Oh, they will be back.Īlso, a passage in the short story Old Friends hints at the rose: These cuts speak volumes, even though my mind remains silent. They may sweep the traces from my memory, but my body remembers. I know this taste – the taste of Damascus Rose obfuscating the truth in a dim haze. It is also revealed in a flashback that a prisoner realised he had been made to forget his torture, and that the rose oil was involved, as he woke with marks on his body and the smell of Damascus Rose on him: Occasionally, Daniel will say: "That taste.
Displeased, he started to look for the Damascus rose oil. The man was suffocating, as he could no longer breath properly between the lashes. The amnesia potion's composition is unknown, although it seems to contain Damascus Rose, as evidenced by this Loading Screen where Daniel is about to give the potion to a prisoner: It is found with Daniel when he first awakens, and leads him to his note to self.
Daniel tried repeatedly to remind himself not to forget to stop Alexander, but the solution was purging all his memories from his mind, and he realized the irreversible consequences of what he had done.Īs he stumbled all he could recite was his name was 'Daniel' until at last, he passed out in the Rainy Hall. He wrote a final note to himself to end the Baron at all costs, and then drank the tonic. He realized he could only hope to redeem himself and avenge the fallen by wiping away his awful memories altogether with the mixture.ĭaniel managed to acquire a vial of the substance and fled to the Old Archives. On the stormy night of August 19, 1839, Daniel swore revenge, but was unable to cope with his crippling fear of the guardian and the terrible guilt of the warding rituals. Having acquired all the vitae he needed, and seeing the event had devastated Daniel's psyche, Alexander abandoned the young man to the Shadow. As the events of the Dark Descent unfold, Daniel's confidence in Alexander is shattered when he murdered an escaping young girl who he thought would jeopardize the ritual.
Although he threatens to kill Alexander when he discovers that he has been tricked into murdering countless innocents as he states in one of his notes that he became a murderer himself, the very type of people he was willing to sacrifice. Daniel complied as he believed the prisoners were all evil-minded criminals, but perhaps, and more importantly, to save himself. The Baron had Daniel perform terrible acts on his fellow men because he insisted it was necessary for a 'blood-warding ritual' to distract the Shadow that was chasing the young man, and with it buy precious time to permanently banish the living nightmare. The victim is thus given this drink, making them forget the horrors of pain they were forced to endure, and thus, would be tortured anew to maximize Vitae production, to make it up for the difficulty to obtain 'human vessels' as Alexander noted in one of his notes. The victim, if tortured once and again without the drink, would become accustomed to the pain and Vitae production would slow down, or even halt. The amount of Vitae extracted depends heavily on their "performance", but the most important thing is to instill as much terror as possible in the victim. The amnesia potion was used by Alexander and Daniel on the prisoners brought to Brennenburg Castle, to make them forget the terrible pain of the torture sessions carried out to harvest Vitae.
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