Note: This put up incorporates a ton of spoilers for story and lore present in Control’s AWE DLC, in addition to the Alan Wake video games and a few of Control’s base sport. Read on at your individual threat!Alan Wake lives. The destiny of the titular well-known author has been unknown because the launch of Remedy Entertainment’s cult basic 2010 psychological thriller title and its 2012 spin-off, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, however Easter egg tidbits have popped up right here and there ever since. In Control, Remedy goes all-in on reviving Alan Wake (maybe as a result of it lastly obtained the rights to the sport again in 2019)–Wake’s story is violently colliding with that of Control protagonist Jesse Faden in that sport’s remaining DLC enlargement, AWE.AWE is not solely about Alan Wake and its characters, however a lot of the DLC supplies context and clues about what occurred to varied folks within the 10 years since Wake’s disappearance on the finish of his sport. We get updates on what’s occurring in Bright Falls, what is going on on with Wake’s spouse, Alice, and what occurred to Dr. Emil Hartman, one of many individuals who knew probably the most concerning the evil supernatural Dark Presence in Alan Wake. The DLC additionally does so much to arrange the place the Alan Wake story will probably be going next–it certain seems like Remedy’s subsequent sport is a few type of Alan Wake 2.Here’s all the pieces the AWE DLC reveals concerning the characters of Alan Wake and what we will count on subsequent from that story.Alan Wake Takes ControlBack in the primary story of Control, gamers had been capable of finding an Easter egg within the Panopticon that first tied Alan Wake’s story to Control’s. That Easter egg was one of many reality-bending Manuscript Pages gamers discover all through the 2010 sport. The Federal Bureau of Control was conscious of the occasions in Bright Falls in Alan Wake, however arrived nicely after all the pieces between Wake and the Dark Presence had performed out. They found the web page (in addition to one of many many Oh Deer Diner thermoses you could find within the sport) and investigated the paranatural “Altered World Event” that befell there–but by no means discovered Wake himself or totally understood all the pieces that occurred.The Manuscript Page comes with a Hotline message from Wake himself, updating us on what’s been happening with him for the final 10 years. He’s nonetheless trapped within the Dark Place on the backside of Bright Falls, and due to the character of the Dark Place’s actuality bending energy, his ideas, plans, desires, and fantasies about escaping frequently manifest themselves and appear real–so that he is by no means certain if he is really getting out, or simply thinks he’s.AWE kicks off when Jesse receives one other Hotline message from Wake, directing her to the sealed Investigations Sector of the Bureau. Over the course of the DLC, we study Wake’s intentions: Since he cannot free himself from the Dark Place, he is attempting to set issues up in order that Jesse can save him. There appears to be extra happening there, although.Thomas Zane, Or Is It Mr. Scratch?At a number of factors through the DLC, Jesse is aware about cutscenes that truly function Wake and provides a way of what appears to be occurring with him proper now. As we noticed through the Alan Wake DLC choices, The Signal and The Writer, Wake typically has a tough time retaining straight what’s occurring and what’s actual. The affect of the Dark Place causes him to lose his reminiscence, inflicting him to battle to recollect what he is been doing and what his plans are. He makes use of the manuscript he is writing to maintain monitor of what he is doing–which could be a flawed plan, since Wake places all his belief in what he (believes he) has written.Jesse sees Wake within the Oceanview Motel, an odd, otherworldly location that is linked to the Oldest House, speaking with one other man who seems identical to him and who identifies himself as Thomas Zane. It appears that this particular person’s identification is an open query, nevertheless.In Alan Wake, the Dark Presence targets artists, hoping to make use of their energy, seemingly coupled with the paranaturally highly effective Dark Place, to change actuality and launch its malevolence on the entire world. Zane was a poet who was one of many first attacked (as had been the Anderson brothers of the Old Gods of Asgard; extra on them in a bit) again within the 1970s, however Zane rigorously used his writing to lure the Dark Presence within the Dark Place. To cease the Dark Presence from ever escaping, he used his energy to mainly erase himself from existence. But Zane left himself some contingencies in case the Dark Presence ever escaped, writing in key gadgets and components that Wake would sooner or later use in his personal battle with the entity. Anything Zane left in a shoebox escaped being erased, as an example, and there is some implication that Wake’s absentee father might need been Zane himself.Zane appeared in Alan Wake as a diver who was capable of drive again the Dark Presence with an awesome gentle, aiding Wake at key moments. In AWE, Zane is out of his diving swimsuit, nevertheless, and wears the identical garments as Wake. He says that he and Wake had been collaborating on a brand new challenge, and calls himself a filmmaking auteur, versus a poet. He additionally likens the diving swimsuit model of himself to a movie character he was taking part in. This Zane is vaguely manipulative, and it appears very, very probably that he is not Zane at all–he would possibly, actually, be Wake’s murderous double, Mr. Scratch, from the 2012 spin-off sport, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare.Mr. Scratch is one other paranatural entity created by the Dark Place. He seems identical to Wake, however with a psychotic bent. He makes use of TVs and movies he is made all through American Nightmare to torment Wake, which present Scratch committing murders. Wake defeats and seemingly destroys Mr. Scratch on the finish of American Nightmare by blasting him with the highly effective gentle and emotion of a house film, one which Wake made with Alice.In AWE, nevertheless, Wake remembers the double and says “he’s out there.” It looks as if AWE is organising that Mr. Scratch survived and has been capable of manipulate Wake to do his bidding, even perhaps by posing as Zane. But Wake seemingly has a plan of his personal, as nicely.Jesse Faden Goes To Bright FallsIn his remaining Hotline message, we get the sense of what Wake’s after as he influences Jesse’s story in AWE.”Wake needed a hero,” Wake says. “The hero needed a crisis. For the part in the story about the government agency, Wake needed something special. Something to convey an alien force mimicking human intelligence.”That sounds so much like Wake might need created all of the occasions of Control, in addition to the monstrous Hiss that possesses the folks of the Bureau and turns them into enemies all through the sport. Perhaps Wake willed everybody concerned in Control into existence via his writing, together with the FBC itself. That would monitor with another Easter eggs as they exist in Control, together with Jesse having heard of and browse the works of Thomas Zane–which is unattainable for anybody else, since Zane used his energy to erase himself and his reminiscence from the world. There’s much more proof pointing to this concept, which we’ll compile in a while.The finish of AWE teases the place issues are headed subsequent for Control and Alan Wake. Jesse’s remaining message from Wake means that AWE was grooming her to assist Wake escape the Dark Place. Getting Jesse into the Investigations Sector is step one. At the top of the DLC, the FBC receives a sign from Bright Falls indicating a brand new AWE is happening there. But as Langston notes within the cutscene, the date is wrong–it says the occasion is “a couple years in the future.” That sounds prefer it’s hinting on the subsequent sport after Control, which additionally means that Jesse will head to Bright Falls to take care of this new AWE.The Bureau In Bright FallsThe FBC really has a protracted historical past with Bright Falls, Washington. It has been conscious of the city and the weirdness surrounding Cauldron Lake–although not the precise particulars, it seems–ever because the 1970s when Thomas Zane fought and defeated the Dark Presence. Partially, that is as a result of a former FBC agent, Frank Breaker, moved to Bright Falls and have become sheriff (his daughter Sarah would later be sheriff through the occasions of Alan Wake). After investigating what occurred, the FBC left a monitoring station in Bright Falls to maintain an eye fixed out for any extra bizarre exercise.There’s an FBC agent, Estevez, who’s on-sight in Bright Falls, so the Bureau has a everlasting presence there. During the occasions of Alan Wake, Sheriff Sarah Breaker tells Wake’s agent, Barry Wheeler, to inform her father and several other others of what is occurring, which suggests there are different folks there who work for or with the Bureau as nicely, or no less than find out about it.Thanks to the oldsters it had in Bright Falls, the FBC was capable of reply when some very unhealthy factor began occurring with Dr. Emil Hartman and the Cauldron Lake Lodge. And the FBC’s continued presence there’s prone to play into future occasions.The Aftermath For Dr. Emil HartmanThe fast story of AWE is about Emil Hartman, one other Alan Wake character. In the 2010 sport, Hartman, a psychiatrist who makes a speciality of treating artists with artistic blocks, is the particular person in Bright Falls most clued in to what’s really happening with the Dark Place, though he would not know sufficient to guard himself from it. Back within the ’70s, Hartman labored as Thomas Zane’s assistant, and thru that, found the ability in Cauldron Lake and Zane’s capability to change actuality via his paintings. Later, Zane’s girlfriend, Barbara Jagger, mysteriously drowned within the lake; Hartman satisfied Zane to attempt to deliver her again to life utilizing his energy.That occasion kicked off all the pieces else that might occur in Alan Wake, with Zane by chance permitting the Dark Presence to own Barbara. Zane managed to lock the Dark Presence away (together with himself) and to erase himself and Barbara from existence to maintain it there, however Hartman knew what occurred and went on attempting to take the ability Zane had wielded for himself.When Wake, a well-known novelist, arrives in Bright Falls, Hartman sees one other alternative like he had with Zane. Wake’s spouse Alice is kidnapped by the Dark Presence in an try and drive Wake to free it, and the remainder of the sport is the story Wake has written in an try and struggle again and defeat the entity. During the course of the sport, Wake results in Hartman’s lodge, the place the psychiatrist treats artists–an try to search out somebody who might entry Cauldron Lake’s energy. Wake escapes when the Dark Presence assaults, and it seems like Hartman will get nabbed and possibly killed by the entity. As we study in Control, nevertheless, he survived and went on attempting to uncover Cauldron Lake’s energy.The FBC later arrives in Bright Falls to research the Altered World Event that was the Alan Wake story, encountering and questioning Hartman. Once they discover out what he is aware of, Hartman suggests he work with the FBC, “sharing notes” on Cauldron Lake. Instead, the FBC arrests Hartman as a “paracriminal,” somebody who makes use of Altered Items and Objects of Power with out Bureau authorization. The FBC additionally units up surveillance on Hartman’s sufferers on the lodge, which suggests all of them survived the occasions of Alan Wake when the Dark Presence attacked.Hartman is launched some months later after the FBC evaluates him, however as soon as he is out, he goes proper again to his work in Bright Falls. With no FBC help, Hartman decides to dive into Cauldron Lake and determine issues out for himself. This proves to be an enormous miscalculation–in his try and unlock the ability of the Dark Place, Hartman is possessed by the Dark Presence, changing into a murderous Taken creature that Wake calls The-Thing-That-Had-Been-Hartman. The FBC is tipped off to the creature’s presence when it finds that one thing is damaging the cameras at its Bright Falls monitoring station. The Bureau manages to seize the creature and takes it again to Investigations to review it.It’s not fully clear how lengthy the possessed Hartman is stored within the Oldest House, nevertheless it appears to be some time. There, Investigations brokers study all they will concerning the Darkness-infused creature, which is similar sort of creature Wake fought all through the occasions of Alan Wake. The FBC additionally builds a duplicate of Hartman’s Cauldron Lake Lodge with the intention to see if the acquainted locale would possibly change the creature’s conduct.Escape, Murder, And AWEAround two years earlier than the occasions of Control, the Hartman creature escapes his confinement within the Investigations sector and goes on a full-on homicide rampage. He kills numerous brokers within the sector earlier than the survivors handle to flee. Rather than attempt to save anybody who’s nonetheless left, Director Zachariah Trench orders the sector sealed–even although there are nonetheless survivors inside. That’s the place issues are left till the beginning of AWE: Hartman has been wandering round Investigations, alone, sealed off from the remainder of the Oldest House. But when the Hiss escape and assault firstly of Control, they possess Hartman, in addition to everybody else.The interplay between the Darkness and the Hiss turns Hartman into one thing new. Wake describes him as “stretched,” with the resonant noise of the Hiss rising darker, and the Darkness rising louder. Wake calls this new Hartman monster “The Third Thing,” and it is mainly invincible via many of the AWE story.Jesse ultimately hunts down the Third Thing and kills it earlier than it will probably escape into the remainder of the FBC and wreak extra havoc. This nearly looks as if an audition for her, arrange by Wake, to see if she can be able to taking over the Dark Presence. It appears Jesse passes the check by the top of the DLC.Alice Wake’s American NightmareThere are a number of different characters talked about in AWE, giving different clues as to what is going on on within the aftermath of Alan Wake. An enormous one is Alice Wake, who had direct contact with the FBC, in response to information you could find within the DLC. The FBC first discovered Alice within the aftermath of the Bright Falls AWE in 2010, and after interviewing her concerning the occasion, left a telephone quantity along with her so she might contact them if something unusual occurred. As it seems, one thing did.Alice contacts the FBC in 2017 to inform them about one thing horrible she’s experiencing. Every evening, she says, she’s visited by a shrieking imaginative and prescient of her husband Alan of their New York residence. Alice says that she would not assume that is Wake himself, however some sort of “monster” in his physique that she says has violent intent towards her. She lastly catches it on movie with a motion-activated digital camera.With that proof in-hand, Alice involves the FBC for an interview and reveals them the picture, which reveals somebody who seems like Alan screaming at her within the darkness. According to Wake’s Hotline message to Jesse, which appears to be the manuscript he is writing, it is Alice’s presence within the FBC and her connection to Wake that causes Hartman to go berserk. He senses her and that causes him to interrupt out, ensuing within the occasion that seals the Investigations Sector. As Wake explains within the Hotline message, nevertheless, Alice is already gone by the point Hartman will get free.We do not know what else occurred to Alice after that. The Hotline messages Wake sends to Jesse come off just like the manuscript pages he writes to manage actuality; one is stuffed with the main points about how Hartman grew to become possessed by the Dark Presence, one other particulars how he’s corrupted additional by the Hiss, and a 3rd talks about how Alice’s go to to the FBC prompted Hartman to get free. The complete story of the AWE DLC, then, appears to be Wake making modifications from the Dark Place to create a story that may deliver Jesse to the place he wants her.Casey Makes A NameAlice Wake and Emil Hartman aren’t the one folks within the Bright Falls AWE. A correspondence file present in Investigations states that an FBI agent inquires about all info the FBC has on the Wake scenario someday earlier than the sector is sealed. What’s attention-grabbing is who makes the request: an Agent Alex Casey.Casey is a personality within the Alan Wake universe, however he is one among Wake’s personal creations. The novels that made Wake well-known all star Casey as a hardboiled detective (he really sounds so much like one other Remedy character, Max Payne). The brokers on the FBC comment on this of their file and be aware that they did not give Casey any materials which may tip him off concerning the paranatural occasions in Bright Falls, however the look of somebody claiming to be Casey is worthy of be aware to them nonetheless.We’re undecided who’s utilizing Casey’s title, however there are a few potentialities. If Mr. Scratch continues to be working round, as appears probably, then he could possibly be utilizing Casey’s title to attempt to get info from the FBC, whereas additionally mocking Wake just like the spooky psychopath that he’s. There’s additionally Robert Nightingale, an FBI agent who tried to arrest Wake through the Bright Falls AWE however was taken by the Dark Presence. Alan Wake ends with a shot of Nightingale trying significantly creepy and seemingly trapped in Bright Falls, nonetheless below the Dark Presence’s affect. Using the Casey title additionally suits Nightingale’s persona, particularly if he hoped to cover his identification.There’s additionally the likelihood that that was, actually, Alex Casey. The fundamental story of Control contains traversal into different dimensions, and Dylan Faden talks about dreaming about what sound like parallel realities. He even hints at seeing a world by which a fictional character is an actual particular person, and that character sounds so much like Alex Casey. It could possibly be that, as a part of the brand new Bright Falls AWE, realities are mixing together–or, in line with different components in AWE, this name from Casey could possibly be the work of Wake himself as he writes occasions into existence as a part of his overarching story.The Gods Versus The DarknessThe Old Gods of Asgard is a band made up of two outdated rockers, Tor and Odin Anderson, who stay in Bright Falls. They seem a bunch in Alan Wake–in the 1970s, the 2 musicians gained the ability of the Dark Place by consuming moonshine they created utilizing the water from Cauldron Lake. Hartman acknowledged their capability and compelled them to his lodge, the place he studied them, and the Andersons’ songs are important to serving to Wake defeat the Dark Presence via the course of the Bright Falls AWE. That suggests the Andersons’ position within the story might need been devised by Thomas Zane sooner or later prior to now, or that they had been written in by Wake himself when he created his personal manuscript.A brand new file in AWE provides extra context concerning the Andersons and their previous with Cauldron Lake. It particulars one other Altered World Event in Bright Falls that befell after the primary one which pertained to Zane. The first Bright Falls AWE befell in 1970; this one occurred in 1976.Alan Wake and American Nightmare talk about how the Andersons fought the Dark Presence sooner or later prior to now, however the information concerning the 1976 Bright Falls AWE fills in additional info. It says the Dark Presence got here for the Andersons throughout a competition in Bright Falls, attacking their farm. It created storms and flooding that prompted the Bright Falls townspeople to flee the competition grounds, led by then-Sheriff Frank Breaker. Thanks to Breaker, no person was damage; afterward, Breaker and the FBC stumbled on the aftermath of the Andersons’ battle with the Dark Presence.The Andersons received the standoff, and it appears they most likely did so by utilizing their music to invoke the powers of the Norse gods they modeled themselves after on-stage. Tor Anderson had been struck by lightning, whereas Odin Anderson had apparently gouged out his personal eye. In any occasion, they received the struggle and the Dark Presence receded, as did the flood waters and the storms. The FBC interviewed everybody and took the townspeople’s accounts, however did not discover a lot else in the best way of proof about what precisely occurred, or the AWE’s lasting results. Nothing as large would occur in Bright Falls till 2010 and Wake’s arrival on the town.Barry Wheeler And The AndersonsThe Andersons’ music reveals up in Control, too. Their track “Take Control” is what permits Jesse to navigate via the Ashtray Maze throughout that sport. If you hear rigorously to the track, you may hear somebody talking between verses–but the sound of the phrases has been performed backwards, obscuring what’s being stated.The backwards message within the track is an enormous secret that Control gamers have been attempting to determine because the sport was launched, and in AWE, the answer is lastly revealed. If you uncover a specific hidden room and observe the clues from the message, you discover out what grew to become of the Andersons, in addition to Wake’s agent and a personality in Alan Wake, Barry Wheeler.Turns out, regardless of being fairly rattling outdated, the Old Gods nonetheless knew tips on how to rock lengthy into their outdated age. In the aftermath of Alan Wake, Barry took the Andersons on as purchasers and helped them land some hits–among them “Balance Slays The Demon,” one of many tracks that seems in American Nightmare and helps Wake to defeat Mr. Scratch. We obtained a number of tidbits of this a part of the story again in American Nightmare, however Control explains the way it ends.The Old Gods put out a biggest hits album known as “Rebirth” and went on tour. They did three main, stadium-filling reveals, however would at all times lose themselves in post-show events for days afterward. Barry would ultimately chase them down, and it might take the Andersons weeks to recuperate from their drug and alcohol benders.In the top, Barry quits because the Andersons’ agent, fearing they may die in the event that they hold going as arduous as they are–and after the trauma of shedding his pal and shopper Wake, Barry cannot bear that. He cancels the tour and as an alternative funnels the cash from the gigs and the album into the founding of the Valhalla Nursing Home. It’s there that the Andersons are comfortably dwelling out (or possibly have lived out) their twilight years.Is This All Alan Wake’s Doing?There are a number of bizarre particulars that counsel possibly Wake, writing from the Dark Place, has been liable for all the pieces occurring in Control. That extends past simply the occasions of the AWE DLC, that are the results of Wake’s influence–all of Control, together with all of the backstory within the sport, could be a part of Wake’s manuscript.We know that Wake is writing manuscript pages which can be creating Jesse’s story in AWE, and from the Hotline messages, it looks as if he additionally created the conditions that led to it, like Hartman’s possession and Alice’s go to to the FBC, in the identical means.Pay consideration and you may also discover a number of pages of a script Wake wrote for “Night Springs,” the Twilight Zone-like TV present he wrote on earlier than changing into a well-known novelist. The “spec script” he wrote to attempt to get a job on the present, known as, “Over the Threshold, Darkly,” is a truncated model of the precise state of affairs that kicked off the occasions of Control, by which a authorities company scientist (so much like Dr. Darling) and the company’s director (so much like Zachariah Trench) open a portal to a different dimension and get attacked by what they discover there. It even ends with the director capturing himself within the head, which is among the opening scenes of Control.In one other file, we study that Alice Wake’s interview on the FBC corresponded with modifications noticed contained in the Oceanview Motel. Throughout Control, we enterprise to the Oceanview and discover a number of doorways there, and we do not know the importance of most of them (the one with the inverted black triangle, the image of the Board, is the one we at all times use to exit the motel). The file says that the door sporting a spiral form, which is current all through the sport, appeared within the motel on the identical day as Alice’s go to. That’s the identical door behind which Jesse spots Wake throughout AWE, and plainly Wake’s affect from the Dark Place created it.Other circumstantial proof attracts extra parallels between Control and Alan Wake. We’ve already talked about that Jesse is one among solely a handful of individuals on this planet who can bear in mind Thomas Zane regardless of his efforts to wash himself from actuality. The city of Ordinary, the place Jesse and her brother, Dylan, skilled an AWE, can also be tied to Zane by the use of the Alan Wake “This House of Dreams” alternate actuality sport on-line, and was talked about in an Old Gods of Asgard track in Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. And an Old Gods’ track guides Jesse via the Ashtray Maze–which is one thing that Wake has written into his personal story on a couple of event to assist himself out.We do not know for certain how deep this rabbit gap goes, nevertheless it’s not insignificant that Control retains hinting at Wake’s affect. It appears very potential that he could be the one pulling the strings behind all of the occasions in Control, writing a prolonged and concerned story to create the characters–and hero–he must lastly rescue himself from the evil on the backside of Cauldron Lake.Next Time, On Alan WakeThe AWE DLC paints a reasonably clear image: The tales of Jesse Faden and Alan Wake are intertwined they usually’re on a collision course. AWE all however says {that a} full continuation of Wake’s story is within the pipe from Remedy Entertainment and even places a relative date on it, suggesting it’s going to be out round 2022.What we do not know is strictly what that story will entail. It looks as if a good wager that Wake’s double, Mr. Scratch, can have an essential position. Alan Wake has a number of different antagonists, however with AWE tying up Hartman as a unfastened finish, we’re actually solely left with Nightingale.We might additionally see some hanging threads from Control combined in, like the continuing battle between the unusual Astral Plane entities often called the Board and the Former, and the newly launched concept of “paracriminals,” who use Altered Items for their very own nefarious ends or attempt to create their very own AWEs. There’s no option to know for certain, nevertheless it appears fairly definitive that we’re due for a return to Bright Falls and Cauldron Lake with Remedy’s subsequent outing.

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