Siosa is one of the few characters in Path of Exile who never raises a weapon, never threatens anyone, and never pretends to be stronger than he is. He was a librarian of the Ebony Barracks who became trapped in the Archives during Dominus’ rise to power. When the Cataclysm warped Oriath and the mainland, Siosa stayed alive through a mix of fear, survival instincts, and sheer loneliness.
Players meet him in Act 3. He is soft spoken, shy, and deeply uncomfortable in his own skin. He collects books because they are all he has left of his life. The more he talks, the clearer it becomes that he is a man who survived the end of his world but never healed from it.
Siosa is important because he reveals that every tragedy in Wraeclast doesn’t come from gods or monsters. Sometimes the world breaks people in smaller, quieter ways.
What We Know About His Past
Siosa was not a scholar by intention. He was a slave educated by High Templar Venarius. His intelligence made him useful, so he was allowed to work in the Ebony Barracks library instead of being sent to harsher duties. The books he guarded became the closest thing he had to freedom. He learned history, magic, poetry, and whatever scraps of knowledge he could memorize.
When Dominus seized power, Siosa noticed very quickly that the Templars were shifting their beliefs. The language of “purity” and “virtue” became more extreme. The Barracks grew more dangerous. Executions increased. Books were burned or hidden. He witnessed a quiet cultural purge from the back of a library.
Then the Cataclysm hit. Siosa survived because the Archives were sealed and forgotten. Everyone else died. He was left alone with his books for decades.
The Loneliness That Changed Him
By the time we meet Siosa, his mind is fragile. Not broken, but stretched thin. He talks like someone who has been rehearsing conversations for years. He masks fear with politeness. He hides panic behind gratitude. Every favor he asks of the player feels like an apology.
When he says he has not spoken to another living human in a very long time, it sounds like a confession.
Siosa’s life became a loop. Wake up. Read. Avoid danger. Wait for nothing. Repeat. He clung to the library because it was the only safe place he had left.
His voice lines reveal a man who wants connection but expects rejection. He carries no resentment toward the world that abandoned him. He is simply tired.
Why His Story Ends in Silence
After the player retrieves the golden pages for him, Siosa disappears from the main narrative. He never returns in later acts. He never escapes the Archives. He never becomes part of the resistance against Dominus or the gods. He remains exactly where we found him.
There is an unspoken truth here. Siosa is not a fighter. He is not built for exile life. Leaving the Archives would mean facing a world that destroyed everything he knew. The safety of his books, even in ruins, is the only stability he has.
So… he stays behind. The story moves on without him.
Wraeclast does not mourn him. The game never confirms whether he survives. Most players never think about him again. Well, haha, until they need to purchase gems.
That silence says more than any lore book could.
What Siosa Represents
Siosa is the reminder that Wraeclast is not only a land of villains and monsters. It is also a graveyard of ordinary people who never had a chance. He represents:
- The victims who slipped through the cracks
- The survivors who lived, but not fully
- The quiet tragedies overshadowed by dramatic ones
- The cost of a world where knowledge is hoarded and people are disposable
Siosa’s story matters because it exists in the margins. It asks what survival looks like when the world ends and you are left alone with your thoughts.
He is the kind of character whose life would never make it into the official histories of Oriath or Wraeclast. Players met him. Players helped him. Players remember him. For awhile, players need him.
Which means he mattered.
