What happened?

>What happened?

Be more specific.

Why did the city and geography change so much?

What happened to your fucking face u hideous piece of shit

But it's not the same city

He is the one who invented the Snap Freeze spell. Its not hard to believe that he influenced Anor Londo and Irithyll with his sorcery.

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It's not? Then why is the palace still there?

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The time period between DS1 and DS3 is huge like thousands of years and the universe of Dark Souls doesn't operate like the real world so the geography change is the result of a big crunch.

Because it's been like 10,000 years.

Is there anything in game that says thousands of years have passed? not doubting, but is there anything stating it?

Quelana points to the time duration between the Witch of Izalith to when she talks to you around a thousand years and that time a thousand years ago was a time when the first flame was dying for the first time. Considering DS2 is one of many fading fire era's in between DS1 and DS3 is very reasonable to say that the time period is thousands of years, maybe even hundreds of thousands of years.

Gwyndolin stopped living in his father's shadow.

the kingdoms are converging, everything eventually gets sandwiched in the DLC (which should have been in the base game desu)

That’s something really interesting that a lot of people miss. Gwyndolin has made Anor Londo into his city

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Yeah that's why the sun is still there when you kill the illusion and you go up the Grand Archives or down to Sen's Fortress.

Ol' snake legs started monkeying around after dear old dad died until he was eaten alive
RiP in peace

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God I really don't like the stone textures in DaS3.

Even DS3 could be kino at times

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>world crushed into a ball
>now everything is standing up just fine
Ah... kino...

Al Gore wanted to send the Hollows a message.

The very last shit at the absolute end of time is barely poking out of the dust.

Notice how the world state as revealed in TRC looks like the intro cinematic.
All the kingdoms were crushed within each other leaving nothing but a sea of dust and ash.

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How the hell did I never notice this before?

we don't know if Gael's fight is in the future or the past, or if everything leading up to it was an illusion held together by Filianore's pearl

Did you not notice that it looks like the Kiln of the First Flame either?

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Goddamit no, I really ought to play the ringed city again

Darkroot Garden is permanently in night time.
Each area in the game is almost stuck in its own space and time, but barely connected enough to allow direct transitions.
The way From did the day night cycle in BB and DaS3 is more consistent overall.

There is no past, no future, everything gets crammed into one singularity. DaS3 is at the end of anything that can be considered linear time. Everthing's converging on Lothric. Gael's fight is the last remnants of the world before it all becomes grey again. Fire can't continue, Dark enveloped by ash, nothing left. Dragons won.

The ashen realm is reality, everything in the 3 games was an illusory realm created in an attempt to extend their legacy. It starts crimbling and vrushing in on each other when the illusion fades specifically because it is fake. The dark soul has the power to create worlds as seen through the pai tings, which is why gwyn convinced the pygmies to sacrifice their souls to the flame and create fake lordran.

Filianore was the seal that held it together. Chances are that the illusory realm is a dream realm going by dark souls 2's lore involving dreams and memories of the dead, which could be used to infer that the realm is specifically the dead filianore's memory of the past.

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>It’s all illusions
That sneaky snake Gwyndolin at it again eh?

Hmm... I wouldn't go that far. Most likely only The Ringed City was an illusion.

>light is equivalent to time in DaS
>darkness weighs down time hence why the Age of Dark version of Firelink Shrine is stuck in the past
how would the Dark Soul be used to create a fake world if the Dark actively hinders a world from progressing

she wasnt really there to start with

Aria specifically wants a dark soul for her new painting, which is meant to depict a cold gentle world.

basically her slave knight Gael went on this mission, but did not return. You meet him after a long as fuck journey through the area where the kingdoms converge (possibly near Kiln of the First Flame) and breaking Filianore's illusion in the process, which fully exposes the world as it looks at that point, allowing you to find Gael who has spent countless battles trying to acquire as many dark souls as he could. Ironically the dark soul Aria was seeking ends up being his, since after killing and absorbing so many souls, his own became the most fit for creating the pigment for her new painting.

When you kill Gael and come back to Aria, nearly the entire church is on fire (consequence of killing Ariandel and Friede) which, combined with the dark pigment, will allow Aria to paint this dark, new world and leave the rotten one behind.