Holy Cradle Cavern

*For the episode with the location name, see The Secret in the Forest - Episode 13.*

## Holy Cradle Cave

* Cavern's beginning
* Parasite Area

### First appearance

The Secret in the Forest - Episode 15 - "Wellspring"

The **Cavern**  was the main part of Holy Cradle, accessible only to wielders of the spiral symbol on their own body, which guided them through a highly changing labyrinth, there was also a connection with the Holy Cradle Mines, this connection had been covered with a wall. It was the place where the Wellsprings and Dimensions Parasite resided, it was also the place where the final confrontation took place from The Secret in the Forest.

## History

The cavernwas visited for the first time in 1918, even when Holy Cradle was far from being realized in Pequena Carpa, by Ana Vitória Batista and, her mother, Lurdete Batista. The two wanted to surprise Virgulino Batista, Ana's father and Lurdete's husband, hiding paintings in one of the caves near their house, however, when visiting one of the caves, something that made them lose their minds happened, the two began to draw a spiral symbol, talking nonsense, among other bizarre things.

The cavern was destroyed after Thiago Fritz exploded the Dimensions Parasite, causing its entire extension to collapse and bury everything inside it.

## Cavern areas

Before reaching the cavern , the individual would have to go through the Infinite Labyrinth, a labyrinth practically impossible to complete if you do not have the help of the spiral symbol or someone marked by the symbol. The closer you got to the cave, the greater the feeling of fear, as if you were walking towards your own death.

The cavern could be separated in some areas, but the cavern itself, looks like a maze, full of entrances and holes in all the walls, even only some of these entrances are depicted in the visual map.

### Entrance

It was the entrance to a large cavern, completely surrounded by thick fog, only those wielding the Spiral Symbol could see completely through the fog, the entrance is much larger than the entrance to the Holy Cradle Mines, its height reaches to be larger than the labyrinth itself, yet it is not possible to see any caves outside the labyrinth. It was possible to hear a faint heartbeat coming from inside, even for people who weren't marked with the spiral symbol, all the walls were covered with the black ooze, which was crawling along the walls. The entrance extends a bit until it reaches a triple fork. There was a confrontation between Team Kelvin and The Blacksmith and formerly Helper, the confrontation resulted in the Mariana Larona's death, the Kenan Thomas's arrest in the cell of a Wellspring and the "transformation" of Miguel Cariad into The Blacksmith's helper, who later became Blacksmith.

### Cells

Going straight through the first fork there was an area with a total of 6 cells, used to contain the Wellsprings from the outside world. One of the cells was also used to contain Kenan Thomas.

### Southwest

To the southwest of the cavern was a small labyrinth and at its end a small area with spaces that led nowhere and in its center a stone, completely covered in Black Slime, Kenan Thomas used the place to hide his full backpack of explosives.

### North

The north of the cavern has not been explored much, but it is known that there was a fork for two dead ends.

### Holy's Area

At the end of the area of ​​the cells there was a path with some paths, but when following the sound of the beats you arrived in a large area, in this area there was a large red spiral symbol drawn on the ground and on top of that symbol a kind of giant black organism and loathsome, known as Dimensions Parasite. There the confrontation against the Blacksmith took place and, after his death, the final confrontation against The God of Death, resulting in the death of Kenan Thomas and the sacrifice of Thiago Fritz to kill the parasite, ending Holy Cradle.

## Referências

1. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 13 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h21m45s). The Doorman talks about the saint.
2. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 5 (*watch on YouTube* at 52h11s)
3. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h49m23s)
4. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 15 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h19m34s)