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My Testament is a Collectibles found in Survival Mode as part of the Buried Echoes Tale. It is found the control room next to Rüdiger's Machine. This is the same transcript that comes over the intercom after the player awakes from touching the Machine.

Transcript[]

The following text is transcribed from My Testament

In every man’s journey there is a moment of total clarity. When a blue sky or an empty road shows the way forward.

I have had several moments like this during my life. But they always carried with them a spark of unpredictability. An energy I did not control.

Was it these moments, these great creases in time that brought me my wealth? My success? My institutions and engines of influence and power? I have explored many corners of the planet, and subjected myself to many dangerous and foolish undertakings seeking the answers to these questions.

And I survived. Often in spite of myself and my ambition to define the absolute edges of my own existence.

But as the wheel of my life makes its final turn, I have decided they are the wrong questions altogether.

I am making new questions and with them, new answers. New knowledge.

A different world is coming. I am certain of it. And I will be prepared.

It is only a matter of WHEN, and it is in uncovering the WHEN that I will define my own moment.

Once again.

I have seen the new horizon.

Update history[]

  • UPDATE 5 December 2023 (Update):
    • Added to game.