Last location: Revelation Depths (Entrance)
Bosses defeated: (now 2 / all 13 of 38) | Skin Stealer, Bringer of Stillness (+Bringer of Silence and Bringer of Nullity)
Lifetime: 6 hours 08 minutes and 51 seconds
Weapon (#7) Taxidermist’s Hammer
Status: still alive
Challenge: The Hollow Gamble
Beneath the scorched ruins of Calrath, beyond the bubbling cisterns and decayed shafts, Swanke wandered through the twisted labyrinth of the Sunless Skein. The air was foul, thick with rot and toxic vapors. Fungal growths clung to the walls like festering wounds, and over everything lay an oppressive silence — so deep, it felt like a sin to even breathe.
Drawn by a whisper in the Umbral, he followed the scent of something ancient and vile. It led him to the Skin Stealer — a grotesque hunter who wore the flayed hides of its victims like cloaks. Their clash was brutal. In the damp dark, Swanke faced the abomination, its stolen faces writhing and screaming. But his cursed hammer — soaked in silent wrath — struck true. He crushed it until only twitching flesh and shredded masks remained.
Yet deeper dangers awaited. Far beneath the cistern, in forgotten halls of rusted machines and suffocated prayers, three figures emerged — not of flesh, but of absence. The Bringer of Stillness, the Bringer of Silence, and the Bringer of Nullity. Three husks. Three voids. Three forms of death. The first stilled his limbs — freezing muscle and bone. The second stole all sound — his war cry smothered before birth. The third… unraveled meaning. For a heartbeat, Swanke forgot who he was — why he fought — if he even existed. But within that void, something stirred. A spark. Defiance. Swankes hammer swung. Shield and will followed. Shattered bone and fractured essence were all that remained of the trio, swept aside by a man who would not be silenced.
Now, Swanke stands at the threshold of the Revelation Depths. The stone hums with buried voices. The air tastes of forgotten oaths. Whatever lies beneath, he does not know.
Witness all Hollow Gamble fates unfold: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQRPy70pDgKVutYPapqbk1JFjJP_-j_66
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