is where you wake up. A defunct military shelter deep in rural America, it is run by the gruff, weary Commander Ford – one of the original scientists who worked with Harsgaard. His daughter, Clementine (subject of the DLC’s core mystery), has been kidnapped. Your mission: activate the World Stone in Ward 13’s basement, travel to other dying worlds, find a way to destroy the Root, and bring Clementine home. Act I: The Labyrinth & The First Worlds The World Stone sends you hurtling through the Labyrinth – a neutral, geometric dimension that connects all realities. It is guarded by a floating, mechanical being: the Keeper . The Keeper is not your enemy. It is a custodian, horrified that the Root has learned to corrupt the Labyrinth’s pathways. It tells you: To kill the Root, you must find its heart.
You defeat him. Clementine wakes up. She is calm, powerful, and speaks in a voice that echoes through the Labyrinth. She touches the World Stone – and rewrites the Root’s connection to reality, severing it at a fundamental level. Back at Ward 13, the sky is clearing. The Root recedes from Earth – not dead, but pushed back, unable to anchor. Clementine stands beside Commander Ford. She is no longer a child. She is the new Keeper – a living bridge between worlds, but this time, a benevolent one.
Prologue: The Root & The Fall of Man The story begins not with a hero, but with a catastrophe. In an alternate 1960s, a brilliant scientist named Dr. Harsgaard discovered a method to pierce the fabric of reality using a crystal-based energy source called the Labyrinth . What he found on the other side was not a utopia, but a sentient, parasitic biome of thorn and rot: The Root .
At the heart of Ward Prime, you find Clementine, now a young woman, floating in a crystal cocoon. She is not a prisoner. She is a dam . Harsgaard has been using her as a living battery to keep the Root anchored to Earth. Remnant- From the Ashes -v1.0.214094 DLC Mu...
The Root is still alive. And Clementine is still missing. Patch v1.0.214094 introduced the final chapter. “Mu” is the community name for the new biome – a frozen, ruined version of Earth’s arctic circle, specifically the village of Rigsby and the Ward Prime facility. Chapter 1: The White Wasteland You travel to Ward Prime , an abandoned research station in the Siberian tundra. The Root has frozen here – literally. Trees of black thorn grow out of permafrost. New enemies stalk the snow: Root Brutes with ice-crusted armor, and Snow Hoppers – mutated humans who freeze-died mid-mutation.
But there is no celebration. Commander Ford stares at the dying Dreamer and whispers: “This wasn’t the source. This was just a mirror.”
Your journey splits into three dying worlds, each with its own tragedy. Ruined cities, burnt forests, and the shambling Root Husk cult. Here you meet the cynical ex-soldier Rigs (who sells you guns) and Reggie , a PTSD-ridden survivor. The main threat is Shroud (a Root archer) or Gorefist (a berserker brute), depending on your campaign roll. You learn that the Root is not mindless – it whispers through the Dreamer program. 2. Rhom – The World of Undying Iron A desert planet of rust and radiation, once home to a human-like civilization (the Vyr ). Their king, the Undying King , sits on a throne of scrap, having turned his people into immortal, skeletal cyborgs to survive the Root. He offers you the Howling Key (needed to reach the Root’s heart) – but only if you kill a Guardian of another world first. He is cruel, pragmatic, and utterly untrustworthy. 3. Corsus – The Swamp of the Iskal A fetid, buzzing world of insectoid horrors. The native Iskal are a hive-mind that absorbed the Root rather than fighting it, becoming a twisted hybrid. The Queen of Corsus is a massive, telepathic insect creature. You can bargain with her (for a parasite that lets you fight the Root), betray her, or simply slaughter your way through. This world is pure body horror: humanoid figures burst into clouds of flies, and the Ixillis twin guardians fight you from the ceiling. 4. Yaesha – The Jungle of Rebellion A lush, dying forest world ruled by the Pan – rabbit-like, tribal humanoids. Their society has collapsed into civil war between those who worship the Root (the Reborn ) and those who fight it. An exiled Pan warrior, the Rebel , helps you navigate. The local Guardian, Totem Father (or the Ravager , a corrupted wolf-god), is either dying or already insane. Act II: The Dreamer & The Root Heart After gathering the three Guardian Hearts (by killing the world bosses: Ent, Scourge, Ixillis, Ravager, etc.), the Undying King reveals his true nature. He uses the hearts to open a portal to the Root’s dimension – a nightmare realm of writhing black bark and red skies. is where you wake up
The Root invaded Earth instantly. It did not conquer so much as assimilate – twisting flesh into bark, bone into branch. Within months, 95% of humanity was dead or converted into Root horrors. The remnants of civilization fled to underground bunkers or fortified strongholds like the series facilities.
Inside, you face the . Not a monster, but a human: a former Ward 17 psychic named Clawbone , strapped into a machine, forced to dream the Root into existence. When you kill the Dreamer, the Root’s hold on reality shatters.
The final boss is – no longer human. He is a massive, floating abomination of metal, thorns, and frozen flesh, wielding the Labyrinth’s own energy. He speaks in broken sentences: “I saved her. I saved us all. The Root is peace.” Your mission: activate the World Stone in Ward
The environment tells a story: overturned military vehicles, diaries of scientists going mad, and a repeated symbol – a child’s handprint. You find the ruins of Rigsby , a small village where Clementine was born. Flashback notes reveal she was no ordinary child. At age five, she could “sing” to the World Stones – harmonizing with the Labyrinth. Harsgaard himself adopted her into Project 2923 : the effort to create a human Dreamer who could control the Root, not just open doors.
Ford looks at you – the nameless survivor who traveled through hell. He says: “You did it. We can start again. But remember – the Labyrinth is still there. Other worlds, other threats. We’ll need you.”