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So, I'm close to finishing the game and still have this feeling that I'm not fully aware of the events or the world of the game. I shared what I thought that could be souls or the connections (if there is any) to Dark Souls (or the souls in dark souls) with people I know and they pretty much just shrugged it off as "don't think about it, it's not meant to be complicated it's simple" but I can't think the same when there seem to be more to it as this simply being "the currency that makes you sane/powerful" like I was described.

Sage Freke mentions that the scourge on Boletaria "activated" the souls so assuming souls are or come from the essence of life (or consciousness of said life) I guess it's not just like any other source of energy since it appears the manipulation of souls is more restricted to the land within the fog where Boletaria is, he even mentions that the current magical happenings of Boletaria caused a "heightened reality" which I'm not really sure about what it means but it seems to indicate that souls and the development of soul arts (magic) becomes more tangible as he uses the demon souls you collect to make new spells.

In Dark Souls we don't get a great description of souls but just like demon souls it's something you consume to make you stronger, you get from fallen heroes and defeating enemies just like Demons Souls, in Big Hat Logan sorceries there is mention that "life originates from souls", we have people going crazy and turning into an inhuman version of themselves much like the zombified enemies that attack you in Boletaria. The different stages of the Soul arrow mentions how there are academies of magic and the more academic achievements you get the stronger the spells get so I'm assuming in the world of dark souls scholars can't just manipulate souls and up their INTeliggence unless you are either undead and in the land of Lorndran, much like how souls behave in a certain way in Boletaria that is unlike any other place in the world of Demon Souls. Much like there is a distinction between Dark Souls (humanity) and souls I believe there is something that makes Demon Souls different from normal souls, Sage Freke says that they aren't just souls that fed on other souls and Maiden Astraea is said to have accepted a Demon Soul rather than she killing a lot of people to gain the "Demon" status. So, is there any answer to it?

Could there really be a connection between those two games? I don't think they share the same universe but perhaps the concept of souls could apply the same to both worlds.

I might be just missing something but I assumed that each kingdom was at some point situated where Drangleic is now (or what remains of it), we can see ruins of the Old Iron King civilization including his castle but there are very few things left of Eleum Loyce and no trace of the locations we see in the DLC, the lack of presence of the Sunken King civilization makes more sense to me since it's underground and the architecture looks way older.

Brume tower could be just distant and accessible by magic teleportation from the Iron King castle by the snake portal (they both seem to be in a mountainous volcanic area) and Shulva (sunken king kingdom) seem to be below the Gutter so neither dlc locations would show up in the main game but I have no idea where Eleum Loyce is supposed to be.

Am I wrong about how those 3 snake portals work? The way Eleum Loyce looks so removed from the base game it seems to be a whole other plain of existence and it's even more ominous that each portal is surrounded by warnings and almost "sealed away" from the outside world, the beheaded snake idols makes it seem like maybe this process of sealing or discovering those portals happened during Vendrick's time as ruler since why would the same people that build them also beheaded them, there are even Drangleic golems in Eleum Loyce.

Hi, I have a E0S0 Ashveil in a team with E2S1 Blade/RMC/Luocha. I'm wondering if Blade's E2 might make ERR link more competitive or even better than ATK since I already saw some discurse about it before Blade was even out.

I understand that teams with RMC assume you can alternate the buff on both Ashveil and Blade at the same time but so far I always run into one of them running out of the buff so they never really stay with the true dmg at the same time like expected. Could this be fixed with ERR? maybe it would be worth to consider it for both Ashveil and Blade in this instance? Idk if Luocha matters in this but I run him on ERR link and Natasha LC R5 for more frequent bursts.

Beside the issue with RMC buff maybe the dmg output is better with more followups anyway.

Obviously not counting teams with vape and melt drivers, does Nicole contribute anything to teams where Durin is the onfielder?