Sin of Solace (Curse)

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According to the Memory description of **Sin of Solace**, the blade is a whisper of Ariel, the Demon of Dread.

## Runes

**View Runes**

*Click here to view the Runes of Sin of Solace*

## Manifestation

In the Third Nightmare, the spirit of the cursed sword did not look vague and blurry. It looked complete and real.

The apparition was more composed and full of malice than Sunny, hiding a boundless ocean of madness behind its amused gaze. Sunny was initially convinced that one of Mordret's Reflections had found him within the mist, but the tone of the apparition was too familiar, leading him to realize that this copy was the manifestation of the Sin of Solace.

The reason the spirit of the Sin of Solace was suddenly much more clear, frighteningly real, and even able to appear without summoning the cursed sword was because of single rune was roughly carved into the wood he was floating on at the start of the Third Nightmare.

## Curse

The less stable Sunny's mental state, the more substantial the presence of the blade's apparition.

The spirit of the cursed sword turned a broken piece of Sunny's mind against him. Therefore, Sunny was actually conversing with a splintered piece of his mind rather than being haunted by a cursed sword.

Sunny's intact sanity was partly due to his mental resilience and resistance to mind attacks. Most humans would have been turned into raving lunatics by the jade jian, but Sunny found the presence of the Sin of Solace frustrating.

### Evidences

Sunny can lie when he talks to Sin of Solace, and he also don't have to answer all of its questions which is only possible when he is talking to himself.

## History

Sunny initially heard whispers when holding the Sin of Solace, but later heard its voice and a vague illusory figure following him. Inside the Third Nightmare, Sunny did not have the Sin of Solace summoned, as the sword still rested within his soul but the apparition looked complete and real beside him.

The sword wraith, Sin of Solace, appears independent but it is still a part of Sunny's mind. He had previously understood the nature of the apparition in Antarctica and how to deal with it. However, upon entering the Tomb of Ariel, the nature of the apparition changed without explanation. Sunny questions the influence of the Tomb, which was built by the Demon of Dread, and whether there is something more sinister at play.

## Trivia

* In the spellweave of Key of Estuary, there is a particular pattern of essence strings describing the rune, **Sin of Solace**. The name of the cursed sword wraith is intricately woven into the enchantment of the Estuary Key.

From what Sunny knew in the Third Nightmare, the Mad Prince was the only one of the Defiled champions who had traveled into the far reaches of the future. Sunny had inherited the Estuary Key and Sin of Solace from the Mad Prince; the sword wraith's vivid appearance could be due to their shared past.

The Sin of Solace might have been by his side all the way to becoming Defiled and then spending unknown time haunting the Great River and had been passed down to the younger version of its corrupted master through some bizarre anomaly or dark scheme.

The apparition had let it slip that he knew the Mad Prince by interfering with the dream where the abomination's vestige showed up. This raises questions about the origins of the Sin of Solace and the Mad Prince's connection.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 869 Sin of Solace
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1231 Once More, With Feeling
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Chapter 1232 Lost in the Mist
4. ↑ Chapter 1351 Beware of Future Versions of Yourself Bearing Gifts
5. ↑ Chapter 886 Sortie
6. ↑ Chapter 955 The End
7. ↑ Chapter 1187 Battle of the Black Skull (1)
8. ↑ Chapter 1339 Moving On
9. ↑ Chapter 1350 Familiar Pattern
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Chapter 1351 Beware of Future Versions of Yourself Bearing Gifts