He committed ritual human sacrifices, struck bargains with mysterious beings from the depths of the ocean, and created alchemic abominations of twisted flesh.
The Ancestor began to experiment with all manners of arcane horrors in an effort to learn more about the world beyond our own. Without thinking, the Ancestor drank a single drop of the wine himself and experienced a vision of terror coming from deep beneath the Earth. In a way, he was right they devolved into an animalistic frenzy of violent murder, all while mutating into horrific monsters. In a bout of sadistic curiosity, he invited the nobles to a banquet and had them taste the wine, assuming it would poison them. Taking the Countess to the Manor's wine cellar, he drained her blood and used it to create a tainted batch of wine. After discovering her true nature in the light of the moon and striking her down, he felt a dark urge. This began to change when the Ancestor received his first brush with the supernatural in the form of the vampiric Countess. Unfortunately, these dalliances were less out of any particular affinity for the people and more out of a desire to be literally anywhere except amongst his irritating court nobles. Thanks to the immense wealth the Ancestor inherited from his family line, it was prosperous and well-defended with a private army, with its citizenry generally fond of the Ancestor thanks to his regular appearances in town. At an indeterminate point in the past, the Hamlet was actually a halfway decent place to live. Your Ancestor was the master of the manor and lord of the Hamlet long before you were.
We will, as you've likely guessed, be getting into some major story spoilers for Darkest Dungeon here, so if you haven't finished the game yet, go do that first, then come back.
Through these anecdotes, along with a bit of educated guessing, we will attempt to dissect the truth of the Darkest Dungeon itself. Much of Darkest Dungeon's deeper lore is revealed to you through the Ancestor's narration and memoirs. RELATED: Darkest Dungeon: Best Narrator Quotes, Ranked unsettling revelations, not just about the horrors you battle and the Hamlet you own, but about the very nature of the world itself.
However, when you finally reach the deepest, most terrible depths of the eponymous Darkest Dungeon, you become privy to a series of rather. Throughout Darkest Dungeon, your actions, triumphs, and of course, failures, are accompanied by the narration of your Ancestor, urging you onward into the depths while reminding you to keep your expectations in check.
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