After player says Mark of the Conclave flavour text ‘brightened up my day’.
The world ofDiablo 4is full of misery and sadness. There are flayed corpses everywhere, fathers are haunted by the ghosts of their dead sons, blokes cram flaming eyeballs into their skulls andsometimes a guy turns up at random just to stomp you(and a lot of other people) into fleshy jam on the ground. Given all the abject suffering that the game and its predecessors make their stock and trade, it was an especially nice surprise to see real, genuine positivity emerge out of the literal hellscape of Sanctuary.
The amulet is given to the player upon completing the sidequest A Series of Steps for Taissa in Hawezar, revolving around helping a character come to terms with their grief at the death of their son.
“As someone going through severe depression, this brighten [sic] up my day,” Wholesome_Meowwrote. As it turned out, they were far from alone in finding the flavour text comforting, with their post on theDiablo 4subreddit attracting over 1,000 upvotes and dozens of comments and supportive messages expressing similar feelings.
I wrote this flavor text for this person. I wrote it for me and I wrote it for you. I wrote it hoping against hope that it might help someone remember that things will get better.https://t.co/tr5nDDpTXg
Diablo 4’s senior quest designer Harrison G. Pinktook to Twitterto discuss their heartfelt approach to crafting the sidequest and its reward.
“I created this quest to be about overcoming grief and trauma, and how you cannot force healing, or always slay your demons, but by accepting who you are NOW, you can continue to heal and move forward,” they wrote.
“I wrote this flavor text for this person. I wrote it for me and I wrote it for you. I wrote it hoping against hope that it might help someone remember that things will get better.”
