Lore Topic *Spoilers Ahead!*

[Valhalla]

Haha, I gotta say, I love how they made the Iron Wayfarer to be Harkyn, the main protagonist from the ORIGINAL Lords of the Fallen. It was a nice little way of saying the two games are interconnected and definitely both happened in the same universe. It was a nice little easter egg tribute to those who played the original along with this new reboot.

[Romeolea]

Wait the guy in the beginning with the weird hand? Wouldn't he be dead since the first game happened 1,000 years ago? Can you tell me how they are connected because he seemed like such a throwaway character.

[Sycler]

Yeah I am not seeing the connection. Harkyn was a condemned criminal and probably died 1000 years ago, since he stopped adyr.

[Alby]

Originally posted by Romeolea:

Wait the guy in the beginning with the weird hand? Wouldn't he be dead since the first game happened 1,000 years ago? Can you tell me how they are connected because he seemed like such a throwaway character.

The flow of time itself is convoluted, with heroes centuries-old phasing in and out

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by Romeolea:

Wait the guy in the beginning with the weird hand? Wouldn't he be dead since the first game happened 1,000 years ago? Can you tell me how they are connected because he seemed like such a throwaway character.

Weird hand? It is basically a skeleton. He is clearly an undead.

[iWhisky]

I think it serves as a putrid mother

[Krieger]

He has a Lamp, that is why he is still around.
Also have to say I liked seeing him, I think they portrayed him just the right way too to do him justce, since in the first game he wasn't really a hero, just a brute they needed to kill adyrs lords.

[iWhisky]

the question is how he got that lamp

[Valhalla]

You will know this after you defeat him outside Bramis Castle, then go to Fief and find him. If you are doing the umbral ending, using the Withered Rune of Adyr on him gives you "Harkyns Umbral Parasite."

Harkyn was the one who had the Rune of Adyr. Iron Wayfarer is seen giving Judge Cleric the Rune of Adyr in a stigma, which basically shows he causes this corruption to start all over again, as Judge Cleric is corrupted, and passes the corruption down the ranks, causing all the Hallowed Sentinels to be your enemies. It is also why they refused to listen to Pieta when she kept tryin to tell the judge that the corruption was Rhogar in nature, because Judge was already corrupting people.

You will also hear Adyr talk about how 1 Hallowed Sentinel could not bring himself to kill a God, most likely referencing Harkyn.

Also, Andreas of Ebb is the descendent of Antanas, who was the main antagonist in the original Lords of the Fallen game.

Also, I believe Paladin Isaac is who we see in the intro getting his head cut off by the Lightreaper. Once you do all his stigmas, and defeat his Paladin boss in Path of Devotion, you can access a door near the start of the game that has all his gear on him. And the corpse is headless, near where the lamp was dropped to you, and Lightreaper attacks you early in the game, because he is already near after killing Paladin Isaac.

[Valhalla]

Originally posted by iWhisky:

the question is how he got that lamp

It is quite possible he was given one by the Dark Crusaders who came after him, since he would have been a great resource for fighting the Rhogar, having already been doing it from the first game. Or he may have found one. Or, considering he seems to be suffering from at least a form of Rhogar corruption, he may have killed someone for it.

[Valhalla]

Also, for another confirmation that it is Harkyn, if you battle the guardian who is protecting the Rune of Adyr, and The Iron Wayfarer helps you fight it, there will be a cutscene afterwards oh the Wayfarer going to pick up the Rune of Adyr, and you can hear it whispering "Harkyn" to him, as if it is calling to him to take it.