Five Souls Lore Mysteries that were Solved 

"lost the annals" vs "lost from the annals" was such a big blunder.

I'm still curious what the end game of the primordial serpents is. Why are they playing both sides? What are they up to? I really wished the sequels had addressed this better.

Ludwig being revealed in all his, er, splendour, in the DLC after using his “holy blade” in my first play through was good.

The one thing I have learnt from playing dark souls games and Elder ring too. No matter how good or tough the actual game is the lore videos will be have me wounder just how missed so much.

Time is convoluted indeed

Why would people think cleric beast was laurence, he's literal skull is in the great cathedral The one in the dlc is just a dream, a different plane of existence, where he suffers for eternity, burning. The actual laurence is dead, people theorise that the headless bloodletting beast we meet in the chalice dungeon is probabaly him, since its missing a head and theres a skull of a beast in the grand cathedral after amelia. The normal bloodletting beast even has a scar on its face similar to the skull in the cathedral

All of this is speculation on my part so feel free to dismiss because it involves cut content, but I think the reason the Statue of Lothric is holding Sulyvahn's sword might be tied to an earlier version of the story. Most people know that Sulyvahn was originally the final boss and his boss track is the title screen music. However, what I gathered from years of looking at cut/changed stuff, it seems like the Twin Princes Boss had a 3rd phase at one point. In a very Berserk like fashion, that third phase would have the both of them enter into a "cocoon" like state and after some time would pass (I don't exactly know how it worked just yet but it wasn't instantly) you would fight that Newly formed King of the Eclipse after the fire would permanently(?) go out. And that's why the Statue has the Sword because it was his Sword, and why Pontif has two swords as it combines both brothers. It just seems like in Fromsoft's haste to rewrite the story, shuffle around the bosses and change entire areas during the last two years of development leading up to release. A lot of the assets that were used as environmental storytelling were still representative of the older version of the game and they just never updated those things. Again, feel free to dismiss as I know people don't like speculation based off cut content. It's just something that fascinates me as much as the lore in the final game does. And sometimes that stuff does do a good job of explaining things that the devs had at some point intended to be explained.

Obviously nameless' name is Gwynefroy

A thought comes to me about Filianore, what really happened when we woke her up. Maybe it wasn’t her slumber that preserved the spell that kept the Ringed City out of time, but her faith. The enchanted slumber kept her ignorant that Gwyn never intended to return for her. Her faith may have corroded in time if she was aware of the eons that passed. When we awaken her, she must’ve fully expected her father to be there, but he wasn’t. Wordlessly, she realized Gwyn broke his promise, and that realization broke her faith and herself. Similar to Davy Jones, after serving 10 years as ferryman of the drowned, found that Calypso broke her promise as well, and it destroyed him.

Glad to see you around still, I’ve been a watcher since ds1. Love your voice with lore videos back then

I appreciate the Wheel of Time reference. Well played.

Something that stuck out to me is the implication that human pine resin (or a similar substance) can be used in a ritual similar to what we see in the intro to DS1 to *make* an undead. Miyazaki was apparently very specific about how the scene with the woman grasping an ember and placing it on a corpse looked.

Miyazaki explicitly stated in an interview that the Firekeeper ending is the canon one in ds3, so we have that answered. Or japanese guide for ds3 lists that ending as canonical. Either way, that's the end of ends of DS at least for now!

I like the idea of nameless king's name being Gwyn the Second, fits perfectly for the first son to not even have a "similar name" to his father, but just having his actual name as his name, even more when he was the one to inherit the throne instead of being Faraam. That idea never made sense to me, even more when that's not even a name from Lordram or Anor Londo, it comes from Forrossa and even then, most of it's influence appear in drangleic, as it's closer to it (ds3 of couse has some too, but by that time literally everything is converging at a singular point so ofc there's going to be at least a mention of forrossan stuff)

Wasn`t the "nameless king`s" name Faaram? Seems the besto souls II gave is out his name in the form of the best armour set ever tho.

For the ending, there's only one that actualy ends the saga and it's the usurpation of the flame, the 2 other endings are literaly just Dark Souls 1, if at the end of DS3 you chose the light or dark ending it's as if the game didn't exist, you're at the same point as DS1 and the story has no ending. Usurpation of the fire actualy ends the sage, it provides an ending for the fire and and ending for the Dark Soul.

Nameless King is Faraam.

I swear, I'm about to offer a reward to anyone who can tell me where Artorias's wolf, Sif, came from. Not that she was left in the abyss or just the general idea of her being his companion, but where she was born, who gave her to Artorias. I do have my own speculation: Sif has some connection to the Abyss, maybe even the giant humanity enemies or Manus himself. And they were once humans. The humanity creatures may have swarmed her out of recognition to take her back--they are drawn to life, but they also show some sentience and memories (like the "family" of humanities that people speculate they see when we come across two "parents" protecting their "child"). I'd like to think Sif once belonged to these humans when they were alive; maybe that village gave her to Artorias before they were swallowed up. So she went in there to stop the corruption of those she once loved and saw the corruption take Artorias next... It adds another layer of motivation for why she would rather kill the protagonist or die trying. Just when you thought her story couldn't get any sadder... smh.

I know Shadow of the erdtree is going to be focused on Miquella and Messmer but I really want more info on Godwyn, why did Ranni kill him

Nice video, babe, but I have a couple of disagreements. I think Velka made the Darksign rather than Gwyn, considering how it, and Bonfires, feed on raw, concentrated Humanity, rather than matter proper. "Undoubtedly, it was a flame of chaos, tangled by a witch's hand. But who's to say that this Bonfire's flame is any different." (Cornyx on Izalith's Flame) Also, the Soul Geyser description implicitly compares Aldia to the Lothric Scholar, but I believe the latter to actually be Sulyvahn, following in Aldia's legacy. Aldia worked for Lindelt and helped them replicate the Painted World (one such replica was Sulyvahn born in). Aldia and Sulyvahn studied after Velka and Seath (who initially shared the Regal Archives, 'til she was struck from the annals). Velka and Seath commited the First Sin, which was the hexing of Kalameet and all dragonkind. Anyway, sorry for the long spiel. Love you, x.

Late to the party but, I always wanted to know, what period or town does marvelous Chester come from? It never set right with me the theories of him being from carim. Never seen any evidence at all to possibly support that, and the no shields should have been debunked due to eygon.

1:41 congrats on being the first souls RU-vidr I’ve heard pronounce this name correctly

1. The “Curse of Undeath” is just masterful to me. Ancient humans drew power from the dark, the fading of the fire ushers in the Age or Dark, i.e. the Age of Humanity whereas the Age of Fire is the Age of the Gods. Gwyn placed the Darksign on humans which appears once the fire starts to fade. I think humans as humans gain power from the fading of the flame, they become immortal, as the gods are immortal, but the Darksign causes people to slowly leak their humanity until they become mindless, soul-starved hollows. So he tricked people into thinking the the fading of the fire creates the “curse of undeath,” and the only known way to stop it is for humans to sacrifice themselves to prolong the Age of Fire. Again, it’s so masterful. Now Gwyn feared the dark so much that he was even willing to sacrifice himself to stop it. You could say that it was selfish, that he did it to preserve his power, but he did not benefit from his choice. The series really does make it ambiguous if the Dark is good or bad, Gwyn’s choice though makes me wonder if he was just scared of the unknown or if he knew something that we do not. 2. I like themes, so I prefer the idea that the Nameless King is “Gwynfor;” this coincides with Gwynevere and Gwyndolin, although Filianore in DS3 throws a monkey wrench into things and may lend credence to his name being Faraam, which is was implied to be in DS2. Now as cool and epic as I think the Nameless King is, Andre being him makes a lot of sense in hindsight and works well both thematically and would had made a great twist, this unassuming undead blacksmith is actually a disowned god in disguise. There were also possible clues of the missing blacksmith god being Andre iirc as he could also create divine and occult weapons, and Gwyn’s son also only respected armament. Maybe the blacksmith god “went missing” when Gwyn’s son left? If they went through with the original concept, hopefully “Andre” was just an alias and his name was actually Gwynfor, lol. 3. Clearly the canon endings of DS1 and DS2 is that someone linked the flame. For DS3? This is interesting; we know for sure that people are probably going to flee to the Painted World, but what happened in the outside world? I personally think the Lord of Holllows ending is canon, it was the secret ending that required extra steps and may be the third option that Aldia was talking about in DS2. The Lord of Cinders ending makes it look like the Age of Fire isn’t really sustainable anymore, but the Lord of Dark ending may be bad as well because the continual linking of the flame may have distorted the Dark, and Aldrich may have further corrupted it as well. In time, the balance may be restored and the cycles will continue again, as the Firekeeper suggested.

Excellent taste in Fantasy books my friend. Wheel of Time is GOAT'd

I still wanna know what the lost sinner did.

And why does the Moon presence wants to kill Mergo

my fav ending is the one where you crush the firekeeper into the ash to take the last embers from her... feels very canon to me. mhm.....

1. Who is the painter’s father? 2. What is the cause of the undead curse? 3. Why did the pilgrim butterflies in ds3 grow stronger and start hatching when the darksign grew more visible? 4. Why is the bed of chaos so bad? 5. Is snuggly a crow or a hawk?

I think yhe nameless kings name is filianore and was thinking about creating a video like this to address it. I mean he has Gwendolyn and gwynevere, then filianore and faraam.

I'd still like to know who Manus was, why was he so important/powerful, what his medallion was, and what his connection to Dusk (or someone like her) was. I know what the current consensus seems to be, that he was a powerful human Abyss sorcerer and NOT Mr Furtive, but I somehow find that answer very disappointing. And at one point, according to a dev interview, he WAS the Pygmy (which makes total sense, to then have all the four lords in the game). A close second is probably the Profaned Flame's origins and nature. It felt like a concept they introduced and then promptly abandoned due to the reshuffling of bosses and backstories towards the end of DS3's development.

The 2nd stage of the Soul of Cinder is the redone Gwyn fight. Even has the same arena music. Don't see how the Nameless King would be the Gwyn fight we didn't get when Soul of Cinder is in the same game.

So one obvious question. But what is the point of the Elden Tree? Like I get it's a symbol of the golden order. But what does it actually do? Is it just a place where dead souls go to? It must have some powers of it's own, or else Miquella wouldn't want to just grow one randomly to help his sister?

Obtuse is a type of triangle 🤣🤣🤣... I think OBSCURE was the word you were looking for lol

Hi Alex 🙂‍↔️

I wish I could understand why the FromSoft fanbase has experienced such an insurgence of lying truth benders. I can't believe a guy who implies there's a deeper knowledge of who Nameless King is that we've missed for the past 8 years is the kind of person people are trusting with lore explanations. Don't even get me fucking started on Vaati.

Eyyy am I number 1? Sup Alex 😅

Asides from the obvious like who is Velka, where is the real Havel, or what are Gwyndolin's pronouns, I still want to know what caused the schism between Anor Londo and Izalith. Did the chaos flame burn away demons' darksigns or something? I always found the markings on the Capra Demon's back and his mask intriguing.

"...Before the dlc dropped". DLC release date June 21, 2024 its June 8, 2024