Flagellant | Origins | Shrine Of Reflection | Darkest Dungeon 2
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2023
- There is power in the Blood, for those with the fortitude to pay the price.
If there was ever such a thing as ‘weaponized suffering’, then the Flagellant would be the term made flesh. This man is unique among the various classes in the sense that he thrives on the ruin of his mind and body. Whereas every sane member of your band of mercenaries aims to minimize wounds and disability by mitigation (armor) or avoidance (dodging), the Flagellant welcomes them. He will stand like a wall between his comrades and his foes, with his arms wide open, his body exposed, acting like a magnet for all harm that may come their way. His power lies within the martyrdom, and it is something that transcends physical laws: every action of violence that lands on his tortured corpus creates not an equal, but a far more potent reaction. He converts damage in either powerful healing for his allies, or horrifying punishment for his enemies in the form of insanely powerful bleeding attacks. And the more the minions of darkness try to end his life, the stronger he becomes, since his strength is at its summit when he himself is at the brink of death… or madness. How far are you willing to push him? Because the desire for power can cloud judgement, and sometimes pushing too far can have… dire consequences.
Darkest Dungeon 2 is the highly anticipated sequel to the original gothic horror RPG game. Set in a new region of the world, this game takes place after the events of the first game, where the evil lurking beneath the estate has now spread and threatens to engulf the entire world. Players must lead a new group of heroes as they traverse treacherous landscapes and face unspeakable horrors, all while unraveling the twisted lore that has brought about this new era of darkness. With new mechanics, new enemies, and a new story, Darkest Dungeon 2 promises to be an intense and unforgettable journey into the depths of madness. - Hry
So the flagellant loved pain SO MUCH that he staved off death so he could keep feeling pain, to the point not even death's avatar herself can claim his life? This guys is more eldritch than the creatures he fight itself
tell that to all the flagellants in my graveyard
“We have such sights to show you!”
He doesn't win the fight every time, but a lot more than any other character. Plus, he can really only do this because A: he is a living Rasputin and B: because human greed is extremely powerful. Eldritch creatures are driven by instinct (or mind controlled instinct(or evilness?)) meanwhile a person can be driven by burning pure desire and a greed to do whatever it takes to get what they want.
His story sounds like Lovecraft himself wrote it
"So your reputation is overstated?" lmao
Flagelant having the balls to tell death "Your reputation is overstated" is fitting asf
He nearly died, stared his fate in the face, and said "Skill issue lmao."
@@aegisScaleno wonder she’s pissed
Had the balls, im sure it must fall off by now, i mean, just look at him
Canon Flagellant: Defies Death herself.
Every Flagellant I run: Dies on the first Death’s Door check.
Or, just like what recently happened to me, reject to be healed only to die from one blight DoT.
Deathblow Resistance is a myth in DD2
@@kaiserroll5379 always has been
Also Ironic. Every time Death showed up, i only had one survivor. And it was not Flagellant.
my flagellant always tends to be the final survivor in my game XD
>Bleeds out
>Says no to death
>Keeps living
simply a difference in skill
you can't say nuh uh to death, it's sloppy debating
Says no to death????
This motherfucker put death itself in death's door
@@yamiyomizukinuh uh
Come on leper, step your game up
Bleed and Blight are done.
In DD3 he probably light himself on fire and became ghost rider.
Burning for eternity.
The only logical sequel to Flagellant's story, conquer fire/hell itself.
IMAGINE
"The pain of the lash is too shallow, only with a veil of suffering can I feel once more!"
Funny enough, a modder known as terkmc did make a fire flagellant.
@@IxmoreI'd love to see that mod
So, he liked suffering so much that he became undead by force of will alone. This is canon now.
Man too angry to die was a meme, guys. He used to be all about bleeds, but he actually ran out of blood before he died, which is why he is a blight hero now.
More like too horny to die.
Man wants to suffer so much he refuses to die.
He's not undead. He's alive, even though he's got no damn right to be anymore. That's exactly why Death is getting pissy.
excess for the prince of pleasure!
@@mr.minnesota2560 get outta here heretic
@@magni5648 death showed up out of no where and kill him in my game
Him beating the hell out of Death itself until her idle animation turns into her fearfully holding her scythe and looking around like a scared child is one of the most badass things I've seen in a game.
"That's not even a bruh moment anymore, what the actual fuck is wrong with you?"
"THIS IS NOT THE DEAL WE STRUCK"
I swear he's simmilar to the other husks we encounter. Except he did not go insane. He was already there. Through sheer force of will.
He is not an undead. His story said "Death failed to claim him"
@@tranngocminh2742 Husks are not undead. They're alive, but lacking both force of will, and humanity more broadly. Whatever else he is, he sure as shit don't lack for will.
Husks are what happens to flagellants after they go insane.
Flagellant is what happened to a husk before he went insane (he was born crazy, so no need to go insane again ,right?)
"He rose above his panting assailants, and, revelling in the marks of their sins, forgave them their trespasses."
Fucking hardcore.
Interesting that, with this, we have a complete picture of every single religious character and how much they differ...
-the Crusader, whose zealotry for the faith hollowed him out, leaving him unable to deal with what his devotion made him do, forcing him to remain in the order.
-The Vestal, forced in her role, sinning despite her vows, but finally able to see the light after the darkness, now a staunch, true but grim believer.
-The Leper, a humble man whose religiosity was true and genuine, a good man believing in a good religion, still walking the path of righteousness despite all his hardships.
-the Flagellant, a man whose faith was void and false, as it was simply a mean to get his true desire, pain, either to give and especially to take.
All in all, i am surprised how diverse they all come out.
The Light was ok with the Vestal sinning, it is why it saved her from the Flagellant in his torture chamber, while the priesthood murdered her sisters in cold blood for her "mistake." God in the Darkest Dungeon universe doesn't care about petty "sins" but rather that you remain virtuous, kind, and compassionate, and indeed, the ending of the game shows the Vestal with an obscured lover as opposed to stuck in a priestly role.
@@fahholliday5374 Flagelant Who can t go Virtuos in both dd1 and DD2, and also has barely any positive interaction with his team: Well... Shit
@@fahholliday5374Vestal is the true winner of DD.
that is good writing
Local Man Entirely Too STINKY to die
The sanest Nurgle worshipper
@@kuyagab4444 Nurgle? This man is slaneesh incarnate.
Something I noticed is : Flagg is the only one that has no Light in his Reflection portrait. Every other Heroes faces away from the light, Leper faces it, but Flagg has none to face away or confront.
He is alone in the darkness. Only the Toxic Green of his rotting biles glows from him.
Could this mean he is the most "evil" of our Heroes ? Did the Light abandon him in turn ?
Damian he truly ... unique in the world of Darkest Dungeon.
I donr think he is evil per see, i think that he doesnt need hope because he never lost it in the first place
I dont think hes evil, he is most definitly insane and mad, but hes still able to see the diference between friend and foe, unless he enters his "virtuous" state, at that point he either rejects the help from others or trys to show them what its like, so they can understand.
He just has no fucks to give and he has no regrets
@@WormsMaster100 If it was the case (and if Red Hook is consistent, which they usually are), he would be facing the Light, like Leper in his reflections.
Maybe he enjoys this Darkness, like how in DD1 he would turn his back to the bonfire during camping, refusing it's warmth.
@@maximeschott8779 Everybody else is either seeking a kind of redemption or is pure and has no need of it (face away from the light or towards it). Flagellant doesn't want anything to do with actual redemption. Just to suffer forever bliss.
Death: It is time to go.
Flagellant: More! More!
Death: What?!
Flagellant: *uses Sepsis* I said MORE! MORE! *kills Death itself*
Considering what is said here, the Flagellant we fight in Vestals shrine is likely THE Flagellant. The same one we play as only he is that enthusiasthic about being in pain and dealing pain
While you say that. That’s a pretty big world. Besides weres the dialofndge to back it up
Didn’t that flagellant get fucking smited by god?
I rewatched the Vestal story again. The difference from other shrines is that the Torturer in Chapter 4 of the Vestal, he didn't get a death blow icon. He vanished into darkness, possibly subdued. Same thing like this happens with the Antiquarian (since we can meet her again down the path).
I'm saying that the Torturer IS the Flagellant. Just with more flesh and blood.
@@reyernestambayec1686 Flag meeting up with the Vestal later, not once but TWICE. "HEY, SMALL WORLD. So wimp... Wanna go get beat up by Monstrosities beyond comprehension.. AGAIN?"
@@pbatesdomination “Hey remember when I had flesh and blood? Those were the days.”
"your reputation is overstated, hm?"
we all though the eldritch horrors were the creatures we fought, the most eldritch one was in our own party
>Chapter Four: Death's Door
>Look inside
>Flagellant at full health
Man's so masochistic that he came back to life
Get this man the Lament Configuration the Cenobites would LOVE him
He'd call them vanilla.
most necessary crossover I have ever seen
@@josephhall8682 Honestly that's probably right considering he did beat Death off like a gold digger
@@damix5610 Would be a wicked evening, wonder who would out do who or if they somehow satiate the drive for pain each group has temporarily
Or introduce him to the Tainted Coil from Brütal Legend. The Flagellant would probably love jumping into a Scream Wagon.
Man, seeing Brütal Legend characters in the Darkest Dungeon art style would be awesome. Both main characters and units.
"Forgave them their trespasses" wow, what a nice guy☺️
"An eternity of pain and rot, Heaven on Earth... "
This line is so good...
you can see deaths avatar going "wait wtf this isnt how this is supposed to go" when they hit deaths door LMAO
The fight with flagelant and death is so good both lore wise and gameplay wise, both in theory and in game you wonder "how is he supposed to kill death alone" and then he just starts doing it and never dying it's oddly fascinating
This is the chapter where you get sepsis skill, which might as well be the cornerstone of Flaggelant's abilities and all his paths (ironically each have a different thing this skill does)
Cannot stress how it's epic to turn the painfully unequal tides of the battle and win with his most powerful ability.
Gotta say the devs didn't have to add these unique combat encounters for the backstories but they did and they are visually and excellent mediums for "show dont tell" storytelling.
Well, in the case of this game, it is "Show and tell".
Othervise we would not have a narrator who tells the story at the shrine.
Kinda disappointing we only get one battle in his past. We could have seen one where he has to not die while being beaten senseless by the drunks and eventually standing on his own and forgiving them like the Narrator says.
Apparently there were quite a number of people who disliked the fighting portion of the shrine. I personally think they're great but some people just prefer hearing the lore.
@@vantablacc3264 That's fucking dumb, the battles where you win or are forced to lose make the flashbacks feel so much more alive and genuine. You know the phrase "Show, don't tell." and people would prefer they just tell us? That's just boring.
I really wish they had a segment for Chapter 2. They could have had him in front of a gathering of villagers, flogging himself to show his devotion to the divine, like the real-life flagellants did. Would've been a neat way to drive home how unsustainable his practices were within the church
@@JohnnyJohnJohnson most of them are fairly one sided and simple fights.
sure you can like them, but not all do
@@JohnnyJohnJohnson yeah, but they feel so anticlimatic, take dismas as an example, the heist on the stagecoach ITS just a F joke, cannonically the stagecoach did not have much prottection and MOST IMPORTANTLY, dismas shooting the mother and her child was a reflex, a mistake... not a F massacre, he anihilated them in the playable storie, It Is just lame
I wonder if "he forgave them" is actually a deadly euphemism. I mean, he probably casted Exsanguinate on them
Not very likely. The scene described is mostly a retelling of his character comic from DD, and I think it's hard to imagine that that scene ends in any bloodshed but his own (I think it would defeat the dramatic tension at play).
@@MMurine someone noticed that the drunks at the end of the comic are a lot thinner than at the start but it could just be style
News flash: Man literally too kinky to die
this man really put death itself on death's door how does he do it
"What you think of as pain is only a shadow. Pain has a face. Allow me to show it to you. Gentlemen, I... Am... Pain."
Nurgle surely approves this
I think Slanesh is more pleased with this man.
Not really nurgle is all about embracing the inevitable which would be accepting death something he didn't
Wouldn't he be more of Khorne as He spilled so much blood
Nurgle is accepting death so not him, Khorne is Honor and blood But the pain was inflicted onto him so not really, Tzeech is a def no, So sadly a slanesh simp with his pleasures in pain
@@Noonoloogynurgle is not just accepting death of the self but the death of all things, that entropy shall claim everything and anything and yada yada. Most of the low level following is basically if everything around me is shit and you can't make it less shit than why should I try to, now there are many variations of this mind set but most of it boils down to that one thing.
"Death can have me when it earns me"
Now, I want a separate game for him. This guy is SAVAGE
...So, are we going to just ignore the fact that Flagellant shows up in the Vestal's backstory flashbacks as her torturer? Strange Bedfellows indeed.
Flagellant does not see it as important, so he doesn't chose to remember it. vestal sees it as life defining, but flagellent is just like "eh...it was a job. and they fired me."
Flagellent: the day you found salvation in my torture chamber was the most important day of your life. but for me... it was... tuesday.
It’s also likely that Damian wasn’t the only Flagellant. It’s just that he got kicked out of the church eventually.
Vestal: Uh... hello again.
Flag: Greetings.
Vestal: You... lost weight?
Flag: Aw, you noticed
There's literally a penance hall in the first game, there's more than one Flagellant in this universe dipshit
@@Davesknd I starve so others may live. Poor bastards don't know what they are missing.
You ever been so kinky that when faced by death themself you straight up use your kink to become immortal
man at arms: "i fear no man, but that thing... it scares me."
A Masochism kink so powerful he defied death
I like how he doesn’t have a flame coming off of him like the others and instead has a toxic glow in his shrine posture
Flagellant: " When Death came for me, I simply chose not to die."
had a flagellant on dd1 that I used for the achievment to resist multiple attacks at death door, guy had everything, perks to increase death blow resist, items, you can guess the result.
died on the first Deathdoor check.
holy shit this character is literally every archetype i look for in a gothic game. i love him so much
Hm, the man surely knows himself well. At least somebody having delight at this world end
He's not a masochist, he just wants to test the limits of his body.
A missed opportunity to have a battle in the church but this time the enemies having stress gauges (little homage to the Butcher's circus) with the goal being to freak them out to the point of meltdown.
Remember, Death cannot legally take your soul without your consent.
Imagine being such a twisted masochist that not even Death itself couldn't claim him
Flagellant is, in short, a masochist, who is extremely passionate about masochism.
Chad Flagellant:
Too zealous for zealots
Calls death mid
Eldritch horrors fear HIM
The son Nurgle wish he had
Netflix: are you still watching?
someone's daughter: 1:42
Death: "You've already reached max bleed count, time for you to die."
Flagellant: "Wait..."
Death: "What is it?"
Flagellant: *"But what about max BLIGHT count?!"*
**Continues to live as normal**
Flaggelant and Occultist have to be the two heroes that represent what Darkest Dungeon is the most. Great, both of them.
Death talks shit to people who is about to be collected. Flagg however, destroyed Death’s ancestral honor even if she have one by simply existing and enjoying suffering. Death is scary but Flagg is truly horrifying
So a cenobite found Jesus and said "hurt me plenty daddy!"
Kinda disappointed there isn't a fight with his alive model, especially considering the one in the Vestal story IS supposed to be him?
i suppose the way you can think about the backstory fights is they are the representation of defining moments for the characters life. for the flagellent, the moment with the vestal was not defining for him as it was for her. for him, the truely defining moment of his life was fighting off death itself and thus becoming immortal/eternal.
Flagellent: the day you graced and escaped my torture chamber was the most important day of your life...but for me it was...tuesday.
Funny thing is . He IS alive , he rejected death . He's not really "undead" he's human just decomposed I guess
Breaking news local masochist to horny to die
Behold the Man is the name of a common depiction of Jesus after he’s been scourged.
This guy's plot remind me of Dante from Dante's Inferno where he fought off death too lol
!!NO ,DEATH¡¡
Flagellant 2023
After conpleting Acts 4 and 5, i think its safe to say that this game isnt a direct sequel to DD1, in the same way Dragon Age 2 is a sequel to DA Origins.
Jesus how I hated that game so badly, only redeeming quality was definitely the companion dialogue
@@jonasfull honestly wasn't as bad as many people gave it credit. Their biggest marketing mistake was putting the '2' on it. Gave a false impression that it's a direct sequel, much like this game. Should've called DA2 'Dragon Age: Champion'.
Other complaint would be the reusing of assets for dungeons. Other than that, story, characters, all of it was amazing. Not Origins level good, but still good.
I interpreted acts 1 and 2 happening before DD1, and acts 3, 4, and 5 are after DD1
My man literally clapped Death’s ass what a legend
It's nice that he got himself a happy ending
Man too sadomasochistic to die.
Death: "I was going to take him, but... HE WAS TOO STINKY."
having a character with supernatural powers was pretty cool
6:26 this would go INSANELY hard for a phonk intro
Okay so DD2 flagellant is no longer a religious character? In DD1 he was suposed to be suffering in the name of the light, but now he just enjoy pain, right?
He's still religious, he's just insane in his worship. To him, accepting the pain and suffering is the highest form of worship. Being in pain is divine to him.
@@onlyicedgarrett7791 with the shrine, i think it's safe to say that religion was a mean to an end. He wants to suffer, as you say, but to suffer the most, he coats his sado-maso tendencies in a religious paint, flagellating himself. As the narrator say at the end, the flagellant prostrate itself to whatever god will allow him to suffer again, so it doesn't natter which God he "worship", what matter is the pain.
@@onlyicedgarrett7791 oh okay thanks! I'm not a native english speaker and darkest dungeon vocabulary can be tricky, so sometimes i get things wrong jaja
It may not be the god of the flame, but when he strikes his flesh, something is listening
imagine if instead of just straight deathblow for flag, everytime he fails a deathblow check other than death, he becomes unusable for the rest of the fight, but after the fight it guarantees a spawn of death herself where the whole party can fight her for a chance that he doesnt die.
He does not seek the light of salvation from the outside because he emits such light by himself. AND the color of the light is fundamentally different from the others. He is nothing like any others. AN Anomally.
Local man beats himself up, refuses to die.
Flagellant at the end of his memories, where you unlock skills for him, appears to be the same guy who tortured Junia in her memories.
Spoilers for ending below
If you bring both flag and vestal to the final boss, you can fight two diffrent flagellants. Damien beats his mirror image, while junia defeats his past "bleedy" version.
Huh, I thought he would fight an illusion of death. What are his barks when he fights himself?
He has such sights to show us
God I wish that were me
5:52 is so fucking funny it looks like a shitpost
Flagellant: Welcome Home.
Flagelent was at deaths door, and slammed it in deaths face.
Absolutely loved what they did to my favourite boy from DD1. Only wish there was a second mission. :c
TFW you're in a toxic relationship with Death herself.
so this is the origins story of a daemon prince of slaanesh to be
More like Nurgle, for he has surpassed death.
@@MrAsaqe Technically either/or. The sheer affection to pain and craving excessive amounts of it, combo'd with his cenobite-ey exterior from surpassing death could lean toward the Dark Prince, but he is ultimately one who is more than willing to share the impurities his flesh has drawn forth, with him becoming toxin-focused on some of his kit, which does offer a little bit of the Grandfather's work.
The man is so F*ckt up that he put death at deaths door
Btw the death at deaths door doesn't look weak, its just confused, flagellant literally lead death to its own house😅
indeed and the use of sepsis at the end is coupled with the words "BEGONE! leave me to my morbid delights" makes the moment feel like he showed Death to deaths door and promptly SLAMMED IT IN DEATHS FACE.
Mom can we get Crusader???
We have Crusader at home
Crusader at home:
5:52 Death tasting her own medicine.
What's even more horrfying is that in the aftermath of the story (as told by the Shrine of Hope if you fully upgrade him) he essentially ascends as a god of pain. He becomes immortal.
He has no regret. He has no fucks left to give
Local man too angry to die
I’m be honest he sounds more like a Cenabite than a flagellant but the line between the two is a very thin one.
Based beyond reason.
>Nurgle has entered the chat
nurgle has been kicked by slaneesh
Flagellant = Happiest being on earth.
Who here thinks the plague doctor would be all over him despite being a husk
How wholesome! I ship it.
Me and the bad bitch I got from being mentally ill
The cenobites would be proud
Heaven on earth.
His meat is too tender for him to die.
Can't wait with all op and weird mod for the game😂
Big titty Leper mod when
Suffering man too happy to die.
Name of the song?
I still don't understand why death can be at death's door, if someone can explain me ill be grateful
more than killing it you just banish it for a while
Simple, she had enough of flagellant's shenanigans and needs to go home for a while to recover from his crazy :3
Death went home for a quick break, grabbed a couple snacks, went to the bathroom, and then the second round started
Thats one Nergle MF'er
He heal himself using dieseases and poison.
So… does anyone think this guy can take on nyx from persona 3
Not the actual entity just the p3 version with all those skills and stuff
La muerte dijo siiiii,
Yo digo que no🕺
Bruh. You dont event show the image for each reflection
They added markiplier
Ecce Homo..sounds strange don't it..
seems like they got really lazy with the shrines on flag which is a bummer :(
Because what happened in his mortal life we can glean. The torturer is implied to be the flagellant in the past, but it would serve no purpose for the flagellent to detail that misadventure because…it was not a defining moment in the characters journey. His true defining moment…was slamming deaths door in deaths face and thus becoming eternal and immortal.
@@Motleydoll123 As someone stated in the comments, him not resisting drunks would make a kickass battle memory.