EDIT: I made a typo with Dancer of Ranah, her Jaw Contour should be 90, not 9. The usual disclaimer with facedata still applies, regular NPCs, including bosses like Messmer or Rellana for example, don't have facedata and can't be copied by the player, because they just use a unique model instead.
Zullie, would you mind investigate whether enemies become less aggressive when we are invaded? I didn't find anything about it but it seems like sometimes enemies are a slower to attack. At least in DS3
Jokes aside I think they design the characters first, and then later decide on their exact outfits, so they dont know who will end up with a permament helmet and who does not.
@@EllaKarhugiven that Gowry is also a kindred of rot and can project a humanoid disguise around himself that fades when you hit him, I’d assume its similar.
@riemaennchen I kind of pictured Moore as an unusually small pest- excuse me, “forager”- squeezed into that armor to give it a humanoid shape. Kind of weird to think he’s a regular human. Thiollier, though, the only surprise is how restrained he was with the purple hair dye.
You can also find a large snake skin that was shed near the o mother emote. It doesn't look like Messmers at all and has the same color as rykards. You think the serpent was reborn there or was it from rykard before he went back to the lands between
@@EricIsntSmartyes actually! Well, we have evidence that the ringed finger of the fingers is the serpents, and that the fingers come from the shadow lands.
We may have seen her before the promo art, the face values for the enchanted knight from the pts are pretty much the same and it lends to more that the pts was just in the past lore wise.
@@thegodofsoapkekcario1970 I was considering it was St Trina, sadly I was very wrong. I would be be lying if I wouldn’t have preferred her to being St Trina over the actual St Trina.
@@technicallypsycho5370 I'm hoping there's some special interaction somewhere with them but probably useless as the whole point of the item is to show that patches went and risked his life (or at the very least thought about it enough to be outside the boss room) all for nothing
@@technicallypsycho5370 They serve a story purpose. It highlights how, in the end, Tanith has abandoned the noble person who others knew and loved that she used to be, and has fallen totally into unrecognizable depravity over her inability to detach from her obsession with the Serpent's legacy. This is identical to what befell Rykard himself, which is why the phantom of one of his own Gelmir Knights informs you about the Serpent-Hunter and begs you to slay him as soon as you arrive in the Manor. Tanith following in Rykard's footsteps when she inherits the role of acting Lord of the Volcano Manor recusants is a painful, but poignant lesson about the allure and corruption of defining oneself as the blasphemous opposite to an extant authority like the Erdtree. It shows how much that necessity of embodying a diametric contradictory force divests you of your own identity and shapes you into a reflection of the thing you oppose. Tanith herself even notes that when she wants to protect Zorayas by forcing her to drink the potion to forget, she's being the same type of manipulative force as the Erdtree that she opposes out of misguided and overprotective love for her poor child. For me, that context from Patches actually trying for the ONE person who isn't worth it is what made the particular choices in Zorayas' questline all the more important in showing her a real way to break that cycle that doesn't have to come with erasing her memory or ending her life. (Those lessons hit even harder if you're familiar with the book *_Night's Master_* by Lee Tanith, which is a large inspiration to a number of elements and stories in the game, but particularly insofar as what Zorayas' life could be if it were set on the wrong path by the encounter with Blackguard Big Boggart, and if she'd embraced killing rather than being shown how to be merciful and kind even when it is necessarily painful in order to prevent someone from becoming an unrecognizable monster from who they once were).
Freyja says her face is hideously deformed by the Rot, even after Miquella healed her, which is why she has her helmet. But if that lil scar is all that's left, it's cute to think that such a big warrior is just shy and self conscious about it.
@@themanhimself4796 the hairy wild man with massive sideburns and claws waiting nude in the wilderness with a name that’s very nearly Logan isn’t a reference in any way to Wolverine. Got it.
@@MitridatedCarbon Nataan only appears as an optional npc summon for the fight before the final boss if you have done Ansbachs or Tholiers questlines , he will not show up. i guess FS just put him there as an emergency summon if people had a hard time with that fight? Otherwise he doesent appear anywhere else
@@rhadamanthys649 yeah, I think he also mentioned that Rin is his favorite char in og novel and his favorite scene is when she and Archer jump into the night, this info is from two different interview. Also ds3 eclipse looks exactly like leaking grail from Fate/Zero and HF route
Moonrithyll looks a lot like Moongrum. The description for Moonrithyll's blatant ripoff of the Troll Knight's Sword says she's Rellana's chamberlain, so I kinda got the impression they're Rellana's kids and her being the Twin Moon Knight is a really elaborate pun.
Not only are their faces uniquely sculpted, but even their body shapes are individualized. Freyja has a very full chest, Ansbach has muscular limbs, and Thiollier is very thin. Also, the fact that Igon is hairy was just as I had imagined!😂 FromSoftware's attention to detail is astonishing.
Agree, but that's because that is the character model wearing the armor and the armor changes depending on size haha. So it's largely about the presentation of the armor of course.
Im crying why did they make Rakshasa so beautiful, give her the best looking armour, then give her no dialogue or lore and have her be a hidden boss....
Could be a reference to Unbreakable, since in that movie Bruce Willis wears a wide brimmed rain hat and rain coat that looks oddly similar now that you mention it
Anyone else think Logur is a Wolverine reference? His name is shockingly close to Logan, he has a beard like in the movie Logan, and he has special beast claws
I saw someone say that not ever Fromsoft guy with a big sword is a Berserk reference but the Solitary Gaol Knight literally has Guts scar across the nose LMAOOO
I'm trying to think of FromSoft guys (with big swords) who are not Berserk references. All I got is Tarkus, Gwyn, Benhardt, Starscourge Radahn, Bernahl, Radagon (formerly, when he used Golden Order Greatsword), and Morgott. I'm pretty sure everyone else is a Berserk reference in some way. Vengarl is a brutal berserker mercenary renowned for impressive strength, who gets really reflective when left alone. Alonne left his king and friend at the height of their power, since he was no longer needed - and then said king then made every mistake possible. Artorias, Gael, Raime, Blaidd, Maliketh, and Solitary Knight are just straight Guts references. Hawkwood is the last surviving member of a 'mercenary' group which died out under an eclipse. He also uses a big sword. He's also a Guts reference. Pontiff Sulyvahn might be a Griffith reference, despite his large swords. Darius hunts the "abominations" that used to be human. Devin fights for revenge for his other self, who was backstabbed (albeit only literally this time). edit: The Siegs wear armor loosely inspired by Bazuso's unique platemail. The Redmane Knights use the same somersault as Guts, via Lion's Claw and (in lore) Savage Lion's Claw. Ludwig is, unfortunately, a reference to a specific horse in his first phase.
@@khajiitimanus7432 the Siegs wear Bazuso's armour, Ludwig's first form is a reference to rape horse and Radahn does Artorias McGutsman's flip smashes, for a few more. My favourite Berserk reference in the franchise is Godfrey and Serosh mirroring Schierke taking astral form to restrain Guts from berserking too hard in the armour, it's a little more subtle than most but definitely intentional.
@@Xenochrist I forgot about Siegs. They're cool, never even made the Bazuso comparison. I didn't need to remember the horse. That technically doesn't apply, as when we fight Radahn in Caelid, he never does such a thing. I'm sure the Redmanes were taught it, so it wouldn't surprise me if Savage Lion Claw came from Radahn just like Rain of Arrows, but alas. That said, one of the DLC bosses is definitely a VERY hard Griffith reference, even mind-controlling a character with a similar personality to Guts. Rather reminiscient of how Guts was bound to Griffith's service in the Golden Age arc because of the duel. (I'm avoiding DLC spoilers for the random reader - I'm very aware myself, but IMO, it hasn't quite been long enough to warrant casual mention). Godfrey and Serosh, I never noticed! That's genuinely awesome. I've added these to the original comment, excluding Godfrey. It's about "sword guys" after all, and alas, Godfrey uses an axe. That is an AWESOME reference though, can't believe I never noticed.
@@khajiitimanus7432 Radahn is also a minor berserk reference - his armor looks very similar to armor of that one king (or warrior or whatever) who created the city of fantasia (forgot his name)
My lore theory for igon is that hes a regular fisherman that Bayle attacked. And thats why he’s terrified, but still forcing himself to go fight. His arrows are called harpoons, and all his gear looks like something a fisherman would wear in folk lore
Also it's a whole reference to Moby Dick which is about a whaler who loses a leg to a monstrous white whale and becomes obsessed with revenge and killing it with a whaling harpoon
Freja fits the "cute muscle-thick tomboy" aesthetic TO THE LETTER. I can see her pouting shy and doing the 👉👈 gesture when talking about her scar. Thiollier and Moore are as huggable as they sound Look at Dane's jaw. My god, no wonder he has the chaddest moveset of the DLC. And Leda is literally just Saber.
My theory: he's a _former_ follower of Mogh when we meet him. The eyes might've gone away because the magical connection was severed, and he removed the marking because he's now a follower of Miquella.
It's possible he didn't lose the sight of grace. He acknowledges us as a lord and his dialogue if he dies in the last fight says a lot about how he sees you, the "righteous tarnished".
Ansbach turning out darkskinned was a pleasent surprise, he looks so much like my grandpa! I guess Varre's fit and the whole blood mottif gave me the impression all Mohg's surbordinates would be pale skinned vampire lookin types. Which is funny considering how many of the other masked npcs are actually super pale.
I did not expect Igon to look so old. I always thought he would look at least a little younger and have scruffy yet not so long hair or beard, but i was dead wrong. yet the look 100% fits his character oddly enough. His looks and personality never screamed "i am a stable human being who regularly cleans himself and take care of his physical well being. I am in perfectly good condition. " He was more like "I am a a broken shallow of a man, obsessed with eevenge and the power of dragons. I never care about my physical health more than i need to, because all the time i spend not hunting dragons is a waste. And also CURSE YOU BAYLE!!!"
There is so much intention with the models of NPC that we will never see in game. They all have specially crafted faces and looking at them, they all feel right and like they fit the character. The love put into this game is astounding.
@@T101Crazy I am thinking going to do videos for queelign, ansbach, freja, dryleaf dane, both swords of night, messmer, dancer, moonrithyll, natann and that will be it. Messmer though is going to be my first of the videos.
Fun fact I cannot prove and I think is right, is that the dane's (dry leaf art guy) design was and attire especially the hat, had some inspiration in mozgus from berserk
