Shoutout to the people who built Lothric Castle because even after who knows how long has passed and after the literal end of the world, it's still standing.
And with that said, I wish we could explore Lothric castle / Anor Londo in it's peak, where everything wasn't destroyed and run down after everything went the wrong turn.
It took me a second to realize why Gael has such a massive hole in his chest, but then I noticed thats his darksign! After a literally countless amount of time, this guy is so deep into hollowing that the divot most hollows have on their chest has turned into a full on crater consuming most of his torso. And even after all of that hollowing, he *still* has just enough control left to not forget his one and only task. Fuckin' badass dude
I didn't feel the need to put commentary over this, because most of it feels fairly self-explanatory, but I did decide to flash Anor Londo over the 2D cutout at the end just because it may not have been immediately obvious. I'm fairly confident it's Anor Londo, based on the shapes on the central building lining up with the door and windows of the Anor Londo Cathedral.
does it strike anyone as strange and unnerving that there were periods of actual normalcy in the dark souls world? you as the player only ever seem to be around when everything is post-apocalyptic and already a wasteland. but countless times, there were citizens walking around their cities, markets flourishing, wars happening, people traveling, learning sorceries and sciences...farming, fishing. i just can't imagine such "normal" things happening in dark souls. its always so bleak
This is why i'll always defend the "link the fire" ending until reality is literally the wasteland we see here. It's the only ending in Dark Souls that guarantees life returns in a positive way that's familiar to us players and our character. The world we're shown is always bleak, but in between each cycle the linking of the fire allows countless generations to live good normal lives, entire civilisations will rise and fall before the fire next starts to fade. Gamers dont like moral grey, they like to think whatever solution their character comes up with fixes a problem forever. But as Dark Souls shows, nothing lasts forever. Is linking the fire really "meaningless" like most of the community insist, when it allows our version of "normal" to continue for 1000s more years? Imagine if Earth as we know it was undergoing a real apocalypse before our eyes, the planet had reached it's natural end of life with everything collapsing hard and soon nothing would be left, but you were offered the opportunity to light yourself on fire and rekindle the planet so that Earth would get an entire new lifespan with humans living in cities etc? And to sweeten the deal, you'd have the knowledge that even at the end of the rekindled world's life, another person could sacrifice themself and prolong it even further. Accoring to Dark Souls community, that's meaningless? To me that's the sweetest deal any living creature could hope for.
@@MikeHesk742 that is essentially what we're doing already. our continued existence is irreparably damaging our world the longer it continues, and the end is slowly manifesting itself in steady degradation. one day far into the extreme future, the planet itself will be consumed by the sun. but would any of us want to usher in the end faster, and just get it over with? never. we want to keep living, even if its ultimately pointless, even if we become forgotten and erased like so many others in dark souls. all that matters is the living we get to do now, nevermind what happens after. immortal gods could not understand nor accept that
@@MikeHesk742 how could we know that the prophesied outcome of the coming of man would be any different? Men were always kept in the shadows only coming to power for a brief period but never being able to grow as far as the age of light remained. They were never given a chance to show their way of keeping order and balance within the world. Gwyn had been a lord of the flame and reigned for a long time preserving the light, heralding it or shepherding away from the darkness, maybe it’s time for a dark lord.
@@MikeHesk742 I don’t know. Linking the flame sounds like an action based upon fear. Like looking death in the face and crying. I feel like what you suggest is what Filianore represents: to sleep in a dream cradling a rotting egg. I don’t think it is as positive as you describe. You can fear death. That is natural. Still, to run from it or to deny it is just trying to put ashes back together again. If things must end then let them end. It does not invalidate what was.
Such a terrifyingly beautiful landscape to end such a terrifyingly beautiful quest. Love your work. I always find myself intrigued no matter how much I've played or watched.
@@kageakiminato8536 true but we have respect for kingsfield cos that’s where the series started. No kingsfield no demon’s souls, no demon’s souls no dark souls etc
I do love that even at the end of the world both Anor Londo and Lothric castles are the only things still standing, almost untouched and undamaged - bridges and all. Whoever built those was a goddamn master of his craft to make them this durable.
Lothric and anor londo were built by gods or kings of the world, but they were MADE for the linking of the fire, so no matter how many times the world burns they're likely to stay standing,
It also doesn't make any sense how Lothric Castle can be intact after the Dreg Heap abslolutely oblirated it - but I guess it was just cooler like that
@@LavosYT If I’m not mistaken Lothic’s cycle was the last. Lothric Castle is probably still standing because it’s had the least amount of time to crumble.
Makes sense when you consider he's an ancient undead that's been fighting for thousands of years though. He's been through absolute hell by the time we meet him at the chapel and by the time we show up at the end.
There should be a Vaatividya parody channel where all of the lore is like your comment, but still presented as seriously as it is in Vaatis videos. I feel thing like that could actually go somewhere🤔
Isnt this what the serpents wanted?, And what the locusts wanted too?, to feed on whats left of the flame?, There never was a dark age to beging with, for the dark consumes as well, even putting out the first flame gives the same result. This was always the final point, the inevitable, all that gwyn did was delay the inevitable, the first flame offered life and form to the World, Without it this is whats left, Burned or not, Nothing can exist without it. During our travel to the ringed city, We see the effects of the abyss, literally Nothing but creatures from the abyss walking around and being miserable shadows from their former self, Isnt this what they wanted?, no flame, No light, Just darkness, And even without a dark sign to opress them, They couldnt start a New home in the ruins of the old, even londor Just steals from the living, yet they meet the same fate of dust and nothingness, So im not quite sure if gwyn had a point after all..
@@johnstrider7280 i always used to believe the best possible age of dark would have been if gwyn never sacrificed himself and the world continued like it did when the age of ancients transitioned to the age if fire, but the abyss and pus of man were the results of fire denying the dark it's birthright by extending itself. (Tho ringed city disproves that about the abyss) The main reason most dark solutions aren't particularly great is because what the age of dark was meant to be and how it was meant to come was altered by the linking. My interpretation mainly comes from the idea that dark souls is mainly about holding on for longer than you should. And the pain of letting go is worth the healing after. The Gods forced humanity into their denial of the age ending so successfully we continued it long after most of the gods were dead. That is actually an impressive feat of gwyn and his family. Their legacy is the world still abiding by their rules against all odds long after time and death came for them like they were barely above their mortal worshipers. Your interpretation had interesting points tho. The idea that it would always end this way reinforces aldia's philosophy that there had to be a way beyond fire and dark. Otherwise there was no real hope. Question is how could something that is neither even be available? All the endings of ds3 involve both fire and darkness still remaining after 3. Maybe the world really is stuck like this until there's nothing anymore.
@@johnstrider7280 isnt ooacile a better example ? Its literally the abyss Also , what gwyn did was the first sin, no one tried to reignite the flame with himself before , that was his point But , the world is stil a cycle , this is just the end of one , its ash lake all over again , as characters said many times , a kingdom will rise once again , in the ashes of the old one , wearing a new face , but its all the same
@@Jaden-Ring i had quite the theory about it being the end! Lets see... At the end of fire, Humans beging to turn into dragons and trees, We see this everywhere! The humans at the path of the dragons and the humans sprouting roots and branches, We see quite a lot of them in the 3rd game, with the sitting hollows and the giant tree with arms and legs and... Other things.. And finally the humans, I think they are buried in the sand, And when the World begings to take form they crawl out of it and become gods and Men once the first flame starts again. I thing this explains the cycle of never ending dragons, trees, Men and gods. Anyway, I do Belive that eventually feeding the flame is Just a bad choise, But by the time of the first game, The flame had enough fuel to go around a lot of civilizations, But by the Time of the third, feeding the flame is Just giving the World a few more pained breaths before falling apart. So... Its a case of "fight to survive, But know when to let go" i Belive.
@@Jaden-Ring With my current cannon of the lore, Gwyn did not do anything unusual by trying to extend the age of fire. Folks like to talk about the age of ancients, war with the dragons, and start of the age of fire as if those 3 things were not interconnected. Evidence demonstrates that with fire came souls and that souls bring their own form a mutation not unlike the abyss. The Ancient Dragons were afflicted by this and their descendants are now not as powerful and often monstrous looking by comparison (gaping dragon). Another example of the mutating effects of souls, and by extension Fire, are the crystal lizards. Look at what they become when they consume souls. So with these things in mind, I think fire showed up, the different races were changed for it, and those that got the most power from their large souls wanted to defend that power. The dragons, not unlike the gods of the age of Fire, would see this force mutating and changing their gray world and would seek to destroy it. But the gods won, and fire took over. This wasn't pleasant it wasn't peaceful and a lot of things that knew what they were before fire were now something completely different. Gwyn like the dragons, saw a new force, mutating and changing his world, and he sought to fight it back. The difference is, Gwyn kinda won. Humanity and its darkness failed to overthrow the gods and their age of Fire. But generally by my current logic, things SHOULD be mutating and everyone SHOULD be freaking out. But the mutants are SUPPOSE to win. Each link of the fire burns more of the world up and builds more pressure in the hose with regards to the dark. I don't think everything was meant to end in ash. I think Darkness was meant to sweep over and cool the world down from the overheated age of fire what comes next we will never know but honestly, I doubt it was another age of ancients followed by fire. Heck for all we know, the proper Age of Dark could have actually been meant to transition to an Age of Water, since Dark in DS has liquid properties.
I love this ending, shows that there's nothing left, no living things, no civilizations, no light, no dark, no abyss, no nothing, just you, Gael and a burning world, all of those cycles lead to this... Beautiful
I did all of the Ringed City in co-op a few days after it dropped with a dude I literally never met, I just summoned him at the start and then we kept summoning back and forth to progress. After a rather taxing set of fights against Midir he asked if I could help him fight the final boss before he got off and went to work, but when we emerged into the arena he said something that has stuck with me forever. _"This is it. This is the end."_ We didn't talk much during the boss fight, I got sent back to my world, and he left the chat party we'd started like fifteen hours earlier without saying a word. We became weary companions for something like eighteen hours then I never ever spoke to him again. We didn't send friend requests, we never messaged, we only ever sent the one chat invite then nothing else after. That was it. That was the end.
That the beautiful magic of the Dark Souls games, I remember playing in coop with a Dio cosplayer through the first half of the first Dark Souls game. He helped me a lot, then we never seen each other again.
@@theeldenringenjoyer1872 also that is such a great foil to the original comment holy shit. Like it’s a great pallet cleanser from all the cosmic dread that this video and comment make me feel.
I summoned a guy at the start of the ringed city dlc, I was a faith build and he was just an absolute min maxed tank, typically I’d have to stop at every bonfire to heal and recover but with this absolute unit clearing out every enemy with one hit, and me healing him the whole time. we looped around the entire dlc in one go killing literally every enemy. Got back to the first bonfire, waved, then unsummoned himself. I saw his sign again then proceeded to kill midir for me while threw ranged healing spells at him lmao. Easy DLC 0/10
@@thebigenchilada678 Many players have different experience, we sometimes find a op companion who make the game easier for us and other time we have op invaders who annihilate us. There some things that could be despised for good reasons but Souls games are not simple games for fan like us, they are Arts games. After we completed it again and again and searching about the lore, ther make us think and unconsciously philosophize about the games and the life around us. They make us better players, and sometimes better persons…
That Ring Knight is such a chad, imagine staying around from the first age fighting dragons to seeing the whole world crumble around you, the countless ages come and gone as you sit there ever loyal to your duty post. Imagine his life’s story.
@@Rise65487 I don't think ageing works in the way you'd expect it to in dark souls. Some characters have been around for millenia but look just as young as ever
It’s poetic, really. The final game of the series that started it all having its somber, broken theme being played as we explore the finale of the series that we adore. The broken, sad, nostalgic feeling of seeing something so beautiful being covered in ash and dust, breaking down and falling apart. It’s perfectly brought by this theme
I never played it...i would like a remake sooo bad.. so i can play it. Judging by what i saw of Kings Field 4... Dark Souls 2 is the closest game to it...
I like how heros such as Artorias failed at his duty, despite being a literal legend, and lost the battle against the abyss. While Gael stands here, a worthless slave with no other purpose, at the end of times, bruised, beat up, and beating all the odds.
The most interesting thing to me is how the yellow, cloudy sky is similar to the one in the first game, when you reach the kiln of the first flame, and all you see is dust, ruins, and a few loyal knights. Makes you wonder if these sorts of landscapes are the “real” places of dark souls after all, and everything else is just one big illusion.
Maybe they both take place at the same place in time (or pocket dimension if time isn't the relevant concept)? Imagine if Gael and Gwyn were killed at the same time in a sort of parallel, cyclical way? One to restore the world and the other to abandon it in favour of the new?
metaphorically speaking is it the only real part in the game. this is the ultimate result of all of the machinations of man, just a burned out, dead thing, much like our planet will become.
Well, Shira and Gael are the only two left with real purpose. Shira waits to end us, and Gael drinks the blood of all with the Dark Soul (except Shira, who can still fight back enough. Perhaps she caused the gaping holes and gouges in Gael's body...
The cutscene where you're transported to this area is haunting. Everything you explored up to that point is buried under tons of ash and i love how all this is slowly revealed.
@man with a username I mean, that is what happened honestly. But much worse. Uhoh! You destroyed mum's favourite vase AND EVERYTHING IS FULL OF ASH NOW WHOOPS
I believe the illusion became some sort of its own dimension, much like the painting world, the thing is that you enter the illusion through the Kiln of the first flame, but when you break it you somehow end up in another possible future where the cataclysm didn't happen at all. Maybe because you linked the fire and now the Kiln exist in another distant future and therefore the dregg heap doesn't exist anymore. OR, maybe you let the fire fade and this new sun shining in the sky is the result of "one day, tiny flames will dance across the darkness, a new age of light came after the age of dark. Now the world is covered by the ash of the previous world and only a handful of very ancient buildings still stand.
@@deltikoko107 well kinda. Initially the camera is facing the player character, things look darker somewhat but it doesn't look all that different. Then it shows Fillianore, now a rotted dessicated corpse. And finally the camera zooms out to show everything covered in ash. That's why I said slowly revealed.
@man with a username interesting. I do agree that it is pretty ridiculous but I like the ambiguity of the whole thing. I'm left wondering what the fuck just happened and why.
What Zullie doesn't show here is that after you defeat Gael, the skybox goes completely dark. All that's left of the world is darkness, spent ash, and a haunting ceaseless wind blowing over it all. Sitting at that last bonfire (now your only connection to the world as it was before) really drives home the point: all the illusions are broken, all the divergent timelines are resolved. This is it: the real world, at present day, at the end of all things. There are no more enemies to fight, no more gods or legends to slay, no more divine artifacts to collect. Everything is dead, broken, and inert. Nothing more will change in any meaningful way; the world, held in metastablility in defiance of the natural order for so long, has settled into an equilibrium at last. It has, at that point, achieved total heat death. Every source of power--magic, divinity, the First Flame, or otherwise--has been utterly spent. Not even embers remain. Were it not for the lady painting a way out, into a new world, you--the being of ash, cursed with eternal undeath--would be stuck, by yourself, in a barren wasteland of cold, dark ash, for all eternity, doomed to go Hollow and wander in utter derangement until the winds whittle your body down to bones, and then to powder. From ashes, to ashes. Dust, to dust.
This should have been an slternste ending if you didnt have the pai ting of ariandel. Your chsracter is just stuck to roam sroundbwith the onlybthing that could save you the dark souls
I love how this whole DLC was written as the end of the universe both cannonicaly and for us as well. The world ends as does the franchise, we get one last PvP boss, one last swamp (finally one without poison too!), one last dragon on a bridge, one last kick in the back from Patches and one last Artorias face-off. Also, it really feels like Miyazaki talking through Patches this time, both wishing the Ashen One a fine dark soul and wishing us players a fine Dark Souls... or what's left of it. And by the time he says that, what is left is a gauntlet of bosses, mini-bosses and an NPC, basically a boss rush at this point. Really felt like one last hurrah for the franchise, like the end of a song, when they just decide to play the chorus one last time with a dramatic key change. I love you, Miyazaki.
And people still have the nerve to demand ANOTHER dark souls game as if this didn’t end it sufficiently. Let Miyazaki create something new; which historically has always been good
@@Sercroc No, it should be left as it is. Something grand and not everlasting, as that is what that universe is and that’s what reality is. There’s no need for the gaming industry to dig up the Dark Souls Series’ corpse and pump it for more games, the series did more than anyone could’ve hoped for and now it shall lay in rest til the end of time. The more you are given something, the less value it has to you and the less significant each time is. You may not intentionally view it as less amazing, but your brain knows that what is common and what is plentiful is not as astonishing or as memorable.
Something I’ve realized just now. The last 4 beings at the end of the world are a skeleton warrior, a female magic user, a bearded old man hollow who later commands lightning, and a Pygmy. They’re equivalents of the original lords of cinder. Nito, the witch of izalith (shira kinda pulls double duty as a seath reference, calling her the daughter of a duke and friend of dragons,) gwyn, and the furtive pygmy. It’s not exactly one to one but it’s almost definitely intentional
Original Lords* period, not Lords of Cinder. Only Gwyn became a Lord of Cinder out of those 4, as to be one, you must have linked the Fire. The others were "just" Lords (as in, owners of a Lord Soul).
Interesting, I always wonder is there any reincarnated souls of the lords in DS3 since DS2 had them, didn't thought that the DLC might as well give us exactly that.
And that cape ... saturated with congealed blood, out from which motionlessly writhe frozen faces of agony slowly coalesced through the millennia by all the souls he ate, like little puddles formed by drops of rain.
I didn't know that Gael's armor on the back cracked as well. Shows how far he's fallen. That and that he slit the throats of the pigmy lords. The savagery. Amazing and sad.
@@cpusaiyan9623 In the Elder Scrolls universe, the stars are actually "rips in reality" sort of speak. It's the plains of Oblivion tearing through the empty space making it seem like there are celestial objects but it's just an illusion. There can still be a "universe" in terms of stars and other cosmic phenomena in a fantasy universe, but since Dark Souls is a very ambiguous world and it is unknown who or what created the planet these beings used to live on, it could be true that there are other worlds that can be habitable. The only problem is the world is stuck in an endless cycle of a Medieval Era, and the only thing the people know how to go up is by building high towers into their kingdom.
I'm ok with Gael being the final boss for the series. Both he and the player are nobodies at the end of the world. Both born weak and became strong by consuming those around them. So poetic.
@@shotkiden not just 2 nobodies. It’s the 2 remaining living things in the world. The world is destroyed, all that’s remaining is 2 weirdos fighting over something that doesn’t matter, for the same person
The Dark Souls Trilogy is one of those gaming series where "nothingness" or cosmic horror and vast yet empty environments are beautifully expored . DS1 had The Abyss , Chasm of The Abyss and Ash Lake . DS2 had The Gutter , The Throne of Want and Majula's seas . DS3 has Kiln of the First Flame , Dreg Heap and this area .
@@Antillar Yeah , the endless ocean and the mystical skybox really sells the feeling of nothingness . I'd say New Londo and Oolacile's Abyss did it best . I get chills everytime I go there . The build up to these areas really enhance the horror factor .
@@Antillar IMO, Heide's Tower is the best execution of dread in any Souls game, period. It's nice, and warm and welcoming, but unlike Majula, which tempers those feelings with wistful melancholy, Heide's Tower thrusts reality on your face - this is the final bastion of Gwyn's flame, and it already fell. The world is doomed.
How fitting that Gwyn trying so hard to keep the world as he knew it from falling apart by keeping the first flame going, Is what Caused the world to fall apart and decay
Implying there weren't a significant part of ages of dark in the many cycles that happened before. To me it's simply the inevitable fate of a world that isn't in the immobile, everlasting age of the ancients.
I mean... Isn't this the direct result of the fire NOT being linked? Ringed City presumably takes place in the aftermath of what happens when no one links the flame - which is what Ashen One is supposed to do, and it does seem like he's the only one capable of doing it after the the ritual that takes place at the Firelink Shrine after all Lords were returned to their thrones. To me this is pretty much a direct result of Ashen One skipping his work day and deciding to go screwing around with sleeping princesses. After all... The DLC is available right before Soul of Cinder bossfight, so you can deal with Gael and Little Painter and then finish your assigned duty right after. Which once again reminds me - we never see what happens to the world in the "Dark" endings of any of the games, where the flame is either extinguished or usurped for good.
@@starkadex3530 Honestly I think it can go either way, On one hand you could argue he was just terrified of what the dark could bring, Or he was a power hungry god who didnt want to lose what he had, And that's why I love Dark souls there are no wrong answers lol
It truly is a bitter sweet thing, seeing Dark Souls end in a decayed world. Its the proper ending that the games had been working towards, and is ultimately satisfying. But at the same time, it's always sad to see the end of the cycle.
One thing I would have added to this is the skybox during/after Gael's second form. It looks pretty interesting from what I remember, it's almost like two different skies merging. Nevertheless, very cool to see all the background details. Also gotta love the singular Ringed Knight who's just like "I lived, bitch."
After reading other comments some how the idea sets in that the two skies merging will resulting in Twilight... The point when dark and light meets, the decision if sun is rising or the night comes...
Ah but we had the tiniest shred of hope, with a new world painted and the last fragments of humanity to inhabit it. The old went to ruin, destroyed by the gods folly, but humanity will march on even if it means building a new world on the very thing that makes us human.
I see all the contrary. Even at the end of the world, a young lady and an old man (and you) manage to find an escape from this twisted spiral of light and dark created by gods and kings
Filianore is easily the saddest character in Dark Souls to me. She was innocent, and trapped away from everything for her safety. Left to wait, hoping the day would come when someone would come to free her she remains for eons, only to be forgotten as all who would have come for her have long since perished. Is that not the most painful thing? A life lived waiting for a day never to come?
Idk about innocent, we know nothing about who she was beforehand. Also she was given to the pygmies by Gwyn, her father. He lied to her and told her he would come back to get her, and instead went and sacrificed himself to the first flame. Whatever spell that was used relied on her staying asleep too, so Gwyn definitely wasn't coming to get her.
She kind of has the same fate as Gehrman as well, now that you described it like that. Waiting in the dream for so long for Laurence, unaware that not only is Laurence long dead and trapped in the nightmare, but Yharnam as a whole being completely screwed
Lemme barge in with my own grimdark theory for a sec: Filianore is-well, was-the first Fire Keeper. You know, the one whose eyes we find in the darkened Firelink Shrine, and who Ludleth remarks would reveal the betrayal of Gwyn's will and a world without fire. For one, we don't see her eyes or any evidence she even has eyes, just the black tendrils oozing from her sockets. Likewise, the eyes of a Fire Keeper show a black ooze seeping from their pupils. But perhaps more convincing is her clothing. Look especially at the emblem on her crown, a sort of three-pointed leaf with a silver gem encrusted at its center. Now look at the Fire Keeper's mask-it's the same emblem, simply warped and expanded. Furthermore, Filianore's dress is actually very close to the Fire Keeper's robes in cut and trim, but the two characters are contrasted in color scheme. Whereas the Fire Keeper has white hair and black robes, Filianore has black hair and wears white. They're directly referential to one another. We know that as a rule, all Fire Keepers must be kept blind, but it isn't until DS3 that we find out why. Fire Keepers are embodiments of their bonfires, and the eyes would reveal the inevitable future that the flame would have to fade, no matter how many times we try to preserve it. Filianore, having witnessed a premonition of the fire's end, was sealed away by Gwyn to hide any reason to doubt his will to keep the flame alive. But here's the really fun part: if Filianore is the first Fire Keeper, and if Fire Keepers are the personification of their respective bonfires... wouldn't that indicate that Filianore is the embodiment of the first flame itself? Think about it-both are kept alive by Gwyn's self-absorbed dream, far out of sight and protected by his most devout worshippers. Humanity is deceived into believing they are alive and well, but in truth they're nothing but withered husks of their former glory. She was the light that Gwyn desperately sought to protect, even if it meant eternal separation from each other. It almost makes me feel bad for him, too, if it didn't cost the world to preserve her and the flame.
Gwyn sent his own daughter to die and lied to her that he'd come back for her. Considering that her egg-like item might be a Transposing Kiln, Filianore was possibly made to destroy her own soul to fuel the illusion of the Ringed City, keeping the humans there unaware until their "seals of fire" hollowed them.
Age of Dark wouldn't be better. Both circles just consume until there is nothing left, that's what Aldia tried to tell everyone. Gwyn wanted to avoid this wasteland, yet another stagnant Age of Ancients. He sacrificed his body, his will, his very own soul, so that the world he knew could live for a tad longer, but it wasn't enough, because it's the nature of Ages to burn the world to ash.
Personally I wish that you could see Drangleic castle or something in the distance along with Lothric and Anor Londo, it'd feel more complete to me. edit: i should've known better than open my mouth lmao
@@yourewallsareveryconvenien8292 that was because Yui Tanimura and the other director complain about how disrespectful Miyazaki was against their work, because yes, Miyazaki don't give a fuck about DS2 tbr
@@a-ha4940 What weapons are you talking about? DS III is straight sword simulator 2016, the other builds are severely inferior, and magic just sucks ass.
@@pious83 I actually think Gael's a big step down, particularly story wise (SoC also has that cool moment when "Gwyn, Lord of Cinder" starts to mix in the theme with the fiery great sword phase, which works since DS3 is "DS1, the remix and retelling") and in many ways visually-Gael's fight is pretty great for a Souls boss though, and it's one of the few BIG arenas to run around in during. Gael being another "*homage*" to Guts that doesn't matter a single bit to the story of DS3 proper, or Dark Souls as a whole imo puts a huge damper on him and his arc. Given that he only actually appears/matters in the DLC and even then is barely there, outside of obviously tricking your in DLC1 and giving you a few safe drop notes in DLC2. He only really interacts as far as we know with a single living character in an attic that no one ever directs towards or really makes any note of and is also exclusive to the DLC story. SoC also doesn't have any "character" lead up outside of tangential relation to the player(s) past, but he's a concept in universe manifest which imo has more bearing that "I gotta get that paint. I GOTTA get that paint!"
@@Valanway dunno, I feel like Gael was the best end boss they could have done. but let's not talk about the mechanical part of the boss. Gael is also an undead, right? he's alive since the apex of the age of fire, and I think it's also a pretty good representation of us, players. unlike anyone else in the world, Gael had a goal and was able to do whatever it would cost to achieve that. he probably died a lot of times, just like we did. now, think, we ( theoretically ) passed through demon's souls, ds1, 2, bloodborne and ds3. we fought demons, fallen lords, beasts, great ones, but our last enemy is "just" a human like us. we died a lot, but even so we keep trying to kill the next boss, for a simple hair of contentment, this goal of ours kept us strong enough to reach the end together. I don't know if you could understand what I meant, unfortunately I only know basic English, but I would say that Gael is the protagonist of his own story and it's also a parallel with soul of cinder. soul of cinder uses the souls of old ones, while gael uses the dark soul. ooh, just one more thing, Gael goes hollow when he realizes that his goal was achieved, and then, you are not facing Slave Knight Gael anymore, you're facing the Dark Soul. :)
The music was fitting, and someone’s comment about having played with someone to clear the dlc over 15 hours and then never speaking again after saying “This is it. This is the end” before fighting Gael gave me fucking chills
The Gameplay of Dark souls is fun... But when you go into the story it's kinda sad, knowing You, Gael, The Ringed Night, and Shira all end there... like there's nothing else left in the world. Basically to summarize... These games hit far differently than I have seen any other game try to replicate.
LMAO I read another detailed comment that is this comment. How about get some originality for once. Instead of trying to pull likes from some one else’s experience.
Honestly, probably one of the best endings to a game. Its one of death, but also birth. At the end theres nothing left, the world that we knew is nothing but ash and ruin with no chance of coming back; the world of dark souls is gone. There is light though, after defeating Gale and getting the dark soul, it can be given to the Painting Lady to make a new world. Essentially, dark souls has ended, but a new story begins.
This is probably one of the most powerful vistas in all of gaming This is it. This is the end of everything. There are only a few hollows left to be burned away, everyone else is gone, be they gods or kings or heroes, no matter who they were they simply disappeared from existence, lost forever in the ash. The only real major forces left are you the player and Gael, two undead who managed to hold on and fight for the world they wanted even to the end of the world. It’s here where you finally face off and decide everything. Once you defeat him, then the world has truly ended, leaving only yourself and a soul of dark, with which you can decide to create a new world that perhaps might be better than the one you left behind.
This is the best picture I've ever seen of the end of time itself. Not necessarily a ceasing of the flow of time, but of anything happening in it. All these cycles, all this pain, all those souls sacrificed in the name of Gwyn's fear of the dark, it all led to this. A barren, empty world of ash and dust. An infinite ruin, stretching out in every direction. There's a kind of sad peace to it all. I just want to wander those barren plains, taking in the sheer scope of the end. The last flame, the last undead, the last hollow, all gone. The fight is over. It's all over...
I think the word "epic" sums up what's wrong with a lot of scores, especially movies. Bad composers love staccato strings choir and booming brass. Basically they took "to die for" from the lion king and completely missed the point.
@@Kyrieru absolutely agree. People keep losing their minds over big orchestral scores but I can still hum Megalovania or Sif's theme but won't be able to tell Nier Automata from Call of Duty. Good music is good music, instrumentation aside. Games want epic instead of good
Which is honestly so confusing since the sword's description describes it as being from the steeples of the sable church in Londor, yet I don't think the ringed city is supposed to be Londor? Maybe it is tho
dark souls as a series is insane. the end of time depicted with unrivaled stagnancy, all that remains to those lucky enough to survive longer than they were supposed to is rubble. i love that the timelines in dark souls are vague and unclear, and you never really get to understand how large the world really was. i'm hoping that elden ring has something like the end of the world in this game; i'm fascinated by things like this and i want to see it in a more open setting.
Would've been better if thats what it was but they were actually fighting over everything. Gael knew he couldn't contain the dark soul he needed you to kill him to end it all
I always wondered why his cape was split like that. That huge gash on his back gives us an answer. Too friggin cool. Now I wonder, how he got that gash. Edit: and still ya know, wtf happened to his poor tummy-tum. Some gnarly indigestion right there. Edit: oh holy fuck that hole is Gael's darksign!? He is on a whole new level of hollowing, jeez louise.
Dark Souls is the only series where you could be goofily shield-spamming and Praising the Sun with friendly players one moment, and then having an existential crisis the next
I always thought this area of the game was really sad, but really aggravating too. I really hated Gwyn for what he did to humanity. The world is mutilated and can't move on. The First Flame is never allowed to fade, and over eons the world simply fills with ash, until all that's left is that desert and the ruins of the civilizations of men and gods. No one can die, but maybe we were never meant to. Maybe undeath is our truest form. The darkness of mankind is shackled by the curse. What doesn't eventually go mad when it's imprisoned like that? The real curse is the fate that Gwyn thrust onto humanity. Never to inherit the world, never to have our turn at the helm of destiny. The painting with the pigment of the Dark Soul is a path forward for humans, but it's far from what we deserved, what we had the right to inherit. Look at that desert, at the end of all things. Look what's left of humanity to start over. We've fallen so far, and so few of us remain. And the ones that do are driven mad by aimless, endless purposelessness. Hollow. That's humanity's new starting point. How can a world born of that be anything but demented?
@@janedoe4929 Sorry for not giving more details... What i want to say is that i always thought this map took place in the Future, not at the same time the main game takes place, i thought this isn't the present, but a representation of what would happen with the world If the flame was kept lit. The ending of the DLC, for me, takes place in the Future and the rest of the game (excluding that firelink shrine area) takes place in the present. The situation is already that bad in the present, now look at the Future, there's nothing There anymore...
Gwyn is the reason humanity isn't completely made up of hollows. His ring of fire and maintenance of the First Flame is what allowed humans to not be violent zombies. Humans don't go mad because their dark is "imprisoned", they do because that's what the dark naturally does to humans. Hollowing is the natural consequence of undeath, and undeath is the natural state of man. People keep trying to thrust the blame for undeath and hollowing upon Gwyn, because they think it sounds vaguely poetic and because everything bad must be his fault, but not only is it not supported by anything, Aldia outright states the opposite. Linking the fire leads to a world of ash, but not doing so leads to one of hollows and monsters.
Ive never played dark souls, but ive watched plenty of lore videos. This video puts a tightness in my chest thats hard to describe. Such an amazing series and world ends. Not with a bang, or a flash, but with a whimper. It ends with a long, drawn out age of rot and decay until nothing is left. All the gods are gone, all the dragons slain. People no longer live their lives, children no longer run and play in the streets. Nothing left besides a cold wind blowing over ruins, which themselves are doomed to eventually be ground down into the ash. Was it even avoidable? Was an Age of Dark even possible? The flame itself always ensured that it would be rekindled, even long after gwyn and his manipulations are gone. As though it was punishing the world for the subversion of the natural order, ensuring another age would never come. The utter hopelessness is a profound feeling. Looking at this feels like being able to know what the heat death of the universe is like. Its haunting, and such a sad ending to a wonderful story.
I sometimes go to this map to just walk around and think about the series as a whole. It's crazy that we're one of the last things to be alive in the entire timeline.
This was the video that made me subscribe to Zullie, back in the day. Man, what great atmosphere you show here with the Kingsfield music, it's been stuck in my head ever since.
I like to imagine what the pygmy lords looked like sitting in their little thrones day after day, year after year. Just waiting for their savior - for the last time.
@@Specoups Wasn't her sliced open before the succ ? I always saw it as Gael sliced his throat open then went on to devour the blood of the other pigmys, giving it the time to drag itself away while leaving a long long trail behind him The cut itself being extremely messy because of Gael's sword being, well, in a state that could leave that kind of wound.
@@Shoupa We can't know for sure. I personnaly think the bite would be more appropriate since I think it would be a waste to slice and potentially lose some of the stuff, and pigmy lords were so helpless that bringing a sword down their neck would be a waste of violence and energy as well. Or Gael, since he's quite not himself anymore, could easily of course act in a less rationnal, optimized approach and indeed slash with his mighty sword before eating for whatever reason. It's a matter of personal preference I believe.
To this day I'm astounded there are people who say the ending of Dark Souls was anticlimactic. Two nobodies fighting in the remains of the end of the world was the perfect send off for the series.
The end of the world truly reflects history and actions of others: Everything is sand now due to the linking cycle Only a few structures remain, with lothric and either anor londo or drangleic castle remaining, more proof of the fall of civilizations. In Gael’s fight, when dark spews onto the ground, lightning almost just as quickly strikes it out of existence, a nod to how this cycle began, with Gwyn fighting the dark.
What I want to know is who or what Gael fought to get those injuries. I know that breaking the illusion made time even more convoluted, but it looks like that wound on his chest could have either been made by a spell or a great arrow, while the slashs on his back... I can't really think of any characters in ds3's story that would be capable of that in this point of the game besides ringed knights or Alva, or maybe Shira but she didn't seem like she was going after Gael. I would have thought maybe some of the judicators phantoms would have done it, but nobody outright uses a greatbow in TRC, so the only other contender would be the witch, who finally succumbed in TRC and for some reason had joined the judicators ranks. Could be a plethora of things since the protag has the midas touch except everything they touch turns into another apocalypse.
I think it's just how the Darksign looks like when you hold 99.9% of the world's humanity/Dark Soul inside you. It could also be an advanced Dark Sigil, though I assume they are the same thing.
I like to believe that buried somewhere beneath this endless sea of ash, his Lady’s Painting, hewn from the godly powers that begat life itself, remains completely untarnished. A cold, dark and gentle place. Free from the tyranny of flames and the savage madness of the deep.
I'm still amazed at how Dark Reality encapsulates the feeling of pretty much the entirety of the Souls trilogy (I won't speak for Demon's Souls or Bloodborne as I've never played them). It perfectly captures the empty grandeur of it all, the facade of deities and the civilization crumbling from its own weight. From knew what they wanted from their music since Kingsfield and it shows.
I like how in the soulsborne universe you stumble upon ancient kings and queens in beds or chairs, long forgotten and long dead but still resting eternally over their kingdom.
I love how they have Phase 2 Gael just tucked away in the tower lol. Would've been easy to just stick him underground or something, but it's a bit cooler that way. Which, that gives me an idea. Is the fade to black in the Phase 2 cut-scene actually there just so they can switch the models? I figured it was an artistic choice. It does work, despite being the only time a cut-scene has a fade out and feeling a tiny bit awkward, but knowing it is there to actually serve a purpose is cool too.
Probably was partly the intent. As is, there really isn’t a good time to switch the models. The cutscene doesn’t cut to your character or have a shot where Gael isn’t in it. It stays on him the entire time. Also had to switch the skybox for when phase 2 starts
That was a design choice I really loved about DS3. While yes the soul of cinder fight technically is the finale, beating Gael and returning the pigment to the painter girl is really the end of the story of "Dark souls", and it went out so quietly. There wasn't some intense high octane finale like you would find in other games, instead the finale is in a windswep desert devoid of really anything.
It always bugged me that we never got to go into the tower that midir is hiding behind in the ringed city, the one shown in like all the promos. that would’ve made such a cool boss encounter location… :(
The Sword of Avowal is on practically every building. I’ve read that implies the location is Londor, but does that also say something about the Usurpation of Fire ending being the “true” ending?
Technically, you traveled forward in time through Filianore but you never became Usurper Dark Lord during the process. What we see is result of Gwyn´s refusal of natural order of the world. I think the "true" ending might actually prevent this from happening. But of course, the only truly good ending would be DS1 Dark Lord ending which would probably prevent a lot of this from happening in the first place. World ended up fucked up because Dark Souls series chose the ending where Chosen Undead falls for a trick of the Gods and offers himself as fuel, thus forcibly prolonging Gwyn´s Age of Fire.
@@eliasar5051 I'm not a fan of the Dark Lord ending in Ds1, all your chosen undead does is slay bosses for no reason in order to gain enough souls to link the fire, then refuse to link the fire and walk out. You might as well have not left the asylum if that was the case. Ds2 proves that if the chosen one (this time Vendrick) doesnt link it, someone else will just come along and do it. Ds3 proves that even if the same thing happens and nobody else comes along, eventually the world itself gets so fucky it folds in on itself and even resurrects former successful and unsuccessful lords to try and link the fire. There's really no such thing as a Dark Lord ending in dark souls, there's only an "I'm leaving, someone else can do it" ending. Also as a fandom we still dont know what a true Dark ending would even result in (even if the world allowed the fire to go unlinked long enough to fully fade), we can only guess based on something a single snake tells us, and it's highly likely that the same snake told similar stories to Oolacile and royally fucked them. World ended up fucked due to linking the fire, but that's eons in the future (and everything dies eventually), would it really be better if we killed the flame in Ds1 and everyone ended up turning into grotesque Oolacile-style mutations because it turns out Kaath didnt tell us the truth?
Londor came from the New Londo city, which is posterior to the formation of Lordran which is posterior to the Ringed City. To me it looks more like The inhabitants of Londor took something from the culture of the gods that already existed.
there is no true ending, but the lord of hollows one is possibly the best outcome, since the situation is so bad that letting the fire fade will bring the age of the deep. Linking again is just postponing the inevitable, letting the firekeeper take the flame seems temporary as well, seeing as she talks about new flames n the dark from old lords, the one where you kill the firekeeper might be similar but now you are more powerful? The connection between londor and ringed city could very well kathee, he most surely knew about the city
@@eliasar5051 there is no real travelng trough time, basically the ringed city is in a time bubble thanks to filianore, when we pop the bubble the city goes fast foward to the moment we are at the end of ds3 (maximum stagnation and convergence)
hey our favorite witch, how's it going? not sure if you're going to read this anyway, but recently I was doing a Dark Souls III fists only no damage taken run and something happened to me in the nameless king boss fight, specifically in king of the storm phase. after that fire breath, nameless king followed that up with a lighting spear and I was able to capture that on camera! I don't know if that's a pretty rare attack or if I just had bad luck in all of these years playing the game, cause I never saw that move before, even in other people's videos. so I would be honored if you could check it out! this is the video: th-cam.com/video/erVdzmTdwf0/w-d-xo.html at the minute 1:15:08 and if you guys could share your experience, I would love too!
I can't believe I didn't notice this sooner, but at 5:12 in the video, is the representation of where the large tower of the Grand Archives is, and the path that leads to Lorian and Lothric's boss chamber in the main game.
Dark Souls III has the best art direction of any game I've played (even better than most movies and series...) Its places and characters (and music) make me feel so many things...
@@Gorecatto ds3 is everything ds1 was with the life sucked from it. for those of us who like to dwell in negative emotions I think ds3 takes the cake. the being said, without the things it reused from ds1 it wouldnt have the same impact. the return to anor londo was highly emotional for me.
Shira with the serious thousand yard stare. I hate her character- religious fanatics are never sympathetic. But from her perspective, everything she ever valued has been destroyed or fallen apart, and the one person she was taught to look down on, a human, is coming out on top. She certainly knows that you'll keep coming back everytime you're killed and she basically can't win. I wonder if she realizes that it was Gwyn's curse that keeps you coming back. If so, it probably broke her. When she attacks you its essentially suicide by cop. She was mighty, but she dies sputtering out some petty hatred. Truly pathetic.
Is it really a 'religion' if the gods are real, though? Shira probably met some of them, she says they're her ancestors... doesn't that make it more like a blood feud? In fact, letting Filianore (the last living[?] deity?) go Hollow was what pissed her off.
What unnerves me the most in the world of Dark Souls is that the majority of time, it talks about living places with kingdoms, societies with lots of people. But when we show up, everything is dead or try to die but can't. We're like "final operators", only here for the worst cases possible, only here to do what's necessary... and make life rises again. But we'll never see the fruits of our actions. Lordran and Drangleic must be beautiful, but we have no purpose to be here when it happens.
it is still very jarring to see, after all of Gwyn's efforts to claim and preverve his own world and all the adventures of undead seeking truth or meaning, *the end* of the world.
To be fair, Gwyn might be directly responsible for this. He broke the cycle when he tried to prolong the age of fire,and the inner workings of the world have been going evermore wrong since
I find interesting how most like to see Gwyn as the villain who caused this to happen, despite the fact the only thing he is guilty of is being far too human himself. He sacrificed himself so his people, his Age, would exist for a bit longer. He was afraid of the end, if not for himself then for his people. Isn't it our own nature to not let go? To do whatever it takes to not see our empires and civilizations crumble? If the roles of the gods and humanity would be switched in Dark Souls, do you believe individuals such as Vendrick or Ivory King would do otherwise, without knowing their actions would only delay the inevitable?
Dear Zullie, I have become a little bit obsessed with the music track behind this video. It seems to play in my head wherever I go, filling my days with a pronounced sense of forlorn wonder. Thank you for the fun videos, I especially enjoyed the dog one. Thank goodness that music doesn't follow me around as well 😅
Well, shame on devs to not putting even a 2D Drangelic Castle in distance. Or that means that the Bearer of the Curse saved all of Drangelic and nearby countries from DS3 shit?
Shoutout to the people who built Lothric Castle because even after who knows how long has passed and after the literal end of the world, it's still standing.
More like shout out to the people who built anor londo
@@anthonychase6906 to both.
One day, I'll learn to love the souls series. I want to SO bad.
And with that said, I wish we could explore Lothric castle / Anor Londo in it's peak, where everything wasn't destroyed and run down after everything went the wrong turn.
@@snickle1980 I'm wondering what's stopping you
It took me a second to realize why Gael has such a massive hole in his chest, but then I noticed thats his darksign!
After a literally countless amount of time, this guy is so deep into hollowing that the divot most hollows have on their chest has turned into a full on crater consuming most of his torso.
And even after all of that hollowing, he *still* has just enough control left to not forget his one and only task.
Fuckin' badass dude
i would posit that he did forget his task, I don't think he knows what he needs the darksoul for anymore.
@@auto1nfanticid3 "for my lady's painting" i believe this was his line, he probably never forgot his task
@@alexepic3255 he literally said it after going into phase 2....
(PS: Kind of obvious he didn't forget)
@@ImperialGuardsman2 Well, yeah. In a unconsciously way.
Artorias’s design might be physically based off of Guts, but I gotta say Gael has more Guts in him than any other souls character (imo of course)
I didn't feel the need to put commentary over this, because most of it feels fairly self-explanatory, but I did decide to flash Anor Londo over the 2D cutout at the end just because it may not have been immediately obvious. I'm fairly confident it's Anor Londo, based on the shapes on the central building lining up with the door and windows of the Anor Londo Cathedral.
Zullie, do you know much about the Cinders mod or other mods? Would love to hear from you, please?
You should try the cinders mod lol
@@oddsoup6407 Nah, she should try Convergence and actually be a witch
I always thought it looked more like the dragon shrine or The Drangleic kingdom from DS2
How does the placement of Anor Londo and Lothric compare to their placement in the base game?
does it strike anyone as strange and unnerving that there were periods of actual normalcy in the dark souls world? you as the player only ever seem to be around when everything is post-apocalyptic and already a wasteland. but countless times, there were citizens walking around their cities, markets flourishing, wars happening, people traveling, learning sorceries and sciences...farming, fishing. i just can't imagine such "normal" things happening in dark souls. its always so bleak
This is why i'll always defend the "link the fire" ending until reality is literally the wasteland we see here. It's the only ending in Dark Souls that guarantees life returns in a positive way that's familiar to us players and our character. The world we're shown is always bleak, but in between each cycle the linking of the fire allows countless generations to live good normal lives, entire civilisations will rise and fall before the fire next starts to fade.
Gamers dont like moral grey, they like to think whatever solution their character comes up with fixes a problem forever. But as Dark Souls shows, nothing lasts forever. Is linking the fire really "meaningless" like most of the community insist, when it allows our version of "normal" to continue for 1000s more years? Imagine if Earth as we know it was undergoing a real apocalypse before our eyes, the planet had reached it's natural end of life with everything collapsing hard and soon nothing would be left, but you were offered the opportunity to light yourself on fire and rekindle the planet so that Earth would get an entire new lifespan with humans living in cities etc? And to sweeten the deal, you'd have the knowledge that even at the end of the rekindled world's life, another person could sacrifice themself and prolong it even further.
Accoring to Dark Souls community, that's meaningless?
To me that's the sweetest deal any living creature could hope for.
@@MikeHesk742 that is essentially what we're doing already. our continued existence is irreparably damaging our world the longer it continues, and the end is slowly manifesting itself in steady degradation. one day far into the extreme future, the planet itself will be consumed by the sun. but would any of us want to usher in the end faster, and just get it over with? never. we want to keep living, even if its ultimately pointless, even if we become forgotten and erased like so many others in dark souls. all that matters is the living we get to do now, nevermind what happens after. immortal gods could not understand nor accept that
@@MikeHesk742 how could we know that the prophesied outcome of the coming of man would be any different? Men were always kept in the shadows only coming to power for a brief period but never being able to grow as far as the age of light remained. They were never given a chance to show their way of keeping order and balance within the world. Gwyn had been a lord of the flame and reigned for a long time preserving the light, heralding it or shepherding away from the darkness, maybe it’s time for a dark lord.
@@MikeHesk742 I don’t know. Linking the flame sounds like an action based upon fear. Like looking death in the face and crying. I feel like what you suggest is what Filianore represents: to sleep in a dream cradling a rotting egg. I don’t think it is as positive as you describe. You can fear death. That is natural. Still, to run from it or to deny it is just trying to put ashes back together again. If things must end then let them end. It does not invalidate what was.
Yup, been thinking about this cause it is interesting if we can see how life was in Lodran or even Dark Souls Earth.
This decaying sight ironically never gets old
Technically it’s not ironic as it’s the end of time it literally can’t get old.
@aidan markus the bible is a dark souls 2 reference
@@berserk7714 Yeah good point
I got # 666!
@aidan markus Ah, sweet!
A Schizo Thread!
Such a terrifyingly beautiful landscape to end such a terrifyingly beautiful quest.
Love your work. I always find myself intrigued no matter how much I've played or watched.
Putting King's Field music for the last ever Souls map is poetic
Definitely
makes the entire video very melancholy
Thanks for this comment; I really did enjoy that track.
none of you zoomers ever played a single second of any kingsfield
@@kageakiminato8536 true but we have respect for kingsfield cos that’s where the series started. No kingsfield no demon’s souls, no demon’s souls no dark souls etc
I do love that even at the end of the world both Anor Londo and Lothric castles are the only things still standing, almost untouched and undamaged - bridges and all.
Whoever built those was a goddamn master of his craft to make them this durable.
Anor Londo was built by gods and giants. Dunno about Lothric though but surely it was someone with god like skills
Lothric and anor londo were built by gods or kings of the world, but they were MADE for the linking of the fire, so no matter how many times the world burns they're likely to stay standing,
@@lokluv8099 good luck sieging those fotresses
It also doesn't make any sense how Lothric Castle can be intact after the Dreg Heap abslolutely oblirated it - but I guess it was just cooler like that
@@LavosYT If I’m not mistaken Lothic’s cycle was the last. Lothric Castle is probably still standing because it’s had the least amount of time to crumble.
Never noticed that Gael had such horrifying wounds on his body.
Yeah that's a huge-ass wound
It looks to me like the Darksign burned all the way through his armor and flesh right to his soul. Or something edgy like that.
Makes sense when you consider he's an ancient undead that's been fighting for thousands of years though. He's been through absolute hell by the time we meet him at the chapel and by the time we show up at the end.
I believe that ultimately he is the real hero of the quest
I never noticed he had faces on his cape thingy
Plot twist. Gaels boss fight is just a fever dream after you ate the 100 year old egg that filianore scrambled
Certainly
@keep rollin Subhanallah walhamdulillah brother
There should be a Vaatividya parody channel where all of the lore is like your comment, but still presented as seriously as it is in Vaatis videos. I feel thing like that could actually go somewhere🤔
@@duudsoupblb8399 Honestly it'd be about as accurate and official as Vaatis, so it would totally work. Souls games oddly do great with comedy
"Filianore, these edibles ain't shi-"
*Travels thousands of years into the future*
The age of fire really kept burning till there was nothing to start a dark age with except ash.
Isnt this what the serpents wanted?, And what the locusts wanted too?, to feed on whats left of the flame?, There never was a dark age to beging with, for the dark consumes as well, even putting out the first flame gives the same result.
This was always the final point, the inevitable, all that gwyn did was delay the inevitable, the first flame offered life and form to the World, Without it this is whats left, Burned or not, Nothing can exist without it.
During our travel to the ringed city, We see the effects of the abyss, literally Nothing but creatures from the abyss walking around and being miserable shadows from their former self, Isnt this what they wanted?, no flame, No light, Just darkness, And even without a dark sign to opress them, They couldnt start a New home in the ruins of the old, even londor Just steals from the living, yet they meet the same fate of dust and nothingness, So im not quite sure if gwyn had a point after all..
@@johnstrider7280 i always used to believe the best possible age of dark would have been if gwyn never sacrificed himself and the world continued like it did when the age of ancients transitioned to the age if fire, but the abyss and pus of man were the results of fire denying the dark it's birthright by extending itself. (Tho ringed city disproves that about the abyss) The main reason most dark solutions aren't particularly great is because what the age of dark was meant to be and how it was meant to come was altered by the linking. My interpretation mainly comes from the idea that dark souls is mainly about holding on for longer than you should. And the pain of letting go is worth the healing after. The Gods forced humanity into their denial of the age ending so successfully we continued it long after most of the gods were dead. That is actually an impressive feat of gwyn and his family. Their legacy is the world still abiding by their rules against all odds long after time and death came for them like they were barely above their mortal worshipers.
Your interpretation had interesting points tho. The idea that it would always end this way reinforces aldia's philosophy that there had to be a way beyond fire and dark. Otherwise there was no real hope.
Question is how could something that is neither even be available? All the endings of ds3 involve both fire and darkness still remaining after 3. Maybe the world really is stuck like this until there's nothing anymore.
@@johnstrider7280 isnt ooacile a better example ? Its literally the abyss
Also , what gwyn did was the first sin, no one tried to reignite the flame with himself before , that was his point
But , the world is stil a cycle , this is just the end of one , its ash lake all over again , as characters said many times , a kingdom will rise once again , in the ashes of the old one , wearing a new face , but its all the same
@@Jaden-Ring i had quite the theory about it being the end!
Lets see... At the end of fire, Humans beging to turn into dragons and trees, We see this everywhere!
The humans at the path of the dragons and the humans sprouting roots and branches, We see quite a lot of them in the 3rd game, with the sitting hollows and the giant tree with arms and legs and... Other things..
And finally the humans, I think they are buried in the sand, And when the World begings to take form they crawl out of it and become gods and Men once the first flame starts again.
I thing this explains the cycle of never ending dragons, trees, Men and gods.
Anyway, I do Belive that eventually feeding the flame is Just a bad choise, But by the time of the first game, The flame had enough fuel to go around a lot of civilizations, But by the Time of the third, feeding the flame is Just giving the World a few more pained breaths before falling apart.
So... Its a case of "fight to survive, But know when to let go" i Belive.
@@Jaden-Ring With my current cannon of the lore, Gwyn did not do anything unusual by trying to extend the age of fire. Folks like to talk about the age of ancients, war with the dragons, and start of the age of fire as if those 3 things were not interconnected.
Evidence demonstrates that with fire came souls and that souls bring their own form a mutation not unlike the abyss. The Ancient Dragons were afflicted by this and their descendants are now not as powerful and often monstrous looking by comparison (gaping dragon). Another example of the mutating effects of souls, and by extension Fire, are the crystal lizards. Look at what they become when they consume souls. So with these things in mind, I think fire showed up, the different races were changed for it, and those that got the most power from their large souls wanted to defend that power.
The dragons, not unlike the gods of the age of Fire, would see this force mutating and changing their gray world and would seek to destroy it. But the gods won, and fire took over. This wasn't pleasant it wasn't peaceful and a lot of things that knew what they were before fire were now something completely different.
Gwyn like the dragons, saw a new force, mutating and changing his world, and he sought to fight it back. The difference is, Gwyn kinda won. Humanity and its darkness failed to overthrow the gods and their age of Fire.
But generally by my current logic, things SHOULD be mutating and everyone SHOULD be freaking out. But the mutants are SUPPOSE to win. Each link of the fire burns more of the world up and builds more pressure in the hose with regards to the dark. I don't think everything was meant to end in ash. I think Darkness was meant to sweep over and cool the world down from the overheated age of fire what comes next we will never know but honestly, I doubt it was another age of ancients followed by fire. Heck for all we know, the proper Age of Dark could have actually been meant to transition to an Age of Water, since Dark in DS has liquid properties.
I love this ending, shows that there's nothing left, no living things, no civilizations, no light, no dark, no abyss, no nothing, just you, Gael and a burning world, all of those cycles lead to this... Beautiful
And the hollow, always forget the hollow
Burning < *Burnt out*
And that one ringed knight chilling in the corner
Don't forget the last Ringed Knight... so easily forgotten like their ancestor...
you forgot about the chillin' ringed knight over there
I did all of the Ringed City in co-op a few days after it dropped with a dude I literally never met, I just summoned him at the start and then we kept summoning back and forth to progress.
After a rather taxing set of fights against Midir he asked if I could help him fight the final boss before he got off and went to work, but when we emerged into the arena he said something that has stuck with me forever.
_"This is it. This is the end."_
We didn't talk much during the boss fight, I got sent back to my world, and he left the chat party we'd started like fifteen hours earlier without saying a word.
We became weary companions for something like eighteen hours then I never ever spoke to him again. We didn't send friend requests, we never messaged, we only ever sent the one chat invite then nothing else after. That was it. That was the end.
That the beautiful magic of the Dark Souls games, I remember playing in coop with a Dio cosplayer through the first half of the first Dark Souls game.
He helped me a lot, then we never seen each other again.
That’s a horrifyingly accurate feeling that they probably wanted to portray
@@theeldenringenjoyer1872 also that is such a great foil to the original comment holy shit. Like it’s a great pallet cleanser from all the cosmic dread that this video and comment make me feel.
I summoned a guy at the start of the ringed city dlc, I was a faith build and he was just an absolute min maxed tank, typically I’d have to stop at every bonfire to heal and recover but with this absolute unit clearing out every enemy with one hit, and me healing him the whole time. we looped around the entire dlc in one go killing literally every enemy. Got back to the first bonfire, waved, then unsummoned himself.
I saw his sign again then proceeded to kill midir for me while threw ranged healing spells at him lmao.
Easy DLC 0/10
@@thebigenchilada678 Many players have different experience, we sometimes find a op companion who make the game easier for us and other time we have op invaders who annihilate us.
There some things that could be despised for good reasons but Souls games are not simple games for fan like us, they are Arts games.
After we completed it again and again and searching about the lore, ther make us think and unconsciously philosophize about the games and the life around us.
They make us better players, and sometimes better persons…
That Ring Knight is such a chad, imagine staying around from the first age fighting dragons to seeing the whole world crumble around you, the countless ages come and gone as you sit there ever loyal to your duty post. Imagine his life’s story.
Not even sitting, standing. Imagine standing for that long, legs must be killing.
what the hell do you mean "Ring-Knight stayed from the first-age"?
who the fuck is that godamn old, not even Gwyn himself could survive that long
@@Rise65487 They were the first undead lol
@@belzagar jesus-christ, i can't even imagine the level of hollowing in their mind
@@Rise65487
I don't think ageing works in the way you'd expect it to in dark souls. Some characters have been around for millenia but look just as young as ever
If you listen closely when wandering the ashen dunes, you can hear a faint "Fucking Gwyn ruined everything" on the wind.
Omg I actually heard it.
@@VERGILGASM When?
@@serraramayfield9230 When we see Gael, it can be heard once, and again when it zooms to his Darksign
Never should have fucked Gwyn.....
Well actually it was the Ashen one when he woke up Gwyns daughter, but I guess guess he started it
As one of the 5 people who have played it, I appreciate the King’s Field 4 theme in the background
i appreciate it greatly and I never played kings field.
Dark Reality is one of the best themes in 4. Cut song too.
It’s poetic, really. The final game of the series that started it all having its somber, broken theme being played as we explore the finale of the series that we adore. The broken, sad, nostalgic feeling of seeing something so beautiful being covered in ash and dust, breaking down and falling apart. It’s perfectly brought by this theme
@@matheusb.bergara5251
It played on the final level though?
I never played it...i would like a remake sooo bad.. so i can play it. Judging by what i saw of Kings Field 4... Dark Souls 2 is the closest game to it...
I like how heros such as Artorias failed at his duty, despite being a literal legend, and lost the battle against the abyss.
While Gael stands here, a worthless slave with no other purpose, at the end of times, bruised, beat up, and beating all the odds.
The abyss, the dragons and the deep nowhere to be found.
@@blizzardgaming7070Expect two lowely warriors. Poetic.
To be fair Gael was following after us so we killed all the hard bosses and he just had to mop up the underlings who had no direction.
@@riotguardsGael went through the Dreg Heap first he’s the one who left the messages
The most interesting thing to me is how the yellow, cloudy sky is similar to the one in the first game, when you reach the kiln of the first flame, and all you see is dust, ruins, and a few loyal knights. Makes you wonder if these sorts of landscapes are the “real” places of dark souls after all, and everything else is just one big illusion.
I always saw It as what would happen in the Future If the age of fire kept going, nothing more than Ash would last
Maybe they both take place at the same place in time (or pocket dimension if time isn't the relevant concept)? Imagine if Gael and Gwyn were killed at the same time in a sort of parallel, cyclical way? One to restore the world and the other to abandon it in favour of the new?
I thought it was another illusion of sun made by Gwyn, however dim because of his hollowed state.
metaphorically speaking is it the only real part in the game. this is the ultimate result of all of the machinations of man, just a burned out, dead thing, much like our planet will become.
@@auto1nfanticid3 i reject your nichilism
I have so much respect for Shira waiting that long, without hollowing, just to try and punish our transgression.
*try to.
But yes, that is very impressive.
Well, Shira and Gael are the only two left with real purpose. Shira waits to end us, and Gael drinks the blood of all with the Dark Soul (except Shira, who can still fight back enough. Perhaps she caused the gaping holes and gouges in Gael's body...
@@platogkrone7161 "Try and" is also correct, TH-cam seems to be deleting my posts when I post the link to the article explaining it.
@@David_Axelord youtube will auto censor most links unless it links to another youtube video
@@David_Axelord I'm confident that "try and" is only technically correct if the action being tried is successful.
The cutscene where you're transported to this area is haunting. Everything you explored up to that point is buried under tons of ash and i love how all this is slowly revealed.
Not that slowly
@man with a username I mean, that is what happened honestly.
But much worse. Uhoh! You destroyed mum's favourite vase AND EVERYTHING IS FULL OF ASH NOW WHOOPS
I believe the illusion became some sort of its own dimension, much like the painting world, the thing is that you enter the illusion through the Kiln of the first flame, but when you break it you somehow end up in another possible future where the cataclysm didn't happen at all.
Maybe because you linked the fire and now the Kiln exist in another distant future and therefore the dregg heap doesn't exist anymore.
OR, maybe you let the fire fade and this new sun shining in the sky is the result of "one day, tiny flames will dance across the darkness, a new age of light came after the age of dark. Now the world is covered by the ash of the previous world and only a handful of very ancient buildings still stand.
@@deltikoko107 well kinda. Initially the camera is facing the player character, things look darker somewhat but it doesn't look all that different. Then it shows Fillianore, now a rotted dessicated corpse. And finally the camera zooms out to show everything covered in ash. That's why I said slowly revealed.
@man with a username interesting. I do agree that it is pretty ridiculous but I like the ambiguity of the whole thing. I'm left wondering what the fuck just happened and why.
This map is basically Dark Souls Version of the heat-death of the universe. I love it.
Meddl my dude. I see your comments pop up everywhere.
heh
heat death
What Zullie doesn't show here is that after you defeat Gael, the skybox goes completely dark.
All that's left of the world is darkness, spent ash, and a haunting ceaseless wind blowing over it all.
Sitting at that last bonfire (now your only connection to the world as it was before) really drives home the point: all the illusions are broken, all the divergent timelines are resolved. This is it: the real world, at present day, at the end of all things.
There are no more enemies to fight, no more gods or legends to slay, no more divine artifacts to collect. Everything is dead, broken, and inert. Nothing more will change in any meaningful way; the world, held in metastablility in defiance of the natural order for so long, has settled into an equilibrium at last.
It has, at that point, achieved total heat death. Every source of power--magic, divinity, the First Flame, or otherwise--has been utterly spent. Not even embers remain.
Were it not for the lady painting a way out, into a new world, you--the being of ash, cursed with eternal undeath--would be stuck, by yourself, in a barren wasteland of cold, dark ash, for all eternity, doomed to go Hollow and wander in utter derangement until the winds whittle your body down to bones, and then to powder.
From ashes, to ashes. Dust, to dust.
Damn... that actually fits
I got shivers reading this.
This should have been an slternste ending if you didnt have the pai ting of ariandel. Your chsracter is just stuck to roam sroundbwith the onlybthing that could save you the dark souls
Is Gael's boss arena a contender for the largest in the series? Cause, his arena is the ENTIRE map
it wasn't even a competition, he knocked it out of the park
Technically,
Pursuer's arena is the whole game
@@pokimanefartcompilation lol
Technically his arena is 1/9 of that entire map
@@pokimanefartcompilation
No no he’s got a point
I love how this whole DLC was written as the end of the universe both cannonicaly and for us as well. The world ends as does the franchise, we get one last PvP boss, one last swamp (finally one without poison too!), one last dragon on a bridge, one last kick in the back from Patches and one last Artorias face-off.
Also, it really feels like Miyazaki talking through Patches this time, both wishing the Ashen One a fine dark soul and wishing us players a fine Dark Souls... or what's left of it. And by the time he says that, what is left is a gauntlet of bosses, mini-bosses and an NPC, basically a boss rush at this point. Really felt like one last hurrah for the franchise, like the end of a song, when they just decide to play the chorus one last time with a dramatic key change.
I love you, Miyazaki.
My heart
And people still have the nerve to demand ANOTHER dark souls game as if this didn’t end it sufficiently. Let Miyazaki create something new; which historically has always been good
@@drteeth362 well they could still do one set in the age of dark, not that i demand it, but it would be interesting
@@Sercroc No, it should be left as it is. Something grand and not everlasting, as that is what that universe is and that’s what reality is. There’s no need for the gaming industry to dig up the Dark Souls Series’ corpse and pump it for more games, the series did more than anyone could’ve hoped for and now it shall lay in rest til the end of time.
The more you are given something, the less value it has to you and the less significant each time is. You may not intentionally view it as less amazing, but your brain knows that what is common and what is plentiful is not as astonishing or as memorable.
@@SnafuFourTwo not really, if the author has some ideas to put in the game, he can do it
Something I’ve realized just now. The last 4 beings at the end of the world are a skeleton warrior, a female magic user, a bearded old man hollow who later commands lightning, and a Pygmy. They’re equivalents of the original lords of cinder. Nito, the witch of izalith (shira kinda pulls double duty as a seath reference, calling her the daughter of a duke and friend of dragons,) gwyn, and the furtive pygmy. It’s not exactly one to one but it’s almost definitely intentional
Original Lords* period, not Lords of Cinder. Only Gwyn became a Lord of Cinder out of those 4, as to be one, you must have linked the Fire. The others were "just" Lords (as in, owners of a Lord Soul).
Interesting, I always wonder is there any reincarnated souls of the lords in DS3 since DS2 had them, didn't thought that the DLC might as well give us exactly that.
there's also Patches, somewhere out there.
@@dev4159”Fucking Patches”
@dev4159
There were six originally but Patches kicked the fifth off a cliff somewhere
I just realized something interesting geal's cloak has the souls that he has killed on it. The pursuer had the same thing with his armour
So there was the Pursuer armor set that everyone wanted to have in the game
@@metalmonster9536 yeah, Gael stole it from Maughlin the Armourer
They are similar to the grudges in Bloodborne too.
And he’s hollowed through his armor and now has a gaping chest cavity
Holy shit, a Dark Souls 2 reference?! Miyazaki I'm so proud!
I've gotta hand it to fromsoft, Gael's whole design just makes him look like he's been around for a fucking _long_ time
And that cape ... saturated with congealed blood, out from which motionlessly writhe frozen faces of agony slowly coalesced through the millennia by all the souls he ate, like little puddles formed by drops of rain.
I didn't know that Gael's armor on the back cracked as well. Shows how far he's fallen. That and that he slit the throats of the pigmy lords. The savagery. Amazing and sad.
He chomped the throats.
@@dreamhaze9123 nice I was just thinking that, scary stuff though
Looks more like he was shot in the back and the projectile took out a whole chunk of his front.
Best way to get the blood
@@vieris9893 thats gwyn's curse, literally eating away at him through the years
More than just the end of the world, the end of the universe. A million cycles of snuffing out and rekindling. And at its end there are two.
No.. at the end there can only be *one*
I dont wanna make sense those things. I dont even know if Earth is a planet in Dark Souls
Two nobodies fighting at the end of the world for a bit of paint
@@xylonus it is if you look up at the stars
If there is stars there is planets and suns
Blah blah blah you can figure out the rest
@@cpusaiyan9623 In the Elder Scrolls universe, the stars are actually "rips in reality" sort of speak. It's the plains of Oblivion tearing through the empty space making it seem like there are celestial objects but it's just an illusion.
There can still be a "universe" in terms of stars and other cosmic phenomena in a fantasy universe, but since Dark Souls is a very ambiguous world and it is unknown who or what created the planet these beings used to live on, it could be true that there are other worlds that can be habitable. The only problem is the world is stuck in an endless cycle of a Medieval Era, and the only thing the people know how to go up is by building high towers into their kingdom.
I'm ok with Gael being the final boss for the series.
Both he and the player are nobodies at the end of the world. Both born weak and became strong by consuming those around them.
So poetic.
As a comment I once saw said. The ending is just the two strongest nobodies duking it out in the middle of nowhere as far as nobody knows.
One sacrificed themselves to collect the blood of the dark soul, while the other remained lucid enough to deliver it to the painter.
@@inkajoo That other can also warp through space and time to deliver it.
@@shotkiden not just 2 nobodies. It’s the 2 remaining living things in the world. The world is destroyed, all that’s remaining is 2 weirdos fighting over something that doesn’t matter, for the same person
Could someone give me context for this? Is this an actual dark souls map or is it fanmade?
I am actually suprised that the castle in the background is an actual model (well.. not a pretty one).. I thought it was just a 2D sprite
Unlike Dark Souls II lol
@@James-ne3lc Well it does not really matter since you are not supposed to be/get there anyway
@@Tirreger looks better tho
Probably something they already had as a first draft when they modeled the actual area of the game.
@@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598 Would make sense to do so
The Dark Souls Trilogy is one of those gaming series where "nothingness" or cosmic horror and vast yet empty environments are beautifully expored .
DS1 had The Abyss , Chasm of The Abyss and Ash Lake .
DS2 had The Gutter , The Throne of Want and Majula's seas .
DS3 has Kiln of the First Flame , Dreg Heap and this area .
Heide's Tower of Flame is also a location to add to this list. On par with Majula imho.
@@Antillar Yeah , the endless ocean and the mystical skybox really sells the feeling of nothingness .
I'd say New Londo and Oolacile's Abyss did it best . I get chills everytime I go there . The build up to these areas really enhance the horror factor .
Honestly the abyss scared me more than anything else in the dark souls trilogy and bloodborne
@@Antillar IMO, Heide's Tower is the best execution of dread in any Souls game, period. It's nice, and warm and welcoming, but unlike Majula, which tempers those feelings with wistful melancholy, Heide's Tower thrusts reality on your face - this is the final bastion of Gwyn's flame, and it already fell. The world is doomed.
How fitting that Gwyn trying so hard to keep the world as he knew it from falling apart by keeping the first flame going, Is what Caused the world to fall apart and decay
Its actually more like Gwyn kept the flame going to keep his own power and to make sure humanity didn’t get too powerful. But I respect your theory.
Implying there weren't a significant part of ages of dark in the many cycles that happened before.
To me it's simply the inevitable fate of a world that isn't in the immobile, everlasting age of the ancients.
@@starkadex3530 How's Gwyn trying to keep his own power in tact? He literally sacrificed himself to protect everyone he cared for.
I mean... Isn't this the direct result of the fire NOT being linked?
Ringed City presumably takes place in the aftermath of what happens when no one links the flame - which is what Ashen One is supposed to do, and it does seem like he's the only one capable of doing it after the the ritual that takes place at the Firelink Shrine after all Lords were returned to their thrones.
To me this is pretty much a direct result of Ashen One skipping his work day and deciding to go screwing around with sleeping princesses.
After all... The DLC is available right before Soul of Cinder bossfight, so you can deal with Gael and Little Painter and then finish your assigned duty right after.
Which once again reminds me - we never see what happens to the world in the "Dark" endings of any of the games, where the flame is either extinguished or usurped for good.
@@starkadex3530 Honestly I think it can go either way, On one hand you could argue he was just terrified of what the dark could bring, Or he was a power hungry god who didnt want to lose what he had, And that's why I love Dark souls there are no wrong answers lol
It truly is a bitter sweet thing, seeing Dark Souls end in a decayed world. Its the proper ending that the games had been working towards, and is ultimately satisfying. But at the same time, it's always sad to see the end of the cycle.
One thing I would have added to this is the skybox during/after Gael's second form. It looks pretty interesting from what I remember, it's almost like two different skies merging. Nevertheless, very cool to see all the background details.
Also gotta love the singular Ringed Knight who's just like "I lived, bitch."
After reading other comments some how the idea sets in that the two skies merging will resulting in Twilight... The point when dark and light meets, the decision if sun is rising or the night comes...
Not gonna lie this it maybe one of the most depressing endings I've ever seen in a video game.
Ah but we had the tiniest shred of hope, with a new world painted and the last fragments of humanity to inhabit it. The old went to ruin, destroyed by the gods folly, but humanity will march on even if it means building a new world on the very thing that makes us human.
I see all the contrary. Even at the end of the world, a young lady and an old man (and you) manage to find an escape from this twisted spiral of light and dark created by gods and kings
Ever played Soma? That one's pretty damn depressing.
@@TylerInTraining I was thinking of Soma with this ending. The painting in DS3 is pretty analogous to the ARK in that game.
Yeah, this one, drakengard and some Others
Filianore is easily the saddest character in Dark Souls to me. She was innocent, and trapped away from everything for her safety. Left to wait, hoping the day would come when someone would come to free her she remains for eons, only to be forgotten as all who would have come for her have long since perished.
Is that not the most painful thing? A life lived waiting for a day never to come?
Idk about innocent, we know nothing about who she was beforehand. Also she was given to the pygmies by Gwyn, her father. He lied to her and told her he would come back to get her, and instead went and sacrificed himself to the first flame. Whatever spell that was used relied on her staying asleep too, so Gwyn definitely wasn't coming to get her.
She kind of has the same fate as Gehrman as well, now that you described it like that. Waiting in the dream for so long for Laurence, unaware that not only is Laurence long dead and trapped in the nightmare, but Yharnam as a whole being completely screwed
shrek forever after plot
Lemme barge in with my own grimdark theory for a sec: Filianore is-well, was-the first Fire Keeper. You know, the one whose eyes we find in the darkened Firelink Shrine, and who Ludleth remarks would reveal the betrayal of Gwyn's will and a world without fire.
For one, we don't see her eyes or any evidence she even has eyes, just the black tendrils oozing from her sockets. Likewise, the eyes of a Fire Keeper show a black ooze seeping from their pupils.
But perhaps more convincing is her clothing. Look especially at the emblem on her crown, a sort of three-pointed leaf with a silver gem encrusted at its center. Now look at the Fire Keeper's mask-it's the same emblem, simply warped and expanded. Furthermore, Filianore's dress is actually very close to the Fire Keeper's robes in cut and trim, but the two characters are contrasted in color scheme. Whereas the Fire Keeper has white hair and black robes, Filianore has black hair and wears white. They're directly referential to one another.
We know that as a rule, all Fire Keepers must be kept blind, but it isn't until DS3 that we find out why. Fire Keepers are embodiments of their bonfires, and the eyes would reveal the inevitable future that the flame would have to fade, no matter how many times we try to preserve it. Filianore, having witnessed a premonition of the fire's end, was sealed away by Gwyn to hide any reason to doubt his will to keep the flame alive.
But here's the really fun part: if Filianore is the first Fire Keeper, and if Fire Keepers are the personification of their respective bonfires... wouldn't that indicate that Filianore is the embodiment of the first flame itself?
Think about it-both are kept alive by Gwyn's self-absorbed dream, far out of sight and protected by his most devout worshippers. Humanity is deceived into believing they are alive and well, but in truth they're nothing but withered husks of their former glory.
She was the light that Gwyn desperately sought to protect, even if it meant eternal separation from each other. It almost makes me feel bad for him, too, if it didn't cost the world to preserve her and the flame.
Gwyn sent his own daughter to die and lied to her that he'd come back for her. Considering that her egg-like item might be a Transposing Kiln, Filianore was possibly made to destroy her own soul to fuel the illusion of the Ringed City, keeping the humans there unaware until their "seals of fire" hollowed them.
Dang, that King's Field IV track is haunting. I like it.
What's the exact name of the track?
@@georgiatanasow6658 dark reality
@@mrmagichat7555 thanks man
Totally didn't realize the ringed knight was smiling or had that many teeth
Being a knight gets you great dental coverage.
I got give those knights props they're strong as hell swinging those pieces of iron around.
He's not smiling, his lips are gone.
Ur cute
@@nightscout9979 what are you talking about? He's just hyped for the last Dark Souls boss!
Moral of the Story: Don’t have a bastard demigod with a flaming sword be in charge of the world. It never ends well
blin blin blon
Its not a "choice." Rulers force their rule upon others and will literally let the world end before giving a single inch to the people.
I mean, it's still better than a cueball headed puppet, right ? ;D
Age of Dark wouldn't be better. Both circles just consume until there is nothing left, that's what Aldia tried to tell everyone. Gwyn wanted to avoid this wasteland, yet another stagnant Age of Ancients. He sacrificed his body, his will, his very own soul, so that the world he knew could live for a tad longer, but it wasn't enough, because it's the nature of Ages to burn the world to ash.
A world of hollows and monsters wouldn't be that much better.
The Kingsfield music is a nice touch, putting one of the first fromsoft tracks on the last area of its magnum opus
This is the song from the last area of the last King's Field game.
@@wewserlethaldude9 it's from fromsofts first game franchise which is why I call it one of the first
Personally I wish that you could see Drangleic castle or something in the distance along with Lothric and Anor Londo, it'd feel more complete to me.
edit: i should've known better than open my mouth lmao
miyazaki dont give a f about ds2 lol
@@gcash8892 Wdym tho earthen peak ruins. Uumm, the giant tree and........... Shield of want...... Alva armour...... Drake Knights..................... Poison bugs.......... Desert sorcerer.................
@@yourewallsareveryconvenien8292 Yeah that was pretty stupid to add in as DKS3 lore makes no sense in canon to 2.
@@jessebrown1996 how so?
@@yourewallsareveryconvenien8292 that was because Yui Tanimura and the other director complain about how disrespectful Miyazaki was against their work, because yes, Miyazaki don't give a fuck about DS2 tbr
God, I love this game's art direction and architecture so much.
Theres a more approitae word for god
I wish I could say the same about the gameplay.
@@thecandlemaker1329 its pretty good
@@thecandlemaker1329 The heck you talking about? DS3 has one of the best gameplay in the souls series. Alongside bloodborne and sekiro.
@@a-ha4940 What weapons are you talking about? DS III is straight sword simulator 2016, the other builds are severely inferior, and magic just sucks ass.
The detail on the character model of -Old Man Guts- Gael is still really impressive.
He's the final boss of the series! They had to make it count.
@@alfalldoot6715 Certainly a huge step up from Soul of Cinder AKA Gwyn 2.0
@@pious83 I actually think Gael's a big step down, particularly story wise (SoC also has that cool moment when "Gwyn, Lord of Cinder" starts to mix in the theme with the fiery great sword phase, which works since DS3 is "DS1, the remix and retelling") and in many ways visually-Gael's fight is pretty great for a Souls boss though, and it's one of the few BIG arenas to run around in during.
Gael being another "*homage*" to Guts that doesn't matter a single bit to the story of DS3 proper, or Dark Souls as a whole imo puts a huge damper on him and his arc. Given that he only actually appears/matters in the DLC and even then is barely there, outside of obviously tricking your in DLC1 and giving you a few safe drop notes in DLC2. He only really interacts as far as we know with a single living character in an attic that no one ever directs towards or really makes any note of and is also exclusive to the DLC story. SoC also doesn't have any "character" lead up outside of tangential relation to the player(s) past, but he's a concept in universe manifest which imo has more bearing that "I gotta get that paint. I GOTTA get that paint!"
@@Valanway dunno, I feel like Gael was the best end boss they could have done. but let's not talk about the mechanical part of the boss.
Gael is also an undead, right? he's alive since the apex of the age of fire, and I think it's also a pretty good representation of us, players.
unlike anyone else in the world, Gael had a goal and was able to do whatever it would cost to achieve that. he probably died a lot of times, just like we did.
now, think, we ( theoretically ) passed through demon's souls, ds1, 2, bloodborne and ds3. we fought demons, fallen lords, beasts, great ones, but our last enemy is "just" a human like us.
we died a lot, but even so we keep trying to kill the next boss, for a simple hair of contentment, this goal of ours kept us strong enough to reach the end together.
I don't know if you could understand what I meant, unfortunately I only know basic English, but I would say that Gael is the protagonist of his own story
and it's also a parallel with soul of cinder. soul of cinder uses the souls of old ones, while gael uses the dark soul.
ooh, just one more thing, Gael goes hollow when he realizes that his goal was achieved, and then, you are not facing Slave Knight Gael anymore, you're facing the Dark Soul. :)
@@Halberick your english is perfect and I agree :)
I've never noticed that the Pygmy Lord was decapitated!
It would have been a much cleaner sever if Gael's sword wasn't broken and chipped and fragmented like it is.
@@ChargeQM its darker if you believe he was feeding on them like a vampire.
The music was fitting, and someone’s comment about having played with someone to clear the dlc over 15 hours and then never speaking again after saying “This is it. This is the end” before fighting Gael gave me fucking chills
The Gameplay of Dark souls is fun... But when you go into the story it's kinda sad, knowing You, Gael, The Ringed Night, and Shira all end there... like there's nothing else left in the world. Basically to summarize... These games hit far differently than I have seen any other game try to replicate.
LMAO I read another detailed comment that is this comment. How about get some originality for once. Instead of trying to pull likes from some one else’s experience.
@@codrs2662 I literally stated it was someone else’s comment. How about you read before talking shit?
Honestly, probably one of the best endings to a game. Its one of death, but also birth. At the end theres nothing left, the world that we knew is nothing but ash and ruin with no chance of coming back; the world of dark souls is gone. There is light though, after defeating Gale and getting the dark soul, it can be given to the Painting Lady to make a new world. Essentially, dark souls has ended, but a new story begins.
"I'm so terribly frightened of timidly rotting away. Like those... like those fools on the outside."
This is probably one of the most powerful vistas in all of gaming
This is it. This is the end of everything. There are only a few hollows left to be burned away, everyone else is gone, be they gods or kings or heroes, no matter who they were they simply disappeared from existence, lost forever in the ash. The only real major forces left are you the player and Gael, two undead who managed to hold on and fight for the world they wanted even to the end of the world. It’s here where you finally face off and decide everything. Once you defeat him, then the world has truly ended, leaving only yourself and a soul of dark, with which you can decide to create a new world that perhaps might be better than the one you left behind.
"The Red Hood has come to eat us... to eat our Dark Souls..."
"The Red Hood has come to eat us... to eat our DARK SOULS™ III Deluxe Edition..."
"Red Red comes to eat... eat our dark moments... File, save me..."
Very original comment
@@amintron 112 likes with zero effort. So efficient.
@@autisticbraindamagedmoron the poorly translated mod is really hard to forget 🤣
I think gael's boss fight arena is easily the biggest arena right?
I feel like it would be a close threeway between Gael, Midir, and Ancient Wyvern
Rom
I think?
@@Ayahuasca98 yeah, Rom's is pretty huge. Four Kings as well. and maybe Kalameet?
@@A.C_B. Gael’s arena is on a whole nother level
This is the best picture I've ever seen of the end of time itself. Not necessarily a ceasing of the flow of time, but of anything happening in it. All these cycles, all this pain, all those souls sacrificed in the name of Gwyn's fear of the dark, it all led to this. A barren, empty world of ash and dust. An infinite ruin, stretching out in every direction. There's a kind of sad peace to it all. I just want to wander those barren plains, taking in the sheer scope of the end. The last flame, the last undead, the last hollow, all gone. The fight is over. It's all over...
Bro you talk like a dark souls npc
I take that as a compliment@@kloids2491
This track is so fitting, I really wish modern games had more muted OSTs more like this as opposed to the abundance of Epic and Choiral music
The Ori games can fill that void. I prefer big and exciting personally.
Helps the track is from a FromSoftware game
I think the word "epic" sums up what's wrong with a lot of scores, especially movies. Bad composers love staccato strings choir and booming brass. Basically they took "to die for" from the lion king and completely missed the point.
I wish FromSoftware would have let him work on more of the Souls series. I kinda consider him one of the greatest composers in video games history tbh
@@Kyrieru absolutely agree. People keep losing their minds over big orchestral scores but I can still hum Megalovania or Sif's theme but won't be able to tell Nier Automata from Call of Duty. Good music is good music, instrumentation aside. Games want epic instead of good
I never noticed that the Ringed City’s steeples are all the Sword of Avowal from the Anri Wedding
Which is honestly so confusing since the sword's description describes it as being from the steeples of the sable church in Londor, yet I don't think the ringed city is supposed to be Londor? Maybe it is tho
@@Shmethan ringed city is not supposed to be londor.
But londor and ringed city share the same values on the dark more than likely.
@@Shmethan my guess is that Londor based that design on the Ringed City's, since it's the place where the dark souls resides
the first DLC should really have been on Londor. disappointed we never actually got to see the damn place everyone talks about
It's just a coincidence. Both designs are based on the Darksign.
Dark Reality is such a great soundtrack to use. Good choice, Zoe.
The kings field music really captures that feeling this being the end. Where the world of dark souls collapses in on itself.
dark souls as a series is insane. the end of time depicted with unrivaled stagnancy, all that remains to those lucky enough to survive longer than they were supposed to is rubble. i love that the timelines in dark souls are vague and unclear, and you never really get to understand how large the world really was. i'm hoping that elden ring has something like the end of the world in this game; i'm fascinated by things like this and i want to see it in a more open setting.
"The last map added to the Dark Souls universe"
Excuse me, this isn't Ivory Tower.
Another checkmark ruins the day
Bruh
DS2 > DS3
I don't get it but hello checkmark man
Care to explain why, ivory tower is in Ds2!
The world ended because Santa Claus ate everyone
The DLC
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I feel like this was the perfect end to the souls series. Two nobodies, in the middle of nowhere, fighting over nothing.
perfect way to portrait it.
Would've been better if thats what it was but they were actually fighting over everything. Gael knew he couldn't contain the dark soul he needed you to kill him to end it all
I always wondered why his cape was split like that. That huge gash on his back gives us an answer. Too friggin cool. Now I wonder, how he got that gash.
Edit: and still ya know, wtf happened to his poor tummy-tum. Some gnarly indigestion right there.
Edit: oh holy fuck that hole is Gael's darksign!? He is on a whole new level of hollowing, jeez louise.
Dark Souls is the only series where you could be goofily shield-spamming and Praising the Sun with friendly players one moment, and then having an existential crisis the next
The fact Anor Londo has more towers makes hope Yorshka was able to rebuild her brothers legacy for a a time
I always thought this area of the game was really sad, but really aggravating too. I really hated Gwyn for what he did to humanity. The world is mutilated and can't move on. The First Flame is never allowed to fade, and over eons the world simply fills with ash, until all that's left is that desert and the ruins of the civilizations of men and gods. No one can die, but maybe we were never meant to. Maybe undeath is our truest form. The darkness of mankind is shackled by the curse. What doesn't eventually go mad when it's imprisoned like that? The real curse is the fate that Gwyn thrust onto humanity. Never to inherit the world, never to have our turn at the helm of destiny.
The painting with the pigment of the Dark Soul is a path forward for humans, but it's far from what we deserved, what we had the right to inherit. Look at that desert, at the end of all things. Look what's left of humanity to start over. We've fallen so far, and so few of us remain. And the ones that do are driven mad by aimless, endless purposelessness. Hollow. That's humanity's new starting point. How can a world born of that be anything but demented?
I love your interpretation, but doesn't this map takes place in the Future?
@@felipecosta-kv2fx How does that contradict with anything they just said?
@@janedoe4929 Sorry for not giving more details...
What i want to say is that i always thought this map took place in the Future, not at the same time the main game takes place, i thought this isn't the present, but a representation of what would happen with the world If the flame was kept lit.
The ending of the DLC, for me, takes place in the Future and the rest of the game (excluding that firelink shrine area) takes place in the present.
The situation is already that bad in the present, now look at the Future, there's nothing There anymore...
I've heard a theory saying that painting is the world of Bloodborne.
Gwyn is the reason humanity isn't completely made up of hollows. His ring of fire and maintenance of the First Flame is what allowed humans to not be violent zombies. Humans don't go mad because their dark is "imprisoned", they do because that's what the dark naturally does to humans. Hollowing is the natural consequence of undeath, and undeath is the natural state of man.
People keep trying to thrust the blame for undeath and hollowing upon Gwyn, because they think it sounds vaguely poetic and because everything bad must be his fault, but not only is it not supported by anything, Aldia outright states the opposite.
Linking the fire leads to a world of ash, but not doing so leads to one of hollows and monsters.
Ive never played dark souls, but ive watched plenty of lore videos.
This video puts a tightness in my chest thats hard to describe. Such an amazing series and world ends. Not with a bang, or a flash, but with a whimper.
It ends with a long, drawn out age of rot and decay until nothing is left. All the gods are gone, all the dragons slain. People no longer live their lives, children no longer run and play in the streets.
Nothing left besides a cold wind blowing over ruins, which themselves are doomed to eventually be ground down into the ash.
Was it even avoidable? Was an Age of Dark even possible? The flame itself always ensured that it would be rekindled, even long after gwyn and his manipulations are gone. As though it was punishing the world for the subversion of the natural order, ensuring another age would never come.
The utter hopelessness is a profound feeling. Looking at this feels like being able to know what the heat death of the universe is like. Its haunting, and such a sad ending to a wonderful story.
The big hole in Gael reminds me of Uzumaki, especially with the “apocalypse of convergence” theme
Same! My first thought was literally Uzumaki
A nice touch would've been Lothric Castle and Anor Londo falling down once Gael was defeated.
The skybox changes so there's that.
I sometimes go to this map to just walk around and think about the series as a whole. It's crazy that we're one of the last things to be alive in the entire timeline.
This was the video that made me subscribe to Zullie, back in the day. Man, what great atmosphere you show here with the Kingsfield music, it's been stuck in my head ever since.
The 3d designers and concepts artists at Fromsoft knocked it out of the park, with this area. It is just such a perfect vision of complete ruin.
I like to imagine what the pygmy lords looked like sitting in their little thrones day after day, year after year. Just waiting for their savior - for the last time.
Oh god I never noticed his neck was broken like that. Poor guy. 0:53
More "sliced by a jagged edge of a broken blade" than broken ;p
@@Shoupa He was bitten and sucked dry of blood.
@@Specoups Wasn't her sliced open before the succ ?
I always saw it as Gael sliced his throat open then went on to devour the blood of the other pigmys, giving it the time to drag itself away while leaving a long long trail behind him
The cut itself being extremely messy because of Gael's sword being, well, in a state that could leave that kind of wound.
@@Shoupa We can't know for sure.
I personnaly think the bite would be more appropriate since I think it would be a waste to slice and potentially lose some of the stuff, and pigmy lords were so helpless that bringing a sword down their neck would be a waste of violence and energy as well.
Or Gael, since he's quite not himself anymore, could easily of course act in a less rationnal, optimized approach and indeed slash with his mighty sword before eating for whatever reason.
It's a matter of personal preference I believe.
Gael just gave him a hickey. That’s all
To this day I'm astounded there are people who say the ending of Dark Souls was anticlimactic. Two nobodies fighting in the remains of the end of the world was the perfect send off for the series.
The end of the world truly reflects history and actions of others:
Everything is sand now due to the linking cycle
Only a few structures remain, with lothric and either anor londo or drangleic castle remaining, more proof of the fall of civilizations.
In Gael’s fight, when dark spews onto the ground, lightning almost just as quickly strikes it out of existence, a nod to how this cycle began, with Gwyn fighting the dark.
What I want to know is who or what Gael fought to get those injuries. I know that breaking the illusion made time even more convoluted, but it looks like that wound on his chest could have either been made by a spell or a great arrow, while the slashs on his back... I can't really think of any characters in ds3's story that would be capable of that in this point of the game besides ringed knights or Alva, or maybe Shira but she didn't seem like she was going after Gael. I would have thought maybe some of the judicators phantoms would have done it, but nobody outright uses a greatbow in TRC, so the only other contender would be the witch, who finally succumbed in TRC and for some reason had joined the judicators ranks. Could be a plethora of things since the protag has the midas touch except everything they touch turns into another apocalypse.
I assumed that was his dark sign. Like, grown to horrific proportions from consuming so much of the dark soul.
I think it's just how the Darksign looks like when you hold 99.9% of the world's humanity/Dark Soul inside you. It could also be an advanced Dark Sigil, though I assume they are the same thing.
item descriptions says the chest thing is because of the dark soul blood, any other wound well, he did go to the ringed city
I like to believe that buried somewhere beneath this endless sea of ash, his Lady’s Painting, hewn from the godly powers that begat life itself, remains completely untarnished.
A cold, dark and gentle place. Free from the tyranny of flames and the savage madness of the deep.
I'm still amazed at how Dark Reality encapsulates the feeling of pretty much the entirety of the Souls trilogy (I won't speak for Demon's Souls or Bloodborne as I've never played them). It perfectly captures the empty grandeur of it all, the facade of deities and the civilization crumbling from its own weight. From knew what they wanted from their music since Kingsfield and it shows.
I like how in the soulsborne universe you stumble upon ancient kings and queens in beds or chairs, long forgotten and long dead but still resting eternally over their kingdom.
I love how they have Phase 2 Gael just tucked away in the tower lol. Would've been easy to just stick him underground or something, but it's a bit cooler that way.
Which, that gives me an idea. Is the fade to black in the Phase 2 cut-scene actually there just so they can switch the models? I figured it was an artistic choice. It does work, despite being the only time a cut-scene has a fade out and feeling a tiny bit awkward, but knowing it is there to actually serve a purpose is cool too.
Probably was partly the intent. As is, there really isn’t a good time to switch the models. The cutscene doesn’t cut to your character or have a shot where Gael isn’t in it. It stays on him the entire time. Also had to switch the skybox for when phase 2 starts
Even at the end of the world I still have ThiccBoi42069 invading me for my ember
It's mesmerizing how this arena can be so empty yet so beautiful.. Fromsoft truly provided us with the best possible ending for the souls series
I'm still salty over how little love was given to DS2 in this game
ds2 doesnt even love itself, and that's fundamental to having others love you.
Even if ds3 doesn’t give it love, at least it’s canon that there’s one immortal undead who can’t hollow just chillin throughout everything.
There's still a lot of references in the game, like Alva, earthen peak, faraam knights, Lucatiel, Drang set, the giant tree etc
That was a design choice I really loved about DS3. While yes the soul of cinder fight technically is the finale, beating Gael and returning the pigment to the painter girl is really the end of the story of "Dark souls", and it went out so quietly. There wasn't some intense high octane finale like you would find in other games, instead the finale is in a windswep desert devoid of really anything.
Wow I had never considered that could be Anor Londo. Years later and Dark Souls still blows my mind
It always bugged me that we never got to go into the tower that midir is hiding behind in the ringed city, the one shown in like all the promos. that would’ve made such a cool boss encounter location… :(
maybe is cut content, i think in the game files it's referred as a mausoleum, it could be possible the furtive pigmy is there
The Sword of Avowal is on practically every building. I’ve read that implies the location is Londor, but does that also say something about the Usurpation of Fire ending being the “true” ending?
Technically, you traveled forward in time through Filianore but you never became Usurper Dark Lord during the process. What we see is result of Gwyn´s refusal of natural order of the world. I think the "true" ending might actually prevent this from happening. But of course, the only truly good ending would be DS1 Dark Lord ending which would probably prevent a lot of this from happening in the first place. World ended up fucked up because Dark Souls series chose the ending where Chosen Undead falls for a trick of the Gods and offers himself as fuel, thus forcibly prolonging Gwyn´s Age of Fire.
@@eliasar5051 I'm not a fan of the Dark Lord ending in Ds1, all your chosen undead does is slay bosses for no reason in order to gain enough souls to link the fire, then refuse to link the fire and walk out. You might as well have not left the asylum if that was the case. Ds2 proves that if the chosen one (this time Vendrick) doesnt link it, someone else will just come along and do it. Ds3 proves that even if the same thing happens and nobody else comes along, eventually the world itself gets so fucky it folds in on itself and even resurrects former successful and unsuccessful lords to try and link the fire. There's really no such thing as a Dark Lord ending in dark souls, there's only an "I'm leaving, someone else can do it" ending.
Also as a fandom we still dont know what a true Dark ending would even result in (even if the world allowed the fire to go unlinked long enough to fully fade), we can only guess based on something a single snake tells us, and it's highly likely that the same snake told similar stories to Oolacile and royally fucked them. World ended up fucked due to linking the fire, but that's eons in the future (and everything dies eventually), would it really be better if we killed the flame in Ds1 and everyone ended up turning into grotesque Oolacile-style mutations because it turns out Kaath didnt tell us the truth?
Londor came from the New Londo city, which is posterior to the formation of Lordran which is posterior to the Ringed City.
To me it looks more like The inhabitants of Londor took something from the culture of the gods that already existed.
there is no true ending, but the lord of hollows one is possibly the best outcome, since the situation is so bad that letting the fire fade will bring the age of the deep. Linking again is just postponing the inevitable, letting the firekeeper take the flame seems temporary as well, seeing as she talks about new flames n the dark from old lords, the one where you kill the firekeeper might be similar but now you are more powerful? The connection between londor and ringed city could very well kathee, he most surely knew about the city
@@eliasar5051 there is no real travelng trough time, basically the ringed city is in a time bubble thanks to filianore, when we pop the bubble the city goes fast foward to the moment we are at the end of ds3 (maximum stagnation and convergence)
hey our favorite witch, how's it going?
not sure if you're going to read this anyway, but recently I was doing a Dark Souls III fists only no damage taken run and something happened to me in the nameless king boss fight, specifically in king of the storm phase.
after that fire breath, nameless king followed that up with a lighting spear and I was able to capture that on camera!
I don't know if that's a pretty rare attack or if I just had bad luck in all of these years playing the game, cause I never saw that move before, even in other people's videos.
so I would be honored if you could check it out!
this is the video: th-cam.com/video/erVdzmTdwf0/w-d-xo.html
at the minute 1:15:08
and if you guys could share your experience, I would love too!
3:09 Worst game of musical chairs ever
I can't believe I didn't notice this sooner, but at 5:12 in the video, is the representation of where the large tower of the Grand Archives is, and the path that leads to Lorian and Lothric's boss chamber in the main game.
Considering how long they have been there as the last survivors, did Gael and Shira ever...
...hang out?
Heh.
Gael is crazy and Shira was way too obsessed with the gods, I doubt it, but I like to think there was some type of interaction
Dark Souls III has the best art direction of any game I've played (even better than most movies and series...) Its places and characters (and music) make me feel so many things...
I think ds1 did it better
Ds3 is too Greyish , and yellowish
@@Gorecatto ds3 is everything ds1 was with the life sucked from it. for those of us who like to dwell in negative emotions I think ds3 takes the cake. the being said, without the things it reused from ds1 it wouldnt have the same impact. the return to anor londo was highly emotional for me.
@@auto1nfanticid3 100% correct couldnt have worded it any better
Shira with the serious thousand yard stare. I hate her character- religious fanatics are never sympathetic. But from her perspective, everything she ever valued has been destroyed or fallen apart, and the one person she was taught to look down on, a human, is coming out on top. She certainly knows that you'll keep coming back everytime you're killed and she basically can't win. I wonder if she realizes that it was Gwyn's curse that keeps you coming back. If so, it probably broke her. When she attacks you its essentially suicide by cop. She was mighty, but she dies sputtering out some petty hatred. Truly pathetic.
Is it really a 'religion' if the gods are real, though? Shira probably met some of them, she says they're her ancestors... doesn't that make it more like a blood feud? In fact, letting Filianore (the last living[?] deity?) go Hollow was what pissed her off.
What unnerves me the most in the world of Dark Souls is that the majority of time, it talks about living places with kingdoms, societies with lots of people.
But when we show up, everything is dead or try to die but can't.
We're like "final operators", only here for the worst cases possible, only here to do what's necessary... and make life rises again.
But we'll never see the fruits of our actions.
Lordran and Drangleic must be beautiful, but we have no purpose to be here when it happens.
This map is just so cool to look at, fighting at the end of everything. Now compare this large arena to Capra Demon's closet arena lmao
I am once more, asking you to look at Souls 2 hitboxes
it is still very jarring to see, after all of Gwyn's efforts to claim and preverve his own world and all the adventures of undead seeking truth or meaning, *the end* of the world.
To be fair, Gwyn might be directly responsible for this. He broke the cycle when he tried to prolong the age of fire,and the inner workings of the world have been going evermore wrong since
Too bad Gwyn didn't live to see his failure
I find interesting how most like to see Gwyn as the villain who caused this to happen, despite the fact the only thing he is guilty of is being far too human himself. He sacrificed himself so his people, his Age, would exist for a bit longer. He was afraid of the end, if not for himself then for his people. Isn't it our own nature to not let go? To do whatever it takes to not see our empires and civilizations crumble? If the roles of the gods and humanity would be switched in Dark Souls, do you believe individuals such as Vendrick or Ivory King would do otherwise, without knowing their actions would only delay the inevitable?
@@scar4361 He also saved humanity from hollowing for almost a millennium after linking the flame.
@@scar4361 The Ivory King definitely would contend.
This music choice is absolutely perfect. I also never knew of the Ringed City Knight there. fascinating. so 4 people made it to The End.
Pretty much the oldest characther left canonicaly too. Fighting the every lasting dragons.
Dear Zullie,
I have become a little bit obsessed with the music track behind this video. It seems to play in my head wherever I go, filling my days with a pronounced sense of forlorn wonder.
Thank you for the fun videos, I especially enjoyed the dog one. Thank goodness that music doesn't follow me around as well 😅
Day 35 of simping for Zullie
Well, shame on devs to not putting even a 2D Drangelic Castle in distance. Or that means that the Bearer of the Curse saved all of Drangelic and nearby countries from DS3 shit?
This question doesnt really fit to the video, but is there any answer to who the hell repaired the freaking window in Anor Londo?
I assume Sulyvahn's men when they built Irithyll around Anor Londo.