The biggest tragedy is how many ripostes the poor guy ate. So many parries.

Fire keeper: “Have I told you the tragedy of Champion Gundyr,Ashen one?”

Think of Gundyr’s first thoughts in this game, as you climb from your grave and stumble towards firelink he sees you, the one who bested him and damned him to servitude, and you have no idea yet who he is.

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Champion Gundyr the wise? I thought not. It's not a story the firekeepers would tell you. He was a ludex so powerful and so wise that he could manipulate weird demon shit to get a giant black arm and glowing red eyes. He could even manipulate noobs so harshly to the point of them quitting the game forever. Til one day, unfortunately, someone who'd already played the game on another character parried him to oblivion not once, but twice.

Last time I was this early the Ancient Dragons and Archtrees still ruled the Earth.

Why make him part of royal family ? I could easily see him as someone from outside who would be fed a pile of lies like you said. He even got a kingly armour to make him feel special. Why would you waste a good heir when even Lorian was spared from being sacrificed more.

I heard that in early works of DS3 Iudex Gundyr was actually King of Lothric and you were supposed to fight him where you fight Oceiros. That is even more evidence that the armor Iudex is wearing is indeed modeled from Oceiros.

Oh yes, more lore please

that ending though.

Gundyr arrives at shrine. Firekeeper: "Mr. Gundyr... I don't feel so good..."

Nice addition in giving the NPCs voices to best show how they felt in those dark moments.

Did you just break my heart with a dark souls boss..

Gundyr is the best tutorial boss of the souls series

“Where I pronounce Gundyr correctly” That’s not how you pronounce Gundyr, it’s Goon-deer. It’s clearly a Germanic-inspired name, so Gun would be pronounces similar to rune and Dyr the same as the god Tyr.

You didn't mention the pus of man growing on Gundyr's back, which he then transforms into. Did it start growing as a result of the stagnation of humanity, since Gundyr has been waiting for a very long time for a worthy unkindled? Or is it somehow connected to Oceiros, which you suggested being his father, since you can find those enemies in the Consumed King's Garden? Is the pus of man an experiment of Oceiros trying to make a dragon since these beings are very similar to dragons/serpents? Did Oceiros, and so the royal family, somehow made him grow the pus of man through experiments to enforce his role of judge, so that they would be sure whoever beated him was worthy and had the strength to link the fire? The pus of man is in fact weak to fire, and it represents humanity, the age of man, opposed to the age of fire.

It be 2020 and we still darksoulsing!!! I love that you touch on lore never before explored. Great quality video too.

4:10 There are ingame statues of a previous king in Lothric that somewhat match the design of Gundyr. I assume it must be a statue of Oceiros before he was consumed since they are found in the Grand Archives. It's kind of similar to how Pontiff Sullyvahn is with the statue at the plaza with the winged knight, I think it could be a similar circumstance.

Holy shit! You just went and made my favourite boss in the series gameplay wise into being my favourite boss overall gameplay and lore

Thanks Jake ! Couldn't sleep so this is just what I needed . Keep em coming

This video deserves to be at the least 41 seconds longer, so it would attain an algorithm boost! Great work, marvelous how there's still more lore! Great execution (pun intended)!

7:33 when you get out of the shower but your family already left

I've enjoyed watching your channel grow, and your talent for storytelling from your perspective of the souls games is very enjoyable. Thank you, and keep going strong my man.

Omg pls make a Midir and Shira lore video. You have such a good lateral eye

Always appreciate your take on things. Great video

Honestly a few days ago was my first time playing dark souls 3 i was running through the whole not really caring just killing. When i came across this place its the first time i felt like I'm doing something, unearthing secret history. The revelation of the eyes once i gave them to the Fire keeper hit me right in the gut and for the first time I actually cared about this world and then realizing the cycle has to end even tho my happiness just started...what cruel fate

I liked gundyr as one of my first favorite bosses, mostly because I was a newb who didn’t know how to parry, but I always loved this boss. Btw I mean the champion one not the tutorial.

man i have to say : damn good Channel , it's good to see that the dark souls lore comunity is not gone

Long time sub ,glad your back doing what you do best 👍

The end of this video made me wish there was way more dialogue and especially boss dialogue in this game

Epic video, great work

Great Job man

Just think, if you beat Soul of Cinder, then go back into the untended graves, and kill Champion Iudex with the firelink greatsword that you make from the soul of the lords, you are essentially stabbing the very sword into him that condemned him to his fate in the first place.

Nice little movie at the end there! Didn't expect that :) For a long time, in my head-canon the Lord of Cinder shoved that coiled sword in Gundyr's chest, attempting to make him into a bonfire. Rumor has it something like this was going to be an implemented mechanic, planting the coiled sword wherever thou wishethsth, wishish, withisht, wtvr. But outside of this meta-shoutout to what could've been. I think the betrayal can be further elaborated on by the presence of that "coincidental" invader npc, Daughter of Crystal, Krimheld, who happens to be a member of the Black Hand; and happens to be conspicuously wearing a firekeeper set, which I think she stole from her mark.

The Lothric bloodline is only a feature of this particular age of fire. They would not have existed in the previous age that Gundyr is a relic of. True, there are surviving entities that persist from previous ages such as Patches, but that entails surviving and not hollowing through the entire age of dark. (Way to go Patches. He survived ALL of the dark ages) So for this theory to be true, we must assume that Lothric's bloodline not only survived at least one age of dark, but also that they failed to link the fire before the princes were ever born. There are too many assumptions here with little evidence to support. It also breaks the narrative, as the Lothric bloodline is said to have made its name by linking the fire. That means potentially this age of fire could be the longest there has ever been thanks to their efforts. Doesn't make a lot of sense for them to fail before this age ever gets started. A good theory, but Gundyr so far seems to be yet another relic of the thousands of cycles that came before. A man from a kingdom whose name is just as irrelevant as any.

Gundyr will always be a champion in our hearts

Is it really “gun-dur”? I always thought it was “gun-deer” because of the y in his name.

it'd be great if he actually became a guide/teacher for the new undeads. like: alright maggot, get ready. if you can't beat me how can you hope to link the fire?

You never cease to amaze me brother

So since champion gundyr gives you his soul when you defeat him in the past, are the souls iudex gundyr gives you everyone he’s defeated once he’s been impaled? And is it because he lost his own soul that we see him taken over by the pus of man in iudex gundyr’s fight?

I subscribed just noe. Thank you for the lore!

I suspect that gundyr May have been sent to firelink shrine some time before twin princes betrayed the flame and in his journey to get to the shrine they then chose to stop linking the fire after being persuaded by the pontiff and then may have sent the black knights there to “extinguish the flame” in order to stop gundyr from getting closer to link it, this also gives us a somewhat specific timeframe as to when the people were infected with the oil monsters, my theory for those is that they evolve into the butterfly’s they are shown to be able to posses great knights like dragon slayer amour. (I’d like to see others opinions on this)

That ending was so heart breaking

Wowzers!!!!! New Lore Video!!!!

I'm just looking for that last song, I want to hear all of that beautiful piece

I really love your videos!

I never thought about him like that before and I feel so bad for him.

That was bloody good!

I'd love to hear the song on it's own seems like good chill music while playing dark souls

That was such a cool beginning to the Game, the coiled sword right there--

Gundyr: its over ashen one, I have the poise Ashen one: you underestimate my r1 spam Gundyr: Don't try it

Would have been nice to be able to choose champion gundyr as a co-op partner imstead of fighting him and have him help you defeat the lords,

Cool video bro

Gundyr's halberd looks very similar if not identical to the winged knight halberd, enforcing his connection to lothric

One thing of note with his halberd, it has a very similar design to the ones used by knights of Eleum loice (masterful spelling on my part)

What's with the big sarcophagus under the big tree in his boss arena? It seems significant in some way.

He was supposed to be the chosen one

I think that the normal firelink is actually just in future(meaning untended is technically present)

6:14 refers to Gwyn, too. His golden armlets and anklets are supposed to resemble Shackles.

Damn, this video is one of the best! Can you do one for Slave Knight Gael?

Ah yes, The Tragedy of Champion Gundehr.

in my opinion, the unknown fighter who bested him is the sword master, he is the only summonable for gundyr and damn is he strong the first time i see him in early games. Also in the time where he was defeated, we werent even there so i think its the dry ass lemon sword master. Its all my opinion and ur video is amazing! Thanks you

One thing I wonder is champion gundyr is in a optional area like we don’t have to go there if we choose not to So say if you play through the game and don’t go there then who would have slayer gundyr if not us someone else would of had too or it would change the past (Then again I’m the “cannon” ds 3 ending you are required to go there to get the fire keeper eyes so I guess it’s expected in cannon that you’d go there)(cannon in quotations)

The voice he added to Gundyr was incredible

Nobody ever talks about Gundyr's lore so this is a surprise but a welcome one to be sure.

This means that gundyr is only level 1 imagine of he passed level with a fire keeper bro he would be the goat even our character couldn't beat him

Hey jake, remember when you made speculation about gwindolin and the moon ? Can i ask you why you haven't talked about the gs of judgement? It says its sorcery is far more close to the moon than any existing lunar power

Keep making this shit. It's dope!🤙

Bro I need that banger outro song pronto

I watched your video about the Nameless King being the firstborn son of Gwyn, it doesn't make sense to me that Havel (Who betrayed the gods) would go after the Firstborn son to kill him. Because as you said the Firstborn son also betrayed the gods, it would make far more sense to me that Havel would seek out the Firstborn for help or for advice to take down the gods. I watched Hawkshaw's video about Dark Souls.

Basically he thought he was the ashen one because of his family only to find out he wasn't. So now his new purpose was to test who's worthy of becoming one to end the undead curse

Bro I really felt that :(

There’s a bug if you shoot him with an arrow right when you pull the bonfire sword it breaks his ai so you can whale on him without fear of being attacked back

Im not crying

Just learned that the first part of his name, when we fight him at the start of the game, Iudex means judge in Latin. Judge Gundyr. It makes sense since he is supposed to judge a champion worthy enough.

🤔 you know since the untended graves is Gundyr’s future but our past, I’ve began to pick up a few thoughts: When you start the game there’s a coiled sword placed within him basically killing/diminishing the darkness inside of him, when we get to the past though there isn’t any Reminence of a sword....... could it have been the past ashes which fell before him and only the last ash before us actually successfully immobilizing him before his own death? It seems plausible because when we pull the sword out of him present day he is still alive or atleast the monster is anyway and like you mentioned, we were the true ash to become what gundyr strived to be yet wasn’t destined to be that, so we end his suffering. Also i feel since everyone parished in gundyr’s time, that the fire wasnt linked but was instead (as the second ending implies & the eyes you find of the dead firekeeper) used to put the world into complete darkness, i think those specific eyes we picked up are the reason the firekeeper in our time decided to put the world back into complete darkness, i think the past firekeepers vision from her eyes is what made the present firekeeper do so. Lol i know im probably late as hell but i found it interesting

Didn’t have to kill me like that with the end scenes

Wouldn't this make the fire witches also part of the Lothric bloodline? You should do a theory about that.

I always thought he was Ludleths personal champion. What if he is modeled after one of the king's from Dark Souls 2?

I think the king Gundyr's helmet is based off of is most likely the Ivory King, though it could work aswell, Oceirus wouldve had Gundyr think that he was as mighty as the Ivory king, maybe he didnt tell Gundyr that the Ivory king was consumed by the fire

If we're assuming Gundyr's armor came from any Dark Souls king then imo the face looks like a dead wringer for Vendrick. He's got the crown, that dejected look familiar with undead, he was one of the greatest human kings in Dark Souls, and the neck armor looks like his fuzzy ass beard

It's a terrible day for rain...

Ok, Oceries is now a mandatory kill on every playthrough after what he did to my boi Gundyr.

The ending made me cry...

Layin down the lore

Dancer isn't part of family as we know 🤔

What's the last thing the Queen says at the end? It sounds like varianox but I don't that's what she actually said.

I just finished the game and it was fucking great one of the goat. Now for my theory. -Untended graves is in the past for some reason is being consumed by the abyss -its probably gundyr failed to link the fire hence late to the festivities or his literally "late" and the festivities could also means gathering which what we did in the firelink shrine . He also fail to meet the firekeeper which doesnt says for the first time it could mean he just failed to complete his task to link the flame and he took the sword to stop the abyss from sinking in him but as we see him in the present he was infected. Now i think that the firelink shrine is an illusion made by someone like the ds1 anor lomdo and the ds3 ringed city and the eyes of the first firekeeper is not a prophecy but a vision to see through the illusion that linking the flames = good. Now for the first fire keeper eyes. It doesnt mean that the corpse there is the first firekeeper its possible that she just got it from somewhere cause she cant be the first fire keeper as there are already five throne which means that its not the first cycle since gwynn light up the flame. Now for ludleth of courland. (This is just mostly assumption) Courland is the ring city as its the home of the pygmy lord i read somewhere that he call himself pygmy and it just a translation interpretation and he also looks like one of the pygmy lords. now whos keeping the ring city afloat? Gwynns daughter fillanore and thats why he always willing to sacrifice himself to the flame. More questions whos doing the illusion for the firelink shrine? Suspect 1 yurya so she can get anri?? Number 2 handmaiden? Well she got motive as she can be one of gwynns underling or she is a former firekeeper is she blind? Looks like one of the hags in ds 2 which are firekeepers. And if she is she might as well be the first firekeeperand its a ruse. As if. Sorry for the long post and bad english. i tried.

me when i see an elk with a firearm: "Gundyr"

If it is in the past, then the darkness is the abyss. I watched a video where darkness and the abyss is different. It would make sense that the darkness infected gundyr.

No way haha. You say Gundyr correctly, take my fucking sub my guy! You’ve earned it.

I wish he was some kind of a NPC, or a boss summon later on

Miss these days

The guy would have been more fit than I am on linking the flame

my English is very bad, so I will write as soon as I can I think a piece of chain refers to the fact that Gundyr was in the Irithil dungeons. the Pontiff is conducting his experiments there. Gundyr became the Pontiff's test subject. He was sent to the Consumed King's garden, where he was infected with the "abyss" (its second stage in Untended Graves) which then turned into pus of man. but I don't fully understand the concept of Untended graves. why is the passage there in the Oceiroses room? is it just a memory, or is it some kind of copy of the past recreated in the garden of Oceiros? could the Pontiff or Oceiros to send the infected champion in this "copy" specially?

Can I ask what are those big parasites things on the bodies o gundyr and other hollows? I still don't get what are those and where they came from.

I kind of feel bad for him I'm there battling a champion who he thought he will be the Chosen One. 😔

Wish it would be cool if u made a new deprivate character, there s 2% chance that u ll granted full armor and a halberd but when u came to the shrine, there s no flame and firekeeper lol

i didnt know that the dancer of the boreal valley was of the lothric family

I wish Gundyr wasnt Parry-able. Parry makes the Boss soo easy. Just Go Back and keep distance until he does the Jump Slash and Parry, repost and give Full Hell to the Poor dude

Whenever he is displaying the armor sets it looks like the character is breathing deeply like they’re hella pissed 😂 (IKIK playback speed)