I love that Logan is literally a living legend, with characters of later games and even this game talking about him in the same breath as the very gods.
@@mojo-jojogroovyaustinpowers dark souls 2 and 3. 2 has crystal soul spear, literally name drops a big hat wizard. Same for 3 but pretty sure they say Logan proper.
It's strange to think of, but the player killing Logan is what enabled him to speak his teachings far and wide. If Vinheim's assassins had gotten to him, they would've burned his heretical teachings. If he was left alone in the archives, his experiments surely would've taken his mind, if not his life, and all of his knowledge with it. Only through the player do his spells and discoveries escape from the archives themselves.
@@DiabolicalHater It implies no such thing. Time is convoluted in Lordran. The final boss of Dark Souls 3 is every single player, every single build to ever link the fire.
@@DiabolicalHaternot really It only implies a hollow could use his spells. Remember you aren’t ‘the chosen undead’ that is a fabrication to get the undead to gather to the flame.
Reference from another game for him : The blacksmith who forged these, claimed they were meant for a hero called Big Cat Logan, but sadly there is no record of anyone with this name
Glad you're still carrying the Dark Souls lore mantle after most other creators all but abandoned it. Keep it up, a lot of us are still here for this kind of content.
It's like he thought he was taking a dragons form. But he was actually suffering hypothermia. In the later stages, your decision-making is clouded. Here people often undress, causing them to freeze faster.
something i think is missed alot is the correlation of stat requirement and scaling caps with quest progression. like crystal soul spear is "44" because after is when int starts strongly suffering from diminishing returns. after is when he starts to go mad, realizing the more he increases int the less he gets back. and after the hardship of getting to 50 and creating a crystal catalyst that pushes power, with sacrifice to usage. he decides to try and create seathes crystal breath. The white crystal breathe is meant to be disappointing, no curse, low damage, and patheticly small. here he finally hits the limit of human ability, and although he can still keep going. he now knows his limits and it is ultimately unimpressive. thus losing his purpose and going hollow. also it should be noted that all sorceries from vinheim, are low requirements 16 or below, because this is an ability that can be achieved thru nature life (also by the sorcerer class who is prob an above average student, that reaches lordan at 15 int), without the need to increasing int thru the bonfire by the power of the lords. only because logan is in lordran can he create the more powerful souls spears and such. as well as griggs who follows after.
He was clearly trying to become a dragon to achieve eternal life, just like the unnamed king. Logan's skin is freaking blue. You have to declothe to become a dragon when using the tablets. Ds3 goes so hard to show you people are becoming dragons to escape the cycle because time is being held stagnant by gwyns daughters spell
Afterall i think Logan was just stepping on the same path as Seath, but their goals were different, Logan wanted to gain ultimate knowledge, with no ill intents, Seath however only developed such knowledge to gain what was not given to it for free to him unlike the other Ancient Dragons, immortality So after betraying his "kind" (Seath was very apart from the other dragons afterall) he was still feeling gealous of the lack of immortality, hence why he sturdied studying so hard, building the Archives to study for himself and find a way to create immortality, now i don't know how exactely he managed to pull that off, but if i had to guess, the giant hole-shaped crystal forest makes me believe that crystals came down like a meteorite, which he then harvested, studied and found out they were the pefect catalysts for not just spells but immortality itself, much like Logan once he ended up on Seath research Both of their stories end there, one could say he wanted to become just like a true Dragon, but even Seath could not replicate that, yet i think Logan would have hated to look like a Dragon and be considered such because of his look and not because of how long and hard he studied to gain the same powers
It may sound dumb but i just had a really bad panic attack and this video truly was a life saver, an escape to the horrible place i was 15 minutes ago, so thanks a lot for still making Dark Souls lore video, my favorite game ever
12:20 Note the dodecahedron on the base and icosahedron towards the tip of the staff. Platonic solids corresponding to the formless classical elements of water and aether, respectively. Formless like the Dark.
@@sleeper1855aether is the fifth (V) element, the *quintessence* of humanity Fire is associated with the tetrahedron, which is why explosive barrels in Brume Tower and Lothric Castle are often stacked in tetrahedral sets of 4.
@@sleeper1855careful with your next step. The discovery of Platonic solids and their astrological correlation pushed me off a cliff into a nearly 2 decade quest that lead to majority of the secrets of reality being unraveled. Now I constantly live in a state of pretending I don’t know. Only allowing minimal info to slip out when necessary. The truth is a heavy burden that erases any excuse. But it’s so simple that you’ll say “duh” when you realize it.
Having started with DS3, and understanding how the Path of the Dragon works in that game, it made perfect sense to me that Logan's intentions with being naked were to become a dragon. If I didn't have that background knowledge, Logan's nakedness would've been much more confounding.
oh yes! I am so happy you are still making DS Lore videos, because it is easily my favourite game Lore-wise. there is so much to discover, its insane, I love it.
I just finished my first Playthrough as a sorcerer and Logan was a huge savior for me. I didn't realize the end of his quest and just stabbed him after I bought the last spell for dragon breath
@alexterieur8813 I had some help through the playthrough from a friend but the only really tough parts were a certain part of New Londo and then the wheel skeletons in the Catacombs. Casting speed was my enemy there, but using the Lightning Spear as a backup weapon helped get passed these few tight spots. The DLC spells would have also been a bit more useful if I put a few points into strength but the Spear spells just melt anyone who gives you a problem and a full second. So yeah, efficient enough. Glass Cannon in late game though.
I love that you’re going back to some Dark Souls characters. I’d love to see some videos on DS2 characters in the future (specifically characters like Raime and Velstadt, Ivory King, The Daughters of Manus, Agdayne, Emerald Harold, or Licia) or a video about the reincarnation of the Lords Souls in DS2.
Everybody in Lordran going age of fire this, curse of the undead that, yadda yadda bell of awakening Meanwhile, 5D chess Logan is already looking for insight to transcend humanity, old blood be damned
It’s interesting how to me big hat Logan was a concept in the sense that he is merely a vessel for learning and magic, and I’m sure everyone else thinks the same in the souls universe, but in reality he’s very down to earth and far different than his antisocial appearance. I had just forgot how nice he really was because of how long ago I’d done his quest
Logan was a character I always wanted to know more about I wish he had more of a questline he is build up to be such a legendary figure its a shame we didn't get more about Logan
Logan being naked in his last encounter seems to me an attempt to imitate Seath. He was "scaleless", and even his big hat ofuscated his vision, like the Albino dragon. He probably tried to mimic Seath's way of thinking or approach to research in order to understand it like the mad dragon, got a crystal staff and learned to mimic the crystal breath trough magic.
Please, never stop making videos. Your interpretations of the lore feel the most complete and are extremely intriguing. It's baffling how From could even come up with so many hidden meanings and details in the story and characters. And that's just dark souls 1...
I think he may want to get into seath's mindset by shedding his clothes in a way. Seath does not have any protective layer cause he's missing scales, so Logan does the same.
It seems like oceiros got further ahead than logan did, but found the same gap in progress when he was going mad with ocelot. While logan was gradually becoming dragon like with the complexion of his skin changing the way oceiros skin became the same tint mirroring seathe, it still inevitably directed towards those that followed the path of the dragon. The primordial crystal was a ancient dragon artifact and has the same transformative properties dragon slabs have if near humans that can discern it. Oceiros also is the ashen ones access to archdragon peak when they get the path of the dragon gesture, and some of the dragonoids strewn throughout the area are more developed with longer tails resembling what oceiros had become if they weren't fossilized. People speculated oceiros used ocelot as a way to gain power (albeit insignificant) the way some souls bosses do if they slay their counterpart (smough/ornstein, namelessking/king of the storm)but lost his wit to complete that process despite loosing a potential heir to replace lothric.
I don't think anyone could get to where Logan was and NOT keep pushing forward to madness. He dedicated his life to knowledge, and so was completely powerless when presented with an endless supply. He never stood a chance of turning away, his big hat blocking out the world.
Agreed. I think they got worse with each game, although ds3 had some interesting NPCs. Not Elden Ring though; every npc felt lifeless to me. Even Alexander; just a worse Siegward.
Overall I agree - Dark Souls is a very special game. However, there are characters in the other games that I feel had a lot of depth - Lucatiel, Greirat, Lady Maria & Gehrman, Alexander (off the top of my head at 6am lol XD)
The Dark souls lore is Hawkshaws best work what a great detective. Hope he does one on Dark Sun Gwyndolin with links to Dark souls 3 as prince lothric has same voice actor and I would like more info and how and why Aldrich ate him.
He was born as "Big Logan" so everyone assumed he was fat. To avoid association with a cat, he got a nice big hat. People soon forgot they thought him fat, so thankfully that was that.
On my first playthrough of DS1 back in the day, after rescuing Logan from the Archives and chatting with him, I was gearing up to go fight Seath again. He ends the conversation with "and the secret to Seath's immortality..." I audibly went, "What's that, mate?!" He saved me from getting sent back to curse prison and I'm always keen on rescuing him, even if I'm not running a magic build. I'm sad he loses his mind in the pursuit of knowledge but he hollows pursuing what he loves, I guess: No happy endings in Dark Souls 🫣
Lovely to be watching this at 5.30am with my big mug of tea 🙂 I definitely am in line with Big-Hat Logan when it comes to other people (good ol' Miyazaki-San!) Dark Souls is such a special game ❤
It's always a good day when Hackshaw posts! As a side note have you ever thought of doing a video of parallels and references to other fromsoft games within each other?
Oooh new video, I love it. A question, do you pick the music on your videos from a list or choose it yourself? Asking 'cause hearing Gothic's 2 music in the first minutes take me on a nostalgia trip and I'm curious if you played it too
Succinct and insightful, these are the comments worth combing through Dark Souls comment sections for. Like finding a Large Soul of a Seasoned Warrior…
I always thought that Logan mumbled “I can’t remember their death….the undead” like he was suddenly snapped to the thought that he doesn’t remember if his student/friend is even alive at that point and just keeps trying to convince himself that he does know but he ends up convincing himself of the wrong memory and fully commits to trying to become a dragon. But in the end he’s just a imitation of a scaleless dragon
Apart from your beautiful voice talking about Ol' Big Hat Logan, I must praise your choice of music, with Firewatch being a game i would think Logan would play to free his mind😅
hey hawkshaw you know over the years I've been following & commenting alot and got a few high lighted ones so i know theres a decent chance you'll happen by this heres my question and its been bugging me for years: Remember when you lot made the darksouls timeline video? ive watched it literally no joke hundreds of time just breaking everything down ive just never been able to get around how you came to the conclusion that all father loyd was the creator of humanity? i always figured it was the the furtive pygmy and we came after and so ect ect i understand that the pygmy with the other primeval entities could very well have been created then found the souls and became their respective selves (ei nito gywn the Witch ) but again why all father loyd? i hope this text didn't end up to lengthy but if you get back and discuss i would greatly appreciate it! either way wonderful video as always! ❤
It’s weird Miyazaki would comment that. Logan seems to like people; he just seems to avoid anything unnecessary that could distract him from his research
Would you test the limits like Logan? Or play it safe?
hell yea I'd push his limits, I need his autistic boyswag to thrive
oh. like logan. yea sure
SAFE!!!
can i do a hybrid build lol
I relate with big hat logan
Logan ended up naked because in his madness from knowledge he realized he has higher invincibility frames being naked. A mad lad.
I love that Logan is literally a living legend, with characters of later games and even this game talking about him in the same breath as the very gods.
Such is the way of the ambitious breakers of molds and tradition.
Which characters in future games talk about him?
@@mojo-jojogroovyaustinpowers dark souls 2 and 3. 2 has crystal soul spear, literally name drops a big hat wizard. Same for 3 but pretty sure they say Logan proper.
@@lucamckenn5932 I know that but, he said characters.
@@mojo-jojogroovyaustinpowersOrbeck of Vinheim mentions him when you give him Logans scroll
It's strange to think of, but the player killing Logan is what enabled him to speak his teachings far and wide. If Vinheim's assassins had gotten to him, they would've burned his heretical teachings. If he was left alone in the archives, his experiments surely would've taken his mind, if not his life, and all of his knowledge with it. Only through the player do his spells and discoveries escape from the archives themselves.
That's why legends are as they are, but some say legends never die.
this implies that the canon Dark Souls build is a sorc build. My melee and/or faith builds didn't carry on Logan's legacy
@@DiabolicalHater It implies no such thing. Time is convoluted in Lordran. The final boss of Dark Souls 3 is every single player, every single build to ever link the fire.
@@hohhoch3617 convolute deez nuts with your mouth dork, I didn't ask
@@DiabolicalHaternot really
It only implies a hollow could use his spells.
Remember you aren’t ‘the chosen undead’ that is a fabrication to get the undead to gather to the flame.
"His skin seems normal", meanwhile he's standing there like Papa Smurf's and Tarzan's love child.
As in "not hollow jerky"
yeah, the grand archives have an incredibly heavy blue filter for some reason. the crystal hollows are white/grey without the filter
Reference from another game for him : The blacksmith who forged these, claimed they were meant for a hero called Big Cat Logan, but sadly there is no record of anyone with this name
@@panamajerky waaaaaat
My god, but now I wonder if they are supposed to just look blue or actually be blue
Yet, not mad Logan didn't really look blue
Glad you're still carrying the Dark Souls lore mantle after most other creators all but abandoned it.
Keep it up, a lot of us are still here for this kind of content.
It's "old hat" but still good
@@AC-hj9tv Indeed.
Idk but old but man dark souls ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I can say I broke 3 controlers to that game alone and still comes back and play it no cap
I think Logan went crazy cuz he was looking into the mysteries of dark souls and didn't have a wiki
It's like he thought he was taking a dragons form. But he was actually suffering hypothermia. In the later stages, your decision-making is clouded. Here people often undress, causing them to freeze faster.
Serpents are cold blooded. Could it be perhaps he was closer to transformation than we were lead to believe?
They say an introvert dies twice, first when you take them to a party and then when you take away their hat
🤣
Then I can't die a 2nd time because I don't like hats.
He like me fr
@@masqueraid988better not get taken to a party then
@sylokthedefiled no I can't die a second time! You can't take off my entire jacket!
something i think is missed alot is the correlation of stat requirement and scaling caps with quest progression. like crystal soul spear is "44" because after is when int starts strongly suffering from diminishing returns. after is when he starts to go mad, realizing the more he increases int the less he gets back. and after the hardship of getting to 50 and creating a crystal catalyst that pushes power, with sacrifice to usage. he decides to try and create seathes crystal breath. The white crystal breathe is meant to be disappointing, no curse, low damage, and patheticly small. here he finally hits the limit of human ability, and although he can still keep going. he now knows his limits and it is ultimately unimpressive. thus losing his purpose and going hollow. also it should be noted that all sorceries from vinheim, are low requirements 16 or below, because this is an ability that can be achieved thru nature life (also by the sorcerer class who is prob an above average student, that reaches lordan at 15 int), without the need to increasing int thru the bonfire by the power of the lords. only because logan is in lordran can he create the more powerful souls spears and such. as well as griggs who follows after.
He was clearly trying to become a dragon to achieve eternal life, just like the unnamed king. Logan's skin is freaking blue. You have to declothe to become a dragon when using the tablets. Ds3 goes so hard to show you people are becoming dragons to escape the cycle because time is being held stagnant by gwyns daughters spell
Vinheim is even referred to as "the Dragon School". Hiding their intentions in plain sight in the name.
He was probably one step away from something like Oceiros.
Afterall i think Logan was just stepping on the same path as Seath, but their goals were different, Logan wanted to gain ultimate knowledge, with no ill intents, Seath however only developed such knowledge to gain what was not given to it for free to him unlike the other Ancient Dragons, immortality
So after betraying his "kind" (Seath was very apart from the other dragons afterall) he was still feeling gealous of the lack of immortality, hence why he sturdied studying so hard, building the Archives to study for himself and find a way to create immortality, now i don't know how exactely he managed to pull that off, but if i had to guess, the giant hole-shaped crystal forest makes me believe that crystals came down like a meteorite, which he then harvested, studied and found out they were the pefect catalysts for not just spells but immortality itself, much like Logan once he ended up on Seath research
Both of their stories end there, one could say he wanted to become just like a true Dragon, but even Seath could not replicate that, yet i think Logan would have hated to look like a Dragon and be considered such because of his look and not because of how long and hard he studied to gain the same powers
Goddamn scales...
@@SpoopySquidtime to get nekkid
It may sound dumb but i just had a really bad panic attack and this video truly was a life saver, an escape to the horrible place i was 15 minutes ago, so thanks a lot for still making Dark Souls lore video, my favorite game ever
I am very late, but please take care of yourself
at last, Hawkshaw finally begins to peel back the layers of the mystery: *why* is he called *Big Hat* Logan?
A 17 min video is not near enough to even begin theorizing on that mystery
12:20 Note the dodecahedron on the base and icosahedron towards the tip of the staff.
Platonic solids corresponding to the formless classical elements of water and aether, respectively.
Formless like the Dark.
Very interesting! I never knew that the platonic solids corresponded to ancient elements. Very cool!
@@sleeper1855aether is the fifth (V) element, the *quintessence* of humanity
Fire is associated with the tetrahedron, which is why explosive barrels in Brume Tower and Lothric Castle are often stacked in tetrahedral sets of 4.
@@sleeper1855careful with your next step. The discovery of Platonic solids and their astrological correlation pushed me off a cliff into a nearly 2 decade quest that lead to majority of the secrets of reality being unraveled.
Now I constantly live in a state of pretending I don’t know. Only allowing minimal info to slip out when necessary.
The truth is a heavy burden that erases any excuse. But it’s so simple that you’ll say “duh” when you realize it.
Having started with DS3, and understanding how the Path of the Dragon works in that game, it made perfect sense to me that Logan's intentions with being naked were to become a dragon. If I didn't have that background knowledge, Logan's nakedness would've been much more confounding.
I don't know if it was what they were going for but it came off as pretty funny at the time
oh yes! I am so happy you are still making DS Lore videos, because it is easily my favourite game Lore-wise.
there is so much to discover, its insane, I love it.
Despite the smaller in game world Dark Souls 1’s lore is both widest and deepest imo
HAWKSHAW BACK ON DARK SOULS 1 AGAIN HELL YEAH LETS GO
I just finished my first
Playthrough as a sorcerer and Logan was a huge savior for me. I didn't realize the end of his quest and just stabbed him after I bought the last spell for dragon breath
Are Intelligence build efficient in Dark Souls 1?
@@alexterieur8813Yes, the damage output you do with certain spells can outpace strength builds.
@@alexterieur8813dark bead
@alexterieur8813 I had some help through the playthrough from a friend but the only really tough parts were a certain part of New Londo and then the wheel skeletons in the Catacombs. Casting speed was my enemy there, but using the Lightning Spear as a backup weapon helped get passed these few tight spots. The DLC spells would have also been a bit more useful if I put a few points into strength but the Spear spells just melt anyone who gives you a problem and a full second. So yeah, efficient enough. Glass Cannon in late game though.
People complained Dark Souls didn’t have an “easy” mode
Intelligence builds are basically easy mode
I love that you’re going back to some Dark Souls characters. I’d love to see some videos on DS2 characters in the future (specifically characters like Raime and Velstadt, Ivory King, The Daughters of Manus, Agdayne, Emerald Harold, or Licia) or a video about the reincarnation of the Lords Souls in DS2.
Logan mumbling : "... You can't ... the death ... you're undead anyways"
Glad to see DS1 is still getting love
Rickert is someone know ive always wanted to know more about, hes so mysterious
Theory is he is one of the black dragon school assassins given the lord on his outfit
He was sent by the school to keep an eye on Logan
@@aceclover758*lore
10:55 Can we talk about how good Logan's VA was in portraying his mind going to shit?
YO MY MAN USES GOTHIC OST AT 16:05 !!
Your taste in videogames is obviously quite refined.
Everybody in Lordran going age of fire this, curse of the undead that, yadda yadda bell of awakening
Meanwhile, 5D chess Logan is already looking for insight to transcend humanity, old blood be damned
It’s interesting how to me big hat Logan was a concept in the sense that he is merely a vessel for learning and magic, and I’m sure everyone else thinks the same in the souls universe, but in reality he’s very down to earth and far different than his antisocial appearance. I had just forgot how nice he really was because of how long ago I’d done his quest
I have to stop everything I'm doing, there's new Hawkshaw DS1 lore in 2023
Logan was a character I always wanted to know more about I wish he had more of a questline he is build up to be such a legendary figure its a shame we didn't get more about Logan
Yeah but sometimes less is more
@@perdurabo56 Too true giving less lets Logan keep all his mystery
I wish there could be like a dark souls anime one day or something where miziyaki can like pour all the content he wants in it
Your DS lore videos are the best, so happy you are back on them. I have watched the others quite a few times. Please bring more
Finally. Now we will know why he is called 'big hat' logan
omfg i was literally just wondering why he was called big hat logan amazing timing
A refreshing trip back to our roots! Praise the lore! 🙏🏼
Logan being naked in his last encounter seems to me an attempt to imitate Seath. He was "scaleless", and even his big hat ofuscated his vision, like the Albino dragon. He probably tried to mimic Seath's way of thinking or approach to research in order to understand it like the mad dragon, got a crystal staff and learned to mimic the crystal breath trough magic.
Please, never stop making videos. Your interpretations of the lore feel the most complete and are extremely intriguing. It's baffling how From could even come up with so many hidden meanings and details in the story and characters. And that's just dark souls 1...
I know right? Must've taken Miyazaki years, decades even, to come up with all that lore. Story feels like a the product of a lifetime's work.
I like to think the very hat that Kogan was famous for was preventing him from ascending
I think he may want to get into seath's mindset by shedding his clothes in a way. Seath does not have any protective layer cause he's missing scales, so Logan does the same.
It seems like oceiros got further ahead than logan did, but found the same gap in progress when he was going mad with ocelot. While logan was gradually becoming dragon like with the complexion of his skin changing the way oceiros skin became the same tint mirroring seathe, it still inevitably directed towards those that followed the path of the dragon. The primordial crystal was a ancient dragon artifact and has the same transformative properties dragon slabs have if near humans that can discern it. Oceiros also is the ashen ones access to archdragon peak when they get the path of the dragon gesture, and some of the dragonoids strewn throughout the area are more developed with longer tails resembling what oceiros had become if they weren't fossilized. People speculated oceiros used ocelot as a way to gain power (albeit insignificant) the way some souls bosses do if they slay their counterpart (smough/ornstein, namelessking/king of the storm)but lost his wit to complete that process despite loosing a potential heir to replace lothric.
+100 for the Gothic II OST in the background
I don't think anyone could get to where Logan was and NOT keep pushing forward to madness.
He dedicated his life to knowledge, and so was completely powerless when presented with an endless supply. He never stood a chance of turning away, his big hat blocking out the world.
Just dropping by to say I appreciate you still doing creative writing for a beloved game to my heart, CHEERS!
Love these character breakdowns. This might be my favorite one, beating the one you did on Lautrec!
Logan would be too tier DS dad for how polite and supportive he is if you’re too much of a mouthbreather to learn magic
You know what they say about dudes with big hats 😳
Big ears.
You guys got it out of the park every time, massive treat whenever you drop a video 👍👍
This is my favorite dark souls channel. Bro comes with the receipts
Not gonna lie, I don't think any characters from the later games had quite reached the same depth as DKS1's characters, especially their dialogues.
Agreed. I think they got worse with each game, although ds3 had some interesting NPCs. Not Elden Ring though; every npc felt lifeless to me. Even Alexander; just a worse Siegward.
@@AngstUrnachtAlexander went through more character progression between Radahn and Fire Giant than Siegward throughout his entire journey
Bloodborne had a pretty good roster, DS3 was very meh overall, and Elden Ring is a mixed bag imo
@@AngstUrnachtmoided and mould opinion
Overall I agree - Dark Souls is a very special game. However, there are characters in the other games that I feel had a lot of depth - Lucatiel, Greirat, Lady Maria & Gehrman, Alexander (off the top of my head at 6am lol XD)
The Dark souls lore is Hawkshaws best work what a great detective. Hope he does one on Dark Sun Gwyndolin with links to Dark souls 3 as prince lothric has same voice actor and I would like more info and how and why Aldrich ate him.
Just what i needed. I play a giant dad build in pvp on elden ring pc and this keeps me going against all the bs meta.
HAWKSHAW UPLOAD LETS GOOOOO
Wait, why do they call him big hat logan?
He uses his hat the same way a modern introvert uses headphones to ignore people
The big hat part of his name refers to his massive pe-
His government name is Logan. Not sure about the hat part it honestly doesn’t make sense tbh
It's short for big hater and his overall dislike for everything.
He was born as "Big Logan" so everyone assumed he was fat. To avoid association with a cat, he got a nice big hat. People soon forgot they thought him fat, so thankfully that was that.
I have a very fitting saying to this story “ when something goes over it limits it goes against its user” it usually much smaller but what i got
Logan's "Hello There" is powerful enough to give Obi-Wan's a run for his money.
Fuck yes, early to the video from my favourite lore boi on TH-cam!
I really appreciate those videos for not having any sponsor plugs.
But why do they call him Big Hat Logan?
Respect for using Gothic music
You are the only reason I can fall asleep
I can't sleep cuz I binge these videos
On my first playthrough of DS1 back in the day, after rescuing Logan from the Archives and chatting with him, I was gearing up to go fight Seath again. He ends the conversation with "and the secret to Seath's immortality..."
I audibly went, "What's that, mate?!"
He saved me from getting sent back to curse prison and I'm always keen on rescuing him, even if I'm not running a magic build. I'm sad he loses his mind in the pursuit of knowledge but he hollows pursuing what he loves, I guess: No happy endings in Dark Souls 🫣
Lovely to be watching this at 5.30am with my big mug of tea 🙂 I definitely am in line with Big-Hat Logan when it comes to other people (good ol' Miyazaki-San!)
Dark Souls is such a special game
❤
Sometimes it feels I have gone mad from too many wiki's. Your work is appreciated.
Fantastic video. I love that these games spur people to just deep dive into them. Theres always so much beneath the surface in FromSoft games
Your dark souls 1 content is always the best IMO love it
I love the fact that you used the music from Gothic 2, maybe you could make a few videos about Gothic lore?
16:06 when that gothic OST hits
The hat of all time!
Great choice with the Firewatch music! An underrated OST.
Always happy to see some older DS lore
I love this character!
It's always a good day when Hackshaw posts! As a side note have you ever thought of doing a video of parallels and references to other fromsoft games within each other?
gothic soundtrack hit me at 16;20
Oooh new video, I love it. A question, do you pick the music on your videos from a list or choose it yourself? Asking 'cause hearing Gothic's 2 music in the first minutes take me on a nostalgia trip and I'm curious if you played it too
I haven't finished Gothic 2 yet, but I hand pick the soundtrack!
@@Hawkshaw neat! Give it a try if you can, I think you'll love the atmosphere
He does have a big hat, I suppose.
I'm so stoked to see this. Elden ring is a fine enough game but Dark Souls lore is just more interesting to me.
So glad you're back doing DS1 vids. I find the lore and characters in this game more interesting than what's in Elden Ring.
YOOOOO HAWKSHAWS BACK TO LORDRAN!!!!!
Like Odin who cast away his eye for knowledge and with it his wisdom and perception
He made one key mistake. The library was not full of wisdom no. There was no wisdom to be seen from there. Only blind intellect. And that is not wise
Succinct and insightful, these are the comments worth combing through Dark Souls comment sections for.
Like finding a Large Soul of a Seasoned Warrior…
Bro your videos are GOLD for Souls-head like us. TYVM. Praise the Sun.
I always thought that Logan mumbled “I can’t remember their death….the undead” like he was suddenly snapped to the thought that he doesn’t remember if his student/friend is even alive at that point and just keeps trying to convince himself that he does know but he ends up convincing himself of the wrong memory and fully commits to trying to become a dragon. But in the end he’s just a imitation of a scaleless dragon
Love your videos about the lore! Keep it up. Always eager for your next video.
I've waited so long. Always a pog moment seeing hawkshaw uploaded
Experiment number 69: Getting naked doesn't do shit for my magic but let's me roll faster.
He's so iconic to me I don't even know his name for me its only Big Hat
Apart from your beautiful voice talking about Ol' Big Hat Logan, I must praise your choice of music, with Firewatch being a game i would think Logan would play to free his mind😅
i hope that one day, i can escape from a mere level three lore studier into the level ten lore master like you and vaati...
There's something about the voice actors in DS1, and their suspicious laughter
9/10 boys that chose magic do it for the Big Hat opportunities.
Im always game for a lore video keep it up lads
This video rules.
See you upload a new video is a depression killer, thank you
hey hawkshaw you know over the years I've been following & commenting alot and got a few high lighted ones so i know theres a decent chance you'll happen by this heres my question and its been bugging me for years: Remember when you lot made the darksouls timeline video? ive watched it literally no joke hundreds of time just breaking everything down ive just never been able to get around how you came to the conclusion that all father loyd was the creator of humanity? i always figured it was the the furtive pygmy and we came after and so ect ect i understand that the pygmy with the other primeval entities could very well have been created then found the souls and became their respective selves (ei nito gywn the Witch ) but again why all father loyd? i hope this text didn't end up to lengthy but if you get back and discuss i would greatly appreciate it! either way wonderful video as always! ❤
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Oh, he got deeper indeed! Mainly into Gwynevere "lore"!
Damn logan is cheeked up.
Another masterpiece. Thank you team Hawkshaw.
So cool that you haven't abandoned DS.
I like Logan a lot. I don't really see him as someone that dislikes people. Good video.
Babe wake up. The best dark souls lore channel is uploading again
i think that logan striped his robbe off is not simply an attempt to be like seath but trrying to copy him in everything evenw in being scaleless
It’s weird Miyazaki would comment that. Logan seems to like people; he just seems to avoid anything unnecessary that could distract him from his research
Perhaps he simply had to embody a scaleless dragon to invent the white dragon breath. And therefor had to shed his own “scales”