Just finished the DLC, had a question (spoilers obviously)

[kory]

I had traded visions with the prisoner and when we got out of the prison there was his staff just floating in the air showing him asking to get in a raft with me, but he wasn't standing there, or anything else, it felt like a bug? eventually the loop ended and that was that, is that really the ending?

[Shiztastic]

The staff definitely should not have been floating. It’s supposed to be stuck in the ground near the water. The implication being that he entered the water and put out his lantern.

Yes, it is the end of the story on the Stranger, but I would suggest beating the base game again and see if you find anything new.

[choongmyoung]

Yep. He should've had put his artifact underwater and died, I suppose. All of his siblings hate him after all, and death should be better than being stucked forever anyway.

Try to see the ending again if you have seen it already. There's a good additional touch.

[Garamoth]

I honestly got confused by it too. So he wants you to "float into the light with him", i.e. basically commit suicide. It's kinda creepy. :-/

But I suppose you're both already dead. By the way... is there a way to find the right combination for the bell and reach him without being dead?

[xr ඞ]

Originally posted by Garamoth:

By the way... is there a way to find the right combination for the bell and reach him without being dead?

There's no way to find the combination in game, however there is apparently one combination that works.

[lieutenantkirtar]

And so far no one has found anything by freeing the prisoner while still being alive. The sarcophagus is still shut in the real world.

[SMJSMOK]

Originally posted by lieutenantkirtar:

And so far no one has found anything by freeing the prisoner while still being alive. The sarcophagus is still shut in the real world.

Do you think there's anything of value in there? Because I think there's just a dead body inside.

[red_glass_shoe]

I also believe the Stranger committed suicide. Both he and his entire race are long dead, and he is now free of a prison he has lived in for god knows how long.

You and he floating away might have been a thank you, a slight plea that you (and your race) remember him (and his race) and that before the terror and the sadness, that they too set out to be explorers like the Hearthians.

Also, he probably doesnt know you're dead when you reach him, and so assumes you can carry on.