History WMG / AlanWake

[[WMG: Alan Wake 2 will consist of [[spoiler:a new Departure and Return with an Initiation in between]].]]

[[http://thishouseofdreams.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/diving-deep.html The final post of the teaser blog for Alan Wake 2]] reveals that [[spoiler:the Light Presence - actually a Bright Presence - isn't Thomas Zane, but something that took his shape while his true esennce - his soul - sank further into that deeper, darker ocean green with Barbara's. Using the power of the Dark Place, he created a new 'baby universe' where he could live with Barbara happily ever after. Meanwhile, the Presences of the Dark Place continued their [[GoodIsNotNice terrible, ruthless battle]].]]

[[WMG: Alan Wake 2 will consist of [[a new Departure and Return with an Initiation in between]].]]

[[http://thishouseofdreams.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/diving-deep.html The final post of the teaser blog for Alan Wake 2]] reveals that [[spoiler:the Light Presence - actually a Bright Presence - isn't Thomas Zane, but something that took his shape while his true esennce - his soul - sank further into that deeper, darker ocean green with Barbara's. Using the power of the Dark Place, he created a new 'baby universe' where he could live with Barbara happily ever after. Meanwhile, the Presences of the Dark Place contuned their [[GoodIsNotNice terrible, ruthless battle]].]]

The original Alan Wake was originally intended to be an open-world game, but was later changed to be more linear. This resulted in Alan frantically running through unknown territory toward simple goals, even if he wasn't sure what he'd do when he got there. In the first half of the game, he instinctively heads toward lit places. Past that, he becomes a little more proactive in his goals. In Ameriican Nightmare, however, the environments, while smaller, are more open. Alan is taking control of his life and situation and formulating plans, and the player, no longer guided by a generally linear path, must act with purpose.

He/she/it will have special, dangerous properties as a result of being the child of a Dark Place entity and a creative person.

That's why there's a rocking horse in the cabin; she was expecting. As for what happened to the little one...

He/she/it will have special, dangerous properties as a reuslt of being the child of a Dark Place entity and a creative person.

[[WMG: Barbara Jagged was pregnant.]]

He's literally an embodiment of all the perverse and dark desires Alan has but doesn't act on, spun out of a dark fog, but is both his own entity and has a completely different personality, acting as a herald to an unseen and maleficent force. That's pretty darn clear. My guess is that the Dark Place is some kind of [[EldritchLocation oubliette]] Alan got stuck in.

* Consider [[spoiler:Mr. Scratch]]. Zane brings him to life and says [[spoiler:"He'll meet up with your friends"]] or something like that, but at the END [[spoiler:Alice finds no trace of Alan at all! Not even a doppleganger!]] What does this mean? [[spoiler:From after the dive into the lake, you play as Mr. Scratch, who for all intensive purposes, was Alan and Zane's avatar within the story. Since you can't be both places at once, Alan typed that Zane made Scratchy here, who went through the course of the game, weakening the Dark Presence so Alan could win his mental battle against it. When you REALLY control Alan, you know it, because you can see the words of his story floating around, ready to become reality. All the other times? You're Mr. Scratchy.]]

This is based on quantum immortality theory. Basically, according to the theory, you will never experience death. Your consciousness will merely branch off into a timeline in which you didn't die. The machine thus creates an all-in-or-none-in situation. The other timeline can worry about all the fatalities.

[[WMG:In the Night Spring episode about the immortality machine, the machine works by killing everyone in at least the room simultaneously when someone dies.]]

[[WMG:In the Night Spring episode about the immortality machine, the machine works by killing everyone in at least the room when someone dies.]]

[[WMG:In the Night Spring episode about the immortality machine, the machine works by killing everyone in at least the room when it detects that someone is about to die.]]

The Dark Place is a realm of mind and thought. Relative to the 'normal' universe, it is a place of chaos and madness. Relative to the Dark Place, the 'normal' universe is a still point, an unnaturally dull lump of reality... the perfect blank canvas for whatever denizen of the Dark Place can manage to get inside, control it and monopolize it. The Dark Place is not a strange part of the 'normal' universe, it's the other way around. It's not a lake... ''it's an ocean''.

[[WMG: Alan Wake takes place in TheDresdenFiles]]

[[WMG: The Dark Presence is the entity that possessed [[TheShining the Overlook Hotel]].]]

[[WMG: The Dark Presence is Ahriman from Prince of Persia (2008)]]

The Dark Place is a realm of mind and thought. Relative to the 'normal' universe, it is a place of chaos and madness. Relative to the Dark Place, the 'normal' universe is a still point, an unnaturally dull pump of reality... the perfect blank canvas for whatever denizen of the Dark Place can manage to get inside, control it and monopolize it. The Dark Place is not a strange part of the 'normal' universe, it's the other way around. It's not a lake... ''it's an ocean''.

[[WMG: One of the endings of the final game of the series will involve the permanent distruction of the Dark Place... with dire consequences.]]

It's established that simply using the Dark Place's power to write a DeusExMachina is a very bad idea. But by American Nightmare, Alan has developed a way: write a decently written scene in which a DeusExMachina happens, then manually set things up to match the description of the scene. Why is this better? How does this work within the story's internal logic (the breaching of which is the problem with simply writing a quick resolution)? Because Alan's still writing his return. He's writing his entire journey. Which means that, although the Dark Place (and/or one of its denizens) makes him forget the details, he's still living through a manuscript he wrote, like in the original game. Which means that his method of writing [[DeusExMachina Deus ex Machinas]] is ''part'' of the story and its internal logic. And, as per the rules of drama and narrative, it requires effort and success is uncertain. So technically, it's not a DeusExMachina any more.

It's established that simply using the Dark Place's power to write a DeusExMachina is a very bad idea. But by American Nightmare, Alan has developed a way: write a decently written scene in which a DeusExMachina happens, then manually set things up to match the description of the scene. Why is this better? How does this work within the story's internal logic (the breaching of which is the problem with simply writing a quick resolution)? Because Alan's still writing his return. He's writing his entire journey. Which means that, although the Dark Place (and/or one of its denizens) makes him forget the details, he's still living through a manuscript he wrote, like in the original game. Which means that his method of writing [[DeusExMachina Deus Ex Machinas]] is ''part'' of the story and its internal logic. And, as per the rules of drama and narrative, it requires effort and success is uncertain. So technically, it's not a DeusExMachina any more.

It's established that simply using the Dark Place's power to write a DeusExMachine is a very bad idea. But by American Nightmare, Alan has developed a way: write a decently written scene in which a DeusExMachina happens, then manually set things up to match the description of the scene. Why is this better? How does this work within the story's internal logic (the breaching of which is the problem with simply writing a quick resolution)? Because Alan's still writing his return. He's writing his entire journey. Which means that, although the Dark Place (and/or one of its denizens) makes him forget the details, he's still living through a manuscript he wrote, like in the original game. Which means that his method of writing [[DeusExMachina Deus Ex Machinas]] is ''part'' of the story and its internal logic. And, as per the rules of drama and narrative, it requires effort and success is uncertain. So technically, it's not a DeusExMachine any more.

If and when this happens, it will turn out that the Dark Place's ambient effects on the world resulted in the creation of fiction by humans. The Dark Place's destruction means the end of the creation of fiction, resulting in a very different world, especially if the effect is [[RetGone retroactive]].

[[WMG: There are two forces with in the world vying for power]]

You play as Alice, looking for Alan and trying to figure out what's going on. The third game will be simply "Wake", though I have no idea who you'd play as. Maybe both Alan and Alice, to call back to ''MaxPayne 2''?

[[WMG: Address Unknown and possibly MaxPayne itself were written by Alan Wake.]]