As The Dead Sleep Lore

[Ice Hole]

The world has changed.
But there's a chance for one last journey before the cold sets in.
Walk the path, visit the graves, and make things right before the end.
 

The time noon.
The region Bleak Outlet.
The location Broken Lighthouse.

The opening to the As The Dead Sleep challenge.  The goal is visit five graves in five different regions.  Broken Railroad at the Maintenance Yard, Hushed River Valley at the Many Falls Vista, Raven Falls Ravine at the bottom,  Desolation Point near the Riken, Timberwolf Mountain at Crystal Lake.  The grave sites can be visited in any order and the quotes will always be in this certain order.

 

Grave #1

I found the water like I promised.
Where the rivers meet the sea.
A bitter and empty place.
You were right.

 

Grave #2

We were all so cold.
More than we could take.
No escape from it.
Please forgive me.
 

Grave #3

I left you behind.
My guts freezing, my feet on fire.
Each step a hundred years.
It was too far, too far.
 

 

Grave #4

Why couldn't you hold out?
Why couldn't I let go?
Are you at rest?
Is there sky above you where you are?
 

 

Grave #5

The world falling away.
Did you know already, somehow?
Before you left us?
The lights, they just go on.
 

 

Who is interested in attempting to decipher this information?

I will try to get the ball rolling. 

I found the water like I promised.
Where the rivers meet the sea.
A bitter and empty place.
You were right.

We are starting the challenge at the broken lighthouse and looking at the Great Bear map Bleak Inlet fits the description.  The rivers meet the sea is the delta.  Found the water is linked to the graffiti in the cannery.   What it means i just do not know.  I do know that water is always free.

MAR translates to english as sea.

Anyone want to contribute to this lore puzzle?

[Jimmy]

11 hours ago, Ice Hole said:

Anyone want to contribute to this lore puzzle?

Fun fact: if you take the first letter of each line of the five quotes, they form the anagram for "Identity Map" (with a few leftovers, sadly).

Alternatively, they could make "I am dynamite" instead, which to me verifies all the numerous rumours I've heard that Hinterland is adding sticks of nitro to the game in the next release. Blast those pesky wolves to kingdom come!

[Hotzn]

I am surprised that nobody here sees the obvious references the graves' quotes make to the scriptures of Nostradamus. If you take the first letters of the relevant passages referred to and run them through the cabbalistic equinox equation, you will get the Babylonian word for what is inside Astrid's case.

[Ice Hole]

Here I thought taking the first letter of each line and using Gematria would reveal the secret code to enter in custom mode to unlock the Orca.