He runs to the forest, to a fate worse than death." He remembers darkness, feels the shadow pressing down on him. Dark waves have washed it away, a blank page where this horror story can be written. Wake continues: "The man is afraid, beside himself. And what was the Subway station we spotted in the Alan Wake 2 teaser trailer called again? " Caldera St. Unless I'm mistaken, Cauldron Lake is itself a cadera lake – a crater formed during a volcanic eruption. A caldera lake…" let's pause here for a second. In this monologue, Alan Wake sounds as if he is essentially writing the opening to Alan Wake 2. Lastly, I just want to point out one detail in Vision 03. This could be a red herring on AWE's part, but given how deliberate Remedy has been since it acquired the rights to Alan Wake in 2019 it could be a telling clue. And then there's Control's AWE expansion, which makes mention of one Alex Casey – FBI agent attempting to investigate Alan's case, which ultimately drew the attention of the FBC. It seems plausible that Wake is trying to engineer his release with the help of a character who always sounded a lot like another New York resident – a Mr. In Vision 02, Wake mentions that he is picking up on "ideas I had lost, often of Casey," as he continues writing his manuscript in the Dark Place. Wake mentions that he "needed a detective to guide me" through the mystery story he was inadvertently writing, that the Dark Place was twisting, and that "Echoes of Casey haunted me." Has Wake brought Casey to life in an effort to help him escape the Dark Place? This place tapped into my unconscious mind, drew from there, twisting what it stole into a nightmare that took shape around me."Īlan Wake has been trapped in the Dark Place for years by the time we see him in these Visions, attempting to write his way out of the prison deep beneath Cauldron Lake – a space that can manifest what he writes into reality. As Wake continues in Vision 01: "The Alex Casey books, a detective solving cases of murder, corruption, and madness in the dark city. He's a fictional character created by Wake, the protagonist of a series of "hard-boiled crime books set in New York City." Wake ultimately killed Casey off in a book titled 'The Sudden Stop' after growing "sick of" the character, but he never left him behind entirely. There's a common theme running throughout two of the three visions: Alex Casey.
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