Last location: Bell Door to Fief of the Chill Curse
Bosses defeated: (now 1 / all 14 of 38) | Harrower Dervla the Pledged Knight & The Unbroken Promise
Lifetime: 7 hours 09 minutes and 08 seconds
Weapon (#7) Taxidermist’s Hammer
Status: still alive
Challenge: The Hollow Gamble
Swanke pressed on through the filth-rotted corridors of the Sunless Skein, past the ruined Cistern, until he stood before trembling gates that swallowed light… a portal into the Revelation Depths. This hidden descent, nestled far below the world above, was forged in darkness and silence. Stray shafts of Umbral light barely cut through the chasm, and suspended walkways clung to hollowed walls like skeletal remains.
Every step echoed in the hollow void. The walls dripped with rancid moisture; fungal motes hovered like lost stars in the pitch. More than once, Swanke almost plummeted into the unseen maw below. The abyss tested him long before he ever faced its guardian. At the bottom, he met Harrower Dervla, the Pledged Knight. She was both judge and jailer—armored in austerity, sword raised in bitter obligation. But she was not alone. Within the sanctum of shadows stood The Unbroken Promise, a colossal, spectral colossus formed by shattered vows and lingering faith.
Their dance was merciless. Steel clanged against steel. Light waivered. Swanke’s hammer sang in defiance as Dervla’s blade carved sparks from his battered armor. Behind her, The Unbroken Promise dried hope’s breath from the air, its ghostly form striking unseen strikes at Swanke’s soul. Bruised, bleeding, and nearly broken, Swanke endured. Driven by nothing but the necessity to survive, he shattered steel, he crushed bone, and he unmade the unbreakable. With a thunderous blow that cracked the darkness itself, Dervla fell. The Unbroken Promise dissolved into echoes, lost to the depths… Silence followed.
Swanke emerged standing amidst dim embers and fractured light—a lone form of flesh and persistence. Around him lay scattered trophies of blood, ruin, and the broken remnants of promises unkept. Now, he stands again, at the threshold of Mournstead’s unknown finale, the Revelation Depths stretching before him like a wound in the world’s foundations. Every silent tunnel ahead is a witness to his survival. Every shadow whispers of the darkness still waiting.
But Swanke… he walks.
Witness all Hollow Gamble fates unfold: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQRPy70pDgKVutYPapqbk1JFjJP_-j_66
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