One piece of narration mentions that the Hamlet is isolated.They never miss a trap or misplace a group of enemies. How the maps found within the dungeons are always perfectly accurate.( Heck, the Abbey and Tavern even increase their prices for the same services as the heroes level up.) Why should they he'll just destroy the Hamlet later on. Why the townspeople never cut the Heir any slack as he raises up the Hamlet.Why the heroes always return from 'vision quests' or whatever and never quit their positions, regardless of how bad the dungeons or town become.Considering that the heroes can leave seemingly at will to go on 'vision quests' or what-have-you and the Heir is apparently powerless to retrieve them, there is no reason why the Groundskeeper can't leave on his own. The Groundskeeper praying that the Gods take him away from the Hamlet.

In NG+, any hero who interacts with the transcendent terror during the tutorial will instantly get a wagonload of stress while babbling, 'Time an endless cycle! Iä! Iäää!'.The Heir in the stagecoach after the fall of the Hamlet in the epilogue.The Hamlet falling into the same exact state of disrepair as the beginning of the game in the epilogue.Though painted a hundred years ago, the resemblance to you is uncanny. But the trial, as Q would say, never ends eventually, someone will disgust it enough to wake it up and there will be no one to provide a counterpoint, or eventually it will decide the experiment has reached completion and destroy the planet. When you fight it, it tests your heroes via the Come Unto Your Maker move to see if they will give up their lives for the sake of humanity something even the scared ones submit to, which is why it allows you to kill its avatar and leave the planet alone for the next eon or so. It regards empathy as a positive trait, so when it was awoken by how despicable the Ancestor was, it decided that it had gone wrong somewhere and decided to begin reformatting humanity into something a little less vile than the species that produced him. It's not a benign god by any means, but its core motivation is that of a Mad Scientist seeing how perfect it can make its creations before leaving the planet, destroying it in the process. It's kinda dumb, considering you also get the matchman's torch for destroying the cannon, but this is WMG so who gives a caboodle. what do you get for killing the king? WILBUR'S flags. Necro's collar, Prophet's eyes, Siren's conch, etc. An extrapolation on the theory: you get an item from killing their final form.All the other swine seem pretty stupid in comparison, and they need a smart leader to run a civilization. He must clearly have at least a half-decent head on his shoulders to be able to control the Swine King. Maybe Wilbur isn't the strongest, but the smartest.Even if Wilbur controls the Swing King, he himself isn't that physically strong, so he would not be considered the king. The swine folk apparently crown the physically strongest among them.Maybe Wilbur is The Man Behind the Man?.This doesn't explain why he's not wearing a crown like the Swine King, however. While it's likely he's just a spotter for the Swine King, he may also be giving orders to a bodyguard of sorts and the swine declared him king for being able to control such a monstrosity. Wilbur is the real Swine KingConsidering that the supposed Swine King kicks your ass if you kill him and he can stun-lock your party to death by screaming at them. Jossed, The Heart of Darkness is the real Big Bad and was impersonating the Ancestor during the first phases of the fight, who was really dead.He, or at least a good imitation of him, is the Mouth of Sauron for the Heart of Darkness, though he's a Punch-Clock Villain only bound to his role by the Heart's power. The Dragon theory is correct, in a sense.It's far more likely that the Dark God that the Ancestor summoned, and the barbed arch symbol represents, is the Big Bad, but the Ancestor might prove to be The Dragon.The Ancestor may very well be still alive, waiting in the deepest pit of the Darkest Dungeon, and serving as the Final Boss. Making a relative of him inheriting the Darkest Estate could have been a twisted plan to lure some sacrifice fodder right into the hands of the cultists, as well as getting rid of potential Spanners In The Works (the Prophet, the Hag, the bandits.) while expecting the Darkest Estate's hazards and dwellers to be tough enough to prevent the heroes from gaining control of the domain. There isn't any proof that the letter written during the opening was sincere. The Ancestor is the Big BadThe Ancestor was involved in very shady business with dark magic and necromancy.

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