Plot holes in POE

Hillock was dumped into the river by a group of men who killed him with a sword, the same sword hhe uses to fight you. He was a problem they took care of because of his killing men in Oriath and raping women. I'll go find the offical sotry brb.


Ok I am back,


"They called him "Hillock". He was born huge: so large that he nearly split his mother in two. Growing up, he was kept from other children, for worries that his freakish size would lead to injury whenever play turned rough. As he grew into a man, his growth continued unabated, and people came from far away to behold him. Fittingly, Hillock found work as a Blacksmith, his massive arms capable of swinging a hammer faster and harder than three men. Hillock was a man of tremendous appetites, the greatest of which was drink. After a day of work, he could often be found surrounded by stacks of mugs, building a stupor to match his strength. He was giant, but mostly harmless, and things might have stayed that way if only that drifter had kept his mouth shut. It was probably an innocent comment, perhaps made in jest. Whatever the case, Hillock was deep in his cups, and the drifter's words sent the giant man into a drunken rage. His first blow killed the offender, nearly tearing his head from his shoulders, and when his friends rushed to help, they were met with snarling fury. By the end of the melee, the ground was drenched in blood, the floor strewn with mangled, trampled bodies. Hillock staggered back to the smithy to nurse his wounds. No one dared enter to make him answer for his crime, and in the days that followed, people were made uneasy by a ceaseless clanging and scraping that drifted out of the building.

When Hillock finally emerged, he was a changed man. He was silent and humorless, and now he carried with him a gigantic blade, fashioned from his long, frenzied labors in the aftermath of the slaughter. Having tasted murder, Hillock had an appetite for that as well, and he would hack off a man's limbs or head at the slightest ill glance or provocation. Finally, a group of his victims gathered their courage, and in the dead of night, they crept into the smithy, where four of the strongest among them plunged the great sword into Hillock's chest while he slept. Then they carried him far away, and hurled his body down the cliffs into the ocean.

That should have been the end of him, but it wasn't. Some months later, a breathless fisherman returned from seas off the coast of nearby Wraeclast, and reported that he'd seen a hulking, staggering apparition in the surf. Following that sighting, the bodies began to pile up, butchered like cattle, hacked to bloody pieces. In death, Hillock is a far greater terror than he ever was in life. He walks the shores of Wraeclast now, his animated corpse still pierced by the great sword that slew him. He does not feel the icy ocean spray, nor the numerous arrows that now riddle his body. His cold heart is filled with a terrible malice. Any brave enough to put him down for good would surely be met with great reward. "






http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Hillock

Game must be all a dream of gamer if the "Exile" is aware that he or she must find the exit of an Act? Iono man...

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DirkAustin wrote:

Has anyone ever found plot holes? For example how can Oak harass the camp if hes behind the big ball we have to push over and the tree roots to get to him? Anyone else got something similar?

Oak has the waypoint!

If the people in the town would just share the waypoint with you all this Vaal Stuff could be prevented.. but yeah.. they don´t share and then blame you for making your own way...

The only reason we find our way to Oak is with the help of Silk and Eramir. They don't really have the best knowledge of the land, it seems to me, as they stay in the camp all the time while we do all the fighting. So, I can easily assume that the way to Oak that we take is the only one they know about which does not exclude other paths to Oak.

What GGG has done though is to only show us one path, so there might only be one path. Here is a great opportunity for puzzles and some role playing but they seemed to have skipped that.

Now, if there is indeed only one path to Oak then it logically means that either A. Oak got there before the big ball blocked the path, or B. Oak managed to get past the big ball and was able to put the big ball back if he removed it.

Blocking the path to the cave that leads to oak seem to be have done by Silk, as it is his spear that opens the path it could also be the same spear that closes the path. Silk might as well be a spy working for the other side. He seems a bit too relaxed and sketchy compared to all other NPC's. Either he has an interest in giving you the sword that he does not reveal or he is simply an airhead fighting spiders once in a while.

I'm pretty sure the whole reason we go through the vaal temple to get to pools and streams is because oak's bros have blocked off the more convenient ways of getting there. Pretty sure eramir or someone explains that in a quest dialogue.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

You say 'plot hole', I say 'gap in knowledge ripe for fan fic speculation'.

I stayed away from fan fiction after an unfortunate experience reading about a love triangle between Kirk, Scotty and Bones.

Let's just say that Scotty was "Giving it all she's got, Captain."

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elwindakos wrote:

Hillock.Enough said.Chronologicaly doesnt suit in there,after the letters and all that

He's a slow zombie, im sure most just ran past him.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Oh, most fan fic is a fucking travesty. I haven't even gone there since my early D2 days. The amount of wish fulfillment is staggering.

We are blessed with at least a few good writers in this community, more than capable of exploring various facets of Wræclast without turning it into some Marty-Stu orgy of power and sex. I think the fact that the player characters are so vague and the lore so detached from the 'story' that helps enable this.

Oh, it'd be easy enough to 'ship' Scion and Ranger and write some hot lesbian pap but I don't believe anyone inclined to do that would bother here. There are far richer fields for that kind of thing -- as you noted, Star Trek is one such.

Marauder on Shadow 4lyfe. (No I'm not serious.)


But I love the lore and story of this game, it's very vague yes, but it feels to me like Demon's Souls/Dark Souls esque story telling. It's all in the environment and interactions, rather than being told directly.

PLOT TWIST, Oak is an entity from another planet, he has come from another dimension and has ability to teleportate and also can mass destruct the whole Whaelcast just by sneezing. He is just too shy.