Fourth Visage

"Find my eyes, Penitent One. For only then will I be able to reveal my secret to you."

The Fourth Visage is an NPC added through the Wounds of Eventide DLC, and can be found in a secret room beneath the Knot of the Three Words after receiving the Key Grown from Twisted Wood from Esdras. It is a crucial component to the third and canonical ending of the game.

The Fourth Visage, also known as the Traitor, is an eyeless face of molten gold which is imprisoned in the roots of the Knot of the Three Words. It will reward the Penitent One with the true Apodictic Heart of Mea Culpa when he successfully returns its two missing eyes.

Isidora guards the Severed Right Eye of the Traitor, and Sierpes keeps the Broken Left Eye of the Traitor respectively. Both bosses must be defeated before facing Crisanta of the Wrapped Agony, otherwise the True Ending will be unobtainable.

Approach this face of pale gold, with empty sockets instead of eyes.
You stand before the roots of the knotted tree of the Three Words, for these form the bars of my captivity.
They claim that my words are false and that mine is the face of deception…
And for this reason, I have been exiled from my three other brothers, the Holy Guardian Visages.
They betrayed me, punished me and ripped out my eyes, so I could no longer be a witness to the truth.
Now there is only infinite darkness around me.
May your compassion help you in the search for my stolen, golden eyes.
One of them can be found in a place inhabited by bone, ash and song.
The other can be found in a dried-up sea, to which ships head to die amidst the terrible thunder.
Find my eyes, Penitent One. For only then will I be able to reveal my secret to you.
May your compassion help you find my stolen eyes.
 **When given first eye** | Oh… Even in this place, beneath so many floors, I am bedazzled.
But blessed be the light whose intensity blinds, for behind it lies always a seed of virtue.
Find my other eye, oh merciful Penitent One.
Penitent One, find my other eye.
 **When given second eye** | You have found my eyes…
Now I can see that this terrible place, this prison of what I am and have been for so very long…
Penitent One, listen carefully.
In the most fervent souls, in the most devout hearts lives the seed that lulls the consciousness and controls the will:
They are the links of invisible chains that hail from remote, sacred and forbidden places.
From where the High Wills dwell.
I am going to give you that which I have been protecting since I was banished from the Dream.
Here, take it. This is the True Heart of your guilty blade.
With this heart you will awaken the true guilt of your sword, enabling you to pierce the hearts shrouded by the Miracle’s veil.
Cast off the chains from the soul whose profession of faith, engraved on her helmet, is the truest, most righteous and unwavering of all.
The soul of Crisanta of the Wrapped Agony.
And in this way, you will inflict the greatest of all wounds upon her. The wound to the soul.
The greatest… of all wounds…

## Relevant Item Descriptions

An eyeball of solid gold that adorned the scythe of Isidora, the singer of the dead. Condemned to an eternity of deep-rooted darkness, the melted face of the Traitor was also robbed of his eyes for he had seen too much. The lady of the ossuary was charged to watch over him, and the bones that used to sing with her found a new tomb in the darkest of corners.

Eyeball forged in gold, torn from the socket of a beast from the depths. The Traitor was vanished to this world, condemned to remember the truth he had dared to gaze upon. One of the eyes was delivered to the sea and no more was heard of it, but the waters that engulfed it became the burial ground of any vessel that ventured to sail through them.

## Trivia

It is possibly based on several figures in the Christian New Testament:

* Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus's original Twelve Apostles claimed by the Four Evangelists to have betrayed Jesus.
* Mark the Evangelist, whose gospel is possibly the earliest-written and only one featuring the Messianic Secret motif (possible inspiration for the fourth visage's claim as "a witness to the truth").