burned to Ash mankind breathed in the ash of sin and sin took root in the bodies of men and women and children innocence swore to burn all traces of sin in the world no matter where the ashes of sin fell his purifying Flames would rise to meet them the Templar order started when innocence created a weapon called the staff of Purity and bestowed it to the first High Templar named Maximus this weapon was part of Innocence himself and thus imbued with his Essence the Templars have worshiped innocence and the idea of purifying mankind of sin ever since their Inception both High Templar bowl and high Templar Dominus held the same seat yet they had very different standards of Purity Vol as we saw in his Purity Rebellion believed all thamaturgy was evil and planned to destroy the root of it Dominus saw thamaturgy as a way to become more powerful to give himself and his followers the touch of God at the end of the Chamber of Innocence we meet the newly appointed High Templar avarius Betula tells us with Dominus away in reyklast someone had to keep the wheels of Oppression turning avarius was only too happy to take the job it was avarius who led some of the largest and most crippling raids upon the namakanui it was on his orders that men women and children were Shackled and shipped like cattle to theopolis and it was a various who spent 5 000 kurui lives building his Templar courts and his chamber of Innocence who had wives and daughters scrub their husbands and Father's blood from the stones so as to preserve their purity we fight High Templar avarius who seems fanatic when he falls something similar to dominus's transformation happens only this time avarius does not turn into a vision of nightmare he becomes a god innocence while utula and Valenta have hinted at this as we progress through oreath it is now clear somehow gods of old roam free this is the true cause of panic and Uprising in oriath when atula says that he is a follower of kitava he does not simply refer to the lessons of this old God he has communion with the real kitaba and naturally innocence when reborn goes to the Templars that worship Him innocence chose High Templar avarius and took over his body fighting innocence is significantly more challenging than fighting avarius but upon his defeat the aforementioned brother of Innocence the god sin appears we can now assume all gods in the lore of Ray class in oreath might be real unlike the templar's writings about Sin it seems that sin is actually concerned for the well-being of mankind sin informs us that killing the Beast has awoken all the old gods how does sin know this because sin is the creator of the Beast sin created the Beast specifically to keep the gods at Bay in a deep Slumber the nightmare this nightmare was powerful enough to keep all the gods asleep but it also drew the attention of many power-seeking Mortals throughout Rey class history and here we thought we were saving the world by killing the Beast or maybe Valenta was right and we had no benevolent intentions in slaying the Beast perhaps we are just killers and opportunists ourselves sin wants to see the gods of old subdued once more and since we were able to slay Malachi and the Beast sin tasks us with this with Promises of more power after we defeat innocence and meet sin we emerge from the Chamber of Innocence to find a man named Bannon demanding we explain ourselves Bannon was a former Black Guard as the ebony Legion we have seen on reyklast originates in oriath under the high Templars when we re-enter the Templar courts everything is now on fire the destruction of Innocence has allowed the other God present in oriath to take over he has marked himself all over the Templar courts with a red X and his cultists run amok this is kitava the kurui god that utula had mentioned earlier and that calm himself feared when we return to the overseers tower Bannon is waiting for us but utula is missing Lani informs us that utula left as soon as innocence was vanquished claiming he was called by kitaba Valenta tells us innocence's staff of Purity is a real weapon we can find in the ossuary and that we should use it to defeat Catawba Lonnie knows of ancient karui artifacts in the reliquary a place where holy relics are kept and she believes we may learn more about kitava there the oriath square is in Ruins as well covered in the blood and fervor of kitapa's cultists we must Traverse this ruined Square to find the information and tools suggested to defeat kitaba when we enter the square we can hear utula shouting to the followers of kitaba yelling what seems like a sermon fun fact utula has his sermon of kitava written down by Irwin of theopolis into the holy book of hunger clearly in the style of religious texts even calling himself high priest utula otula has been transformed by kitaba into itula stone and steel we defeat this monstrous vision abutula and continue on to the reliquary the reliquary is a place where ancient and holy relics are kept and here we can find three relics of the kurui Gods As We Gather the karui artifacts for Lani we find writings about kitaba himself the three entries chronicled the story of kitaba and tukahama to summarize aruhungai daughter of the Moon wanted to have a feast for tukahama returning from war with the first ones of the esomites tawa son of the forest gathered Birds to be cooked for the feast kitava the god of hunger told aruhangai he would watch the birds as they cooked but instead he ate all of them when tukahama arrived arohangai told what happened and asked for kitaba to be punished tsukahama pulled out his tooth one of the artifacts we find and cut kitaba across the face in two diagonal Strokes blinding him and marking him with a large x which we've seen symbolized in the Templar courts and spoilers we will see face to face later to replace the birds cutava 8 tukahama and volaco father of the storm go fishing with kitava in the boat kitava eats all the bait for the fish falako takes off his own jaw the second kurui artifact and hooks kitava intending to use him as bait for the fish instead at the bottom of the sea kitava eats all of the fish when tukahama and volaco pull him up they decide kitaba needs ultimate punishment they take kitaba to hinakora the mother of death they ask hinakora to kill kitaba so that he does not starve the rest of the karui inakora decides death is not the correct punishment as a lesson needs to be learned hinakora beats kitaba with a Whip made of her own hair the third karui artifact she drives him to the underworld with her hair whip and leaves him to suffer without food or water for eternity and that is where kitaba had remained starving and tormented that is until we killed the Beast and set the gods free while this may seem like a fable intended to teach Mortals a lesson we can assume at least some of the tale is literal the artifacts are real and as we've seen so is kitaba ostuary is a place where the bones of dead oreath are placed as we make our way through the Maze of Bones we find in the staff of Purity with knowledge of kitaba and the staff of Purity we make off for the cathedral to face kitava kitapa is on the roof of the theopolis cathedral kitaba is a primal God like sin or innocence unlike The Mortals who became Gods he is the god of hunger his punishment by the other kurui gods has inflamed his desire to consume when Malachi spoke to calm through nightmare he told kelm that the world was infested with kitaba's followers and that tukahama would give caban offering to free his karui from oppression Haku akarui believes that kalm's Vision to lead his karui to mount verusa was actually kitaba's corruption bringing him to Madness and turning calm into one of kitaba's slaves like utula while calm's Vision may have actually been a dream from nightmare with a kurui interpretation rather than kitaba's direct influence it seems kitaba can truly corrupt and consume everything around him kitaba's massive size and power seem an imminent threat to oriath just like the Beast before we will attempt to defeat something that has been undefeated for centuries we take innocence's staff of Purity and plant it like a banner to Aid Us in this fight kitaba is insanely powerful and halfway through the battle the staff of Purity is broken and so are we we fall to the ground and sin flies down to gather us before we are consumed by kitava sin carries us to the oriath docks where a woman named Lily Roth offers to sail us back to rayclast foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 89min 49sec (5389 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 22 2023