I never noticed that! Probably because I always kill Ornstein first...

Ornstein becomes terrifying pt.1:

So it is related to his power, hmmm.

so maybe smough's power is somehow tied to his manic behaviour

the attention to detail in your videos and in FromSoftware games, holy...

Explain why?

Either Smough is very heartless, or Ornstein was just an illusion the whole time. I think it could be both, and Smough doesn’t care if he just killed the Captain of the Four Knights.

@@thalaseamyst3934smough eats people

@@thalaseamyst3934bad friend :(

@@blasphemy_3455Dung eater

Bonk

​@@republic0_032the perfect answer

you are really funny for this

😂😂

yeah but phase 2 is easier

And makes it far more creepier

maybe the sound design wasnt so great if it didnt accurately convey that to you...

@@marcello9476did you ever play the game? This fight? You don’t exactly have the ability to carefully observe… well, much of anything at all.

​@@marcello9476 this makes no sense one person not getting one thing does not make said thing bad

​@Beezer1742 You wouldn't need to listen carefully if it was portrayed using clear sound design. Besides, you don't need your ears much for most dark souls bosses

I wish that was true but that ornstien wasn't even the real one rather the true ornstien was disgusted by smough

​@@yukanayame5984But it he know that he sawnt real?😊

@@yukanayame5984 thats true, that ornstein is not real, It was an illusion, but that illusion still give a soul when killed.

There is theory ornstein put down his duty as royal guard and begin his journey to find the nameless king and become a dragon-person himself like you see in dragon peak mountain in ds3.

is the nameless kings dragon actually called polly?

The markings are on the armor, so yeah.

The Super Mutant you mean 😂😂😂

Check out their lore vid on it- you’re right

​@@_HierophantWhere exactly? I totally missed that.

Smough's eye slits remind me of basilisk's true eyes. Perhaps his armor was somewhat inspired by basilisks..?

That's a hard call. Smashed into the ground? God no. Smacked in the head? Yes, please. You'll be out before your brain bounces the first time

Given Smough’s size and strength. I imagine you would be essentially vaporized pretty quickly. I doubt many beings could survive a hammer that size being smashed down on them. And watching the condemned get straight-up pancaked is even more intimidating imo 😂

@@CheeseburgersAndBeeryes people would often bribe them to forego the usual sharpening before the execution.

@@Matt-qv8lm Not always. People have suffered major skull injuries and survived. It's quite possible the first strike wouldn't kill you. It's such a sadistic way to execute someone to have to crush them to death.

Imagine being sentenced to death and you walk to the gallows only to see a fat dude with a Volkswagen Beetle at the end of a stick.

Chad smough getting extra protein from his victims 🗿 the whole thing was just to support the bulk

@@jooot_6850 The cut was indeed insane

I mean if you lugged around all that hammer wearing all that armour all day, you'd definitely be brolic as fuck

Is there an official source with the concept art? I've never looked at it before.

@@mujariwa3696 I think it was in an Artbook. But since I don't own one I can't tell you if it's within it

Smough knows that Ornstein is an illusion and doesn't care about it, while the illusion acts like the real Ornstein would.

That Ornstein is an illusion

SMACK

I think it’s more shock that this crazy buff dude just got clapped and now you have to fight 1v1 not 1v2

@@marine47ncaa25 i take that as a compliment. But also why

How?

​@@FighTThePower.Too focused on fighting and the music to notice

@@StoniTheOni even with all that I could still hear it Everytime he attacks

​@@FighTThePower.Some peoples speaker audio comes out differently. Audio settings also make a difference. I never heard Smough laugh until today, and similarly i never heard Mohg, Lord of Blood snarl during some attacks until i watched my brother fight him. Small audio cues can get lost fairly easily. Plus it seems like Smough is more audible the closer you are, so with most people trying to kite Ornstein around while distancing Smough it makes sense this isn't as common of knowledge as one would think.

@@NuclearRizzicist u know what I just realized u guys must be playing without fiddling around with your settings I put music like at 4 and sound effects to like 6 out of 10 and voice maxed

How did you know that?

@@langleysenterprise5134 Aldrich is in Ornstein's and Smough's arena, and once you kill Aldrich you can get his armour.

Actually it’s heavily implied Aldrich is Smough.

@@calvinball8 not that heavily, it's based on them both eating people and being executioners. But Aldrich is well, still Aldrich and he is from the cathedral of the deep and a lord of cinder, and it has vastly different abilities.

Ah, the irony is both the best and saddest part of these games.

Ornstein is already dead in the events of Dark Souls 1, I do believe he's simply a psychopath, desentisized due to killing so many people

​@@plasmaflippy9376he is not dead, he is away in search of the nameless king

​@plasmaflippy9376 isnt that smough?

Its not the real Ornstein though and Smough is well aware of this

I like to think that it's simply "Smashing a motherfucker makes me feel joy", which is why he also laughs while trying to smash the player character.

He didnt just do his duty he was the last defender everyone else both god and mortal has abandonded their duty or died. Then someone just like him a cannibal comes into the city and likely offered him power, riches and slaves to eat. Smough refused the easy out instead fighting to the end for the duty everyone else abandoned.

Or it is all just a lie and Smough and Aldritch are the same person

Where is everyone getting this from?

@@remrad4315 Dark Souls 3 it is revealed that the old dragonslayer (Orinstein) left to follow the Nameless King (Gwyn Unpersoned Firstborn) and his armor/corpse can be found nearby the nameless kings boss arena Meanwhile Smoughs armor can be bought after beating Aldrich (The guy who ate the God Gwyndolin) with the discription "Grotesque armor associated with Smough, the last knight to stand in defense of the ruined cathedral. Boasts extremely high defense and can be donned by humans, but not without great difficulty" Little of the lore is clear but the pieces we have here seem so

@@killerhellhound ahh I see, I didn't remember, it has been years since I've played DS1 or 3

U can blow my mind..

You can blow my…

@@mrmoedinipause

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​@@mrmoediniyo chill

Have you ever had a good marrow stew? If not, don't judge leatherface.

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Pat

Most of NPCs laugh, actually.

@@thulsa_doom laughing definitely doesn't equal happiness always though

Agree. It is written in the dragon slayer set in DS3 that Ornstein has left the land in search of the nameless king

And Smough's set says he is the last knight to stand in defense of the ruined cathedral. Ornstein in DS1 has to be an illusion.

Maybe they are both illusions? Cuz in theory Smough was eaten by Aldritch much later. So, maybe these two are the impressions Gwendolyn had of them and that's why Smough is so sadistic while Ornstein is more noble. It's just the behaviour Gwendolyn THOUGHT they'd have based on his own opinion of them?

​@@Aidan1488 i believe smough was actually there whereas ornstein was the illusion because smough never left his post and aldrich appeared in a far later cycle in which he rose to power and ate smough and gwyndolin.

>kill illusion >aquire Soul of Ornstein Something doesn't quite add up, here.

He can look down. And see something. Possibly

Even if he could, I don’t think he’d care

@@soggybubble with such limited sight, and being on the other side, probably not

Copeing hard af

@@soggybubble and see what the inside of his armor?

I was baited!

"Hey A-hole, my eyes are down here!"

Smoobs

Smough is not one of the four knights of Gwyn, what you mean with abandon his duty ? Gwyn's knights were Dragon Slayer Ornstein, Artorias the Abysswalker, Lord's Blade Ciaran and Hawkeye Gough. BTW that's not the real Ornstein in the fight.

If you're referencing DS3, you literally run into other Silver Knights still guarding the place in that game.

@@demilung Nothing in this video is about silver knights so if he means that idk wtf he talking about.

@@demilungI think he meant of those who were on this (powerful) level, yes they still sat but as foot soldiers, odds were much higher they were killed (maybe even by other silver knights) for abandoning their post

I'm currently farming medals for sunbros so i help other people with these two a lot. its hard to focus on sounds when you are doing it for yourself, but after dozens of fights you start to notice all these small things

Yes you can, quite esily in fact. I was not awere that this wasn't common knowledge

That pine resin line made me laugh. Thank you

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@@Peanut-yi1qi “🤓” -🤓

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Resurrected?

Nope too far, back up a bit… warmer… yup right there

Somewhat reminiscent of the frog-mouth helms we see the Ruin Sentinels wearing as well. That’s probably more due to it being a good visor design than Drangleic being inspired, though.

In DS3 Aldrich also ate Gwyndolyn, but I killed him in DS1, so maybe instead of making a crazy-ass claims that things with physical strenght, physical loot and souls are illusions, just maybe those are like different timelines? Or are you saying that the Silver Knights you run in in DS1 AND in DS3 are also illusions?

In this fight they're both illusions

@@user-lb5mg6qr5h So is the Leo ring an illusion and the effect of it pure placebo, or are these *illusions* wearing gear and having souls?

@@demilung probably both, by the way Gwendolyn is really huge master of illusions, to the point, where if you kill him or Guinevere not only sun disappeares, but also all of the enemy's.

@@user-lb5mg6qr5h I love this. For years, I've been loving this thing when people look at things present in that moment in the game and come to the conclusion that the disappearance of the knights, the giants and the Sun meant that Gwyndolin, despite being a really easy boss, had HUMONGOUS powers to create "illisions" that had physical strenght (unlike things named as illusions being easily destroyed by anything) wielded illusory gear that you can pick up and upgrade and some illusory weapons even have the divine blessing to destroy skeleots for good, and those illusions even give you souls. Because Gwyndolin having this completely made up and absurd power to make a deadly army of knights, giants and bat wing demons then dispelling it to send two blades of the dark moon to camp you makes just so much more sense than the guards of Anor Long who "stayed behind to protect their illusory goddess" just left once the goddess was gone. Because making up the power that Gwyndolin could make actual souls from nothing is easier than admitting that Dark Souls does progression of events in these state changes, like with all the quests and NPCs.

Smough already died in dark souls 1 how does that work

Illusion?

​@@Clonesoldier501People like to say that the Ornstein we see during the fight is an illusion since in Dark Souls 3 we learn that Ornstein abandoned his post and traveled the world to find the Nameless King. It's likely that the timeline is so convoluted that we saw the multiple fates of Ornstein.

@@falcoon_f_zero9450It still questions me that how Ornstein went to Dragon Peak

​@@Clonesoldier501 when you dissolve the illusion of Anor Londo in DS1 and make it sunless, some if not all of the Silver Knights disappeared. Gwyndolin revealed that Anor Londo was abandoned and all was illusions even the big titty godess, and the text in DS 3 revealed that Ornstein left Anor a long time ago.

​@@falcoon_f_zero9450people doesn't say anything. And no one theory ornstein left anor londo because of the text in DS3, the text is to backup what Gwyndolin said in DS1. In DS 1 if you dissolve the illusions made by Gwyndolin and face the secret boss that is Gwyndolin himself, he will revealed to you that everyone have left Anor Londo and all that you have seen included the silver knights was all illusions created by his power

this is cool and if you say "sumo" the way it's said in japanese it actually does just sound like "smough". nothing at all like the english way of saying SUE-mo. in japanese its suMOU with a real quick almost devoiced "su".

Another fun fact - the first two are basically fan fiction, and not the good one.

true but that orstein is not the real one cuz the real one went with gwyn firstborn to cuddle with dragons

@@SkillfulCurve or, you know, time is convoluted and all that

​@@SkillfulCurveThis is the best explanation I've ever read

@@hensinks thx

I mean Giants are an oppresed race in dark souls and he was probably denied education and a good life and the only thing he knkws is voilence but that doesnt really esxuce him from his deeds

Yet we can get the actual soul of Ornstein in DS1, hinting he's real. And what about reading in DS3 that he had abandoned his post in search of the Nameless King? It's like the timeline is so convoluted that we see an alternate fate of Ornstein in each game. Or could it be (gasp*), a plothole? No, impossible.

@@gooeyking What you said might be true. Although Dark Souls 2 is very much canon. We get a lot of references to characters and places of DS2 in DS3, clearly showing DS2 was not written out.

@@gooeyking Two things though: first, there's a difference between leaving something open to interpretation, such as what is "The Deep" in DS3. There's a lot that's not spelled out for you. And then there's just direct retcons to major events that happened. It's just unusual for Dark Souls to so directly contradict previous events, which I don't remember it doing any other times. Second: If Dark Souls 2 is not canon then how do we find ourselves in the ruins of Earthen Peak in DS3? How do we find the shield of King Vendrick and the armors of Drang soldiers, warriors who were originally from Drangleic? Creighton returns in DS3, so does Alva and Zullie the Witch is also mentioned. Their lore has also stayed the same from DS2. If DS2 isn't canon you'd think their lore would be rewritten to reflect that. But DS3 does acknowledge events of DS2. Or is DS3 not canon either? XD

@@gooeyking would love to see proof of this thing you made up lmao

The ornsteins we fight in both ds1 and ds2 are almost certainly golems made with pieces of Ornsteins soul that he left behind for that purpose. Ds3 tells us explicitly he left to go find the firstborn

Yes. His lore specifically states he ground down his victims and ate them.

I need to see (hear) this!

That would make a funny mod.

Do you have proof of the money? Because that’s an easy $100M to implement.

@@subbermail2887 I have a $100,000,000 bill with Seth Rogan on it.