Dark Souls 3 Lore ► Angel's Egg & Filianore 

What was in braille vaati? WHAT DOES IT SAY

If light is related to time, is that why Untended Graves is completely dark? Frozen in the past as it were.

I like to think that Filianore has been told that the egg holds something really meaningful or its hatching marks something really important, which she is waiting to happen. We don't really know if the egg was really holding anything particular at all and she was being led to believe that to keep her faith strong and the spell from ending. What if Gwyn promised to come for her when the egg hatches making it like a clock for her of Gwyn's return. She is sleeping, not knowing that the egg and whatever was inside is far gone and so is Gwyn and all he promised. Her faith in everything she believed in along with her fathers return crumbles like the egg itself when she notices that there is nothing left or maybe even worse she has been lied to all along. No faith= no miracle to hold time from passing. Pretty sad if you ask me.

*_Inside Filianore's egg was Darkness itself. That's what I think._*

What does the Braille sentence in the video say?

How can someone NOT get to the end of one of this videos?! They are wonderful!

Vaati, Your videos have always been a great source of entertainment for me and I could honestly listen to you read a phonebook all day long. You have enriched my experience in a game series that I have grown to love so much. I have two suggestions for you going further: 1- When Blasphemous comes out, I think you should consider doing videos on it's lore and 2- If you haven't done it already, could you PLEASE do a segment on the lovable little trade crows from the Darksouls series? (Sparkly, Dyna and Tilo, and, of course, Snuggly.)

I feel like all the main characters of the series had their own eggs shattered at some point, Vendrick, or Aldia, nobody really seems to get by just by living. The protagonist of DksIII does seem to be largely independent and successful, though, being the sole on to carry the memory of the world that ended. Very poignant video and an awesome job, thanks.

man : you have to break an egg if you are to know what's inside later midir the dark eater

Thanks for the effort and lore. Enjoyed your content.

I think it would make sense that Gwyn would place Fillianore in the ringed city, to safe guard or hide the pygmies and subsequently the dark soul. In order to further prevent it from being released and extinguishing his era of light and flame. Gwyn had 4 children right? Gwydolin, Priscilla, the nameless king, and fillianore... What if each of his children represent a different era or entity that threatens his realm of flame and light.. The nameless king representing the dragons who were his first foe, Priscilla representing the painted worlds wich could also be seen by Gwyn as an abomination, usurpers of the true real realm of the gods, gwyndolin, a direct representation of himself as both her and Gwyn abandon their worlds. And at last fillianore, tasked with the safe guarding and protection of the dark soul of humanity, locking the pygmies away in attempts to prevent the corruption of what he gave so much to create. All in all it begs the question... Why is Gwyn so afraid of the dark soul, after all is it not the balance of light (Gwyn) and the abyss(the dark soul) that gives each purpose?

After all these years I want to add that faith is not only blind in a way, it is unavoidable too and this is well shown throughout the story because no one has certainties and full control, it shows what we are dealing with in real life.

Anyone else notice the area the girls runs to around 2:20 really looks like Oolacile Township?

6:09 Resembles the dark sign on the chest piece of the Ringed Knight. Perhaps the egg encased the Abyss?

What's always fascinated me is the immense literary power of fire. It's, to science, what gave humans the ability to evolve (it's a tool, but also a given thing: our fires are imitations of natural fires, they're stolen, they're Shakespeare's Pale Fire of the Moon, of mimesis, reflected by Nabokov, they're tales endlessly retold). It's the symbol of the motor of progress, it's destruction and creation, it's a link between corporeality and ethereality, in transforming the material world into smoke. It's connected to EVERYTHING, in an ideal sense it is figuratively radiant. It's modernity and enlightenment, and the dark, the 'reality', may very well be seen as the postmodern antithesis. If you're interested, read Voice of the Fire. That book is literal magic, gothic intertextuality turned to the max. 'There is but one fire.' Reminds me of Garland for John Clare by Keyes - 'there is ever only one poet, possessed by different voices'.

How can faith and miracles hold off the end of the world? They can't even deal damage!

can anyone tell me the music for this video.

But if light is time, as you say, then wouldn't the end of light, be the end of time itself?

Love this Video, Keep up on the Ringed city but I would really like to see a redux of some of your older videos? not that they are bad I just feel like you could definitely grow on some of the subjects with the enhanced knowledge of the lore you posse, now the Soul Series has ended..

VaatiVidya you should visit From Software in Japan and talk to them about lore of Dark Souls.

So does ludleth reverse time on the boss souls to make weapons then?

The only possible place for the first Firekeeper to be is The Ringed City, as that's the only place in Lore that predates Dark Souls 1. Dark Souls 1 was the very first cycle (Gwyn's still there). We meet the Firekeepers in Lordran, Anastacia, the Darkmoon Lady, the Fair Lady and whatever. They all have eyes.So it's either from TRC (possibly Filianore) or it's a plothole, since she couldn't have existed after DkS1 and we don't see her in DKS1.

So basically it's like the story of "How do you know if the egg is raw or cooked without breaking it?"

This might be somewhat of a far-fetched take, but could it be possible that the locusts of the Ringed City are the first sorcerers? If I remember correctly, the gods and faithful men despised magic, as they would possibly despise the locusts for being creatures who at least live in synergy with the Abyss. The Abyss is the source of dark magic, and the locusts are able to use very basic, almost primordial magic to feed on the humans they lured into the abyssal swamp. Parts of their body can also be used as a catalyst for sorceries. Since magic is a power usually attributed to humans and the Ringed City is a city of humans, this would make sense. Similar to how Miracles are basically just sermons, the description of the Preacher's Right Arm and the White Preacher Head state that the Locusts beckoned men into the dark with sermons. I think there could be a possible connection between how Miracles are used and how the use of magic spread among mankind. Apart from that, we know very little about the Locusts, who are a central element of the Ringed City and it's story. Eating humans makes sense, since we learned that parts of the darkness/the dark soul can be transferred through feeding on the bodies of those who hold darkness within them, humans for example. However, we don't know how they originated (apart from them rising from the abyssal swamp) and how old they are, as they could possibly be one of the oldest races of the Dark Souls universe. "Many of us are by the fire forsaken. I speak of thine kind, and mine.", the Locust Preacher tells us. There is a deep connection between the locusts and the humans, that we don't know enough about at this point. Maybe the locusts taught humans how to use magic, or at least humanity learned about the existence of magic through the locusts. Besides dragons, humans and both their creations, locusts are the only race to originally be able to use magic. Dragons however were usually not able to use magic, with only Seath being an exception. Maybe Manus brought the secrets of sorcery from the Ringed City to Oolacile, which caused the arts of magic to flourish in this city. This could also be how sorcery spread parallel to the growing intellect of humans. There is a lot of connections, but probably not enough evidence yet. I think this is an interesting topic, so I'd love to hear opinions and criticism to this idea. :)

god bless your sweet voice vaati!!

"I may be small, but I will die a colossus," is one of the most badass quotes in all of Dark Souls

I go away for 2 weeks and when I come back you're all meme gods what happened

A bit late to the lore party, but I think each of Gwyn's godly children are manifestations of his power as Lord of Sunlight. Gwyn is a Sun God and lightning is a manifestation of sunlight in the Dark Souls universe of which his first born, the Nameless King, is the heir. It also represents the destructive powers of the sun. Gwynevere represents the positive aspects of sunlight as giver of bounty (the light that causes crops to grow). Even Gwyndolin, the Darksun, draws his power from Gwyn, for does not the moon get its light from the Sun itself? As for Filianore, she is time itself, for do we not measure time by the position of the sun?

I think it's very fascinating how magic in this world works. Miracles are directly influenced by your faith as you have said. Sorceries also they are boosted by your intelligence, by your ability to...imagine..create a power within yourself through thought. And of course pyromancy is raw emotion. the will to survive and prosper, as a flame does.

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I miss you guys, currently in Japan so my relatively slow upload schedule became even slower. It's been good to get away though, I think I was feeling a bit burnt out the last few months. Japan is amazing! Keeping my eye out for Miyazaki...

"The answer is Faith.." Goddamnit, I should've known the Miracle builds were the answer to everything.

The one thing that gets me at the the end of the Ringed City is the appearance of the world after you break the egg. It doesn’t look dark like the Untended Graves or like when you let the Fire fade away. Instead the world is barren. Grey wastes as far as the eye can see. To me it looks like the world isn’t going to an Age of the Dark but seems to be reverting to an Age of the Ancients type state, or something like it at least.

Heyy, I'm 1%

5:45 "look man, I get it. It's cool that you can repair your weapons on your own now, but could you please not rub it in my face? That used to be my only source of income, and now I have none."

folk lore? more like *Yolk Lore*

"I want to convince you..." Vaati... If you said Manis is Lord Gwen I would probably believe you

VaatiVidya!! Since you are in Japan, please, kidnap miyazaki and make him explain the whole story of the trilogy

Schrödinger's Egg?

What if ludleth was exiled for linking the fire? if the pygmies are Lord's of dark, extending the flame is opposite of what they want

Or *maybe* the "egg" is just a bowl of chips, and she's sleeping while you brake into her fancy, well guarded home. But riiiiight before you can grab a hanfull chips and be on your way, she wakes up. She sees the intruder trying to steel her food, freaks out, accidentally forewards time, and you can't eat them chips anymore because their rotten. BAM

I interpreted the "shattering" of the hollow egg upon our arrival / touching it as more symbolic of her faith being "shattered" ... and thus her ability to halt time completely crumbled -- teleporting us forward to the end of the world.

It's Velka

Lothric is my city

*FUCKING HELL VAATI I WATCHED TENSHI NO TAMAGO OVER TWO MONTHS AGO WHEN YOU FIRST POINTED OUT THE POSSIBLE REFERENCE AND I OBSESSED OVER IT SO MUCH I COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT DARK SOULS OR ANYTHING ELSE EXISTED AND ONLY NOW, AFTER PORING OVER COUNTLESS REVIEWS AND ANALYSIS YOU COME AT ME WITH THIS SHIT AND DON'T EVEN EXPLAIN HOW MAMORU OSHII FELL OUT WITH CHRISTIANITY AND FAITH IN HIS YOUTH JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO BECOME A PRIEST AND HOW IT PROBABLY MEANS FILIANORE BELIEVED HER BELOVED FATHER GWYN AND HIS AGE OF FIRE WOULD BE ETERNAL SO LONG AS SHE TOOK CARE OF THE EGG AND STAYED PUT IN THE RINGED CITY BUT WHEN SHE FINALLY WAKES UP ALL SHE SEES IS THIS UNKINDLED PIECE OF SHIT BEING ALL LIKE "GWYN IS DED N' I'M DA LORD OF HOLLOWS LMAO, RAVIOLI RAVIOLI, GIVE ME THE DARK SOULIOLI" SO SHE JUST FUCKING STRAIGHT UP AGES UP AND DIES LIKE WTF VAATI PLS*

So waking up Fillianore fast forwards time to how everything should be. Which means the fact that the paired greatsword Ringed Knight is still alive and kicking at the end of the world speaks volumes of his strength.

If Ludleth was a Pygmy Lord, then it would make sense why he became a Lord of Cinder. Think about the power the First Flame would gain if a huge chunk of the Dark Soul was sacrificed to it. Hawkwood also stated that some Lords were chosen "not for virtue, but for might".

Hey you can make a religion out of this

02:39 "..the girl is comforted by her faith." "No matter how tender, how exquisite... A lie will remain a lie."

If Fillionore is a miracle, and miracles are usually in Braille, does this mean I have to use my fingers to learn her...

The eyes that reveal the betrayal could mean Gwyn abandoning his daughter and tricking the people of the Ringed City as it was more or less a prison for the dark soul...maybe idk

We still haven't answered the most important question. Why the fuck is there a crab in the rock!

Fck, making scrambled eggs has never been harder after watching this video

Godddddd I am obsessed with this channel, keep up the good work, and fulfilling my dark souls obsession

the answer isn't faith the answer is strength

i feel like the story behind this video game series is so much more than just a 'story behind a video game series'. its told with so much attention to detail, and so much detail within the little tiny details. so much emotion, its more of a masterpiece than just a storyline in some video game series. i love it, and at the same time wanna know why there is so much more depth to these games than any others out there.

This video made me watch Angel's Egg. Thanks, Vaati. Sincerely.

vaati: hey guys I'm going to Japan to kick Miyazaki in the chin because HE TOOK MY JOB

I just watched Angel's Egg for the first time last night it's a masterpiece very sad but amazing non the less

Breaking News Unknown masked man has taken everybody in the fromsoftware development studio hostage and threatens to execute everyone in the board of directors if quote "These fuckers will not make another soulslike game" The man claims his entire income is on the line and that he is very passionate about this series of games, Police have found 4 propane explosives near the entrances placed there to kill any police officers. Escalation as the masked man executed one of the employees at fromsoftware and now is begging the ceo miyazaki to make another soulsborne game. Today was a tragic day after a masked man took the entire fromsoftware development studio office hostage and then executed everybody shortly after, 2 Minutes after exeucting every single hostage the masked man detonated another pack of hidden explosives destroying the entire office building, No activity on the youtube channel "Vaatividya" has fans suspecting the owner of said channel may have been involved in the attack.

I'm thinking that Filianore's egg is the reverse of the egg parable in Angel's Egg. After all, the egg Filianore holds is broken open, and so brittle that it crumbles at the merest touch . . . what does this suggest about faith? And too, the inside of the egg looking like a transposing kiln is significant IMO . . . the transposing kiln itself seems a dubiously dark bit of magic, seeing as how it turns souls into items. Again, this suggests something unsavoury about that egg of Filianore's. We know souls burn gud on a fire, and can be turned into things - so what might her egg be doing? Was she "fed" souls to keep the Ringed City green? When the egg broke, was that why everything came to an end?

"A lie will always remain a lie."

I M P L I C A T I O N S

Light is time... huh, this reminds me of Orihime's "healing" powers from Bleach. She uses light to reverse time and in that way undo the damage of someone's body.

Honestly the image of two beings, functionally immortal, fighting for the essence of their kind at the end of time, at the edge of the world is so powerful for me

There's another interpretation for Filianore's scene. She didn't lose her powers and die because her faith ran dry, but she commenced into death because she fulfilled her purpose and her faith was proven. When the player arrived, they are, usually, at the height of their powers, fully grown, so to speak. They started from a freshly born character (or reborn), from a rotten egg (the graves). Her waiting wasn't in vain. It's probably no coincidence she sets the stage for you to battle the largest curse of the dark soul.

I'm happy you fit dark souls 2 into some of these videos. i know its not the best souls game released but it did add some important lore to the game that does answer questions as well...

"Faith has a remarkable amount of power" What game do you play scrub?

Vaati making my Souls experience better since the age of ancients

It always makes me kinda sad when I hear lines like "Thank you for being the 1% who watches the end of the video"... Anyways, hope you have a great time in Japan and thanks for what you do!

I love the music he uses in all his videos. Definitely has a souls feel to them. Does anyone know where he gets his music from or if there's a playlist on spotify I can listen to?

Another possible example of the Light = Time concept and a link to Filianore's role in The Ringed City is, of course, Anor Londor. Maybe the sunlight wasn't 'illusory' as we have thought for so many years, maybe time was just bound to the illusion of Gwyn's daughter like it was bound to the faith of Filianore. Just an idea.

solaire was worshiping the true god all the time praise the sun source of light

Yo Vaati. I noticed something when playing the Gael boss fight the other day. I dont think Filianor is dead. Whenever you get summoned into the Gael boss fight, Filianor is is out lined by a white shade, something that is always reserved for NPC's in the hosts world that cannot be interacted with by the player. It is always used on living NPC's however. You get summoned into worlds surrounded by corpses all the time and they never get an outline so it is interesting that they wold give Filianor one if it meant nothing. I'm curious on your thoughts about this.

So like, pygmies are just another word for Humans in the souls series, right? Like, the gods call humans "pygmies" because theyre big, theyre giants, and we're all small to them? That sounds about right. Manus isnt "The pygmy", hes the ancestor of them, of us. Hes our grandad. Pygmy lords is just like a derogatory way for gods to talk about human kings, they think its quaint that humans try to wear little crowns too.

I personally believe that the ringed city was a dream, like the Hunter's Dream or Yarnahm itself possibly, and Filianore was its host, keeping a portion of the world real for as long as she slept, yet when she woke it was dispelled, and we return to the true form of the world in the Dreg Heap, or the Deep as I theorize it is, since the dreams of deep seas Aldrich had never mentioned water. The sea was one of ash and dust, with the dregs seeping down to its deepest part, which is why the abyssal enemies rise up from the ash when they greet(kill) us. Also, it would be easier to keep a dream world real than it would be to suspend a place in time that is clearly still changing. Despite how Oolacile required you to travel back in time to reach it, keeping a place locked in time and traveling through time are different things. These are just my opinions though, and could be wrong.

So Vaati is it possible that you will one day do that Lady Maria of the astral clock tower video? You said that you would be very excited about it but then DS3 came out and you've been on that. Will we one day have our video on our caring lady?

Only eggs can sustain me

happy that angel's egg getting more notice cause of this, one of my favourite animes

How about a Lady Maria prepard to cry man, you forgot about it

In Braille: "Solaire is Gwin's firstborn"

I feel angel's egg might also have affected the end of fire ending, in the movie, from the breaking of the egg which leads to the girl drowning, many new eggs are born, much like how in the end of fire ending, the fire keeper says that one day tiny flames will dance across the darkness, even though the first flame has faded

Just a question: Why does Gael grow in size in the boss fight compared to when you meet him in the church of the deep?

VaatiVidya I have a few theories I really would love your input on, that link incredibly well with what you've stated here, and I think could potentially shore up a few weaker points. Specifically I'm going to bring up the linked Greek myths of Eos and Tithonus with Selene and Endymion. Eos-goddess of dawn-falls in love with Tithonus, a mortal. She begs Zeus to grant him eternal life, and he does, but she fails to ask for eternal youth. And so as ages pass he withers, becoming decrepit and horrifying, and finally she transforms him into a cicada to be free from him. Many illustrations of this transformation look remarkably similar to the appearance of hollows, especially those in DaS 1, making me suspect that this myth may have informed the idea of the undead. Selene-goddess of the moon-likewise falls in love with Endymion. She learns from her sister however, and asks for her mortal lover to be given eternal sleep, for while he slept he would not age. With the previous myth brought to mind, this one seems even more likely a candidate to help explain Filianore. I think drawing upon foundational western mythology is something often missing from too many lore discussions, especially seeing as how the entire basis of the franchise is from Miyazaki's love of western literature despite being only partly understood. With these two myths in mind, suppose Gwyn--knowing that his sacrifice would only ever be temporary--gave his daughter the egg, giving her an object for her blind faith as you described. Giving her the instruction that as long as she guards the egg, the world cannot end, he lays eternal sleep upon her. Now as long as she slumbers, she does not age or mark the passing of time, creating an eternal causal loop. She slumbers, and thus her miracle of faith preventing the world's end, is maintained. We shatter the egg and wake her. In an instant, her faith shatters with the egg. Her task failed, her miracle is banished. with the flash of light, eons of time held at bay rush in. She ages and the world is destroyed by the exact same faith that held these at bay. She BELEIVED that this was the result if she should fail. In essence, she CAUSES the world's end by fearing it due to her failure.

nore or noor means light in Arabic when you replace the F with M (milianore) that means filled with light it's not acutely milianore it's miliannore i think am too late😔😔

2:16 looks like things betwixt from dark souls 2

not sure if its coincidence, but Aldia in DS2 spoke of Shattering the "Yolk", to reveal the illusion of humanity and free will for what it is, could he have actually been speaking literally and not figuratively?

Had Midir at 10% when the notification came up...RIP guess he can wait.

Filialore

never expected to see this anime again. it was a real hidden gem

Regarding Manus - my thoughts on the matter were that Manus was THE Furtive Pygmy who was betrayed by Gwyn after the War against the Everlasting Dragons for the crime of sundering his (Manus') own soul and spreading that power across his closest allies. This stems from the knowledge of the Dark Soul gained by playing through DaS3's DLCs, the way that Gwyn has been shown to constantly be a jealous and rather foolhardy individual with little regard for any other being, and how often the ideas that seem good are attributed to him but then we find out someone else did the work. We know that powerful enough Souls can be split, we know that they can be split multiple times, and we also can infer that splitting the Soul is more like shattering a Soul than cleanly slicing one - as the sum of the remaining parts is never as mighty as the original whole (see Seath and the Four Kings from Gwyn's Soul as well as the Witch of Izalith's Children and the Demons of Lost Izalith for The Witch's Lord Soul).

EGG AHEAD

"Thank you for being the one percen-" This is the last thing I heard before closing the video.

When that warrior in Angel's Egg smashes the egg, the animation looks eerily similar to when the ashen one marries Anri.

2 years later but what if the egg shows and holds time, showing when the end is near. When we touch the egg, it cracks and falls apart, pushing time forward to the end of the world.

There is a dark souls themed cafe in Tokyo. Check it out of you want to.

1:45 Okay I finally watched this movie yesterday, and having done that, I think I disagree with this point. I don't think it matters to the girl what's in the egg until the man asks her about it. I'm basing this on an earlier scene, where she discovers a flask full of some undisclosed red liquid. My immediate reaction, at least, was to be curious about what was inside the flask--but she immediately pours it out and goes to find the fountain, where she fills the flask with water. The contents of the flask aren't important to her; she's only interested in its shape, and what it has the capacity to contain. When the man asks her what's in the egg at first, she literally can't tell him; she doesn't know, and up to that point she never cared. As she grows more comfortable with him, she begins to wonder herself what's inside. When she hears the story about the bird, she's delighted by it, and decides that the bird must be inside the egg--it's the most interesting possibility at that precise moment. When he questions her about it, she remembers the big fossilized bird skeleton, and takes him to see it. But there wasn't really a lot of bird imagery before that point. Instead, there was the focus on water, and to a lesser extent on drowning. Then, after the man arrived in town, there were the fish and the fishermen--people hunting invisible things, only traceable by the shadows they left on the ground. The man is hunting a specific thing, but although the thing exists, he can't really ever hurt or catch it. Knowing that, and having pursued it for so long, he no longer believes it's possible; as he says, he's forgotten where he came from, and where he's going. So we've got the girl, who's totally focused on the egg--not because the thing inside it is important, but because the egg is a vessel for potential (and also for her innocence, because once the egg is broken she falls into a ravine full of water, is destroyed by her reflection, ages, and then apparently drowns in such a way as to create a million more eggs; the destruction of the egg leads directly to her becoming an adult and then immediately dying). And we've got the man, who breaks the story by doubting it and investigating it, locking its potential into one place (which no longer matters once it's fixed; we're never actually shown whether there was anything in the egg or if it was empty). I think the point of comparison here is that in both cases, the egg sort of represents a point of stasis. The moment the egg is broken, everything changes, irreparably. The big eye appears, the fishermen drown, the girl matures (and then also drowns), there are feathers everywhere, and we zoom out to see that the world is a tiny shard surrounded by darkness. It's a calamity--a flood, like the man described earlier. This is also a consequence of the egg's destruction in Dark Souls, but Dark Souls in general tends to take a dim view of postponing calamity purely for the sake of maintaining a grim status quo. Dark Souls' world is dead. And unlike in Angel's Egg, we can already see inside Fillianore's egg before it breaks; there's nothing inside it. In Dark Souls, breaking the egg isn't an inevitable cruelty performed by an exhausted, battered man with nothing left to him but an impossible hunt (and besides that description better suits Gael); it's an act of kindness, accidental as it might be. Even before Ringed City, there are glimpses behind the illusion of III's Age of Fire. The Untended Graves aren't a vision of a version of Firelink from the distant future; it's the _real_ Firelink Shrine. It's the one connected to the world; you need to teleport to reach ours. It exists in a world devoid of hope--and, shocker, that's *the real world* in Dark Souls. The only way to 'save' this setting is to let it go, so that something new can grow where it once was. Anyway uh. Happy November, I guess.

Hey Vaati I see that you were wearing solaire’s Armour in that DS1 clip...I’m pretty sure that means you ether didn’t save solaire or killed him... anyway both are absolute treason so I’m afraid your under arrest for the murder of solaire Edit: god bless that sun bro

When I first saw the egg I thought it was midir's because his discription says he was raised by the gods

you need to do a video on the endings of ds3 More Specifically the ending where the unkindled kills the fire keeper and offers the flame to the "thing" in the sky. So much we need to know