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| “ | Penitent One, who comes into our presence. Bringing guilt to the most sacred of place, to the most forbidden of temples. Breaking all laws and thus desecrating his Holiness himself. We are the High Wills. For there is no miracle that does not stem from our desire. That is not our reflection. That is not our Word. The Word that was first made flesh and then sanctified. Penitent One, does not the pale, still light of this vast horizon hurt your eyes? Of this procession, more ancient than us, that extends out before you without end nor beginning? Of this brotherhood of grieving souls, held captive by their own condemnation and benediction? This is the Path of the Ancient Processions. The Kingdom that the Miracle wove from threads of dreams. A domain where faith would unite in one single, uninterrupted act of adoration. That would give us light and time. That would make us eternal. And higher-reaching than the sky itself. You have come to this place to atone for your sins, to put an end to this Work. Destroying our flesh that once was Word and now is but silence. Making us cast down our eyes, leaving the Miracle bereft. And so the last of our wills is your eternal condemnation. In life and in death, in hunger and in thirst, in sleep and in wakefulness. Buried under layers of ash, the ash of your flesh, bones and sinew. Execrated in visage. Forgotten in name. For ever and ever. There is no penance that can exonerate this Sin. It is the price to pay for the ultimate blasphemy. | „ |
| ~ The High Wills |
The High Wills are the overarching antagonists of the 2019 indie game Blasphemous and its 2023 sequel Blasphemous II. They are the true masterminds of the Grievous Miracle that curses the land of Cvstodia.
Appearance[]
The High Wills are portrayed as three conjoined pale heads with dark gray hair emitting golden tears from their eyes with brown irises. The center and left head are masculine while the right head is feminine.
Biography[]
The High Wills come from the other side of the dream, an otherworldly realm that overlooks the religious nation of Cvstodia. Long ago, a man filled with guilt for committing an unknown sin, beckoned for agonizing punishment as atonement. The High Wills answered his prayer and consorted his body around the pole from which he prayed, becoming the Twisted One and unleashing the Miracle, an enigmatic force that answered the prayers of the devout. The Miracle manifests itself in strange and often cruel ways. The church saw this and created a cult obsessed with "atoning" for their sins by self-harming themselves.
The Miracle created four Holy Guardian Visages tasked with keeping the wounds of Attrition, Contrition, Compuction, and Abnegation in the soul of His Holiness, which pended on the Twisted One and later his successor Escribar, the head priest of the theocracy church. Escribar claimed that his people's pleas had not been answered and turned his throne from his congregation. The High Wills cursed Escribar, turning him into a tree that burnt for ninety days, leaving behind a mountain of ash with the Turned Throne at the top. All who attempted to scale the mountain to claim the throne were swallowed by the ash, remerging as vicious beasts concerned with carrying out the will of the Miracle. Amongst them was Escribar, reborn as the Last Son of the Miracle.
Eventually, the Visage of Abnegation realized the High Wills' plan to abuse the Miracle's effects for their own selfish purposes and exposed their plot to Crisanta, granting her the Holy Wound of Abnegation, a curse that would allow her to learn the truth of the Miracle. However, the High Wills caught on to his plan and "chained" Crisanta's soul, brainwashing her into following their instructions while the Visage was imprisoned and had his eyes torn out by its three brothers.
The Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow, a religious order that opposed Escribar's authority, was massacred by Crisanta and Escribar's soldiers. However, one member was revived by the Miracle. Granted a sword crafted by the woman who became the Kneeling Stone called the Mea Culpa, the soldier went on a pilgrimage to replace Escribar as the next Last Son of the Miracle, thus beginning the quest of the Penitent One.
Wounds of Eventide[]
In Blasphemous: Wounds of Eventide, if the Penitent One first speaks to Perpetva at her tomb to skip battling Esdras, he gives him a key grown from twisted wood. Exploring the new areas, the Penitent One meets the Fourth Visage and retrieves his eyes from defeating Sierpes and Isidora. He gives the Apodictic Heart of the Mea Culpa, explaining that the Penitent One can use it to break Crisanta from the High Wills' control.
On the Archcathedral Rooftops, the Penitent One fights and defeats Crisanta, but instead of following her order to finish her off, slices the "chains" restraining her soul, breaking her out of the High Wills' control. She gives the Penitent One the Holy Wound of Abnegation, which in combination with the three Holy Wounds allows him access to the other side of the dream. Upon defeating Escribar and scaling the mountain of ash, the Penitent One is carried to the other side of the dream atop the Eternal Procession. There, the Penitent One is again confronted by Escribar, who the High Wills were using as their guardian. With Crisanta's aid, the Penitent One kills Escribar for good.
After killing Escribar, the Penitent One and Crisanta advance further through the dream, where they finally encounter the High Wills. They reveal that they used the Miracle to gather faith in means to retain their immortality, exploiting the Cvstodians' guilt and desires for penance. The High Wills ridicule the Penitent One for "breaking all laws", "desecrating his Holiness himself", and "bringing guilt" to the most sacred and forbidden of temples. They condemn the Penitent One and Crisanta to eternal oblivion as punishment for committing the "ultimate blasphemy".
Undaunted by the High Wills' threats, the Penitent One leaps from the platform and plunges the Mea Culpa into the center head's left eye before Crisanta slices the head in half. The High Wills' flesh melts away exposing their skulls, which burst into blue light, destroying them and thus putting an end to the Miracle once and for all. The death of the High Wills put an end to all those created by the effects of the Miracle, resulting in the Twisted One, Mea Culpa, and the life of the Penitent One, ceasing to be.
Blasphemous II[]
Despite the High Wills' death, the Miracle would continue to thrive, with Eviterno and the Archconfraternity resurrected by its powers who plot to revive the High Wills and construct a new child for the Miracle, the Incarnate Devotion. Fortunately, the Penitent One is reborn and is successful in destroying the Archconfraternity and the Devotion.
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