Before doing so, however, he wrote one rule - anything he left behind in a shoebox stayed in the real world. Zane is a writer who had his own run-in with a Dark Presence in Bright Falls decades before Wake, and had to use the power of Cauldron Lake to write himself out of existence. Also called “The Bright Presence,” Zane is a (literal) beacon of light for Alan, guiding him along and offering supernatural assistance much like Polaris does for Jesse in Control. Wake overcomes his predicament in the base game – as much as one can while being trapped in an evil demiplane, we suppose – with the help of a writer named Thomas Zane. Scratch” – this "Nega-Wake" is all the negative rumors and theories surrounding Wake’s disappearance manifested in the flesh by the power of Cauldron Lake… but we’ll get to him a little later. ██████ – the █████ being a static, scratchy sound that obscures his true name, thus earning him the nickname “Mr. In subsequent DLCs and the standalone expansion/spinoff Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, we learn that an evil doppelganger of Alan has escaped into the real world.
Wake ultimately prevents the evil from escaping, saves Bright Falls (and presumably the rest of the world), and frees his wife, but in order to do so – to maintain the cosmic balance of good and evil – he has to take her place as a prisoner of the Dark Presence beneath Cauldron Lake.
#Quantum break controls free#
However, the Dark Presence has other plans, kidnapping his wife and turning the townsfolk into shadow monsters in an effort to get Wake to help it free itself. Wake, a mystery author and thinly-veiled Steven King allegory suffering from a bad case of writer’s block, arrives in Bright Falls to kickstart his creative process. There’s a lot going on, but the short version is that the lake can manifest people’s imaginations as reality, and the Dark Presence is trying to exploit that ability to escape the lake - which is where our titular writer comes in. In Control, we find out that the Bureau has studied this area over the span of several decades, as the lake is both a Place of Power and a dimensional gateway containing an evil entity currently known only as “the Dark Presence”. The Story of Alan WakeĪlan Wake centers around Cauldron Lake in Bright Falls, WA. Whatever the next step in the studio’s crossover plans may be, Remedy’s been planning this for a long time - and it all starts with the events of Alan Wake. Given their supernatural nature, the FBC has documented the events of Alan Wake – but while it originally appeared to be little more than a fun reference to another Remedy game, the AWE expansion directly addressed Alan Wake’s relationship to The Oldest House.Ĭontrol’s setting has become a heterotopia – a portal to worlds within worlds that lead to other worlds within them – and appears to be being set up as the nexus of the Remedy Connected Universe. The base game establishes the Federal Bureau of Control, a shadowy government organisation that investigates paranatural happenings known as “Altered World Events.” The Bureau stores their findings in The Oldest House, a Brutalist-inspired skyscraper that doubles as a dimensional gateway, as well as a living library and prison for otherworldly monsters and artifacts.
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