r/DarksoulsLore

Very very weird. I can’t comfortably imagine it spatially or size wise. It almost feels like if it was a planet, it wouldn’t be shaped like a sphere. With how much things collapse into one another and overlap - I wonder how much of it is “real”.

Like, is the Dreg Heap real or is it maybe purely magical? And if that’s the case where does the line of real and magical begin and end? Is Ash Lake “real”? If they are real, imagine how bizarre of a shape the world of Dark Souls would be. Or maybe for them, things can be real, but not be visible to the naked eye.

Why does Seath have a library of millions of books he can't even read? Yes, I know Gwyn made him duke or whatever (duke of what, exactly, dukes own land and collect taxes from it, he just has a tower that probably smells like body odor?), that's not the question. Why does Seath have a library at all? He's blind and he can't even traverse the passageways or use the stairs or use the elevator, he's too damn big to even open the books. And lets say somehow he CAN see and he CAN traverse the passageways and stairs and elevators, he still can't read, he's a dragon, he's illiterate. There is only 1 language across all 3 games, you see the script of said language in summon signs (lowkey looks like if Hebrew and Mandarin were in a blender) and all we've seen Seath do is scream so I'd assume that's ALL he can do and thus he's illiterate. Lets say he IS literate and is NOT blind, at his size could YOU read the print of a human-scale book? No.

The Duke's Archives is a fantastic area with a very cool cave at the end and a cool-looking easy boss, but it makes NO sense.

What Dark Souls boss (the entire trilogy) has the most aura? Criteria for aura are these:

1. Lore of the character.
2. Design/aesthetic/style.
3. Attacks/moveset
4. Voicelines if they have any.
5. Cutscenes; intro cutscene, phase-change cutscene, or outro cutscene.
6. Their music.
7. Battle venue.

Who has the most aura? It doesn't have to be a humanoid boss, btw, it can be a beast/monster.

For me, its tied between Artorias, Sister Friede, Slave Knight Gael.

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Yes, I've played Dark Souls I and Dark Souls III, but I have a question (it is my first playthrough, but don't worry, you're not spoiling much, I'm about to fight Midir and then I'll fight Gael and then I'll fight The Soul of Cinder so I'm not a noob on lore or story).

What exactly are the differences (and drawbacks post-ending for the world of DS) between for The End Of Fire ending (I have the eyes) and The Usurpation Of Fire ending (I have the 8 Darksigils)? Which is better for humanity and a truer Age Of Dark provided we have all the issues of The Darksign?

My understanding of where the Undead curse comes from is that when the fire fades, men gain the darksign and become Undead, with more and more people turning and eventually hollowing as the flame dies out. If you link the flame, it seems like it restarts the age of fire and banishes the darksign, turning the Undead human again (or maybe just killing them). But what happens to humanity when the flame fades entirely? Would it not just result in all of humanity turning Undead and hollowing? And how is that functionally different from the Lord of Hollows ending in Dark Souls 3?

Whenever I think about what becoming the Dark Lord actually entails, I can't help but notice that you never really address the whole curse of the Undead. In fact, if you choose that ending in Dark Souls 1, the only thing you really accomplish is killing the last of the Great Lords. But surely killing Gwyn doesn't actually do anything to the world, so I'm left wondering what the consequences of your actions even are.