The world is a wasteland of failures past, and you must ride out into it, unafraid. The earth spins on a strange and terrifying new axis and everywhere. My protégé - my friend - our calculations were correct: the ephemeral equation is unbalanced. The time has come to face your failures, or be consumed by them. It calls out if your brave enough to believe, that you are not a prisoner of your past, that the fractured bones of this world can be mended, that a fragile flame long guttered by sour winds can blaze radiant once again. Beneath its bluster, deep within the debris of its crushing collapse, there lies a noble road. I watched its venom spread through the veins of the world, and I trembled at its terrible reverberations. I glimpsed it lurking at the ragged edges of your mind. Look instead to those battered souls who have known fear and failure in ample portion, but rise again to reclaim a glimmer of hope from the spreading stain of the Darkest Dungeon. The gutters brim with poets, and decency lies burning in the street.

In the howling darkness of the end - men will become monsters, but hope will ride those courageous enough to carry. He will comment on a grand variety of events and parts of the game including the opening cinematic, critical hits, bosses, and various interactions throughout the game. The Narrator reacts differently to many events and actions of the player.

Later, as the world teetered on the brink of oblivion and madness overwhelmed all, the Academic tracked down the player ,kicked them out of their complacency, and charged them with taking The Flame to The Mountain to stop the source of the evil The player left and secluded themselves at their home in The Valley, but the Academic continued his research. Together, they studied the metaphysical structure of the world and learned a horrifying truth. In peaceful years long past, the Academic met the player at the University in The Sprawl. 2.13.30 Winning a Battle, but losing an Ally.2.11.12 Oblivions Ingress/Cultist Encounter.2.11.5 The Desperate Few/Assistance Encounter.

Darkest dungeon narrator dialogue