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I finished the game. I haven't gone through the extra episodes yet. Do these episodes explain the background of Nightingale? He just popped up into the story without any info about what he knows, why he's after Wake. Any info is appreciated.
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Well, the extra episodes offer a new light (haha!) on Nightingale, yes, and the American Nightmare extension is giving a kind of a conclusion to that story ark, even if the atmosphere in American Nightmare is quite different to my opinion.
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xa_chan: Well, the extra episodes offer a new light (haha!) on Nightingale, yes, and the American Nightmare extension is giving a kind of a conclusion to that story ark, even if the atmosphere in American Nightmare is quite different to my opinion.
I didn't think that Nightingale came in to American Nightmare - Mr Scratch was the antagonist
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xa_chan: Well, the extra episodes offer a new light (haha!) on Nightingale, yes, and the American Nightmare extension is giving a kind of a conclusion to that story ark, even if the atmosphere in American Nightmare is quite different to my opinion.
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pds41: I didn't think that Nightingale came in to American Nightmare - Mr Scratch was the antagonist
Oh, true! I mixed up, sorry! Damn... and i played those games not long ago...
My interpretation of Nightingale is that he was needed by "the story" to add a certain amount of danger for Wake - to make the story more realistic and therefore acceptable to the Dark Presence. The point was that Wake could beat the Dark Presence, but to do so he had to be subtle - and to work within the realms of narrative plausibility - it had to seem like a story, otherwise the Dark Presence would have stopped him.
pds41: So you're saying he was invented by Wake? That there was no Nightingale before the events in the game? If so, does he exist only within the story, or is he now a corporeal being in the real world?
If not, that there was in fact a Nightingale before the events of the game, what brought him to Bright Falls, and why is he so hell bent on getting Wake? What does he know about him and the area?
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Orion66: pds41: So you're saying he was invented by Wake? That there was no Nightingale before the events in the game? If so, does he exist only within the story, or is he now a corporeal being in the real world?
If not, that there was in fact a Nightingale before the events of the game, what brought him to Bright Falls, and why is he so hell bent on getting Wake? What does he know about him and the area?
No, not that he was invented by Wake, but that he was sucked in by Wake. I think that a page of the story was sent to him - or he found one - that suggested that Wake was a threat to him - it could have been the page where Nightingale had Wake locked up and the dark presence took him away.

At this point, Nightingale decided that he needed to do something about this (admittedly, a sane man would stay as far away as possible, but Nightingale is now part of the story, so Wake's writing is determining his actions). He then travels across country to Bright Falls, and believes that killing Wake should stop the story and therefore his death.

At least, that's what I think.
That sounds reasonable. Thanks.
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Orion66: That sounds reasonable. Thanks.
No problem - glad to be of help.