A land trapped in a sunset that never ends. Over it hangs the Miracle, a force that rewards and punishes the guilt of its people by giving it the shape of flesh, stone and gold.
You are the Penitent One, the sole survivor of the massacre of the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow. Trapped in a cycle of death and rebirth, you carry the Mea Culpa and a single goal: to reach the Cradle of Affliction and fulfil your penance.
He never speaks a single word in the whole game. He wears a metal capirote bound by a crown of thorns, and what lies beneath is never shown. He rises among the corpses of his brothers and obeys the only thing still speaking in Cvstodia: guilt.
The Sword of Guilt. A crucified body forms its hilt and a bramble of thorns climbs up the blade. While you browse this page, it is also your cursor.
Six stations separate the pile of corpses from the final judgement. Two of them decide whether the pilgrimage can reach the true ending.
The Penitent One rises from a mountain of corpses: his brothers of the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow, all dead. He is the only one left. He soon meets Deogracias, witness and narrator of this story, who gives him the Thorn and sets his task: the Three Humiliations.
He must tear three Holy Wounds, of Attrition, of Contrition and of Compunction, from Ten Piedad, Tres Angustias and Our Lady of the Charred Visage. Only with all three does the way to the heart of Cvstodia open.
Esdras, of the Anointed Legion, bars the way. Here the story branches.
If you found his sister Perpetva's grave beforehand, the duel does not end in death and Esdras gives you the prayer Taranto to my Sister. If you kill him, Ending C is closed for that playthrough.
Beneath the city lies Mother of Mothers, the buried cathedral, where Melquíades, the Exhumed Archbishop, awaits. His Deformed Mask of Orestes is the first of three. The Embossed Mask of Crescente waits in the Library of the Negated Words; the Mirrored Mask of Dolphos, at the top of the convent. Along the way fall Expósito, Scion of Abjuration, and Quirce, Returned by the Flames.
The three masks fit the three-faced statue that lifts the Penitent One to the rooftops of the Archcathedral. There Crisanta of the Wrapped Agony waits.
Defeating her is mandatory. Breaking her chains is only possible on the road to Ending C, with the Apodictic Heart of Mea Culpa equipped.
In the Deambulatory of His Holiness awaits Escribar, the Pope of Cvstodia. When he falls, he is reborn as the Last Son of the Miracle. Then comes the judgement, and what the Penitent One has carried along the way decides how it all ends.
Cvstodia judges what you carried to the end. Tell the beads of your playthrough and the Miracle will pass its verdict.
Contains spoilers
This section reveals the three endings of Blasphemous and what each one requires.
No verdict yet.
The judgement only comes once Escribar falls. Mark the first bead and add the others according to what you did in your playthrough, or read any ending with the buttons above.
Deogracias asks the Penitent One to follow the ancient processions up the slope. But he is not worthy: the mountain of ash swallows him halfway and his penance ends there. Deogracias keeps his helmet.
This is the default ending: you get it whenever you defeat Escribar without meeting what Ending A requires.
Fed with guilt, the Thorn makes the Penitent One worthy of the Miracle. This time the ash does not swallow him: he climbs the mountain to its summit and his penance is fulfilled. It was the canonical ending until Wounds of Eventide arrived.
It arrived with Wounds of Eventide in December 2021 and is the canonical ending. It reveals that there were not three Visages watching over the Miracle's plans, but four, and that the fourth could see into the Dream, where the Miracle shows its true form: the High Wills, a trinity that fed on the faith of Cvstodia.
Alongside Crisanta, now free of her chains, the Penitent One confronts them and drives them out of the world. Or so they believed. A heart in the sky heralds the return of the Miracle and a new miraculous child.
Walk the bridge of the Archcathedral with the Mea Culpa. The orbs come from the cathedral: parry them, dodge them, shatter them or heal with your Bile Flasks.
Press any button to continue
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Every area, boss, Confessor statue and collectible, marked on the full map.
Interactive map by MapGenie.
“Forever I curse you in the name, forever I bless you in death.”