

GGG has really outdone themselves with their story planning and art direction for the entirety of path of exile and with the expansion coming I suspect with the end of part 1 and with part 2 we finally will see many of the things that have been building up.



One of the first major hints we have had for this story was released quite some time ago.

The rise of innocence.

"Innocence, with eyes of burning rage. Sin, with eyes of clearest blue."



There are many things to be gleamed and speculated on with this image. A few symbols to take note of: The eye color of the boys , the circle symbols behind the heads(I will call these Halos going by the similarity to http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Aureate_Halo) of Sin, Innocence and the woman(kalandra?),the life and death duality between the red and gold child and the descry(



The descry in particular I want to expand on here. There are 2 different descry in these images, there is the uncrossed descry above each image but also in the first and fifth images the woman is holding a chain with a crossed descry. The crossed descry most notably seen on the divine shrine(



In the footage shown to us in the 3.0 trailer and other simultaneous released videos we are told that act 5 takes place in oriath and a force is causing an uprising. Then either culminating in or as a major plot point we fight high templar avarius who once defeated "Innocence, God-emperor of eternity" appears before us. This clips of this fight gives us a few hints when you look closely.



One hint is that it shows us that "The rise of innocence" is part of a larger set of stained glass panes that we can see in this fight. There are at least 14 unique panes that can be seen from the limited footage available.

The original 5 images are mostly unchanged however the hands and fish in pane #4 have been changed in color.

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Notes about the new panes

-#4 purple hands rise from below innocence and sin. Also a fish.

-#5 is placed between the original #4 and #5

-Innocence(red eyes) is being burned at the stake in #7 there seems to be purple gemstones sprouting from red eyes'head

-#8 has a purple gemstone colored demon(blue eyes now like sin) and judging by the red halo is the same person from #7

-#9 the purple form has the eyes of sin and the golden halo figure has the red eyes of sin(seemingly swapped)

-#11 the woman with the white halo is pictured again holding a single candle

-#12 the purple figure with the recognizable red halo from the boy with red eyes in the original rise of innocence.

-#14 the red halo figure seems to be consuming the gold area of the pane and the descry pictured in the center.



The big thing that I take away from the series of images is the importance of the relation between the red and blue eyes and the gold and red halos.

"Innocence, with eyes of burning rage. Sin, with eyes of clearest blue."

If we take this as absolute then the identity of innocence and sin change throughout the story, the eye color in relation of the halo and figure seems to swap around pane #6-9.

Here we can see a depiction of innocence(or high templar avarius?) with a gold halo and red eyes

Spoiler

And here is the pantheon image. Below we have a figure not readily identifiable as something we have seen before. However he has a set of very distinguishable blue eyes. Additionally we see that the solaris and lunaris manifestations/gods/chicks have blue and red eyes. And lastly while not to do with eye color we see a unique descry above the winged blue eyed figure.

Spoiler

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Sin%27s_Rebirth

And from the ashes he rose, like a black cloud.

The Sin of one became the Sin of many.



My thoughts

Spoiler It is hard to say a lot of things certainly from this information but my conclusions are three things.





-Sin and innocence have changed places in some form you see this from the changing eyes and seems very fitting from this piece of dialogue "I read of the mortal founders whose bones were hidden deep in the Ossuary. I read of the false saints who continue to be revered in the Temple of Innocence." - Zana. This line seems to sum up a lot of the feelings given out by the game the whole way but now taken in a more literal sense. The gods that the templars worship may just be the opposite. "Death to sin" may even be cursing the original innocence.



-Sin is the winged figure pictured in the pantheon picture. The flavour text from Sins rebirth seems too perfect. Additionally I think that the purple figure with blue eyes pictured may be a form of "The beast" that we defeated in act 4. This would explain his need for rebirth however I am less confident in this statement.



-Kitava is involved in the innocence/sin struggle and it may be his hands(and fish?) in pane #4







I just wanted to share a few things that I noticed with the community perhaps you guys will be able to explain things better or find other clues I missed.







GGG has really outdone themselves with their story planning and art direction for the entirety of path of exile and with the expansion coming I suspect with the end of part 1 and with part 2 we finally will see many of the things that have been building up.One of the first major hints we have had for this story was released quite some time ago.The rise of innocence."Innocence, with eyes of burning rage. Sin, with eyes of clearest blue."There are many things to be gleamed and speculated on with this image. A few symbols to take note of: The eye color of the boys , the circle symbols behind the heads(I will call these Halos going by the similarity to http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Aureate_Halo) of Sin, Innocence and the woman(kalandra?),the life and death duality between the red and gold child and the descry( http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Descry ).The descry in particular I want to expand on here. There are 2 different descry in these images, there is the uncrossed descry above each image but also in the first and fifth images the woman is holding a chain with a crossed descry. The crossed descry most notably seen on the divine shrine( http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Shrine ). I take this as less than a subtle way of saying the crossed descry has to do with the divine more so than the normal version. This symbology appears in the footage seen about the acts in Oriath and appears to be deliberate.In the footage shown to us in the 3.0 trailer and other simultaneous released videos we are told that act 5 takes place in oriath and a force is causing an uprising. Then either culminating in or as a major plot point we fight high templar avarius who once defeated "Innocence, God-emperor of eternity" appears before us. This clips of this fight gives us a few hints when you look closely.One hint is that it shows us that "The rise of innocence" is part of a larger set of stained glass panes that we can see in this fight. There are at least 14 unique panes that can be seen from the limited footage available.The original 5 images are mostly unchanged however the hands and fish in pane #4 have been changed in color.Notes about the new panes-#4 purple hands rise from below innocence and sin. Also a fish.-#5 is placed between the original #4 and #5-Innocence(red eyes) is being burned at the stake in #7 there seems to be purple gemstones sprouting from red eyes'head-#8 has a purple gemstone colored demon(blue eyes now like sin) and judging by the red halo is the same person from #7-#9 the purple form has the eyes of sin and the golden halo figure has the red eyes of sin(seemingly swapped)-#11 the woman with the white halo is pictured again holding a single candle-#12 the purple figure with the recognizable red halo from the boy with red eyes in the original rise of innocence.-#14 the red halo figure seems to be consuming the gold area of the pane and the descry pictured in the center.The big thing that I take away from the series of images is the importance of the relation between the red and blue eyes and the gold and red halos."Innocence, with eyes of burning rage. Sin, with eyes of clearest blue."If we take this as absolute then the identity of innocence and sin change throughout the story, the eye color in relation of the halo and figure seems to swap around pane #6-9.Here we can see a depiction of innocence(or high templar avarius?) with a gold halo and red eyesAnd here is the pantheon image. Below we have a figure not readily identifiable as something we have seen before. However he has a set of very distinguishable blue eyes. Additionally we see that the solaris and lunaris manifestations/gods/chicks have blue and red eyes. And lastly while not to do with eye color we see a unique descry above the winged blue eyed figure.And from thehe rose, like aThe Sin of one became the Sin of many.I just wanted to share a few things that I noticed with the community perhaps you guys will be able to explain things better or find other clues I missed. Last edited by alkkine on Apr 10, 2017, 9:42:26 PM Last bumped on Jun 13, 2017, 5:47:54 PM