

The poet finds himself lost in a dark wood ( selva oscura ), astray from the "straight way" ( diritta via, also translatable as "right way") of salvation.

The narrator, Dante himself, is thirty-five years old, and thus "midway in the journey of our life" ( Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ) – half of the biblical lifespan of seventy ( Psalm 89:10, Vulgate Psalm 90:10, KJV). The poem begins on the night of Maundy Thursday on March 24 (or April 7), 1300, shortly before the dawn of Good Friday. Here, Dante is lost at the start of Canto I of the Inferno. You'll need (Athletics 5), and (Constitution 12) to make it out without falling unconscious.Prelude to Hell Canto I Gustave Doré's engravings illustrated the Divine Comedy (1861–1868). Take the ring, which you can probably only see with Aloth and high perception, and then carry the woman out of the building. Then go to the right where the woman is, and make sure you have prybar here for another fallen log. Once you're asked whether to go left or right, first go to the left, and save the man with the ice spell. Then after avoiding the log (Perception 15), hold the log up with another log (Might 13). When you enter the house, crawl under the smoke by taking the (Survival 5) option. (There may be one other companion that could work, but Aloth seems to be the only one who could spot the ring in my playthroughs of the encounter) This is a guide for saving both Keydy and Lurgolder from the burning house, and retrieving the ring after beating the Ogres at Stalwart. Instead, after submission, click the button under your post to assign the appropriate link flair, which will produce the same spoiler tags. You cannot use the above spoiler formatting to mask submission titles. Note: Spoiler tags only apply to text in the body of posts or comments, and not to titles themselves. To mark a spoiler as relevant to a specific part or subject of Pillars of Eternity, use the alternate formatting: (#s "Stuff happens") Spoiler tags can be used by typing followed immediately by (#s "xxxxxx"), with the content of your spoiler inside the quotation marks.

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