Wyrmlord
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It's probably been a year or two since I last played Torment, but based on whatever information is thrown around in the game, what do you guys think was the definite history of the Nameless One in a chronological order? Here's what I can jot together.
1. The Nameless One was a man who commanded a freighter that flew in the sky. On this flying boat, he charted the lands as its admiral, and lived a life of mapping the relief and the terrain of the land below.
2. When war broke out against the nation he served, he was responsible for leading this ship on attacks on the enemy territory. With his flying ship, he used to bombard entire towns with his canons, destroying entire scores of cities, and killing people by the millions.
3. Once when his second-in-command asked him whether it was moral to do what they were doing, the admiral broke down in tears, and told him that regret can drive a man mad. He was perfectly aware of the horrible things he was doing, but he had to convince himself that those down below were the "enemy" and not women and children. He was already a morally broken man, and could not bear himself. His subordinate was a man very attuned to human senses, and he would go on to record his experience in the war in a sensory stone in Sigil.
4. When the Nameless One saw firsthand the destruction he had caused, he was overpowered by enormous regret that was already swelling in him, and the sheer pain of it led him to becoming a changed man. He saw that he must account for everything that he had done.
5. The Nameless One returned to his home as a decorated war hero, and he commanded a high status. He thus was able to find a bureaucrat who had contacts with people of the Planes, and had valuable information for anyone who would pay him well for it. The Nameless One told him that even though he had now become a morally decent man, he needed entire lifetimes of good deeds to make up for the endless lives he took away. The bureaucrat directed him to find a powerful hag of the Gray Wastes, but chose not to tell him that no one who ever visited ever came back alive. This bureaucrat would be condemned to the Pillar of Skulls in his death.
6. He was thus forced to go into the Planes of Evil to find her. In his journeys, he often found himself pushed into the middle of the Blood War, and in a horrific experience, he was overpowered by succubi who ripped off his flesh, carving it in deep cuts that penetrated completely through his flesh. He was also systematically tortured by the baatezu, who also liked to use his body as a chopping board.
7. He finally reached the Gray Wastes in a blood soaked body and his clothes torn down to mere rags discoloured by blood and dirt. When the hag he searched for was finally found, she was touched by his predicament, in seeing that he transformed himself into a better man, and was willing to endure enormous pain to atone for his wrongs. She could not have thought a mortal man was capable of such a thing, and he was the one who could finally answer her eternal question of "What can change the nature of a man?"
8. When the ritual succeeded, the essence of his mortality departed, fracturing his mind, and taking away all the inborn regret that he lived by, the regret which contained so much negative energy, it formed a gigantic fortress in the Negative Material Plane.
That should probably cover most of the story of the original incarnation. Beyond that, as he went through endless reincarnations, at one point, he would become a masterful Practioner of the Arts, who would go on to traverse the planes, and then cheat and bind any person of value to serve him. These included a githzerai zerth of a destroyed city in limbo, a blind archer, the very same bureaucrat who led him to the hag, and a foreseeing Sensate.
Are there any more details that you guys remember, perchance? None of this was ever told in chronological order, and I am curious to sum up exactly what happened.
1. The Nameless One was a man who commanded a freighter that flew in the sky. On this flying boat, he charted the lands as its admiral, and lived a life of mapping the relief and the terrain of the land below.
2. When war broke out against the nation he served, he was responsible for leading this ship on attacks on the enemy territory. With his flying ship, he used to bombard entire towns with his canons, destroying entire scores of cities, and killing people by the millions.
3. Once when his second-in-command asked him whether it was moral to do what they were doing, the admiral broke down in tears, and told him that regret can drive a man mad. He was perfectly aware of the horrible things he was doing, but he had to convince himself that those down below were the "enemy" and not women and children. He was already a morally broken man, and could not bear himself. His subordinate was a man very attuned to human senses, and he would go on to record his experience in the war in a sensory stone in Sigil.
4. When the Nameless One saw firsthand the destruction he had caused, he was overpowered by enormous regret that was already swelling in him, and the sheer pain of it led him to becoming a changed man. He saw that he must account for everything that he had done.
5. The Nameless One returned to his home as a decorated war hero, and he commanded a high status. He thus was able to find a bureaucrat who had contacts with people of the Planes, and had valuable information for anyone who would pay him well for it. The Nameless One told him that even though he had now become a morally decent man, he needed entire lifetimes of good deeds to make up for the endless lives he took away. The bureaucrat directed him to find a powerful hag of the Gray Wastes, but chose not to tell him that no one who ever visited ever came back alive. This bureaucrat would be condemned to the Pillar of Skulls in his death.
6. He was thus forced to go into the Planes of Evil to find her. In his journeys, he often found himself pushed into the middle of the Blood War, and in a horrific experience, he was overpowered by succubi who ripped off his flesh, carving it in deep cuts that penetrated completely through his flesh. He was also systematically tortured by the baatezu, who also liked to use his body as a chopping board.
7. He finally reached the Gray Wastes in a blood soaked body and his clothes torn down to mere rags discoloured by blood and dirt. When the hag he searched for was finally found, she was touched by his predicament, in seeing that he transformed himself into a better man, and was willing to endure enormous pain to atone for his wrongs. She could not have thought a mortal man was capable of such a thing, and he was the one who could finally answer her eternal question of "What can change the nature of a man?"
8. When the ritual succeeded, the essence of his mortality departed, fracturing his mind, and taking away all the inborn regret that he lived by, the regret which contained so much negative energy, it formed a gigantic fortress in the Negative Material Plane.
That should probably cover most of the story of the original incarnation. Beyond that, as he went through endless reincarnations, at one point, he would become a masterful Practioner of the Arts, who would go on to traverse the planes, and then cheat and bind any person of value to serve him. These included a githzerai zerth of a destroyed city in limbo, a blind archer, the very same bureaucrat who led him to the hag, and a foreseeing Sensate.
Are there any more details that you guys remember, perchance? None of this was ever told in chronological order, and I am curious to sum up exactly what happened.
