The Silent Expanse

Don't you think that if you had to wear an extremely purified helmet of legend-level craftsmanship just to approach the corrupter of worlds, the silent expanse would kind of just instantly destroy your brain and completely destroy you?

 

The wonders of old lore.

 

to be fair the corruption and the darkness arent exactly the same forces, corruption seems to be far more aggressive in changing/altering beings.

 

I'm sure they'll remove the helmet at come point and replace it with some sort of "oh you got a spell on you now" like they've done with others (e.g. Royal Trials).

I doubt it's canonical but maybe when Dern Dren removes the darkness something happens?

 

Corruption kills and infests and bloats things with hatred, Darkness changes and mutates.

Corrupted are undead, hate-possessed objects or spirits, and things driven to madness. (I should note that Devils are not Corrupted, as they are from the Realm of War itself)

Things of influenced by Darkness are warped and changed to fit in with its Eldritch ecology or purposed into a tool.

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They also aren't the same force by the fact that they are of separate Realms. While Corruption bears some visual similarities to Darkness (namely the black protrusions), that is because it is the hate-child of Light and Dark, and thus draws themes from both.

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The purified helmet is kind of a mcguffin. It doesn't really have significance outside of the specific usage in the quest because story wise it wouldnt be interesting if the player was able to walk in unimpeded. The quest is decidedly an artifact of its time when quests were almost like individual little storylines instead of elements of a cohesive world, and writing wasn't as thoroughly considered.

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blows up quest helmets with mind