Blasphemous Lore Theory: The High Will
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2020
- "The Knot of the Three Words. Here is where the First Miracle took place. One devout and tormented youngster asked the High Will of punishment."
In the sixth of my Blasphemous Lore videos we examine the lore and implication of the 'High Will' and how this differs from the Grievous Miracle.
What is the High Will? How does it differ from the Miracle? Why does it sometimes assist us?
All these questions and more will be answered!
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Blasphemous Lore | The Miracle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4rsV...
Blasphemous Lore | The Penitent One:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDJTj...
Blasphemous Lore | Our Lady of the Charred Visage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY5GY...
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If you're familiar with the Berserk franchise, there's a similar concept in that canon. There is the Idea of Evil that exists as a sort of intangible god and is made from the collective desires of mankind, and then there is the God Hand, who carry out the will of the Idea in the mortal plane and are twisted reflections of their once mortal selves.
Yes, exactly! Couldn't have said it better myself
yes exactly what i thought and i think the miracles are a phenomenon of some random apostles that ask the godhand for help along the way, but the high will invovled in choosing couple of chossen apostles that are important in the flow of cassuality like Zodd, the egg of the perfect world and gensihka. So the high will doesnt concern much with couple of miracles along the way as long as the flow of fate still moving in the correct line
@@nicovananda3893 It's the difference between an all-powerful but aloof god, and the lieutenants or lesser deities who actually care out the will and day to day operations of the holy project.
The idea of evil always made me laugh
It is a God born from Humans' desire to be a reason behind their suffering.
It literally spawn into existence with the mission of "I will give you something to cry about"
That is just hilarious.
@@user-nz2vk9rq6y this.
And only this.
Is all the interpretation requires to understand this games world .
This video aged surprisingly well but hope you make another one with the info we now have with the final dlc
Blessings of the Grievous Miracle upon thee, Lorebringer.
I wanted to give you a like but you’re at 69 so I’ll stop right there
One character that makes me curious about the agency of the High Wills is Jocinero, the Celestial Child. According to his leyend, he was born by the Blessing of the High Wills through the torment of a brave bull and the more. And more puzzling, "from himself". So when I heard that I always thought Jocinero was a different being than the transformed sinners of CVSTODIA. He is not a sinner, for he was born through a miraculous pain, the pain of a Bull. He is a celestial being. But I cannot think what role (in lore) his brothers play in the Miracle's plans. His "holy brethren". So they should be innately divine beings. Their infant appearance implies sinless innocence. Why are they imprisoned in decorated cages across the land? Is this the Miracle's doing? How associated is Jocinero to the Penitent's quest? And even more importantly, Jocinero is not even from the physical world, but from the dream of the Canvas. There is a lot to question about his existence.
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Jocinero says that the miracle did it so he cant help the souls of penitent ones.
Also is noticeable than the canvas is in a place where the forbidden canvas go. So he is heretic in some sort
@@pabloraulpereyra4948 Indeed! I had to reread the wiki just to find clarification and I remembered how the lore of an object he gives you states the painter of the sleeping canvas was commissioned by the Mother of Mothers, yet after showing them the painting they just quietly took and hid it as to "having no one ever see it", and it remains hidden until the Penitent finds it. The painter was never commissioned again.
@@marlutteyestrelt3441 here seems to be an struggle of the oppositing forces sometimes and others seems to be all the same hand working. Like, what is heretic and what is a miracle seems confusing
The speed at which I clicked tore a hole in the fabric of reality. It's been an honour existing with you all :')
We need you back for the DLCs.
have you considered revisiting your Blasphemous lore series with the new DLC? there’s a final, true ending that provides more detail about the Miracle and the High Wills. would love to hear your thoughts!
When are we getting more lore? The game has so much new content you haven't touched and I really enjoy your dissection of the subject matter and the way you present it.
It'd be fucking sick if he did a return to blasphemous lore
i think the High Will is akin to God, as the Miracle is akin to the Holy Ghost and the Twisted One is a Jesus expy.
In one or two places in the game (i think item descryptions) there is word "God". So High Will/Wills is God/Will of Heavens, Twisted One is a Jesus, but Miracle could be whole diffrent force.
Nailed it.
So... That would make Laudes a Cvstodian version of Mary Magdalene?
Omg ur right. The Father, Son, Holy Spirit, it all makes sense kinda.
Except High Wills is sadistic and evil and Twisted One is a stupid person who wished the wrong thing at the wrong time
You must now make a lore about the 3rd ending which will be carried out in the sequel. It ties up the high wills, the miracle, the twisted one etc
This is like trying to explain the Great Will, the Axiom, and YHVH in Shin Megami Tensei. Sometimes I can't tell the difference at all between these higher beings until the differences are explained to me. Nice video👍
Never played that game, but "YHVH" is play on the hebrew letters that form up the divine word "Yahweh", the name of God.
High Wills = God/Cosmic Force
The Miracle = Events/Phenomenon caused by the High Wills action´s on earth.
I have almost forgotten about Blasphemous! Thanks for coming back to this. Always a pleasure.
Im glad your back to creating more content for blasphemous, really needed this
Thank you for doing these videos, they’re really great!
im so happy you're back legit the only lore in any game i truly care about, this stuff is... a miracle! :P
Hi SmoughTown, I love your videos. Will you be making a video about Blasphemous: Wounds of Eventide?
@SmoughTown Can you please do an in depth about Viridiana? She seems like a very interesting character that helps the penitent one on his journey.. I love your videos! Keep up the great work!
Been playing this again thanks for the lore has really helped me get back into the game abit more now
Excelent vídeo! Never really thought of the High Will as something different from the Miracle. But it makes a lot os sense.
10/10
Yooh, SmoughTown, you coming back for the new DLC lore, or nah?
Just got into this game myself and these videos have been a good help at figuring some things I was unsure on.
I get the idea of the Miracle being something spawned by the High Will during the First Miracle event but I still see the intentions of the two being one and the same. The Miracle is still behind the bulk of the aid given to the Penitent One so someone like Soledad aiding us through the High Will doesn't seem any different.
I am very happy to see a new video of you :D
But two suggestions:
1: Sometimes your transitions between cuts, while you are talking, are too sudden. They sound kinda rushed and unclean.
2: At 8:08 you talk about the three sisters but show us the quicksilver guy. Maybe match your word with something visual?
Nevertheless still great video :D Hope to see more from u :P
Always a treat.
I go with the explanation that the High Will is like God. All powerful, merciful, and his blessings take many forms and acts through many agents and people. The Father is like Jesus who, though his power, left the Holy Ghost to take his place in assisting the faithful. The Miracle is that Holy Ghost. Unlike Jesus, the Father's entire existence was wholly human and his power was creating the concept of "Pain for Sin" which the Miracle operates on. You can tell that the High Will and the Miracle operate differently and hold different things in value. Especially when it came to the Amanecidas and the Father. The High Will probably sought to reward the young man for the pain he took in to alleviate sin and so basically gave him a woman who it split into a harem that loved him completely. The Miracle grew jealous of this reward and locked them away giving the Father more pain to exchange for more sin to further itself. While the High Will and the Miracle have the same end goal of humanity's salvation, the Miracle is the more cruel and punishing of the two while the High Will rewards the devout for the pain they endure and grant actual power to its agents.
In a way the Miracle occupies both the position of Holy Ghost and the Devil. After all, to many they would rather stay extremely devoted than to have to pray for their punishment of their sin. A prayer to the Miracle which by eye witness accounts, is very painful. This is probably why the Miracle also got the prefixes of "The Cruel" and "The Grievous." Whatever it touches, it condemns. No one wants to have to pray for their punishment so it works as a Devil to keep younglings and believers in line.
The vista from the Archcathedral rooftops/Crisanta's fight, is that supposed to be some unnamed township within the walls of the Mother of Mothers, or is that the Wasteland of Buried Churhces, which is supposed to surround the walls? You get a pretty good impression of Cvstodia's geography from the map and level layout, but that view is still a little fuzzy to me.
Ever since I delved into the lore of Blasphemous, I couldn't stop myself from thinking of The High Will, The Miracle and The Penitent One in the same way I think of The Axiom, YHWH and The Messiahs from SMT. In SMT, the Axiom is the originating force that brought about the multiverse. For each universe in the multiverse, a "creator" deity, a proxy for the Axiom, was created and placed in each of them. A lot of these take the name of YHWH (if not all) and eventually started to act against the "will" of The Axiom, most of the time without even realizing it, thinking themselves to be doing what they were created for. When this occurs, the Axiom manifests its will on the mortal plane in the form of a Messiah, a mortal with the potential to kill gods, capable of defeating even a deranged proxy of The Axiom, as The Messiah itself is also a proxy, though with the free will that characterizes mortals. To me, it seems plausible that a similar situation plagues the world of Blasphemous, in which The Grievous Miracle has deviated from the High Wills, probably even gotten a mind of its own, so the High Will send The Penitent One to end the Grievous Miracle.
If the high Will's sent The Penitent One to kill the miracle, why did The Penitent One end up killing the High Wills instead?
Also, your description of SMT, as well as this video explaining the Blasphemous lore, sounds like it is heavily inspired by Christian Gnosticism: one of the most fascinating and underrated religions/mythologies that exists. If you haven't heard of Gnosticism, you really should do research on it.
@@rasul01 Yeah, SMT is pretty heavy on Gnosticism.
@@rasul01 Because The High Wills, just like the Axiom in SMT, are byproduct of something greater and beyond tangibility (hence High Wills can be killed by it's own venom)
Both are not Monad of "Gnosticism", they're acting in more credence with Plotinus' Neoplatonism idea of Monad in his Enneads (and Plotinus for being founder of Neoplatonism, criticises The Gnostics as much as Church Fathers akin to Irenaeus, although both sides criticises "Gnosticism" for opposite reasons since Neoplatonism confirms polytheism or monolatry and henotheism in some form while Christianity perpetuates the idea of trinity into monotheism)
Both Monad of Neoplatonism and Nicene Christianity idea of God are conformist to how The World came into being, it's working operations and duty functions in positive ways, albeit both have slews of dozens if not thousands of differences afterwards
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I definitely cant wait for your Demon’s Souls Remake Lore videos bruv
Love your Videos about blasphemous.
idk if your still doing these lore vids but i would love to see one about His Holiness Escribar.
so you gonna the new dlc that came out smoughtown
I don't see the miracle as enjoying people suffer, I think it's the people that pray to the Miracle that think they must suffer in order to expiate their guilt. The miracle simply answers their prayers. As the prayers are fulfilled people watch the miracle take this form and believe that the only way towards redemption is through suffering. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. The more people think ask for the miracle to punish them, the more people think punishment is the road to salvation.
With the DLC it makes me wonder if the Miracle originally was using PO to clean up Escobar's mistakes but then realized either by chance or by design the PO could turn people away from it thus awakened Laudes. Laudes and the agents though working for the High Will are helping the PO because perhaps the HW cannot nullify the Miracle? Laudes being a failsafe reset button if the PO fails.
I think this wound up being pretty close. Though they were a bigger jerk than might've been evidenced at first.
Please do the wounds of eventide! 👍🏽
With the new ending of the newest dlc. I think the Penitent One became the new miracle as the first miracle passes on
Wait. High Will and Miracle are different things?
Smoughtown thinks what yes
The Miracle is more of an Aspect of God in the sense that the Devil Is one of God's creations who turned on him, but ultimately never had a choice as Free Will wasn't given to Angels .
I hope we get an update!
“My great guilt.”
It seems you were right if you only just switch places where the High Wills are ones being more human and The Miracle is more abstract one. The Miracle is probably not even an entity, but unfathomable power. The High Wills where only controling some aspects of Miracle, but the ones they didn't came to later bite them in the ass. This all seems like a metaphor for religion as institution vs earnest faith. Twisted One's prayers came from a place of a true faith, but church and the High Wills used that faith and faith of others as a means of control.
You’re commentary is so beautiful,(ps:a catholic.)
Hey, just wanted to point out that you've added a pewdiepie video to the blasphemous lore playlist. Guessing a mistake happened somewhere
Is that woman who can help you against bosses in exchange for her youth/life force someone who was blessed by the high will (I'd say she'd more likely be related to the high will than the miracle since she doesn't have the wooden motif of a lot of characters who have been blessed by the miracle)? I really don't remember what she said, the guy I watched play this game only used her once in the beginning and stopped after he realized he was killing her so I don't know if we missed out on some lore.
I think she still uses the symbol of the Twisted One... At least I remember her wearing it in the artbook.
The high will might also be some sort of deterministic side of the universe. The high will is sort of like the inevitable future that will happen, and the miracle acts against it
existence can sometimes be very weird but that is the High Will. Whenever it is some strange unexplained happenstance, that is "The High Will". "The Grievous Miracle" is one particular aspect of the High Will but perhaps an aspect which has, through a corrupted sense of valor and beauty it has utterly gone rogue. The rest of the High Will is just other aspects of the High Will - the deterministic Ur-God universal being, bringing the grievous miracle back under control for another cycle of reality.
This cycle caused so much greed and hunger and strife that it overflowed, and became corrupt to the point where the devoted became either slathering monsters, or an order of priests dedicated to maintaining the status quo at all costs. But really, against their will and through the High Will, the Penitent One in silence makes his way through the trials. Deogracias - a giant of a man, probably capable of all of the physical tasks required, but bound by his penitence to only give direction, guiding through divine providence and the High Will, the Penitent one to the Cradle of Affliction.
Yes, the writing in this game is very fucking good. But it's all subtext. Absolutely amazing.
Wow I'm early for once, see you at the next planetary alignment.
Do lore for ten piedad
Crisanta of the wrapped agony
His holiness escribar
What if:
High Will = God
The Grievous Miracle = Lucifier
I say this just because it seems like the High Will and The Grievous Miracle weren't working with but against with other.
Love you so much but re edit this. The whole miracle speech is in twice, the audio is interrupted by the next line alot. Just not smough town quality
aww yeah bro
Wounds of Eventide?
You need to update this
Yep. Music is banned. It's said in lore items that someone made a satire of the Mother of Churches. Basically a song that made fun of the Church. This was a big no no. So ALL Music was banned because of 1 dude who wrote 1 song. Cvstodians see pleasure akin to sin. So people off screen must've been Freaking the Fuck out when they heard a song that literally heralds the end of the world
Never did I think the High Will, a three faced monster, only caused the Miracle just because they hated humanity that much.
@@Okanekaseku Well they were definitely evil, and they did treat humanity like some sick joke for them to fuck around with.
@@achaudhari101Exactly like Greek mythology Zeus was horrendous with his people.
The Miracle is an Aspect of the High Will aka God, The Miracle is like the Devil, where it has no True Free will, yet is ultimately made as an opposing force to Balance out the High Wills own ambitions.
Angels were given no free will and the Devil was Jealous and became a Fallen Angel amoungst many others .
However without Free Will, this wasn't their choice.
God chose to let them Fall, for some sort of purpose .
I'm am Atheist but this is my interpretation as a person with a Passion for History and the things that influence it.
Similar to how some Catholics don’t pray to God, they pray to the saints.
Instead of the “intangible” presence of God, some people feel a need for a more physical manifestation.
Catholics don't pray to saints though, they ask them to pray with them
I thought the High Will and the Miracle were the same thing.
No the miracle manifested after the boy prayed to the High Will.
In a way, it also resembles an interesting desicion made by some Islamic groups including ISIS. Their symbol is the sentence "Mohammad prophet of Allah", however they believe that the name of god can't be written over another word (or some weird stuff of the kind), so they write on their flags "Allah prophet of Mohammad"
Why is your life meter in tiny circles? Was that some sort of version prior to having a bar as we do under the current version of the game?
It's a NG+ Penance
I always wondered if the high will was once just something the churches made up to get the people to be under their thumb, and then eventually thanks to so many believing in it, it came to become aware of all the nonsense of the church. And the straw that broke the camel's back was the prayer of the twisted one. As he truly believed the lies of the church that he had to suffer. When the miracle happened and the church began to profit off of his suffering the high will began to go haywire on everyone.
How can concept of a GOD is a nonsense?
Also, how TF the church "profited" from when the miracle manifested itself? They're clearly in any situation but receiving profits from it
I'm gonna guess your accent and say your country of origin is Scotland
You are correct my friend!
@@SmoughTown word. Knew it.
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I m still struggling to understand what is the sin and the guilty...
Is probably what that guilty be a perception or just a methapysical thing?
Because we listen about of history of devotion but never about the history of the sinners.
And why the game is blasphemous?
Could be a human anxiety and fear of never being able to be perfect, and perfection has the form of the High Wills (prior to the Miracle's collective conception through the Twisted). We know there is history prior to the arrival of the Twisted. There are hints, history treated now as heresy and locked in the Library of Forgotten Words. Pain is the only means to find comfort, for it is a punishment for our human imperfections. It's contradictory, but that is how Catholicism in our world seems to paint the idea of sin and guilt. It is natural, yet it should be avoided and punished. It always bothered me about religion that they tell you that sin is both natural to our flesh yet something that most be avoided at all cost. Ideally, one lives in peace with our sinful selves. But here it seems that is a constant struggle, and its only solution is painful punishment. The Twisted rejoiced delightfully in his painful twisting. So there is a relation between Sin, Guilt and Pain. Maybe a sequence, cyclical.
@@marlutteyestrelt3441 the only references i can found about true sins are of the last 3 bosses(inquisitor burning mother of exposito and quiceros, and the ones resurrecting the archbishop because reasons), altagracias (the items make emphasis he broke an oath); people worshiping the lady of the scarred visage before he destroy her face, and ...maybe the people who kill... I dont remember. You know, the quest where you need to find all the pieces of a corpse so it can be buried properly?
@@marlutteyestrelt3441 in dark souls 3 you travel to the profaned capital and it is clear what that people was greedy and sadistic.
@@pabloraulpereyra4948 I remember that quest, and how a lot of the acts performed by those NPCS can be perceived as sacrilegious. I think that was Tentudia? She becomes a shield of protection, I believe.
@@marlutteyestrelt3441 the fact what they killed a perdom because prejuidce (without even tell to the church) or the inquisitors killing a person who seems inocent (but what still get punished by the miracle).
And what about the inquisition?
Spirituality vs Religion
Its actually the opposite. The High Wills came into existence through the miracle
Nope
The High Will is something connected to the roof Incase your tires pops and needs immediate replacement
dumb.
a great game that became unbearable as soon as you get entrance to thegiant church after ringing the bells
there are no bells rung in this game, aside from Jondo. what are you talking about?
@@no1guy825 really werent there bells to ring? did i seriously mix up that part with dark souls? well whatever it was you were supposed to do to get to that horrible bossfight with the siblings. i havent played this for almost a year after getting past them and suffering the later parts
@@Okanekaseku yeah i noticed and man im happy to not have to shit myself through the shitty esrad boss fight