Dark Souls 3 ► Lore of the Main Bosses 

In a way, we were Gundyr's boss fight, and he lost. He is our first, we are his last

Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact anor londo is in ruins but someone fixed the window

I wonder what Aldrich's train of thought was? "I just have a vision of a world of deep sea further down the line, imma eat the gods, to grow fins or something"

Deacons:"Happy birthday Gwyndolin!" Gwyndolin:"Thanks for coming everyone,say uh...where's the cake?" Aldrich:"We're not having cake" Gwyndolin: *"oh no"*

Nobody mentions how there are no ads throughout this whole video? Vaati does this for us only. That's commendable. Edit: please stop replying about seeing ads I was young and dumb when I made this comment and didn't understand how youtube worked please stop argh

The Abyss watchers are like that meme with Spiderman pointing out himself

Here's why d3 lore is so crazy. Dark souls 3 was my first souls game, I fought this boss called Aldrich and thought hey it looks way different than what the game intro showed. After completing the game I went on to buy DS1 and DS2. While playing DS1, I fought a boss called Gwyndolin, and instantly realized that hey that guy looks familiar, he looks exactly like Aldrich. After doing some research and watching this video..... I realize Aldrich is actually the black goo.....he was in the process of devouring Gwyndolin. Now that is DARK souls.

Nietzsche wrote, "beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster . . . for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." I think the abyss watchers are derived from this quote.

*Killing the abyss watchers* "Hey where can I find the next boss?" Abyss watchers: "Right down the road!"

yorm basically went "you have a porblem with me? ok then" *puts gun in hand of subjects and holds his face right in front of it*"prove it"

"Vordt is the first outrider knight you meet in the game" Me who accidentally summoned the Dancer first: *Laughs in agony*

I like to think that the Soul of Cinder is literally an amalgamation of all the chosen undead who linked the fires, and that the Soul of Cinder doesn’t just adopt Gwyn’s fighting style, rather it’s Gwyn’s very soul surfacing, the god king himself trying one last time to preserve the age of fire, HIS age of fire.

The soul of cinder is just some guy who drank his milk and played NG+9

You see those warriors from Carthus? They've got curved swords. Curved. Swords.

Can we talk about how Aldrich learning things from his dreams and being able to use the power of what he learned in the waking world, as well as all of the talks of the deep DIRECTLY resemble how the world of Bloodborne works?

Can we appreciate that the twin princes are some of the small percentage of actual humans we fight who talk to us?

“The first outrider knight you meet is Vordt...” Me: *Has* *Dancer* *Flashbacks* Also Me: Oh y-yeah suuuure

Imagine being slain by a dude then later that same man but newer somehow comes and kills you again for his trial... damn

Vaati: This isn't concrete and you shouldn't take it as such. Dark Souls community: We'll act like we didn't hear that.

Vaati: Some things will remain distant dreams forever. Me, Rewatching this in 2020: Yeah, like Elden Ring

>abyss watchers link fire >the pain is causes leads them to reject linking it again >doubt sets in >abyss takes over

"...the royal family resorted to unspeakable memes."

24:00 The Abyss Watchers and Artorias the Abysswalker "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We all know that the Aldrich - Sulyvahn collaboration is one of the most sick and twisted in video game history.

Vativiidya: most people haven't made it this far through the video. Me: on their 15th viewing or 16th?

a "Scholar" who advised a Lord, and told them to escape or break the cycle? I wonder if there are any other "Scholars" that advise potential lords to abandon the cycle? I have no Aldia...

I have a theory about the four Lords, and maybe this is just me. I think they are a meta reference to the four main play styles of Souls games. Lothric and Lorian are the people who always co-op, Yhorm plays offline (hence the loneliness), Aldritch is the person who spends all night invading other people (and teabagging you after backstabbing you for the 10th time thanks to a laggy connection), and the Abysswatchers are the people who play in fighting pits. I feel like that might make the Lord of Cinder the person who's played this game so long under so many files that they can handle (almost) any challenger with ease.

Out of all the stories, the Siegward and Yhorm storyline shows me I'm prepared to cry. Siegward is such a special, fantastic character. Thanks for showing us a little bit of insight with each video.

Woah, 32 minutes? Did we forget to feed him?

Perhaps the "drastic means" Lothrics family took was to abandon the Sun cult, which would explain why EVERY sun covenant statue has been smashed throughout the souls games

Today I learned that Iudex is Latin for Judge. I always thought it was just a strange first name.

For some reason I've fallen back into watching random Dark Souls lore, tricks and meme videos and now I want to play through all again. What a magnificent series.

man the time and effort it takes to do all this; play the game, read all the info on items, make it sound fluently and the making this video with all the editing, god damb. new sub roight here

I guess arch deacon McDonell should've eaten less big macs

Just got into Dark Souls starting with 3, trying to learn some of the lore and these are the best videos I have found, thanks for the great content!

I really like Lothric and Lorian. It's sad what happened to them, but stuff like Lorian taking on the curse willingly is really wholesome and supportive. I kind of wish that if we weren't going to link the fire in the end, we could leave them alive.

just started the dark souls series and why is everyone so damn tall.

*Imagine saying* "I'm Pontiff now bois" *and ordering a DIRECT DESCENDED from the goddess to be your private dancer and she actually does it* Spare some for the rest of us Sulyvahn.

I think the “unspeakable means” mentioned are some form of illicit sorcery used to fuse the souls of Lorian and Lothric. They both have something the other lacks. Lorian is powerful in physical strength. Being able to single handedly take down a demon prince. While Lothric is weak and frail but powerful in the ways of magic. By fusing the souls of the two brothers together they could make a dual being powerful enough to link the flame

Why is ds3 soooo gooooddd and yet terrifying I am addicted. After completing Elden Ring, I am going on my mission to complete all souls borne games 😊

The abyss watchers were going to go to irythil, but one of them drank all the sieghbrous, they've fought ever since

Please don't crucify me for being late with this one, I was busy escorting Edwad through Lothric Also i'm in the process of moving and man is that time consuming ᵃᶫˢᵒ ᵒᵛᵉʳʷᵃᵗᶜʰ ᶜᵃᵐᵉ ᵒᵘᵗ

the abyss watchers stone door has a huge chunk taken out of it, someone tried to force their way through. WHO?? WHY??

"You know I said you'd make a great dancer but actually I think you'd be a better knight" conversation that must have happened.

The Abyss Watchers were I supposed consumed by the very thing they wish to destroy. Or one watcher said to the other watcher "Yo mom gae" and started this whole endless fight nonsense.

The path to linking the fire is ridden with unspeakable memes...

I have watched these lore videos over, and over, and over again for a few years, and I can never get enough. Dark Souls is life. Thank you Vaati

Revisiting these videos for the first time in some years. They are so well made. Thank you Vaati.

"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares into you." hence "Abyss Watchers"

The fact that he thanked US, he *THANKED US* for sticking it out and watching this masterpiece until the end. Vaati, you're a good soul.

I appreciate so many things in this video! So much effort and detailed information. Even the little things like the music change at 20:50 when talking about the Carthus sand warriors adds to the cinematic effect. S-Tier content!

Just started playing Dark Souls 3 for the first time and have been looking for any info and lore I can devour. This is incredibly well made. Thanks, Vaati!

"Devourer of Gods" does not mean you have eaten more than one, just like you only need to a kill a King or a member or royalty once to gain the title "Assassin of Kings"

"He saw into the age of deep waters", Thats where the soul of The Orphan of Kos goes when you kill its shade. back into the deep endless sea.

This is the singular best youtube I've seen on Dark Souls 3 yet. Great job and thank you. Commentary combined with all the shots of bosses and environments in the game are perfect! Subbed.

I absolutely love your breakdowns, you get right to the point and also have a lovely voice that makes me just wanna keep watching! I can't wait to watch the in depth lore through, very excited!!

Oh gawd.. he.. he HE ATE MY GWYNDOLIN! Oh just you wait you son of a bitch I'm very close to your boss room!

Gotta love how all the enemies are so camera shy, they try to attack it when it buzzes past them.

I love how much thought and effort in all of your videos! Also lets talk about how this awesome, long video has no ads!

I come back to these videos constantly to sleep at night, Vaati you are amazing at this lore gathering. Thank you for the vids you make.

Yhorm is the only Lord of Cinder you fight that you can’t serve. The Abyss Watchers/Undead Legion of Farron have the Watchdogs of Farron, Aldrich has the Aldrich Faithful. Yhorm has... Siegward?

Maybe the main bosses were really the friends we made along the way!

4 years later and I still wholeheartedly enjoy your content.

I've watched this so many times already but you're voice and narration is so good so I keep watching it.

I wanted Vaati to be my history teacher.

If you can find the hidden skeleton toot in this video you win 50 vaati points

Still here at the end!! How could I not be. Thank you so much for the amazing content.

I love rewatching these videos. it makes the game a thousand times better when I am just running around trying to farm or help others.

"If you understand who you're killing, you understand the story." Well I failed step one, so it's a good thing videos like this exist, LOL.

20:50 - You see those warriors from Carthus? They've got curved swords. Curved. Swords.

Coming back and watching these videos after years hits you in the feels.

Hey!! These are still getting watched, and appreciated for exactly how long and detailed they are :)

Reading through all the comments now, i've yet to come across any negativity. I'm really glad you guys like it. When you work on a project like this for weeks, you kind of get dulled to whether it's any good. Appreciate the support, wish I could respond to it all. After the move this week i'll do my best to become a video production machine! Lots of new routines to get into. I hope my internet is faster at this new place..I watched this video upload for like 2 days lol Also i've added a few amendments in the description in relation to Yorshka and Gwynevere

The moral of the story is: -Iudex Gundyr: Always try to be on time, otherwise you get the job that no one wants. -Vordt of the Boreal Valley: Your boss has absolutely no respect for you! -Curse-Rotted Greatwood: Nature is damn scary sometimes... and gross. -Crystal Sage: If you do your homework and study really hard you get superpowers -Deacons of the Deep: Priests are scary! -Abyss Watchers: You and your friends might be powerful enough to change the world, but at that point the only people left to fight is each other. -High Lord Wolnir: Even the strongest, most powerful people in the world are afraid of the dark. -Old Demon King: Respect your elders because some of them can still kick ass. -Pontiff Sullyvhan: People don't become assholes just because they're rich, riches attract assholes. -Aldrich Devourer of Gods: Even if you only eat one god, if you call yourself the devourer of GOD'S most people won't question it. -Yhorm the Giant: even when you are good at your job, responsible, royalty, a gold-plated badass, and you have a giant sword, someone will still laugh at you. -Dancer of the Boreal Valley: When you are famous people will fuck with you just so they can say they did. -Oceiros the Consumed King: I got nothing, this guy's just fucking weird. -Dragonslayer Armour: Inanimate objects have just as many stories to tell as people do. -Champion Gundyr: see above (Edit: sorry @Yohannan, i wrote that wrong. i meant see the entry on Iudex Gundyr) -Lorian and Lothric: Crippled people can still be fucking awesome. -Ancient Wyvern: Fuck this boss it sucked -Nameless King: Some people never give up on their friends, and those people are usually badasses. -Soul of Cinder: Your legacy can last long after the world has forgotten your name. -Champion Gravetender and Greatwolf: if you are boring people will pay more attention to your pets than they do to you. -Sister Fiede: Nuns are scary too, also: Some people will die for their family. -The Demon Prince: There's no lore on this guy, i got nothing. -Halflight Spear of the Church: no mater how good you are at something, someone in the world is better than you. -Darkeater Midir: No matter how good you are at something, some challenges are too big for you to beat on your own. -Slave Knight Gael: Starting from the bottom of society and working your way up can make you strong enough to survive the end of the world. I've thought of a few more: - Curse-Rotted Greatwood: (Thanks, @Endurabledude for reminding me this boss isn't a natural spirit tree) If you pile all your problems away in one place instead of dealing with them as they show up, one day it will come back, all at once, to bite you in the ass. - Deacons of the deep: Organizations that are around for too long eventually forget their purpose and devolve into nothing but keeping their group alive. - Lorian and Lothric: Family can be more important to some people than the rest of the world, and sometimes it's hard to tell if feeling that way is a good thing. - Ancient Wyvern: @CER SIVA is right, there is always another way. But if you can't find it, ask a lazy person to do it for you. Not only will they show you how to do it, but they will do it in a way that requires much less work. - Demon Prince: Even if you have nothing special about yourself, you can be famous too if you let someone rich insert something inside you. Bonus points if they're royalty. - Oceirus the Consumed King: Some parents love their children, but others raise their kids to do what they didn't, or couldn't do when they were young. When these children try to live their own life, their parents can't take it and snap. - Dragonslayer Orenstein: A consistent story isn't always the same as a good story. Pointing out plotholes might only be distracting you from the point someone is trying to make with their art. filling in plotholes however, can be a fun and thought provoking excersize. - Patches the Unbreakable: A small business run by one person can be just as corrupt as an international mega-corporation. Pay attention to where the things you buy come from. - Emma the High Priestess: Young people often assume that their elders are full of old and archaic ideas that don't mesh with the modern world. That kind of prejudice only blinds them to how, even if flawed, those ideas are born from how much their elders care about them. - Segmeyer of Caterina: Fan service can be a bad thing, but if done right it can be an opportunity to tell a beautiful and interesting story. - Orbeck on Vinheim: If you do your homework and study really hard you get superpowers... or you could die. Especially if you hang out with cultists. - Hawkwood the Deserter: when you see your friends going down a path that turns them into something less than what they were, and you can't help them, it can be the hardest thing you'll ever do to just walk away. Be a good person, if not for your own sake, then for the sake of those who care about you. - Horace the Hushed: if all you do is sit in the corner of the room with your arms cross, and never say anything, everyone is going to pay attention to your hot friend instead. - Eygon of Carim: When you have a character who dresses in all black, has a deep gravely voice, speaks in jaded insulting quips, wields and over-sized impractical weapon, and is literally a knight who decided to protect a maiden without her asking him to, it will take a special kind of writer to make them truly cool. Usually it's just cringe inducing. - Ludleth of Courland: If you were a powerful person in your youth, but now you're just a withered, crippled old person, there is still a way for you to be helpful. Maybe even a way for you to save the world. - Giant of the Undead settlement: Sometimes making a friend is as easy as walking up them and saying hello. You would normally expect Sesame Street to tell you this, but sometimes adults need to be reminded of that, too. - Lapp: sometimes people who go on long soul searching quest, that take them to the end of the world, come away from the experience thinking being a dick is just as good an idea as it's always been. - Pickle-pee: Even the best written and most depressing stories have a place for a character whose name is a reference to a penis. - Locust Preachers: Some people will always be stupid or desperate enough to fall for someone in a dark alley promising them the world. Thank's for reading all the way to the end. I know it's just a youtube comment, but i really appreciate all the positivity. This took a long fucking time to come up with. I'm dyslexic, so it took even longer to write, since i had to keep fixing so many mistakes.

How do I always come back to this video. It’s not even recommended to me, I just go out of my way to look it up and watch it often. Whatever the reason may be, you got me Vaati. You got me by the blood echoes and I love it.

even after all these years i love watching this vod so much, DS3 was a good time

Me: parries gwyn to death Every boss in ng+: I’m going to pretend I didn’t see that

27:40 I thought it was pretty clearly explained in the game that Prince Lothric never linked the flame. previously. This game takes place in is his age of fire which is why the old lords were awoken (Lothric: plan A, Old lords: Plan B. Ashen one: Plan C)

Love this content. Thank you for all the lore. Seriously DS is hands down one of my favorite RPGs; the lore is fantastic.

I'm sorry for only getting into dark souls now and only discovering this now, but just wanted to say that i love your videos, i love this one and i can proudly say i'm a new fan.

DAMN VAATI!!! Ima get on your Patreon. You do such good work.

"Age of the Deep Sea" *_Dark Souls: The Wind Waker confirmed_*

after hearing the lore of sulyvahn, parrying him has never been so satisfying.

I love coming back to pre-ringed city videos because Vaati just couldn't say "im pretty certain we will get Londor DLC" enough haha

Lol, if the Profaned Flame never goes out, just take that bowl and slap that on the First Flame, BOOM, infinite time XD

this guy got the best voice for storytelling

Always love the lore vids! And I just noticed how you site each source in the timeline of the video. Awesome dedication to the vid!

You somehow make the game better, I've loved these videos since I started playing.

At the High Walls of Lothric, you have the undead that are worshiping, the Dragons/Drakes, but some of them seem to be worshiping the other undead that seem to have been turned into trees. Are the Pilgrim Butterflies a third stage? Undead Pilgrims, Pilgrim Trees, and then into the Pilgrim Butterflies. Since so much of Dark Souls revolves around the repeat of cycles. Could the Pilgrim Butterflies be the early stages of the rebirth of the dragons of the first dark?

How about we just stay away from the abyss because it doesn't seem like it's helping anyone

Vaati, I just want you to know that I love all of your videos. I watch every one of them 100%

You have the voice of a storyteller...I haven't played any of the souls games but this alone makes me wanna check them out.

Lothric and Lorian look similar to elves, at least to me. There's a certain city of elves that comes to mind from a certain series of books. *coughs* Lothlorien *coughs*

He ate my waifu, so I ended his laifu....

Holly, no ad, the subtitles are perfect (to portuguese), 34 min, its amazing the work he had and made that perfect video, congrats my fried, that is an masterpiece.

Idk why I just noticed when you talk about Wulnir , I hear the skeleton trumpet sound and thats just amazing that you added that in

Can't wait for the Prepare to Cry series to make me cry even more than I have already :)

So I need to tell you, wholeheartedly and as sincere as I can be...I am MORE than offended that you say "this video is way too long as it is"! They are not long enough!

I use to come back to your videos and i love them. Also, your Voice is so good listening to. :) no adds is also one thing to mention! 20/10

Aldritch be like “TogEtHa wE WiLl DevoUR The vErY GodS”