Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-16047389-20140820185206/@comment-25492514-20141010012838

Maybe the abyss is a means to prepare for whatever the darkdiver believe's is comming. you face a number of trials all of which worthy warriors (like havel the rock and king jeremiah), and maybe another possibility is that the darkdiver uses it as a weeding out of those unprepared. these are just baseless speculations though...