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Not that I’m unhappy with the art direction of this game, but I was just wondering whether all great ones had to look strange and weird.

Or whether a great one could resemble a human for example?

Also side question, do great ones need minions anyways, like how Kos transformed those of the Hamlet (at least in the nightmare). Aren’t they above human abilities, I.e.
Coughing baby vs Hydrogen bomb?

Coming back to this game, especially from Elden Ring where eye color seems to be a fairly credible identifier of one’s allegiances, I was wondering perhaps if this trend had started earlier in fromsofts catalogue?

From what I know, abyss afflicted beings seem to have red eyes, but besides that I’m not really too sure what any of it means.

So I was curious to see whether anyone else had any theories or ideas on this matter?

Saw the cinematic and it seemed rlly cool / nice for some screenshots across the game, but I’d hate to go through an entire new play through just that not to be the case :/

Random thought crossed my mind, since if the above is true, we aren’t technically killing these great ones truly but merely their physical manifestations.

But was open to your input?

Was recently watching a friend play though the game and got to share with them all the lore I know about DS3 as well as some hidden secrets and pathways when asked, all round it was heaps of fun.

But recently during the Twin Princes fight and after, I was sharing what I know about their lore and role in the story, and my friend instantly seemed to connect them to Miquella and Radahn.

Which actually got me thinking about the two, fight wise, lore wise, etc.

So I came here to ask the same question, what’re your thoughts on these characters, do you think they are comparable / have a similar trope?

Whose fight did you more enjoy?

Obviously since it’s a fromsoft game, whose lore did you find better?

Interested to hear all your thoughts down below

(Also some basic analysis into the lore of these characters will be below in my comment)

I’m revisiting Yharnam again and will finally have the chance to try out the DLC!

But one part I remember from a play through I watched years ago was The Fishing Hamlet and its unique residents, that look very different from the beasts of Yharnam or Loran.

Which I’m assuming might be cleared up a bit when visiting the Hamlet myself, but one specific detail that I wanted to explore prior, was the role of sex in one’s transformation.

In the base game from my recollection, both males and females seem to turn into similar beasts, like the beast patients.

Yet in the fishing hamlet, it seems that the male residents became more monstrous and fish like, whereas its female denizens resembled Kos?

I’m unsure whether something may have been lost in translation, but the in game names for these enemy types each read:

1. Fishmen
2. Snail women

Seemingly separating the trajectory of the transformation for both males and females in the Hamlet.

Obviously women in Bloodborne are uniquely primed to bear and birth great ones by acting as surrogates for them, which might explain this divergent evolution.

But I guess sex characteristics would naturally breakdown (like with the celestial emissaries) during these transformations, meaning perhaps some males might have become snail women and some females fish men, depending on their prior roles within the hamlet?

I’m just really interested in these differences and why we don’t see this much anywhere else? Or perhaps I may have missed certain lore my first time through the base game?

I have played through all games of the series at this point and recently just broke out of my dex mould, noticing that most Light Soul / Gwynn aligned powers drift towards miracles, whereas Dark affiliated spells seem to drift towards sorceries.

I just began to really wonder why this is, if both the light are counterparts to one another and dark is meant to succeed the age of light, shouldn’t channeling the dark be more similar to other miracles?

To add to my confusion, in DS3, I noticed that dark encompassed both schools of sorceries and miracles, whereas god / Gwynn allied spells stayed true to miracles, implying that the dark can be both?