The world of ‘Blasphemous’ is big, daunting and open for exploration, although it won’t be always welcoming! These are some of the areas you will be exploring (many more will come at a later stage).

Frozen Mountains

Frozen Mountains
Frozen Mountains
The Abbey at the top of the mountains is where the nuns of the Perpetual Sanctuary of our Mistress with the Burnt Face reside. Many women want to wear the habit and complete this long and dangerous pilgrimage towards the top of the mountain. Many fail and die a terrible death, freeze or starve, or are lost forever in the subterranean mazes they venture into, believing they are designed by God to put their faith to the test.

The Cathedral

The Cathedral
The Cathedral
The ruined Cathedral is a huge labyrinthian place full of distorted corridors, protected by traps as it is considered by the Congregation to be a very sacred place and only those with pure faith can enter. It hides a lot of secret rooms full of forgotten relics, and the sounds of creatures echo within its old and ruined walls like a lugubrious requiem.

Cemetery of Churches

Cemetery of Churches
Cemetery of Churches
When old churches were abandoned for not being pure enough, the ground slowly swallowed them up,they twisted and sunk, one by one. Now only ruins remain, each looking like a tombstone in the distance.

Church of the Great Thurible

Church of the Great Thurible
Church of the Great Thurible

A huge thurible was suspended from the central dome, balanced there indefinitely. The Congregation kneeled under it, praying, believing that if anyone should rise up or stop praying, the thurible would crush them.

The church is so massive and enormous that it takes a considerable amount of time to cross from one end to the other. The interior is barely lit as most of its windows were covered or destroyed.

Only the handful of survivors say that the silence inside is complete, and a tiny breeze is the only sign upon to kneel down, to avoid getting smashed by the huge, silent, thurible.

Lake of Silent Pilgrims

Lake of Silent Pilgrims
Lake of Silent Pilgrims
There is a shallow lake with salt statues of pilgrims scattered as far as the eye can see. It is said that they were petrified as a punishment for their laziness, the weaker of the parade. Their bodies started turning into salt from the legs up to their heads in a profound agony and terror, something one can still tell from the pose they remain in today. Some of them say that if you get close enough, you can hear a lament of pain coming from the inside of each one of them.

Endless Pit

Endless Pit
Endless Pit
A dark and enormous pit that takes forever to descend into. Down within it absolute darkness awaits. Nobody has ever survived the fall.

The holy expeditions of monks in search for old relics never returned. Some of the cowardly monks decided to turn back in the last minute, claiming that they could see the silhouette of huge bishops made of stone. Their cowardice was immediately punished; they were thrown into the Abyss.

Deep Woods

Deep Woods
Deep Woods
It is the darkest and deepest forest in Orthodoxia. It is said that the sunlight never reaches through the leaves and branches of the enormous ancient trees. The Congregation thinks that this place is sacred and some of them enter to try atoning for the sins they think they have committed.

Since the Age of Corruption, the forest has been inhabited by lost creatures and desperate souls that wander around with no purpose. Through its sinuous paths, sorrowful laments can be heard in the distance.