Exploration often requires giving up part of yourself. We call it growth. In the case of a particular Path of Exile 2 player, it meant losing his level 100 character after weeks of grinding, but the reward is being part of the game's history.
The action RPG's latest update, Return of the Ancients, contains several enigmas, one of which is a strange chamber in an otherwise empty room. Examining it prompts a request to "Become the Martyr of the first Edict," with the warning that your hero would be erased by doing so.
