ITT kino monologues

>Many monarchs have come and gone.
>One drowned in poison, another succumbed to flame.
>Still another slumbers in a realm of ice.
>Not one of them stood here, as you do now.
>You, conqueror of adversities.
>Give us your answer.

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i dont get why he has to fight you tho

Nobody does.

>constantly asking you questions and sending you on Herculean tasks
>"Why does he want to fight me after passing all his tests???"

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I mean every single line he has is fucking unreal, his voice especially helps.
>The rantings of an upjumped zealot make for tedious listening

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he's supposed to be wiser than that, and why is suddenly part of the test if he was studying yet

The DLCs dont feel like they've aged well. First one is fun, but gets weird when they end it a kalameet clone. The first DLC for both DS1 and DS2 both end with the same dragon fight, now.

Second and third and okay but also straight up uglier, the typical "SHIT RELEASE IT QUICK" DS2 jank is spread all over it. You wonder why give a blatantly rushed game three rushed DLCs and realize its to justify the season pass, what a shit show.

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>Kalameet clone
Sinh has different attacks and everything.

>a wounded dragon fight
>fits the same tropes ("RUN TO AVOID ITS BREATH")

How about something a thousand times more original? They also thought these assholes were a good idea.

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>Wounded dragon fight
I mean the difference is Kalmeet is significantly crippled by Smough's arrow while Sinh is able to fly freely.

Monologues are never kino. It's the shittiest form of dialog.

Darkness

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>"What is your purpose here, Arisen? If you sought to live you had naught but run and hide yourself away. But then, tell me, child of man... what does it mean to live in truth? To wage war against the passing days? To pray to the unseen for a few breaths more? To raise grand cities from stone, and spawn new life in turn? Mankind has done this, yes, and more. But is the tapestry you weave truly of your own design?"
>"Their kind is easy to fathom, they go on living from simple fear of death. But not mankind. Some welcome the end with arms outstretched, while others come to face death incarnate, arms in hand. I ask again, what is your purpose here Arisen?"
>"One path to your survival, lies in my defeat. Still my heart, and you stay the coming end. Another path before you... is to offer up that which you hold most dear. Abandon all delusions of control."
>"For the price of a single life, I shall leave this land in peace. As my "vanquisher", the duchy would bow to you. Wealth and power are sweet anodyne for heartache. You'll not gainsay my terms are more than generous. If it matters aught, the man who rules this land now won that honor through just such a bargain."
>"The decision is yours, Arisen. Now... choose!"
Chills every time.

"...men are props on the stage of life, and no matter how tender how exquisite,
>A lie will remain a lie.

I got chills the first time I heard that delivery. There was so much fury in his voice. Just so I'm clear, the lie Aldia is referring to is the fact that Humanity was supposed to inherit the world, but Gwyn stole it from them?

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Probably more along the lines that during each age the great lord of the land attempts to bring permanence to his world that simply does not last each time.

Of course DaS III sort of goes back on the idea that an age of Dark has ever happened.

Iron King may not be fun to replay but Ivory King will always be good in my eyes, especially Frozen Outskirys

Wait, I was under the impression the AoD never happened, because Gwyn rekindled the First Flame before the Age of Dark could take root.

grigori did nothing wrong

Alonne is the sole reason why I play Iron King. That's a fight that gets my blood pumping each time I play it. It isn't really that challenging, but the buildup, (and run up), lore background, and boss room itself make for an excellent boss.

Ivory King DLC is amazing. Loved the setting and the story. Ivory King has a big peener.

>monologues are dialogues

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>"I have a dream. That one day every person in this nation will control their own destiny. A land of the truly free, dammit. A nation of action, not words! Ruled by strength, not committee! Where the law changes to suit the individual, not the other way around. Where power and justice are back where they belong: in the hands of the people! Where every man is free to think - to act - for himself! Fuck all these limp-dick lawyers and chickenshit bureaucrats. Fuck this 24-hour Internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit! Fuck American pride! Fuck the media! FUCK ALL OF IT! America is diseased. Rotten to the core. There's no saving it - we need to pull it out by the roots. Wipe the slate clean. BURN IT DOWN! And from the ashes, a new America will be born. Evolved, but untamed! The weak will be purged and the strongest will thrive - free to live as they see fit, they'll make America great again! In my new America, people will die and kill for what they BELIEVE! Not for money, not for oil! Not for what they're told is right. Every man will be free to fight his own wars!"

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That is the most convincing interpretation I've heard.

You know a game is that good good if a faggot youtuber like Vaatividya's explanatory videos about it reach somewhat philosophical depths.

It comes from his mistaken belief that mankind is merely just fuel for the first flame since Gwyn instituted the undead curse in order to feed people to it.

Gwyn wanted a continuation of his world, yes, but so did everyone, really. And the choice between a world of light and dark is pretty easily made, dark is horrors beyond imagining even if they become the "normal" they're not a normal any sane person would wish for.

It's like if I told you that you could life a perfectly fine life if I cut off your legs. That would become your normal and you'd be fine with it in time. So let's cut off those legs then, shall we?

>Hand it over, that thing..... your Dark Souls 3 The Flame Fades edition Season Pass...... For my lady's painting....

wow ok Vaati is original and makes all of his own content and he's really smart so Yea Forums needs to calm the fuck down and respect Vaati and all the good work he does.

Why, the most kino dialogue is but of course, THE BEAR AND THE BULLL.

>"There is a shadow of a nation behind you, the hope of a people... yet it may not matter. The Divide still stands against us. [...] Our enemies gather outside... shadows of the Bear and Bull... they will have found their way in, just as you did. It was always my intention - in case I could not kill you, the Marked Men would flood this place, cut off your escape. If we cannot prevent what comes, then let us make our stand here. Two Couriers, together, at the Divide."
>"All these roads, you walked. These packages you carried. Think it wasn't your choice? Of course it was your choice. You could have stayed in the Mojave. But you chose to come, couldn't let be - not in you to let go. Came for no other reason than you were curious, restless - always have been. Had to know the why of it - now, I'll show you."
Wow. Absolutely chilling.

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>dark is horrors beyond imagining

Wasn't true "Dark" supposed to be "cold and gentle"? That quote was taken from the painter in Ashes of Ariandel. Or am I retarded and misinterpreting dialogue. I took that line to mean that before Gwyn fucked everything up (with the best intentions), Dark wasn't a malevolent force, but just Humanity.

Also, I just want to say, I really enjoy having Dark Souls lore discussions with y'all. More often than not, if you have a serious interpretation, there's ground for it to be discussed. I like that a lot.

The idea that dark is gentle or kind is merely that it brings the peace of DEATH to all things everywhere essentially.

Like a quiet graveyard or the middle of an ocean that covers a city. There is peace there now. But what brings that peace is HORRORS beyond the realm of what man has knowledge of.

The idea that it's not malevolent is really just that it becomes the normal. But in order to get there you have to rape, crush and murder an entire world to get there. It's two sides of the same coin. One is dominant but in order to bring about the other and completely crush the other beneath it.

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Not actually a monologue but you could remove JC's lines and turn it into one with minimal editing.

I understand your point now, sorry. It took me a minute to get what you were saying.

Gwyn rekindled it using his own soul but this probably only boosted it a little further and even then everything was going to shit as the undead problem reached its peak.
The Chosen undead was then tasked with collecting the souls of other lords to use as fuel (including his own) to extend the flame likely beyond what Gwyn could mustered alone (This was probably cooked up by Frampt though obviously Gwndolin was helping).

Obviously, we have no idea which ending in DaS is canon,because either the undead burns the lord-souls and himself or walks away to become dark lord. We don't know what an age of dark entails, except for the abyss in new Londo and Oolacile which also involve special circumstances seperate from the flames fading (High concentration of humanity absorbed into the 4kings, Manus awakening).

All we do know is II implies there are "cycles to the ages". Some people consider DaS II happening in an age of dark, because what you fight at the end of the game is effectively a Lord of Dark whom does not want you to use the Throne (which is likely the kiln) and restart an age of fire. Obviously DaS III ignored all but the items in II and with the lord of Cinder system I can't see an age of dark ever happening.

Hey, dark here, I just want to non-exist and bring about the cataclysm of all things so that evil serpents can swim everywhere while they cackle over your painful demise for eternity.

I always thought in the context of other things he said, that he consideres the entire world pretty much a lie, because the current state of the world and humanity is unintended and just forced upon everyone because of Gwyn.

Fuck off.

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The dark is shown to be tied to emotion and is more or less a metaphor for the wide idea of human nature. Gods in a lot of mythology, regardless of contradicting stories are pretty much "above" mortal elements which people try to imitate as extreme ideals that counter human nature (I.E monks depriving themselves of pleasure, inflecting pain on themselves, showing forms of humility to bring themselves closer to ideas of divinit). So perfect sinless Gwyn fears the chaotic nature of the dark humans, and the abyss corruption reflects that. The Dark of New Londo we encountered basically embodiment of greed and vanity, where as Oolacile we saw very different monsters who seemed to be inspired by rage/insanity.

It is likely that the Dark at times would reflect calmness, warmth, and perhaps compassion, because humans are capable of such things, but it isn't the only nature of the dark.

Very interesting. The part about II happening during an AoD, with proof being Nashandra, is great. Thanks

Another thing to consider is before the lighting nerf DaS II was supposedly designed to be very dark and requiring the torch a lot more, so I have a feeling they wanted it to be an age of dark with that idea.

I dont know if it counts as a monologue, but the whole reveal with Sovereign in Mass Effect was so good.

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Shame they removed all the mystery about the Reapers.

The entire game follows the course of life and events in life.

Nothing (Grey land of Dragons)
Life (Lord of Sunlight rules)
Death (Dark abyss of nothing)

It's just that some idiots actually think there is something within the dark waiting for them and trying to go toward it, they actually there is something for them. There isn't. (Okay that was an unintentional critique on the afterlife and religion which I'm not endorsing but would be interesting if it was intended by the writer.)

Dark isn't good for men at all. It's not a time of power or where we shall rule, we just becomes monsters that help spread dark. Just tools. There's no culture, joy or love there.

But some people think that it's "good" because it's "supposed to happen" since death is supposed to come for all eventually and it's the natural end.

Gwyn was right. To hell with that, everything shall be done to stave off death because that is what life does, it continues on as desperately as it can.

Age of dark is weird. If dark soul came from the flame then flame going out means the end of dark as well

Nope.

Nothing (Grey land of Dragons)
Life (Lord of Sunlight rules)
Death (Dark abyss of nothing)

It's the cycle of reality you exist in right now. Eventually all the stars will go out. Why fight it? It's supposed to happen. Just kill yourself. Let go. You'll find peace. Eternal rest. Go to it.

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>Gwyn was right. To hell with that, everything shall be done to stave off death because that is what life does, it continues on as desperately as it can.
Yes, perpetuate the cycle. Stoke those fading embers for as long as possible until all of reality begins to unravel. Cling desperately to that dying flame. Wonderful idea.

Sure, i'm saying that's what Aldia considers the truth.
>Once, the Lord of Light banished Dark, and all that stemmed from humanity.
>And men assumed a fleeting form.
>These are the roots of our world.
>Men are props on the stage of life, and no matter how tender, how exquisite…
>A lie will remain a lie.
In that context it seems pretty obvious to me that he considers the current state of humanity as fake (props) in a fake world (the stage of life) and he thinks that even if people may prefer that it's still all fake.

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>There are STILL people that don't get that the undead curse was instituted by Gwyn

Golly gee, there's a curse that just so happens to FEED the first flame and make it stronger!?

GOLLY GEE, WHY COULD THAT BE HAPPENING

I know but it's still better than end of all things

Take a bottle of sleeping pills.

You won't?

You're with Gywn then.

Joke's on you, I'm already dead.

>This world has been connected. Tied to the darkness, soon to be completely eclipsed.
>There is so very much to learn. You understand so little. A meaningless effort. One who understands nothing can know nothing.
>Take a look at this tiny place. To the heart seeking freedom this island is a prison surrounded by water. And so this boy sought out to escape from his prison. He sought a way to cross over into other worlds. And he opened his heart to darkness.

Dark Souls 3 has very much intimated that the cycle is drawing to a close. Kindling the first flame in 3 was pathetically weak compared to the explosion in the first Dark Souls. The conclusion is that the age of dark is inevitible, as in the world requires a hard reset. So to the fags who said that kindling the flame was the wrong choice: you were right all along.

I interpreted at humanity living a false existence. In DaS humans have souls and humanity, humans consider the black sprite within worthless while praising the soul within them. Then when the curse hit humanity became valuable, as something to burn and reverse the curse. If the curse was created by Gwyn this is a convenient way of destroying the dark soul that he loath while also providing fuel for the first as he eventually considered burning the other lord souls aswell.

The idea that humans don't value their dark inheritance is the lie, humanity was suppressed of their dark to be second class citizens to the gods when their true nature was of the dark and enemies of the flame.

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And this is why the only right ending to pick in DS3 is the betrayal ending, where you and the firekeeper snuff out the flame and let reality go back to doing what it's meant to be doing.

I wonder what happens in kill the firekeeper ending

nope, because even then the firekeeper explicitly states that the first flame will rise again from the darkness the cycle will continue.

the whole point is that no matter what, it's a CYCLE. There's always going to be a period of Darkness followed by a period of Light. The fire will weaken and eventually fade.

the true ending of 3 is the Usurper ending. You finally end the cycle once and for all by stealing the power of the flame for yourself and the rest of Humanity

>"one foot after the next, come what may"
My mantra for every big decision in my life when im scared what will happen

Considering your holding the flame, I imagine it’s similar to the userper ending except you don’t have a kingdom

But the important distinction is that it will happen NATURALLY. You're snuffing the flame out, bringing the age of fire to an end and letting nature take its course, as it should've been doing for the countless eons that the games have spanned. You've either ignored or failed to understand the point of the betrayal ending - that is to end the age of fire that's gone on for far too long and return the natural order.

He didn't die when you beat him, he was just the person who last got closest to what you are trying to do now. So, besides the point that it's a video game and you are GOING to fight the weird root man, he decided to make sure you were at the very least also stronger than him.

Fist it does not matter what he means. Why the fuck are you even listening to this psychotic monster who was dominated by fear of personal death to the point that he piled up a mountain of corpses just so that he can construct a personal Hell for just himself?

Second, if you still consider his words, despite that being retarded, he is most likely referring to the fact that the original form of humanity is Hollows. There is no curse, there are just people losing reason and thought once the First Flame, from which they took souls, becomes weak, and their souls wear thin. Therefore he calls it an illusion. But who knows, he may just as well simply be off his rocker.

>Humanity was supposed to inherit the world, but Gwyn stole it from them?

Both statements are fanon. Based on trusting another absolutely untrustworthy NPC, I may add.

Humanity's (And the Gods') true form are hollows. The fleshy, soul filled renditions are fake.

>"Let these souls, withdrawn from their vessels, Manifestations of disparity, Elucidated by fire, Burrow deep within me, Retreating to a darkness beyond the reach of flame, Let them assume a new master, Inhabiting ash, casting themselves upon new forms."

I love her voice and dialogues so much. Makes the shrine comfy as fuck

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>There is no curse
The flame fading would not specifically brand humans with burning rings in their flesh that made them undying. This is why people believe Gwyn or Nito made the curse.

Hollows may be the initial shell, but the hollow state could only come from a curse that kept you around and sucked the souls out of you each reincarnation. Otherwise you'd die like the non-cursed.

Yes, entropic heat death is utterly inevitable. In any materialistic world (and DS world is materialistic, gods are literally just men who won the soul lottery a the beginning of time), humanity is a phenomenon that only exist by some incredible freak accident and is absolutely doomed to perish, all of its deeds coming to naught. Based on this, do you agree that we should do nothing about any of the threats which can kill us all before that time of inevitability?

The "Curse" just finalized the draining of your soul by taking the scraps of your dark soul, leading to hollowing. You aren't suffering from a curse, you are going back to the way "Humans" were before the first flame was ever discovered.

>The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is his last day on Earth. But I think that's a luxury, not a curse. To know that you're close to the end is a kind of freedom, good time to take inventory.
>Outgunned, outnumbered, out of our minds, on a suicide mission.
>But the sand and rocks here, stained with thousands of years of warfare...
>They will remember us, for this, because out of all our vast array of nightmares this is the one we chose for ourselves, we go forward like a breathe exhaled from the earth, with vigor in our hearts and one goal in sight - WE WILL KILL HIM!
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Nice, that's my kind of ending

>the true ending of 3 is the Usurper ending. You finally end the cycle once and for all by stealing the power of the flame for yourself and the rest of Humanity

(1) The Ususper ending does not actually do anything. Not only "humanity" that is left for you to reign is a pack of shriveled, mostly mindless zombies. The Darksign Sun is still there. Change in the color of the flames does not change the fact that soon they will fail, and the darkness will overflow to consume all.

(2)They have put a whole DLC in the game to hammer in the idea that choosing the Lord of Hollows ending (even without the consideration above) means choosing for the world to slowly rot away to nothing, and you still don't get it?.

cute

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>there are people that would kill this smile instead of protect it

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Ds2 is trash for sub humans to enjoy.

The curse wasnt started by anyone, there is no "curse"

undead is the default setting , when the fire dies people start going undead and think they are being cursed but they are just reverting to their natural state

On the first day, man was given a soul and with it clarity
On the second day, he placed an irrevocable poison. A soul devouring demon
On the third day, demon devoured all souls and with them took the clarity from the formless world
On the fourth day, the demon collapsed under his own weight and became the bedrock of the world
On the fifth day, a flame rose from the demon and with it souls flourished anew
On the sixth day, the ephemeral flame was linked
On the seventh day, a world of blood was painted free of the accursed fog and man was given rest

>Ahh, Kos, or some say Kosm... Do you hear our prayers? As you once did for the vacuous Rom, Grant us eyes, grant us eyes. Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy.
>Let us sit about, and speak feverishly. Chatting into the wee hours of... New ideas, of the higher plane!

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>The flame fading would not specifically brand humans with burning rings in their flesh that made them undying.

(1)Life and death are specifically mentioned as one of the disparities brought forth by the Flame. As the Flame fades, time becomes convoluted, and places converge on each other, in other words laws of reality maintained by the Flame are unraveling (speaking of what waits after its fading) so why dead walking because the border between life and death is growing blurry is such a surprise?

(2)The ringed knight armor's description gives us if not a definite answer then a strong clue about the purpose of the Darksign. Its exact copy was placed on these abyss-forged armors at the time when Gwyn and pigmy lords fought on the same side so that armors won't do to their users the thing that influence of the Abyss did in every other case. In fact the whole Ringed City DLC pretty much buries the idea that Gwyn and his loyalists were in any way hostile to humanity or afraid of the Dark on principle and not because of the fact that it placed a user into a great danger of corruption and turning into a mindless monster.

Based

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>abyss existed since the time of dragon war
What?

Is that what she says in the mostly unintelligible level up chant?

Seek the old blood. Let us pray, let us wish. To partake in communion. Let us partake in communion, and feast upon the old blood. Our thirst for blood satiates us, soothes our fears. Seek the old blood. But beware the frailty of men. Their wills are weak, minds young. The foul beasts will dangle nectar, and lure the meek into the depths. Remain wary of the frailty of men. Their wills are weak, minds young. Were it not for fear, death would go unlamented.

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That's very allegorical of humanity, consciousness and desire. Souls has some magnificent writing.

I still don't know if Gwyn ruined everything or if he was the hero the world needed and deserved.

If the ringed knighs, as is generally assumed, were raised for the dragon war, then necessarily yes.

If the Abyss and the Deep is the same thing, just named differently because Aldrich wanted better branding for his cult (and it sure seems so), then Abyss probably has come into existence with the first generation of humans dying out, from convergence of their human dregs.

>Some shitty "hurr break the cycle Gwyn was a fag" plot
>Ds2 fags are actually impressed

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Why wouldn't it? The abyss was born with the first flame.

I think you only need to look at the Dark Souls world to get your answer. He messed with some natural cycle and created a world of decadence and madness by trying to prolong the age of light.

>Faithful... enlightened... ambitious... brethren.
>In but a single decade, a few mere swipes of the pendulum, we have gathered a sacrifice to Khorne that will be made legend.
>Though it was a simpler, weaker voice that illuminated me during my centuries upon the Judgement of Carrion...
>...it was Khorne's messenger who showed me the true path of freedom from our pathetic corpse-Emperor.
>And what is this path? This meaning, this purpose to which we gather the skulls of our foes?
>It is nothing. There is no meaning, no purpose. We murder. We kill. It is mindless savagery, this universe is MINDLESS!
>In mere hours, billions will die. Innocent! Guilty! Strong and weak! Honest and deceitful! ALL of them!
>They will scream, they will burn, and for no purpose but that mighty Khorne may revel in their bloodshed!
>And united in this void of purpose, fear, or duty... we shall at long last BE FREE!
>BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
>SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
>LET THE GALAXY BUUUUUUUUUUURN!"

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That was actually added later. The original game was mostly an acknowledgement of light and dark coming and going eternally in a cycle. Aldia was patched later on for whatever reason.

Your post gives me hope for the future of Yea Forums. Keep doing god's work.

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What is the big difference between SotFS and the og Ds 2? I know there were gameplay and so on, but I remember there were also drastic story/lore change in the game?

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But the world would go to shit anyway as the first flame faded, it would just be faster.

He was trying to keep the world alive even in a sorry state, like patients in a coma slowly wasting away rather than dying quickly.

>Very well.
Then touch the darkness within me.
Take nourishment from these sovereignless souls.

They might as well have said their armour and weapons were forged from humanity then but they wanted to be more confusing

Life is an question asked by nature and answered by death. You're a different kind of question, with a different kind of answer.

I don't remember any big story/lore change, just an expension on it. OG DS2 you just fight Nashandra and then feed the Kiln and that's it and you were left guessing who Nashandra really was beside of Dark.
SotFS expands on it, straight up tells you that she and her sisters are aspects of Manus, shows you previous Kingdoms and how they fell, and has Aldia narate quite a bit about the nature of the curse. You also didn't have the option to not feed the Kiln bvefore SotFS.

>Kiln
*Throne of want. FTFY

>Behold the heart of the world! Progenitor of life, father and mother, alpha and omega! Our creator... and our destroyer.

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I believe he's trying to use you as a way to get the Lord's Souls, reach the Throne of Want, and becoming the king himself so he can break his own curse. That's why he's attacking you after you kill Nashandra, he doesn't need you anymore.

Incorrect.

It's not reverting to gray, it's going on to dark.

The curse was created by Gwyn and you see a fire keeper pass it on in the DS1 opening.

The curse DIRECTLY interacts with bonfires which are all directly linked to the first flame. If this were the naturally end of things IT WOULD NOT FEED THE FIRST FLAME AND PROLONG IT

The curse is NOT natural. It was created by Gwyn. The game tells you with the fact Gwyn created the ringed city. What is the ringed city calling to with its imagery? The Dark Sign. The curse.

Well the throne is inside a literal kiln.

I don't like Aldia because everything he says is too meta. It's like he's like real-life player criticizing the plot, but poorly disguising it as in-character talk. He speaks towards the player, not the player character, and brings up information from the past two games without any explanation as to why he knows it.

The DaS universe is such that there are two directions: Light and Dark. Players don't like this because neither are happy/flawless choices. There's no way to have the fire burn forever without sacrifice, and there's no way to ensure security and prosperity in the Dark. But that fashions the core of Dark Souls and why people are so married to the franchise.

Then Aldia comes along and goes "But what about THIRD CHOICE, player? You've always wanted THIRD choice, yes?" And then he says all this 4th wall shit. It completely destroys the entire point of Dark Souls, its ethos, and the world built up thus far. The players weren't supposed to be indulged. We weren't supposed to meet a character that knew everything and had the same concerns we did. It devalues the struggle of every other character in the game.

This will never not be a shitty rip off of Demon's Souls for me. It's just such a blatant clone, how can anyone listen to this and not just get turned off?

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>and brings up information from the past two games without any explanation as to why he knows it
He's literally the scholar of the first sin, the first sin being the linking of the fire.

All he does is say that people seem to be intent to look for a third option aside from Light or Dark. That may be meta but it's also true inworld. I mean that's pretty much what Vendrick and aldia tried all their lifes.

>"Has it never occurred to you, that this planet is overpopulated? Only a handful of humans truly matter. Everyone else is just so much chaff. So now I have to separate the chaff from the wheat, and with Uroboros, I have that right!"

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Did we ever get a fucking successful uroboros fusion in that game? Wesker even got black sausaged. Did he have any reason to believe anybody would survive that shit?

Wesker was fine when he was taking controlled amounts, but if it's supposed to be controlled amounts to have a successful Uroboros fusion, then his plan was terrible from the start. Nuking everyone with the aids bomb would never have worked.

He never took controlled amounts, all he got was that virus-inhibitor juice, the second he was exposed to uroboros his arm exploded.

Ah that's right, it was just virus juice. They never really explain what a successful fusion would be like. The test subject at the end of Chapter 5-2 failed, Excella failed, and Wesker half failed, as he still retained some of his original form.

>Complete bullshit spouted by a madman
Pro tip: without laws people will just start murdering and rapeing each other. Than the normal people will be like "I don't want someone I care about to get murder raped" so they'll make their own rules and laws to prevent murder rapeing.

This entire progress is how rules and laws started in the first place.

At the end of the world everything returns back to the beginning

Ancestor is such a boss

>This entire progress is how rules and laws started in the first place.
gee, it's almost like society is caused by evolution.

Gee, it's almost like NANOMACHINES SON is a fucking hack.

Anything from Legacy of Kain

Nigga it's a different game series. It's not a homage to dark souls 1 it's a homage to a different series.

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DS3's shrine really doesn't do it for me. It feels bland, and I really don't like the fire keeper. Maiden in black was cute and her voice was nice, on top of the Nexus's smooth theme and Thomas's comforting lines, it was really relaxing as a whole. DaS Firelink was a reassuring sight and it had that gloomy nostalgic feel to it. DS2 Majula was basically ASMR relaxation videos with the music, the waves, and the sunset.
DS3 firelink is just kind of there, for me. None of the NPCs really feel memorable to me (Andre's lines feel way less impactful than the ones in DaS) bar maybe Greirat

I'm pretty sure it was a combination of hubris and a gamble.

There's a vanishingly small amount of people who might survive from random conditions.. He was probably banking on those being the final survivors, and assumed he would be one of them.

Are you, by any chance, referring to the formation of a society around powerful individuals and groups for the general welfare of said group?

Where the strongest thrive and live as they see fit? Fighting for their own ideals?

Asking for a friend.

No I'm reffering to society being born from wanting to protect you and your family. You make rules that everyone must follow with a threat of punishement if they dont so that you and the people you care about can live in a safe world were they don't have to worry about one asshole killing them all in their sleep and claiming their property his own.

Everyone sleeps.

It would be nice to sleep under the watch of those who see you as an end rather than a mean.

If you believe the society around you is designed to protect you and your family; you might want to examine it closer.

Justice is deterrence: Force is defense

Nig I'm talking about the origin of society not what it is not. What mister NANOMACHINES wants is dumb because when all laws are tossed away people will just make new ones to protect themselfs and their families from people who will harm them.

>Life is a journey... And every journey eventually leads to home...
Majula is peak comfy and Saulden is a bro. It warmed my heart then he got so happy after Majula was full of life again

Lloyd and the last male boss in Ao no Kiseki have a nice back and forth.

They should have made him start some boss rush mode at the end, IE he makes you fight all your memories or something. Then at the end when his plan fails he is basically as strong as King Alant.

>Men are props on the stage of life.
>No matter how tender, how exquisite, a lie remains a lie.

10/10
Aldia is easily my favorite NPC in the series.

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Jill? She was already dosed and turned out fine.

>When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the heck am I supposed to do with these?
>Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?
>I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

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>Monologues are the shittiest form of dialog
Never change, Yea Forums

Based lemon man