Dark Souls Lore ► Explained!
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- These are the theories I currently believe are the most valid.
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►00:00 Why do they call him "Big Hat" Logan?
►00:17 Who is the "Chosen Undead"?
►00:47 Is there a world outside Lordran?
►01:20 How did this world come to be?
►01:56 What is a "Soul"?
►02:37 Who are the "Lords", and what is a "Lord Soul"?
►03:24 What is an "Everlasting Dragon"?
►04:16 What is the Age of Fire?
►05:25 What is the Undead Curse?
►05:46 What Caused the Undead Curse?
►09:41 What is Hollowing?
►11:08 How do we Cure the Undead Curse?
►12:45 Why Did the Gods Curse Humanity?
►13:05 What is the Firelinking?
►13:41 What is a Bonfire?
►15:05 What is a Firekeeper?
►15:58 What is a God?
►16:47 What are Medials?
►17:08 What are the Dead?
►17:26 What is a Demon?
►18:14 What is Chaos?
►19:04 What is Pyromancy?
►19:50 What is Sorcery?
►20:18 What are Miracles?
►20:45 What is the Abyss?
►21:35 What is Black Flame?
►21:50 What is the Deep?
►22:23 Why is Time Convoluted?
►22:52 Why is Everything in the World Hostile to Me?
►23:12 What is the Painted World?
►23:43 What is the Meaning of Each Ending?
►25:34 What is Unkindled Ash?
►26:03 How Does the Series End?
►26:53 bye
►27:28 When is Elden Ring being released?
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,
I've found myself in a bit of a pickle it seems.
Thank you for this list. It cleared up a few things for me. I am currently trying to investigate the evidences stated by Hawkshaw. I have already saw some of the signs of a war between Chaos and Light/Dark. If it behoove you, do you want to listen to my ramblings?
Thanks vaati you're the best
Hey, that was really cool of to come on Matt's channel
Hi! I just want to know, what id your favorite FromSoft game?
Logan: "Can I take some magic?"
Them: "yeah, but only a hatful"
Big Hat Logan: *pulls out a comically large big hat*
*laughtrack plays in the background, accompanied by applause*
Crystal sage has entered the chat
This comment transcends 3 vastly different meme communities and i love it
not just big, but large big.
His IQ is dumb high, 189
Miyazaki while watching this Video: Ahhh, this is how it fits all together
This actually made me laugh
Here is a like to make me laugh in this miserable day.
Miyazaki once said in an interview that he has a clear view of the world and a clear story in mind, but he's not going to impose it on anyone.
So if it makes sense... it's "canon".
Whether he was completely honest about that or not, still, I have huge respect for him for this approach.
This is funny but I hope he has a Dark Souls Lore book.
Miyazaki is that DM that had scrabbles of stories and shit for his homebrew campaign, but struggled to piece it together.
He is like Ainz, he looks like he know what he’s doing, but only when paired with people like demiurge who’s THINK they connected the dots, and Ainz just nods
Edit: Alright guys, just so you know, this is a joke, a meme, a comment made in jest so as to follow up on the OP comment, it should not be taken seriously and should be noted that it was meant to be a joke, if this sound redundant, it’s because it’s meant to be, already had two people not get the joke, one of which had a stick so far up their ass you’d think Vladimir the Impaler was indeed an immortal vampire, and berated me on even contemplating talking about his grandiose holiness “Heart Wrecker” Miyazaki.
There's only one piece of lore every player needs to know.
"Try tongue but hole"
"chest ahead. try two handing."
@@cxx23 LMAOOO NOOOO
Destroy but hole ahead *curl up*
“Try finger”
Don't give up, Skeleton!
There is a line in the opening cinematic that I can't help but feel is really important in the Dark Souls series, but like the Furtive Pygmy, it is often overlooked: "Then, from the Dark, They came, and found the souls of lords within the Flame." The implication is that all living things, not just humans, owe their origins to the Dark. Even the Lords. Even Gwyn. If you take some time to consider that, it recontextualizes a lot of lore. Gwyn didn't simply fear the Dark, *he feared returning to it.*
He was so afraid that he incinerated his own soul. Ironically, Dark Souls 3 implies that this stalling tactic eventually led to the corruption of the deep and, in turn, an "age of deep oceans" where the horrors of the deep are forced to the surface by the glut of soul dregs. Far more frightening than the dark Gwyn came from.
@@jbark678 Well that's the thing, isn't it? Gwynn owed his origins to the dark. In the beginning, he was merely one of those wretched, pathetic shambling hollows until he stumbled upon the Lord's Soul of Light. By mere chance, he went from being nothing to being an all-powerful god... until the First Flame started to die.
But he'd known, since he'd first seen the servants of the Furtive Pygmy and their Dark-infused weapons and armor, that the Age of FIre was not eternal, and that one day, his Age would be replaced with an Age of Dark. And so, rather than see his kingdom end, his godhood end, and be returned to that wretched state of existence, he instead chose to throw himself into the First Flame, with his descendants and subordinates luring Undead into the flames to serve as kindling for the First Flame, artificially prolonging that Age of Fire. Burning Humanity, those little fragments of the Dark, to keep the fire lit. The Dregs of the Deep are more than likely the "Ashes" left behind when Humanity is thrown into the Fire.
@@jbark678 Incinerating Souls would be a sick band name.
"Why DO they call him Big Hat Logan?" I have never been so amused and angry at a line.
BIG HAT
VejyMonsta i need another clue
It's an ironic name; his hat was so small in comparison to all of the other sorcerers' that he became known for it. Like calling a 7ft body-builder "Tiny."
You see, his real name is Logan.
@@thunderthebright8469 finally some answers
"You accidentally put down your controller and bumped R2"
How I discovered the dancer.
I almost killed my precious Emerald Harold this way lol
@Jasper Harri FLIERMAN yeah you need at least 2 hits
i attacked andre by doing this and had to farm 90,000 souls pre anor londo to request purification or whatever from the gargoyle pedophile
@@ramen8765 Don't ever say such terrible things about Oswald., blasphemer!
@Tasorius i am terrible sorry for my misdeed
Q]- "what is a man?"
A]- "a miserable little pile of secrets."
“But enough talk, have at you!”
Funny enough, according to the lore about the hollows of Londor... That is correct.
Haven't finished Symphony of the night yet game too hard pls nerf
"You become Ash, a Pokemon Trainer."
You go to become the very best like no one ever was
"You gotta catch em all"
To catch them is your duty, to train them is your curse
Naruhodo. So that's why Ash in pokemon is immortal
“Old Man Voice”
*D E E P E S T - L O R E*
Miracle builts are actually very powerful
Defiler Rulez 🦀
30 min video about the Lore of the Dark Crab inside the Skeleton Ball - i need answers
V A A T I , T E L L U S T H E D E E P E S T L O R E
You can't read it without hearing the old man in your head 🤮
Question: “Why is everything so hostile to me?”
Answer: *Because you are a Dex build in a Giant Dad world*
underrated comment
Because u leveled up resistance stat
The Legend never dies! Basscannon ftw
Try wearing a big hat to avert their judging eyes
Twist answer: Because you admit dipping in dex when you should have denied it.
The ruse of the "Chosen Undead" is a brilliant move, really.
You put this rumor in the world of a prophecy about an Undead who's chosen by fate and who, if strong enough, will decide the fate of the whole world.
So naturally all the undead who are not hollow yet will come and try to slay their way to the First Flame. Some will get past the first hurdles and few of them will get more powerful, until eventually one of them manages to reach a level where they start conquering greater souls and enough power to challenge the current Lord of Cinder, kill them and probably (because of the prophecy baiting them into it) link the fire, becoming the next Lord of Cinder, prolonging the Age of Fire and the rule of the gods for a few hundred more years until there's need for another "Chosen Undead" again.
Genius manipulative move by Gwyn and his fuckfaces.
Gwyn and his Fuckfaces is a great band name
@@SinHurr Gwyn and his Fuckfaces now live in concert
@@SinHurr i agree
it’s fucked because even before the lore I kinda always wondered why didn’t they just find another powerful heir since there were already a bunch of powerful warriors out there instead of relying on a legend being born out of nowhere .
Although it's not such a bad thing the dark world is void of anything and is a dull wasteland. Prolonging the age of fire seems like the better option.
This game's lore is probably the best example of using mystery and allusion to create a world deeper than if everything was explicitly explained. It reminds me of gaming in my youth pre-internet where you'd share rumors about secrets in games that made them seem bigger than they were. Amazing and I love the circular nature of the plot. It's like a self-contained riddle.
Sasquatch in San Andreas was one of those for me. I searched high and low for that dude. Eventually it was confirmed that he wasn’t even in the game files lol
5 years have passed and there is still no movie with Lady Maria
"prepare to cry"
I’m still want it and I’m almost positive we won’t get it
Maybe Vaati will finally do it when BB gets a sequel
@@pravum3150 bloodborne kart
Vaati. Hand it over. That thing...
your Lady Maria "Prepare to Cry".
@@Kittykat81572 vaati said that he's working on the lady maria prepare to cry video in one of his recent twitch streams
"What are the Dead? The dead are corpses"
What is the floor made of? The floor is made out of floor
Heh,basic concepts like life and death work differently in DS than they do in our world,which is why Vaati had to be specific,even I'm confused about this stuff,like,Nito is literally the embodiment of death but that doesn't seem to stop him from walking around whenever he feels like it.
You forgot to capitalize the first "Floor".
Or is it "First Floor"?
Second Floor? Lord of the Thirteenth Floor? The Age of Floor?
I swear this Dark Souls lore just likes to throw nouns together.
Bro. Get a mustache already. -_-
For real bro, do You even lift bro.
The floor is the amalgamation by thousands of humans lurking in the age of the unknown trying to set a world that can be crossed without any rise and fall and thus keep the balance of nature as it was before. Yet the stairs betrayed us in ways unimaginable, constructing floors that instead of connecting us to the ground, takes us to the sky, out of our natural habitat. These wretched beings became known as ceilings
floor gang Uhooooo
15:52 I just finished my first run of DS1 going in completely blind. I loved how the firekeeper of Firelink Shrine was so subtle but captivating as a character, and was shocked at how emotional I got when she's killed. I swore an oath to wear her robes until I avenged her, and thats what I did. But I went in blind... and I got excited at having another firekeeper soul and rushed to the keeper of Anor Londo to upgrade my estus flask, only finding out after I could have revived her. So I did the only thing I could do; I wore her robes the entire rest of the game. After I finally beat Gwyn after pushing 100 deaths (without armour he kills in 3 swings), I began NG+, bowed to the firekeeper, and finally dropped off her robes.
And that's why I fuc*ing love RPGs, and especially Soulsborne games. I used to wear the Harrowed Set in Bloodborne after I got it, cause it's easily the best armor in the game, but after I learned the lore behind it... I never wore it again, it disgusts me. Away with the church fanatics.
Yeah I had same attachment with the Onion knight, except his armor set is decent 😂
_Madman_
how do you get the robe of the firekeeper? by killing her?
wait.. you said we can revive her¿¿ i just used the soul to upgrade my estus too
My question always ends up being: “If there was nothing in the beginning but dragons, and fire didn’t show up until later... then wtf did dragons breathe pre-disparity?
Dark Fire?
There were made of stone, so I would imagine nothing
Boulders
still doesnt explain a whole universe ruled by stone dragons, or is it just earth
@@xylonus Why do you think it would be earth? Not every fantasy world is "earth but-".
“Why is everyone so hostile towards me?”
Reason: You pointed down after killing Siegward.
Actually it’s just because you killed Siegward
Actually it's just because you pointed down
Actually it's just because
Actually it's
Actually
"What are the dead?"
"The dead are corpses...."
Thx, Vaati!
i guess we assume their was a deeper meaning to that
Remember: The bodies you loot aren't dead people.
They're the ones who hollowed. They're the ones who won't to go on. They're the ones who gave up.
@@davidhong1934 I did not think about that before, and your comment make sense, since there is a corpse screaming when we loot
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@haunt97 there's a screaming corpse? Did i forget? Where?
This really helped me connect the dots, with my background in fire science and wild fire use.
Occasional fires are part of the life cycle of a forest, but if your forest is on fire all of the time, it'll be burned to nothing but white, mineral ash.
Then the ferns, grasses, and some saplings slowly sprout and grow. The pinecones of pine trees open, spreading their seeds. Beetles use the burnt wood as a nesting ground. Nature heals itself after destroying itself. A delicate balance, easily broken. A cycle of life, of fire, of ash, of despair, and of hope. We are always wondering what happened before us and what comes after. Long as our little world keeps spinning, life will continue forward. It's beautiful, but my writing skills sure aren't. I used to do wildland firefighting too. Around where I lived it was less the cycles of nature and more like its resilience. Most our fires were from meth labs, trash burning in backyards, and bonfires gone wrong. The rest were intentional firebugs enjoying the smell of fresh ash. Luckily we had good folks on the job from volunteers
And those from the state (US resident). Either way. Sorry for the paragraph(s) and thank you. Thank you for all the good you've done as a firefighter, and I hope you stay safe out there. Have a good one
Super hot fire
And if you try to burn it still more you will wind up with glass.
But then we change the trees with humans, humans with central nervous system, that are burning and dying horribly for the cycle to continue. Is it better to let the cycle of immense suffering continue? Or do we let it all stop? Or maybe do we find a third way? These three questions are what the lore amounts to.
27:47 "When is Elden ring being released?" WELL buddy I got the answer RIGHT HERE
21st of January 2022
Time is convoluted my friend
@@peterheck2429 I like you
Well .... about that....
@@joaopires3917 BANDAI NAMCO always watching US :(
This did not aged well
At this point I remember more history of dark souls then I do the actual world.
If you're going by pure percentages and pure pedantry, that makes sense. Remembering the 10,000+ years of human history across seven continents and hundreds, of not thousands, of cultures would be impossible. Memorizing the content of three 20+ hour games should be trivial in comparison.
@@davidhong1934 thats not it, its just that our own world is bland boring place so why bother remembering it
You mean soulsborne isnt real?! 😰😱
@@PeriqculosusCZ "Bland, boring place" Oh boy, how very very wrong you are. Also, said "bland, boring place" was what helped create Dark Souls in the first place.
@@acedias12 "the world was unformed, shrouded by fog"
In regards to respawning at the bonfire: I always assumed that you woke up where you fell, and then as a hollow would wander back to the closest or most familiar place of warmth. So waking up at a bonfire was the warmth of the bonfire refreshing your mind, so to speak, and allowing you to regain lucidity.
The real question is...
"Why everytime I hear plin plin plon depression hits me?"
but when you die, your corpse becomes some kind of ash and wind blows it away, probably because you're linked to the bonfire
I don't know man. It is said that you hollow little by little with each death and also by "depression" until you completely lose your mind, which is a point of no return even for bonfire flames.
Thats a great explanation actually, thanks :)
So that's why the loading screens last for fucking ever.
"Souls are the fuel and byproduct of this disparity"
Am I reading Hegel again by any chance?
This is unfathomably therapeutic, whenever I begin to hollow this is one of the things that restores me
"Every enemy has a reason to attack you, after all. Except Priscilla. Why did you hurt her?"
Seven words, my friend:
"This land is pacefull, it's inhabitants kind."
The things you do for a little tail.
One Word: archievements
*its
Two words: “free souls”
@@iWillWakeYouUp
would it's count as 2 words?
Glad I finished the game 9 years ago so I could watch this video, almost missed out
Lmao
right in time
Cutting it close.
He tried hard to avoid spoilers
Oof, hedge my bet on the wrong horse. Only played 3
Headcanon:
The world of the Everlasting Dragons was just merely a painting. How the first flame came to be was the same as how we set Ariandel's painting ablaze.
"Then, who painted the first painted world?"
It's simple, Miyazaki.
I rest my case.
Who painted our world? Who was the one who painted Miyazaki?
@@Itz_Kry Miyazaki is eternal and always was
I kind of always interpreted the difference between the race of humans and the race of gods as literally: one group snagged the dark soul, the other snagged the great souls. So in other words, I think they are the same species, just with the effects of different souls attached to them.
And what's funny is that this is actually correct. In the beginning, the gods, humans, and what have you were all the same thing...Hollows. Hollows are the default.
@@mjsfalcon986 This is Londor propaganda
@@phobics9498 Maybe. But there is the opening cutscene of dark souls 1. See all those people rising to see the first flame? Hollows, or at least something similar.
@@mjsfalcon986no hollows are mindless drones. They possess no ability to create.
Curiously enough, a leftist perspective politically really gives you good ideas as to how all the problems could be solved. Most of the problems in the Dark Souls world really come from hierarchy, just like in the real world. So having everybody go back to being pre-fire hollows in an age of darkness, now with no primordial dragons, will make the DS world behave more like ours. It would just be normal earth but with weird magic stuff sometimes. So yeah, like always, communism is the answer to most problems.
The real question you're all too scared to ask is "why do NPCs die permanently when all but one of them are supposed to be undead"
@jocaguz18
when u kill them do they get sent to another dimension? You never get to interact with them anymore for some reason.
You take their souls so they cant revive.
Have you done your bloodstone ritual today?
@@Gevaudan1471 You take souls of everything you kill, they still get back up.
It still is a game.
Pokemon: lightning not good against rock.
Gwyn: ayyy lmao!
@Luke Barnes Yeah a lot of people mix that up, because all of Brocks team was Rock/Ground instead of just rock. Rock and electric attacks are neutral towards each other.
@@mittelz5976 the real confusion was the anime consistently saying it was rock types that were immune to electric instead of ground but tbf in gen 1 the vast majority (not all) of rock types were also ground so it is a very easy misconception to make back in the day.
Ash & Pikachu: No hard feelings, Brock.
"lightning is weak against dragons"
...
Yeetus yeetus stone scale deleteus
I love how this video strings its topic, going from one term, to another term involved, Linking everything together in a fluid, easy to understand explanation
Im even more confused now
"Firekeepers bear this suffering so that you can benefit from the bonfire..."
I'm only doing soul level 1 runs from now on, thanks.
gonna be honest with you now that i hear she literally takes on all the curses and pain you bare i feel so bad and i don't want to level up anymore to keep from hurting her it sucks so much for her like why her i don't want her to take everything that i take.
Leveling up is the process of taking the souls you found in the world and fusing them to your white soul. Unless I'm mistaken about something, that shouldn't hurt the firekeeper.
Plus, there are plenty of bonfires without keepers. You could just use those.
@@TonyRedgrave unless you have mods you need firekeeper to level in second and third souls soooooo
And that is why you kill her during the alternate ending of the betrayal of fire ending. End her suffering.
That's right you shouldn't put burden on our wifus just because it'll save you from suffering
Vaati is like the lore NPC in every RPG
Player: Tell me more about the Dark Soul
Vaati: The Dark Souls is....
Player: Tell me more about Humanities
Vaati: Humanities are...
He's the Deckard Cain of Dark Souls.
He has other people do the work he just reads a script
It's like fallout 4, what are this
X are...
*Spam X*
What are that
That is...
*Spam X again*
Goodbye
This video blew me away. The way you perfectly linked all the lore from all three dark souls... it makes me realize why these games are so impactful for me. The lore, even if you don't pay much attention to it, is ingrained in everything you do. You feel it as you progress through the game, empowering each step and giving your choices weight. And this video perfectly captured why that is.
16:08 "since they're the most widely worshipped in the world of man"
_shows picture of gwynevere_
seems accurate
“And this, children, is why you should never play with fire.”
Maybe Gwyn played with fire because he didn't have parents to tell him that 🤔
"You play with fire, little boy, you will end up killing the Everlast Dragons, stupid boy"
Fire, fire! (Beavis voice).
@@andreyleonel255 and burned the entire world to ash and make a new species by mistake by set ash
@@andreyleonel255 Or become a bed of chaos.
Everybody gansta 'til the PLIN goes PLON
**PLIN PLIN PLON'S IN TEARS**
Still playing all 3 games over and over once a year usually.The greatest game series of all times ❤
Agreed! But Bloodborne is amazing too!
I never liked the idea that the lord souls are thematic: Light, Life, Death, and Dark. The first flame enabled disparity and those who were captivated by the flame found souls within it. Why would only four opposing examples of disparity be stronger than any other? I think that a lord soul is merely power, which is then shaped by the aspect of disparity which most captivates you. Hell we even see that in miracles. You find your favorite godly fanfic and you shape the power of your soul into making it a reality. Or how about boss weapons, you take an iconic weapon that defines a being in your mind and shape their soul into that weapon. Posessing a powerful soul enables you to create and change, how you do that is defined by your interests.
Ah, but that would indicate that the creatures before flame had selves. We know they didn't.
From what I can understand, all the lords split their souls, giving rise to their people.
@@andyknightwarden9746 that was the Furtive Pigmy,so easily forgotten
@@alexanderthelegend7988 That was all of them. The Pygmies were just more prolific.
@@andyknightwarden9746 I thought all but Nito did. Nito never split his soul, and simply used its power to create undead.
@@spaceblockb5284 This is correct. Gwyn split his among his children and his followers (explicitly including the four kings and seethe). The Witch split hers among her children as well.
Nito never split his to my knowledge. he had no true servants or offspring.
Pygmy gifted his dark soul to all of his descendants- who still carry it millennia later until the world itself begins to fall to ash.
In relation to Dark/The Abyss. I feel like The Abyss is what manifests when you fight/reject the Dark. We see this most prominently in Artorias and Midir, both of whom were assigned to fight off the power of the Abyss, and became corrupted themselves. However, the best example I can find is Karla and Irina in ds3. If you try to give Irina a Dark Tome, she rejects it, and only accepts teaching them to you when you insist. And because she does not accept the Dark, it nibbles at her, until it becomes too much to bear. Karla, on the other hand, has no issues about the Dark (she initially rejects the Dark Tomes, but thats more because she finds miracles distasteful than anything). She accepts the Dark, and it does not fight her. In DS2, which I feel explores the Dark in more ways than the other 2 installments, we are given Felkin the Outcast and Darkdiver Grandahl. Both call the Dark comforting, something to be discovered within yourself, to be accepted and nurtured.
However, if you attack Felkin the Outcast, he responds "You've let the Dark...take control...". The real reason why the Pygmy split the Dark Soul is because he realized it was too much for any one person to bear. We see this in Gael; if you accept too much Dark within yourself, it will corrupt. When you attack Felkin, he realizes your Dark has gone out of control. The Dark is like a garden; something beautiful and comforting if tended to, but if left to roam free will grow wild and take over. And of course, we see this in Oolacile. Kaathe wanted to explore the concept of the Dark, and encouraged Oolacile's inhabitants to go delving. When they discovered Manus' tomb, I think they performed experiments on him by feeding him too much humanity, until he became...well, what we see in the game. Losing his pendant, his hope and love, certainly helped this process.
I think this is what Patches truly is. He really is a human who has learned to nurture his Dark. I always thought it odd he lures us into traps to loot our corpse, but then at the end of the Ringed City he says he's 'devoid of all wordly wants.' I don't think he actually wants to loot our corpse; he's just having a bit of fun. This is why he constantly tricking the player into lame traps, even though he knows we're hollow and will just come back; he's nurtured his Dark to a place where he has some near-harmless fun with us with lame traps, and makes good with us in the end. It is only until the end of the world, when there are hardly any sane people left, that he starts to go hollow; there is no one left to trick, to nurture his Dark. Until he help remind him of who he is, and he pulls one more harmless, even helpful, prank on us. And this is really why he hates clerics so much; clerics are those who embrace miracles, the opposite of the Dark.
May the Dark shine your way.
Embracing The Dark is nice reference to Jungian psychology and Shadow. Shadow is the unknown part of our persona and "one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making darkness awake. " In that end Gwyn's genocidal war against everlasting dragons was him being driven/manipulated by The Dark and he projected his own anger and tyranny to dragons.
Veli Karppinen Have been viewing Souls through this lens for a while. I think people try too hard to find the specifics of the story told by the lore as opposed to the symbols and lessons it attempts to portray.
I like this idea. From now on, it will be my headcanon.
Very well spoken. I feel this is the most logical reason as to why Dark is good for humanity until we allow it to overtake us. Great theory / summary.
May the Dark shine our way!
19:04 I never saw the Bed of Chaos clearly in an upward position. So i realize just now that it actually looks like a four armed female sitting on a throne.
i wonder if the face having all those roots protruding is the actual hairdo the Queen of Izalith was rocking all this time ;D
Yeah never actually realized that it was physically the witch herself when i fought her.
Miyazaki actually based it on a uterus. The two sides resemble the ovaries and where they converge is the uterus and the witch of izalith is right in the middle where a baby would be. Pretty weird design lol.
Levi Csepregi look at the Gaping Dragon....lol it looks like a women’s scary gape
miyazaki must have sacrificed boss design for lore, hence the fight being so
Thank you for making this video. I've been playing these games forever and even though watching a lot of lore and explaination videos, never understood fully wtf was happening or how it happened. This video FINALLY breaks it down bluntly and straight forwardly.
Man, this makes me want to actually play the Chosen Undead.
The deepest lore is that they call Big Hat Logan “Big Hat” because he wears a big hat.
Pfft. That's dumb! You're dumb! OBVIOUSLY the "Big Hat" is a reference to Old King Allant. Crowns are hats, but they are worn by kings, so they're big. Big Hat Logan is Old King Allant. You can tell because "Big Hat Logan" is "Old King Allant" spelled backwards.
Because they couldn't call him by his true name: big dick Logan.
So they went with hat.
Owen Wilson: “Wow”
He's called "Big Hat Logan" because his hat is big in comparison to his body. The hat really isn't that big for a taller person.
Real big hat move right here
You don’t know how highly you raised my hopes and then crushed them with the elden ring release date question
My response was legit: oh f*** you, Vatti!
My god people... Fromsoft litetally only released Sekiro a year ago so we probably wont see anything about that game's release for the next 2-3 years. Dont get your hopes up for nothing because disappointment is all that you will get.
@@alselein7155 chill dude, I haven't heard news and when Vatti (who is known to keep his ear to the ground for news) jokes and says I have something, it was only in that exact moment that I entertained the thought that he actually knew the release date.
Don't assume we are all so thirsty that we give more than two fucks about an unreleased game and I wont assume you're an asshat looking for any reason to shut down people's excitement.
seriously bro wtf lol.
Hateful8bit exactly right. Keep in mind I said how highly he raised my hopes. Doesn’t that elude to before he said anything, that I didn’t have any expectations or high hopes for when the game was going to be released?
It's amazing how much I know about DS and Bloodborne despite never playing them thanks to your channel (DYING to play them though, especially BB). Sekiro's my boy though, Sword Saint got wrecked in only 50 tries! Thanks for that one tip on bell demon, balloons, and early farming at Hirata btw, really helped.
15:52
Vaati: Be sure to thank your Firekeep- OH SHI-
*kills Firekeeper*
Me: NOOOOOOOOO
don't worry, she can come back to life.
Wait, so when we chug estus we're actually chugging fire water? Crap, we've been gulping down whiskey all along and didn't even know it. Chosen Undead is an alcoholic confirmed.
No wonder I kept dying early in the game, I was plastered and didn’t know it
Siegward canonically turned Estus into alcohol
I always thought estus was lucozade
Not really, because alcohol doesn't always taste sharp aka it kinda hurts your mouth with explosive things. But soda usually do taste sharp. Means that all Ashen Ones are a bunch of Kyles
Whiskey that keeps you fighting a bit longer. Chosen Undead is Irish confirmed.
This got me thinking: Are beings with special souls powerful because their souls are special or are their souls special because they are powerful?
Now that is a really good question.
shrek: good question
I think it’s both, some characters are just born with special powerful souls, but their souls are special for their power
That’s like for example the chosen undead vs the king from dark souls 2, he was born with a mighty soul where as you killed and killed till you became a special soul
I also think the more powerful a soul becomes they begin to take on aspects of the universe, it’s not just the gods from the first ughout the series we see beings getting close to the same power, as he grew more powerful I think Aldrich was becoming the aspect of the deep for example
“gods” are powerful because of their special soul, others have special souls because they BECAME powerful, either from hard work or the so called gods granting them power
I would imagine it’s the power of the souls like the lords are only called lords because of the souls they acquired.
So complex! Amazing video! I loved it! Didn’t see the explanation to the end of all 3, because I just finished DRS! Congrats!!!
Oh god, Im again crying at your videos. The lore is beauiful but the way you present it is just... so smoothing, so touching, so... I don't even know. Thank you.
"a new species, composed of a thousand failures"
ive never related to a character more than i do now
Reated?
@@theSemiChrist I mean it fits right?
@@theSemiChrist He meant related, I think
@@sorinruga3434lol fair point
@@slurponaut lol i read it as reeted. Is that what the kids are saying these days?
"Toss a soul to your keeper,..."
O, Lordran/Drangleic/Lothric, of plenty
@@petemadrona2252 good thing all those names have only two syllables
Oh valley of Irythill
oh valley of Lordran , oh valley of Lordran
Bonfires a plenty, o-oh oh
I wonder if every single, "We'll get to that later.."
is a unique recording or the same one that's just used repeatedly, like a transition of sorts between questions.
Guess I have to play the whole Dark soul series to fully understand.
My main question: How the gapping dragon brush his theeth?
It has a large plate with a mass of brushes on it. Then it just lays down and moves back and forth along it. Like how a bear scratches it's back on a tree. Don't know where it gets the toothpaste though.
Her
Have just all that flowing water with all those rocks serve as a big ass brush by having it flow in between its teeth.
@@harryguidotti3815 with great difficulty
He has corvians pick food residues from his teeth instead, kind of like hippos and oxpeckers
"Those who aren't ken to fire cannot paint a world. Those absorbed by fire, must not paint a world."
- The Painter
Gwyn was absorbed by fire and what it was, and so he made a world where all was hopeless, an endless cycle. With the Painted world and the blood of the Dark Soul, someone who knows fire but is not consumed by it can create a new world, one where for the first time in our adventures across this series, hope can exist.
Unus Annus
Dan Slater Memento Mori, I see you to are a man of culture.
...OOOOOOOOOH ! That's what she meant by that ! Thank you !
Did bro just quote a video game like ita the biblr
Memento mori
Love the little Elden Ring bit at the end, just the perfect touch. Gave me a good chuckle, now a year and a half later with Elden RIng just around the corner
"Imagine that you encounter a signal. It is structured, and dense with information. It meets all the criteria of an intelligent transmission.
You decode the signals, and stumble:
There are no meaningful translations for these terms. They are needlessly recursive. They contain no usable intelligence, yet they are structured intelligently; there is no chance they could have arisen by chance.
The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception becomes apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness.
The signal is a virus."
For some reason the discussions of DS lore makes me remember this part of P. Watts's "Blindsight" book, especially the phrase "needlessly recursive".
Well it is often said that Miyazaki came up with the story after him and the team designed the world and the gameplay taking huge inspiration from the berserk manga.
All the convoluted and, like you mentioned, needlessly recursive lore could be the byproduct of that first decision.
Which is why i think they sought after George R.R. Martin for the world building of Elden Ring. Because even though the lore/world of dark souls was pretty interesting they're trying to start off with more solid foundations this time around.
But i do like to say even though digging into DS lore definitely can feel pointless, doubly so if we consider that it was just created as an afterthought, it is still somewhat masterfully put together when you look at it as a whole. The main themes are relatively simple, continue the familiar but decaying cycle, or accept change that is at best unknown? And with the way these stories and concepts are represented in the games they have nigh on unlimited ways of different interpretation. That's why there are so many lore videos and we in the souls community are brought together by it and it has essentially become an integral part of the soulsborne experience. A different sense of community that doesn't involve servers and multi-player. So i don't really think it could be counted as a waste of time or effort.
@@peterheck2429 Miyazaki makes the lore convoluted because when he was young he would read stories in English without fully understanding the language and had to fill in the gaps. People really like to overplay the inspiration Berserk has on Dark Souls (not that I’m saying there aren’t references and inspirations)
"What is the big chest?" hahahah Oh my sweet summer child
"What is wrong with you?"
I've been trying to answer that question for a long time now.
I love how this lore seems to be a parody of our real Universe and its struggle against expansion, the age of fire coming to an end. Simply beautiful!
Just finished the 3 dark souls one after another and i gotta say this video is beautiful, very good explanatory and easy to follow. Thanks
Sorry Vaati, without WIldpie's guide I'm still stuck at the Tomb of the giants... I'll watch it in a while, ok?
Why must you use the forbidden name
Git Gud
If you see Patches give em a kick for me and say hi
Year 2101: *exists
Wildpie: The Dumbshits Guide To Dark Souls Remastered Ep. 1. Northern Assylum
Love those! Can't stop laughing my ass off watching those!
re: "what is a bonfire" what if the player character does get up and walk back to the bonfire in a mindless trance before regaining sanity at the bonfire? just a thought
There are quite a few ways to die and bosses that would never allow that
your dark sign drags you back to your respawn point. the bonfire just updates where you respawn. if you don't light one in 1, you wake up back at firelink where the crow dropped you. presumably, that's what's happening to the other undead, they wake up wherever their respawn is, and the mindless ones just walk in circles around that spot while the sapient ones disappear and either end up back home, far from you, or they just decided to avoid you from now on.
you literally turn into dust when you die.
It's possible that since the chosen undead hasn't fully hollowed, the process is different
So fully hollowed undead who have lost their minds get up on the spot, while undead who still maintain their wits make their way back to the bonfire to rest and recover
i believe the homeward bone item description details how the bonfires are actually the crushed up bones of other undead and when you rest at the bonfire and capture the essence in your estus flask, it essentially connects your body/soul to those of the undead that have been burned to form the bonfire itself
The Souls series will always have a special place in my heart. Every game from Demons Souls to BloodBorne was amazing (yes, I even loved DS2).
When I first played Demons Souls I was a single guy. Now I'm married with kids. Gone are the days when I can dive into these types of games.
Enjoy the Demons Souls remake!
nothing wrong with liking DS2
Looking at Manus closer, i just noticed how look alike he is to the hatred demon from sekiro
Well when sekiro came out, people were comparing the demon of hatred to manus
Cleric Beast has a similar shape (and by extension Laurence) also. And Gundyr possessed by the pus of man, (and by extension the pus of man) all have similar shapes. All have one arm much larger than the other. This has been on my mind for a while. Is there a creature in Japanese mythology with one big arm and a smaller arm? Maybe it is just a creature design that Miyazaki likes. It is a constant through his games.
@@DeadHead18 its because all of them have themes of inbalance whether between beast and man or dark and light
@@donb7519 that's a decent hypothesis.
@@donb7519 more specifically, imbalance of an aspect over others. Basically the big arm and giant form always manifest as that which consumed them, which caused the imbalance.
"When is Elden Ring being released?" Interesting timestamp ngl
By the end of the year.
Phantorang wrong
@@ValosRR Which consoles you'll play on... They said it'll be for Ps4 and XOne but if it's out in 2021 it'll be too old style
@@igornaimoli7321 that will stop noone, souls is mainstream now.. and once you're hooked, you're playing new souls. that shit could come out on ps2 and would still sell millions
There is only a placeholder date right now from Amazon which says Dec 31. That's of course not something we can take to the bank, but because of COVID-19, I think it's convenient for them to make adjustments for the game so it fits the new consoles in a better way.
+ there is no real marketing yet, so it's at least months away.
What a Awesome Video!!! You deserve a ton more Views for that much Research and Work you put in these Lore Videos
Best video about the lore of ds franchise by far with deep analysis of all the themes and plot points.Appreciate your work man keep it up.
9:41 what is hollowing?
Me: Ohh I know this one, Im waiting for elden ring!
Try to keep the desire to play it so you don't turn hollow.
OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH
@@husamjanahi7770 Look up at the sky!
You know the 10:22 song?
Well I got some news for you
"What is the black flame?"
The ancient power wielded by the legendary warrior of Oolacile: Giantdad
...who wields the legendary weapon named Basscannon
I hear he leveled DEX once
@@davidhong1934 what HERESY
@@davidhong1934 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮😖
@@davidhong1934 don't tell anyone
You should put this in the dark souls 1 playlist or something, I always forget how to find it and its so worth going back to watch over and over.
I just beat Dark Souls for the first time (Dark Lord ending.) I started a new playthrough with a different character instantly. I loved Bloodborne and Sekiro and I'm super excited to finally get into this series for all the lore it has.
Tldw:
Boomer afraid of things he doesn't understand, makes life difficult for newer generation
Damn these millennials with their Dark Soul of Man!
@@pelinalwhitestrake9306 Back in my day we had to light ourselves on fire to create a new age!
Oh god so much makes sense now.
I mean, what else would explain people wrinkled and dried beyond belief but still walking around and refusing to lay down?
i have watched tons of videos regarding darksouls lore and this is the most accurate explanation i can get haha
Or.....
Millennial doesn't want to adapt, cuz he needs its safe space and he does not take it well when the world and its logic tells him that he must accept and adapt, so he insists on making the world to behave the way he wants it, making life difficult for everyone xD
I really wish there was a fifth ending where you and your friends journeyed into the Painted World of Ash. Would have been so perfect.
Can we just appreciate not only his lore explanations but also his soothing voice
(For real) watching ur videos are so comforting idk why 😅
This feels like going to college. A really cool college with an awesome teacher
Chill voice. Laid back music. Just vibin. Take my tuition!
Remember when saying "I beat dark souls" was cool thing, now you have to beat every game with your bare hands, no hits, with a banana or a guitar hero controller, or with your feet, now that's the new flex
Cause its difficult is overrated? Perhaps
The proper way to play Dark Souls:
- USB steering wheel (unplugged)
- Blindfolded
- Your little brother is playing based on your instructions
- Plunging attacks only
- Firestorm
@@davidhong1934 vidogamdanky
@@casco190301 Not at all
still no flex like the guy who beat dark souls with voice command. That is god tier. Doubt any one else will get close.
“Why am I on fire?” Is a great question
After reading a good hour of lore via item reading ingame, came to the conclusion I needed to see the forest from the trees, so thanks. Will binge some more as I get my footing in this big, beautiful, and frustrating world.
So if I understood this correctly:
A human would normally have his "humanity" be his soul... but Gwyn cursed this humanity into prisons inside us with the darksign, suppressing them, and thus leaving the human in a "hollowed" state where they kind of have no soul.
But the humans could absorb other "light" souls to fill this void to be more like the gods they were forced to serve.
And people going hollow is basically the bonfires taxing our borrowed souls (which are now tied to our experiences and personalities) to feed the first flame to keep the age of fire going? Thus hollowing causes one to lose him/herself.
nice recap, thanks
You got one thing wrong, bonfire are not taxing souls to feed the first flame, bonfire are taking the humanity that sip out of the darksign and transfer it to firekeeper. It's the humanity inside the darksign that is consuming the light soul in each undead.
What actually happens when you go Hollow? Where does your mind go or your soul, your memories, your experience? The bonfire will bring back your body, but no your mind??
I think your soul becomes one with the Flame, look at all the moves the Soul of Cinder "knows".
I always thought that the first Dark Souls was about Gwynevere's revenge. To me, after the way her father and the other gods treated her and (her daughter?) Pryscilla, she became Velka, the Goddess of Sin. After giving birth an "abomination" she was cast away with her daughter to the painted world of Ariamis.
She releases a descendant from the furtive pygmy from his cell in the undead asylum with the hope to bring punishment to her father (Gwyn), her brother (Gwyndolin) and maybe also Seath. She uses the crow to help the chosen undead to break out of the asylum as she uses the crow demons in the painted world to protect her daughter. That is also the reason why Pryscilla is the only boss that doesn't attack you as soon as you traverse the fog to her room. She knows her mother's plans for you.
She leaves the only key to enter the painted world in the cell of the chosen undead, thinking that it will be safe in that place since there is no reason for the chosen undead to return there. But unfortunately, she is wrong.
Maybe the black knights in the undead asylum are tasked with guarding the doll by command of one of Gwyn's relatives (Gwynevere), since there are no crow demons outside the painted world.
Oh that is interesting to see different theories and opinions about "Who or what is the Dark Soul?" What you say is write but in my opinion it is not true that the Dark Soul is because of Gweneveres revenge. But what you say is realy interesting🤗
I feel like the only problem is that Gwyn perpetuates the chosen undead prophecy, which is why Oscar was trying to free people from the prison.
Actually, regarding Oscar, he must have been transported by the crow too, since it seems like that's the only way to enter or leave the asylum. The reason why he is in the roof instead of the cells level with the other undeads, could be that the crow left him up there, unfortunately for him, the Asylum Demon is also there. So I think that you can't dismiss Velka's influence in Oscar's pilgrimage.
I always thought that Velka was Gwyn's wife. But, I supposed that it could be Gwynevere
@@GiancarloMenacho That still doesn't change the fact that Gwyn is the driving force of the undead prophecy, which is one of the things we know to be a lie, and is merely an obstacle course to ensure that only the strongest undead feed the flame. One problem for your theory however, is that Gwyndolin loves his sister deeply. We see how upset he gets when we merely dash away an illusion of his sister. Yet that illusion is there only to perpetuate the linking of the flame - which is setup by their father. If Gwyn truly had locked Gwynevere away into the painting, there's no rhyme or reason for Gwyndolin to keep the illusion that furthers the goals of the person who hurt his sister.
Something that is missed here is the fact that the undead curse isn't a disease. It's an intentional ritual that one can choose to undergo or be cursed by force. The Way of White has a great deal of control over the making of undead and we see such a ritual at the beginning of the first game.
The Way of White are worshippers and pawns of Gwyn. They physically restrain and curse individuals who don’t worship Gwyn.
The undead curse isn't a disease, ritual, or curse. It is mankind's natural state, which they have been fooled into perceiving as a curse.
@@lilporky8565their normal state is undead but they have intelligence right? I mean they're not just mindless zombies that happened because of the curse.
Just found your channel yesterday, really good quality!
"Why am I on fire?" - VaatiVidya, master storyteller
"Why is there no info on Elden Ring?"
Because Gorge R. R. Martin hasn't finished writing it yet.
GoT intensifies
Theres much lore to Write and game series to connect
You joke but it might as well be true
@@mohammadtaghavi4782 nah, Martin finished his job more than one year ago
Actually, it's more the reverse. The last couple Song of Ice and Fire books are long-delayed probably because George went off on other projects, including Elden Ring.
these videos are soothing and informational at the same time. so wonderful
wow great job on the video, perfect narration and beautiful imagery !!!awesome
The real question is...
"Why everytime I hear plin plin plon depression hits me?"
Oh the trauma, oh the feels ;_;
*Plin plin plons away in depression*
PLIN
L l
I O
N N
I laughed.
every time....
It do be like that 😓
Vaati is the only CZcamsr(at least in my book) who's allowed to milk content,because no matter how many videos he makes about the same subject they'll always be enjoyable.
Never played or touched the Dark Souls series in my life but loved listening to this. Many thanks x
I’ve been gone for 8 months, but these videos are just as beautiful as I remember them.
It’s still my favorite theory that the arch trees are actually the natural state of humans. In dark souls 3 we see VERY hollowed humans sitting in chairs across the land, and they are basically roots and wood at that point. Also the arch tree we do go to is called the Great Hollow, which while that does certainly describe the location, seems a bit too on the nose considering all the hollow talk throughout the game
The archtrees were there before the age of fire so i dont think that works “grey crags, archtrees, and everlasting dragons”
We do follow their roots down in the opening cutscene to find the pigmy humans finding the flame
I wonder what it is in Japanese.
@@imacatman8775 Actually, it might work. If we take the endings with the flame yielding to dark, and if humans going hollow all the way does render them to be that tree-like form, then what of the great passage of time from the death of the fire to when it returns? After all, that is exactly how the lords and pygmies found the first flame. Within these ancient hollow trees, like cinders of lords past.
I don't think it's the natural state of just humans, but of all the different races born from the flame. We see in that opening of Darksouls 1 that the beings who discovered the first flame were essentially all the same type of decrepit, humanoid figures. It's only through the nature of the souls they inherent that they all branch off into their own unique races (Humans, dead, medials, and I personally believe the witches are technically their own separate race as well).
I would say that all the different races born from those original shared ancestors are tied to the arch trees. Perhaps they're splinters or seedlings broken off from them, or the "parasites" living between their roots. As you said hollows in 3 are shown morphing into trees, and the "bones" of the pus of man creatures actually appear to be made of wood/branches. Likewise Manus and the Four Kings have tree-like protrusions as they're warped by the abyss, and Aldia is pretty much just a big clump of roots. On the other hand we also see this tree nature reflected in the witches and chaos demons. As the demons burn out in 3 we see their bodies are more like charred out wood than anything more fleshy, and the Witch of Izalith literally turns into a giant tree monster when she tries to mess with the very essence of life itself.
From a more meta standpoint that interpretation also plays pretty well thematically. All beings come from the same roots and have branched out into their various different forms. Also it adds a bit of norse mythology to it with the arch trees being references to the tree of life and the primordial serpents being akin to Níðhǫggr, the serpent that gnaws on the roots of the world tree. Seeing how the primordial serpents appear to be just as old if not older than the age of ancients, maybe they were just chomping away at the arch trees' roots and happened to come upon this group of fledgling beings emerging from the soil.
"What is wrong with you?" The same thing happened when I was playing Bloodborne the other day. Certain npc was asking me to be his friend and I actidentally R2 on his face.
Lol noice.
I did that to Gehrman when I first met him, which made him despawn. I thought I had broken the game.
Same but with Eileen
ps4 controllers’ trigger buttons are very sensitive unfortunately
18:20 I love that shot so much... i could watch this place all day
This is a video that I am certainly going to watch again because while I have heard of dark souls and played it a few times I’ve never delved into the lore of it.
Some of this sounds like Luke Skywalker’s explanation of what The Force is when he talks to Rey about the tension and energy created between two opposite forces