Demon's Souls Lore - The Story
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- čas přidán 13. 12. 2020
- Demon's Souls Lore - The Story
Today I'm going to go over the overall lore of Demon's Souls Story. So buckle up, because this is a long one. I'll attempt to explain The Nexus, The Maiden in Black, The Old One, Soul Arts, and map out all of the lands and archstones relevant to the story and lore of Demon's Souls.
Lokey Souls: lokeysouls.com/intro/
My Dark Souls Lore series:
Demon's Souls Lore: • Demon's Souls Lore
Dark Souls Lore: • Dark Souls Lore
Dark Souls 2 Lore: • Dark Souls 2 Lore
Dark Souls 3 Lore: • Dark Souls 3 Lore
Bloodborne Lore: • Bloodborne Lore
King's Field Lore: • King's Field Lore
Sekiro Lore: • Sekiro Lore
All footage was shot with Demon's Souls on PS5.
Ballers in the Dark Souls Lore community you should check out:
EpicNameBro: / epicnamebro
VaatiVidya: / vaatividya
Quelaag: / quelaag
TerraMantis: / terramantis
Music List:
0.00 - Demon's Souls Remake - Maiden in Black
0.23 - Demon's Souls - Demon's Souls
2.02 - King's Field: The Ancient City - Ancient City Level 1 & 2
3.10 - King's Field - The Miner's Graveyard
6.04 - Demon's Souls - Maiden Astraea (Hellkite Drake remix)
7.55 - Dark Souls - Nameless Song
12.26 - King's Field: The Ancient City - The Dark Reality
13.42 - King's Field: The Ancient City - Ancient City Level 3 East
15.28 - King's Field: The Ancient City - The Earth Folk Village
16.26 - Dark Souls 2 - Queen of Drangleic
17.14 - King's Field 2 - Passage of Thieves
17.51 - King's Field - West Coast
19.00 - Dark Souls - Dark Sun Gwyndolin
19.20 - Dark Souls - Gwynevere, Princess of Sunlight
20.34 - Dark Souls 2 - Longing
24.04 - King's Field: The Ancient City - The Holy Forest
25.44 - Dark Souls 2 - Majula
28.54 - King's Field - Castle Remains
30.49 - King's Field - Passage for a Monk (Hellkite Drake remix)
33.40 - Demon's Souls - One Who Craves Souls
37.11 - King's Field: The Ancient City - Cliffs and Caves
37.28 - Demon's Souls - Fool's Idol
38.05 - Demon's Souls - Old Hero
38.37 - Demon's Souls - Maiden Astraea
39.47 - Demon's Souls - Maiden Astraea (Hellkite Drake Heavy remix)
40.30 - King's Field - Mountain
42.55 - King's Field: The Ancient City - The Old Battlefield
44:53 - Demon's Souls Remake - One Who Craves Souls
47.52 - Dark Souls - Firelink Shrine
49.34 - King's Field - Opening Movie
51.33 - Dark Souls - Menu Theme
I hope you enjoy my Demon's Souls Lore video! - Hry
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I SeE WhaT YoU DId ThErE...
i can forge weapons for you if you like
"You must not let trifling matters sway you"
Ah yes. It's almost as if the very FABRIC of the world is being destroyed by the fog. But tis a trifling matter.
Demons souls has by far my favourite lore in the game, a great balance even between Eldrich monsters, commentary on human nature and the morality of life.
This is exactly the video I needed today. Soulsborne Lore is a lot less horrific and confusing than the world around me
Well.....your right :)
@@simpleman3898 ilo
If only we lived In a world like this full of purpose and soul arts instead of the already shitted on map we spawned on
You can either be cut down by Garl Vinland or taxes. Take your pick
@@jjcoola998would be great but we would prob end up as low level enemies or shitty npc’s
50:56 Daaamn!
And I thought stepping on Fire Keeper in DS3 secret ending was uncalled for.
The Kings Field 4 OST makes any video shine so grossly incandescent.
Now if only we could get more lore videos from Dave about King's Fields, I'm patient but boy 1 video per 3 years is quite a lot.
Thanks for all the content over the years, you're a legend Dave Klein
Man I remember playing this way back in the day and wishing the lore master could give me his take. Today that dream came true. Love you dude.
This has got to be the most thorough lore that’s ever been done for demons souls. Thank u sir. This is some hawkshaw level shit
I absolutely love Hawkshaw
@@EvolvedDinosaur see they actually came out with another dark souls lore video?
What about vaati :(
@@jessiejoy1703 Yeah I did. Really hyped to see what else will come out
Well, that was perfect timing, I finished my first play through of demons souls at pretty much the exact same time this was posted. Thanks Dave for another great (and thorough) video
Thank you for the credit mention and the video. Honestly the ending of this game is what makes this my favorite Souls game, as your efforts are not in fact in vain and you can actually save this world, unlike in Dark Souls or Bloodborne where the endings are more ambiguous or the dark fate is inevitable and can only be postponed. Though that being said Artorais is still my favorite character in the franchise.
Of course! Thank you for sharing that knowledge drop before. :)
Artorias is fantastic, especially with the mix between the legend and discovering the reality.
@@DaveControlLive
You're welcome! =D
Man I love this game. Loved it in 2009, love it just as much now with all the improvements and trimmings. Great video! Please post more about Demon’s Souls.
Will do! Still gotta hit up Stonefang & Boletaria for lore vids, plus have a couple other videos in mind.
@@DaveControlLive I have a question regarding the representation of God in this game. Remember on PS3, how the Flithy Woman made mention of Maiden Astraea, and how the men idolize her as The Virgin Mary? Do you think that was added in (PS3 version) as a translation ad lib? Because in the remake that was removed, and to the best of my knowledge there really isn’t any mention of Christianity that I can recall off the top of my head? Even with the Archstones, the spheres look more like arch demons souls (Maiden Astraea boss fight, how she’s holding one) than say the Globus Cruciger? I always wanted to ask someone if that was intentional or if someone translating the script added it because the original source material didn’t have a 1 to 1 Japanese to English translation?
Oh baby, a lovely hour long video just now uploaded. What a blessed Monday this be.
Just to help wit ur nexus theory. If u notice in that picture of the pillar building hovering above the old one....it looks like it’s hovering upside down. When u are in the nexus if u look up there’s a giant statue of a woman upside down as well.
This is how one does a video essay. A fantastic, well-researched guide.
I'm so glad you thought so! :D
Miyazaki: ohhh now I understand my story!
The best part of the Demon Souls remake? The new lore videos!
Ive been watching your vids for years. I just wanted to say I appreciate all your solo work and collab work within the Souls community. Also Umbasa!
Umbasa! 😊
Even after 6 playthroughs im still learning more from this beautiful man!!
Excellent and well produced work! Always love some high quality content
I love your selection of King’s Field selection of music. Great work!
You are amazing man! All your Soulsborne Lore is Amazing, especially your Dark Souls 1,2, and 3 videos.
It's always exciting to see another of these videos go up, because they never fail to really get me thinking
Right now, what you said about the Monumentals using Soul Arts to become these semi-immortal beings was really sticking with me, so something that struck me was the line from the Monumental at 24:24, "Man's memory of history is ever-shortening, and before long, he repeated his mistakes. The Monumentals perished, and the Archstones were forgotten"
It's really interesting to me that it was said in this way, like humanity forgetting and the Monumentals dying were connected. Could that imply that the Monumentals and their mission to watch over the Old One used to be kept alive by humans in a way that they now are not? Like by using the Soul Arts and/or the Maiden's abilities to take souls from people to extend their own lives?? If so, this could be another reason for the Archstones and their teleportation power. So that willing worshippers, or maybe even unwilling sacrifices, could be sent to the Nexus by the various leaders they gave them to
If that's the case, maybe the Crestfallen Warrior wasn't too far off. If the last Monumental's life depends on being given souls, but the people have all forgotten why they should, what better way to convince them than to make them afraid of the Old One again? Find a sucker like Allant who's strong enough and destructive enough to want to wake the Old One, let the demons cause some chaos, then find a heroic sucker to lull the Old One back to sleep. All you'd have to do is betray everything you're supposed to stand for, and hey, the Maiden might even go along with it knowingly if you tell her, "Help me and this time I'll let you sleep too and finally be free of your prison"
(or I guess in a slightly less sinister interpretation, the Monumental tried to recruit Allant to start offering souls to keep the last of them alive by telling him about the old one and its history, not expecting him to wake it up, and then had to switch to plan b when he did)
Thanks Dave for putting together this video, it was very informative and I enjoyed watching it.
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed. :)
I'm cooking breakfast imma play this in the background
Same uwu
Whatd did you make for bfast??
Just discovered your channel. Wow is all I can say. Demon's Souls is my favorite game of all time starting with ps3 as I lost many hours of sleep do to that game. Thanks for the great informative videos. Look forward to the rest. A+ content. Subbed!
Well done Dave this is quality!
Great work man! Comprehensiv and well-told. :)
I literaly just got interested in the lore 10 minutes ago and there it is - a video released 9 hours ago answering my needs xDD
The Old One is starving... BRING MORE SOULS! 👿
This is the best lore video of 2020. Merry christmass an happy new year. 👏👏👏
This is connecting to Dark Souls so well it's overwhelming.
Yes, more lore, this is what i missed, my feed filled with lore videos:)
Awesone to see you doing some more Souls content, your vids are always of high quality. I will be binge watching these later now that I finally got a PS5 a few days ago and just beat the game earlier today but I have no doubt Jared has already beaten me to it. This was the only one in Soulsborne that I've never played and loved almost everything about it, the main issue I have is having to use fast travel to get to different regions, I vastly prefer DS1's implementation, the other issue is weapons not having their own techniques like in later Souls games.
Very well executed. Please keep the lore up. Very well done nothing but praise good work.
What a nice way to start my winter break.
Thanks to amazing people like you Dave, I can experience these rich universes even when they are platform restricted :< Thanks a ton, and merry christmas, sir! :)
@Bamban Gamer Exclusivity is just bad for consumers smh - not saying I don't get why though lol
@Bamban Gamer They would exist even if it wasn't exclusive, exclusive games are inherently bad for gamers
@Bamban Gamer Why so many links?
dave whispers: "Buttborne"
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buttborne
@@DaveControlLive Your bloodborne video made me laugh a lot. Love your content.
I absolutely love the use of the Kings Field 4 ost in this video 😫😫👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Man that Kings Field music really works
here we go!! the big one!! thanks Dave!
Thanks for watching! :)
Great video pretty much covered everything
That second ending is brutal.
So Demon's Souls takes a more religious theme but flips it? The opening resembles Genisus kind of with Day One, Day Two, etc. Pretty cool.
Well done! Thank you ☺️
Props for using the og kings field music
Very well compiled! Compared to Dark Souls and Bloodborne and even Sekiro, there is very little lore for Demons Souls on CZcams. I'll recommend this video to anyone picking up the remake. Personally though, Im just now playing through the original PS3 Demons Souls. My fiance got it for me as an early Christmas present! ❤
Fantastic explanation
damn Dave, that background ost made me wanna go look for Orladins armor!
12:00 But she’s kicking her lil’ feet...
We love you Dave!!
awesome vid!
Though I haven't played Demon's Souls yet, I love and watch these videos regardless.
the background music just makes me want to go back and play the Kings Field series
Oh man Dave, you're spoiling us lately!! Love the content as always
You mentioned my boii ENB early.. This video is copping a watch now :)
I must have more of these videos to binge
Really Nice!
Crazy how much better the facial animations are in the Demon's Souls remake than Elden Ring
Yeah, just dont say that on an Elden Ring video because youd get a bunch of butthurt replies.
What a way to start the week! Great video! This was a thorough covering of the lore, paired quite nicely with the superb editing and King's Field Music.
Its quite interesting seeing how the story has been fleshed together more with time. The scale of the timeline might not come close to DS, but its so interesting seeing how things were forgotten or passed to myth within the shorter period.
A personal theory of mine is that the Maiden in Black was the first witch or sorcerer to discover the Old One and awaken in a lust for power.
Never been happier to watch all the ads because I wanna watch the whole video twice
Ahhhh, sorry if it's way too many! I set CZcams to do auto-ads, and sometimes it's tame, and sometimes CZcams goes insane with it. :-/
@@DaveControlLive no no! I'm happy to watch em all so you get all the ad revenue ! You deserve it all!
@@kohenpather2708 Aww, well thank you! :)
Probably won't be able to get a ps5 or demons souls for 6 mo at this rate but keep making amaze content I will binge when I get my hands on the game
Amazing video.
50 minute lore extravaganza! Time to grab a blanket and some hot chocolate!
Briliant video, tnx 👍
Amazing video Dave!
I still don't quite understand the demon surges... Were they the effect of awakening the Old One or are they unrelated? My confusion comes mainly from the intro saying there was a scurge of demons and then the awakening... spawned powerfull demons... Is there a source of demons both in Boletaria (The Old One) and in the outside world?
* I never played Demon's Souls myself but have watched a ton on videos ofc *
Rockin' that Ancient City OST
I love it so much!
I think the implication is you become a demon the moment you get a demon's soul with the ending being if you give into greed or become a monumental to maintain the world from that point on. The maiden saying new demon is merely you haven't been a demon long, even Allant considers you a demon after the false king fight.
I absolutely loved the video and i love demons souls getting some of the spotlight but seeing magic used throughout the video made my stomach twist.
I guess you'll be happy to know I never use magic when I play not-for-a-video? Lol
Great video from an og demon souls player
Believe what you want but I think it’s much more likely that the maiden in black was the result of a spell. If I had to make a wild guess I would say the monumentals probably fused a colorless demon souls to a maiden. It simultaneously created the nexus as a prison/receptacle for her purpose.
Her chains were probably put on her to restrain her movements during the casting.
The more I watch this video, the more I draw parallels to the lore of Elden Ring. It's insane how much FromSoft connects unrelated games through lore ideas.
I love that despite showing i was supposed to have ten ads in total none of them played during the entirety of this whole video
Gotta find me a boy to step on me like Kita did to the Maiden.
Look at the stone. The king of the Burrowers is Ed.
Trying to find the lost jaw breaker
So one thing that still confused me is this, if the arch stones are the only remaining areas of the world not consumed by the colorless fog and destroyed during the multiple scourges, what “world” did Vallerfax tell of boletarias plight if there’s not really much of a world left?
Kings field the Ancient City. Make it happen Dave
Maiden in Black second best Souls waifu
Nice video
In my head the Good Hunter evolved into the Old One after you became one of the Great Ones. Old One looks like that slug with a tree grown around it !
The slug isnt the old one
What is the music that is playing at the very end of the video? It sounds familiar.
That bad ending haunts me. What a game
Never in the past decade or so did I think demons souls oils have lore videos again
I don’t think fromsoft does much without intentions behind it. That said I think there’s a reason crestfallen said what he did....because it’s true. If only there were more to that story to find out...I wonder if there is
37:44 this demon could pass for Hastur, the King in Yellow
Now a theme that I don't think any time is spent on. If demon alant and true Alant have both halves of soul/demonbrant...It could just be symbolism of the separation of self. Granted there is ALSO the symbolism between the two pretty much being charity vs selfishness and the joined blade being the alleged manifestation of a theoretical balanced state of clarity. Thus he had it combined until finally confronted by the old one and the demon him...left with demonbrant.
I've never played Demon Souls, and I've only ever played Dark Souls but some things in the Demon Soul's lore and Dark Souls make me think there may be some credence to theory that Demon Souls and Dark Souls may take place on the same world just that the events of Demon Souls happened several Millennia ago, or enough time for any traces of past civilizations to fade away entirely...
I'd love to have some sort of video explaining the Unknown Egress. It has an archstone shard, implying that the Monumentals know about it. And the structure itself also seems incredibly old. There's pillars on both sides of the Dragon God, and yet they look ancient.
Speaking of, why is the Dragon God there in the first place? The environment really doesn't look like Stonefang. Sure there's volcanos around, giving it a lava appearance, but the Dragon God archstone is incredibly far underground in the mountains.
It makes you wonder where it could be placed in Boletaria, and also what it's purpose is. And with both the Dragon God and the Vanguard being placed on the path that entering travelers would take into the fog, it could easily lead you to the explanation that it's a trap set by the monumentals to trap demon slayers in the nexus.
Would love to see a proper explanation, as my head cannon has loads of holes
I'll have to re-explore the environment the Dragon God is found in Stonefang a little bit, but there is an interesting statue in the Unknown Egress of what looks like some sort of King. If that's found anywhere else in the game, that might be some sort of strong link/clue.
Otherwise - there were bones of the Dragon God which the demon took over to form the Dragon God - so maybe similar to the Vanguard Demon, there were actually 2.
@@DaveControlLive Oh that's a fantastic point, I hadn't even thought of that. The only issue there, is that the Vanguard is a greater demon, not an Archdemon like Dragon God. But, maybe it is possible to have duplicate archdemons. Who knows
Evolved Dinosaur haha, yeah, who knows really! I agree it’s pretty unlikey with an arch demon, but just tossing out ideas. :)
Finally
I feel it would have made sense if we fought the corrupted form of each of the regions leaders.
Hey Dave, where did you get the images of the old demons-souils.com site? Is there a gallery up somewhere with all those pages preserved?
I use Wayback Machine for stuff like that. :)
archive.org/web/
I wonder, did God create the Old One or did man create the Old One? I almost feel like the Old One was designed to enhance the soul arts that united the world; maybe designed around the idea of Primeval Demons and how they work. A lust for power to enhance the soul arts becomes man's undoing when the Old One starts devouring souls and changing reality.
imo God created the old one. my understanding is that God granted man, soul, and as the intro states, it in turn gave man clarity. what this means imo is that it gave man the ability to harness the soul to its fullest potential. Man then began lusting for power. Yuria says “if there is a god, he gave us souls to do good, not practice witchcraft” those are curious words, makes me believe that the art of sorcery and witchcraft alike, have long forgotten to be considered taboo. it was the society of the monumentals who discovered, worshipped and eventually awakened the old one, by practicing sorcery, directly causing the first scourge. mans insatiable lust for power is not what god had intended, and so it was met with a being who had an unquenchable hunger for souls. i believe the old one is gods do over. that once the fog completely takes over, the universe fades to dark and god can start over. like creating the dark souls universe. this means, that i believe the true canon ending of Demon’s Souls is the bad ending. this allows the old one to wake up, spread his fog and fade everything away. learning from his mistake, god introduces humanity*. now, humanity* or the lack of it is what causes man to go insane rather than the lack of souls. and as we know from dark souls 1’s intro cut scene “in the age of ancients, the world was unformed, shrouded by fog... a land of grey crags, archtrees, and everlasting dragons” fire was introduced in this dark fog, and with it came souls of lords. perhaps this fire was that of the maiden in black, for it granted man the souls of lords past, perhaps even, the very souls of those she’s tended
what does it mean by the old one is a poison for the poison?
Anyone know the song that starts playing at 12:30
I suck at souls games but I lowkey wanna play this game now
20:30 : There is good reasons in the game to believe that the Old One is the God that created the world, now deprived from it's soul by the soulsucking art and the Maiden.
It create demons and request for souls in an attempt to regain it's own soul dispersed.
Should you reunite the Old one and the Maiden, his soul re completed, it disappear and become once more God.
Should you kill the maiden and take the souls accumulated, depriving the Old One once more, it extend it's fog further in an attempt to get more souls.
Hopefully I plan on playing this game on my ps3 . So these lore videos definitely help
You definitely should! I know some people even prefer the PS3 version.
@@DaveControlLive LMAO my decision is two fold really. One I can't find a ps5 to play it honestly and I never played demon souls back in the day I started on dark souls . So I'mma dust off the old ps3 to see if it's still works and go buy a physical copy of the old demon souls and try it out . Then it should give me an gd idea on the new one when I do get it in time .
The fact that I knew and understood all this information already just shows how good they were at storytelling in this game. The Dark Souls series had me needing to watch lore videos but this one taught me nothing new, which is a compliment to both you and the writers for the game.
How much time has passed since the fog arrived to boletaria and the game?
I thought that the boss demons who served King Allant were first killed and then resurrected similar to the Shadowmen.