summarize first game

[NijimaXL]

Can someone explain what happened on the first game again? I forgot I played the first one years ago.

[donmcron333]

You do some stuff and some things and you get most of the way through but you get bored and play something else.

[Bloodwyns Kopf]

You kill bosses and their minions i think.

[OrionSmoker]

Essentially what happened was a dude thought there was a higher being that was watching over them and wanted to be punished for his actions so he kept praying and begging until he got turned into a bunch of tree roots. This being was called as "The Miracle" by the populace so they worshipped it and people started getting punished/blessed (in weird ways) because of it. One of the most devoted of the priests of the clergy asked the miracle to do some more things but there wasn't anything happen so he figured he wouldn't bother with worship or praise. The "miracle" then basically just sort of put the dude into a coffin and his throne became a mountain of ash where a bunch of clergy tried to get to the throne to rule over the land and for power but ended up turning into monsters for it. The land sort of got corrupted later on due to the miracle supposedly not being happy with the people. The main character being the "penitent one" is from an order of people that wear cone masks with thorns and basically gets selected by the miracle to ascend the throne granted that he goes through the arduous journey. The penitent one then basically goes through the game fighting the bosses to prove his worth until eventually fighting the devoted priest who got trapped in the statue now being some deformed entity. The penitent one beats him and ascends the throne. From there it's two endings you either drown in the ash because you didn't do some cryptic ♥♥♥♥ or you did the cryptic ♥♥♥♥ and ascend into the throne and sacrifice yourself to basically absorb all the guilt from the populace and restore it.


After that some DLCs came out which changed the story a bit. It turns out the miracle was actually a being called "The High Wills" and they essentially farmed the people for their pain and belief in them to grow some sort of kingdom above. The penitent one fights like some new bosses and does some more cryptic ♥♥♥♥ to find the truth and stands up to them with some allies. The penitent one fights the priest dude who comes back as a reddish corpse god and then kills the high wills which basically reverted everything caused by the "miracle". What this also meant was that because the penitent one had died prior in a fight against one of the characters it also meant that he couldn't be alive as it was the "miracle/highwills" that kept bringing him back from death. So his allies stuffed him in a coffin and prayed out of respect and sailed him away into the ocean. Whatever happens next is basically blasphemous 2 exposition.

[Fuhrer]

God is a sadistic jerk and you kill some people.

[CHAIN BREAKER]

You kill Jesus. Now you are Jesus.