I am the Dark Souls lore sage. Ask me your Dark Souls lore questions

Why is DS2fags so obnoxious with their shitty game?

why do the hollow love cinnamon toast crunch?

lol what

no it isnt

Why does curling up like an egg convince the raven to take you back to the asylum?

What would Priscilla birth if I impregnate her.

Correct, when the fire starts fading, shit gets wacky for time and space.
This is further proven in dark souls 3.

reminder that only demon's souls, dark souls 1, bloodborne, and sekiro are canon

What do you have against dark souls 3's lore and explanation of the nature of the first flame and the drawbacks of relying wholly on it?

too many retcons
I think the whole ringed city lore is mediocre and doesn't add anything meaningful to the story. Now I liked some things like nameless king, but in general I feel like ds1 lore is better alone than with the sequels. The idea that the world is cyclical and your actions at the end don't really matter is a good concept, but what it turned out to mean was that while it didn't matter, that's ok because the world is exactly the same and everyone's fine.
I never felt like I needed to understand the nature of the flame or whatever, past it just being a magic fire full of souls. I think ds3 went too hard with the idea that gwyn was actually just either stupid or evil, and that there was one easy solution where you could just let the flame out and it'd come back and everything would be ok. I think it was better when the end of ds1 didn't matter because neither end was really good, rather than it not mattering because neither had an impact.

fire good, but maybe bad
dark bad, but maybe good

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>and that there was one easy solution where you could just let the flame out and it'd come back and everything would be ok.
but no one knows what happens when the flame goes out because we never experienced a game where it did

wrong

>too many retcons
What is retconned?
>but in general I feel like ds1 lore is better alone than with the sequels.
It's certainly more solid with less questions.
> The idea that the world is cyclical and your actions at the end don't really matter is a good concept, but what it turned out to mean was that while it didn't matter, that's ok because the world is exactly the same and everyone's fine.
I don't understand the issue here, sorry.
>I think ds3 went too hard with the idea that gwyn was actually just either stupid or evil,
I think "self-sacrifice to keep the age of the gods he struggled so hard to create and maintain" is neither stupid nor evil. He must have thought he was doing a genuinely good thing.
>and that there was one easy solution where you could just let the flame out and it'd come back and everything would be ok.
Even Gods fear death and the dark. Nobody wants to just "lay down, shut the lights off and go to sleep/die" when they feel there is more to be done.

I think it reflects nicely in the nature of people in a very simple way - say you stay up all night doing something you think is worthwhile, don't get enough sleep and feel dreadfully tired and "hollow" and regret not resting in the dark like you should have. I believe something simple like this MIGHT BE how Miyazaki came up with the nature of the universe to begin with. As you keep staying up and refusing to sleep, you begin to hallucinate, feel groggier and more awful, snap violently at your peers and etc. It's possible that living with the "flame lit" for too long is akin to insomnia.
As of Dark Souls 3, the flame itself refuses to go out and will revive old kindling to try and light itself.

I do believe Dark Souls 3's lore is a lot messier but the themes and symbolism present in it are fucking excellent.

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Is there anyway to bring back the age of the ancients, basically reverting the world back to it's original state of grey?

No, you can thank gwyn for that.

I think the age of the ancients/grey was a result of the dragons killing anyone with souls. It's possible that without the dragons to eradicate soul-bearers there won't be another age of grey again.

Why is darkness humans? How are we so magical?

Dark souls universe has little in common with reality. Humans are naturally wrinkly, gross immortal zombies that shamble around in the dark in the Dark Souls universe.

CRACKPOT HEADCANON:
AGE OF THE ANCIENTS/GRAY IS A RESULT OF DEMON'S SOULS ARCH-DEMON ABSORBING LITERALLY ALL SOULS, RETURNING EVERYTHING TO SAND AND ASH AND NOTHINGNESS.
The arch-demon is tree-like and grows it's roots/branches out to become the dark souls universe. Dragons grow/spread during this time. The souls from with arch-demon/arch-trees are discovered, dark souls begins.

But that's wrong. Humans are zombie because of the Dark Sign, which Gwynn is responsible for.

how exactly is light time? how does that even work? what was nito even doing after the war of the dragons?

>Humans are zombie because of the Dark Sign, which Gwynn is responsible for.
Hollows predate Gwyn.
Gwyn likely used to be a hollow too, but discovered a Lord soul, which explains why he appears hollow when you fight him at the end of the game.

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someone answer this person

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When the first flame is lit: integrity, purpose, and logic flow forward and create time. The sun exists and rises and sets.
When the flame dies out, the world enters an age of dark, stillness, time ceases to exist.

so who exactly visited gertrude that kickstarted a whole religion based on angels? whast it frampt or the divine really exist in dark souls? i know op is larping but someone should have a clearer idea

Gwynn is hollow because he burned out his essence when he linked the First Flame. That's what Linking the Fire was, he Linked the fire to the Dark of humanity, burning them out for fuel when they "die" to extend its dwindling power with a renewable fuel source.

Aldritch was like the easiest boss, user. I struggle against Abysswatchers and Pontif but killed Aldritch first try

You think Gwyn was some kind of epic god during the age of ancients before he even found a lord soul?
He was a hollow like the rest of them, bro. Discovering a lord soul turned him into a lord rather than just a random lord.
The furtive pygmy discovered the dark soul/humanity.
Gwyn later linked the first flame to burn the dark of humanity as you said to extend the age of fire.

Lautrec's motivations are simple. Have you ever went around killing the firekeepers before starting NG+ to fully upgrade your flask? Thats about it.

how can there be dark if there isn't fire?