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So Aldrich ate his entire lower half, scooped out and savored his upper innards,


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So Aldrich ate his entire lower half, scooped out and savored his upper innards, and wore his top-half as a personality of sorts?

Keep in mind, he was likely fully awake, and fully powerless, the entire time. Screaming his trap ass off drifting in and out of fitful consciousness.

Is this just incredibly unsettling for anybody else? How could Gwyndolin literally do nothing?
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>>334973920
Maybe it was a sneak attack and by the time he could try to do something it was too late.
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>>334973920
Aldrich just ate him completely then manifested him as a part of his blobby form.
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>>334974218

Aldrich dreamt as he ate. That tells me he took his time and enjoyed his meal.
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>>334974218

Yorshka says that Gwyndolin fell ill. That's probably why he couldn't fend off Sulyvahn and Aldrich.
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>>334974839
but didn't Sulyvahn merely lure Aldrich to Anor Londo? I know Sully's involved, but I thought he was an indirect cause in all this.
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>surprising everyone, bitch tits actually loyally defended his post until the end against Sully's cultists
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>>334974839
when does she say that?
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>>334975792
>bitch tits

got some news for you, senpai.
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>>334976189
So he really is a thin man trapped in a fat man's body?
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>>334976315
>thin

He's fucking huge m8
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ds3 has no titty monster that i'm aware of.
If someone would like to prove me wrong?
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>>334976315
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>>334976470
Titty monsters are about as much into the lore I can get.
Please excuse me i'll show myself out.
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>>334975792
really? i was under the impression both him and ornstein died fighting the dude from the first game
was it the whole time is distorted thing again?
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>>334973920
Good riddance, he was a fag.
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>>334977202
undead can come back after being killed, I guess that applies to some bosses too, because a bunch of them you "killed" in DS1 apparently survived
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>>334977202
Either that or the O&S fought in DaS weren't actually real.

Ornstein's set says that he eventually got sick of the lack of shit going down at Anor Londo, so he deserted his post and went to find his old mentor, The Nameless King. His corpse is found immediately after the Nameless King fight, so he either unsuccessfully tried to bring him home via force or was still harbouring a grudge over him defecting to the dragons and thought he'd try and take him down a peg.

Smough died as "the last knight to stand in defense of the ruined cathedral.".
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>>334977761
>Smough
>knight
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>>334977828
I'm just quoting his set's description, famalam.
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>>334973920
Is Aldrich the best character in DaS3?

>When Aldrich ruminated on the fading of the fire, it inspired visions of a coming age of the deep sea.
He knew the path would be arduous, but he had no fear. He would devour the gods himself.

I don't want to kill him anymore so I end up joining his covenant on new characters.
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I did it boys!

First souls game, beat Aldrich on 3rd attempt. Holy fuck does he hit hard. I was all out of estus, but at the end I rushed in for a final hit.

Damn feels good.
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>>334978221
>the deep sea

now there's some lore to touch on.
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So what's the deal with Aldrich?
What I understand is that he becomes more powerful the more people he eats, so he started eating people until he was powerful enough to link the fire and become a lord of cinder, but then he dreamed of an age of deep waters that would replace the age of fire/dark and started eating gods in order to become powerful enough to start the age of deep waters somehow
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>>334977761
the nameless king might've been hollowed already by the time ornstein found him
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Gwyndolin didn't deserve such a fate. He literally went out in the most gruesome way possible. Gwyndolin had a hard life, and it all ended at the hands of some stupid fucking blob.
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>>334975442
Suhlyvan was a leader in the church of the deep. They annexed Anor Londo for their own, and Aldrich got locked in there

Sulyvahn was hunting down the gods, feeding them to Aldrich becauae they were turning him into a blob. This way he could get rid of the competition and aldrich at the same time.
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>forced into traphood by a degenerate father suicidal father with a hero complex
>eaten alive by a vorefag

Such a shitty life
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>>334979936

That's dark souls for you. We don't get happy endings
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>>334979849
As far as we know that's pretty much his deal.
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>>334975792
The hero Anor Londo deserves.
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>>334980235
There's bad endings and then there's this. This is probably the worst way any Souls character has died.
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>>334980304
The Witch of Izalith had a pretty shitty go of it.
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>>334973920
Why does Aldritch look so much more girly than Gwyndolin?
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>>334979936
Gwyndolin got eaten and his covenant was taken over by a halfbreed little girl who ruined it.
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>>334978478
noice dude
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>>334975792
He was truly a big guy
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>>334979423
I saw a theory in a thread a few days back that basically said that the Age of Ancients is actually part of the cycle. That giants become archtrees and humans become dragons, pilgrim butterflies being the implied evidence. Maybe, if that's the case, the "deep sea" is the bottomless, pitch-black, 360 degree ocean we saw in Ash Lake? Maybe he saw the next Age of Ancients.
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>>334980409
Because face-tech has gotten much better since DaS1.
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>>334979423

It's the abyss, man.

Why americans can't into subtext.
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>>334980383
Certainly not worse than being eaten alive
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>>334980768
Because the games have never been sly about the Abyss once. It's a pretty known thing in-universe, and it's almost always mentioned by name. Hell, the Abyss Watchers are an entire fucking legion of Undead entirely devoted to stopping it.
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>>334980768
American's are straight forward. Not fags from whatever irrelevant country you hail from.
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>>334973920
I will NEVER stop being mad about this. Shit is unacceptable. The DLC better retcon this shit as being a fake Gwyndolin.
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>>334980921
Brass Cunt should have a fucked up face
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>>334980921
This, I'm actually legit upset about this. I don't care if he's dead, but it was such a shitty way to go and for a stupid blob that you never see outside the game's intro.
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Wait a second
If an undead dies and gets eaten by Aldrich - Since he is undead, does that mean that he will literally be trapped inside a vorefag for eternity with no means of escaping?

Jesus Christ
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>>334980921
>preferring "it was just an illusion xD" to dead faggot canon

kill yourself
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>>334981270
Oh fuck! I guess you're right.

Especially since beings of Dark Souls don't truly die, they just become something else in the cycle. So he becomes Aldrich food...
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so is the brother yorshka is waiting for gwyndolin?
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>>334981474
>dead faggot

Underage and/or retard detected, shit opinion has been discarded.
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>>334980921
What you dont like absorption/vore for your trap?
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>>334981886
Vore is shit tier, so is absorption.
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>>334982072
your tastes are suspect at best considering your love for feminine penises
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>>334982292
I prefer feminine features with a manly cock thank you
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>>334982292
I both love feminine penis and have a feminine penis of my own. Feminine penis is best.

>>334982365
Feminine penises can be big too you know. Big penis =/= manly penis. Feminine penises are best I think when they're bigger than the penises on men.
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>>334982530
>Feminine penises are best I think when they're bigger than the penises on men.
I might agree with you if you could provide some examples
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>>334982668
I'd rather not get sent on a vacation away from 4chan as much as I'd love to have this turn into a big feminine penis appreciation thread, in loving memory of best Dark Souls girl Gwyndolin of course.
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>>334980768
The same reason Japan can't grasp cosmic horror. Or horror in general.
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>>334982878
Wait do you not know how to ban evade?
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>>334982969
I know how to, but I don't because I don't have a dynamic IP and I don't bother with proxies.
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So whats with the black snake things that only pop out of people at the beginning and end of the game
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>>334981886
I actually like both of those things disgustingly enough.

But that doesn't change the fact that it was a stupid way for Gwyndolin to die
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How are these characters still alive after I murderee the fuck outta them in DaS1
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>>334979936
Thats what he deserve for being a faggot that didnt had the balls to Link the fire like his father did.
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>all this talk of feminine penises
>no examples
come on now
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>>334982530
>Feminine penises are best I think when they're bigger

Basically the best type.
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>no r34 of aldrich and Gwyndolin

come on now
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>>334983956

15"+ feminine penis is best penis tbqh senpai
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>>334984097
>tfw my feminine penis can't be 15" in real life

Well I guess half of that is still pretty good...
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>>334980921
I want the uncensored version, NOW!
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>>334980921
You got a source or anything for a full version of that?
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>>334980528
what ARE pilgrim butterflies, they're cool as shit but are they another primoridal force or?
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>everyone sad about Gwyndolin
I'm fucking sad about Nito, nigga literally did NOTHING wrong. He helped kill the dragons and then fucked off to chill out in a coffin far away from anyone to bother with his skeleton friends, and if you find him early on he just gives you a FREE SWORD and it's the best sword ever.

I always fucking felt bad killing Nito and then there's this shit.
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>>334984029
Give it time.
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>>334984431
They're baby dragons.
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>>334984365
>>334984430
I've never seen an uncensored version of that before so if it exists I don't know of it.
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>>334976315
he is the size of spesh mahreen
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>>334984669
>>334984430
Found an uncensored but not large resolution version

Can still see her big feminine cock clearly which is straight btw

http://i.imgur.com/geK4nkI.jpg
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>>334984857
Wew, good stuff Anon. I was the one who posted the censored one and I never knew of an uncensored one but here you are delivering one.
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>>334979936

consumed by the cis scum Aldrich
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>>334984545
OP here

I know that feel bro
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>>334984857
am I gay now
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>>334985150
Nothing gay about feminine penis Anon.
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>>334985150
You'd be gay NOT to throat that cock.
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>>334984545
Wait, is it even confirmed that he ate Nito?
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>it's another "everyone just writes fanfiction to create a story for a game with no story" thread
Dark Souls lorefags might be one of the most autistic fanbases on this site.
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>>334984545
I don't get how Aldrich ate Nito and Gwyndolin

I fucking killed them..? Maybe Gwyndolin's death isn't canon, but Nito definitely got his shit pushed in.
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>>334985745
not explicitly but it's pretty obvious, the gravelord sword is the end of his spear and his tail/lower body looks exactly like Nito

>>334986257
>it's another "i don't know how souls lore works but I am butthurt for some reason anyway" post
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>>334986269
He might have just desecrated Nito's corpse, but Nito was the first of the dead before we "killed" him. If anyone could be undying, it's Nito.
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>>334986430
>>334986269
Are you niggas dumb?

Are you forgetting the time distortion?

That's the hole fucking reason you can summon or be invaded by other chosen undead.

FUCK
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>>334985150
Futa on female isn't gay
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>>334986348
>I-ITS TOO DEEP FOR YOU!!!
Right, tell me more about how vague contradictory item descriptions and reused assets constitutes a "deep" lore
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>>334986430
You're interpreting that incorrectly, he wasn't the first to die, he was the first of the dead, as in he lead them. Thus why he is in the tomb of the giants and catacombs with a skeleton like appearance, amongst the army he commands.
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>>334986516
that's such a stupid fucking cop out, the time distortion shit is silly. I don't think it even applies here anyway. Aldrich clearly came AFTER them, after the fire was linked in dark souls 1 which is canon ending, there was prosperity after that and the curse was lifted.
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>>334976470
>>334976890
No, but it has an ass monster.

Literally, a monster.
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>>334986830
I wonder how soft those cheeks feel
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>>334984857
>>334985150
>>334984994
>>334984669
>>334984430
Full size, took five minutes on google you stupid fucks.http://i.imgur.com/415lv7W.jpg?1
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>>334986830
When I first fought her, I couldn't stop thinking about how toned her ass was
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>>334986585
I don't recall contradictory items. The closest thing is Smough's armor in 3 saying he's a Knight, and he might as well have gotten a promotion between games. And assets are purposefully reused because it's all part of one massive cycle, that keeps going around and around.
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>>334987187
>And assets are purposefully reused because it's all part of one massive cycle, that keeps going around and around.
not even the guy you're replying to, but do you honestly believe that?
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>>334986585
why exactly are you so upset by people talking about something you don't find interesting?
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>>334978478
Good jawbb
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Carmela, could YOU POST THE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz8KJYpRh28
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>mfw i played all souls games to completion several times and have no idea about any lore
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>>334987265
Dark Souls 2 confirmed it. The entire situation of 3 could very probably have been caused by the SotFS ending in 2.
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>>334987029
God's work, anon.
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>>334987450
jesus... you really believe it...

do you, I guess, anon. do you.
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>>334987152
perfect
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>>334987434
>People are dead
>But they aren't
>LET'S LIGHT EVERYTHING ON FIRE!
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>>334987538
I don't believe in anything in the lore But the speculation is fun to put together.
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>>334987434
Congratulations, Anon! You don't have autism!
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>>334979849
>>334980287
"deep waters" is a translation error that for some reason has been fairly common in the series.

Trade "deep waters" for "abyss"
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>>334974839

When she says "ill" I imagine she just meant that that was the reason for his absence. She seems to think Gwyndolyn is still alive and not currently going through a living hell.
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Is it just me, or does Pontiff Sulyvahn seem like the biggest asshole in the entire series? I feel like every item description makes him out to be such a dick.
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>>334987934
>still alive and not going through a living hell
>living hell
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>>334976470

Rosaria kind of
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>People actually unironically sad about Gwyndolyn

What the fuck for? That tranny piece of shit got what he deserved for working with the serpent.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the Pontiff just fucking ganked his ass then fed him to Aldrich
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>>334988441
>t. Kaathe
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>>334987995
>these dudes have been turned into foul beasts due to Pontiff's ever watchful evil eye
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>>334980840
Are you implying that living as some kind of parasite is a better faith than die, even in the most grotesque possible way, also the fair lady ;_;
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>>334987995
Because he is. He sabotaged the legacies of other Lords, had his personal pet blob turned into one, turned those against him into exiles and monsters, turned the handmaidens into his personal harem (while removing their pants to oggle at them the entire time), and all purely out of greed. He's just an asshole.
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>>334987995

Sullyvahn seems like a badass

>Beat the shit out of Gwyndolyn
>Conquered Anor Londo
>Had his knights going around fucking shit up
>Probably fucked the Dancer on a regular basis
>Chilled all day feeding people to Best God Aldritch

Truly he was living the life
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>It is called Lothric
>Where the transitory lands of the Lords of Cinder converge
This makes it sound to me like the places we visit weren't originally laid out like this, and that were pulled together. The twisted mass of buildings surrounding the First Flame at the end also seem to back up this theory of mine: In a desperate attempt to keep itself lit, the FF is attempting to drag the Lords of Cinder closer to itself, making your job of collecting them possible. Thoughts? It would explain the nonsensical geography(Anor Londo suddenly much lower compared to the land around it, etc).
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>>334987720
>fairly common in the series
I don't remember seeing it at all in DaS1.
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>>334980768
>Dark and deep two differnet things both stat and defense wise
This alone means it isn't the abyss
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>>334978478
oh god those moments when there's a bit of health left but the boss does enough damage to one shot you
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There's a point where, if you use the Hawk Ring and a Greatbow, and you aim just right, you can repeatedly headshot Gwyndolin without him aggroing him, and can effectively cheese the whole thing. It's how I beat him with my bow only character.
So really getting his shit pushed in while being unable to do anything isn't new for worst covenant master.
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>>334988734
>Fucked the dancer on a regular basis
Fucking head canon tier son.
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>>334988739
>It would explain the nonsensical geography(Anor Londo suddenly much lower compared to the land around it, etc).
Ever heard of a valley anon?
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>>334988734
Firstborn is the biggest badass though.
Just fucking look at him: he's Gwyn, but actually cool.
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>>334988739
Considering that is literally what is said in the intro of course it's reasonable, what the hell else would it mean by lands converging?
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I've played every one of these games and I have no idea about the lore. How do you guys even manage to piece it together? Reading descriptions of items? Is that not boring?
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>>334989473
What did he actually do wrong?

There seems to be no actual reason to barging into his place and slaughtering his wyverns
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>>334989356
But in DS1 it was high on a mountain, there's no way it could just naturally end up on flat ground like it did without the entire place being destroyed in the process.
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>>334989684
>implying the PC needs a reason to burst into a half-dead deity's bedroom and murderkill everything within
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>>334989684
In which one of these games have you not been a marauding murderhobo killing people left right and center just so you can take their stuff and maybe dress up like them later?
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>>334989606
Reading item descriptions, discussing in threads like these, occasionally watching different people's lore vids, the appeal IS the act of piecing it together, so if that seems boring it's probably just not for you.
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>>334989684

Sided with dagrons m8, we can't be havin that. But for real your entire job is essentially to eat as many souls and become as powerful as possible to fuel the flame, so anything as powerful as the Nameless King is an attractive kill for an aspiring Lord (though probably biting off more than you can chew, realistically).
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>>334989606
Loading Screens.
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>>334989978
CONSOLE 1

PC 0
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>>334989473
Was he stronger than peak Gwyn?
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>>334990074
Literally nothing in the canon was probably
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>>334989684
He betrayed his family on the drop of a dime over the simple fact they were winning, because he was a god of War and wanted to keep the war going.
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>>334990074
No way, Gwyn had an entire Lord Soul at his peak, Nameless had just a fragment of it.
He's still cooler though.
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>>334990074
On paper hes the strongest thing to have ever existed, this didnt transfer into the gameplay on account of the whole parry thing.
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>>334990159
>Izalith
>Prime Nito
>Maybe Prime Manus

Only three that come to mind, and only then because Lord Souls.

Prime Gwyn could wreck some shit.
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>>334990035
more like

Good pcs: 0
My pc: 1
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>>334990074
Considering that Gwyn can be parried while NK can't while both are hollow I'm assuming he'd kick the shit out of dad
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>>334990284
Well, Gwyn was pretty hollowed out by the time we get to fight him. Most of his soul had either been shared with his followers or burned in the flame by then.
The idea of parrying Gwyn at his peak is very amusing though.
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>>334990284
Gwyn during the boss fight was more or less a husk. He was to his Prime what the Hollows in the Asylum are to the player.
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>>334990284
Plus when you Gwyn he's basically just a big walking husk at that point, the first flame has been draining him of his essence for years.
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What if you just killed Gwyndolin in the first game and Aldrich found and ate the corpse? He also has elements of Nito and the Bed of Chaos so he's probably just been scavenging the body parts you didn't obliterate.
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>>334990418
NK probably hasn't obtained wretch-tier hollowing yet, he still seems to be pretty much in charge of whats going on. Gwyn on the otherhand just stands in a room staring at a bonfire literally all day, every day for hundreds of years until someone walks in. Dudes a fucking zombie.
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>>334990418
Is it even confirmed that NK is Hollow? He seems pretty in control during the fight. And Gods don't Hollow the same way humans do
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>>334990501
pretty sure he would have decayed by then m8
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>>334980528
That's pretty cool, but both humans and dragons co-existed
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>>334990501
What if Aldrich is the CU after the Dark Lord ending?
The CU would have all of their souls at that point and could maybe choose to slowly consume them physically instead of absorbing them? I dunno.
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>>334990576
Gwyn is also pretty damn in-control if you don't just shut his ass down with parries.
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>>334990576
Dunno if he's hollow, but he's certainly undead. Look at that beef jerky face.

Plus the guys been alive for literally thousands upon thousands of years, only guy whos managed to not go hollow while living that long is Andre, and Andre literally cannot afford to stop smithing or he'll lose his purpose and hollow.
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>>334990675
what if aldrich is just king allant
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>>334990576
Why else would he have fought Ornstein?
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>>334990773
Plenty of reasons

Ornsteins a dragonslayer, NK is a dragonking.
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>>334983871
He couldn't link the fire. He's literally a little bitch. His only skill outside illusion is some basic sorceries and some little knives he can throw around.

A twink can't be the one to link the fucking fire. You need a Lord, a badass motherfucker the likes of which few can match. Gwyn himself didn't care much for Gwyndolin, there's no statues of him in Anor Londo and no mention of him outside the Darkmoon Covenant. He was nothing compared to his brother or older sister. He and his little sister or whatever the fuck rules his Covenant now are the runts of the family, Gwyn didn't bother with them and didn't care about them.
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>>334990724
Gods can't be undead, besides, what if that's just what he looks like? You see his legs during a cutscene, and they still look pretty strong and thick so it may just be what he looked like from being so old.
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>>334990658
There gods and you've seen tons of old non god corpses already that haven't decayed past a full hollow.
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>>334990773
Ornstein could've wanted to bring him back and offered him a "yield or die" ultimatum, or as the other anon says, Ornstein could well have been holding on to the resentment that his mentor betrayed him and was out for blood.
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>>334990754
No Demonbrandt/Soulbrandt sticking out of his corpsicle.
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>>334990850
Prince Lothric (a little weedy cripple) COULD have linked the fire, he just didnt want too. Also all the lords of cinder that were meant to help him link it went AWOL apart from Ludleth, but hey.
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>>334977761
>Implying he didn't become the king of storms and cast off his armor
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>>334990940
its acting as a spine for gwyndolins body
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So can someone please explain the Abyss Watchers significance and why they're lords of cinders? Did they link the flame or what?
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>>334990501
Because Gwyndolin was alive when Aldrich started eating him.
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So is Oceiros holding an invisible Ocelotte in his left arm? Or is he just imagining him being there?
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>>334991189
artorias fan club
nothing else
:^)
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>>334977761
Then who's the Ornstein-looking bitch in DaS2?

I mean I figured Ornstein was never in Anor Londo to begin with (at least after the exodus of the gods). Apart from Gwyndolin's set or whatever stating that he's the last god there, think about it: why would an awed knight with centuries of glory be paired with a creature so abhorrent they flat-out denied him entry and forced him to wear humiliating armour?
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>>334990948
With his brother for help Lothric could've done it, but he also had an army, legions at his disposal.

Gwyndolin would've had to deal with collecting all the lord souls and then his daddy with one firekeeper helping him and maybe the scattered remnants of the Darkmoon.
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>>334991189
Only one of the lords of cinder is considered such for linking the flame, that is Ludleth the little midget. Yhorm MIGHT have linked the fire, but its uncertain. Aldritch is considered a LoC purely because he's so powerful.

As to why the AW are lords of cinder, I havent got a fucking clue desu. Confusing.
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>>334991237
It's the son he never had and goes completely insane when he realizes that he doesn't have son that isn't a cripple
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>>334991189
I think they collectively linked the flame then went mad over time and started infighting.
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>never see more of Aldrich then just a little tentacle

blah
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anyone else notice that the ember guy at the very end of the game had Gwyn's moveset? I say that the nameless king was truly deserving to be called Gwyn's first born. He was quite a fight. I kind of felt bad about killing him. I TRULY TRULY hope that DLC shines some light as to why he defected from KILLING dragons and started chilling with dragons.
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>>334973920
>The boss fights everyone talks about is Aldrich the abyss watchers and ponttfi
>The two best bosses in the game the Twin princes and Old demon king will never get love
Who else here respects the real GOAT fights?
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>>334991352
They could wipe out nations and shared a soul bound by blood.
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>>334991269
I think people are convinced that the Old Dragonslayer is just some kind of deranged Ornstein fanboy.

>>334991408
Yeah, this. I got the impression that the idea was that the legion itself linked the flame as well.
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>>334977202
Literally no one ever dies in this series. Nothing matters for shit
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>>334991489
Are you talking about the end boss? That is literally Gwyn, combined with every person that ever linked the fire in 1/2.
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>>334973920
So were Priscilla and Nito consumed by Aldritch as well?
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>>334991489
>anyone else notice that the ember guy at the very end of the game had Gwyn's moveset?
Did anyone NOT notice that? That was like the entire point of his second phase.
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>>334991561
No
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>>334991516
>old demon king
>a best boss
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>>334981071
>>334980921
>Caring about what happened to the faggot prince who doesn't do anything
Look at these plebs
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>>334991638
muh feminininiinn penis
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>>334991516
Old Demon King was that perfect combination of fun and interesting, without being too difficult or too easy, and yet also felt completely fair. My only complaint was that his normal melee swipes were so easy to dodge, I slapped a Bow on to hit him during the flamewave/meteor storm attacks safely and it put me into fat roll territory, and yet it was still plenty easy to dodge his shit.
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>>334991628
I bet you didn't fight him 1 on 1. The shit he did was a great 1 on 1 fight.
>Dodging the meteors he summons
>rolling over his lava ring over the ground
>dodging under his weapon as it hits the ground and explodes
What's not to like?
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>>334991516
Demon King is shit, and while twin princes is pretty cool, I think we can all agree that Nameless King and The Champ are the best two fights.
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>>334991561
Nito might have been, Aldrich has bones protruding out of his tentacle and his opening move looks a lot like a purple gravelord blade.
But he only has Percilla's scythe because he saw a vision of her in a dream while eating Gwyndolin.
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>>334991802
Twin princes was more fun than the champ
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>>334991802
>the champ
>good
Fucking why
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These games are so god damned depressing, and even when it looks like you might be able to actually save someone or make a difference, it's just torn away from you. Is Miyazaki a fucking nihilist or something?
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>>334991824
Doesn't he have her hair though as well?
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>>334991489
The first phase of the fight is an amalgamation of all the minor characters who linked the fire in the past, thats why it spastically swaps between a large variety of builds (motherfucker even does the DWGR flip)

Second phase is Gwyn, the first one to link the flame. There is no doubt about this. His theme even plays in the background, thats what clued me off.
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>>334991939
There is no hope in the world anon only despair get use to it.
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>>334973920
y...y..yeah only shit freak will get turned on with the vore of trap boy... r..right?
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>>334991765
Getting stuck in his crotch while hes doing the swing-pound-swing-pound-swing-pound combo
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>>334991860
>>334991862
>mad that they got juggled to death
He's called The Champ for a reason.
Seriously though, it feels like a dance while fighting him and he was by far the hardest fight for me.
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>>334991860
This, it was fun beating up cripples and facing a boss thaf canactually talk...come to think of it, why can't they do more boss diologue? I know for a fact Yhorm wasn't fully hollow and was completely sane just chilling on his throne.
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>>334977761
>>334977202
>>334977592
Just admit that it's shit writing they didn't think through but just went with.
I see people are creating layers upon layers of "it's a dream", "it's a dimension", "it's an alternate timeline", "this one item description in DaS1 was meant to trick you!"

No, just fuck off. The lore turned to shit, the DaS1 content is pure, dumb fanservice. That is all it is. Stop rationalizing this shit, it's pathetic.

>they were just undead so they came back :^)
Wrong, not even the most powerful souls can come back as the same beings - only their soul can carry over from cycle to cycle. Even if they survived right after the CU fight, they'd still have soccumbed, or been completely morphed, by the new cycle events. Not only that, but TWO cycles happened at the very least, if not more that we are not aware of.

>teehee they weren't real :^)!
They gave souls, items, and physically fought you; DaS1 clearly makes a distinction that an illusion will die without giving you souls. Anything beyond this point is lazy retconning. Fuck off.

>it's the dimensions :^)!
If you go by this route, there would logically be a similar amount of DaS2 representation, if not more, because that comes from a more recent cycle. Why are all these totally-not-retconned dimensions belonging to DaS1 and not one thing came from 2? I'm sure there is a bullshit theory for this too, right?

It's okay, Miyazaki stopped giving a fuck about continuity. It's time to accept facts.
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>>334991939
I hear he wanted the little girl in Bloodborne to actually survive, but higher ups forced the plot to end in her death because they think that's what these games are about.
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>>334991939
At least there's an actually decent amount of human interaction

Bloodborne was just fucking lonely, there was never anything more than a couple of recycled Doll lines and Gehrman occasionally showing up.

The crow was cool but that was like the only NPC quest in the game other than the crazy church guy who murders the queen and kills himself
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>>334992037
That sounds like a personal problem roll better.
>>334992112
>Projecting
Anon He isn't even hard you just got caught at a bad time with an off parry.
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>>334992112
Nigga I beat him solo. He just didn't feel like much of a change from the first time. Twin princes was a tad easy but beautiful to behold.
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>>334991189
The lords of cinder are basically just the "strongest souls" in the world. The abyss watchers have been fighting, killing and dying for an untold amount of time, all that death in such a small area was absorbed by just one abyss watcher during the fight in the form of souls, they had accumulated so many souls from so many deaths that it amounted to the amount of "power" a lords soul would have when it cumulated in just one person. I dont fucking know this is just how I saw it, the body absorbing the blood during the mid fight and his sword sparking up made me think that one of the abyss watchers finally achieved Lord status in terms of souls power. Bit of an odd one that.
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>>334992117
>DaS1 clearly makes a distinction that an illusion will die without giving you souls.

Wait, where? Doesn't pretty much all of Anor Londo turn out to be an illusion but everything gives you souls? The only exception is Gwenivere at the end and you can easily just explain that as she was made to be only an image and a voice so there wasn't enough power to give you souls while everything else was an illusion that could actually fight.
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>>334992136
I think the only positive thing in DS3 is marrying waifu andri...even though she's dead by thr hands of some hunched back ASSHOLE and the ceremony is done by stabbing her in the face and absorbing her soul...no kissing or even a honeymoon.
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>>334992117
Why did you even click on this thread if you hate the lore? Just to make sure people don't have fun with it, because you don't like it?
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>>334992117
>implying that anyone doesn't wholeheartedly admit they're just blatant retcons
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>>334991975
dear god miyazaki spared us by not giving him a move set of 2kat
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>>334992117
>DaS1 clearly makes a distinction that an illusion will die without giving you souls.

>Literally every enemy in Anor is an illusion
>they still all give you souls and items

Just fuck off idiot

Also Das2 takes place on a different continent to 1 and 3, thats why its so disconnected.
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>>334973920

The pontiff trapped him apparently. So I guess the pontiff held him down while aldritch consumed his feminine penis.

Theres going to be interesting porn about this game.
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>>334992267
But Abyss watchers are sharing one soul. So if one dies their soul is just teabsorbed back into the collective and they come back only to die again. It's really fucking sad. Wish there was an option to save them without having to murder them all.
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>>334992117
>DaS1 clearly makes a distinction that an illusion will die without giving you souls.
The Royal Sentinels gave you souls despite being illusions.
Why did you even take the time to type this out? How fucking butthurt can you be to spend this much time explaining why people should stop having fun discussing something?
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>>334992486
The silver knigths who give souls in anor londo are real though. The only things that are fake are the sents.
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people be shittin on large weapons

but that little extra reach is what i always felt like i needed in this game

with a longsword, it felt like enemies (mobs and bosses alike) were just out of reach, and just had the range to beat you on a trade. now i can swing after a dodge and just barely catch an enemy.

the staggering also seems to be more useful. i won't claim to know the poise mechanics, but with a longsword it felt like after the 2nd hit, enemies were done being staggered, meaning that 3h combos were certain death. with a claymore, every hit seems to stagger, and i guess that comes from the number of times you are hitting them in a given time period?
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>>334992267
I saw it more like. They're the followers of Artorias and inherited his Wolf Blood to become powerful, and the power of Artorias's blood is strong enough to link the fire. In the past they all united to link the fire then degenerated into madness over time.
When you fight them you're finishing off the few that remain but when you are about to finish off the last one, as the sole surviving Watcher he absorbs the shared Wolf Blood from all the other members into himself, condensing all the fragments back into a single soul capable with the power of a Cinder Lord.
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>>334992394
Yeah, just look at every other reply and the million of desperate headcanon retcon theories that are flying around everywhere.
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>>334992593
Are the Silver knight's non-hollowed humans? If so why the fuck are they so hostile? I was just a fucking traveller man.
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>>334991025
But seriously how do you beat this nigger? I can get to his second phase just fine, but my executioners greatsword is so slow that almost everyone I attack I'm trading with him
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>>334973920
>read this in EmptyHero's voice

NEXT

BAWSS
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>>334992706
You tried breaking into their castle asshole.
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>>334992639
DELETE THIS. NEVER HAPPENED! IT WAS QUELAAGS BODY MY SPIDER-FU IS ALIVE AND WELL!!!
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>>334992706
They're probably just suits of armor with souls inside of them. Whatever they are, they're made with Gwyn's Soul, not the Dark Soul.
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>>334992593
Yeah but the illusory giant guardians all give items and souls when you kill them

obviously meaning illusions can give souls and items
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>>334992706
Probably Gwyndolin being a dick and "testing" you. Same reason you have to arbitrarily go to some festering shithole swamp on the edge of literal hell to ring a fucking bell.
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>>334992765
Well maybe they shouldn't make the only entrance to Anor londo on the roof of their shitty castle.
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>>334992706
They're Gwyns race, which isn't human
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>>334977202
>>334992117
>>334991554
>>334977761
The time is distorted thing is a shitty meme from DaS2 that really only applies to Manus and some of the shit from the giant memories.

As I see it, most likely Ornstein in DaS1 was the illusion, DaS2 was a fanboy, and the new one is the real body. Smough defending the cathedral was against the chosen undead, not sully. And Gwyndolin didn't die and come back to life, the optional bosses are all non-canon.
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>>334992738
Keep your distance so that you avoid his slashes and attack him after he's done with stabbing attacks
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>>334992867
I know I am not aruging that. All I was saying is saying all of anor londo is illusions is false. Only the sents are.
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>>334992706
Because you're being constantly tested to see if you're good enough to Link the Flame. Normally people had to go through Sen's Fortress to be worthy of going to Anor Londo, you do that, but since they need even better people to go on and fight the Lords they make you fight through Anor Londo too. Once you prove you can beat all their soldiers and their two best remaining knights they go "Okay, here's the Lord Vessel, go kill the 4 dudes who made the world as we know it".
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>>334992914
So all silver and black knights are lords?
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>>334992929
>The time is distorted thing is a shitty meme from DaS2
newfag
when there was only one dark souls game the answer to every lore question was "the flow of time in lordran is convoluted"
it didnt start with das2
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The faraam armor looks fucking BAD ASS in Dark Souls III, it just goes to show how important competent modeling is, no matter how good the design.

It was genuinely one of the ugliest sets in II.
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>>334993020
In a sense
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>>334992738
After a ton of deaths with my ultra greatsword I switched to my storm ruler and that shield that blocks a bunch of lightning and beat him on the second try. I lost my patience with the ugs in that fight.
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>>334993020
Their giants.. if you didn't notice
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>mfw rapport spell

This just ruined the entire PvE experience. I literally cast it on one red lotheric knight and watch them kill everyone in a room. Then I backstab the lotheric knight that I cast rapport on and they just stand there and let me do it again. This is hilarious.
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>>334993020
Nito, the Witch, and Gwyn were Lords. They're Gods at best, there's probably no real name for them other than Silver Knights though.
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>>334989026
No, but it's a version of it, not anything different.

Chaos and fire are different but they stem from fundamentally the same thing.

>>334979849
>>334980287

But hawkwood says he WAS MADE a lord for might, not virtue. To me, that sounds like He kept eating people until he was super strong, then the fire started going out so they just tossed the blob onto it. He himself had no say in it, and probably no mind either. His only instinct is to grow bigger.
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>>334992783
>Corpse curled up against their waifu.
yeah no stop being in denial.
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>>334993074
Yeah well maybe they could sorta be human. We see from Farrons legion, Chosen undead Soul of Cinder and the two princes they got a height boost.
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>>334993151
If you think that breaks the game, don't even consider bringing both Spook and Hidden Body. At least Rapport can be fun.
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>>334993219
Human in DaS is very specific
Silver Knights are most certainly not human
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>>334993219
They're made with fragments of Gwyn's Soul, they're just Silver Knights. They don't have a race other than that.
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>>334993195
Nope, that's Quelaag. I gave her all of the humanities. You can stop posting now.
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>>334993183
Chaos burns humanity fire doesn't. Abyss and deep can be to different things
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>>334993195
Where's the ladypart?
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>>334993343
>Chaos burns humanity fire doesn't
What?
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What's up with this game and fuckboys?

Both Gwyndolin and Lothric are total fucking twinks
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I don't get how Nito got eaten. I killed him dead. There's no way his body was around long enough for Aldrich to chow down.

Is this just an oversight? How did Nito get eaten? Is Aldrich the reborn soul of Nito? Nito???
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>>334992593
Don't the silver knights disappear when you get dark anor londo because the illusion is lifted?
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>>334993343
But bonfires work on the First Flame and also burn humanity.
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>>334993505
Probably ate the leftover bony bits of his body. In real lore bodies don't fizzle away, they just sit there.
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>>334993505
You could say the fading away animation is just to keep you from playing with his rag doll and he just left a mound of skeleton corpses after you killed him.
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>>334992239
>I beat him solo
Is that an accomplishment now? You should beat all bosses solo, summoning is literally for retards.

>>334993037
No, I remember. It was justify the manus thing.

But DS2 had a bunch of plotholes so people were spamming that as an explanation.
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>>334993505
Nito's always dead, anon.

I don't think death really applies to him. You can beat him, take his soul, but he's already dead. And not "undead" dead, he's literally called "First of the Dead".

He's still around in some form in DS2 because the Malfanito are some kind of descendant.

Even Aldrich probably didn't "kill" him. Just absorbed more of his power like Pinwheel did.
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>>334992706
>>334993020

This
>>334992808
I always saw them as suits of armor with nothing left of the original knight inside but their souls.

Some item description, I feel like it described them being sort of cooked out of their own armor by the heat of either Gwyn's flame or the flame of Chaos.
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>>334993640
This. It pisses me off you don't get to see the dead bosses ir big enemy bodies. Why not make them have those death poses from original games? Not everything needs ragdoll.
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>>334993673
If you take his Soul, he's literally gone. He'd be no more than a hollow at that point. I feel like Nito and how he related to 'death' was one of the biggest lore inconsistencies in DS1, it just doesn't explain what any of it means. He can obviously 'die', so the game refers to 'death' with 2 different meanings.
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>>334973920
He is not awake, he is dead as fuck.
And he is still being eaten by Aldrich when you get there. If you look closely everything down his neck is pretty much a skeleton. Only intact part is the head.
His eyes are also fully open and dead too.
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>>334993995
Don't forget those deformed arms and hands...I don't understandy why everything's gotta have that horrible lanky appearance. Is that what happens to all Lords of Cinder?
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>>334994146
Obviously not, just look at Ludleth.
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>>334993813
Only black knights were burnt by the flames of chaos. Silver Knights are in their original state.
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>>334991489
Did you not hear Gwyn's theme mixed in with the actuall theme?
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>>334973920
>never got to fuck that boypussy
IT'S NOT FAIR
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>>334991516
>literally the two worst bosses in the game
>l i t e r a l l y

fuck outta here with that shit taste

real best boss comin through
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>>334994263
im pretty sure ludleth didnt always look like a small bald child

pretty sure linking the fire doesn't do wonders for your body
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>>334994275
Oh. They still die with that colorless demon screech.
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Post yfw when you first heard 2:15 hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9dNrmGD7mU
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If Anor Londo/Irithyll are supossed to be places that are alive and being actively lived-in, why do they feel so dead and dream-like? I love the atmosphere, don't get me wrong, but its always fucked with my head.

Also, you find Aldrich in the middle of consuming Gwyndolin alive, hence why when Anri told you to help her fight him in the Cathedral of the Deep he wasn't there, and why Pontiff Sulyvahn locked Gwyndolin away to feed to Aldrich in his recent coup.
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>>334994146
Well that is Gwyndolins body decaying.
And I think the head is intact because Aldrich uses it to cast spells and shit. He probably has access to Gwyndolins memories that way, seeing as he saw Priscilla while dreaming.
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>>334975792
>>334976189

the realest nigga out there
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>>334991516
>Old Demon King
What? I literally kited him in circles around his corpse pile while shooting him with Soul Arrows. He didn't hit me once. Easiest boss in the game.
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If I give that lady umbrella ashes will it carry over to ng+?
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>>334995123
He's much harder up close but only because his club has so much damage and range. He's just not a terribly interesting boss because he's basically like the other demons you fight but with more damage and hp.
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>>334994887
I really hope this is the last game, it was fantastic
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>>334995123
No one said he was hard you retarded ash huffer
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>>334975792
>Smough was the last night in Anor Londo
>Was aware that fuckboi was just making an illusion to hide that everything had gone to shit
>Was probably aware that the sea held the abyss at bay in New Londo and thus had the glorious idea of flooding everything to stop the abyss
>Was also a known cannibal
>His hammer is found not on a corpse, but in a chest
>implying Smough isn't Aldrich after he got too fat
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>>334993372
Quelana traded her use of her legs to give the fair lady hers.
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>>334995589
>>Was also a known cannibal

do people even eat in dark souls
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>>334995692
Fair lady already had like six legs though.
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>>334995004
So he ate priscilla too right? He saw her in his dreams while DEVOURING gwyndolin, and now drops life hunt scythe. He probably saw her and thought "gibsmedat" and ate her.

Aldritch is a fucking asshole
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>>334995774
Yeah, just undead that don't. And most of the game is undead.
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>>334995817
But they are spider legs which are inferior to human legs.
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>>334995774
Back when things didn't go to shit, Smough was an executioner for Gwyn and liked to eat the people he executed.
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>>334995774
Apparently Aldrich does.
A lot.
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>>334995835
aldritch is based as fuck, killing off trapfus and taunting the faggots with his dead upper body
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>>334995835
He couldn't have eaten Priscilla simply because he gained knowledge of her AFTER eating Gwyndolin.
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>>334995923
so anor londo was actually a functional society at some point??

its hard for me to understand that stuff in this game. theres giant cities but it's like they were never actually used as anything other than building an army, no citizens or jobs.

i dont know SHIT about the lore tho.
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so is the undead character in DaS1 just not canon?

or is DaS3 an alternate universe?
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>>334995774
Undead live off Estus
hell Siegbrau is just Siegward's homemade estus.
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>>334995992
how does that mean he couldn't have eaten priscilla?
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>>334996078
Yes, everyone evacuated as things turned to shit. Everyone but Gwyndolin, Smough and a handful of Silver Knights.
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>>334995589
We already know that Aldrich was a 'right and proper cleric' before he started eating people. There can be more than one cannibal in the world.
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>>334991978
alright junko
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>>334995835
He doesn't drop the lifehunt scythe. He drops a miracle that mimics the scythe. Miracles are literally stories and psalms that create effects when they're recited. If he'd eaten Priscilla, he would've dropped the real thing.
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>>334996221
Hes in the process of eating Gwydolin when you encounter him, meaning he just got information of Priscilla. You should go by he fuckd EVERYTHING up as a safe assumption when approaching anything surrounding Aldrich though.
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>>334996078
After the fire is linked, civilization experiences great boons. Cities and nations flourish as the fire is alive once more. Then once the flame starts to die, shit gets fucked up once again. It's anyone's guess how long the times of prosperity actually is between linking. 1000 years or more? Probably. Entire nations rise and fall during these times.
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>>334979849
What if the age of the deep sea is actually Aldrich overtaking the entire world within his blob form.

We sure dodged a bullet by killing him.
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>>334996081
what are you even talking about you retard, the first phase of the last boss is against the MC from the first game
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>>334996368
You're right, it has to be this fat fuck
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Is there a reason why the silver knights bleed and don't faze away when killed now?
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aldrich moved to anor londo to eat gwyndolyn, ponitff had him caged up and aldrich likely consumed most of his energy from afar with lifehunt/lifedrain
aldrich is a black blob of goo by the time he gets the idea to eat the gods, and does so because he fears the land being flooded.
after gwyndolyn was mostly subdued, I figure aldrich probed him somehow and sucked his organs out form within, then used his body as a puppet so he could feel better about being goo.

aldrich could've been working on gwyndolin for some time, and could be the reason he was born a frail child to begin with(yorshka says he 'fell ill" the illness could be aldrich)
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>>334996568
They're not illusions
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Maybe Aldrich can just take the form of the people he's consumed
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>>334980921
>Obligatory mouth drool, that looks like the lip was hole-punched.
When will this meme end?
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Just by curiosity, am I the only one here who love Gwyndolin because of his amazing character design and personality, and NOT because he's a trap?
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>>334996596
It's amazing how you got almost everything wrong.

Bravo
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>>334991516
I don't know if I fought him later than intended or what but I never saw Old Demon King do anything, I killed him in less than thirty fucking seconds.
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Started a new character, going full glass cannon mage. Should I go fight watchers next or go work on cathedral? I can't remember if anything important triggered after doing either with npc/covenant shit
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>>334990307
Nah, even the other Lords weren't as strong as Gwyn. Keep in mind that the first thing he did was split his Soul up among his family and allies.
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>>334996472
what the hell makes you say he is in the process of eating gwyndolin?
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>>334996731
explain how?
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>artorias has a bunch of cosplay followers
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Would you a Aldrich?
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>>334993505

Why does everyone think Aldrich ate Nito?
Where's the evidence for this? He uses a magical imitation of the grave;lord sword sure, but he also uses a magical imitation of the lifehunt scythe and we know he didn't eat soft and fluffy tail.
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>>334996868
Because Gwyndolin is still partially sticking out of his body. It means he's either still in the process of eating him because he enjoys doing it slowly, or he's using his upper body as a puppet for some reason.
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>>334996724
Yeah I thought he was just a prettyboy like Lothric and I usually hate those types of characters but I find him quite cool. Unique fight too.
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>>334996493
Why don't they just keep the Flame kindled with routine human sacrifice?
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>that music
>that attack style
I was in fucking disbelief
From had done it
They'd finally made a fucking fantastic last boss
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>>334996942
He's definitely using the body as a puppet, probably to cast his magics, access his memories, or just because he likes his girlyboy aesthetics.

Don't you think if he was being eaten gwyndolin would be fucking shrieking for help instead of calmly fighting you?
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>>334997019
Normal dudes aren't enough to keep the flames burning. The original lords found their lord souls within the flame and you need souls equal in power to the loud souls to keep shit burning.
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>>334997019
That's what the bonfires are for, humans are taught by the Way of White(AKA Way of Gwyn) to feed souls and humanity to the bonfires. Also, that's the point of the Undead Prophecy(and DS1 in general), to get a "Chosen Undead" to collect a lot of souls and bring them back to the First Flame.
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>>334994887
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>>334997019
Because you can't just "get" to the first flame

You need to be in possession of some of the strongest souls currently available.
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>>334996898
It'd be like fucking a slime girl with a qt trap boy sticking out of it, so yes.
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>>334994887
The full-heal, followed by the music cue and moveset change was the perfect moment. The realization washed over you in stages, I loved it.

Pic related was also me when I found out he parried just like us. Making the final boss every player character combined, plus Gwyn, was a great decision.

I would have only preferred it more if he was wearing a simple fluted armor set, or something equally as "default", but the amalgamation concept works great too.
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>>334997019
That's what the way of white tried to do in Ds1. But it wasn't enough.

And that's what they were trying to do in Ds3 with the lords of cinder. Except they fucked off.
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>>334997143
>>334997234
>>334997312
why dont the people with the strongest souls all come together when the time comes and let humanity go back to normal? instead of making someone fight them and take it by force
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>>334996919
But he's also got the same sort of dark shit with skulls on it on his lower body that Nito was made of.
And he had to have eaten more than just Gwyndolin. His name is Aldrich, Devourer of Gods. Plural.
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>>334992239
>I beat him solo

Do people actually say this as though its an actual accomplishment, or something worth mentioning?

Summoning at all instantly trivializes any encounter in souls, because all the bosses patterns and attacks are designed around it being a 1v1 encounter. I understand summoning if you are on your 5th playthrough and want to fuck around, but I sincerely hope nobody summons during their first blind playthrough. You are robbing yourself of the best experience the game has to offer.
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>>334994887
He caught me with the wombo combo the moment he transitioned into phase 2. It was gr8.
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>>334997417
Because it requires them to sacrifice themselves, which no one ever wants to do.
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>>334997417
because for a start the people with the strongest souls aren't exactly the agreeable sort

see;
every single great soul boss from all three games
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>>334997417
That's what the last person who was supposed to link the flame, was supposed to do.

And guess what he did? He said, "nah fuck that"
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>>334996874
He learned of lifehunt after eating Gwyndolin

He welcomed the coming deep and worshipped it as the new age

Aldrich was just a fat Saint before eating Gwyndolin and becoming a proper God

There's no indication that Gwyndolins form is anything more than a part of digestion, not vanity.

Aldrich had absolutely no influence on Gwyndolins childhood. The femininity came from the ring of reversal. The illness is her misunderstanding of his current predicament. It's doubtful Aldrich was even alive when Gwyndolin grew up.
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>>334997381
I felt like his armor looked a bit like the Elite Knight armor, just really, really fucked up. But I'm bad at recognizing things, so I dunno.
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>>334997417
that's why there are five thrones in firelink and one one if occupied.
would you remember a promise you made a hundred years ago and let some faggots burn you for your essence?
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>>334997447
devourer of a god doesn't have the same ring to it
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>>334997447
nito was killed
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>>334997521
Except Solaire
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>>334997381
>Almost beat his first phase flawlessly, no damage.
>he gets stunned in Scimitar phase
>Go for the kill
>parried (never knew he could do this)
>YOU DIED

I can't believe how butthurt I was. I had to stop playing and go for a walk.
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>>334997417
That is LITERALLY the plot of Dark souls 3 dude
The 4 lords of cinder are meant to come together to help Prince Lothric link the fire

And woah what happened, 4/5 of the participants, including Lothric himself were like hmm nah fuck ya (for various reasons)
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>>334997602
GOD EATER
MOON SLAYER
DARKMOON DEFILIER
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>>334997381
Did he ever parry you while he was in a stagger animation himself? It's either a bug or a ridiculous Fromsoft ruse.
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>>334997569
got you, and I thought the femininity came from his affinity to moon magic and gwyn not being down with boys who cast moon magic.
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>>334997759
Saint Aldritch of the Deep, Devourer of gods is objectively the best name
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>>334997447

That's some real sketchy logic there. Nito was an animated pile of skeletons, there wasn't any goop to him and the title probably just works like that because it sounds more grand.
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>>334997381
His armour is the elite knights set, but the cloth is worn and the metal is melted. Its perfect from and aesthetic standpoint and a story telling standpoint. It be odd to encounter something so old with neatly furnished armour and an entirely new set to the series, and what says DaS as a series like the elite knight set.
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>Oceiros The Consumed King

;_;
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>>334997679
Aldrich fucked off because he never willingly was a lord of cinder in the first place.

The abyss watchers fucked off because they have no cohesive command structure and there's some abyss to fight dammit.

Lothric fucked off because he got taught that linking the fire is a no no by a scholar.

Why did Yhorm fuck off ? All his items point to him being a huge selfless hero that tried his best his entire life to be accepted by the humies.
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>>334997759
Saint Aldrich, Slayer of Traps
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>>334973920
Aldrich likely just killed him and ate him, since he is still a god. No need to go full edge.
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So what is or was Aldrich anyway? I get it that he was a cleric but was he just another undead with a cult or just generally really powerful or faithful?
Also, why is he just a dark blob mess? What happened to him that turned him like this?
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>>334997885
DLC
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>>334973920
Are Aldrich and Sully the biggest assholes in Souls?
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>>334997885
>by a scholar
I'm betting fucking money that it was Kaathe.
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>>334991516
Because they're casuals who probably arent even finishing the game so they only get to those ones. Twin Princes is the game's best boss fight but it's basically endgame.
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>>334987152
Holy shit that's a steamy fresh meme.
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>>334998039
There are statues of that snake fuck all over the game if you pay attention. I wouldn't be surprised if they show up in a dlc or something.
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SOMEONE POST THE PICTURES OF THE KAATHE/FRAMPT ANGEL STATUES

THEY'RE FUCKING HILARIOUS BUT ALSO REALLY CREEPY
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>>334997885
>Why did Yhorm fuck off
because he was one of those ds2 giants and went off to go be a tree or something, natural instincts taking over maybe. onion doesn't seem happy about fighting him and a sword that basically instakills him is right by his throne. maybe he prepared for it?
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>>334998039
I'm betting it was Aldia. The scholar is referred to as "The first scholar" and was "Skeptical to the linking of the fire". Aldia fits best.

Plus we know Kaathe is in Londor.
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>all the people who ironically said the final boss would be Chosen Undead were right
>it was fucking amazing
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>>334998039
What's so bad about making the gods fuck off after countless cycles of shit and letting hollows have a turn? I mean Karla seems pretty cool to me and she's a child of the abyss
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>>334997938
He was a cannibal that got stronger the more humans he ate. He built a cult around him that constantly fed him sacrficies and was eventually so powerful he linked the fire. After he did, he started dreaming of ancient lords tahat he then decided to eat too.
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I swear the prince Lothric fights are fucking artificial difficulty at its finest

2v1 bullshit complete *teleports behind u* trash
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>>334997885

Yhorm fucked off because he was just a mindless monster by that point, it's why he gave the Storm Ruler to Siegward in the first place: to put him down when he's too far gone.
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>>334998006
>tfw imagining Aldrich bullying my sweet little Gwnydolin
;_;
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>>334990887
>You see his legs during a cutscene
dudes just been doing calf raises for 23,000 years
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>>334997381
his armor is literally the elite knight set but burned, melted, and blown up from the inside.
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>>334998140
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>>334998227
IT'S NOT FAIR DAMMIT
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>>334998140
>>334998135
WHAT DOES IT MEAAAAAAAAN
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>>334998039
>>334998135
>>334998140
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>>334998272
hahahahaha
ahhhh fuck thats creepy
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>>334998140
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>>334989356
Anal Rodeo was the highest point in all of Lordran, with Duke's Archives poking out of it on a hill. But fast forward however many years after DaS2's 200 year timeskip and Lothric & its high wall are somehow towering over everything else. Out of nowhere.
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>>334997794
>>334997676
Just looked it up again to confirm, and yep, it looks like in DEX mode, he recovers from his stun phase with a parry.

Fucking K E K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUXyaS4wzao
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>>334998303
opening this honestly made me jump a little bit
whoever did the artwork for these statues is a fucking master
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>>334998143
I'm pretty sure Yhorm gifted the sword by his throne to humans if they ever doubted him.
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>>334998373
>>334998303
>>334998301
>>334998272
DELETE THIS
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>>334998301
>WHAT DOES IT MEAAAAAAAAN
Kaathe got in contact with the Lothric royal family and was all like YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS NEED?
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>>334998453
he had two, he gave one to a human (which was either siegward or somehow got into siegwards hands), and left one by his throne so that if someone need to come down there to kill him, they could
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Aldrich ate hundreds of people alive very slowly while savoring their desperate screams to the last moments and none of you give a shit until it's Gwyndolin
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>>334994887
is the soul of cinder the chosen undead from dark souls 1?
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>>334998480

But the game says that worship of the angels was heretical and shunned, to the point where they imprisoned Gertrude because of her connection to angelic forces. So it's more likely he got in contact with the scholars who tried to use the serpents to get the better of the other pillars.
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>>334998517
The soul of cinder is the amalgamation of all the souls who ever linked the first flame.

So yes, he is the chosen undead. He's also Gwyn and everyone else who linked the flame.
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>>334997938
Something with the abyss since the Farron/Artorias swords deal extra damage probably since humans have fragments of the dark soul and since Aldrich ate humans blah blah blah corruption blahblahblah melty man.
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>>334998227
>Not imagining the sweet, sweet corruption/tentacle porn soon to come
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>>334994887
second and last round motherfucker
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>>334986771
Miyazaki wanted everything about DaS2 to never exist so take that as you will.
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>>334996724
No, obviously. It's one of the reasons why this game is annoying me so much. It brought back a lot of cool things from DaS1 just to rub it in my face that THEY ALL DIED, HAHA! DaS1 tried to be subtle about it most of the time, communicating tragedy through faded ruins and item descriptions, but now we're wading through actual, literal sickdark. They took the fucking meme seriously.
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>>334997820
>>334998257
Oh shit you're right, I didn't look hard enough.

Goddamn, they literally did EXACTLY what I wanted for this fight.
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>>334998513
None of them were characters people could get attached to.
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>>334998517
It's all the souls that linked the flame before, turned into a single boss fight.
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>>334998227
>you will never protect Gwyndolin from the big bad Aldrich
>she will never kiss your hand as she cutely hides her smile
>she will never be your bride
just kill me now...
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>>334998624
complete bullshit, the game is littered with Das2 referrences. You can even fucking find Gillighan himself, and Alva invades you.

Dranglaic is on another continent, so its crossover isn't as heavy as the one between 1 and 3.
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>>334998480
> Serpent statues have wings similar to the winged knights
> A daughter in the family was visited by an angel
> The worship of the angels is viewed as heresy
> The winged knight worship the angels
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>>334998679
>she
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>>334998303
Why is this worse than when he just has a black dildo body?
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>>334998679
we get, you like to fuck guys.
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>>334998679
you went out of your way to put as many feminine descriptors in that post as possible
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>>334998513
Don't forget he gave a ring to a weird monkey thing, so that it could feel the same thing as he did when he rejoiced in the devouring of his prey. Aldrich is a sick fuck.
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>>334998712
who the fuck thinks kaathe or frampt are angels what is wrong with these people
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>>334998628
Take comfort that 1 person made it out of Dark souls alive, and they got the good ending where they lived happily ever after.

Gwynevere knew shit was about to go down, and got the hell out of dodge. Lived on to become a wife and a mother to a few children.
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>>334998272
>>334998301
>>334998303
>>334998373
christ, so was he always just insanely huge? he had an actual body the whole time? i always thought he was just a giant neck and a head. fuck
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>>334998737
Yes, she.
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>>334998303
That's fucking adorable for some reason.
Imagine someone trying to put clothes on Frampt/Kaathe.
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>>334998480
Personally, I think it might be Frampt. He's all about finding those lords and kings to sustain the fire, and considering Prince Lothric was set up to be a lord of cinder he might have had a hand in the kingdom itself.

Then again I'm retarded when it comes to this stuff.
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>>334998513
Maybe some people got hurt, but nobody we knew
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>>334998782
I think making him a respected Saint was a nice touch
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>>334998843
I doubt that's what they actually looked like. If they were viewed to be angels of some sort, that would just be the way they were depicted to be by whoever made the statue.
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>>334976189

Got news for you, it doesn't matter if it's you or your armor that has them, bitch tits still be bitch tits.
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>>334987434
>People play the game up to 7 NG+

I dont know how you niggas do it.

Its not hard it just gets boring after the 3rd NG and I feel like I'm forcing ky self to finally get to NG7. That and there was alwayd a stupid fucking reason my DaS files were getting deleted
>DaS 1 mis used a Boss soul for a trophy I was trying to get because inventory mangement is a bitch so I decide to just use a mod file (already owned all the ingredients) mod file wipd original save
>DaS2 file gets corrupted
>DaS2 SotFS is shit once again
>Bloodborne luckly still have it and will just periodically move higher and higher when I wanna come back
>DaS3 has shit for weapons and lost interest after completion with a fucking meme sword (uchi)

I want NG7 conpletion but the grind.
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>>334998807
Who the fuck thinks burning yourself for millenias would make you a god. Who the fuck thinks sucking the lifeforce out of people because a snake told you to is a good idea.

Primordial Serpents are good at tricking people.
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>>334998708
>You can even fucking find Gillighan himself
Was he that spread out guy in Profaned Capital?
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>>334998513
None of them were characters we knew, let alone a fairly iconic character from a game that brought a lot of us into the franchise. That being said, I don't need visceral encouragement to slay monsters, I just fucking slay monsters. It's not like I would have sat down with him for tea and crumpets because he didn't horribly eat someone I cared about.
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>>334997885
>Why did Yhorm fuck off ? All his items point to him being a huge selfless hero that tried his best his entire life to be accepted by the humies.

This is one of my biggest problems with DS3, Yhorm was terrible, being a gimmick fight, lore that makes no sense, and it feels like he got tacked on last minute as a "by the way, theres this giant who's a lord of cinder in this old throne room in an underground city thats pretty much gone". Aldrich has a large connection to everything else going in the world.
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>>334999149
yeah, surrounded by a bunch of broken ladders
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>>334998939
> Fight an entire clergy of priests, all in classic catholic regalia, including a Mitre
> Reward for the fight is a small doll of a young squire boy
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so do you guys think dark souls 3 is better than bloodborne?
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>>334999212
Holy shit that hilarious. I'll check it out when I play some more.
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>>334999086
>Primordial Serpents are good at tricking people.

Don't bully.
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>>334999261
Eh, maybe once the DLC's out it will be. I think they'll turn out to be very comparable overall though, both are pretty incredible imo.
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>>334999053
DaS3 has a trillion weapons and all of them are usable. Did you fall for a meme or something
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>>334998679
Friendly reminder that Pontiff did literally nothing wrong.
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>>334998898
Makes sense. Frampt backed Lothric while Kaathe backed Londor.
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gillighan dlc when?

i wanna see how that bastard survived so long
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>>334999261
I loved Dark Souls III but no, BB is still my favorite. I really did not expect 3 to be good though, but it has taken 2nd place for me. I'm a huge faggot for cosmic horror, Lovecraft, and transforming weaponry though, BB is my 2nd favorite game of all time.

People meme on it because it became popular but the Souls series is going to be looked back on as something really special, all of them are great games except 2 which is still decent.
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>>334999190
The fact that his entire area can be cleared in minutes leads me to think he'll be expanded upon during the DLC.

Or From literally ran out time. Which is probably true.
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>>334998708
Drang stuff is Drangleic and the twin drang weapon descriptions nod to powerstancing weapons in 2.
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>>334999465
Undeads with purpose never hollow. Nigga built ladders.
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>>334999371
I fucking love them so much. Their designs and the way they speak and deceive knights is so fucking in keeping with renaissance legends/art of dragons/serpents.
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>>334999261
The base game is. Now hopefully thee DLC can follow suit
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>>334998898
The princes for some reason decided to forgo their duty of linking the fire. Kaathe would be the more likely to convince them to do something to bring about the age of dark. Frampt would just be like CHOSEN UNDEAD YOU BEST LIGHT THAT ASS UP
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>>334999536
but what about his ladder adventures

need a spin off involving him using mgs gameplay
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>>334999583
Apparently the princes were convinced to let the fire die by a "scholar"

People seem to think it might be Aldia, I reckon it was someone either working for Kaathe, or Kaathe himself.
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>>334999583
>for some reason

It's almost explicitly stated that a scholar, acting as a mentor for Lothric told him his skepticism about linking the fire.

Lothric had shitty parents. Case in point, mom fucked off after child birth and daddy became a dragon.
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>>334999261
bloodborne with the dlc is comparable to DS3, and it has a more gripping story with better or comparable bosses.

I just like bloodborne's story more because it feels more direct and more grounded in reality.

DS3 is about equal right now with bloodborne because of the fun department, and will probably be better after the DLCs which will probably bring in kaathe, and explain the firekeeper's origins.
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>>334999465
>>334999536
My headcanon until proven otherwise is that the tower in profane capital is the pit in majula
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Was Sulyvahn a follower of Aldrich, or was he using Aldrich for some unknown purpose? Who was in charge here?
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>>334994991
>recent
I'm always confused with the timeframe of events in these games. Roughly how long did the unkindled rise from their grave after the lords woke up?
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What's one(1) unit of soul supposed to represent?
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>>334999672
"By a scholar" could be just reading / learning about something. It doesn't have to mean a personal face to face interaction.
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>>334999693
> I just like bloodborne's story more because it feels more direct and more grounded in reality.
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>>334999748
one soul
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>>334999672
Not just a scholar, it's specified to be the first scholar. Who else fits that description?
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>>334999748
The soul of a person
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>>334999583
>Frampt would just be like CHOSEN UNDEAD YOU BEST LIGHT THAT ASS UP

kek. that was funny to imagine in my head
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>>334999475
Im guessing its that. Just everything about him is underwhelming as hell, the path to him (though the dungeon was spot on in terms of design), the overall look of it, enemies, and his lore which amounts to him being selfless but deciding to sit on a throne underground for no reason.
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>>334999748
one soul.

As to why there are zombies walking around with 50 souls each, well where do you think all the fucking inhabitants of these massive kingsdoms went?
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>>334999689
which items talked about this?

>>334999772
compared to Dark Souls? Definitely.
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>>334999190

I think Yhorm just eventually fell to the abyss. He's got glowing red eyes after al.
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>>334997885
>>334999190
Did you miss the big red eyes that Yhorm had, just like every other corrupted piece of shit in the game? Dude went abyss crazy.
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>>334999672

Sulyvhan seems more likely, since he's actually said to be a sorcerer (and scholars in Lothric are associated with sorcery) rather than a priest like Aldia.
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>>334999748
I don't even call them souls I call them Freedom Units
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>>334999801
Of what? Because even the lowest creature in the game grant more than one soul when killed.
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>>334999721
Based on what we know of his personality, I can't imagine Sulyvahn ever following anyone but himself. He seems to be manipulating Aldrich or something.
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>>334999474
>like lovecraft stuff but not enough to have an entire game around it
Souls games are whatever for me and I find myself enjoying DS3 but for whatever reason BB is a big turn off for me in the design stage. It looks great but those dark gloomy towns and swamps are my most hated areas in souls games. I just want to get to the huge architectures and kill the leader of that place or the monsters ruling over the ruins of it. I should have grabbed it when it was $9 a while back and if I see it like that again i definitely will and it hopefully changes my mind about that stuff. I also dont know much about BB so idk if the areas start to change drastically or if its all gloomy
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>>334999418
He liked Undertale a bit too much.
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>>334999806
Was it actually specified to be the First Scholar? Do you have a source for that? Because that would pretty fucking strongly implicate Aldia. But that just raises a bunch of other questions

Is aldia still running around, randomly exploding out of the ground like he does in Das2?

Is he still a gigantic pile of roots?

Why does he care about the fire, doesn't he now exist in a state outside life and death?
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>>334999748
The smallest unit that souls can be broken down into.
Don't think too hard about stuff like this.
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>>334999865
To me the interesting part is what the fuck the profaned flame is.

Since Irithyll found it, I assume it comes from the place called the Profaned Capital. I'm sure it'll be something as bland as Chaos Flame 2.0
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Remember Bearer of the Curse?
The unfathomably powerful Dark Soul immune to hollowing?

I wonder what happened, Miyazaki.
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>>334996919
Because he has that cloud of skull shit that looks exactly like the stuff Nito is made of, the weapon head looks like his greatsword, and he must have eaten someone else besides Gwyndolin.
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>>334999915
Sonico may be shit but that's such a waste of money. Statues aren't cheap.
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>>334999869
But even some harmless shitbug and non-aggressive grunts give more than 1 soul when killed.
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>>335000036
DS2 lore seems to be almost completely irrelevant to 3's.
Which is a good thing, it was all fucking stupid anyway.
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>>334999880
By that logic, wouldn't the abyss watchers be on his ass then?
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>>335000036

Stayed in Dranglaic, being irrelevant.
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>>335000036
Bear,seek,seek,Lest. Dudes probably still seeking lest.
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>>335000036
it was far away

so far away everything involving the bearer of the curse is irrelevant
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>>335000036
>yfw dlc 1 Crown of the Next Monarch
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>>334998708
>Alva
poor Alva
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>>334999915
Yarnham has great architecture, and later areas spice it up. Their is one forest area and it is NOTHING like blighttown/valley of defilement/gutter/farron, in fact it is one of my favorite areas in the game.

If you liked DS3 more than the others you would probably like Bloodborne. it sucks that you already know the lovecraft stuff because that is a bit of a twist, but it is definitely not the whole game.
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>>335000164

The Abyss Watchers are busy succumbing to the abyss themselves.
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>>334999972
I was reading item descriptions on wiki other day, give me a moment to try and find out which one.
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>>335000036
the dlc ending is probably his canon ending
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>>334973920
>wore his top-half as a personality of sorts?
no
>Aldrich just ate him completely then manifested him as a part of his blobby form.
no
everyone says this every thread and every thread it's proven wrong

gwyndolin is sticking out of his mouth half-eaten, it is as simple as that
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>>334993661
>No, I remember. It was justify the manus thing.

This was before the DLC you fucking knuckledragger. You don't remember anything because you're a liar and a secondary who probably didn't even play the game.
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>>335000164
The abyss watchers are a bit preoccupied with rooting out corruption amongst their own ranks.
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>>335000036
bearer of the curse died of boredom in drangleic. Seriously though, Souls games have never had particularly satisfying endings but I was fucking mad when I sat on the throne of want after dogshit nashandra, had NO IDEA why and had no alternate ending choice.

Now that Dark Souls III came out and was surprisingly quite good I genuinely don't see myself ever playing 2 again.
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>>334980921
not gay, but do you have a source on that anon?
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>>334996787
Those hammers just rape him.
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>>335000036
The only thing you could tangentially connect him to in Dark Souls 3 would be Wolnir, who's mentioned to have taken other king's crowns and made his own form their dust.
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>>335000407
Read the thread
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WHY DID DARK SOULS 3 MAKE AN ALTERNATE GAY SIGGY?

AND WITH A FUCKING GIANT?

WHAT.

>Yhorm couldn't protect his beloved
>Siggy gets cursed before he could link the flame
>all because of some war shit and leading his giants out of slavery
>Siggy goes all the way into Lothric to cut down the living corpse of his fuck buddy

I just want some artwork of these two. Their story is Iron Giant tier sad
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Why do I keep hearing people say there was an Ornstein boss fight? It clearly says dragonslayer ARMOUR, meaning it was just his armor reanimated by those weird flying spaghetti monsters. No Ornstein in Dark Souls 3
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>>335000419
>Bearer of the Curse literally just became a shitty, forgettable boss fight
lmao
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>>335000251
I figured that's why they were fighting among themselves. Their only mission is to fight the abyss, even burying kingdoms if it had the slightest hint of corruption. Then they got corrupted themselves.
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>>335000243
Eh i only really like DS3 alot due to the QoL improvement and overall gameplay fluidity that they fixed from DaS/DeS(the only ones i've played)
As for the lovecraft stuff I know its in there but seen none of it aside from maybe some monsters with glowing shit that looked kinda spacey/lovecraft scifi

I'm just not big on dark gloomy areas in games unless they are the minority. I like having the sunlight around my character for the big chunks of the game
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>Beat ornstein in anor londo
>it was an illusion
>Beat ornstein in Heide's tower of flame
>It was someone else playing dressup
>Beat ornstein's suped up armour
>He wasn't in it
>He was actually dead all along
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>>335000164
Abyss watchers literally drank Artorias' blood after he got all corrupted by the abyss. And gradually they've all succumbed just the same, which is why you find them fighting amongst themselves.
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>>334999748
It's 1 soul.
A lot of fucking people are dead, so I imagine that wandering souls are just picked up randomly by the shitty zombies if they hafvent/don't kill.

It made more sense in DeS.
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>>335000243
>read Yharnham as Yamham out of pure habit

You guys and your silly nicknames really fuck with me sometimes.
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>>334998834
>have your tongue cut out
>forced to sit around and rebirth people over and over until they're indistinct fleshblob monstrosities
>became the very thing that raped the shit out of you and that you truly hate (seathe who changed her handmaidens)

>G O O D
>E N D
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>>335000537

Wolnir is not the BotC, he's just some guy who managed to conquer pretty much every kingdom ever at one point.
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>>335000417
that's actually not what I used desu I used the Black Knight Greataxe.
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>>335000659

Rosaria is not Gwynevere. At best Gwynevere is the queen of Lothric who fucked off.
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>>335000659
>le gwynevere is rosaria meme
no sir i dont like it
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>>335000587
>I like having the sunlight around my character for the big chunks of the game
Well Bloodborne gives you a very late evening for a portion of the game, But other than that its night all the time.

then it gets weird
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>>335000696
>conqueror
Oh fug, is Yhorm Wolnir's kid?
>>
>>335000696
Hes a reference to that demon king guy from Berserk. Some sultan looking dude who was fighting to conquer every kingdom of the world till Gayman shat all over his dreams and he became a mega tree.
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>tfw made a faith build to cosplay NK
>Swordspear is absolute shit with faith
>offensive miracles are all dogshit
>Killed the fucking NK at lvl 50 for this shit

Someone kill me, please.
>>
>>335000116
Because souls are used for all kinds of things in that world. Not only for making more muscle so you can hurt things better.
>>
So what is the chronological order to these games?
>>
>>335000957
the order they are released in is the chronological order.
>>
>>335000239
did maou-sama get another season or something?
>>
>>335000628
You were Ornstein all along
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>>335000957
123
>>
>>335000957
DS1 -> DS3
DS2 might as well not exist at this point.
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>>335000101
It's a $5 gachapon.

I wish he still did stuff, apparently the Waifu Internet Defense Force ran him off.
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>>334999972
Found it. Soul Stream's description.
>Sorcery imparted by the first of the Scholars, when Lothric and the Grand Archives were but young.
>Fires a torrential volley of souls.
>The first of the Scholars doubted the linking of the fire, and was alleged to be a private mentor to the Royal Prince.
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>>335000628
Now you realize more than half of the bosses in the whole franchise are crippled version or just imitations.
>>
>>334998834
But is any of that canon?
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>>335000770
>>335000790
>Gwenyvere just disappeared guys : ^^^ )
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>>335000957
> Dark Souls 1 DLC
> Dark Souls
> Dark Souls 2 dream sequences
> Dark Souls 2
> Dark Souls 3
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>>335001090
Rosaria is the daughter of Gwynevere and Flann.
>>
>>335000000
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>>335001186
who the fuck is flann
>>
>>335001071
Most of the bosses in dark souls aren't at their peak. That's a staple of the series, by the time the game starts, everything's decayed and broken.

Fighting a major boss like Gwyn at the peak of their power would be fucking impossible.
>>
>>335001012
>>335000993

how is this true when all of the armors in dark souls 2 are of different origin compared to their origins in 3?

how is it true when no one remembers the names of literally any of the original lords or covenants in 2, but they do in 3?
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>>335001208
Gwynevere's husband according to her ring in DS1.
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>>335001208
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>>335001208
The Flame God.
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>>335001217
>Fighting a major boss like Gwyn at the peak of their power would be fucking impossible

You do just that fighting the Nameless King.
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>>335001242
different fucking continent

god we've been over this
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>>335001208
>This ring is granted to those who enter a Covenant with Gwynevere, daughter of Lord Gywn and the Princess of Sunlight. This slightly warm ring boosts the synergy of miracles.
>The Princess of Sunlight Gwynevere left Anor Londo along many other deities, and later became wife to Flame God Flann.
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>>335001242
>but they do in 3?
Because meme call backs.
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>>335001208
the foreign flame god gwynevere ran off with
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>>335001259
>>335001303
>>335001342
yeah but what the fuck
WHO?
>>
>>335001321
> Stripped down of his deific status
> Isn't a god of war anymore
> Lived on top of a mountain for thousands of years
> His peak
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>>335001328

>we've

dark souls lore threads need to have their own containment boards on /vg/ if the circlejerk has gotten this closeknit
>>
>>335001321
Nameless King looks like he's made of extra crispy bacon just like every other hollow in the game
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>>335001414
You fight Nameless King at HIS peak
archdragon peak
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>>335001321
This is Gwyn at his peak, he looks human. NK looks like Gwyn did in the kiln of DaS1
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>>335001453
no, in THIS THREAD we've been over this

try reading the thread before commenting questions you fucktard
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>>335001402
Doesn't matter. Just like All Father Lloyd.
>>
Any guesses on what the DLC(s) will be? We'll probably get another peek into the abyss. The only thing I really want is a follow up on Gough and what happened to him.
>>
>>335001328

>different continent
>all the main bosses drop souls that are vaguely referenced to as the origin lord souls
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>>335001390
I bet it was Andre. He's old as shit and totally fine, and with those looks, muscles, and that stellar personality you know he is slamming that amazing chest.
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>>335001537
are we sure that gough isnt the giant with the bow in undead settlement
I mean he drops goughs ring
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>>335001537
Who do you think is firing tree trunks at you in the undead settlement?
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>>335001468
Not even close, Gwyn is clearly hollowed in the Kiln but NK just looks weathered. His skin isn't sunken in like a hollow, look at >>334998239
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>>335001526

>gambling on reading a 550+ post long thread that is past bump limit, that may or may not have the answer im looking for, when i could just ask a question instead

fuck off you pompous cunt
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>>335001625
>>335001627
That's not Gough. He has his bow, but it isn't him. It's probably an apprentice or something.
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>>335001702
>hurr durr I should be able to shit up the thread because im too lazy to read it
fuck right off you newfag retard
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>>335001532
Lloyd was a fraud and NOT the All Father
Velka and Morne NOT Lloyd and Havel ok. praise Fina.
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>>334986830
I want to rub my face on her butt.
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>>335001537
I'd like more information on the deep and how it differs from the abyss.
Or maybe it's just a hint that From wants to do a deep sea game next.
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>>335001648
He is ripped as fuck but look at his face, he is not hollow but he has seen better days.
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>>335001746

i'll gladly leave this thread while insufferable fucking kikes like you are posting in it

thanks for answering my question anyway instead of just ignoring it, you stupid fucking moron
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>>335001856
dem hair genetics
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>>334996498
The age of the deep sea is actually what transpires in bloodborne.
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>>335001932
no one gives a fuck what a retard like you thinks, you come in here asking already answered questions then shit up the thread even further

dont post here any more, go back to robert
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>>334975792
>if you offer to feed Smough's soul to Frampt in DaS1, he'll only give you 1 soul back
deepest lore
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>>335001856
They don't really look alike, I still think Solarie is the firstborn.

It makes more sense lore wise.
>>
>>335002014

>durr no one cares what you think
>replies anyway

Spot the retard.
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>>335002005
When the sum dies everything will be black, hence the sea.

Bloodborne call back is likely as well.
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>>335002061
Are you fucking serious? They have the exact same crown, the same robe (NK has armor over his) and NK was obviously trained by Ornstein.

It EXPLICITLY states in item descriptions that NK is the first born.
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>>335002061
shut the fuck up
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>>335002146
No, it HEAVILY IMPLIES that he is the firstborn.
That guy's still a retard though.
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