The Keystone Problem | Conan Exiles: Raw Lore

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[@Balenciagabater]

Great video, love the Conan universe and the Exiled Lands. There is one piece of obscure lore I haven’t seen covered much. An early NPC on noob river, Arcos the Wanderer I think, mentions he’s seen people in the North across the Ghost Wall with similar bracelets but with and amber gem instead of our green. Thoughts?

[@Eradicati0nn]

@@Balenciagabater It's not a lead I've chased yet, but definitely one I'm willing to dive into. It wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't really lead anywhere, but the journey to find out would be fun

[@Balenciagabater]

Indeed, unfortunately there does seem to be a lot of loose threads in game the devs never fleshed out. Maybe teasing a far off map expansion that’s been scrapped, or maybe just another bullet point in the “Iceberg part 2” video 😉.

[@MrTaktic121]

What that armour called at 1:54 looks 👍

[@sgt.doughnut5918]

Mek not only wants to break the curse to leave. But to prevent himself from being trapped again as well.

[@Lost_Elfgirl]

I'm more like wondering how the hell the people who throw us and all the others into the Exiled Lands get these bracers for all the people.

[@pyromancerinquisitor]

there is also the fact that mek was pretty weak before the age of sorcery and he even admits this, and as such doesn't have the strength to fight these bosses with blade or sorcery. then age of sorcery happens and he only has one chapter with his power returned before he is reduced to a talking head in a basket.

[@typhonplume9374]

When I talked with the ARchivist, he mentions the items needed to break the shackle of bondage. SO that could be another way other then the Staff.

[@TonyNumber9]

The staff mentions archivist and ghost of said archivist that mentions how to break from bracelet. It is found out, originally using keystones would shut down ghost wall and bracelets with everyone walking out of exiled lands with rezma, conan and the player walking off together for another adventure as pillars that kept everyone in collapse and it would be ending, but was scrapped in development for unknown reason, i don't remember who found about it, but it something to keep in mind about the Keystone.

[@Eradicati0nn]

I'm guessing that was scrapped simply because of the massive plot hole potential. The freedom story hook is one of the most important ones, and not being able to use it would have really hampered the motivations of many characters

[@thenovicecraftsman712]

See now THAT I'd how it had always seemed to me. I'd say it creates more of a plot hole if it DOESNT do that, as powerful as those artifacts are.

[@Sshar22]

A few nitpicks, if I may: 1) the artifacts that created the bracelets were 7 (ring of Set is missing) 2) we don't know if the keystone is one use only, upon using it the end game cinematic plays. We don't know if it can be reused after the Exile leaves. The Archivist hints that it can disable the Cursewall 3) one can talk with the Archivist and he too explains how the bracelets were created, the artefacts used, their possible location and how you can free yourself. (The staff is not needed) 4) talking with the Warmaker, the ring of Set is again mentioned and also the person who took it. The only plot hole I can spot is the sandstorm not stopping after repairing the Scourgestone. Lastly, I completely agree that actions done lore wise are one time only. It was an enjoyable video, please continue.

[@spaceranger7683]

Idea for future update: those who leave the Exiled Lands get a cinematic showing that they got shipwrecked on the Isle of Siptah. Conversely, those who escape Siptah (if that's I thing, I've barely played there) get captured and sent to the Exiled Lands. Gives you some reason to finish the map you're on rather than just lose your character progression and start over.

[@belisariussmith9095]

People have been asking for that since Siptah came out. You should also have the gear you had equipped on you stay with you (not your inventory, just equipment and maybe what's on your quickbar). That way you don't feel like your character was deleted, but also you're not totally OP with massive resources.

[@Kaziklu]

Is the Keystone one use though? It is one use for us as we use it and leave. We don't stay and release everyone. It is a keystone it should release everyone's bracelet. Either one at a time or all at once. As such to me their are two possible (head canon) solutions. One you have released yourself and you just want to get out and not attract the attention of the one that sent you here in the first place. Thoth Amon is going to learn someone was able to make the stone and will likely see someone that capable as a threat. Alternately it will release the Bracelets (or give the option to remove the bracelets) of everyone around but in game play mechanics everyone does it individually so that each person has to kill the bosses and you can't just cheese it. The Alternate is... once you use the keystone you disable all the bracelets. You may not disable the cursed wall but everyone in the exiled lands is free to leave from a lore perspective. From a game play one though if making the key stone unlocked all the bracelets it would likely require a server wipe to occur when you did that. While that would be a really interesting mechanic... It would kinda suck for players if on a PvP server you could literally wipe everything and start everyone over by being the first to make the Keystone. So for the Game it has to only release you and be one time use... but the idea that all that magic would only release a single bracelet is silly. Personally I like the idea of the keystone being permanent. From a lore perspective I can see you as the player using it and taking off. However I see Conan coming across it realizing that you did it and helping everyone. From a game perspective I would have liked to see Funcom actually give you the option of bringing Conan and Razma to the Altar and for you to be able to release your bracelet, Razma's and give the key stone to Conan to free those he see's fit to. From a lore perspective I think it would have tied up the loose end and been a nice book end to mirror the opening with Conan and Razma being involved.

[@Opsydjon]

There is one more issue on this topic. The keystone allows you to pass the green wall surrounding the land of exiles. Recall the conversation with the NPC next to the stone giants by the river. He says he saw other exiles with amber in their bracelets. Perhaps Mek knows about it and wants to destroy all the walls, i.e. the green wall of the exile lands and the second amber one which is the second layer (Where the adventures of the exile will be the subject of Conan Exiles 2, where the key item will be the Set's Ring) Therefore, for Mek, the key stone does not really matter .

[@bradwatson7324]

I live like a king in the Exiled Lands. Why would I want to leave?

[@trolltalwar]

my thoughts exactly. leave? hah! leave being a warlord slave master with my own personal military, a castle and swathes of land? my guy is just having too much fun out here

[@patrickmace5340]

The reason nobody does this is simple. You lose everything you did. Everything you built. Every pet every thrall. Everything you've worked so hard to do. And what's worst you don't even achieve the amber jewel for doing it either.

[@NorseGraphic]

I did it seven times, mostly to end the run. I’m currently playing one character on Siptah, and one in the Exiled Lands, not planning to ‘retire’ them anytime soon. Besides, how can you finish the Isle of Siptah anyway???

[@patrickmace5340]

@@NorseGraphic you can't technically without server transfer active. But in theory you'd probably need the thing from the volcano and bring it to the tower. 🤷‍♂️. But technically only way to remove the bracelet is the exiled lands.

[@genewurmstein6710]

Not sure where it says the Keystone is one-use only. Gameplay wise, once a player uses the keystone, it is consumed, yes. But that's mainly because using it ends the game and takes you back to the character creator. You can't give it to anyone else for the same reason why you can't give anyone else your gear or inventory items once you use it. But is that just a gameplay contrivance or an actual part of the lore of the Keystone? I've always thought the Keystone was a perfectly unique item that could only be crafted by retrieving the unique relics involved in the creation of the slave bond, but I didn't think it was consumed in the process.

[@Eradicati0nn]

I've always been under the assumption that the keystone is a single-use item. Looking at the design, it appears it would be pressed against the bracelet to unlock it, and the green gem within the Keystone would use the energy from the artefacts to dispell whatever magic keeps the bracelet locked. It's not written in stone that the Keystone is single-use, though that may be out of precaution against plot holes, or just willingly leaving it ambiguous. For all intents and purposes though, in both lore and gameplay, I would consider it single-use unless contradicting evidence came up in the future

[@genewurmstein6710]

@@Eradicati0nn Honestly, either way makes for some pretty good storytelling opportunities. If it's single-use only, then more could be written about what the remaining exiles are doing to escape and/or dominate the region, like Mek-Kamoses. If it isn't, story could be written about the inevitable conflict that could ensue as different exile factions fight to try to steal the Keystone to free themselves and/or possess the ultimate bargaining chip for any newcomers to the region. Either way, if someone figured out a way to escape the Exiled Lands, the Black Hand would be all over it the moment they found out. They'd send someone to either lock down the Exiled Lands and ensure no one escapes, or to raid the place for every last useful item they can before the jury-rigged superprison breaks open. Which could be why the Stygian king is suddenly ordering a mass invasion in the Age of War... There's still references to a sorcerous mummy boss enemy you were supposed to fight at the Chaosmouth that was a creature coughed up by Toth Amon to prevent the Keystone from being created. It was supposed to have the Serpent Ring of Set on it, which Toth Amon stole from the Unnamed City just before the first Exiles started getting sent to the region. The ring was mentioned by the Archivist as an item needed to forge the Keystone, though he admits that it might be impossible to build the Keystone anyway since the ring was stolen. He merely hopes that the remaining items are powerful enough to do the trick without the ring. This all suggests that Toth Amon knows about the Keystone and what it was meant to do, and was attempting to sabotage the effort to recreate it. That fear wouldn't necessarily be warranted if it was one single hapless exile escaping the region, but if the Keystone could free everyone, then every plan he had regarding the Exiled Lands was at risk. Also, there is a question to be asked about the process used to make the Keystone. The Archivist doesn't really say or imply that the Keystone is a jury-rigged piece of kitbashed magic, but that the process used to make it was established long ago. That possibly could have happened back in the day when the bracelets were communication devices and not slave bonds. If that's true, then how is it one-use only? And, even more critically, how can it destroy the artifacts used to create it? If it can only be made and used once, then...it was meant to only ever free one single person? All this is just because I got the feeling from the game and the lore snippets I found around the region that the Keystone meant a bit more than a single-use irreplaceable ticket out of the Exiled Lands.

[@warmonger_365]

The player character is the chosen one,mek probably did find a way out,but died B4 he could fully accomplish his goal

[@kimberlyharris980]

I was wondering, once you (the exile) craft the keystone and leave, does the sandstorm stop? Like is the magic of the spell gone so the land can grow properly again and maybe one day look like the highlands instead of blistering desert?

[@Eradicati0nn]

I don't think so? I'm not 100% certain without delving into it a little more, but I believe the sandstorm would continue as long as Petruso lives, which would be effectively forever. The shattered Scourgestone is already broken, so basically deleting it from existence wouldn't effect the elemental, at least I wouldn't think so

[@jankoval]

It's a separate spell, that keeps going on an on. It kind of already got stopped by Petruso binding the elemental entity within himself. It starts in the deep desert and stops at the Petruso's temple, then loops back again.

[@Ming1975]

This why i find playing single player more immersing. But found it annoying my character walked out without taking his treasure and horse with him. LoL!

[@MaverickX36]

Same here! 😉✌🏻

[@DmytroBogdan]

you have to create a Keystone for your horse too :)

[@Wolf-bz6kq]

In all fairness to attain the keystone you have not only travel all over the exile lands but kill some tough customers, dragons, giants, undead, and an arena champion. I would imagine that few actually made it to the archives to figure out how to obtain the keystone and seeing how the artifacts are were they were since the end of the war no one before the character got them. My head cannon is after aquiring the keystone my exile unlocks his bracelet but stays and use the keystone as a way to leverage influence and resources

[@kadir320]

This was an amazing topic, and helped me better RP because it sometimes feels like a plot hole like if its this easy why don't we just leave but this makes a lot of sense

[@thenovicecraftsman712]

Do we have any actual evidence that the Keystone IS a one use item? Cuz I don't see how that would make any sense given that it's made from the things that built both the curse wall and bracelets at the same time. How would such items be more powerful than the artifacts used to create them? The curse wall and bracelets both have maintained a constant level of magic over the course of several centuries, so why would the energy of the keystone be expended completely in a single go? It doesn't make sense unless the keystone itself were to destroy the curse wall and the ALL bracelets at once. Surely ONE measly bracelet isn't so powerful that the keystone forged from the combined magics of dozens of outer gods completely exhausts itself to break it. I mean, ffs just look at the path into the north. It USED to be cut off by more curse wall with completely different colored bracelets and they were somehow destroyed without the power of the keystone. Because only the green and gold ones still exist. The jungle was the same way, cut off by the curse wall until they too were also destroyed without that power. From what I can tell, there were 3 curse walls in total with either 2 or 3 sets of bracelets with different colors corresponding to the wall you are trapped in. The main, green curse wall which encompasses the entirety of the exiled lands and traps all bracelet wearers within, northern border wall which extends accross the northern border from west to east, the jungle wall which runs from the eastern joint where the northern wall meets the main wall, to the south eastern portion of the jungle zone, meeting the main curse wall either in the ocean, or in the desert. The dividing walls were all destroyed somehow, along with the bracelets that came with them, and all was done without the keystone. If it were so hard to do without an item as powerful as the keystone, I can't imagine even the events of the war of the giant kings leading to the destruction of those walls and bracelets. So yeah, I don't see how the keystone could logically be a single use item when you just created a super artifact with the help of a demon of the outer dark. But also, why would thoth amon want so badly to get those things if, at best, their combined power could only allow a single exile to go free?

[@Perji]

The staff doesn't tell you about the artifacts, it just sends you to the Archivist. It's the Archivist that gives you the list of items you need to collect, and warns you that it is impossible to obtain the Serpent Ring of Set, which may make the keystone unusable. Is it possible that anyone besides the exile would reach the Archivist? Highly likely. Would he just help anyone that comes to him? Quite possibly. He just gives you this information free of charge, would make sense he would just give it to anyone else as well. There is also speech from Arcos the Wanderer at the Sentinels, who tells you about people wearing bracelets but with gems of amber orange instead of green somewhere in the North. Not exactly sure where that is supposed to lead.

[@Eradicati0nn]

It is possible that others would find The Archivist, though the Awakened Staff is what spurs that on firstly, though indirectly. I also think that falls into a matter of circumstance again, where most characters don't really have much reason to head to The Archives in their own story, maybe aside from the Relic Hunters. A few people have mentioned the amber bracelets. I think that's likely a thread that doesn't lead anywhere, but I'm looking into it to see where it may lead

[@spaceranger7683]

@@Eradicati0nn Re: the amber-gemmed bracelets. You're probably right that this thread doesn't currently lead anywhere. The original plan for this game was not to have Seasons, so it probably was a seed planted for a future expansion. That said, I was surprised that the Siptah expansion wasn't where those bracelets got brought into play. Now, however, those could be a jumping off point for a future Season - like Age of the Others or whatnot. :)

[@JackPhoenixCz]

@@spaceranger7683 The amber-gemmed bracelets mention is a relic from time where the North was inaccessible. You can still see the broken Cursewall pillars at the border between the desert and the north, same between the desert and the jungle. My assumption is the Heirs of the North and the Forgotten Tribe were supposed to have the amber bracelets, as there's nothing but impassable frozen mountains further north.

[@DmytroBogdan]

Staff tells specifically about artifacts the first time you activate it and THEN points exile towards Archivist so he may know more about the process. Also staff tells a lot about Serpent ring of Set which should be the 7th item needed to create Keystone

[@GrimDarkHalfOff]

He will do the RuneScape lore one day

[@Eradicati0nn]

In the business, we call this foreshadowing

[@SemiramisAudron]

Me: So in short, Suspension of Disbelieve regarding respawn game mechanics Also me: YEAH SHOUT OUT TO MY BUDDY STAFFY!

[@DmytroBogdan]

Mek didn't have access to Darfari Brutes so he couldn't kill those bosses in one combo :)

[@Davesoft]

No plot hole, using the keystone to unlock the bracelet is the bad ending. Congratulations, exile, you're now immortal and have at least 3 dominant souls running around in that head of yours :P The unimplemented good ending, I reckon, is to build an empire large enough to annoy Set, then you defeat the purge and get the essence of set's ring, and do some other ritual to lower the curse wall. Remember, the staff is a liar, obeying it's advice is Not Good :D

[@joelkp1185]

I know this is completely unrelated to the topic of this video, but I’ll say it anyway. I’d really love to get a lore video discussing Acheron and Stygia’s relationship. When I watched one of your videos, I found out that Acheron was an evil, dark, daughter kingdom to Stygia, which I perceived as Acheron basically being a “mini-empire” within Stygia, meaning that Stygia was assumably established and grew to great power way before Acheron was founded. Although, when I watch grim dark half off’s video, he states that Acheron is a dark, ancient, sorcerous kingdom that is one of the oldest in hyboria, older than Stygia. If that was so, how did it become a daughter kingdom, i.e. inferior, to Stygia, given that Acheron was established long before Stygia? Maybe I’m just mis-interpreting the meaning of the word “daughter kingdom”. Again, this is very unrelated to this video, but I do want to say what I think would be an interesting lore video. To all of you in the comments section, tell me what you think of this video idea, or maybe you could educate me yourselves on Acheron and Stygia’s relationship?

[@caffeine4543]

I kind of figured that nobody else in the Exiled Lands has met the Librarian, or even know he exists. And if you've never talked to the Librarian ghost, how would you even know anything about what the relics do? Rather less knowing if they even exist at all?

[@Nimuel]

I'd be very surprised if anyone in the exiled lands has met or even heard of the The Librarian. I mean I get that he can travel through L-space and probably visit the exile lands that way. But I don't know, for all the magical beasts and demons out there, I don't know if the people of the exiled lands would know what to do with a sentient orangutan. If it ever happens though, for their sake, let's hope they don't call him a monkey! R.I.P. Terry Pratchett

[@ill-fatedgamer]

Hey this was a great video Rad!!!

[@paollopiettrobrunoro9979]

Cool! Thank you for always bringing great contents!! 😊

[@TomLinkens]

When you speak to Razma in her house, she mentions that her bracelet had been removed. Probably while the Witch Queen was controlling her.

[@Eradicati0nn]

I don't recall dialogue about her bracelet being removed, though she does mention the Witch Queen knowing about them. It's unclear if she wears a bracelet still, as the RH gloves cover where it would sit

[@TomLinkens]

@@Eradicati0nn Listen to all of Razma's dialogue, she mentions her bracelet was removed, and she will travel with Conan.

[@Eradicati0nn]

@@TomLinkens Yeah I just re-listened to it, the "I have my freedom" line does imply the bracelet is removed, though I always interpreted that is freedom from the mask. I'm not too sure how the bracelet gets removed, if indeed it does, it never gets directly mentioned or even seen in-game aside from the intro cinematic. I also looked through her journals, she mentions The Archivist and preparing an expedition there, which is very interesting. The only explanation I can think is that The Witch Queen may have had a keystone from before the uprising? It seems unlikely, and I don't see much motivation to free Razma, as WQ wants to rebuild her empire in Xel-Ha. I get a feeling that potentially leads to a little more of a plot hole, unless there's an explanation somewhere

[@JackPhoenixCz]

@@Eradicati0nn I imagine the removal of the bracelet may be easier than breaking the Cursewall itself, which is what the Keystone does. If anyone's able to do that, the Witch Queen should. The Archivist may be limited by his state as a ghost, and the Priestking is not in a state to be reasoned with. Nor sure about the Warmaker, but my impression is that he's the least learned of the Triumvirate in the arts of sorcery. Arcos the Wanderer mentioned someone cutting of his hand to remove the bracelet, and the issue there was a lack of medical care afterwards, which caused him to bleed out. Perhaps with access to better resources, that would work for someone willing to go to that length... survivable amputations are certainly possible at Conan's tech level, especially with access to supernatural healing options.

[@spaceranger7683]

Bigger plot hole: if people are being sent to the Exiled Lands for the purpose of dredging up artifacts for Thoth-Amon and his servants to then come take from them, they why does everyone start out crucified in middle of an uninhabited desert? Seems like an awful long journey to just kill someone. Or a big waste of potential manpower if many of those people never make it off of their crosses.

[@Eradicati0nn]

I think that's pretty easy to work out. Thoth markets TEL as a prison to foreign rulers, which is kinda what it is. Exiles hunting for relics is his ulterior motive. The crucifixion is likely a filtering method. If they're tough enough to survive the cross, they'll likely succeed in finding artifacts. That, or it's just the optics for crucifying prisoners for whomever drops them off in The Exiled Lands

[@trolltalwar]

people arent sent to the exiled lands for this purpose. theyres criminals who committed a crime, or were framed for committing a crime, and the exiled lands is the prison. i think we need to also understand that not EVERY exile in the exiled lands was crucified. some are crucified, one of which being the player character exile, but not all.

[@Eradicati0nn]

@@trolltalwar TEL is indeed a prison for the criminal, non-criminal and anyone that is generally unfavourable to their local leaders. However, Thoth's main motivation is not out of just wanting to having a prison, it's so that the purge, employed by him, can skim artifacts recovered by the exiles through the purge. It's very possible that not every exile is crucified. There's only a handful of exiles that we know for sure were, and no confirmation either way for the majority

[@infernohellknight]

What about the Serpent Ring Of Set. I still think that is the way to bring the curse down, but from what I heard Toth Amon has it and you can not get it back because he is just to powerful. Also regarding the staff it's been broken for the longest time, because I'm pretty sure it has more dialogue, but when you get to the third time it speaks it keeps repeating the same line.

[@Eradicati0nn]

Yeah Thoth definitely still has the Serpent Ring, that's how he has the power to rise so high in the Black Ring and to offer the prison to foreign kings. I doubt we'll see it in game for a long time. The staff seems fairly buggy, though I have managed to get it to speak every line of dialogue. It's very touch and go as to what triggers it respects and when

[@sarinia8640]

From what I have seen, the staff dialogue works if you go after the artifacts specifically in the order the staff gives you and check back with it after each artifact. If you collect the artifacts randomly, you'll miss most of the dialogue.@@Eradicati0nn

[@Perji]

you cannot get his ring because you are inside the wall and he is not. his power has nothing to do with it.

[@infernohellknight]

@@Perji Well I have suggested that after you free yourself you go after him, but people have said that is futile because he is very powerful that even Conan has trouble against him.

[@Perji]

@@infernohellknight well okay, but the whole point of getting the ring was to free yourself. what's the point of going for the ring after you do that.

[@ozzloza85]

What's the background music it seems so familiar but I just can't put my finger on it ...

[@Eradicati0nn]

There are two in this video, Temple of the Manes and Lost Frontier, both by Kevin MacLeod All the music I use is always credited in the description, so if you're ever looking for the name of one, it'll be in there! :)

[@ozzloza85]

​@@Eradicati0nn well you just won a subscriber awesome response. The song is "Temple of Manes" I'm sure I have heard it before from an old Strategy game it's either Warlords Battlecry 3 or Knights of Honor

[@Eradicati0nn]

@@ozzloza85 Thank you, and welcome to the Coffee Cult! Kevin's done a tonne of Creative Commons and video game music, so it doesn't surprise me. Once you're familiar with his catalogue, you hear his stuff everywhere

[@wintersteale]

How do we know these are 1 time use items? This would negate the whole respawn system of the game. You kill mobs, npc's or even bosses and they respawn. There are loads of people in TEL. It seems to me it makes more sense that the puzzle would be able to be solved more than once. It probably is far more rare that others don't do as much adventuring and searching so only those small few who pass all the trials and finish the puzzle get to leave. We find out about the keystone and bracelet through dialog, lore and an interaction with the archivist. Out of all the humans roaming TEL you mean we are the ONLY ones that ever come across him? We are called exile but so is the majority of the population here. If it is a one time thing then it would prove that TEL are more a purgatory type of place and all the npc's are not actual real people but copies of them. How did Conan end up here and with no bracelet on? Toth has been able to come here, steal the ring and bracelets and travel back to the king to make a deal? How was he not trapped? It also makes all of the extremely powerful artifacts we find seem like anything but. The ring of Set is a one time use item? We never even get this item since Toth took off with it. Speaking of Toth, if the artifacts and relics are one time appearing and use then Toth would have stripped the land with his purges quite some time ago. There would be nothing left of value and the purges would no longer exist. Also, if the items only ever appear once so many of them would nave been permanently lost over time being buried in rubble, lost in quakes, destroyed by lava, etc. The Witch Queen mask is used by Razma before we even enter TEL meaning it would've been used up and useless to us. How do we get the keystone to work when we never get the serpent ring back? I feel the fact that when you do put the pieces together and you end up back at the cc screen seems like more proof that it really is some type of purgatory and after all that work we end back at the same spot we started like a barbaric version of Groundhog Day. I feel there quite a few holes in the game lore. Maybe it's from different staff members and writers coming on quite some time after original content and not doing enough research. Maybe it's due to Funcom allowing more variety and loose interpretations of the og story. ......... ?????? We will probably never know.

[@mausolus8466]

I would have a suggestion for the next topic - immortality of those trapped in The Exiled Lands and Isle of Siptah. While mostly gameplay mechanics, lore description say that anyone in The Exiled Lands (and Isle of Siptah apparently as well) that dies here awakens at the place that they last slept. I also heard opinions that it is supposed to do something with dreaming, that Exiled Lands are in fact different plane of existence, and Isle of Siptah is so corrupted by power of Outer Dark, that you basically "dream within dream", therefore can never trully die there.

[@NorseGraphic]

I thought it was a meta by Funcom, them making a joke by telling the story through the frost giant you can learn their religion, located north of the Mounds of the Dead.

[@Eradicati0nn]

I've always thought of immortality as a consequence of the bracelet, but I think that's just my head canon, as I don't recall any evidence to back it up. It could be the dream theory from The Outcast, or the devs just couldn't work out a less gamey way to handle respawning

[@tonimalum346]

Mek could not forsee the momentum...

[@rel3elskum336]

Good video, thanks.

[@EL-Masry]

They lore is singleplayer game thing nothing is disconnected imo

[@devilsmessanger]

because it is old item purely made for gameplay for people who actually wanted end of a game . its much less story item as gameplay mechanic , in theory there is only 1 hero and only 1 of each item . as usually you are ready far far very fukin far into it .

[@aetherial87]

Does crafting the keystone immediately end the game or is there another step? I've actually never crafted it for fear of losing my character, lol.

[@sarinia8640]

After you craft the keystone, it goes into your inventory. If you select it and use it, then you are asked if that's what you really want to do. If you say no, it stays in your inventory. If you say yes, you get a short cinematic of your character walking out of the exiled lands past the ghostwall and the game ends.

[@aetherial87]

@@sarinia8640 thanks!

[@Caligator89]

you fucked up; its not the staff that teaches you what you need to assemble the keystone, its the architect. the staff only tells you that you need to go to the architect. after that the thing just repeats that message.