The Truth

How the descent began.

Act 1 · The Bargain

A lone figure walks home through a rainy city street at night, neon signs reflected in the puddles
You were walking home.
Just one more block...
Extreme close up of wide open eyes with a white light reflected in them
...What is that light?
A blinding white flash swallows the street
A tiny pale blue soul falling through a black void
Cold... I can't feel anything. Where...
A colossal radiant hand catches the falling mote of light
Wake, little soul.
The god revealed from a low angle: wings unfurled, halo blazing, face hidden, a blue soul flame far below
Open your eyes
and look at me.
So bright...
The trembling soul flame, tiny before the god
Who are you? Where am I?
The glowing halo and the shadowed void where the god's face should be
Be calm, child. I am sorry. You died.
Died? No... I was just walking home!
A vision of a glowing realm whose roots are gnawed by a black spiral pit one hundred layers deep
Look. This is my realm. Something is devouring it from below.
That pit... it has no bottom.
Fallen champions dissolving into ash on dark stairs
Who are they?
Champions I sent into the dungeon. Every one of them fell.
The god's open palm with a new blue spark burning above it
So I offer you a bargain. A second life, a new body, and the legend of a fallen hero.
The soul faces the god, defiant
And what do you want in return?
Descend all one hundred floors. Destroy the heart of the dungeon.
The soul flame flares bright
And if I say no?
You will not. You still want the life you never lived.
Six legends stand in a row as luminous spirits
Six legends stand before you. Choose the hero you will become.
Him. The one who never yielded.
The soul fuses with the legend of Ser Aldric as armor forms from light in a burst of cyan and gold
Ser Aldric, the Unbroken Wall.
Rise, Aldric reborn.
Extreme close up of a knight's eyes igniting blue inside a dark slit of shadow
This body... I can feel its strength.
The knight steps through a glowing gate into the overgrown Verdant Ruins
Floor 1. The Verdant Ruins.
So this is the dungeon.
Wolves and goblins rush out of the ruins toward the knight
Fresh meat!
Come on, then!
A shield bash: a yellow impact star and cyan arcs as goblins fly through the air
The knight descends a broken mossy stair into a darker forest, ancient roots running downward, wolf eyes glowing in the shadows
Floor after floor, the forest grew older and darker.
Why does the ground keep going down?
Gnarlroot, a colossal dark treant with a glowing green heart, wakes above the small knight
Floor 10.
Another sapling, come to rest in my roots.
The tree... is alive?
Roots coil around the kneeling knight and drag him down, his shield cracked beside him
Rest, sapling. The forest will keep you.
It is too strong...
The radiant hand draws a rising blue mote of light up out of the dark
Should you fall, my hand will draw you back to the threshold.
I... lost?
Dawn at the dungeon gate: the knight stands again, scarred and better armed
The dungeon remembers you now. Rise, and climb again.
I remember too. This time I am ready.
Face to face again, the knight points his sword at the glowing heart in Gnarlroot's chest
You came back, sapling.
And this time I know where your heart is.
The knight drives his sword into the glowing green heart and the ancient tree bursts apart in splinters and light
On a mossy bridge, a treant soldier with a leafy club salutes the knight
Floor 14.
Hero. I salute you, as I saluted all who came before.
Who are you guarding this forest for?
Close up of the Warden's old bark face, amber eyes full of hope
For Sylvara. She went below and asked me to hold. Has she come back up?
How do I tell him she never will?
The knight stands with a torch at the rim of a vast pit where every root of the forest pours down toward a faint teal glow
Floor 18. The forest ends here.
Every root points down... toward something hungry.
Her violet eyes open in the dark above a tiny torch bearing knight, as Nyxara, a vast winged purple demon with horns, several heads and coiling tentacles, looms over him
Another of his little souls...
Who are you?
Nyxara.
Come down, little soul. I am waiting at the bottom.

End of Act 1

End the descent.

Six legends. Five are free. The dungeon is waiting.

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