Dark Souls Timeline: From Beginning to End. 

Impressive how much you included in 15 minutes without making it chaotic

Gwyn did not command witch of izalith to recreate the first flame, it was the witch of izalith's own idea to make a new source of power which in turn transformed her into bed of chaos

I've always wondered what the world of Dark Souls would've looked like if Gwyn had allowed nature to run its course.

Wow, I have never seen anyone explain the Dark Souls lore this good in 15 minutes. Subbed

I've been playing Dark Souls for years now and still didn't know the full story. Lol. I've never had the patience to watch a 3 hour video on it, and this was awesome, being able to get it in 15 mins. Thanks Legend.

You are a hidden gem. I wish you the best of luck against the most saturated market of British dark souls youtubers lol

Seath is for all practical purposes, a Dracolich. His flesh and blood has been crystallized and his immortality is directly tied to the Primordial Crystal, his Phylactery. So long as the PC was unbroken, Seath was a true immortal. (It just turns out that a lazy guard would eventually lead to a death spiral of events that would countermand Seath's efforts.)

I want a Dark Souls Prequel where we see Gwyn in his Prime and his Kingdom in full Glory.

I have a shorter version: You died

Dude, this is epic. You deserve so much praise for how well you explained this.

Patches is Gwynn's true son.

Awesome video, I've played and seen longplays of these games multiple times but still never knew the story had so much breadth and depth. Thank you.

never played the souls games myself, so as someone who knows literally nothing of the world: you did a bloody good job

Bro wanted VatiVidyas videos to be shorter 😂 I honestly thought you were a bigger channel, congrats with the quality content 👏

Amazing how I was able to understand it in 15 minutes. You used very clear explanation. Thank you.

you got some of it wrong, the first born of gwyn is exiled after gwyn goes to link the first flame, also the one we fight under that tower is probably not havel

It feels like such a long time ago since I finished the DS series.. the key points are there and you did a great job but, the details of what it took to get to these points and that curiosity that leads you off the main paths into the details is what sticks. I'm definitely still sitting hear trying to remember it all

This was impressively organized and informative, good job on that!

This is very well written, great explanation with fun quips in between

Thank you so much for this masterpiece. As someone who had only invested time in the third game, I always wanted to have a deeper understanding of the souls series because the themes and lore are just so fascinating and familiar. I now feel a bit more complete as a hollow myself.

You earned a new subscriber! Excellently explained!

Wow..just wow...I've finally get an understanding only through this vid. Super impressive..a true hidden gem

This is the best and most cohesive ds lore video

Genuinely really good video I hope it becomes one of those random videos that blow up for under 100k subscriber channels because it deserves more views

Very good video! Keep up the good solid lore telling

I thought Aldia was the Lothric's teacher, not Sulyvahn. Also it seems Abyss Watchers and Yhorm were willing to rekindle the flame, although Abyss Watchers probably meant to rekindle it after beating Wolnir, and Yhorm not really had much reason not to. Even those two aside, Ludleth was already there to rekindle the flame. Why Cinder woke the Unkindled when there was already Ludleth to rekindle the flame?

First soulsgame I've beaten was bloodborne, than dark souls 3, 1 and 2 haven't played yet since I thought they are not connected. I started than dark souls 1 and came to firelink shrine which looks way different than in dark souls 3. Looked for video to explain the connection and story and there is no video on the internet that says so much in 15minutes. Thank you.

that was exactly what i needed thx a lot !

Didn't Gwynevere and Gwyndolin had a sister, Yorshka? Also as a speculation, that nameless son of Gwyn could be Nameless King.

keep up the good work love ur videos

Perfect summary thank you

It is not comfirmed that the scholar who doubted the linking of the fire was Pontiff Sulyvhahn

Amazing job man! All the other videos explaining the lore are either freaking 2 hour long or just terribly narrated. Not only did you manage to summarize the story without missing out important details but also didn't make it too fast and untidy. Bravo❤👍👍👍👏👏

Just found your channel, subscribed. I will be watching your career with great interest.

This is very well done thank you! I listened to it but still have no idea what’s happening.

Bro I’ve never played any of these games but once h started explaining dark souls 2 I got soooo bored and then 3 brought me back

Nito is not the first undead but the first dead

AKCHUALLY - gwyn asked the witches of izalith the extend the flame not make a new one

How does this only have 12k views

The best thing about spoiling Dark Souls for myself is that…I won’t remember most of this 😭💀

Could the dark souls world itself have been a painting and could the painter just keeping travelling through the paintings and make new ones?

yeah cool, and I see the painting as a metaphor for a new game, the painter as a metaphor for a new developer

Its like the classic quest for immortality with all of the trials and tribulations retold in many different ways over and over again, But all in the same place

Great video

You deserve a follow

Love this but if there were only dragons and trees, where did the humanoids come from…?

Thank you I wholeheartedly want to Thank you

nito hes soul is just chilling underground

I thought mulling the flame bring in the next age. Which is good because the whole series we’ve been prolonging the next age

Great video, think you can make one explaining the call of duty zombies storyline?

This was great! :) One idea i've been thinking about is the They that came from the Dark are actually seeds of the archtrees. This would explain the rootlike growth on hollows, most pronounced on the Four Kings, and people turning into trees in DS3. Also the term hollow is a common word used to describe hollow trees, maybe implying that humans are in fact trees infused with life and when that life is spent we are left hollow husks. Either way hollow is an unusual term for an undead fiend. I think the advent of fire and it's end is in fact part of the archtrees lifecycle. One could draw parallells to forestfires in the real world. Pine specifically, a common reference in dark souls, thrive in the aftermath of forestfires. One of pines many adaptations to fire are serotinous cones. These cones are glued shut with a strong resin and stays shut long after its seeds have matured only to be released when fire melts the resin and spreads the seeds. I would enter the item human pine resin into evidence at this point. I theorycraft alot but don't have the technical know-how to make videos (old). Im so glad someone does! The Dark souls community is awesome. And it's so great people are still making content :). Praise the sun!

now I just need to play the games to understand the story a little better :3

"Regardless, we kill them all" is a good summary

Where does one figure all of this out? I just feel these games are so opaque I would never work out the relationships between the different characters

You start with the start ,😂😂how insightful

I hope one day I can understand

Dark souls 4 has a nice ring to it

A great chest.. Tought we were letting that slip?😂

Wait but why was linking the fire so important.. If it was just a cycle that kept repeating.... Wat did it matter if it was rekindled or not?

If the DLC is in the past, then how could Oolacile be alive in the golden golem in the present? At the end of the DLC after the Manus fight, Oolacile is lying on the ground dying. The DLC being in the past I'd an interesting concept nonetheless, I haven't heard that before.

At the beginning there were trees and dragons: just as in Elden Ring

Just another tip: Elden Ring, the Ringed City

So doe the hollows become more human again after the fire gets kindled

Video is W

No ok there is a misandertanding with the dark souls lore , Gwin knew created vuluntarily the darksign ,the the cult of the chosen undead , so the linking of the fire could continue olso after his death , the bell gargoiles , sens’fortress, where a trayal for the chowsen undead’s to come

To say ds2s story isn't canon is bizarre to me. I think story wise it's my favorite in the whole trilogy

To start the dark souls storyline you should probably have started with demon's souls being it started it all,

Brilliantly summarized. Good work, well done. Thank you for your hard work explaining the convoluted lore. I still don't really believe that DS2 is canon though.

Wow! Amazing vid. I learned a lot in only 15min

I wonder the name “Dark Souls” was plan for the ending or otherwise?

A very. Nice. Chest.

Lmao 250 subs somehow damn, hope u blow up

I disagree with the idea that hollowing is humanity's natural form. From ds1 we know the opposite, that humanity is what prevents hollowing. So i'd say hollowing instead signifies the lack of humanity.

There’s a few things incorrect with this but impressive nonetheless.

Important moral takeaways from the souls series: - your commitment to your unique purpose is your strength - in dark souls, the cycle goes that every attempt to rekindle the flame is an attempt to hold on to the power which people believe makes them strong. Everything fades, nothing lasts forever, which leads to nothing but sorrow. At the heart of the story, the main conflict is the pain of holding on to that which is comfortable. - all sane characters you meet are people driven with purpose. Although they seem to maintain good spirits, they all too eventually die or go hollow. - the answer to how to escape the inevitable failures onset by linking the flame is complex in execution, but simple in intention. Open a new door into the unknown to bring an age of uncertainty. The slim possibility for a better world is arguably better than being subjected to the same nightmare for eternity. - in real life terms, quit the 9-5. Start a RU-vid channel. Join a cult. Get into bitcoin. Learn how to sew fun little hats. Go against the grain. The best characters in Dark Souls are often the most whimsical and extraordinary people.

no fucking clue but very interesting

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Mostly accurate but also wrong in places or too simplistic, still a lot for just 15 mins

I cannot stand how there is a visible mouse pointer in the gameplay sections of this video.

,,very nice chest”😂😂😂

Elden Ring is the new painted World?

dark souls

I still don’t get it

1:13 twist words all you want, gwyndolin is a femboy

So this has nothing to do with elden ring ?

I didnt understand a single thing too confusing

Nts

So basically in the end, you don't accomplish anything and the whole series was pointless.

L gwyn

Nah man don’t make sexist jokes but great video

first game only good one

This was very basic. I knew there wouldn't be much lore in 15 minutes

"Dark Souls 2 is cannon": Proceeds to explain the lore of a game set in a different time, different characters, with only a vague similarity to the themes of the first game, and does not advance the narrative arc of the series in any meaningful way.

There's no story in Dark Souls, it's just a bunch of nonsense. It's good to play but not for the story.

Great Video, Dark Souls 2 shouldn't be in here. Game's lacklustre, trash mechanic etc

I don't understand. What was the specific effect of the "dark sign" ? You say the sign imprisons the humans and is at the same time the source of their hollowing at 14:25, followed immediately by the statement along the lines of "without the fire the sign weakens and thus we go hollow, the natural course of action". This would mean that hollowing wasn't induced by the dark sign, but that by simply having a dark soul, you will go hollow. so which one is it? Having a dark soul means you're going to go hollow and the dark signed staved it off or humans go hollow because of the dark sign (which at the same time staved off the hollowing) ?

Dark souls 3 canon ending: The painter fucked up the painting and accidentally made Yharnam