The Lore & Story of Darkwood

released in 2018 by acid wizard Studios Darkwood is a survival horror game that follows an unnamed man as he tries to escape the aonomus forest as he does his best to survive in the desolate environments and against the terrifying monsters he comes across lore items and has conversations with NPCs that unveil the background of the world revealing things like where the Darkwood came from what led to the creation of all the creatures that live in it and how the people in the forest have lived here for so long however in order to see all these

details of the game's story players are required to play through it at least twice as depending on their choices certain quest lines events and even lore items aren't available for them to see this is before considering all the time it takes to fully explore the game to see everything and then put it all together afterwards well in an effort to see the lore of the game along with the many different paths the protagonist can take in his journey let's go ahead and go through the information of the game and present it here so we can

see the full story of Darkwood obviously spoilers are ahead so if you don't want to be spoiled then you know don't watch this in fact I'd recommend you play through the game first as the story experience as offered by the game is going to be better than just listening to me narrate over everything because that's the way the creators originally intended it to be experienced all right with that out of the way let's get started it all started in the year 1975 in a rural forested area somewhere where in the countryside of Poland here the

people of the land lived out ordinary lives they farmed the land they reared livestock and they raised their families although it wasn't luxurious living and there were plenty of times that people would quarrel with each other for the most part it was rather peaceful and no matter how much people seem to despise each other they would always band together to get through tough times but that all changed when in August of 1975 a meteor stre across the sky and crashed in the forest near their villages while this was indeed a notable event no one had

any idea how much change it would Usher in in the Years following the impact the area surrounding the crater began to undergo changes it started with oddl looking mushrooms that began to sprout up everywhere in the woods taking over the other Flora then the trees began to grow at an exponential rate expanding the borders of the forest and making it incredibly thick it wasn't just a plant life that was changing rashes and growths appeared on the skin of the people that lived in the forest along with their livestock a manifestation of a strange new plague

striking the area upon hearing the news of what was happening the government of the country came in and began to research the forest an area that came to be known as the Darkwood to try and understand this phenomenon they soon found that as the forest was expanding it was growing in a recognizable honeycomb pattern with cells ranging from a few dozen to a few hundred square km across as they monitored the growth of the woods they noticed that the larger cells were often dividing into the smaller ones making it seem likely that eventually the whole

of the Darkwood would be made up of these smaller cells the walls of these cells made up of the Tangled mass of trees were remarkably consistent throughout the honeycomb always being about 50 m thick while the consistency was notable it was the density of those trees that was especially significant at po there were 10 cm between the trunks meaning Passage through them was difficult if not outright impossible getting through the trees was made even more Impossible by their uncanny ability to quickly heal Damage Done to them making efforts to chop through them pointless this incredible

healing ability seemed to be triggered by a white gooey substance that oozed from the tree at the point it was damaged when this substance was analyzed the researchers found that the trees that leaked it trees at all but replicas of them apparently the white substance was some sort of shape-shifting material that would copy things it came in contact with the prevalence of these replicated trees in the Darkwood was so great that some researchers estimated they made up 85% of it further investigations discovered that the white substance was being pumped through the forest through huge braids

of roots that ran under the whole thing roots that all pointed back to the sight of the meteor impact from 1975 evidently whatever was happening in the forest was linked to that impact event as the researchers learned about the nature of the Trees of the Darkwood they also studied the unique plague that was afflicting the local populace as the disease progressed the growth would continue to spread over the body of the patient as a result it was common for their physical features to become twisted and warped which gave them disturbing visages patients also began to

experience Vivid auditory and visual hallus inations the most common being a voice that called to them telling them to go deeper into the forest the voice was always someone close to the patient making its alluring call all the more enticing to them people that couldn't resist the call and dove into the woods to chase after it were quite often never seen again however occasionally there were times when someone that had been lost to the Darkwood would be seen amongst the trees but it was evident from their appearance and behavior that they were not who they

wanted were they had removed their clothes covered themselves in mud and given themselves unsettling horns made of bundles of sticks they built strange shrines or carved weird symbols on the ground of the woods and revered them as if they were trying to please some sort of God or entity and if people got too close to them they became aggressive attacking their perceived interloper with makeshift weapons whether their transformation was some sort of biological effect on the brain from the plague or a mental breakdown triggered triggered by the stresses of living in the wild and being

tormented by the voice was never clear but what was clear was that these people were no longer the Civilized folk they had once been they were now Savages of the wood and were a big danger to the government and the local populace however not everyone infected with the plague devolved into one of these Savages some people resisted the call of the wood and stayed in their homes and Villages but no matter if they kept their senses or became a Savage the eventual fate of someone infected by the plague was incredibly horrific as the growths continued

to spread and the patients bodies were further mutated they began to suffer from painful aches particularly of the head eventually this pain became so debilitating that the person was rendered immobile from it and would lie in misery until they waste it away but there was something else that could happen to them too once they reached this late stage of infection weird lacerations would appear down the vertical midline of their body beginning at the top of their head if once these manifested the infected person received a sufficient bit of stimuli their lacerations would rupture and the

person would split in half long this laceration they wouldn't die though instead the split in their body became a toothy Maul and they would viciously attack anybody nearby trying to rip them to shreds with their monstrous teeth these Chompers as they became known as were Relentless in their pursuit of their prey chasing them down even after sustaining damage that would kill anything else in the world once it appeared there were only two ways to deal with a chomer one was by putting enough distance or obstacles between it and yourself to escape or to attack it

until it finally died despite the efforts of local doctors to manage this plague including but not limited to separating the sick and healthy nothing they ever did worked meaning anybody infected by it was doomed to either disappear into the woods become a Savage become a chomper or die from the disease when these efforts failed the government stepped in and took some drastic steps to try and quell the infection by burning down villages and euthanizing the infected that tried to escape but even with these efforts the plague raged on the only thing that did seem to

work was a series of blockades that the government set up which prevented the local populace from leaving the Darkwood as well as prevented anyone from outside the forest from entering they took this a step further by Banning the researchers that were sent into the forest from coming into contact with the local populace so as to minimize their chances of infection this made their foray into the forest sort of like secret missions where they hid amongst the trees they even built several secret hideouts throughout the wood where they could safely stay while they performed their work

of course being cut off from the rest of the world didn't sit too well with those trapped in the Darkwood and although the researchers tried their best to remain hidden there were villagers that caught glimpses of them flitting through the trees villagers who grew to resent The Outsiders that were allowed to leave the forest as they wished a luxury that they were not allowed to have merely restricting contact with those that may be sick wasn't enough however as people were still falling ill to the plague even with minimal to no contact although there wasn't any

documentation on the exact Vector of infection of the plague the government was seemingly able to deduce that it was in the air likely through spores spelled by the replicated Flora of the forest thus it ordered all of its researchers to wear hazmat suits fit with oxygen tanks to prevent their infection although these suits weren't perfect and there were still times that researchers would disappear in the woods they helped give their workers a bit of protection as they did their work in the forest and they needed all the help they could get as the woods were

still an incredibly dangerous place on top of the violent Savages and terrifying Chompers and the Very air itself being dangerous there was still the local Wildlife to contend with some of which have been mutated by the plague there were also other monstrous beings that seemed to walk straight out of people's nightmares there were large reptilians with vaguely human features that lurked in the swamps there were Mushroom Men that hid in the foilage and blew up whenever unsuspecting victims got too close there were bird human hybrids called banshees that let out a horrible Screech when looked

at unleashing a swarm of their children to attack whoever never saw them as well as many others while there was never any official documentation describing where these creatures came from it was evident that they were a product of the forest having been created when roots from the trees which contained the shape-shifting white substance came into contact with unique cabers in the wood for instance in the case of the Swampers there was a corpse in a swampy area which had lizards stuffed down its throat this corpse was also wrapped in root from the trees meaning the

white substance would have come in contact with it which led to the creation of the Swampers an interesting finding with regards to these corpses was that they seem to be deliberately staged for the forest to find and replicate as it was evident that the items that were in the corpses were placed albeit violently within them and the bodies were always conveniently close enough to the trees and roots that replication by the white substance could take place evidently something in the forest wanted these monstrosities to be created but whether for defense against Outsiders or some other

purpose was never uncovered by the government not every replica created by the forest was a dangerous monster however as there were reports of other strange creatures in the wood that weren't as hostile as those previously mentioned some were actually capable of holding conversations with the researchers these friendly or at least non-aggressive replicas suggested that if something was working to get these replicas created they didn't have full control over what things were replicated and that the forest were at least the white substance acted independent of their actions these friendlier replicas were few and far between though

and for the most part the government workers had to deal with the Monstrous replicas of the Darkwood when doing their work what made that work even more dangerous was the fact that all of the dangers of the forest from the Savages to the monsters and particularly the miam Asma were much more active at night requiring the researchers to Bunker down in their hideouts when the sun went down it wasn't uncommon for the researchers to be besieged by hostile visitors during this time visitors they had to fight off lest they wanted to be killed by them

during these nighttime incursions they could never wander too far from their hideouts as if they did they would be attacked by the most dangerous foe in the wood a strange mass of red tendrils named the floor War appearing only at night these tendrils of red flesh would quickly swarm over their victims damaging them until they consumed them whole and unlike all the other creatures and entities of the Darkwood the floor Gore could not be stopped by barricades or obstacles or weapons meaning once it set its sights on a victim their Doom was inevitable however the

government was able to find a defense against this terrifying entity a weird unnamed substance that let out a g gas or scent when cooked that for whatever reason repelled the floor Gore making it give up its Chase thus in every government Hideout there was an oven installed that cooked the substance and piped its Vapors all throughout the structure thereby giving the researchers a little bubble of safety that they could use to get through the night this protective substance also seemed to give an added benefit of protecting the researchers from the darkwoods Infectious myasthma as it

was mentioned that the local villagers who were sick with the forest's plague did not need to breathe this substance likely because the gas would no longer be of use to them since they were already sick with the disease interestingly those same villagers were also never attacked by the floor Gore it was only the government researchers or people from outside the forest that were the targets of the tendrils in fact it seemed that The Outsiders were always the main focus of the hazards of the wood as if the forest itself recognized they were foreign bodies and

wanted to expel them despite these challenges the government had been able to overcome all the hurdles sent their way allowing them to continue their research but ultimately they met their defeat at the hands of the biggest weapon that the Darkwood had it's replicated trees ever since the government started its Research into the forest its trees have been a problem due to how insatiably they grew they constantly encroached on their positions and steadily pushed them out of the wood throughout the years eventually the trees consumed the road into and out of the region essentially becoming the

blockade set up by the government but with the added effect of also blocking the government from entering the wood not willing to give up their work the government worked around this issue by digging long intricate tunnels underneath the trees that would get them the access they needed of course this opened up a path to the outside so in addition to keeping the local populace ignorant of the existence of these tunnels they were barricaded so that the people and monsters of the Darkwood couldn't use them to escape these barricades took the form of heavy metal doors

that were locked when not in use and when an expedition was sent into the forest each member had a key that could be used to get through the doors this workaround worked for a Time allowing research to continue but as the years wore on even these tunnels were destroyed by the forest whose large braided Roots caused collapses as they grew over or through the tunnels additionally the tunnels somehow seemed to draw the ey of the crazed Savages of the wood who seem to have an uncanny ability to sniff out where the hideouts with tunnel entrances

were and attacked them while most of these Savages were fended off some were able to penetrate the tunnels requiring them to be killed before they can be used again any one of these issues from the deadly plague to the crazed locals the nightmarish Monsters of the trees that grew faster than weeds would be a lot to deal with on their own but the Darkwood had all all of them at once and eventually due to all of these issues Journeys into the forest especially its inner reaches where activity was highest slowed to the point that by

1987 12 years after the impact events that set everything in motion only a handful of expeditions were launched a year they did still happen though and in September of 1987 one such expedition was organized but unlike most of the other Expeditions of late this one would send the researchers through tunnel 21 so they could reach the furthest the steps of the forest the mission was described as urgent with its ultimate goal being to gather further information on the forest's roots and gather information on the white substance that ran through them everything seemed to be going

according to plan until the expedition was attacked by a large group of savages the lunatics overwhelmed The Outsiders killing them and tying some of their mangled corpses to trees near their Camp however not every Outsider was killed in the attack one of the men the protagonist of our story who was a grizzled veteran of the forest that had survived five previous Journeys into it survived and broke free from his bonds he stumbled into some farmlands where he traded his hazmat suit for the clothes from a scarecrow remembering his small apartment where his significant other and

his dog were waiting for him to come home the protagonist then took off into the forest desperately trying to make his way back to the underground entrance to return home he didn't make it though eventually collapsing in clearing seemingly doomed to die in the Darkwood but at that moment he was found by a local doctor it wasn't exactly the Salvation the protagonist hoped for however as this Doctor Who had toiled for years trying and failing to save the people of the Darkwood was sick of being trapped in the forest and wanted to escape from it

to be reunited with his wife and daughter who had been evacuated from the forest years ago upon seeing the protagonist's key the doctor realized he was an outsider and would know the paths out of the dark W so he brought the protagonist back to his home and tied to a chair the doctor drugged and beat his prisoner trying desperately to get information out of it but the outsider never gave up the location of the underground passage the doctor walked off frustrated whereupon the protagonist Broke Free from his restraints and escaped his room he caught a

glimpse of the doctor as he did but the power went out plunging the cabin Into Darkness as the protagonist stumbled around in the dark he heard someone call for help from behind a door locked to the code another prisoner of the doctor as a protagonist searched for a way to help the prisoner He Came Upon A terrifying sight a hallucination of a corpse with dials instead of eyes lying on the ground where a radio just was then the body spoke telling the protagonist to turn on the generator and after he acquiesced it gave him the

code to the locked door thereby allowing him to release the prisoner as a reward for doing so the protagonist was attacked after fighting off his attacker and collecting a plastic chick from his body the cabin was then beset upon by monsters that looked like black versions of the Chompers that lived in the woods who knocked the protagonist out as they swarmed through the cabin as he lay in a days he saw a figure emerge from the fog of his vision reaching out a hand as if to help and the next thing he knew he was

coming to on the floor of one of the government hideouts after taking a moment to recall the events of the previous night he found that his key to Tunnel 21 his only means of getting home was missing now in the hands of that doctor he found Pages torn out of his journal as well and worried that the doctor may have found the underground entrance he rushed off to see if it had been opened he breathed a sigh of relief when he found that the door had not been used in the past couple weeks curiously when

he investigated the door he noticed a bead of light when he looked through the keyhole he didn't think much of it believing it to be one of the lights in the tunnel Beyond so returned to The Hideout where he resolved to find the doctor and recover his key where he could then escape the forest and get home he got his first lead the morning after his first night in the forest when he found he had a visitor in his Hideout a stranger with a large coat standing by the oven poking out of the stranger's Hood

was the face of a wolf and when the stranger spoke it became clear that the wolf face wasn't a mask it was the man's actual face despite his Gruff greeting The Wolfman said he would help the protagonist find the doctor if he helped him with the job first the protagonist agreed but the Wolfman wanted to prove that he was capable of doing the job first by meeting him in his camp in the Silent Forest which according to the wolf man was going to be dangerous to get to eager to get started the protagonist then set

out to gather materials from the dry Meadow around him to prepare for the journey The Wolf Man wasn't the only visitor he got as the next morning the protagonist found another Stranger in his Hideout and as he approached his second visitor he saw that it was the man that rescued him from the doctor's house without the fog of unconsciousness clouding his vision he could see his rescuer seemed to be an outsider like he was as he was wearing the standard hazmat suit Outsiders wore when coming to the forest upon closer inspection though the protagonist noticed

some peculiarities about this visitor his skin was unnaturally pale and there were growths along the front of his helmet a helmet that looked less like something he wore and looked more like something that was a part of him he even thought the visitor looked familiar but it was hard to tell for certain through the fogged up viewfinder if the man was an outsider he was evidently trapped here like the protagonist was and he didn't talk about trying to escape in fact when asked about the road home he merely told the protagonist that it was useless

to try to escape as all roads LED deeper into the forest although the man spoke his speech was muffled by his helmet which he refused to take off instead he communicated by writing messages on his gloves or skin this was likely due to the training of The Outsiders but it didn't help quell the suspicions the protagonist had about his helmet despite his peculiarities though the visitor indicated that he wanted to help the protagonist offering to trade with him it wasn't a one-time offer either as the trader showed up every morning with a renewed stock in

order to help the protagonist with his journey booed by the friendly traiter the protagonist spent the next several days Gathering supplies in the dry Meadow around him while defending himself from the creatures of the Darkwood as he did so he noticed he no longer had a want for water or food well except for a strong desire to eat the red mushrooms that bloomed in the forest a craving he soon gave into but after cooking and eating some of these mushrooms he found that they gave him terrifying nightmares in one he dreamed of a talking cadaver

that tried to convince him to take a nap in a grave if he refused its offer he was attacked by another one of those black Chompers ending the nightmare in another he was in a church that served as a triage Center the local populace set up to deal with the infection sick people lied on church pews and others waited in a line to get to the church's basement presumably to be quarantined upon inspecting a room on the side of the building the protagonist found a strange box and upon picking it up a black Chomper appeared

and attacked but this one screamed about a seesaw and a dress and a box for his girls if the protagonist was killed in or fled from the ensuing fight his nightmare ended but if he overcame the chomper then he would find a medallion on its corpse that held a picture of two girls with haunting Twisted faces and a code which could be used on the trap door door of the church which when used also ended the nightmare weirdly what happened in this dream actually had an effect in the real world first of all the strange

box that the protagonist had found in his dream was on his person and the Wolfman who appeared in The protagonist's Hideout once again said that he would be able to open it once the protagonist brought him its key from a location in an area of the forest called The Old Woods that location was the same church of the protagonists Nightmare and what he found in its ruins depended on the outcome of his dream if he had successfully killed the chomper then he would find the corpse of a man split in half lying where the chomper

died however if he was killed by or fled from it then a man would be sitting in the church muttering about things he would get for his girls just like the chomper did in the protagonist's dream interestingly if this man was killed a medallion like the one that was found on the black Chomper could be found on his body complete with the code to the basement but without the faces of the girls being distorted all things considered the implication was clear this man was the black Chomper the protagonist had seen in his dream and further

suggested that some things he saw in those dreams were real either by using the code from The Medallion or being given it by the man in the church the protagonist unlocked and descended down into the basement steps which was filled with plague ridden corpses and either people on the verge of becoming Chompers if he was killed by or fled from the chomper in his dream or huge dogs if he killed the chomper in the deepest part of the basement the protagonist found the key The Wolf Man was talking about and upon delivering it to him

the wolf excitedly opened the box but was angry to find that all it held was a Shiny Stone and some child's drawings upon investigating the drawings the protagonist noticed they told a story in a house in the forest lived a man with his two daughters and his dog after the meteor impact in the appearance of the strange mushrooms in the forest the family's dog ate one of the mushrooms and apparently died as a result afterward perhaps to cheer them up the father took down the dogghouse and used the wood to build a red seesaw for

his girls all things that are mentioned by the chomper or the man in the church indicating he was the father depicted in the story this happy moment wasn't to last however as their house was then burned down by the government in the effort to control the plague the remains of which the protagonist could find in the dry Meadow of the forest in an effort to keep them safe from the chaos engulfing their home the father sent his girls to the quarantine zone of the church basement but it was all for not as the girls wrapped

in each other's arms watched the bodies pile up around them as the plague claimed the lives of those in the basement back on the surface their father separated from his girls by the Trees of the forest and by the locked basement door lost his mind as the plague consumed him back to the protagonist's nightmares a third had him back at home in his house safe and content that is before a knock on the door and a visit of his current self shattered the illusion interestingly the protagonist could be woken up from this dream in a

different way if he sneaked around his dream self he could come to a hidden Corridor full of shiny stones chairs and twinkling lights in its dark depths he could find a TV that told him he should not be there and would wake him from the dream the last nightmare was perhaps the most unsettling he was in tunnel 21 when a voice called to him guiding him along a trail of shiny stones that led to a lamp when the protagonist flipped the light on it revealed a huge pile of B bodies lying all around it the

lamp light soon dimmed to reveal a cradled up child lying in the center of the bodies not far from the child on the bodies was a bed which the protagonist climbed inside of and fell asleep in which brought him back to the real world these nightmares were not the only side effect of the mushrooms however as by consuming their Essence the protagonist was empowered gaining skills to use as he worked to survive in the forest thus he always kept an eye out for these mushrooms as well as other items that could give him the same

kind of hallucinogenic effect as he explored the forest eventually after Gathering the necessary supplies the protagonist successfully made his way to the Silent Forest at one point along the way he passed by an emaciated figure sleeping on the ground after inspecting the body he started to walk away when the figure spoke to him telling him to look for an exit in the floor of the last Hideout not understanding him the protagonist left the sleeper to his ramblings and continued on where he found the Wolfman in his Camp realizing now that the protagonist would be able

to help him the Wolfman told him about a chicken lady that lived in a local Village who kept something he greatly desired locked in a room in her house the protagonist's job was to get the key to that room and bring it to him upon its delivery The Wolfman would tell him where he could find the doctor before he sent him on his way the Wolfman asked for one more favor from the protagonist as the squealing of pigs echoed through the forest he asked him to silence that squealing in exchange for a reward the deal

struck the protagonist made his way out into the Silent Forest to find the village and while exploring it came across a building where after killing a dog that had taken refuge in a garage he met a young man named piotre piotre was fascinated with space idolizing the Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri gagaran and admiring the Stars he didn't only want to see the stars from the ground though he wanted to build a rocket to launch into space the progress of which the protagonist could see in a little clearing outside of his shop he could also help porri

accomplish this by bringing him materials from broken down tractors spread around the forest if while Gathering the materials the protagonist showed one of them to The Wolf Man the wolf would ask to see it and then sabotage it so that it became a bomb if the protagonist was feeling cruel he could hand the sabotaged part over to Perri who would be none the wiser about the danger of the part and use it in the construction of his rocket in any case once enough parts were brought to him plri would reward the protagonist and then set

to work to complete his rocket and launch into space but if he was given a sabotaged part he wouldn't live to see that dream being killed in a fiery explosion that occurred when he tried to start his rocket regardless of the fate of P the protagonist continued exploring the forest eventually finding the village mentioned by The Wolf Man where he was not greeted warmly by the populace they avoided his gaze and ignored him as much as possible as he wandered the streets he passed by the Embers of a bonfire that held a medical bag in

it nearby a man mumbled a contemptuous remark about the doctor with this the protagonist realized it hadn't been monsters that attacked the Doctor's house that night it was the Villager who were lashing out at the doctor for his failure to cure those infected with the plague it also explained how he made it out alive as he was either missed or spared by the villagers a kindness that would not have been extended to him had it been Monsters of the Darkwood that attacked he learned something else as he wandered the streets too after being cut off

from The Wider World these people had been able to survive by eating The Offspring of their Village s the abundance of pigs in the village was what was making the squealing sound the wolf was complaining about however the people were now facing a famine because they were unable to feed the pig meaning she couldn't produce any more offspring the difficulty in feeding her came from the fact that she had been mutated by the plague of the Darkwood giving her a gargantuan size and a violent temper while her size rendered her immobile feeding her was dangerous

because she wildly bit at anyone that came close to her due to her insatiable want for flesh an appetite that could have been developed by the pig farmer's choice of meat for her flesh from Human cavers the populace had been able to work around her regression by stunning her with an electric shock from a nearby generator but the cables of the machine had recently been cut by a malactor rendering the machine unusable the pig farmer who had an unhealthy fascination with the S had tried to feed her without out stunning her and had been killed

by the beast in the process after his death no one else was willing to take the risk of feeding the sa meaning that unless someone fixed those cables everyone in the village was going to starve well everyone except for one man who had a stash of meat hidden in his home meat that likely came from Human cadavers considering the prevalence of bodies hid in the back of his home the bloody meat grinder hidden in a locked wardrobe and his insistence on secrecy when his stash was found while most of the populace wanted the S to

provide them food again there was one person that didn't sitting in the remains of a burned house sat a woman who told the protagonist to kill the pig when he passed her by the desire of this woman named Hanusa to see the sa's death and the inevitable downfall of the village stemmed from something the other villagers did to her in the past Hanusa used to live in the village with her husband and the two welcomed a child into the world but due to the plague the baby was incredibly deformed so much so that even the

dogs of the village yelped in horror at it fearing the monstrosity the villagers took it from Hanusa and disposed of it they also burned down the house where she and her husband lived an event that claimed her husband's life seeing the ones she loved be killed by the villagers caused contempt to grow in her heart to the point that she wanted to see the end of the village in fact if hanuka is killed a knife and a cable can be found on her person indicating she was the one that sabotaged the sa's stunning machine that

sabotage wasn't enough though she wanted someone to take it a step further and kill the S if the protagonist took pity on those in the village he could help them by getting a cable either from hanuka's body or from porri and repair the machine thereby giving the villagers the means to get out of their plight however if he chose to fulfill the wishes of The Wolf Man in Hanusa he had a couple of ways of killing the sa he could destroy her through conventional means though this was dangerous as attacking the S would cause the

other pigs that inhabited the shed to come to her defense and attacking the S with melee weapons put the protagonist in range of being attacked himself this was before considering her Constitution which meant killing her this way would take a lot of time and resources the other method he could use followed the same path is the one he'd take if he chose to save her but after repairing the machine he could increase its power and then send a lethal jolt of electricity to the sa frying her from a distance no matter the method if the

protagonist chose to kill the sa there were a number of repercussions from his actions Upon returning to the Village he would be invited to speak with its leader in his home and once he entered the basement a chomper the leader kept down there to assert his dominance would be Unleashed on him as Revenge for killing the sa in the Village proper the corpse of the sa would be set in the center of a ceremonious circle with people all over mourning her loss and lastly the villagers pushed to desperation after losing the creature that they relied

on for sustenance began trying to chop their way through the trees of the Darkwood hoping to find a new source of food in another region of the forest while the plight of the villagers was one that filled most people with sorrow and sympathy one person took to light and the misery of the villagers The Wolf Man Who told the protagonist he would sleep soundly with the crying of the villagers in his ears on the outer edge of the village the protagonist found the home of the chicken lady The Wolf Man mentioned as well as the

locked door in the back of her house when talking with the woman though he didn't learn what was in the room nor where its key was the only thing he did learn came after he showed her the plastic chick he recovered from the other prisoner of the doctor apparently the man man named Yanik was her brother and had run off to confront the doctor a number of days ago she evidently hadn't learned what became of him and the protagonist perhaps out of Shame didn't bother to clue her in at that moment a horrible screeching sound

came from outside when the protagonist went to investigate he found it came from a shoddy violin played by a boy horribly mutated by the plague from talking with this musician the protagonist learned what the chicken lady kept locked in her room it was her sister the pretty lady who like the boy had been horribly mutated by the plague and now had to be tied down and locked away to prevent her from eating people however the musician was unaware of her cannibalistic behavior and was trying to woo her by playing his violin outside her window then

he gave the protagonist a clue on how to get the key to her room saying that yannik used to have a key himself the two of them used to play by The Village well so the musicians suggested the protagonist check around it to see if he could find any clues the protagonist found the well was dried up and in disrepair so used a chain to fix it and descended into its depths to find a tunnel system that ran under the village as he walked through the tunnel he was soon attacked by a chomper interestingly he

noticed this Chomper was the size of a child and after killing it found it held a small doll a burned copy of which could be found in the Char room remains of hanuka's home the implication was clear after the villagers took away her deformed baby they threw it down the well where it eventually became this Chomper continuing on the protagonist eventually found that the tunnels ran straight to janik's home and in the remains of the building he found a key covered in chicken feces the key sought by The Wolf Man upon delivering it to him

the ecstatic wolf man gave the protagonist the location of a train wreck in the Old Woods another region of of the forest that was close by saying that the doctor locked himself within it after being attacked by the villagers and he wasn't opening the doors for anyone despite the protagonist saying the deal wasn't fulfilled The Wolfman disappeared but not before telling the protagonist he can find him in a barn in the Old Woods having no other leads the protagonist made his way to the barn to meet his canine faed companion and as he was making

his way through the old Woods he stopped by a curious cabin he noticed amongst the trees upon investigating the inside he found it was full of stuffed animals trophies of successful hunts of the beasts in a back room he found the corpse of a hunter interestingly the body was now covered in tree roots which meant the white substance would have come in contact with it and may have created a replica of this Hunter as the protagonist was mulling this over he realized that this corpse and cabin may have been where the wolf man had come

from having been created when the roots touched the Hunter's body along with one of his trophies and merged them together into a new living entity further implying this connection was the fact that on the body of the deceased Hunter was a wedding ring a replica of which could be found on the body of the wolf man should he be killed another wedding ring could also be found in the chicken lady's house in Bedding in the room with the pretty lady that was implied to be where the chicken lady slept perhaps EXP explaining why the wolf

man was so keen on getting into the room in any case the protagonist continued on and made it to the barn of the Wolfman where he found the wolf with blood smeared all over his face the result of eating the pretty lady whose half eaten corpse lay in a room just behind him unlike all their previous conversations the protagonist found the Wolfman was in an incredibly good mood thanks to his meal and as thanks for the gift offered to take the prote to the doctor's old home believing it could give him a clue on how

to get to the doctor the protagonist agreed and as he explored the macabra buildings of the medicine man's old home he found a locked safe under the rug in the central room after deducing its code he found a notepad inside that revealed the code to the locked door of the train wreck finally having what he needed to face the doctor the protagonist took off towards the train wreck and opened its locked door coming face to face with the man that stole his key the doctor spiraled in a crazy pleading as the protagonist approached explaining how

he had been brought to the Edge by the unfairness of watching The Outsiders freely come and go while he was trapped here caring for villagers sick with a neverbe seen illness while he heard his daughter call to him asking him to come to her hearing how the doctor had been mentally tormented Through The Years could make the protagonist sympathize with him and give him what he thought the location of the underground entrance as thanks for the protagonist's generosity the doctor said he would wait for him there so the two could go through the door together

however the protagonist could just as easily take no pity on the doctor and kill him taking his key back by force giving the key covered in chicken feces to The Wolf Man wasn't the only way the protagonist could find the doctor when he learned of the existence of the key from the musician the boy asked for the key himself so that he could use it to finally meet his future wife the pretty lady if the protagonist gave him the key instead the boy would be extremely gracious but asked for another favor from him lacking the

courage to approach the pretty lady with such a shoddy violin he asked the protagonist to go to his parents house in the Old Woods to get his mom's nice violin he explained that he couldn't go himself because his parents no longer acknowledged him because they were were upset with him for some reason he handed the protagonist a drawing saying to give it to his mother as an apology hoping that once she saw the drawing she would forgive the musician and would let him borrow her nice violin in exchange the musician said he would get the

protagonist in appointment with the doctor the musician was one of the few people left that could get in contact with the doctor due to the boy still trusting in Him and seeing him as a kind man feelings that emerged after the doctor had treated him with kindness and care he was actually the one that gave the musician his wooden mask carving it from a doll he owned and gifting it to him so he could be healed of his afflictions the protagonist obviously jumped on this lead and headed to the Old Woods as the boy requested

when he found the home of the musician's parents he found them inside lying half dead on the ground both on the verge of mutating into Chompers if he made any wrong moves they would come to life and rip him the shreds requiring ing him to fight them off however if the protagonist followed the musician's instructions and gave his mother his drawing the gesture would pacify his parents allowing the protagonist to safely collect the violin upon delivering the instrument to the musician the boy would make good on his promise telling the protagonist about the appointment he

booked with the doctor and where he could find him the delivery of the violin also gave the musician the belief that his parents had forgiven him excited about the the possibility of reuniting with them he returned to his home and what happened next depended on how the protagonist dealt with his parents if he killed them then the musician would be found standing over the fresh Graves of his parents lamenting the protagonist's actions through choked back tears but if he spared them either by fleeing from them after they mutated or by pacifying them with the musician's

drawing that upon his return to his home the musician would be greeted with the terrible moths of his mutated parents who tore him apart after morphing into Chompers if the protagonist chose this path then when he visited the doctor at the train wreck he would be ambushed by the Doctor Who having been made aware of the protagonist's arrival by the musician flooded the train cars with gas knocking the protagonist out the doctor again drugged and interrogated his prisoner hoping to get the location of the underground entrance out of him this time the drugs put the

protagonist to sleep where he started dreaming and in his dreams he saw the memories of the doctor of the times he visited the pretty lady being unable to help her as she mutated into her grotesque form of the Turning Sentiments of the villagers as he failed to cure their infections then he had an outof Body Experience seeing himself being interrogated by the doctor but unable to intervene with the situation as he explored his environment he was once again attacked by black Chompers if he managed to escape the monsters then he would resist the influence of

the drugs and overpower the doctor where he would once again be presented with the choice of showing him the location of the underground entrance or killing him and taking back his key by force however if the protagonist was killed by the black Chompers during his nightmare then he didn't get that choice as the doctor was finally able to Pride the location of the underground entrance from him during the interrogation the protagonist then lost Consciousness waking up alone a few hours later despite fearing the worst when he made his way to the underground entrance he found

that the doctor left the door open and had also left signs telling the villagers to go through the door to reach Freedom themselves despite their animosity towards him and his own resentment towards them he couldn't help but to try and help them while helping the Wolfman or the musician were the most obvious paths for the protagonist to take to meet the doctor they weren't the only ones he could also avoid doing all those favors for the two by killing the chicken lady if he did so he would find some instructions on her body that would

lead him straight to the doctor's house where he would then walk down the path that would lead to his confrontation with the doctor and the opening of the door of the underground entrance no matter what path he took the protagonist walked out of the train wreck with his path home open to him but before he made his way through the door he met his friend the traitor One Last Time who again tried to persuade him to give up trying to take the road home asking him to stay here with him during this encounter the traitor

pulled the protagonist close to him and during this interaction the protagonist got a glimpse down the Traer shirt where he noticed that his initial thought about his helmet turned out to be true it was fused with his body this combined with his pale skin and the scent of mushrooms on his person finally confirmed a suspicion the protagonist had had since he' met the traitor he was a replica of the forest and given how familiar he seemed the protagonist realized it was possible that the traitor may have been a replica of someone he knew if that

was the case the traitor didn't say anything about it and his pleas for the protagonist to stay fell on deaf ears as the protagonist turned his back on the traitor and headed to the underground entrance to make his way home once the door was opened the protagonist made his way through it until his path for board was blocked by roots in the trees he noticed someone lying in the rubble and it was evident that the figure was a replica of the forest as he was attached to the roots the man began mumbling about a talking

tree that blocked the road home but then reached into his own head and pulled out a replica of the bullet that killed him an action that caused the death of his replicated form turning his back on the figure the protagonist went on emerging in another government hideout this time in a swampy area of the Darkwood as he familiarized himself with his surroundings he eventually found what the replicated man in the tunnel was talking about as beyond the remains of a village was a gigantic tree blocking the road home this wasn't a normal tree though as

in its trunks were several people who were all arguing and fighting creating a noise that was so cacophonous it was impossible to make out what any one figure was saying having no other option the protagonist turned his back on the tree and started scringy Choice as the man was handicapped and didn't have the means to leave what used to be his home by talking with the [ __ ] listening to his ramblings after showing him items and through a nightmare he had at one point the protagonist pieced together the story of where the tree came

from which was inextricably linked with the downfall of the village as the Darkwood closed in around the village the whole area around it was flooded preventing the people from farming the land to buy themselves time before they starved the people agreed to ration their food and distribute it equally among themselves so they could all survive through the tough times facing them however one man who had been left to care for his three eldest Sons after his wife left the village with her four youngest felt he wasn't getting his fair share of rations so he gathered

together a group of like-minded individuals and raided the food stores of the The Village barricading the entrance to the cellar to prevent the others from stopping them once they ate all the food the Raiders tried to Tunnel their way out of the cellar but died before they could make their escape meanwhile above ground without the ability to reach their food the rest of the villagers all starved to death As Time passed the roots of the forest grew into the abandoned houses in the tunnel of the cellar coming into contact with the various bodies of the

villagers eventually leading to the cre ation of the Talking Tree a conglomeration of the villagers who still bickered about the robbery of the food their tireless arguments had driven the [ __ ] crazy and he asked the protagonist if he could get him some much needed Silence by destroying the tree he suggested he head to the basement of one of his former neighbors where he could get at the trees's roots which would be easier to destroy needing to get past the tree himself the protagonist went along with the [ __ ] suggestion but found that

the basement of the home in question was flooded upon hearing this the [ __ ] had the idea that the protagonist could dive under the water to get to the passage that had the tree roots and suggested he had to the elephants to ask them for one of their oxygen tanks they didn't live in the village though they lived out in the forest so the protagonist was going to have to travel through the trees to get to them his new path set before him the protagonist prepared to complete the next leg of his journey as

he spent the next few days Gathering resources and supplies to make it to the the elephants he began to familiarize himself with his new surroundings one morning after staying a few days in the swamp he noticed a corpse laying outside of his Hideout taking a look at it he noticed the man had been decapitated but upon closer inspection noticed that the helmet looked to be a part of the man's body indeed these were the remains of his old friend the traitor who had been killed by an unknown as salent someone evidently upset with him as

the word liar had been scratched upon his viewfinder interestingly on the traitor's body was a replica of the key to Tunnel 21 indicating that the traiter was not only a replica of an outsider but may have been one of the researchers of the expedition that the protagonist had been a part of or maybe even a replica of the protagonist himself having been created when one of their bodies came in contact with the trees and they were tied up by the Savages whatever the case the protagonist didn't seem to mourn the traitor's death making no note

about his fate outside of the cursory observations of his body in fact his friend had already been replaced as just like in the previous area the morning after the protagonist's first night in the swamp he received visitors three mute figures who despite appearing to be Savages wanted to trade with him as he traded with the three he couldn't help be reminded of something the [ __ ] had mentioned before when he was telling the story of The Village how the three boys of the thief hadn't escap escaped being punished for their father's sins they weren't

outright executed by the villagers but they were thrown out of the village left to an unknown fate apparently the boys had been able to survive the dangers of the Darkwood and still wandered under its leaves they even seemed to return to the village that used to be their home as sometimes at night the [ __ ] would hear the jangle of their cowbell the reason of their return was likely so they could visit the Talking Tree which contained the remains of their father in addition to meeting the three and finding the corpse of the traiter

the protagonist also found an old note in his Hideout from a previous government Expedition that mentioned a cottage near the junkyard that someone may be living in during his travels through the region he made his way to the cottage and met a strange sight All Along The Hills leading to the building were large replicas of snails that spoke to him when he reached the building proper he found a gantic snail which immediately withdrew into his shell breaking open a portion of it the protagonist met with the entity and found he had humanlike features suggesting he

like the previous snails was a replica of the forest the snail was apparently unaware of his own transformation as he insulted his visitor on his appearance not understanding that he actually looked worse than him the snail was also under the effect of the plague as he mentioned hearing a voice called to him and asked the protagonist to set him free so that he could make his way to it which the protagonist could do by finding and destroying some growths in a clearing not far from the cottage just as the snail promised the next day he

was gone and with his massive form removed the rest of the cottage could be investigated in this section of the building was the corpse of a man covered in Roots lying on a bed when reading a note by the man's body the protagonist learned that the man had apparently eaten snails before he died hinting that the roots of the trees came in contact with his body and the snails of his stomach to create the snail entity the man was also apparently fascinated with a voice he kept hearing in His Radio a voice that the protagonist

himself also heard at one point hinting at where the snail went after he was freed from his Cottage in addition to these encounters the protagonist also began to see the ramifications of some of the choices he'd made before traveling through the tunnel if he did not choose to help the wolf man either by giving the key to the musician or by killing the pretty lady then one day when he returned to his Hideout he would find a number of his items missing and a note from the wolf telling him to come to the Old Sawmill

to recover what was stolen once there the wolf told him that he would forgive his transgressions if he could provide him with some entertainment which involved the protagonist giving up all of his items and then fighting off a pair of dogs and the Wolfman himself if the protagonist came out ahead killing the dogs and then the Wolfman then he would be able to reclaim his lost things however if he was defeated by either of his enemies then upon his return to the Sawmill he would find another note from the wolf stating that his items were

gone for good but that he left a consolation prize for the protagonist which was nothing more than a pile of poop if the protagonist chose to kill the s then he would learn that the villagers managed to make it through the wall of trees that bordered the Silent Forest and come to the swamp taking up residence in a quy in the area although they had survived the ordeal they hadn't come out unscathed as a number of them were now doubled over in pain due to their infection additionally they still faced the problem of starvation and

with the flooded plains of the area it seemed unlikely they would find much if anything in the swamp but they still held out hope that they would find something that would Sate their hunger if he chose to give the key to the wolf man and chose to kill the S then one night a metal door in his Hideout would spontaneously open when the protagonist went to investigate he found the musician hiding deep inside in the time since he'd last seen him the boy had changed considerably growing to a much larger size due to his illness

barely fitting into the Nook he'd wedged himself into he explained that the villagers had chased him away after cutting through the trees so he had taken to living here due to his size he couldn't leave but had sustained himself by snatching rats that got too close to him he even gifted one of these Critters to the protagonist to show his thanks for letting him stay even after the musician's mutation caused him to leak a toxic goo that damaged the protagonist as he stood on it however sometimes he couldn't get a hold of a rat and

asked the protagonist if he could give him something to eat a request the protagonist could be happy to comply with but but if he gave the musician any hallucinogens like the red mushrooms or odd meat then the boy's mutation would accelerate causing his size to balloon even further he would then disappear from The Hideout somehow finding the strength and bravery to pick himself up and wander into the Darkwood if the protagonist didn't follow through with wolfman's sabotage and helped poot build his rocket then he would hear rumors about a loud explosion that rocked a junkyard

in the Forest when he went to investigate these rumors he found the mangled remains of the rocket and lying within them was the corpse of poot the young man had apparently managed to achieve his dream of launching his rocket but before reaching the Stars he came crashing down to earth dying in the resulting crash lastly there were a number of interactions the protagonist could have with the doctor if he lived to make it to the swamp if the protagonist gave up the entrance to the underground during the doctor's interrogation then he would find a couple

of makeshift camps set up by the doctor but never see him face to face that is until he finally met the doctor at a hidden campsite where he found the man had evolved into a Savage it was a fate he was unable to avoid as the doctor would fall to this state even if the protagonist spared him and came with him to the swamp however in this latter case the protagonist would see the doctor degradation with his own eyes meeting him at several places in the swamp where he would note the loss of the doctor's

mental faculties as he was falling victim to the influence of the plague after finding the necessary equipment the protagonist could also find a helicopter wreck that held the remains of government soldiers as well as someone that had the other half of the doctor's picture which implied a couple of possibilities it was possible that the helicopter was sent to rescue the doctor and one of the soldiers was given the picture so they could identify him but it was equally as possible that this helicopter crashed while in the process of rescuing his family meaning the doctor's wife

and child never made it out of the forest a fate that the doctor was totally unaware of whether he face these situations or not the protagonist stayed focused on his goal and eventually made his way through the swamp to find the home of the elephants which turned out not to be the exotic animals but a mother and her two kids that wore gas masks to filter the the air they breathed the tubing of The Masks was what gave them their nickname in speaking with the mother the protagonist learned that she didn't have two children but

three one was missing she said that the boy Marchin had been talking about how his granny would take him mushrooming running off into the forest to find her she asked the protagonist to bring him back and in exchange she would give him one of their oxygen tanks by using a crude map drawn by the boy as a guide the protagonist made his way to the Gran's house which he found was in a Glade full of mushrooms as he looked at the house he felt it was familiar and before long realized why he had seen it

before the Granny's house was an exact replica of one of the houses in the swamp Village having been replicated by the white substance after the tree roots came in contact with it there were even replicas of the villagers who were chatting about the thievery of their food stores inside the house the protagonist found the old woman but was surprised to see that she was made entirely of mushrooms being a replica herself the aroma of the mushrooms waffling off of her was incredibly enticing and the protagonist could give in to his impulse and eat the old

woman entirely finding that she was tasty and satisfying but if he resisted the urge then before long the old woman woke and asked him what he was here for when he showed her the drawing she admitted the boy had turned up at her home a few days ago thinking she was his grandma what happened next dependent on if the protagonist killed the s or not if he spared the pig then the granny would freely let him take the child but if he killed it then she would tell him how she saw some of the starving

villagers around her home and knew that in their hunger they were going to eat her she asked the protagonist to do something about them and in return she would let him take the child the protagonist then had three choices ahead of him he could head to the Cory and murder all of the villagers he could destroy some supports holding up a boulder which after it fell would block all of the villagers within the Quarry or he could simply lie to the granny leading her to believe she was safe from the villager's hunger no matter his

decision the woman gave the protagonist a key to a room in her home where he found Martin and brought him home once the boy was to turn to his mother she kept her promise and gave the protagonist one of her oxygen tanks giving him what he needed needed to perform the dive in the village however this was not the only way the protagonist could get an oxygen tank and the other way lied in the hands of the fourth child of the elephant mother unfortunately this child died some time ago but the mother perhaps because she

couldn't bear to let him go didn't bury the child or dispose of his body she stored it in a locked shed close to her home additionally she believed he was the one that provided the family with clean air to breathe telling the children that it was his love that protected them from the toxic air of the Darkwood she also left an oxygen tank with his body which the protagonist could find after deducing the lock combination from a nursery rhyme sung by the children and Unlocking The Shed thereby skipping all the running around that the elephant

mother and mushroom cranny would send him on once the protagonist realized the elephant mother had four children he was again reminded of the story of the swamp Village told to him by the [ __ ] of the mother that left the village with her four youngest kids kids and realized the family of elephants was likely the very same family mentioned in the story as he thought about how funny it was that they not only survived for so long but that he managed to meet them he realized that this woman was also the mother of the

three the strange traitors that visited him in his Hideout every morning apparently the three had tried to visit their mother at some point in the past as the mother told the protagonist a story of a group of savages led by Three Strange figures that camped outside their house one night however for whatever reason the three left without meeting their mother as when the morning came they were gone and she hadn't seen them since as the protagonist thought about how interesting it was that he managed to come into contact with the various pieces of this broken

family his thoughts turned to the mushroom granny that the boy thought was his grandma upon remembering the woman's home was a duplicate of a house in the village he headed there to see if he could find anything more using a key from the mushroom Granny's house he unlocked her original home where he found a picture of a family when he showed this to the [ __ ] and the mushroom granny he learned that the granny was the mother of the elephant mother and thus truly was mari's grandmother as well as the grandmother of the three

when the elephant mother left the village all those years ago her mother had chased after her but given how frail the old lady was she likely didn't make it very far before she died evidently after her death the forest had replicated her body as well as her home thereby keeping each member of the swamp Village Family alive in some way somewhere in the Darkwood no matter how he got the oxygen tank once it was obtained the protagonist found it was empty luckily there was a compressor in his Hideout that he could use to refill it

but unluckily the machine was broken fixing it wasn't too much trouble as by using a note he found in The Hideout as a guide the protagonist was able to find some old compressor parts in a junkyard which he used to fix the machine once he was gassed up he made his way through the floated basement in the village opened a large tank of gasoline which poured down to the roots of the talking tree and set them Ablaze as the fire climbed to a Towering Inferno the protagonist realized that it was going to take all night

for the tree to burn away so returned to his Hideout for the night as he did so he stopped by the [ __ ] to let him know he was finally going to be rid of the tree but found the man was unresponsive completely captivated by the Flames back at The Hideout the protagonist prepared himself for an ordinary night in the Darkwood but tonight was going to be anything but at one point he heard a voice come out of the old radio that was in the building it asked a simple question why before the protagonist

could understand what it was asking a fire started in The Hideout and from the Flames came burning people that chased him down and attempted to kill him as he defended himself from his attackers he soon realized who they were these were the people that had been trapped in the Talking Tree set Ablaze from his actions and they were coming to kill him for destroying their arboreal home their attack continued through the whole night only stopping once the sun came up the protagonist then returned to the village where he found that just as he thought the

tree had burned down opening up the road home and finally giving him a way to escape the Darkwood however despite what the replicated man in the tunnel told him about the tree there was actually another way the protagonist could get to the road home one that didn't require him to burn the tree when the protagonist first encountered the tree he noticed that one figure appeared to see him and tried speaking to him while pointing to Something in the distance due to the chaotic noise all the other Figures were making he couldn't make out what the

man was saying but thought he was saying radio curious the protagonist headed off in the direction the man pointed in and before long found what the man was gesturing towards an old radio tower that the government used to operate in the area it had since been claimed by the Darkwood and was now the roosting place of the Banshees of the forest if the protagonist had set the snail free before coming here then he would also find the corpse of the snail in the ruins picked apart by the Banshees who feasted upon on his squishy flesh

upon seeing the tower the protagonist recognized it and remembered there was a passage to the underground in its Cellar after fighting his way through the treacherous Halls the protagonist found the door he was thinking of but found it was blocked from the other side he noticed a lever nearby that was overgrown with mushrooms and felt it was the key to getting through the tunnel when he destroyed the mushrooms they released spores that knocked the protagonist out and sent him to a Dreamscape as he wandered in the darkness following a voice in a trail of shiny

stones he passed by several familiar sights the tree he was tied up on the Doctor's house and the tunnels of the underground of course he was also attacked by black Chompers if he was killed by the monsters at any point then he would wake up from the dream unable to continue on through the tunnel but if he was able to dodge them as well as avoid being bitten by a monstrous mul that was part of a tree residing in the tunnel then he would eventually find Rubble blocking a metal door upon removing the rubble the

protagonist woke up and found the previously blocked metal door was now open suggesting that some of his actions and his dreams affected the real world upon heading through the door in the tunnel behind it he found that he was in his old Camp which if he had initially come from here suggested he hadn't made his way out of the forest but deeper within it however he had also been confused and disoriented as to the Savage attack so didn't put too much thought into what finding his Old Camp meant and just focused on finding the way

out he made his way through the ruins and found what he was searching for the road home just as he thought the underground path had circumvented the Talking Tree allowing him to escape the forest no matter how he got to it once the protagonist reached the road he eagerly rushed down its pavement to get home as he stepped over a thick colorless goo seeping up through the pavement he soon Came Upon the replicas of various people frozen in place on the road if he burned the tree down he would also find the [ __ ]

on the road dragging himself along it trying to escape the Darkwood the protagonist didn't offer to help the [ __ ] merely stepping over him and going on his way after following the road for a few kilometers and taking a terrifying detour through the trees the protagonist finally reached home he took a short walk through his hometown returned to his apartment and exhausted from his ordeal collapsed on his bed as a deep peaceful sleep took over him his story as well as the story of Darkwood came to an end well not quite during his Trek

through his familiar surroundings the protagonist could experience a few things that were weird to say the least in the basement of his building in a small pantry was a radio that after playing for it a bit would urge him to go to sleep sleep in the same dark Halls he could find some of the mushrooms of the forest and locked in one of the cells close by was a black Chomper after messing with a door on the main floor the occupant would open it and scream at the protagonist to go away and before the door

shut he could get a glimpse inside the apartment and see a baby cradled on the ground reminiscent of the one he saw in his dreams in the forest and upstairs he found that if he tried to reach the end of his hallway it just went on forever until eventually being overtaken by tree roots as a result of all of these when the protagonist stepped into his apartment he felt like something wasn't quite right and his uneasiness seemed to be justified when he found roots on the floor of his home the protagonist grabbed a screwdriver from

his kitchen and started tearing up his floorboards finding Roots all over underneath them in the living room in the hallway and in the kitchen as he made his way into the bedroom the word words of the sleeper that the protagonist saw at the entrance of the Silent Forest rang in his ears the one that told him to look for an exit in the floor of the last Hideout resisting the urge to lie down and go to sleep the protagonist looked under his bed to find a large hole underneath it upon making his way through it

he suddenly found himself waking from a deep sleep he wasn't in his apartment though he had been curled up naked on a bundle of tree roots as his eyes adjusted to the darkness around him he found he wasn't alone there was another sleeper next to him and another and another all resting in its sleep so deep and Blissful they couldn't be woken up and apparently he'd been one of them as he wandered through the Twisted masses of roots passing several dozen sleepers he realized he was at the epicenter of the Darkwood the place from where

the whole Forest radiated out from and soon came upon his nucleus a spherical mass of white gas he felt a presence of some kind coming from the sphere and realized it wasn't an inanimate object but some sort of being the protagonist placed his hand on the being and tried to communicate with it to understand what it was and where it came from but the answers to his questions if they could be called that were incomprehensible to him the only thing he understood was that that he longed for sleep and the warmth exuded by the being

provided the perfect conditions to sleep in at that moment the disperate pieces of the story came together and the protagonist saw the whole picture this being was what crashed in the forest back in 1975 and ever since that day it had been using its white substance to grow and create the dark wood the plague of the forest that strange sickness that made people hallucinate and hear a voice of loved one calling them to come deeper into the forest was the power of this being a power that eventually became so powerful it could conjure up whole

realities in the minds of those that had fallen under its influence for whatever reason the being was using its power to lure people to it and make them fall asleep where they would lay until they starved to death then another realization hit the protagonist he too had fallen to the influence of the being and the whole time he had been trying to escape the Darkwood he had actually been walking deeper within it following the call of the being but somehow he'd been freed from the influence of this entity and knew he had to do something

to stop it tearing his hand from the sphere the protagonist wandered a bit more until he found a sleeper named machic after recognizing he was an outsider the protagonist realized he' read about maek in a note in The Hideout of the Old Woods it said he'd fall into the influence of the woods and left his camp with a number of supplies while he'd evidently lost most of his other things than his journey the protagonist noticed machek still held one in his arms his flamethrower realizing he could use it the protagonist tore it from Ma's arm

and returned to the being he then torched The Entity sending it along with the Trees of its Forest Ablaze as The Inferno spread the protagonist began to flee as did the dozens of sleepers who had woken up when the fires were started however despite their best efforts which included the protagonist using the flamethrower to burn a path through the sleepers they could not outrun the fires and were eventually consumed by the Flames the conflagration lasted for days and as the Darkwood burned away a number of its inhabitants were killed but not all of them as

some managed to survive outcomes that depended on the actions the protagonist took during his journey through the Darkwood however whatever the fates of the inhabitants one outcome was absolute once the forest was reduced to ashes the calls luring people into the forest died away forever and with those Whispers ended so too ends the story of Darkwood it's a story that has a lot of messages it dabbles with themes of government oppression and human fear years of an alien invasion but foremost among them it's a story of how people react in the face of disaster when

facing a challenge some people give up and go to sleep thereby choosing to live in Blissful ignorance or choosing to keep things the way they are despite being unhappy with them others though choose to fight and try to change their conditions for the better whether that be by chopping through an impenetrable wall of trees looking for Hope on the other side or stopping an alien takeover by burning the alien down in either case that resilience to keep on living to survive is at the core of Darkwood it pushes us tests our limits so we can

see for ourselves what we would do in the face of difficulty it's also what makes the game resonate with so many of us and a true Masterpiece now believe it or not I didn't cover everything in the game but for the most part this should cover everything for the main story of Darkwood I hope I explained it all in a way that made sense but if you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer them before I go I'd like to remind you that all my content is also available

on Spotify so feel free to listen over there if that's easier for you all right with that I'm done here so until next time thank you for watching and see you later