You play as Dante, an amnesiac, who has been tasked with collecting the 'Golden Boughs'; golden boughs are powerful pieces of the 'Light', a tangible piece of humanities wants and wishes. Given control of 12 people known as 'Sinners' who possess the ability to resonate with the golden boughs and when in range with one can delve within the fathoms of their ego and confront their past and traumas that follow them.
| Yi Sang - The Wings | Faust - Goethe's Faust | Don Quixote - The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha | Ryoshu - Hell Screen | Meursault - The Stranger | Hong Lu - Dream of the Red Chamber |
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| Heathcliff - Wuthering Heights | Ishmael - Moby Dick | Rodion - Crime and Punishment | Sinclair - Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth | Outis - The Odyssesy | Gregor - The Metamorphosis |
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The Sinners all take direct inspiration from famous literary sources such as Heathcliff being an reimagined verison of Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights or Yi Sang who is based off of famous Korean poet and author Kim Haegyong who went under the alias of Yi Sang while writing. Having knowledge of the Sinners' source material can help give insights on who they are as people but it also doesn't make them 1:1 representations of their sources, with some having changed genders or swapped around main characters in their stories and their motives which makes it feel like you're uncovering a completely new character.