


The game's opening cutscene would have us believe he sent word to you to have you take over the Hamlet before taking his own life, but this may not be the case. Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer. 'Darkest Dungeon designers really aren’t sadists: ‘We’re realists’' - VentureBeat. Ultimately, the Ancestor and his workmen uncovered what they had been searching for: in the deepest foundations beneath the Manor was a stone gateway, behind which he finally learned the truth of reality as we know it, a truth so horrible that the very knowledge of it drove him to madness and despair. Darkest Dungeon is more about the slog and the long peril and how far you can push before it’s too late. RELATED: Darkest Dungeon: Best Curio Treasures And Effects To me it always sounded like the 'impressive haul' was genuine and then he catches himself and tries to flippantly add 'if you value such things' to seem aloof. Ultimately, though, he knew the truth he sought would be found in the depths beneath the Manor, so he spent the majority of his remaining funds to bankroll an expedition, all while the Hamlet suffered and stagnated from his frivolous dealings with the unknown. 'Impressive haul, if you stifling a chuckle value such things.' 26. 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.
