Poe2 secret quest could help with poe1 secret quest chain!

I think the final letter in poe2 is to us, telling us that at this point we have failed in doing whatever actions we could take to subvert the ending of the campaign.

It makes sense contextually as a cue point in the campaign.

“Extremely personal words of love, honour, and hopelessness (love and honor = secret quest hopelessness = failed) scrawled by a shaking hand… it appears to have been carefully written to avoid revealing who it was intended for.”

From a contextual standpoint that means the NPC that asks us to retrieve this letter might not be the intended recipient. Meaning another NPC is, however I have yet to find one.

Then I thought from outside the box, maybe the message is to us.

This would imply all we need comes before the final letter. And that nothing we get afterwards is of consequence yet. The final letter itself may still be a piece of the secret quest, giving it to that NPC certainly isn’t.

The fact you can’t bank the quest items really adds to the ability to see hints like this outside of normal context.

I also have a weird belief about the sacrificial heart being used much later on in some weird quest chain to reanimate the soul clinging to life.

The more you look at these “side quest items” the more weird they actually are.

Just food for thought everybody.

“Quest items are used to progress the story. They cannot be sold or stashed, but can be discarded. Discarded quest items can be reobtained from their original source”.

How does giving me flasks with the mushrooms progress the story? The flasks suck 99.9% of the time. I’ve never heard anyone go, “yo I got this sick flask from the cauldron witch”

How does giving me 10% ele res or some life or 2 skill points progress the story?

Sure it gives you a power boost but that doesn’t progress the story in anyway.

And if you guys look carefully theres a weird strange voice chain that happens at some point. Which basically tells us we failed the secret quest and we are an agent of chaos.

“Strange Voice: Do you not wonder what tugs at the strings of fate? What stands astride the
abyss and beckons you to fall?

Strange Voice: Believe me, you will fall, Exile.


Strange Voice: So be it. Keep your precious sanity, my agent of chaos. You shall serve me,
the thee you like it or not. I'm not going anywhere


trange Voice: Remember this ramshackle place? A second home... And yet, something seems oi
does it not?


Strange Voice: You've stood against so many horrors and survived. I think it is time to at last
test your limits.

Strange Voice: This is only the beginning.

Strange Voice: Let yourself be drawn into the mire!

Strange Voice: Are you trying to cleanse yourself of me?

Strange Voice: You can't get rid of me, Exile. I am you.


Strange Voice: Nothing you do matters. The dream will end, and the dreamer will pass into the
next world.

abyss and beckonS you to fall?
Strange Voice: Do you not wonder what tugs at the strings of fate? What stands astride the
Strange Voice: Believe me, you will fall, Exile.


There’s also a poem clip I saw from someone and in the poem it says “
Foes nearby feel searlng pain,
A burning wrath they can't contain.
"No man burns alone," it warns, so brief-A guiding flame: the Radiant Grief.
With Great Power comes Great Confusion. - Play Hard!“

I believe this references the candleman essence.

Could path of exile 2 be some sort of Dante’s inferno reference on steroids?