Solaire Isn't Crazy | Dark Souls Lore 

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Never thought of solaire as crazy. I was just sad that he never realised he had allready become a sun. For me. For many. For all of us. 😢

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So many years later, I still find myself amazed by the depth and beauty of the lore of Dark Souls world. It's incredible how other games put so much dialogue and action without telling any interestring story, and for this game it takes a few lines, an item and a little bit of worldbuilding, to make a story so much deeper and mesmerizing.

I think Gwyn's crown is straight up melted.

The Astorians are very much devoted to Gwyn and the gods of Anor Londo. But Gwyn is gone, and the gods have gone silent for an age. Only Gwynevere supposedly remains, and "she" claims Gwyn needs to be succeeded... if you manage to somehow reach her, which no one has done for about a thousand years give or take. Solaire worships sunlight and brilliance; he's looking for a brilliant sun, and expresses wishes of being sun-like. Given Gwyn's title is lord of SUNLIGHT, that carries a rather heavy religious implication. It's like saying you want to be Christ like. In sunlight, he sees warmth, light, and since he's part of the Sunlight Warriors, camaraderie and cooperation. But those things are fading, and the people of Astora have legends and prophesy on how one may solve that fading, or at least learn its meaning; and those lead to Lordran, where they are told replacing Gwyn and re-igniting the first flame is their fate. I don't think Solaire knew it from the start, but his wish of being finding a sun, of being as brilliant as the sun, align perfectly with the wishes of Anor Londo. That's why Solaire's not-maggoted ending is, according to Miyasaki, to re-kindle the first flame. She found his sun; his chance to become as brilliant as the Lord of Sunlight himself. But the way he speaks of it at the start does sound a little blasphemy-esque. Maybe that's why people gave him weird looks. "Oh I wish I could be like god, and restore fellowship and goodness in the world" would certainly give you some unkind attention among devoted folks XD

TL;DR - Solaire is just a good person trying to be part of something greater

Solaire, like others, also CHOSE to become undead. He committed suicide to gain access to Lordran... He knew what he was doing.

Further proof that Solaire is the goat of Dark Souls

Miyazaki has actually said that due to fan interpretation he has altered his perspective on the overall fate of Solaire and that in the ending where the player chooses darkness, Solaire would likely arrive soon after to kindle the flame in their stead.

me: Hey Solarie, my dream is to have a house, whats yours? Solarie: I WANT MY OWN SUN!!! (My man doesent dream small)

I AM NOT CRAZY. I know he swapped those helms. Sunlight maggot. So grossly incandescent. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never.

I say this in memory of the Solarie in my first play through, where everything was an enemy except this Paladin of sunlight: Praise The Sun!!

The Titanite Demons manifested from the titanite shards that were worked and marked by the unnamed blacksmith god, from who’s body is the template that TD take form. It stands to reason that the Sunlight Maggots manifested from Gwynn’s crown. Both the Titanite Demons and the Sunlight Maggots have powers associated with the Light Souls, lightning and light respectively.

Solaire seems to express a lesson about perseverance and the importance in not taking shortcuts to success. I find it funny that to save solaire you have to use a shortcut path that actually involves more effort and doesnt actually speed your way towards the boss of the area.

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I don't think most undead actually know that Gwyn used himself as fuel at the Kiln of the First Flame. Frampt is even ambiguous as to what succeeding Gwyn means, and only Kaathe mentions that you'll have to fight Gwyn at the Kiln. Solaire might not have known anything about Linking the Fire when he decided upon his goal, so he may not have been seeking to use himself as fuel for anything or anyone.

3:10 You didn't just use the music from Gothic 2 from Lobarts Farm. You just earned my like just for that because this means that you know that game.

'If only i could be so grossly incandescent'

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The Crown just looks like Fire. Take the Old Bonefires from the OG Dark Souls, they had the same wavy design for the flames.

Gwyndolin's crown has exactly the same shape as the sunlight maggot.

I have only just noticed, in my point of view, that the sunlight maggot, when splayed out in its crown form, looks a little like Solaire's symbol. The centre of the maggot looks good with a small face and the outside looks dark red, very much like the symbol on his attire. Sorry if this has been brought up before but I've played this game, which I love dearly alongside the rest of the Souls games, for a very long time and still discovering new things 🙂

Also however, have you ever compared Gwyndolin crown with the sunlight maggot. The similarity is stunning. Like there has to be some lore there. Like Gwyndolin created the sun for anor londo, due to the similarity to Gwyndolyn's sun helmet thing, he thought the maggot could be the answer. And it was kinda. Gwyndolin made a sun, but Solaire made a small, personal sun and lost his sanity.

That edit where you parry him at 7:10 was sick (good) and haunting.

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I dont care how this video ends. Im already huffing the copium that my man never lost his humanity.

In gwenyveres case. Theres two suns just below her.

I think Solaire's fault is that he was too focused on the light/sun and his pursuit of it instead of its ultimate purpose

Solaire doesn't sacrifice himself to ignite the flame in DS1 otherwise he wouldn't have an extended history doing other things other characters tell you about in DS3.

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Okay but if he didn't go crazy why did he starts attacking us as we encounter him?

The man went looking for the sun underground 😂

4:54 I can finally hear some Shadow Of The Colossus - Sign of Colossi theme in there. I know cause I listen to every second of it.

Love that you guys are still putting out quality lore videos about Dark Souls 1. I play this game once a year and this year i got the platinumed the game. And i have to say even after all these years and knowing the game top to bottom you learn more lore every day and it just keeps giving.

The sunlight maggot could have also been imitating gwyn and gwyndolins crowns themselves

I recently started replaying Dark Souls 1. I’ve only played it once before a couple of years ago. (Played the og 360 version if anyone cares). But it became one of my favourite games ever. I also recently discovered your lore videos and I must say you have become my favourite Dark Souls lore video channel. Glad to see you still uploading new videos covering this amazing game!

the sunlight maggot to flame crown pipeline was a stretch beyond even the best contortionists.

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Hearing music from Gothic make my heart blush .

I like the unspoken aspects of this game. Like going Hollow for example, going Hollow is literally just the game beating players into submission with it's difficulty so they quit. All that is left is your player character, empty and hollow of it's player's mind. It's like the developers saying, yes we know our game is hard. Here's a lore tidbit to add to the world.

and suddenly Darkstalker Kaathe seems a little less unhinged to me...

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I wonder how Solaire would feel about this "three day blindness thing" with the solar eclispe

IMO Solaire's sun is a metaphor for faith. I believe Miyazaki is a fan of the film Angel's Egg and that it inspired him partially to use faith as a theme all across his work

I didn’t really trust anyone the first time I played this game because of the way the NPCs all seem. So naturally I assumed Solaire was evil and killed him for his armor. I was the evil one all along….

Did you choose not to talk about gwyndolins crown because I could swear I saw it for half of a second in the middle of the video?

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A small nitpick. I think the word civilization would be a better choice than society as civilization is at its core formal with institutions, a legal system, subjugation and empire. Also civilization's opposite is barbarism, which ties in nicely with the idea of the Age of Dark being the natural state of man and man's beastly nature.

I mean, I never thought he was, but glad you think so.

As far as I know, the design of Gwyn's crown is based on the Crown of Kings from Steve Jackson's Sorcery! series.

From what I understand he is a worshipper of the “Nameless” King who is the actual firstborn son of Gwyn. Unfortunately, his story has a strange set of paths, 1 path goes poorly where he loses his mind from the Sunlight Maggot Demon feeding on him, the other path he manages to survive but lives for a long time and hates you for surpassing him.

The song from Gothic 2 took me by surprise a bit. I don't hear that soundtrack used as background a lot.

Solaire follows the path of the sunlight altar and also tells you to go there to know the brilliance of the sun, so what he is looking for is the lost god who is gwyn firstborn! Because unlike those who follow the Darkmon covenant or Princess of the Sun, Solaire knows nothing about his god, he never heard his voice and not even know what he looks like.

King ahead, therefore try praise the sun

This video didn’t appear on my subscriptions. I had to find it on the home feed like a peasant. Obviously, I am traumatized by this.

13 years and I haven't seen this item, glad I started my first faith playthroigh

I dont think the crown and maggot look alike, and im pretty sure the player using it without consequences is just like a fun little secret. The crown design to me looks like melted glass, but sure it must be some harder material thay somehow looks kinda like wax.

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I insantly noticed the Gothic Soundtrack and had to check the description. Good old memories..

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I would like to point out the sun maggot also has similar stylistic parallels to the spokes of gwyndolin’s crown which “manifests gwyndolin’s deep adoration for the sun” and physically creates a similar false impression of the sun, while also being a thematic parallel of the illusion of sunlight gwyndolin casts over Anor Londo Those two characters have pretty interesting parallels in general

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About time somebody said it… praise the sun!

5:57 I am sorry but I completely don’t see the similarities. I think this point needs a lot more of the explanation why authors think they are similar.

Ordan village theme brings back memories

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Solair isn't crazy. But it's weird why he went to a place filled with fire witches that are experts in tempering with fire to find the sun that he was looking for. Must have been the same thing to solaire.

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I'm hyped to know how he turned into a Cemetery Shade.

Sunlight maggot? More like…sunlight f

No way bros using gothic 2 music as ambiance mad respect

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"leaders are compelled to live a life of sacrifice" lmfao right

In alchemy the goal is to become what we on earth observe as stars and suns. This is what it truly means to become enlightened and what is in religion and the occult regarded as gods

I love the Twilight princess music being used

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6:19 It looks more like the crown of Gwebdolyn to me.

Solaire is my weird-comfort character, such as Goldenmask in ER. It was an immediate and simple "i like you and want to see you around, bro" in both cases, it doesn't matter that i don't understand what they're talking about/doing most of the time. 😂

Gwyne crown is fire 🔥 upward burning and wild. Sunlight maggot helm is like the sun emitting light in all directions but crooked like how the sun wildly emits light in all directions... Gwyndolins mask 🎭 helm crown 👑. Is symmetrical and even pointed cuz the moon or "dark sun " reflects the sunlight but filters it to a perfect shape of light with no wild edges. Part of me wanted solaire to find Gwyndolin and for lack of a better way of putting it "you're my son/sun now " and save each other from their fruitless endeavor to appease Gwyns plan. Solaire to find a sun 🌝 the dark sun to live for and gwyndolin to feel loved and worshipoed as he is hidden like a dirty secret in anor londo without even a statue 🗽 visible they left pedestals empty

I have always thought THAT THE SUN in Dark Souls represents all that is good feeling and the dark is representative of negative emotions, and such emotions turn us into something greater both for good and bad. Such is the case of Havel.

Is he searching for Boruto?

I've yet to meet a Souls character that, considering their circumstances, I would consider crazy.

Crazy strong, maybe.

To me the canonical end of Solaire's quest has us indirectly saving him by killing the maggot and his journey taking him to the kiln itself.

Plot twist: he just wanted to be a nuclear engineer

2024 and I'm still getting Solaire theory videos. Praise the Sun, brothers.

I always assumed that he was looking for his purpose in life. People take Souls too literally. It's full of metaphores and symbolism.

Thers a way to keep solair from falling to the sunlight maggot

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who among us hasn’t made a Mistake with the Bug

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Keep the DS1 content coming!