It also just goes to show you why you are greeted as a "lord of hollows" by Yuria so openly. You have five sigils, more than could be regularly kept on a normal hollow. It appears three may have been a maximum (speculation) as that's all you receive from Anri. I'm still not 100% convinced the Age of Dark is the best ending however... I mean let's look at Dark Souls 1. When you became a Darkwraith of Kaathe how did you improve your covenant standing? Feeding Humanity to Kaathe. Plus, with how untrustworthy the game makes any form of serpent-like creature, telling us they are beings of greed and creatures that could have been dragons but never will be, it signals to me some form of innate spite towards anything non-serpentlike. Also, as a semi-related note you can see statues of what appear to be Primordial serpents in a slightly humanoid shape wearing robes in the Grand Archives. The area is well renowned for being a location of great torture and corrupting experiments. I'm just not 100% convinced. The worst part is that Yuria, from the beginning, tries to see if she can pull you by strings during her request for you to kill Orbeck for basically no reason. Then, strangely enough, there is no other request to kill anyone else. To me it's just a manipulative attempt to see if you are willing to kill on command.

Maybe it was mentioned in the comments, but I'd like to add that you can clearly hear Kaathe "typical" breathing sound ( noice of Primordial Serpents like back in dark souls 1). You can hear it when you walk from the center of Firelink Shrine to the right hand side of the tunnel to the blacksmith and onto where Yoel and Yuria are located. I guess it is the final proof Kaathe is behind the Yuria's questline.

arnis not dead shes on the right on final cut scene.

But anri shows up at the end of game cut scene in usurpation of fire. Shes kneeling with the hollows on the top right side of the hollows kneeling to you. you can tell its her cause she/he is wearing the elite armor set

Dude that was fucking amazing to listen to. Was totally captivated =]

There was an editing error at 21:41, the wrong item is shown while you read its description

Your lore examinations flow really well and are interesting. I'd come back here for refresher courses, for sure.

love the lore work man! The talking thing will sort out with more practice. keep it up!

I hope one of the 2 dlc's will be about Londor and the other abut Gertrude.

You deserve way more subs, these are great videos.

Dude, if Dark Souls was taught in college, you'd be a great professor. Really good presentations. Subbed for more. Also, if you haven't done it yet, can you make one of these about the lore around The Consumed King Oceiros? Thanks. On a sadder note, if DS3 is the final DS game FROM does, then revelations about the coming of the Age of Dark or the World Submerged that Aldrich envisioned becomes moot. So here's hoping they don't just let all this lore go to waste and make more games.

Awesome work, good choice to show all your sources :D Keep up the good work, we're looking forward to your next lore video

best lore video I've watched. good job.

really enjoyed this. great video

Well done, thanks for this video :) got bored of dozen or so Aldrich vids out there hehe

Thanks so much, man! I accidentally missed this quest twice now and this is the juicy piece of lore I needed for my fan fiction :D

Absolutely love the detail

Love this video! I hope (and reckon we'll get) one DLC about Londor, the other about the angelic faith. Both seem to have had a lot of influence in the world we find ourselves in in DS3, and both seem to have even more unanswered questions than we normally find in a dark souls game!

Really solid job unpacking all of that. I find the Londor plot line highly intriguing, and wonder if it ties to Aldritch and his connections to the Abyss in any way.

Great digging my friend. Keep it up! And thank you! And nice try on all those parry by the way ;)

Excellent video and I hope we get to learn more about this place in the DLC because there are so many unanswered questions....

love it, great work.

Really cool lore dude the "wedding" scene always tripped me out and now it makes a little more sense, thanks :)

Great work. Keep up the good videos and you will have tons of subs in no time!!:)

Really hope the DLC deals with Londor

seeing how every NPC "of Londor" in DS3 isn't all that hollow,but rather spreading hollowing ,or even accepting it as the natural progress of things. The way Yuria sets you up as the "Lord" (or Savior) of Hollows, seems to me like the "blackpilled" answer of "linking the fire"

anri is not a victim. s/he's like you, recruited with some shady business, but after that voluntarly in the whole thing. s/he admires you, if not really love with you, in the dialogue in the church of yorshka s/he's grateful to you, and s/he admires you for your strength and courage and whatnot. s/he does'nt "die" in the rite of awowal, s/he undead anyway. s/he's also kneeling to you with the other hollows in the final cutscene.

such an amazing work , everything's so well explained and understandable, will follow you right away sir (sorry for my frenchy english)

Hey another Scottish person! Amazing video mate- very informative, got a new subscriber cant wait to see more!

Awesome Video :) just subbed

Great stuff. I'm curious that the Purging stone in DS1 says it's a secret of Arstor, Earl of Carim. In DS3 it's a secret of Londor. I'm also curious to know where Velka sits among all this.

Love the villainous choice in outfit for the dark ending there.

The three mentors of the Sable Church of Londor... The three sealers of New Londo... One of whom left to aid the undead of Blighttown. Yulva brought her healing miracles to bring comfort to those in the Blighted city. Yulva... Yuria. I'm seeing some connections here. Also, Hollows can never die. You can see Anri in the final cutscene bowing before you. Oh, and, reading through the description of the Silvercat Ring kind of disproves your whole Kaathe theory. "In the Age of the Gods, or possibly just following it." Showing that the Age of the Gods has long since passed. It seems that the act of linking the fire is seen now only as some sort of rite of honour. After all, the Firelink armor states that "It exists as a symbol of the great Lords and the noble act of linking the fire, though it is no more than an empty husk." But is it truly the armor that it describes, or the act itself?

Londor is truly the first mentioned location that really peaks my interest.

Sorry, why don't you have more subs. Really, your lore videos are some of the best.

No, thank YOU. Watching these videos is a source of great joy to me :)

*drops carving* VERY GOOD this video made me think deeper about the lord of hollows ending and the way it recontextualizes the other endings. i was thinking about the main macguffin of the game, making the lords return to their thrones because they won't do it themselves. playing through the game, you find that each of the lords of cinder have their own reasons for not wanting to come back: aldrich has a pretty good thing going eating gwyndolin, yhorm doesn't want any more destruction from linking the flame, lorian and lothric never believed in keeping the sick world going any longer and linked the fire against their will, and the abyss watchers are too busy with their fight club. by killing them and linking the flame, you are prolonging the suffering of the world, but the hollows of londor throw a wrench in the works. i'm still not sure which ending is the "good" ending, or if that idea even makes sense for this game/series, but i'm leaning towards the lord of hollows ending after this video. looking forward to more great videos! ps. what is the song that plays at the very end?

Another great lore vid. Also I'm sure others have pointed it out already but you have the wrong footage at 21:48, you have the black gauntlet item instead of the swords'.

Your scripts are absolutely brilliant! Very well written. If you mess up, you should just repeat the line, and fix it in editing. I know it can be daunting, but trust me, it,'s worth it. It's that extra step that really makes the quality high. Regardless, you earned a subscriber and I'm looking forward to more of this!

Scotland :P . Anyway, cool video! Subscribed. A lot of the other guys doing lore videos seem to rush through it and have videos under 5 minutes long. Prefer these ones that are more in depth!

Good job dude. I hope we go to Londor in the DLC.

I'm surprised I didn't find this channel sooner. Your take on lore is really in-depth and interesting. Do you plan to make a video of Pontiff Sullivayn (or however you spell that)? On my first run thru, I honestly didn't pay too much attention to his lore, but after watching a few unrelated lore vids, I noticed that his name keeps popping up. He seems to have influenced events all across Dark Souls 3. Either way, good luck with your video endeavors!

You did an amazing job. I still wonder if the few Darkwraiths in the game work with Kaathe still or with Londor too. Or are just remanence of the past still walking around. I always could not figure that out, but it could just be fan service. Keep up the great work man! :)

If you look in the background at the kneeling hollows you'll notice an armoured knight that looks like Anri

Excellent video, but I need to point out a minor error at 21:43 You speak of the item "Sword of Avowal" and read its description, but instead show the black gauntlets & their description

Hmm...I'd say Velka is somehow involved in this too. Dark Souls I mentioned that she is the highest authority on curses and is the only one who can truly lift them. Plus, vow of silence is one of her miracles if I remember correctly. On top of that, her pardoners were all powerful swordsmen and she favoured intellect over faith in her followers. I have nothing of substance towards this theory, but it really seems likely that she is involved. I say this also because she has fought against the old gods before (ocuult rebellion) and because she is the Goddess of Sin. As Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin and the Scholar Ring from Dark Souls III imply that the Linking of the Flame was a sin, she is likely to desire an end of the First Flame.

Very good channel

Londor = New Londo? Been wondering about it

I enjoy your videos my man, nice work. Related to the game, it seems to me that the world of DS3 has 2 realities: One where the flame has been linked in the past, and one where it has not. What do you think about that?

Great vid and insights! :) I always assumed that the pilgrims we see praying across the game came to pray to prince Lothric. They always face Lothric when outside of it, and within Lothric they face the castle. Seeing as Yoel pleads for death when we first meet him, it seems to me that he was pleading for prince Lothric to link the fire, because in an age of fire the undead can die human. Perhaps this desire to be human again rather than hollow is the reason for his exile? Also dully note that at 23:56, on the right side of the screen near the elbow, Anri is kneeling beside the other hollows, so perhaps the marriage was less of a trap than implied. Oh for a bit of constructive criticism, perhaps you can more often show video footage during your narrative that is relevant to your story, like you did when you showed some dialouge with Yuria? As much as I enjoy seeing you, or anyone else, get their shit pushed in by Cathedral knights or Black knights, its more of a distraction than a bonus most of the time X'D

Awesome. Subbed. :)

Cool stuff! Conjecture souls- Right of Avowal = how twin humanities in ds1 got created? Make Londor whole again = glue all the humanity back together again to reform the dark soul?

I fucking live for SmoughTown's videos and my favorite parts is how he starts his analysis of dialogues by pointing out things that are so obviously obvious hahaha "I am Yoel of Londor, a pilgrim, as you can see, only..." "We can therefore see; he's a pilgrim of Londor." I just love it so much

Omg, you can parry the UGS cathedral knights? Fuck me, I've been playing for 300 hours+ and never even though of that! Lore is good, but damn, that just shocked me.

The Atonement miracle reminds me of the Old Testament tradition wherein a scape-goat carries sin and is sent out into the wilderness to probably die.

very rough with many mistakes (with the script), but still thoroughly enjoyable.

"What I'll be talking aboot" lol I love the accent so much 😂

Great video, I would like to point out though that Anri is still alive, well, undead in the last cut scene, she / he is seen bowing down as you walk past to the right of your character. So she/he is sacrificed but im guessing because your dark sigils are now linked, they will die when you die.

you know whenever i fight hollows their animations,suggest not that of madness, but of serious anger. like they are so unbelievably angry at me. I could be grasping at straws though.

That would explain why the Darkwraiths at Farron Keep are advancing towards the Abyss watchers, trying to kill off the flame? And if thats why they're there, then that Dark Wraith at High Wall of Lothric, the one you need the lift key for, must be trying to find the Prince. But he must have lost his way and got stuck in a trap made by the Lothric Knights.

A separate BRANCH of humanity is right

One thing thats always got me are the seprents. They claim to know the truth and Frampt goes as far as saying he is friends with Gwyn but at no point does anyone of great importance in the earlier titles even mention they exist.

I agree with alot of this but don't think the flame us gone just merged into the dark soul of man

Sable Church of Londor sort of reminds me of Dune's Bene Gesserit - matriarchal, but looking for their male sort-of savior (Dark Lord, Kwisatz Haderach). I mean, yes, in DS, the Dark Lord can be female, but that is because it is a game with gender choice and not a sci fi novel. Eh, whatever - one just reminded me of the other. dune.wikia.com/wiki/Kwisatz_Haderach

It's pretty clear that "salvation" which Sable Church offers is salvation from loosing your mind as you go hollow. Thus it's possible there is a community of hollows.

Londor & Lothric have the commonality of the presense of primordial serpents. In Lothric, we also see a Gold Dragon & a Silver Dragon. Before even all of that, we saw the infestations of those things which claimed the bodies of Iudex Gundyr & several hollows who were mixed in with the others. Ash is a significant element of these happenings, and no matter a linking or a renouncement of the flame, we know the cycle returns always. Aldas from DS2 told us as much. But Aldas also proved the impossible by transpositioning a dragon into existence. Now, look at the descriptions of the Gold & Silver serpent rings. Past tense now, people.

Everything about Londor, the Sable Church, and the Usurpation of fire just reminds me of the Furtive pygmy and how his plans.

18:37 The art of life drain is unique to Londor but found in Lordran? Am I looking to deep into the wording or is that alluding to something?

Fantastic, though I kinda hoped you talked more about Anri and Horace, especially Horace because his arc just ends weird.

hmm, quite an interesting field

The dlc better have us travel to londor and maybe depending on whether we become a dark lord or not can decide if we fight with or against them

When you are stating the description of the Sword of Avowal, you have the wrong item on screen. The item you are showing is the Black Gauntlets. (21:54)

One small question, at the end of the video as you walk among the hollows as their new lord. Who is in that elite knight's armor? It seems significant seeing as they're the only ones in armor other than the maidens.

I wonder if the usurpation of fire choice will effect any experience or interaction in the ringed city dlc as are you not their lord now? Being that it's Londor.

Nice work! I love DS Lore videos, but the vast majority of them are crap. This was well researched, written, and delivered. Please keep up the good work!

wow..... I chose the wrong ending :o I thought I did this one... but it was a different one. Shits suddenly falling into place

Does anyone know.. Is that Anri kneeling during the final cutscene? The one on the right in what looks like knight armor! Been wondering this for a long time THANKS.

Mate I really hate lore videos usually because they're mostly all dragged on and unenthusiastic (VaatiVidya) But i really liked this video. Kudos

I don't think it is an age of dark. I read somewhere "you sacrifice your soul to the dying flame but in this you sacrifice the dying flame to yourself" you absorb it saying it's still alive shared to all hollows through the dark soul and that undead will never go insane again as the age of men has truly began

Is it possible that Rosaria may be the eldest daughter, first founder of the Sable Church? It could make sense, as a callout to how Kaathe was the leader for the red covenant in Dark Souls 1, and the third sister's presence could be noted by her absence in the final cutscene. When you look at Rosaria, trapped in her bedchamber, she never seems to move, and never really wants to. She is wearing a black dress, and the little slug-men around her that she cares for could be assumed to be hollows. Her missing tongue may be a reference to the fact that the hollows of Londor have taken the vows of silence. This would also raise an interesting question, as it could be argued that Rosaria is a descendant of Gwynevere, and if Yuria and Liliane are her sisters, they could all possibly be descendants of the line of Gwyn.

The only problem I ave with the videos is, that the sounds is a bit too quite. Not much, but I still need to turn up the volume if I want to understand something after watching other channels before.

Sable is sand in french, you could stretch the meaning a little and say that it means ash.

The "Fallen Knights" are in fact knights of Londor, as their armor is nearly identical to that of Vilhelm. Perhaps they are seeking the painting?

Over time an increasing number of Undead and Hollows would find refuge with them, evolving into a society made up of those who have lived miserable lives, incredibly old people full of secrets and deceit. This place would become known with the name of London.

Subbed for the accent 👌

You seem to have missed a few things. Kaathe was already in Londor. Londor can't really be a successor of itself. Londor seems to be New Londo's new moniker. Just as Drang refers to Drangleic and Irithyll refers to Anor Londo.Through time, New Londo must have become a city home to many Hollows. Another thing you missed is that we did not Sacrifice Anri; we merely stole her dark sigils. He/She can be seen in the ending cutscene for the Usurpation of Fire kneeling before us. I couldn't resist leaving a comment and I apologize for possibly proving you incorrect.

Yule dies regardless of Yuria being present or not. He was fated to die, as all Pilgrims, no one else is involved.

But what about Friede and Liliane? We know very very little about them. For example why Did Friede decide to exile herself?

In the Lord of Hollows Ending, you can see Anri amongst the Hollows.

dont hesitate to refer to ds1/2. Would like to hear your conections more.

What do you think the chances are that Kaathe is the eldest 'sister'? I know, I know, but you never hear of her, and he's even on her final words. Also, you only see two sisters in the Dark Lord ending...Seems like Kaathe has been busy either way, wonder if Kingseeker has been too. Maybe just maybe he lead a certain young sorcerer to the profaned capital?

Is it safe to say that this ending is a good ending? Or something more grey? Its more "natural" right?

Mfw when anri's unkindled, who are like undead and can respawn, and people are confused why anri isn't dead

is that anri bowing to us in the elite knight armor? seems strange to just throw a random elite knight in there with all the naked hollows and the sisters.

the age of hollows isn't an age of humanity/the dark soul,because you lose your humanity while hollowing as evidenced by DS1 mechanics. I see The abyss/the dark soul and the first flame as somewhat opposites and hollowing as going back to the age of ancients, where the pygmiesthat resemble hollows originate.

Fucking amazing. Thank you so mutch

Dark Souls 3: The One Souls Game Where Hollows Look Good

I wonder who the third sister is. We know Liliane and Yuria. Curiouser and curiouser. Hmmm.

I think hollows are just like undead merchants in ds1 not like true hollows without minds. Like how we can go hollow but stay sane.

PLEASE BE IN LONDOR