Editing Blasphemous (video game) (section)

=== Story ===
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''Blasphemous'' begins in the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow, a religious order opposed to His Holiness Escribar's authority, after all its members have been massacred. The last of their kind, the Penitent One, is resurrected by the Miracle and departs on a pilgrimage. After defeating the Warden of the Silent Sorrow, he finds Deogracias, who tells him about the Cradle of Affliction, a sacred relic that the Penitent One seeks, and the Three Humiliations he must perform to be deemed worthy to reach it. He also gives the Penitent One a thorn to add to his sword's handle, wounding and feeding off the user's guilt.

The Penitent One travels to different locations in Cvstodia, including the decaying town of Albero, the snowing hills Where Olive Trees Wither, and the underground Desecrated Cistern. He completes the Three Humiliations, each of them involving a trial against a different boss, to obtain the Holy Wounds of Attrition, Contrition and Compunction from the three Holy Guardian Visages. After defeating Esdras of the Anointed Legion on the Bridge of the Three Calvaries, the Penitent One gains access to the Mother of Mothers, the massive [[cathedral]] where Escribar and the Cradle of Affliction reside.

Throughout the journey, Escribar's voice is heard, telling his backstory: A long time before the Penitent One began his pilgrimage, His Holiness Escribar had turned his throne away from his congregation, believing that the Miracle had forsaken them. Gradually, the Miracle transformed Escribar into a massive tree which [[Spontaneous combustion|suddenly ignited]] one day, leaving behind a massive pile of ash, atop which stood Escribar's throne. The Miracle drove countless people to attempt climbing the mountain, but all of them failed, swallowed by the ash. As punishment, they re-emerged from the ash as mindless beasts (the game's enemies) cursed to carry out the Miracle's will. This included Escribar, who was reborn as the Last Son of the Miracle.

At the top of the Mother of Mothers, the Penitent One encounters Crisanta of the Wrapped Agony, the leader of Escribar's soldiers, also revealed in the prequel comic to be responsible for the Penitent One's first death and throwing his corpse to where the game began. The Penitent One defeats her, but she escapes. He proceeds to defeat Escribar and the Last Son of the Miracle and encounters the mountain of ash, where Deogracias encourages him to climb it and reach the Cradle of Affliction, leading to one of two endings:

*In the default ending, the Penitent One fails to reach the top and sinks into the ash, leaving nothing but his helmet, which Deogracias picks up and deposits next to a pile of countless identical masks, declaring the Penitent One's penance to be over.
*If Deogracias' thorn has reached its final form after completing optional dungeons, the Penitent One successfully reaches the throne, sits there, and stabs himself with the Mea Culpa. His lifeless body turns into a tree and becomes worshiped by the people of Cvstodia as the new Father and Last Son of the Miracle. In a post-credits cutscene, Crisanta reappears and draws the Mea Culpa from the Penitent One's body.