What you need to know before playing A Plague Tale: Requiem - Innocence story recap and more explained

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One of the biggest positives of A Plague Tale: Innocence, which A Plague Tale: Requiem will surely seek to emulate and build upon, is the story it tells and the characters that are present in the title. Asobo Studio did an excellent job of creating an immersive 14th-century medieval France, reeling from the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death as players followed Amicia and Hugo.

A Plague Tale: Requiem is set to continue the tale of the de Rune siblings as they embark "on a heartrending journey into a brutal, breathtaking world twisted by supernatural forces." The story will pick up from where it concluded at the end of A Plague Tale: Innocence.

Players will have a better grasp of it once they are aware of the earlier game's narrative. This article helps players navigate the narrative of A Plague Tale: Innocence before they dive into the latest game.

The primary protagonist of Innocence is Amicia de Rune, the 15-year-old daughter of a prominent French lord, and her younger brother Hugo, who is around five years old. Hugo suffers from a mysterious illness that has kept him isolated from others while their mother, Beatrice, tries to cure him.

At the beginning of the game, they lived in Aquitaine during the Hundred Years' War. Amicia shares a closer relationship with her father than her mother, and early-on players will see the pair go out into the forest hunting. Soon French Inquisition soldiers, led by Lord Nicholas, arrive at the de Rune house and seek Hugo.

They kill everyone they come across, including executing her father. Beatrice helps the siblings escape and instructs Amicia to take Hugo to Laurentius, who is his doctor. Beatrice is seemingly killed as the two run away. Hugo does not realize that and Amicia