Visions

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Visions are hallucinations experienced in *Ghost of Tsushima: Iki Island*, as a result of hallucinogens distributed by Ankhsar Khatun, also known as The Eagle. The effects are first encountered in Toyotama, where Jin Sakai comes across a village suffering from the aftermath of an encounter with Mongols lead into Tsushima from Iki Island.

## Gameplay

The visions begin after Jin is initially captured by Khatun and freed by Tenzo. Jin continues to experience the hallucinations from time to time until he defeats Khatun on Iki.

## Effects

The effects of the poison range from mild--usually a shift in the music or environmental sounds often followed by the voice of The Eagle speaking to Jin- to much more jarring, where the screen takes a purple-red hue and eagles constantly fly past while Jin hallucinates people around him or interacting with him. If you progress through Iki without doing the main story quests immediately he will react to the world around him, whether it's interacting with objects littered throughout the island or attacking enemies, hiding in pampas grass, scaling cliffs, and others. These are often random and can appear at any time through Jin's journey.

While the visions are in the voice of The Eagle, Jin mentions in a quest with Tenzo that they are not actually her speaking to him, but his own thoughts that he didn't realize he had been thinking at all in her voice. This implies, based on various hallucinations and visions throughout the exploration of Iki Island, that Jin unconsciously considers ending his own life.

## Hallucinations

### Character-based

There are instances where Jin will have very intense visions, often times locked to specific locations:

* Lord Shimura
	+ Lord Shimura talking about defending Tsushima: triggered after igniting the Thieves Rest Lighthouse.
	+ Lord Shimura urging Jin to renounce The Ghost and be Jin Shimura: activated when picking up a note from a father who's son has died, or located on the little cliff beside the Raider's Monument/Archery Challenge in the southern part of Buddha's Footprints.
	+ Shimura's Letter: a scroll on a merchant's table in Katayama Market, after liberation.
	+ A dead bear and a Mongol.
	+ A reference to the ending scene: on Saruiwa, encountered near several corpses.
* Masako Adachi
	+ About her sons: two hanging bodies on the path towards the survivor camp at the southern end of Lake Nagata where the quest "The Impact of Loss" takes place.
	+ About her interaction with Jin at the funeral for Lord Kazumasa, which then becomes her talking about the death of her family: at a grave near a path in Kemono's Trail, just above the 'K' in 'Kemono' on the map (look for a mound of stones with a flag sticking out of it).
* Kazumasa's death and Jin's guilt surrounding it: can be activated multiple times and in multiple instances, most notably activated on a body on the path in Weeping Mother's Meadow
* Yuriko: finishing the Wisteria Haiku
* Khotun Khan battling Jin like in the beginning of the game: triggered at Tatsu's Ladder specifically
* Ryuzo: triggered multiple times whenever there is a straw hat similar to his own
	+ One specifically at the dock in the lake below the Cat Sanctuary by the river flowing from Tatsu's Ladder
* Jin's horse, specifically if the player has gotten to Act 3: activated when interacting with the corpse of a fallen horse that was on the path out of Thieves Rest Village
* Reference to the side quest of Mongols killing foxes near a shrine in Toyotama: triggered when examining a dead cat where you receive the Prowling Tiger Headband east of Katayama Market
* Memory of Hanaoka/Jin accidentally kills a camp of raider allies: on the cliffs above where Togo was held captive during "The Impact of Loss". When you first encounter this camp they appear to be enemy bandits, and once you clear the camp it triggers the vision.
* Resting at an onsen and reflecting on hallucinations

### General visions

There are more generic visions that often can be triggered by doing one of the following: running until Jin is exhausted, climbing, hiding in pampas grass near enemies, taking fall damage/jumping from high elevations, getting hit by the enemy, preforming the action "end suffering", and clearing out groups of enemies

## References and notes

### References

1. ↑ "The Eagle's Cry"
2. ↑ Reddit post on hallucinations

### Notes

1. ↑ Many hallucinations regarding certain characters, such as Lord Shimura and Ryuzo, are dependent on the player's progress through the base game.