Tenebris Lake Full Conversion

[SUMMER^]

A lot of people are complaining about the Story in this mod, and I can
see what they're saying, when there are mods with FANTASTIC stories out
there, take White Night for example. The mod (as said by Tanshaydar) was
said to focus more on atmosphere and story, while this mod focuses
equally on atmosphere but particularly on the horror elements, with
story taking a back-seat.


In that sense, I think Tenebris Lake succeeds in what it sets out to accomplish
(please judge the story from patch 1.1, the original release used an old
lang file and left out some stuff) This is just my biased opinion.


If anyone has finished the mod and still wants to learn what exactly
happened, I'll try and lay out the story from my understanding.

Spoiler below!

This basically sums up the backstory/beginning of the mod:

1. You play as Edward, a man who (for now) can remember nothing (shock) and is around 40 years old. You don't know what year it is.

2. You awake sitting on a dock and after examining the cabin by the lake and seeing a picture with himself in it, he becomes committed to the idea that the other people in the photo are his family.

3. Seeing that the cabin is trashed and appears long empty, Edward is convinced something bad has happened to them and that the only lead he has about his past are the people in the photo, so he decides to pursue them. Having no idea where to go, he takes the path leading to the closest building.


This about sums up what you know until about the point that the player enters the Dungeon. Through flashbacks and the occasional note, the player learns a few key things.

1. He used to have some kind of job with the owners of the castle that forced him to commit atrocities.

2. The castle keeps prisoners (the chained, masked guys), slaves that are forced to work in the mines, and that Edward has discovered a new way to torture his victims: Exposing them to Acidum Aqua (the cause of the burned bodies in the Morgue)

3. Leonard (the other man from the flashbacks) has noticed Edward's strange behavior and has removed his family from their lakeside home and taken them captive somewhere in the castle.

4. Finally, towards the end of the story, you learn that Edward, much like Daniel, just recently drank some kind of Amnesia potion because he couldn't deal with the guilt of the things he'd done.


Thus, at the end of the story, the player is left to choose whether to save his wife, his children, or leave behind his supposed family altogether (as he has little memory of them, other than the flashbacks and the note he finds)

Anyway, that's just my interpretation of the story.