Dark Souls 3 DLC ► 10 Secrets Within The Ringed City 

You can tell vaati had fun playing as an humanity sprite.

Ah yes, I will never forget my fight with “spear of the church: bigdickboi” True story

In fact, the old woman npc at the begining of the dlc, eventualy dies "naturaly" when you complete the dlc. And in that case, the angel appears but it isn't hostile.

the story of Lapp is honestly one of my favorites in all of souls, maybe even ever. your sole "friend" who's been with you, one way or another, through each of the games, always up to his usual tricks, always persisting. yet, finally, he was able to reach the true end of the world, only to lose himself. We see a Patches that is perhaps the original Patches, before he saw the corruption of the church, an honest, helpful man who wants nothing more than to discover the truth, to discover himself. He helps you, and promises to be your friend even after he recollects himself. It is only by your actions that he's able to remember his past. And, like the good old times, he kicks you off a cliff... except this cliff leads not to a pit, but to the way forward. Patches and Lapp have both acknowledged you, just as you have come to acknowledge them. You part ways, not through betrayal or death, but with purpose, a goal to end the rein of the gods and the corruption of the church, to fully unveil the truth.

you thought it was a new NPC, *but it was me, patches!*

I love how the unkindled just stands there awkwardly after he breaks Fillianore's ball, like "uh, surry. :("

The Hag also transforms into an angel once you kill Gael, the angel patrols peacfully and doesnt attack.

Anyone else think the Humanity sprites are adorable?

Interesting info: Lapp means patch in swedish :-)

How does vaati know all these things without the help of vaati

#7: Gwyn couldn't figure out how the hell to pull out so he just sorta masked his mistakes by putting them in the farthest corners of existence and building entire cities around them.

You know one thing that bothers me is that they have the skill to make a huge fucking badass dragon like midir but they don't have the skill to make patches mouth move when he talks

Patches: I've found you some treasure You: Hold my beer

the boss arena of the demon prince is the original firelink shrine.

This DLC was the perfect sendoff to Dark Souls. It was brutal yet beautiful. *cries*

Restores Patches memories Patches kicks you off a cliff again THIS IS WHY YOU BECAME SPIDER!

At the end everyone can be a child of Gwyn....everyone but Solaire

Lapp's identity is not really a secret if you pay even a little attention to his voice and gesture

Was I the only one who heard patches voice and screamed "DONT DO IT"

Hearing patc- I mean Lapp say “no matter what, I am your friend” makes me wanna break down and cry. No matter how much shit he puts you through, I’ve always had sympathy for him because in the real world, the only type of people who end up like him are the ones who have never truly been treated with kindness themselves.

After Demon Pronce boss fight, you walk trough a ruin of a familiar building. It is Firelink Shrine. The old one, from DS1

I think at the end, Patches for once wasn't trying to kill you. At that last point he was instead teaching you a lesson. In DS1, Patches kicks you off a cliff to your death. In DS2, his reincarnation (Pate) tries to trap you if you help him survive. In DS3, he tries to feed you to a Giant and locks you in Firelink to fall to your death. But at the end, he doesn't try to kill you. He kicks you off, to an area he knows you'll survive. He's Patches, he doesn't make mistakes like that if he wants you dead. He tells you that every age has the greed of men, perhaps taunting you for falling for his trap one last time. He says he is devoid of all worldly wants, then laughs. But... I don't feel it's a smug laugh. It sounds almost bittersweet. He then sighs and tells you that maybe that's just how humans are. He says he'll put you into his prayers, but not smugly or with the chuckle he's always had, but solemnly. As if letting something go or saying goodbye. He mockingly wishes you a fine Dark Soul, but not to mock you, but to mock what feels like the City itself. We saved him from his hollowing, and he promised to remember you as a friend. And he does, he remembers you, this undead who's lasted so long, trolled and killed so many players, he truly remembers you. And then he's gone, all that's left is the memory of his last ruse against you, one last prank to pull, one last undead to scare before he calls it quits. Aside from that, we get his armor, the last thing he left us as a reward for surviving one more time. So at the end, he was trying to tell you to not be so greedy, to think a bit more, to trust a bit less, which is the best lesson anyone can teach us in this hellish land, even if it's just a bit too late to matter. Patches truly is one of the best friends one could have.

Vatti that's not why patches made it. He was only fueled by his endless need to troll.

Those statues in the ringed city are nearly identical to the Crucified feral hollows in the Crucifixion Woods

I would put Midir to rest, but he's relentlessly slaughtering me Also the Dragonslayer Armour (boss) returning was awesome :)

Amusing fact - Filia means toast (the bread variety) in Bulgarian. Therefore Filianore would we considered the daughter of toast!

Man, hearing his story makes me feel so bad for Midir, I want to spare him now ;_;7 I salute you dragon

Here's another cool detail, the desert area from the future where you fight Gael was already shown in the first seconds of the teaser trailer for the original game I think (the scene where the pilgrim falls)

No way Patches the cheap ass paid for the DLC lol

Before the fight with Midir, you see serpents with arms and legs. So wait the primordial serpents are growing wings.. now arms and legs.. HMMM? Comes on now people, it's obvious what's happening. Primordial serpents have been profiting off of mans struggles from the start, you can see almost serpent like symbols on Gwyns armor. They're turning themselves into dragons through the power of souls. 'The serpent is an imperfect dragon and symbol of the Undead. Its habit of devouring prey even larger than itself has led to an association with gluttony.'

Vaati! You can also revive Judicator Argo with the Velka statue in the Undead Settlement. I guess it has some story significance.

I summoned shira with me to fight midir, did not interact with her after, then when I was searching the area with Gael, I walked into a shrine, and Shira appeared and called me a traitor, and I had to kill her :'(

You can also use the white branch to transform into a humanity if u dont have chameleon

If you didnt know, the ariandel chapel lights on fire the more you progress through the ringed city dlc

Isn't it weird that Patches says "I'll stick you in my prayers"? He hates clerics after all.

The purging monument one, I happened across a weird hit-box in the middle of the swamp... right past the staircase and just randomly popped items next to it. Within a few minutes I turned into a humanity and was like, "AWESOME!" Then, I found the "riddle" and solved it by being like, "oh, yea, maybe I can turn into the sprite?" PURE LUCK BUILD, YO!

Trust Patches one last time? You bet your ass I will.

The Old Woman's ashes shows her hand wearing the High Priestess Ring and the description mentions her as the "wet nurse of royalty". Could she be Emma after she disappeared from Lothric Castle?

Midir seems the closest to the everlasting dragons. Of all the dragons we've seen he's got the body, head, wings, and most importantly the scales of the everlasting dragons. He only looks a little different than them and is perhaps smaller. I'm betting he was a newborn/egg/youth at the time of the beginning of the Age of Fire and was acquired at that time.

Did you notice that you can also revive Argo through the Velka statue in the Undead Settlement? There are certainly some lore implications there.

Here is a neat little thing: the arena you fight the Demon Prince in seems to be the original Firelink Shrine from DS1.

and behind this wall is a secret giant dad boss battle and behind this wall is another boss battle but its solair and behind that wall.....

I know a cave's a cave and I'm probably like 5 years late to this revelation, but the cave in which you fight Darkeater Midir, doesn't the view look like the cave in the cutscene where all the nekkid not-yet-humans find the fire before the age of disparity?

Anybody notice that "Oscar of Astora" his name broken down in Old English is "Os" = God/Divine "Car" = Spear

Alright, I've got a neat little detail for y'all! Did anyone else figure out that the Old Piligrim Woman is actually High Priestess Emma? In the description of her ashes it says that she was "a wet nurse of royalty", and if we consult the description of the Priestess Ring, it reads "The High Priestess also served as the prince's wet nurse". And just in case you need further convincing, take a look at the ashes' picture - there's a certain ring on one of the fingers :)

next game will be inside the new painting with poise and solaire and onion bro and .... sob

thank you vaati, you and the other lore content creators enrich my souls experience to the maximum. thank you

I never had a more perfect feeling of fulfillment, then when you fought the spear of the church with patches. This alone made him my favorite character in all of the games.

DONT SLEEP DONT EAT DONT DRINK JUST THINK ABOUT POSTING MORE VIDEOS FEAR NOT THE DARK MY FRIEND

Right when I gave the painter girl the blood of the dark soul, I knew the series has finally come to an end. I decided not to give my name up since the dark soul isn't about me, it's about all of us. For we have all dived and played in From Software and Miyazaki's painted world called the dark souls series. What a wonderful video game series that is dark yet holds hope for humanity as a whole. The real world is foul and broken, we surely have all come to this conclusion. It's the painted worlds from our imagination that gives us the drive to tackle what we call life everyday. Thank you From Software for a wonderful gaming experience that far exceeds any other during this generation.

If you put your sign down in the room before midir hole you get summoned as a church of a spear and fight patches.

Am I the only one who thought Lapp was Lautrec at first because his and Patches' voices are pretty similar..?

Hey Vaati! Since this DLC ends the dark souls saga and its lore. Do you plan on making a "final video" explaining the entirety of the main lore of dark souls or nah? : )

Don't watch this if you haven't played the DLC first imo Are you guys enjoying it?

I love how you speak and explain its so cool how you bring up some lore and i get in such a fantastic and nostalgic mood thank you for that

I love your dark souls secret videos. You have a way of really telling the story really well

MatPat's gonna lose his shit when he sees Siegward in the Ringed City EDIT: I can't spell

I am surprised you made no mention of Midir's boss area. It bears uncanny resemblance to the intro cinematic of the first Dark Souls. The long rocky passage, leading to a massive cavern... where the first flame was found.

Your lore videos are awesome dude.. I haven't even thought of clicking past any.. Good stuff man I'm sub. You tell the stuff like reading from a book sometimes, just sucked in. Great stuff kid.. Keep up the great job

I know that I am late and propably no one will read this, but after hearing about the many children of Gwyn I realised he has a lot of common with Zeus, as portrayed by ancient greek mythology. Both command lightning, both are the greatest gods among their respective pantheons and both have a lot of children with different women. Not that this changes the lore, but it is a nice touch

Vaati you missed the fact that the Demon Prince boss fight arena is the Firelink Shrine from Dark Souls 1. Well included, Upvote so he see's this!

Not sure if you found her, but Shira most certainly does not approve of you waking Filianore. I'm not sure if you can trigger this after the boss fight at Filianore's Rest, but if you hug the right edge of the area you'll find a small ruined structure. Walk into it, to the far end, and Shira will "invade" your world (similar to Vilhelm's entrance in the painted world) and face you. Afterwards, go back to Shira's house and the door will be open, and you can claim her armor set. Also, if you hug the left wall of the same area, there is a dual greatsword Ringed Knight. Kill him for a Titanite Slab. Oh and Alva invades near the Black Witch Set, and Moaning Knight not-Eygon invades in the Shared Grave. There is a Silver Knight invasion, but I see you found it by your weapon choice against Midir. EDIT** Lastly, just stumbled upon this, but the stone humped hag in the Dreg Heap dies on her own if you progress far enough into the DLC. I'm guessing it's once you beat the boss at Filianore's Rest.

Patches laughing sounds like Mark Hamill's Joker

Excellent video as always. Thank you!

The Primordial Serpent statues before Midir, you can see their body shape, and 3 out of 4 miss the top of their head.

Something cool I'v noticed in the DLC is that you can see Lothric Castle and I think Anor Londo in the background of the final boss arena. The boss arena is the place in the games cover art too.

One thing I recognized being a massive dark souls 1 fan, is that after smouldering lake, you enter the demon ruins, which is almost what's left of the witches and Lost Izalith. I found what looked like Quelana or her younger sister, who was the leader of the daughters of chaos covenant.

Good stuff mate! Much love

In the shrine where you drop off into Midir´s boss fight there are statues showing the entire body of a Primordial Serpent (Most likely Kaathe), it´s pretty disturbing...

Just want to point out that the egg imagery in the Fillianore sequence is remarkably like the quote in Demian “The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.” Now Abraxas is a deity meant to encompass both light and dark, both chaos and order, so in my mind this is a subtle commentary on how maybe the cycle is broken, that rather than have gods who fight to rekindle the age of light or create an age of darkness, the God in power is one beyond the cycle of light and dark, instead encompassing both in one.

I do like Your soothing way of presentation. I listen to your videos while working and I actually don't focus on the material. I just do it for combination of your voice and music.

Vaati has the most soothing and kind voice on RU-vid. I could listen to him for hours.

You can actually get patches as a summon on judicator Argo if you've done his questline

Thanks to Vaati we don't need to do all this work ourselves... or even play the game lol

U are doing awsome work mate u are truly awsome discovering such lores and I am watching since a long time awsome work mate keep it up

"Every age it seems, is tainted by the greed of men..." -Patches

Considering the paint for a new painting is literally made out of the blood of the desendants of the pygmies this has to mean that the new painting will be most powerful and grandiose. But here is what I want to believe(but highly unlikely): that because she used blood she drew the world of Bloodborne and BAM here we have the origins of the bloodborne universe. Again highly unlikely but LET ME DREAM DAMMIT

I've been trying to decipher what the Man-Locusts are talking about during there little speeches about the dark, and as far as I can guess right now they appear to be talking about various NPCs. "One was a wayfaring knight, on an endless, forbidden search. Only the Abyss granted closure, if not reunion with his beloved." - Most likely this refers to Alva, considering his later appearance within the city and the nod to him being "Wayfaring". Likely the Abyss granting him closure refers to his taking comfort in Zullie, a dark witch. "One met the dark with learning. But in the end, learned his knowledge was wanting." - This one is tricky. I personally think this is referring to Aldia, who attempted to understand the Dark but only came to appreciate the futility of the curse as a whole ("Beyond the scope of light, beyond the reach of Dark... what could possibly await us?"). This also could be referring to Orbeck or Logan, both of whom responded to their being cursed by adventuring out for knowledge, and both of whom met their fates because of it. "One poor girl slew her own kin, but even so, was embraced, enveloped by the Abyss." - This is most likely referring to Karla, as the Dark Edge sorcery described how it was "passed from mother to daughter" and "the young girl [if this is indeed Karla herself] never swung it more than once", presumably to kill her mother. Other than her, another girl who we know slew her kin would be Seiglinde, though she is as far as we know completely unrelated to the Dark, so unless something happened to her after the events of DS1 this seems unlikely. "And so, she lived in fear. Of the dark, of the things that gnawed at her flesh." - Obviously Irina, though what is interesting is how the locust claims that "The Abyss has spawned no such creature". Indeed, the insects that we assumed to be haunting Irina are from the Deep, not the Dark, so I wonder how Irina is being affected by them, unless the two forces are more related than even the locusts know. "And so, despite his weighty armour, he lived in fear. Of a delicate thing, little more than a girl." - Given that this line is from the same locust as the previous one, we can assume this to be Eygon, who also appears later in the DLC. I wonder if he did in fact live in fear of Irina, or lived in fear for her. I always knew he cared ( ˘ ³˘)♥ If not him, this description could also apply to several characters from DS2, including Raime, Alva and Vendrick himself, though none of them match up to the whole statement as much as Eygon does. What's really interesting about all this however, is how the locusts even know about these people. Have the become almost legendary figures throughout the ages? Can the Dark share experiences between it's creations in the same way you talk about how demons do in this video? Very odd.

I recognized Patches' voice. But I never thought this... god damn.

Wow. this is amazing. Good job finding this stuff

Oh man I couldn't believe that Lapp was no other than the beloved to us all Siegward of catarina? Amirite guys?

I could've called Lapp's identity just based on that voice alone. It's ALWAYS Patches.

My heart burned when i saw u made a video about the ringed city because i first wanted to play it. But after ive finished it yesterday i was so sad cause the only bad thing about dark souls is that it ends. But then i realised ''hey, vaati is still there!'' and i was so happy remembering that there is this one youtuber that mastered the skill of telling the stories of dark souls and my joy returned! Thank you!

This is some very interesting content… Fantastic video… Can’t believe I’m just getting into Dark Souls now

I literally heard lapp begin to talk, heard who he sounded like and said, "Nope, fuck you patches." And that's the story of how patches died for good.

It's been out like a few hours and there's already things I missed?!?! I literally just downloaded the DLC now

I love your videos so much. Subbed!

You ROCK man! Loved it

Lapp is the swedish translation for Patches

> new ds dlc drops >gets more pumped for vaati videos.

I love when vaati breaks character and changes his voice lol

love your videos. I need more of your lore videos :)

I KNEW HE WAS PATCHES, GOD DAMMIT.

I figured out #1 early on. "Lapp" actually means "Patch" in Norwegian.

Nice video, Vaati! Thank you for all that "digging" and explaining! Guys mb someone of you found first 2 soundtracks? My shazam does not recognize them...

Wow, so much time have I spent on DS3 from launch, and still I find new things about it after all these years.

Great video lad. They never cease to inform and impress :)

Hey Vaati! I have a quite interesting one, if you didn't already know. Lapp, in Swedish actually translates to patch in English! A little hint towards who Lapp really is

I loved what happened when I gave the Blood of the Dark Soul to the painting lady and what she said about creating a new world with it when Gale may feel happy at last. That was awesome.

I enjoy your video, nice music was very relaxing and eye opening im just feel bad that I couldnt make shiras questline