Did anyone else think when Dominus said:

It was a Lovecraftian reference, Dominus has been worshiping some really funky otherworldly Gods... :S

I still believe that "This world is an illusion" is a reference to Desync

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Jillian a écrit :

"This world is an illusion, Exile." he was referring to the fact the Exile is doomed to repeat themselves in the next difficulty (e.g. Roland from The Dark Tower) and not the fact that he was about to turn into a giant demon?

Did you really just spoil the end of a 7 books long story?!

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Gorinnosho a écrit :

As you kill one of mervails daughters as a scion she notes that it spoke to her before dying and was a little girl trapped inside a monster. the scion constantly makes references that amount to the world being something other than what it appears.

so we are killing children dressed up as monsters? what a sick fuck designed a game like this?!

If you kill Amarissa, Daughter of Merveil you cand hear a Child's cry

Merveil's story is another IMO rather poorly implemented example of GGG lore. Her full backstory is given rather nicely on the following link:

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Merveil,_the_Siren

Basically she was corrupted by a ancient amulet that turned her into what she is today. The story given on the wiki says that in her final mutation stages she gave birth to her fiances (Daresso) child she was waiting and it was also corrupted. My guess is that Amarissa is the original child (since she, like Merveil, started out as human). Like the Scion said "a child trapped in a monsters body". The other squids we see are the result of countless generations of incest that have any traces of their human roots purged out and are now complete monsters.

I do wonder however if the amulet was Vaal in origin (Daresso, the fiance, found it in the jungle) or does it like Dominus's famous line hint to something more Lovecraftian in nature. The amulet after all is clearly designed to corrupt the subject into a twisted form of sealife.

he meant he was gonna turn into that big scorpion

I dont get how this game made merlin into a giant octopus tho lol

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Androme a écrit :

Lore is usually (99% of the time) the thing I enjoy the most in any game, but when it comes to Path of Exile I really feel like GGG has done a bad job of presenting the lore in a clear manner, I simply don't understand what's going on.

What I understand is that the Exile (the player character) is for some reason exiled from Theopolis(?), but what is Piety, Dominus and the other people (Templars?) doing in Wraelcrast? Can someone explain lol.

From what I understand, the various exiles were so treated due to various "crimes" commited, while Piety uses wraeclast as an experimental labratory while seeking greater thaumaturgical power. Dominus however is interested in the left over powers of the Eternal Empire as well as the VAAL. Both of them are doing things forbidden in Oriath that would result in worse than just exile.

And those experiments they're doing, or the power they're searching for, is for the worse of the inhabitants of Wraelcrast, which is the motivation for our player character to go after them? Okay, got it.

When you are on the character selection screen, you can both read and hear the "crimes" most of the Exiles commited to be exiled.

The Scion refers at some point (don't remember exactly when) to "the night she used her unholy gift (powers) to end her mariage". We also know she is from a noble family and seems to be quite familiar with both Dominus and Piety. To me looks like she was forced into mariage with someone she disliked that, like her, was from the spheres of nobility and power of Theopolis on Oriath, who probably Dominus knew (even if he wasn't someone Dominus cared about).

And for the reason why Dominus exiles (instead of killing) the "criminals" seems to be because they need sacrifices/corpses/test-subjects/etc on Wraeclast, as you can certainly see in the game, specially near the end of Act 3 (Lunaris and Scepter of God specially).

And for Dominus sentence "This world is an ilusion, Exile", I asume it means just what it means.
"This world" (theirs) "is an ilusion". Even if that is not truth, thats what Dominus thinks, as if the whole world was just the dream of God (for example) or something else that could explain the world being an ilusion. Whatever the case, love the sentence.

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skinnay a écrit :

He was referring to the fact that everything is an illusion even in real life. Even the word illusion is an illusion. Every word is an illusion. The environments around all of us are illusions.

(hi jill)

Whoooooaaaa.... pass me some of that



I'm hungry