'Alan Wake' is a psychological action thriller game written by Sam Lake and developed by Remedy Entertainment that follows the story of a novel writer and his wife Alice. Both of them travel to the idyllic town of Bright Falls, located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
But Alan has a problem: he's in a writer's block for more than two years. Alice thought this journey would help him recover his creative flow.
However, they ignored that Bright Falls hid an ancient, dark secret and the seemingly calm cabin they arrived to wasn't what it looked like...
Alan, shortly after arriving, argues with Alice about her true intentions behind their stay in Cauldron Lake. This lead to a far worse consequence Alan could have ever imagined: Alice dissapeared in the immense lake in front of his eyes. His only motivation now is to save her and discover the mystery behind the lake and Bright Falls, even at the cost of his own safety.
Wake, a well-known crime novelist, has been suffering writer's block for two years. Unable to write or sleep, Alan is an unstable man whose marriage is in danger... Convinced by her wife, they decide to leave New York and travel to the northwest forests in order to enjoy some well deserved vacations.
Date of birth: 1978
Hometown: New York City
Profession: Writer
Books: 'Alex Casey' series, 'Departure'
An expert and beautiful photographer, Alice is Alan's wife and confidante. Worried about the autodestrictuve behavior of her husband, she planned a trip to Bright Falls. She's very loyal with Alan, but also has her own demons: she has nyctophobia, which is the extreme fear of the darkness.
Date of birth: 1980
Hometown: New York City
Profession: Photographer
Work field: Book cover design and promotional shots
Barry is Alan's childhood friend and literary agent. He's a high-strung and high-powered new yorker. Barry suffers from allergies, including dust, grass, pollen, and small townsake. He feels totally out of place in Bright Falls, but didn't doubt to travel there when Alan needed him.
Date of birth: Unknown
Hometown: New York City
Profession: Literary agent
Sarah is an inteligent young woman. She's Bright Fall's Sheriff and is one of the few people that understand the strange happenings in the town, which make it easier to her to trust and believe in Alan's situation. Breaker doesn't let Alan's presence dazzle her and she won't stop until the mystery of Bright Falls is solved.
Date of birth: 1982
Hometown: Bright Falls
Profession: Cop
Thomas Zane was a best selling poet in the 1970's who enjoyed writing fantasy stories about Cauldron Lake. He lived in the Bird's Leg Cabin, the same place Alan and Alice went for their vacations. He was also an avid diver, thus the place was popularly known as Diver's Isle. After gaining fear towards the Lake's powers, he stopped writing about it, although, after the sudden death of his lover Barbara, he decided to fight against the Dark Pressence. Ir order to do this, he wrote himself out of the reality in an attemp to stop it.
Date of birth: Unknown
Hometown: Bright Falls
Profession: Writer
Barbara Jagger was Thomas Zane's lover and muse. She drowned in Cauldron Lake on July 10, 1970 at the age of 25. She was possessed by the Dark Presence and appeared in front of Alan several years after her death, where she manipulated him to twist the manuscripts to fit the Lake's needs. In her teenage years, she won the crown as Miss Deerfest several times given her renowed beauty. Her elementary school friends described her as a humble, generous woman who never used her beauty as an advantage.
Date of birth: 1945
Hometown: Bright Falls
Profession: Unknown
Brilliant psychiatrist and author of The Creator's Dilemma, Hartman is a specilist in long-term treatments of troubled artists in his 'Cauldron Lake Lodge' clinic. People in town consider him distant and arrogant due to his less-than-ortodox methods with his pacients. Alice contacted him by phone prior to the trip.
Date of birth: 1955
Hometown: Vermont
Profession: Psychiatrist
Before becoming obsessed with the light, Cynthia Weaver was the the editor of the local newspaper in Bright Falls. She's known by the citizens as the town eccentric or Lady of the light given her obsession with maintaining all the light-bulbs of Bright Falls lit. Thomas Zane, whose Cynthia was in love, manipulated her to protect the town of the Dark Pressence and guide Alan in his attempt to stop it.
She spent most of the time inside the Well-lit Room in the Power Plant.
Date of birth: 1946
Hometown: Bright Falls
Profession: Retired
Nightingale is an ex-FBI agent that at first sight is in Bright Falls only to arrest Alan, however, it is later revealed that he knows the effect of Wake's manuscripts on future events. He is a depressive, alcoholic man that lost his partner on the job, which lead him to his firing from the FBI before his arrival to Bright Falls.
Date of birth: 1967
Hometown: Unknown
Profession: Ex-FBI agent
Rose is the waitress at the local diner Oh Deer Diner. She considers herself a big fan of Alan Wake and his novels, to the point of keeping a real-life sized cardboard cutout of him. She's a cheery young woman who enjoys reading and likes making new friendships.
Date of birth: 1989
Hometown: Bright Falls
Profession: Waitress
The Taken are humans and animals fully possessed by the Dark Pressence. Their sole purpose is to fight for and server it. Human takens can attack by hand or with weapons such as axes or even chainsaws.
Poltergeist objects are inanimated objects like chairs, doors, fences, cars, fridges, etc. controlled by the Dark Pressence.
All of them have a single weakness: light. The greater the power of the light source is, the lesser time it takes them to be defeated.
Located in Washington, Bright Falls is a town founded in the XIX century and became a relevant spot when the Bright Falls Mining Company opened in 1878. It is nicknamed by the locals as Night Springs (a popular horror TV show) given the similarities between the towns' mystery surrounding their past and the isolated nature of both.
One of the town's main attraction is the Deerfest, an anual event celebrated between September 15-18. There's a tradition to have candles lit in the church every night in September until Deerfest ends.
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