CCRB RECORD No. 0031
Path of Exile
Determination: Explicit — Corruption 3, Denial 2
You dismantle a Templar theocracy, with the serpent-figure as your ally against its god.
Path of Exile's religious architecture is the spine of its campaign rather than decoration on it. The continent of Oriath is ruled by a Templar order under the corrupted High Templar Dominus, and the dominant faith worships Innocence, a god depicted in stained glass and enshrined in cathedral spaces the player fights through. The counter-figure is Sin, presented as Innocence's other half and unmistakably the serpent of Genesis in shape and function; he becomes the player's ally. The later acts return to Oriath to bring the theocracy down. Sin's own account, developed further in the sequel, is that he created the Beast to suppress the gods so that humanity could grow without divine interference.