Lol

I got back and owned him

HE'S BACK

gottem

lmao that backstabbing bish actually deserves it

I'd bet that's all that is left of the painting, hence Gael's quest for pigment to paint a new world.

@@blueblur1984 you actually hit the nail right on the head. Gale is holding a scrap of the original painting and that world is suffering from rot, his purpose is to send you in so that you can provide the flame which will be used to burn the painting and purify it, while you do this Gale, on the outside, searches for the dark soul of man which will be used as the pigment for a new painting, starting the cycle over again just as linking the fire restarts the cycle on the outside.

Wow mind blown over here thank you 😊

You can't tell me there are people out there that never noticed its a piece of painting he holds!

@@alternamasaki429 I knew it was the painting but not for that reason I thought he was going to hallow and went crazy.

I didn't either, I rmemeber being blown away when I heard about it because it suddenly clicked in my head

I was just wondering that in my last play through, I thought "why tf are the mushrooms here, Vaati, help!" But it makes perfect sense now. I swear these fucking games, no matter how much you play you still find new things every time.

farron keep isn't darkroot garden. he was wrong about it. farron keep was created when abyss watchers of farron linked the first flame for the first time (before events of ds3 begin), and as a result their homeland turned into a lush jungle ! even though they are supposed to represent sir artorias and dark root garden and sif (with the old wolf of farron) , they still have their own original story which i really appreciate !

@@MehrdadParthian no when they linked the flame it became filled with poison. That's why it looks like a swamp and not pleasent forest anymore

the connections were there all along, the abyss watchers are there because artorias died there because manus defeted him there, the dynosaur things with the tree trunks are the stone knights who were corrupted by the abyss that is aflicting the whole area, by the way the stone knights show that the stone guardians traded their war hammers for swords and shields, showing that they were protecting the area from grave robbers.

Damn how he fit that in there

Eating gods is believable, eating smough tho godamn how’d Aldrich accomplish downing that big boi.

And here i thought smough might have become aldritch. He liked to eat people in ds1 after all

A fitting end to a cannibal. Being eaten by another cannibal

@@MrcreeperDXD777 Fine Young Cannibals 🎶

Professionals have standards

you brought the biggest snail in history to fix windows, good job!!!

Damn dark souls has some very deep lore

i think the windows were fixed under gwyndolin's rule. if its not him, then probably sullivahn because aldritch does nothing but eat

@@imdangrow and Sullyvahn does nothing but top-tier scumbaggery, so it couldn't have been him

@Bruh Momenter havel isnt that big

@@k54maclosky97 maybe he's grown

@@k54maclosky97 Maybe he was, we'll likely never know for sure

It's ornsteins armor

@@daedalus2253 It belonged to a Dragonslayer that served both the Nameless King and Ornstein. He is mentioned in the miracle of Sacred Oath.

ikr? I'm so confused by this video and by the fact few people seem to feel the same as me. He considers pretty hard to miss references "easter eggs" and some completely different characters to be the same, while the totally identical ones aren't...?

@@ambralemon I can see a crackhead logic where Tarkus and Tsorig have the slightest possiblity of being the same person, but Heysel and Jeremiah are literally impossible; Jeremiah is a pyromancer king from Xanthous, while Heysel is a Farron scholar about Xanthous, being the daughter of an Abyss Watcher sorcerer.

@@khajiitimanus7432 not to nitpick but Xanthous just means yellow, aka Yellow King (probably not a place)

@@greglucci1513 I know that Xanthous has a literal meaning of yellow, but some of the ways that Xanthous is referred to implies that it's a place or location. The armor set and some other items make reference to "Xanthous scholars," implying a type of well-traveled scholars. They're described to uncover lost sorceries, but are not credited with originating from any known homeland despite the adjective. It just seems implicative that the adjective 'Xanthous' isn't just describing the color of robe that they wear, but perhaps where they're from. Dark Souls has long followed a system where a type of knight or sorcerer or cleric (along with their armaments) is described by the location they came from (Lothric Knights, Faraam Knights, Balder Knights, etc.), and occasionally what their occupation was (Painting Guardians, Dragonrider Knights, Outrider Knights); but never have they been described solely by a color without some sort of extra explicit lore (Silver Knights from Anor Londo, Black Knights attacking Izalith and marching to the Kiln). So... I just find it unlikely that Xanthous only refers to the yellow robes.

I thought that Heysal was the daughter of the crystal sage.

Important to note for anybody else reading is that “the high wall of Lothric” isn’t a real wall built of bricks but the cliff face that sprouted from beneath

@@noamias4897ayo what?

Killing her is optional

Could say it isn’t cannon, like gwyndolin he is killable but in lore he was being eaten by aldrich

why the fuck would you do that

She probably died when the painting had to be redone, just like outside the painting, both worlds have a cycle of death and rebirth

Speculation but there is a covenant that you can join by talking to a seriously silver-haired floofy tailed child on a roof in anor Lando in ds3

it was a joke

I do wish Gael would enter me though.

@@MitchellGwrHe’s bent over when we first meet him😈😈😈

@@matthewphillips1890 "yeheah boiiii"

@@MitchellGwr Gael had his sword deep inside of me for some hours. Was kinda sore after the experience ngl

It converges, gets melted down by the crucible, and becomes the beginning of the story of Marika and the Lands Between. (I know not actually, but in my head canon it is the case.)

i really loved ds2s' world building for that reason where you get shown what a mistake the age of fire is and how hopeless it was, it's the perfect thematic bridge between 1 and 3

it's theorized that anor londo and irithyll were originally going to be covered in sand instead of snow, and anor londo would be in ruins. the idea is that they reused some features of that for the ringed city

insane news: dlcs are planned out much earlier than their release date and possibly they are already being worked on when the game launches

Was he in ds1 since this is ds1 only references or else he probably would've mentioned earthen peak and dreg heap are the same place

Also, Demon Prince's arena is Firelink Shrine from DS1

@@benireges wat

@@reubenreid7375 Yes, it's Firelink Shrine in the distant future

@@benireges he mentioned that in the video.

Dreg Heap starts off in what seems to be Lothric, then when you go lower, you get to Earthen Peak and finally at the bottom there is DS1 Firelink Shrine where you fight the demons.

I don't think it's connected to anything, remember that zone is basically just reality completely warped and changed by the fire

Also the green poison is a pretty dead giveaway.

@@rockstar-made the "Earthen Peak Ruins" area is definitely based on DS2's "Earthen Peak" area. Besides the name there's windmills, poison swamps, pyromancers, and those black bugs that emit a poison cloud

@@Gnagniel Oh yeah of course it's based on it but i don't think it's actually in Drangleic.

Explain

After the character creation in DS1, you're privy to a cutscene that describes the war between the dragons, humanity's birth, the Furtive Pygmy, etc. During the part where it shows being born from fire, there was a comparison made years back between the cave in that cutscene to the lair of Midir. When viewed side-by-side, it is a striking resemblance. I tried to find it on KZfaq, but this video just keeps coming up.

where

​@@TheFlopped2979 literally everywhere

I was literally about to say this, "However the Majula theme is nice though"

At least DS2 did its own thing. DS3 was just a bunch of recycled fanservice

@@matheuscruz8574 Uhhhh... How do I tell you that sequels drink purely of their antecessors? It's not a surprise form ds3 to have "fanservice" because ds3 was meant to be the true sequel instead of the half-baked game DS2 was

@@aquasomnus DS2 had plenty of references to DS1 without it being too obvious. DS3 was a bunch of copy paste with the same plot and same ending. Boss fights were cool tho

@@matheuscruz8574 this is why ds2 is fucking awesome. Its a sequel for sure but it doesn't need to be the exact same thing. Not to mention how colorful and beautiful the games setting is. Felt like a cool fantasy game rather than a boring grim dark dark souls game.

If DS2 wanted more representation it shouldve leveled ADP

There ADP doesn't deserve appreciation

there are several things from ds2, not just earthen pick

@@Sercroc ok ok. Several things don't deserve love. There, are you happy.

@@speedb.bernard5404 do you deserve love? Do I?

DS2 doesn’t get enough credit for how haunting finding the ancient dragon king is. Thousands upon thousands of years old. Maybe even older. Survived the extinction of all of its people. Still dies eventually. Fossils found lying there unmoved in the dried up Ash Lake. So ominous.

Important to note for anybody else reading is that “the high wall of Lothric” isn’t a real wall built of bricks but the cliff face that sprouted from beneath

I am still wondering if we could see Lothric in DS1,because it almost looks like Lordran is in where Lothric would be in DS3 edit: I checked the geography using Anor Londo as point of interest,and it turns out where Lothric is are somewhat on the other side of Lordran (sorta behind sens fort)

@@noamias4897 wtf do you mean bro

no wonder that section was shit

It’s both, dreg heap is like a conglomerate of ages and kigdoms far, wide and from different times. There is earthen peak as well as the OG ds1 firelink shrine

And the whole concept of the lands of the lords drifting (and then converging towards the first flame) is done to fit the fact that DS2 is "very far from lordran" and yet it contains the first flame

@@bacicinvatteneaca did we ever see the first flame in DS2? I took the Throne of Want to be something completely different. Theres no scene of you linking the first flame, just of you sitting on the throne and becoming the Monarch. I always took DS2's story as having very little to do with the linking of the flame, possibly even taking place in a time where the fire isnt necessarily threatening to burn out.

@@TurboNemesis The throne of want is essentially linked to the first flame reason why mounting the throne can count as either is because it will show you which you truly desire. It goes along with Nashandras plan of manipulating Vendrick and the reason why he didn’t take the throne would because it would relinquish the flame instead of link it which he intended to since that was manipulated to be his true desire. We also know the first flame has to reside in the throne of want because Aldia can only exist where there is a flame of some kind that is connected to the first flame (like bonfires) and he is able to freely move about and appear only in the throne of want.

Thats actually a pretty good one

since Aldrich uses lifehunt scythe it's possible he killed Priscilla. He's devourer of GODS not devourer of GOD after all.

@@BigDBrian Unlikely, I think Priscilla was dead long before Aldrich returned, the lore in his Soul indicates that the Devourer of Gods was a thing he wanted to become not something he already was and when we find him he`s in the process of becoming that with Gwyndolin. But he most certainly tried to devour Rosaria, in the outside her chamber in the Cathedral of the Deep we see a bunch of dead mangrubs and the walls are covered in a wormy slime, similar to the ones in found in Aldrich arena and on his body, and the railing gateway is bent inwards like someone tried to force his way in. So when he woke up he went straight to Rosaria, but couldn`t get in and was eventually driven out, possibly by her fingers.

@@BigDBrian Also, the lore of the Lifehunt Scythe Miracle you get from Aldrich speaks he dreamt of a young pale girl in hiding while he was eating Gwyndolin, so he probably got that vision from Gwyndolin, and the girl was probably Priscilla (or maybe Yorshka), but why he`d get that vision from Gwyndolin:? That`s because Priscilla is very likely Gwyndolin`s mother.

@@nailin18 in lordran time is conveluted

Maybe she found her shortly after the undead left to head for anor londo and was trying to keep her from dying to what i assume was the chaos worm parasyte eggs

I choose to believe she found the fair lady still alive and cared for her, then either she passed away hugging the fair lady, and with no one to care for her she too passed, or the fair lady past and queelana spent her last moments hugging her sister whether from old age or simply giving up.

I just passed by the area today and saw your messages on both untended graves'. What a coincidence

The player's directionless desire/greed is one of the key themes of the game, in my opinion. It's what sets them apart from the NPCs as most of them fade away or turn hollow as soon as theirs are met. Where as the player just keeps wondering, searching for more. By that end, the player has more in common with a certain bosses.

I wouldn’t say oscar became unkindled it’s more like a homage to him, an elite knight holding a flask same exact event in ds1. If you look more into the lore it’s depicted that unkindled are undead that reached the kiln of the first flame but failed to light the first flame and turned to ash therefore they’re resurrected as, well, unkindled those who made it farther than any undead but not even close to be a lord of cinder and Oscar wasn’t a millimeter close to lighting it nor cared. In ds1 it’s told that Oscar, after being smashed through the roof by the stray demon, became hollow as shown him attacking you on your return to the asylum, because he had fulfilled his purpose and his motive, to free as many undead from the asylum to ring the bells and fulfill the prophecy. For those to turn hollow is to not have a purpose or motive, therefore you become insane, this is also shown in many character in dark souls that go hollow and aggro on you just like oscar, such as reah, the crestfallen warrior, siegmeyer, and both anri and Horace from ds3, as because Horace found himself stranded and no hope of coming out of the lake, and Anri having fulfilling her/his duty by killing Aldrich. It’s having a purpose in life that it prevents undead from going insane and becoming beef jerky, and fulfilling one’s purpose is bestowed the same fate as one who has none, being hollow, and sure there are those that see being hollow and are fine, but I mean the undead you see living out the name given to them, mindless deranged husks of a person. So was that Oscar dead at the fountain in the cemetery of ash? No he died hundreds of years back in the very asylum he freed you from

@@raisinbran1421 you forgetting that in ds3 the player had already died, possibly hundreds or thousands of year's ago and then reawakened in the current age as had the previous lords of Cinder. Anri never hollows as part of her story, only Horace does. Also, siegward doesn't hollow in 3. Very few characters turn hollow. Oscar can have hollowed during the events of dark souls and become unkindled. At no point does it say you need to have gotten to the kiln to become unkindled you just have to have failed to link the flame. Oscar's family have the undead curse as a legend and members of the family attempt to ring the bells so he certainly has reason to be a chosen undead. Oscar in the cemetery of ash provides the ashen estus whereas Oscar provides the regular one in ds. Oscar fails to escape the asylum and the cemetery. If patches can survive for a potential millennium then it stands to reason that Oscar can be resurrected as an unkindled and have died before he made it out of the cemetery (due to awakening with an ashen estus and not a regular one) especially as the lore dictates that this is 100% possible and is in fact what's happening to you and the Lords of Cinder. Lands are smashed together that do not belong in the same time or place. Lords separated by aeons reside in one body. The cemetery of ash and fire link isn't part of the world and it is the untended graves that is in the "real world" as it can be travelled too without warping. You can also be born in a painted world and then conquer the real world like the Pontiff. So, I would say that given the lore we are presented with that it is very likely that the corpse is Oscar reborn and the killed in the cemetery of Ash. Hollowing has nothing to do with being reborn as an unkindled and is not prevented by hollowing.

@@Garviel-Loken actually anri can turn hollow as one of the endings to her questline

@@alfiemoloney1163 only if you fail the lord of hollows quest which means she can doesn't mean she does.

There are a ton of DS2 references in DS3 which I’m glad about because it easily could have been forgotten in favor of just keeping in-line with DS1. The Drang/Mirrah/Faraam set with much more, Creighton The Wanderer as an invader, Cat ring makes reference to Shalquior, Gilligan’s corpse, and the giant tree at firelink. The most shocking ones to me are the painting of Nashandra in Irithyll and how the Eleonora. Seemingly makes reference to Alsanna being the mother of the 3 deformed maidens who are in-fact abyssal themselves.

@@waltersullivan2727 I agree. Like, I always smile when Alva invades before Irithyll Dungeon or even the first time I saw a Giant Tree

These are mostly ideas or weapons Miyazaki really liked so he bring them over to DS3

Sad you couldn’t get lud and zallens boss weapon in DS3, the weapon was cool

Pretty sure the 2nd big structure is Drangliec castle at the end of time

Still two different people though

@@wyvernslayer4530 never said they were the same.

@@Kmi_Sama you never said they werent either. Just making a point

@@wyvernslayer4530 No you're just being needlessly pedantic

@@XY4X no i made my point since there wasnt a clear point being made.

i prefer 2 imo, 3 to me tried too hard to be dark souls 1 again, ftr im not against it being connected to ds1, but it goes "remember this from DS1? oh how about this", i enjopyed 2's atmosphere better, though i will concede the areas should've been connected better, 2 felt like a new place to explore, a kingdom that has long been dead, though i do appreciate to me anyways 3's feel of being at the exact end of the kingdom in a dying world. also i liked how in DS2 that you are in a new land, you are in a kingdom far to the north and i prefer it that way, i feel that each game would've been better off loosely connected as in they are on the same world but in three distinct kingdoms with their own lore.

@@Rammkommando no offense but that’s a shit take. I see what you’re saying (tho i disagree), but 2 is widely considered the worst game Fromsoft has made since inventing the Souls-like genre with Demon’s Souls. And for good reason, Myazaki was forced out of his role, despite being the creative head of the series. He’s what made DS1 so great. Plus DS2 had shit balance. Their idea of making things hard was to throw lots of bullshit at you instead of crafting carefully balanced fights. The Iron Passage is a perfect example.

@@nat040496 that was scholar for the shit balance, theres a reason i stick to vanilla all the challenge areas in the dlcs are considered crap but optional

@@Rammkommando ds2 is my favorite from the series, while the combat is different the whole world feels much more connected(not the actual world map but the worlds story) In ds2 i actually feel like a chosen undead and not some random dude going through the motions

bearer of the curse

I mean that was intended - they wanted to tie DS1/DS2 together and bring it to an end.

this video is a good example of popular media commentary that is poisoned by "references", "fanservice" and "ending explained" videos with no actual understanding of literary themes. obsessed with what things _are_ and not what anything actually _means_ or what the point of it is. like imagine people talking about bioshock infinite's "easter eggs" if the game had not literally explained it to you for 15 minutes in the ending

More like fanservice

I remember when ds2 got flack from the community for having too many call backs to ds1.

its and artifact, I do it on Avidimux heres a tutorial if your curious kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aKeDgK5i3dmalqc.html

@@ZeeVoke that’s so cool mate! Appreciate you!

In the miracle description of Lifehunt Scythe, it says Aldrich dreamed of Priscilla while he ate Gwyndolin. I think he manifested it merely by dreaming of the memory of Priscilla

Didnt the og Kirk already die in ds1 though? You find his body in her room at the end and all.

@@tupatups7687 Time's convoluted in Dark Souls, you kill Ornstein in Dark Souls 1 and yet in Dark Souls 3 the lore says that he left Anor Londo and went to the Archdragon keep. Kirk even invades you in Dark Souls 3. So the outcomes in Dark Souls 1 don't necessarily happen the same way in Dark Souls 3.

@@tupatups7687 since he appears in ds3 that means he survived

i know it's been a year but just in case you still don't know, DS1 Ornstein is just a weaker clone made with his soul, he actually left a long while ago

What he calls anor Londo is actually drangleic castle

Adding that as a curious detail, Lothric looks closer than Anor Londo since the ruins of the Ringed City. But in the Archdragon peak, Anor Londo looks closer than Lothric, like if this implied that the Ringed City was in the northeast from the peak.

No

@@Littleboytwoshoes i guess i have to believe you now can't argue with you facts

@@Littleboytwoshoes you are right, i should've known better

lmao no, its a bad fanservice, nothing more.

@@N3r0ThlHeavyMetal why do you think that

they arent the same painting

@@wyvernslayer4530 In a way they are. Each time the the old world dies a new one is painted over it. So to have places from ds1 painted world in ds3 painted world works because Ariendel just kept it in when he repainted it

They’re not the same place but they are the same design. You can’t call two different art pieces by the same artist the same art piece

@@raisinbran1421 true I suppose

@@raisinbran1421 But you wouldn't say it's a different canvas if you just added a new layer of paint. That's practically the whole point of Ariandel. The underbelly, the rot hiding underneath, the "rip" in the painting revealing elements of Ariamis' painting, and even the revelation that Sulyvahn would have climbed OUT of Ariamis, into Ariandel, the same way you do in order to retrieve the Titanite Slab after killing his ostensible tree-mother. It's not that I don't get what you're saying, but you're not doing yourself any favors by ignoring an important emotional theme of the area just for technical correctness.

The furtive pygmy is believed to be what became Manus, it's why he was mentioned so much through the ringed city and why the abyss formed around the grave of Manus.

@@Aetius_of_Astora But wasn't magus before he became you know, magus a human?

@@yourewallsareveryconvenien8292He was human yes, a human sorcerer of great power. The furtive pygmy was also human, it was the first of humanity and vessel of the dark soul, the soul was later divided amongst the several lords of the ringed city and every human has a sliver of the dark soul within them, but none so powerful as Manus. So it is entirely plausible for Manus to have been the furtive pygmy and him having a large fragment of the dark soul helps explain the immense amount of humanity he had, and why the abyss formed around his gravesite.

Yeah, Seath and I use to go way back

dude didn't even mention Patches. Babys first time running through DS3

Such as? Other than the Giant corpse in FL, and some vague reference to Aldia from a one of Spell (I believe) there weren't any other for me to find.

@@Ancor_Vantian the dreg heap (1st area of ringed city dlc) is the posion area from 2. You can see the windmill and plus it's a posion swamp. That's also why the pyromancer is there. You can get that mask from the Lady of Mirrah (npc in ds2) (but I can't remember what you trade it in for with the crows or the npc's name). Also I think the description of the Faaram Armor has stuff that ties back to ds2.

Ancor Vantian A corpse of an npc named Gilligan can be found in the profaned capital, and Creighton the wanderer makes a full appearance as a invader in Sirris’s questline. Alva seeker of the spurred was a character introduced in DS2, not to mention his lover Zullie the witch, which can be referenced from Karla and a corpse in the ringed city.

Won't happen its "THE MEME" to hate on DS2 even though there are references to it in game even powerstance greatswords

@@havonetae yes it's true, but, it depends on the owner of this channel, if he hates ds2 or not

@@havonetae It's not to meme but we all know Miyazaki wasn't really satisfied with ds2, that's why we got ds3.

@@aquasomnus we dont know this. If he had his way we wouldn't even have had 3 stop the meme bullshit

@@havonetae what he said it's true, miyazaki hates ds2

Her tail is there? What?

@@anwd8646 by the bonfire unlocked at the end of the Painted World DLC

@@jacobhoover1654 Oh you mean the drug teleport bonfire right? That’s… her tail? I always thought it was some sort of embalmed man serpent thing there. But that’s… her tail?

Let’s hope Elden ring will be put on the same pedestal

Eh, Not so much

Its because ds2 isnt even canon

@@schmebulockjizz You can find the ruins of the Earthen Peak in Dark Souls 3. It's canon.

@@schmebulockjizz Its canon. The first sin has been mentioned. Earthen Peak in the ringed city. Poison bugs. Some items and armor from DS2. Wether you like it or not, its canon.

Well in DS3 drangleic is called the legend of the the linking of the flame(drang set). And considering how the director practically stated It takes place in a different continent than DS1 it makes sense for there to be little lore in DS3. On a side note of just wanting to talk about lore, I like to think it took place on a human continent and the reason why people/undead went here was because (theory) Gwynevere and the gods created a legend here(Heides tower of flame). So the whole becoming a monarch was probably just another set up for manipulating the undead. But by the time Drangleic exist multiple Kings exist and as we know not a true king is there (adlia states a true king is someone who ascends the throne and links the flame). Instead there are 3 kings (idk about sunken) who retained their strength and never ascended to the throne. If we take into account Aldia's and Vendricks findings on the curse and soul they probably knew the legend as a lie. So this is what brought forth the denial of the gods and ended the manipulation of man kind hence why there are rare acknowledgement of their existence(gods) by the human kingdoms. Notice how in DS1 our character never became a king and just burned, now in DS2 there are kings but they hardly retain their influence because... they ascend the throne(presumably a kiln that takes you to the 1st flame) which is why in DS2 it's mention over and over again that so many kingdoms have fallen only for another to rise. This is was kept the legend of the flame keeping away the curse strong as well as the gods having easily control over mankind..Well until Vendrick that is... I'm gonna guess that him and the other king in the land probably had a mutual agreement in working together (different soldiers/kings from dif. Kingdoms/lands are supporting Drangleic) and with the influence/power these kings have because of their soul it makes sense for the gods to flee the land of man returning to the land of the gods. Well because of their(Drangleic) findings in DS2 mankind was free of manipulation but as if the consequences of their decisions finally results in the world of DS3 where the flame itself manifest to sustain itself. This is me just sharing some thoughts on DS2 lore... Probably the most under looked/appreciated lore of the 3 games....like come on the usurp the flame ending in DS3(lord of hollows) was probably in line to what Nashandra was trying to do at the end of the 2nd game...

ZeeVoke literally made both a "Connections between DS1 and DS2" and "Connections between DS2 and DS3". Is there a point you had?

I actually just got Ds2 and am playing through it right now so a connection video will eventually be made and thanks for all of the suggestions I had no clue Ds3 had that many references

@@ZeeVoke In the video you missed a couple of things, an example is that in fact we do know the fate of Priscilla