Crimson Desert’s Story Actually Makes Perfect Sense - Here’s How…

Crimson Desert is easily one of the most ambitious open-world games ever made. With a sprawling map, tons of activities and mechanics, enough content to last at least 400 hours if you grind out everything. But, if there's one place where the game garners the most criticism, it's got to be the story. Feeling at first like something of a

disjointed mess with not enough context for why Cliff is going from place to place and completing objectives that at a glance seem barely connected. With the protagonist himself coming across [music] lacking in much emotion or depth. But, what if I told you that there's actually a very good explanation for everything happening the way it does

in Crimson Desert? And by the end of this video, you'll know the exact reasons behind every major event in the game and why it really couldn't have happened any other way. Because, yes, despite appearances, Crimson Desert storyline actually makes perfect sense. And here's how. From our perspective, this story begins in Pywell on the fateful night of the

Blackbear raid against the Grey Mates. The destruction of their home and the death of Pywell's leader, Gian. A battle where Cliff is shot, [music] has his throat slit by the Blackbear leader, Myrdin, and is thrown off the edge of a waterfall. All things that would surely kill any regular man. But then, strangely, Cliff awakens in the

mysterious dimension floating above Pywell called the Abyss, where he is imbued with several special and supernatural abilities. At the same time, back on the ground at the Whitecliff mappery, an artisan named Sebastian locked eyes with a white bird perched on his windowsill. After which, he felt an inexplicable urge to go fishing at the Nass River. Here, he