#BEYOND THE SHADOW YOU SETTLE FOR FREE#

Every time Wake would push the button, an imaginary light would turn on, and the 'monsters' would go away. When Alan was a young boy, his mother gave him a broken-off light switch, which he named The Clicker. It is revealed that Zane has created a weapon for Alan to end the Dark Presence with, the Clicker.

Zane escaped, and then proceeded to help Wake throughout the story. He then freed Wake, and took the manuscript pages just as Barbara Jagger reasserted herself in the cabin. Thomas did like the story asked, and used his power to drive the Dark Presence away from Bird Leg Cabin.

#BEYOND THE SHADOW YOU SETTLE FOR FREE#

Knowing that he could not get out himself, he wrote Zane into the story to come and free him with his power, and then take the manuscript pages and help him reveal the Dark Presences intentions to himself. When the Dark Presence, in the form of Barbara Jagger, tricked Wake into writing a horror story for it, Wake became aware of its goal to kill everyone in the town (and possibly take over the world). He may be behind the Safe Havens that Wake takes cover in, seeing how once in a while, a light pole will turn on unexpectedly.Įventually, Wake pieces together what happened on the night his wife Alice was taken away. He is responsible for leaving the manuscript pages for Wake to find, scattering them through the trails that Wake will take. Zane supplies Alan with a high-powered revolver and a flashlight, and then leaves, giving Wake back his dream.Īs the game unfolds, Zane's presence becomes more and more felt. He quickly teaches Alan how he will fight with the Taken, which he will have to do in real life. Wake does not understand this, but Zane moves on. To its ports I've been, To its ports I've been. Where waves are both wilder and more serene. Afterward, Zane gives Alan a message in poetry:įor he did not know, that beyond the lake he called home, Lies a deeper, darker ocean green. Zane provides light for Alan, healing him. Zane appears as a bright, shining light in the sky who saves Alan from the murderous hitchhiker by shining light over a house Wake is trapped in. Zane makes his first appearance in Episode 1, where he appears in Alan's nightmare. The spirits of Thomas and Barbara, meanwhile, descended ever deeper into the Dark Place, where Zane recited a final 'master poem.' In doing so, he created a 'baby universe' where he and Barbara continued to live happily ever after. Zane sacrificed his own human body to the Bright Presence, and it and the Dark Presence rose to the surface of the lake to continue their conflict. Zane then put on his diving suit, took the possessed Barbara, and jumped into the lake, diving deep into the interdimensional Dark Place beneath it.

The page then said Alan remembered this when years later he stood at the bank of Cauldron Lake holding The Clicker in his hand just as he was about to jump into the Lake to defeat the Dark Presence. Zane wrote that Alan had nightmares and a fear of the dark as a child to help him overcome his fear, Alan's mother gave him the Clicker, pretending it was magical and it could defeat the monster from the dark. He used the lake's power to write a character called Alan Wake, who would someday come to Cauldron Lake and defeat the Dark Presence using a light switch called the Clicker imbued with magical power. However, as a contingency, Zane also wrote that any of his belongings left in a shoe box would remain in the real world. This was likely the cause of the 1970 eruption of the Cauldron Lake volcano. He wanted to make sure that everything that caused these events was destroyed, and thus used the power of the lake to write himself, the island, and everything else involved out of existence entirely. When he realized that the Barbara that lived with him was not the real one, he cut out her heart, finding only darkness within. After she died, his assistant writer, Emil Hartman, convinced him to write her back to life using the supernatural power of the lake to turn fiction into reality.Īlthough Zane was successful, the Dark Presence came back with her, possessing Barbara's body. One morning, Barbara went swimming and drowned under mysterious circumstances. He wrote about creatures and Cauldron Lake with the help of his lover, Barbara Jagger, who acted as his inspiration and muse. Thomas Zane was a well-known poet before his death.

Beyond the shadow you settle for