I always thought it was one of the most ineffectual and pathetic quotes in Dark Souls. Ludleth is one of my least favorite characters in the whole series.
I miss you guys, currently in Japan so my relatively slow upload schedule became even slower. It's been good to get away though, I think I was feeling a bit burnt out the last few months. Japan is amazing! Keeping my eye out for Miyazaki...
@VaatiVidya the real question is if you are going to make more content ! My wife got me into your stuff like two weeks ago and I feel betrayed in the way that it might be over now
A bit late to the lore party, but I think each of Gwyn's godly children are manifestations of his power as Lord of Sunlight. Gwyn is a Sun God and lightning is a manifestation of sunlight in the Dark Souls universe of which his first born, the Nameless King, is the heir. It also represents the destructive powers of the sun. Gwynevere represents the positive aspects of sunlight as giver of bounty (the light that causes crops to grow). Even Gwyndolin, the Darksun, draws his power from Gwyn, for does not the moon get its light from the Sun itself? As for Filianore, she is time itself, for do we not measure time by the position of the sun?
I always thought, that Filianore is merely custodian of the egg, keeping it safe. To use your analogy, the egg is the time, while the goddess would be watch keeper.
I think it's very fascinating how magic in this world works. Miracles are directly influenced by your faith as you have said. Sorceries also they are boosted by your intelligence, by your ability to...imagine..create a power within yourself through thought. And of course pyromancy is raw emotion. the will to survive and prosper, as a flame does.
Dread Knight35 -- What of hexes and the like, given how they combine many of these traits? I guess that would mean that they are, like the Souls lore itself, miracle-like stories with parts missing, to be filled in by emotions and new ideas.
SevereOutcast Of course! The reason I think the gods fear the dark soul and humanity itself is because Dark can come from both faith and intelligence. You believe it, then imagine it, then it comes to life. That itself is the power of a god
Kamina The Great Timely comment lol. I personally see Dark/Hex as the Human interpretation of all other classes of magic. It is therefore, the truest unto itself and the caster. For example, Homing Soulmass works because Souls seek life and as such, penetrate the victim. The spell Affinity does this very same thing, but the orbs themselves are living and seek life in an attempt to bond, though have no concept of the pain they cause.
5:45 "look man, I get it. It's cool that you can repair your weapons on your own now, but could you please not rub it in my face? That used to be my only source of income, and now I have none."
The one thing that gets me at the the end of the Ringed City is the appearance of the world after you break the egg. It doesn’t look dark like the Untended Graves or like when you let the Fire fade away. Instead the world is barren. Grey wastes as far as the eye can see. To me it looks like the world isn’t going to an Age of the Dark but seems to be reverting to an Age of the Ancients type state, or something like it at least.
@@alexrainbow1882 the cutscene takes place before the game tho, how is Gael back in time? It's clearly a fast forward or reveal of what is current but not the past
@@robertogurrola7465 I dont get what youre trying to say in your last sentence, but you can see buried anor londo and lothric in the distance. Since it was the lords of cinder that acted as an ''anchor'' for those places not to vanish, I thought it was before the lords of cinder were reawakened
I like to think that Filianore has been told that the egg holds something really meaningful or its hatching marks something really important, which she is waiting to happen. We don't really know if the egg was really holding anything particular at all and she was being led to believe that to keep her faith strong and the spell from ending. What if Gwyn promised to come for her when the egg hatches making it like a clock for her of Gwyn's return. She is sleeping, not knowing that the egg and whatever was inside is far gone and so is Gwyn and all he promised. Her faith in everything she believed in along with her fathers return crumbles like the egg itself when she notices that there is nothing left or maybe even worse she has been lied to all along. No faith= no miracle to hold time from passing. Pretty sad if you ask me.
That makes a lot of sense and really ties in with what Vaati explained in this video. Very sad indeed, Gwyn clearly would have done anything to stop the fading of fire, even sacrifice Filianore.
But Filianore didn't even seem that invested in the egg when she woke up. She just kind of raised her head and then exploded. I dunno, I'd kind of imagine her loss of faith to be a little more emotional.
This was my exact thought when I watched the video, scrolled down to see if it was already posted. You can imagine, Gwyn telling her to rest, and that when the egg hatches, he will be standing there to take her home. Instead she awakens to see you, and the illusion is shattered in an instant, both physically and metaphorically. The egg was a farce, her father betrayed and abandoned her, all these realizations coming instantaneously as she looks at you and the mundane remains of a crumbled, inert egg. What a terribly tragic thing. The more I learn about Gwyn, the more contemptible he becomes. The selfishness, obsession, and reckless desire that the game tells us lurks inside men, are no better seen anywhere than in Gwyn himself.
I interpreted the "shattering" of the hollow egg upon our arrival / touching it as more symbolic of her faith being "shattered" ... and thus her ability to halt time completely crumbled -- teleporting us forward to the end of the world.
Or *maybe* the "egg" is just a bowl of chips, and she's sleeping while you brake into her fancy, well guarded home. But riiiiight before you can grab a hanfull chips and be on your way, she wakes up. She sees the intruder trying to steel her food, freaks out, accidentally forewards time, and you can't eat them chips anymore because their rotten. BAM
If Ludleth was a Pygmy Lord, then it would make sense why he became a Lord of Cinder. Think about the power the First Flame would gain if a huge chunk of the Dark Soul was sacrificed to it. Hawkwood also stated that some Lords were chosen "not for virtue, but for might".
So waking up Fillianore fast forwards time to how everything should be. Which means the fact that the paired greatsword Ringed Knight is still alive and kicking at the end of the world speaks volumes of his strength.
i feel like the story behind this video game series is so much more than just a 'story behind a video game series'. its told with so much attention to detail, and so much detail within the little tiny details. so much emotion, its more of a masterpiece than just a storyline in some video game series. i love it, and at the same time wanna know why there is so much more depth to these games than any others out there.
Because it's metaphysical. It's a reflection of the spiritual history of mankind. Study religion, the occult and you will understand why it strikes so deep.
Many of the pygmies (including many of the Pygmy Lords) are still loyal to Gwyn and the Old Gods when we get to the Ringed City ages after most of the Old Gods have died. The one hiding next to the Mausoleum Lookout bonfire appears to be a rogue. Though they are born of the dark, they might not desire dark.
The eyes that reveal the betrayal could mean Gwyn abandoning his daughter and tricking the people of the Ringed City as it was more or less a prison for the dark soul...maybe idk
I'm happy you fit dark souls 2 into some of these videos. i know its not the best souls game released but it did add some important lore to the game that does answer questions as well...
dark souls 2 is considered bad because of its gimmicky areas. dark souls 3 however? its a good game and should be considered as such. everyone just lives on nostalgia off of dark souls 1 thinking its the greatest game ever made even though its buggy and has some of the worst pvp in any of the souls games. but keep telling yourself that to make you sleep at night I guess.
Clay, that's why Dark Souls 3 sucks, it's areas are gimmicky and rely soly on your nostalgia, the entire game is just DARK SOULS 1 REFERENCE!!!!!!!!!! REMEMBER DARK SOULS ONE!!!!!!!!! HEY REMEMBER THIS? IT WAS FROM DARK SOULS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
clay cooper, people just live on the nostalgia of dark souls 1, that's why they think 3 is such a masterpiece despite terrible level design, most of the bosses being rips from other games, shortest of the souls series, easier for noobs, complete lack of variety in PvP, removal of the Dual Wield System and tons of other things that made DKS2 good such as NG+ changes, and a copy and paste story that equates to basically Dark Souls 1, HELL even the first DLC is a complete rip of the Bloodborne DLC story. DKS3 is a lazy mess that people let off cause DKS1 happened, DKS2 is a good game driven down by people who couldn't handle the lack of DKS1.
Honestly the image of two beings, functionally immortal, fighting for the essence of their kind at the end of time, at the edge of the world is so powerful for me
There's another interpretation for Filianore's scene. She didn't lose her powers and die because her faith ran dry, but she commenced into death because she fulfilled her purpose and her faith was proven. When the player arrived, they are, usually, at the height of their powers, fully grown, so to speak. They started from a freshly born character (or reborn), from a rotten egg (the graves). Her waiting wasn't in vain. It's probably no coincidence she sets the stage for you to battle the largest curse of the dark soul.
Sand Potato Remember soul of cinder who is the amalgamation of all lords of cinder who linked the fire? He never pulls out a greatsword or anything.Just straight swords,curved swords,halberds,staffs(sorcery) and MIRACLES. This only means anyone who used strength builds wasn't strong enough to link the fire. And who do we see at the start of the 2nd phase? The miracle overlord.
I'm thinking that Filianore's egg is the reverse of the egg parable in Angel's Egg. After all, the egg Filianore holds is broken open, and so brittle that it crumbles at the merest touch . . . what does this suggest about faith? And too, the inside of the egg looking like a transposing kiln is significant IMO . . . the transposing kiln itself seems a dubiously dark bit of magic, seeing as how it turns souls into items. Again, this suggests something unsavoury about that egg of Filianore's. We know souls burn gud on a fire, and can be turned into things - so what might her egg be doing? Was she "fed" souls to keep the Ringed City green? When the egg broke, was that why everything came to an end?
It always makes me kinda sad when I hear lines like "Thank you for being the 1% who watches the end of the video"... Anyways, hope you have a great time in Japan and thanks for what you do!
Another possible example of the Light = Time concept and a link to Filianore's role in The Ringed City is, of course, Anor Londor. Maybe the sunlight wasn't 'illusory' as we have thought for so many years, maybe time was just bound to the illusion of Gwyn's daughter like it was bound to the faith of Filianore. Just an idea.
WittyJackson you might be onto something... that would make ornstein both being there to fight you and him leaving possible -ornstein and the rest of the gods leave -gwyndolin resets time to a point where everyone is still there -ornstein is then both there and gone
I would have been content with a final boss fight with Velka, the boss arena warping in time showing all the previous game's settings build up and crumble as you fight the goddess of sin in a time bubble. Then learn the entire plot is just that you were a tool of revenge against the gods for stealing those powerful souls.
And now I have watched Angel's Egg. Thank you! It is one of the most beautiful pieces of film art I've ever immersed myself in. And so now Dark Souls is heightened and my awareness expands!
I personally believe that the ringed city was a dream, like the Hunter's Dream or Yarnahm itself possibly, and Filianore was its host, keeping a portion of the world real for as long as she slept, yet when she woke it was dispelled, and we return to the true form of the world in the Dreg Heap, or the Deep as I theorize it is, since the dreams of deep seas Aldrich had never mentioned water. The sea was one of ash and dust, with the dregs seeping down to its deepest part, which is why the abyssal enemies rise up from the ash when they greet(kill) us. Also, it would be easier to keep a dream world real than it would be to suspend a place in time that is clearly still changing. Despite how Oolacile required you to travel back in time to reach it, keeping a place locked in time and traveling through time are different things. These are just my opinions though, and could be wrong.
So like, pygmies are just another word for Humans in the souls series, right? Like, the gods call humans "pygmies" because theyre big, theyre giants, and we're all small to them? That sounds about right. Manus isnt "The pygmy", hes the ancestor of them, of us. Hes our grandad. Pygmy lords is just like a derogatory way for gods to talk about human kings, they think its quaint that humans try to wear little crowns too.
The name "pygmies" most likely refer to the fact that they are shorter than gods. The difference between pygmy and a casual human would be that humans have rejected and contained the dark within them. Unlike pygmies which seem to be in harmony with the abyss. We should also note how humanity in DS1 is a shard of the Dark soul. Dark equals humanity. Dark is natural part of them both, but approaches are different. Karla states: "There is one thing that you should know." "There is a darkness within man, and I am afraid you will peer into it." "Whether the fear will spark self-reflection, or a ruinous nostalgia..." "...is up to you entirely." Humans have been alienated from the dark because gods feared their ever growing power. But even though they feel nostalgic of it and miss to be part of it. It will be ruinous for them, because they lack control of dark and will be consumed by it. Turning them into monsters like seen in Oolacile.
Isn't humans in DS1 supposed to be "relica" of dark soul instead of a shard? A shard would imply it is less than the whole, while the dark soul is special because it can replicate
no the dark soul was split up into humanity, all the humanity shard sprites are pieces of the dark soul. when a being comes into possession of large quantities of the dark soul (or large amounts of humanity) like manus and gael, they become insane with power and bound to dark. from what I can tell as well, manus is the furtive pygmy, and Ludleth might be a shard of manus. my evidence for this is that manus is referred to as an ancient pygmy, and the only reference of an ancient pygmy is the furtive pygmy. when you fight him, you see that his boss arena looks identical to the kiln of the first flame, with an outline of a body too small to be a human's. this is where they discovered manus's body with the broken pendant. in dark souls 3 we learn that there are multiple furtive pygmies, they watch over the dark soul by dividing it among themselves like how humanity is divided among humans. the arena for the fight with gael again looks similar to the kiln and also the arena for manus, only without the body indent. we also learn that ludleth was sacrificed to the flame against his will through is dialogue, and by studying his player model people have determined he's roughly the size of a pygmy. what I think happened is that the furtive pygmy took the dark soul, and eventually gwyn found out. he separated the ringed city from the world and isolated it using the egg that Filianore protects, and had the Judicator make sure no one interferes. when deciding what to do with the soul, I think the pygmies wanted to divide the soul but the furtive pygmy wouldn't let them. the pygmies also needed a lord to link them to gwyn's age of fire though, so they sacrificed the furtive pygmy against his will. perhaps he began killing pygmies to collect more of the dark soul so he could have the power that was taken from him or not, but either way he is sealed off from even the ringed city. Kaathe finds out where he is, and he tells the sorcerers at Oolacile, who dig him up. it is unclear what they were torturing him for, but perhaps it was either knowledge of soul sorcery, or the dark soul. either way, they break his pendant and he is driven mad, creates the abyss and is disfigured by it. he's beaten by the chosen undead and then breaks into fragments of his former self and psyche. some suggest that Karla is a fragment of Manus given her description for her ashes, but if Manus turned to ash that would mean he was a failed Lord of Cinder, and the only pygmy Lord is Ludleth. TL;DR if Karla is a shard of Manus, Ludleth is as well, and Manus is the Furtive Pygmy.
Light is time... huh, this reminds me of Orihime's "healing" powers from Bleach. She uses light to reverse time and in that way undo the damage of someone's body.
Doesn't reverse time, it's called out as even more hardcore than that. Orihime straight-up selectively Removes events from the timeline. When she "Heals" something she takes one specific event that happens and removes that from having happened while leaving all other events alone and completely ignoring the weird paradoxes that Should Cause. For example: If you got a broken arm that healed improperly and had to compensate by training the rest of your body to function around the mangled limb(imagine you gained the ability to do one handed push-ups since then). A time-regresser would remove the effects of all the events going back to right before you got that broken arm, removing any gains since then(back to two-handing push-ups). Orihime could remove the broken arm event, and Only the broken arm event, while leaving your one-hand pushup gains despite this normally causing a paradox with every other time-based power.
A few days ago I was going to make a sunny-side-up fried egg, but when I cracked the egg, nothing poured out. It was a hard boiled that had been stored in the fridge for who knows how many days. The yolk was all green too. And it was the only egg left. My faith in breakfast for that day remained forever shattered.
1:45 Okay I finally watched this movie yesterday, and having done that, I think I disagree with this point. I don't think it matters to the girl what's in the egg until the man asks her about it. I'm basing this on an earlier scene, where she discovers a flask full of some undisclosed red liquid. My immediate reaction, at least, was to be curious about what was inside the flask--but she immediately pours it out and goes to find the fountain, where she fills the flask with water. The contents of the flask aren't important to her; she's only interested in its shape, and what it has the capacity to contain. When the man asks her what's in the egg at first, she literally can't tell him; she doesn't know, and up to that point she never cared. As she grows more comfortable with him, she begins to wonder herself what's inside. When she hears the story about the bird, she's delighted by it, and decides that the bird must be inside the egg--it's the most interesting possibility at that precise moment. When he questions her about it, she remembers the big fossilized bird skeleton, and takes him to see it. But there wasn't really a lot of bird imagery before that point. Instead, there was the focus on water, and to a lesser extent on drowning. Then, after the man arrived in town, there were the fish and the fishermen--people hunting invisible things, only traceable by the shadows they left on the ground. The man is hunting a specific thing, but although the thing exists, he can't really ever hurt or catch it. Knowing that, and having pursued it for so long, he no longer believes it's possible; as he says, he's forgotten where he came from, and where he's going. So we've got the girl, who's totally focused on the egg--not because the thing inside it is important, but because the egg is a vessel for potential (and also for her innocence, because once the egg is broken she falls into a ravine full of water, is destroyed by her reflection, ages, and then apparently drowns in such a way as to create a million more eggs; the destruction of the egg leads directly to her becoming an adult and then immediately dying). And we've got the man, who breaks the story by doubting it and investigating it, locking its potential into one place (which no longer matters once it's fixed; we're never actually shown whether there was anything in the egg or if it was empty). I think the point of comparison here is that in both cases, the egg sort of represents a point of stasis. The moment the egg is broken, everything changes, irreparably. The big eye appears, the fishermen drown, the girl matures (and then also drowns), there are feathers everywhere, and we zoom out to see that the world is a tiny shard surrounded by darkness. It's a calamity--a flood, like the man described earlier. This is also a consequence of the egg's destruction in Dark Souls, but Dark Souls in general tends to take a dim view of postponing calamity purely for the sake of maintaining a grim status quo. Dark Souls' world is dead. And unlike in Angel's Egg, we can already see inside Fillianore's egg before it breaks; there's nothing inside it. In Dark Souls, breaking the egg isn't an inevitable cruelty performed by an exhausted, battered man with nothing left to him but an impossible hunt (and besides that description better suits Gael); it's an act of kindness, accidental as it might be. Even before Ringed City, there are glimpses behind the illusion of III's Age of Fire. The Untended Graves aren't a vision of a version of Firelink from the distant future; it's the _real_ Firelink Shrine. It's the one connected to the world; you need to teleport to reach ours. It exists in a world devoid of hope--and, shocker, that's *the real world* in Dark Souls. The only way to 'save' this setting is to let it go, so that something new can grow where it once was. Anyway uh. Happy November, I guess.
I feel angel's egg might also have affected the end of fire ending, in the movie, from the breaking of the egg which leads to the girl drowning, many new eggs are born, much like how in the end of fire ending, the fire keeper says that one day tiny flames will dance across the darkness, even though the first flame has faded
Regarding Manus - my thoughts on the matter were that Manus was THE Furtive Pygmy who was betrayed by Gwyn after the War against the Everlasting Dragons for the crime of sundering his (Manus') own soul and spreading that power across his closest allies. This stems from the knowledge of the Dark Soul gained by playing through DaS3's DLCs, the way that Gwyn has been shown to constantly be a jealous and rather foolhardy individual with little regard for any other being, and how often the ideas that seem good are attributed to him but then we find out someone else did the work. We know that powerful enough Souls can be split, we know that they can be split multiple times, and we also can infer that splitting the Soul is more like shattering a Soul than cleanly slicing one - as the sum of the remaining parts is never as mighty as the original whole (see Seath and the Four Kings from Gwyn's Soul as well as the Witch of Izalith's Children and the Demons of Lost Izalith for The Witch's Lord Soul).
Izalith's Souls was never sundered it was perverted and warped into the Chaos Flame, and the Witch herself was turned into a bed of Chaos which spawned all the demons, Literally by the power of a perverted soul.
Yo Vaati. I noticed something when playing the Gael boss fight the other day. I dont think Filianor is dead. Whenever you get summoned into the Gael boss fight, Filianor is is out lined by a white shade, something that is always reserved for NPC's in the hosts world that cannot be interacted with by the player. It is always used on living NPC's however. You get summoned into worlds surrounded by corpses all the time and they never get an outline so it is interesting that they wold give Filianor one if it meant nothing. I'm curious on your thoughts about this.
YoMama2143 I don't think it is relevent because Holy Knight Hodrick are killed by the fall of cursed great wood and is body can still be visible for the player and the summons, but he is dead at this moment.
I have to agree. The idea that the egg is never to hatch, isn't because the egg is broken/rotten, it will never hatch because time is frozen. When broken, we see what's inside. It's a really nice idea. Great video as always Vaati.
VaatiVidya I have a few theories I really would love your input on, that link incredibly well with what you've stated here, and I think could potentially shore up a few weaker points. Specifically I'm going to bring up the linked Greek myths of Eos and Tithonus with Selene and Endymion. Eos-goddess of dawn-falls in love with Tithonus, a mortal. She begs Zeus to grant him eternal life, and he does, but she fails to ask for eternal youth. And so as ages pass he withers, becoming decrepit and horrifying, and finally she transforms him into a cicada to be free from him. Many illustrations of this transformation look remarkably similar to the appearance of hollows, especially those in DaS 1, making me suspect that this myth may have informed the idea of the undead. Selene-goddess of the moon-likewise falls in love with Endymion. She learns from her sister however, and asks for her mortal lover to be given eternal sleep, for while he slept he would not age. With the previous myth brought to mind, this one seems even more likely a candidate to help explain Filianore. I think drawing upon foundational western mythology is something often missing from too many lore discussions, especially seeing as how the entire basis of the franchise is from Miyazaki's love of western literature despite being only partly understood. With these two myths in mind, suppose Gwyn--knowing that his sacrifice would only ever be temporary--gave his daughter the egg, giving her an object for her blind faith as you described. Giving her the instruction that as long as she guards the egg, the world cannot end, he lays eternal sleep upon her. Now as long as she slumbers, she does not age or mark the passing of time, creating an eternal causal loop. She slumbers, and thus her miracle of faith preventing the world's end, is maintained. We shatter the egg and wake her. In an instant, her faith shatters with the egg. Her task failed, her miracle is banished. with the flash of light, eons of time held at bay rush in. She ages and the world is destroyed by the exact same faith that held these at bay. She BELEIVED that this was the result if she should fail. In essence, she CAUSES the world's end by fearing it due to her failure.
This egg is a transposing kiln. Filianore went rogue, likely shifting her faith from her father/family to the Pygmies and the Dark Soul. She does what she does recognizing the futility of Gwyn's Age of Fire, birthing Humanity with the Dark Soul and kiln in order to resolve nature. The symbolism of Dragons throughout this series, and even Elden Ring, gives us the assumption that Everlasting Dragons' offspring, the primordial serpents for example, have chosen Humanity/Dark Souls to bear the burden of restoring balance to nature, and likely are the source of this object. Only in DS3, you are ash, a product of many cycles of failing to properly restore nature, as every successive reset was less and less complete due to missing key ingredients to properly link the flame - while chosen undead/ashen ones are able to fulfill the linkage, this is only because they have the power of the Dark Soul within them to do so, and it's only a small fragment. We've been linking the flame without the rest of the Dark Soul for so long, that it has been allowed to stay magnificently powerful by comparison, only completely fractured. Humanity is the only way to completely erase the previous cycles from manifesting in the next one, and due to lacking creationist powers, we rely on a special being that can artistically re-create reality from her own imagination. This being is implied to be related to Gwyn and Gael, and takes the form of a child to symbolize an innocent, naive basis for the world she then creates. She effectively transposes all of this power in her own human way once we bring the Blood of the Dark Soul to her, presumably going on to create the basis of reality for Elden Ring. This is clever writing, I have to admit. Filianore is shown to be a gentle, heavenly figure, much like a mother. Pygmies are mankind's ancestors, through unclear and unsaid means of evolving. They're both like right next to each other and she's coddling the kiln until you arrive. You witness the birth of man through your jumping back in time and touching the kiln, and then the end of the world immediately after. Just wow.
I love the music he uses in all his videos. Definitely has a souls feel to them. Does anyone know where he gets his music from or if there's a playlist on spotify I can listen to?
Do you know the names of any of the music used in this video I've tried looking and can't find it, i even went to the description and followed the link and it leads to a pop music RUclipsr.
Except Solaire was never intended to be the firstborn. It was supposed to be ANDRE, y'know, the blacksmith. He was even supposed to pull the statue behind Frampt at Firelink Shrine, revealing stairs that would lead to the place where you put in the Lorevessel. The Primordial Serpents weren't even in the original design. These are all things that were scrapped before implementation, and that includes Oscar being an active participant of the story and being your foil in every way. Also, it is pretty much confirmed in Dark Souls 3 that the Nameless King *is* Gwyn's firstborn. The 'Solaire is the firstborn' theory is just that: a theory. And no matter how old it is, it isn't true. Not just because the Nameless King is the firstborn, but also because *Solaire was NEVER intended to be the firstborn.*
2 years later but what if the egg shows and holds time, showing when the end is near. When we touch the egg, it cracks and falls apart, pushing time forward to the end of the world.
What if the Egg and the Church and the whole city fit together ? Thy Pygmis where easily forgotten, only ever to find mention in theire own ringed city, given to them by Gwyn. Even the Ringed Knights where kept secret and they should have gone down in History for theire fight against the Dragons. Gwyn send filianore there. This Child of Gwyn, has faith based powers and a Church to praise her, maybe giving her even more strength. Gwyn was afraid of the Abyss. Gwyn made the Pygmys bow to him. Even in theire own Capital, we see them kneeling before Gwyn. The Pygmys came to Praise Fillianore, for she was a God and she kept them safe. She managed to seal them away. And to keep the city from falling to the end of Fire, by using faith. But now we, unkindled with our Darksoul touch and disrupt the very thing that kept the Pygmys and the City in Stasis. So now, all that would have, but didnt fade, now suddenly falls to dust.
Every time your videos come out I get sad Souls is over but when you say there's still more I get happy again. You really put so much effort into each video. Cheers Vaati.
10:05 (tl;dr speculations about Filianore's ties with firekeeping) to go along with the Filianore and firekeepers, has anyone else noticed that the firekeeper crown looks like a bulkier, more filled-in version of Filianore's crown? Also, if the eyes of the firekeeper show scenes of an ultimate end to the age of fire, a vision which could be considered one of heresy or betrayal, then if Filianore saw these visions, wouldn't Gwyn want this Filianore's foresight to be put to rest? What better a way to do so than to stick Filianore far away in the Ringed City and actually put her to rest, and have her keep the dark soul in check while she's at it? Two birds with one stone! I don't think she's a true firekeeper, though. Perhaps a goddess to firekeepers, just like the nameless king is a god to warriors, or Gwynevere is a goddess to healers. The latter two are easy enough to understand, but surely the firekeepers had to come from somewhere. Perhaps as well, the practice of blinding the firekeepers didn't come about until later, because in DS1, none of the firekeepers are blinded. However, none of them are able to speak of the end of fire for one reason or another: the Darkmoon Knightess is wholly loyal to Gwyndolin and thus to the gods and would therefore never utter such betrayal, Quelaag's sister is too ill to even speak, and then last but definitely not least is Anastacia, who had her tongue cut out so she would not speak foul, heretical words again, which very well could have been of the end of fire.
So Vaati is it possible that you will one day do that Lady Maria of the astral clock tower video? You said that you would be very excited about it but then DS3 came out and you've been on that. Will we one day have our video on our caring lady?
parker maisterra same thoughts. it upsets me that basicslly the whole community swept bloodborne under the rug because it wasnt dark souls 3. it won game of the year for a reason, because it lit like lady marias AOEs
Kinda counter intuitive don't you think? Especially when everything bad that happens in all Soulsborne games happen because of religion, like Gwyn and his Way of White or Lawrence and his Healing Church
*FUCKING HELL VAATI I WATCHED TENSHI NO TAMAGO OVER TWO MONTHS AGO WHEN YOU FIRST POINTED OUT THE POSSIBLE REFERENCE AND I OBSESSED OVER IT SO MUCH I COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT DARK SOULS OR ANYTHING ELSE EXISTED AND ONLY NOW, AFTER PORING OVER COUNTLESS REVIEWS AND ANALYSIS YOU COME AT ME WITH THIS SHIT AND DON'T EVEN EXPLAIN HOW MAMORU OSHII FELL OUT WITH CHRISTIANITY AND FAITH IN HIS YOUTH JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO BECOME A PRIEST AND HOW IT PROBABLY MEANS FILIANORE BELIEVED HER BELOVED FATHER GWYN AND HIS AGE OF FIRE WOULD BE ETERNAL SO LONG AS SHE TOOK CARE OF THE EGG AND STAYED PUT IN THE RINGED CITY BUT WHEN SHE FINALLY WAKES UP ALL SHE SEES IS THIS UNKINDLED PIECE OF SHIT BEING ALL LIKE "GWYN IS DED N' I'M DA LORD OF HOLLOWS LMAO, RAVIOLI RAVIOLI, GIVE ME THE DARK SOULIOLI" SO SHE JUST FUCKING STRAIGHT UP AGES UP AND DIES LIKE WTF VAATI PLS*
not sure if its coincidence, but Aldia in DS2 spoke of Shattering the "Yolk", to reveal the illusion of humanity and free will for what it is, could he have actually been speaking literally and not figuratively?
Breaking News Unknown masked man has taken everybody in the fromsoftware development studio hostage and threatens to execute everyone in the board of directors if quote "These fuckers will not make another soulslike game" The man claims his entire income is on the line and that he is very passionate about this series of games, Police have found 4 propane explosives near the entrances placed there to kill any police officers. Escalation as the masked man executed one of the employees at fromsoftware and now is begging the ceo miyazaki to make another soulsborne game. Today was a tragic day after a masked man took the entire fromsoftware development studio office hostage and then executed everybody shortly after, 2 Minutes after exeucting every single hostage the masked man detonated another pack of hidden explosives destroying the entire office building, No activity on the youtube channel "Vaatividya" has fans suspecting the owner of said channel may have been involved in the attack.
I love watching your videos, they are very well made. It's amazing how you dig up the lore and make connections like that! Everything makes so much more sense.
Another way to interpret Filianore is as the consequence of desiring needless answers. The crestfallen knights all state, in some form or another, that searching for answers is pointless. Better to just accept a convenient explanation than go mad from the unanswered questions plaguing you at the end. It's easier that way, less painful, and the end of their side-quests comes back to it. The knight in Dark Souls 1 goes hollow upon realizing that ringing the two bells was never impossible; he had convinced himself that it was. Saulden advises that you just give up and stay in Majula. As you gather more NPCs to the hub, he rewards you in turn, feeling less hopeless and that life is worth living if it can be done so around other people. Hawkwood is seeking redemption for his desertion of the Undead Legion of Farron, but can't find the courage to make up for his past mistakes. He tries going to Dragon Shrine for some sense of peace and is unable to find it. He came to Lothric to try and lay his former companions to rest, and deliver them to their throne. Yet he couldn't find the resolve to do so. Hence, upon your return with the Undead Legion's cinders, he breaks down in a mixture of gratitude (you laid them to rest and helped him find some form of peace), despair (he never found the strength to confront them) and self-loathing (the one task he set for himself upon his arrival in Lothric has been performed by a complete stranger, and he did not even attempt to give aid). The point is, the knights are driven to different points because of the player's actions, shattering an illusion that kept them sane. So imagine how your character feels upon arriving at the world's end; this is where their search for answers has led them. "What question is worth this?"
I'm thinking so hard right now about what other Souls videos could be made and still this interesting. It's not going so well :( But on the other hand, this is why I'm not a serious content creator. Good luck Vaati! I'd watch anything you put out honestly.
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What was in braille vaati? WHAT DOES IT SAY
;)
/r/ translate
figured it out, "solaire is Gwyn's son". *totally did this before I got a vaati heart*
Ze Great Pumpkinani Holy shit
Ze Great Pumpkinani NOW YOU HAVE TWO
"I may be small, but I will die a colossus," is one of the most badass quotes in all of Dark Souls
You will dye a colossus with your blood xd
@@matyasd007 Based.
I really like a quote from DS2 by Darkdiver Grandahl: "Let the dark shine your way".
I always thought it was one of the most ineffectual and pathetic quotes in Dark Souls. Ludleth is one of my least favorite characters in the whole series.
Alexander Holzer wow you’re fun at parties I’m sure
If light is related to time, is that why Untended Graves is completely dark? Frozen in the past as it were.
Eren İsvan you just blow my mind...
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Eren İsvan holy fuck dude IM WOKE ASF NOW
oh true, so true
The Untended Graves are dark because it was a world born of betrayal. Hence the item descriptions of some things you get there.
I miss you guys, currently in Japan so my relatively slow upload schedule became even slower. It's been good to get away though, I think I was feeling a bit burnt out the last few months. Japan is amazing! Keeping my eye out for Miyazaki...
VaatiVidya get Criken to ask him about THE LORE
VaatiVidya what's the title of the music?
Just go to the fromsoft office and ask if you can look
VaatiVidya Just go to the fromsoft office and ask to look around trust me for U they would
"YOU'RE GONNA WANNA SEE HIM!"
I go away for 2 weeks and when I come back you're all meme gods what happened
I'm Ethan Bradberry
Lol best meme I could come up with there
VaatiVidya you're the bestest
VaatiVidya idk, but I wana ride a Tyrannosaurus 🅱️ex
@VaatiVidya the real question is if you are going to make more content ! My wife got me into your stuff like two weeks ago and I feel betrayed in the way that it might be over now
A bit late to the lore party, but I think each of Gwyn's godly children are manifestations of his power as Lord of Sunlight. Gwyn is a Sun God and lightning is a manifestation of sunlight in the Dark Souls universe of which his first born, the Nameless King, is the heir. It also represents the destructive powers of the sun.
Gwynevere represents the positive aspects of sunlight as giver of bounty (the light that causes crops to grow). Even Gwyndolin, the Darksun, draws his power from Gwyn, for does not the moon get its light from the Sun itself? As for Filianore, she is time itself, for do we not measure time by the position of the sun?
Jun Allenson amazing
Jun Allenson old comment, but I honestly have to say that is a well done analysis
I always thought, that Filianore is merely custodian of the egg, keeping it safe. To use your analogy, the egg is the time, while the goddess would be watch keeper.
@@OkurkaBinLadin even better great job dearest!
Never thought about it that way, that was damn good, my guy
I think it's very fascinating how magic in this world works. Miracles are directly influenced by your faith as you have said. Sorceries also they are boosted by your intelligence, by your ability to...imagine..create a power within yourself through thought. And of course pyromancy is raw emotion. the will to survive and prosper, as a flame does.
Dread Knight35 -- What of hexes and the like, given how they combine many of these traits? I guess that would mean that they are, like the Souls lore itself, miracle-like stories with parts missing, to be filled in by emotions and new ideas.
Dread Knight35 And lets not forget Dark, which is all of these things in its purest, most human form.
Kamina The Great Exactly. Another reason why the gods fear the dark soul. That kind of power coming seamingly from nowhere is terrifying
SevereOutcast Of course! The reason I think the gods fear the dark soul and humanity itself is because Dark can come from both faith and intelligence. You believe it, then imagine it, then it comes to life. That itself is the power of a god
Kamina The Great Timely comment lol. I personally see Dark/Hex as the Human interpretation of all other classes of magic. It is therefore, the truest unto itself and the caster. For example, Homing Soulmass works because Souls seek life and as such, penetrate the victim. The spell Affinity does this very same thing, but the orbs themselves are living and seek life in an attempt to bond, though have no concept of the pain they cause.
5:45 "look man, I get it. It's cool that you can repair your weapons on your own now, but could you please not rub it in my face? That used to be my only source of income, and now I have none."
AHAHAHAHAHA
I NEVER needed to repair a weapon in DS3
@@facundostratocaster356 same
DS2 on the other hand…
"The answer is Faith.."
Goddamnit, I should've known the Miracle builds were the answer to everything.
The one thing that gets me at the the end of the Ringed City is the appearance of the world after you break the egg. It doesn’t look dark like the Untended Graves or like when you let the Fire fade away. Instead the world is barren. Grey wastes as far as the eye can see. To me it looks like the world isn’t going to an Age of the Dark but seems to be reverting to an Age of the Ancients type state, or something like it at least.
Or quite possibly the age of dark has passed and this is all that remains
I think the end of the world is like that to emphasize that the dark doesn't mean an end to all ages, just a new age
Its before the lords wake and the bell is rung, the world you see in the opening cutscene
@@alexrainbow1882 the cutscene takes place before the game tho, how is Gael back in time? It's clearly a fast forward or reveal of what is current but not the past
@@robertogurrola7465 I dont get what youre trying to say in your last sentence, but you can see buried anor londo and lothric in the distance. Since it was the lords of cinder that acted as an ''anchor'' for those places not to vanish, I thought it was before the lords of cinder were reawakened
I like to think that Filianore has been told that the egg holds something really meaningful or its hatching marks something really important, which she is waiting to happen. We don't really know if the egg was really holding anything particular at all and she was being led to believe that to keep her faith strong and the spell from ending. What if Gwyn promised to come for her when the egg hatches making it like a clock for her of Gwyn's return. She is sleeping, not knowing that the egg and whatever was inside is far gone and so is Gwyn and all he promised. Her faith in everything she believed in along with her fathers return crumbles like the egg itself when she notices that there is nothing left or maybe even worse she has been lied to all along. No faith= no miracle to hold time from passing. Pretty sad if you ask me.
That makes a lot of sense and really ties in with what Vaati explained in this video. Very sad indeed, Gwyn clearly would have done anything to stop the fading of fire, even sacrifice Filianore.
But Filianore didn't even seem that invested in the egg when she woke up. She just kind of raised her head and then exploded. I dunno, I'd kind of imagine her loss of faith to be a little more emotional.
@@MaestroAlvis maybe she had a massive meltdown just after were sent through time and we miss it? lol just a thought
This was my exact thought when I watched the video, scrolled down to see if it was already posted. You can imagine, Gwyn telling her to rest, and that when the egg hatches, he will be standing there to take her home. Instead she awakens to see you, and the illusion is shattered in an instant, both physically and metaphorically. The egg was a farce, her father betrayed and abandoned her, all these realizations coming instantaneously as she looks at you and the mundane remains of a crumbled, inert egg. What a terribly tragic thing. The more I learn about Gwyn, the more contemptible he becomes. The selfishness, obsession, and reckless desire that the game tells us lurks inside men, are no better seen anywhere than in Gwyn himself.
@@MaestroAlvis emotion is a response to perception. The thought comes first, the emotion follows. Faith dies with the thought, in an instant.
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DECEARING EGG
02:39 "..the girl is comforted by her faith."
"No matter how tender, how exquisite... A lie will remain a lie."
Is that an Aldia line?
yeap
A LIE WILL REMAIN A LIE.
God damn i love that line, the hype it delivers, praise the voice actor
Noice
"Some may avert their eyes, but the truth remains the truth."
"I want to convince you..." Vaati... If you said Manis is Lord Gwen I would probably believe you
Ever notice how Soul of Cinder's phase 2 combo is ripped from Manus?
"I know it's hard to believe, but we're actually standing in Anor Lon-"*SMASH*
I interpreted the "shattering" of the hollow egg upon our arrival / touching it as more symbolic of her faith being "shattered" ... and thus her ability to halt time completely crumbled -- teleporting us forward to the end of the world.
Or *maybe* the "egg" is just a bowl of chips, and she's sleeping while you brake into her fancy, well guarded home. But riiiiight before you can grab a hanfull chips and be on your way, she wakes up. She sees the intruder trying to steel her food, freaks out, accidentally forewards time, and you can't eat them chips anymore because their rotten. BAM
Chips
Olorin Elior chips?
Chips
In an Egg.
...
Sounds abour right, i cant argue with that logic
Nah man he be trying to touch a tiddee.
Those are some really black chips, what are they made of exactly?
@@chilly456 They're made of the Dark Soul
Godddddd I am obsessed with this channel, keep up the good work, and fulfilling my dark souls obsession
If Ludleth was a Pygmy Lord, then it would make sense why he became a Lord of Cinder. Think about the power the First Flame would gain if a huge chunk of the Dark Soul was sacrificed to it. Hawkwood also stated that some Lords were chosen "not for virtue, but for might".
So waking up Fillianore fast forwards time to how everything should be. Which means the fact that the paired greatsword Ringed Knight is still alive and kicking at the end of the world speaks volumes of his strength.
i feel like the story behind this video game series is so much more than just a 'story behind a video game series'. its told with so much attention to detail, and so much detail within the little tiny details. so much emotion, its more of a masterpiece than just a storyline in some video game series. i love it, and at the same time wanna know why there is so much more depth to these games than any others out there.
Because it's metaphysical. It's a reflection of the spiritual history of mankind. Study religion, the occult and you will understand why it strikes so deep.
@@adamqadmon glad to see someone else caught on
solaire was worshiping the true god all the time
praise the sun
source of light
What if ludleth was exiled for linking the fire? if the pygmies are Lord's of dark, extending the flame is opposite of what they want
Zinntari Orema if that was true the pygmies would already killed fillianor,shira and the judicators
Many of the pygmies (including many of the Pygmy Lords) are still loyal to Gwyn and the Old Gods when we get to the Ringed City ages after most of the Old Gods have died. The one hiding next to the Mausoleum Lookout bonfire appears to be a rogue. Though they are born of the dark, they might not desire dark.
The Pygmy lords seemed to be loyal to Gwyn, he gifted him his daughter and the Ringed City. Meaning Ludleith betrayed them in some way.
Heyy, I'm 1%
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EliteRookie My phone says you posted this comment a week ago.
Elias T. Me too
r u a fucking time traveler?
This video made me watch Angel's Egg. Thanks, Vaati. Sincerely.
The eyes that reveal the betrayal could mean Gwyn abandoning his daughter and tricking the people of the Ringed City as it was more or less a prison for the dark soul...maybe idk
I think this is true.
folk lore? more like *Yolk Lore*
Nick Jordan HHAAHAHAHAH
Yolk lore? More like *Yoel Lore*
Yoel lore? More like S-Soul lore
Gottem
I'm happy you fit dark souls 2 into some of these videos.
i know its not the best souls game released but it did add some important lore to the game that does answer questions as well...
DKS2 is underrated, fans are just to fickle to see it's superior to 3.
no DS2 and DS3 are both very bad
dark souls 2 is considered bad because of its gimmicky areas.
dark souls 3 however? its a good game and should be considered as such.
everyone just lives on nostalgia off of dark souls 1 thinking its the greatest game ever made even though its buggy and has some of the worst pvp in any of the souls games.
but keep telling yourself that to make you sleep at night I guess.
Clay, that's why Dark Souls 3 sucks, it's areas are gimmicky and rely soly on your nostalgia, the entire game is just DARK SOULS 1 REFERENCE!!!!!!!!!! REMEMBER DARK SOULS ONE!!!!!!!!! HEY REMEMBER THIS? IT WAS FROM DARK SOULS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
clay cooper, people just live on the nostalgia of dark souls 1, that's why they think 3 is such a masterpiece despite terrible level design, most of the bosses being rips from other games, shortest of the souls series, easier for noobs, complete lack of variety in PvP, removal of the Dual Wield System and tons of other things that made DKS2 good such as NG+ changes, and a copy and paste story that equates to basically Dark Souls 1, HELL even the first DLC is a complete rip of the Bloodborne DLC story.
DKS3 is a lazy mess that people let off cause DKS1 happened, DKS2 is a good game driven down by people who couldn't handle the lack of DKS1.
Honestly the image of two beings, functionally immortal, fighting for the essence of their kind at the end of time, at the edge of the world is so powerful for me
VaatiVidya!! Since you are in Japan, please, kidnap miyazaki and make him explain the whole story of the trilogy
Even better: make him fix poise
the whole game could have been a stream of consciousness
and the director might not know it either
just like with Angel's egg
its better this way
Fuck that, make him leak if elden ring is a lie or not
@@Bevsworld04 i come from the future, it CERTAINLY isnt a lie
I just watched Angel's Egg for the first time last night it's a masterpiece very sad but amazing non the less
If Fillionore is a miracle, and miracles are usually in Braille, does this mean I have to use my fingers to learn her...
Doesn't seem so bad to me.
You are all disgusting, I like it.
I begin to like miracles more every day!
Praise the finger! but hole?
If she is a miracle, that means Filianore is useless? 🤔
There's another interpretation for Filianore's scene.
She didn't lose her powers and die because her faith ran dry, but she commenced into death because she fulfilled her purpose and her faith was proven.
When the player arrived, they are, usually, at the height of their powers, fully grown, so to speak. They started from a freshly born character (or reborn), from a rotten egg (the graves).
Her waiting wasn't in vain. It's probably no coincidence she sets the stage for you to battle the largest curse of the dark soul.
the answer isn't faith
the answer is strength
Luck
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Remember soul of cinder who is the amalgamation of all lords of cinder who linked the fire?
He never pulls out a greatsword or anything.Just straight swords,curved swords,halberds,staffs(sorcery) and MIRACLES.
This only means anyone who used strength builds wasn't strong enough to link the fire.
And who do we see at the start of the 2nd phase? The miracle overlord.
I'm thinking that Filianore's egg is the reverse of the egg parable in Angel's Egg. After all, the egg Filianore holds is broken open, and so brittle that it crumbles at the merest touch . . . what does this suggest about faith? And too, the inside of the egg looking like a transposing kiln is significant IMO . . . the transposing kiln itself seems a dubiously dark bit of magic, seeing as how it turns souls into items. Again, this suggests something unsavoury about that egg of Filianore's. We know souls burn gud on a fire, and can be turned into things - so what might her egg be doing? Was she "fed" souls to keep the Ringed City green? When the egg broke, was that why everything came to an end?
"A lie will always remain a lie."
Vaati making my Souls experience better since the age of ancients
Schrödinger's Egg?
pretty much yeah
Carlos Alexandre Quadros Da Silva Almost like the egg of the perfect world from berserk
I'm not gonna lie I to thought of calling it "Shcrödinger's Egg" from now on ( before reading this comment of course)
Wealthy Pepsi it was only a joke dude, don't take it seriously
It gives Wealthy Pepsi conniptions.
Lothric is my city
Junior18297 the sun is my planet
firelink shrine is my deity
Universe is my solar system.
Hyrule Is my gender
Junior18297 "and no Im not from lordran"
happy that angel's egg getting more notice cause of this, one of my favourite animes
It always makes me kinda sad when I hear lines like "Thank you for being the 1% who watches the end of the video"...
Anyways, hope you have a great time in Japan and thanks for what you do!
Another possible example of the Light = Time concept and a link to Filianore's role in The Ringed City is, of course, Anor Londor. Maybe the sunlight wasn't 'illusory' as we have thought for so many years, maybe time was just bound to the illusion of Gwyn's daughter like it was bound to the faith of Filianore. Just an idea.
WittyJackson you might be onto something...
that would make ornstein both being there to fight you and him leaving possible
-ornstein and the rest of the gods leave
-gwyndolin resets time to a point where everyone is still there
-ornstein is then both there and gone
HMO3 or ornstein is a spear of the church
HMO3 So you want to tell me that gods manipulated the time?
Well, Lordran's convoluted time and all that.
It's Velka
ok ashen hollow
I would have been content with a final boss fight with Velka, the boss arena warping in time showing all the previous game's settings build up and crumble as you fight the goddess of sin in a time bubble. Then learn the entire plot is just that you were a tool of revenge against the gods for stealing those powerful souls.
xD
K&AGamers That sounds like the final boss of a Bayonetta game
Shut the fuck up, Ashen.
And now I have watched Angel's Egg. Thank you! It is one of the most beautiful pieces of film art I've ever immersed myself in. And so now Dark Souls is heightened and my awareness expands!
I personally believe that the ringed city was a dream, like the Hunter's Dream or Yarnahm itself possibly, and Filianore was its host, keeping a portion of the world real for as long as she slept, yet when she woke it was dispelled, and we return to the true form of the world in the Dreg Heap, or the Deep as I theorize it is, since the dreams of deep seas Aldrich had never mentioned water. The sea was one of ash and dust, with the dregs seeping down to its deepest part, which is why the abyssal enemies rise up from the ash when they greet(kill) us. Also, it would be easier to keep a dream world real than it would be to suspend a place in time that is clearly still changing. Despite how Oolacile required you to travel back in time to reach it, keeping a place locked in time and traveling through time are different things. These are just my opinions though, and could be wrong.
OHMYGOD ive read "the dreams of deep sass" IM DYING
This actually seems logical. But what was in the egg?
@@LukeSparrow221 likely time or reality. or possibly the deep, which had been leaking out until you broke it.
So like, pygmies are just another word for Humans in the souls series, right?
Like, the gods call humans "pygmies" because theyre big, theyre giants, and we're all small to them?
That sounds about right. Manus isnt "The pygmy", hes the ancestor of them, of us. Hes our grandad. Pygmy lords is just like a derogatory way for gods to talk about human kings, they think its quaint that humans try to wear little crowns too.
FrankieSmileShow no pygmies are like beta humans
The name "pygmies" most likely refer to the fact that they are shorter than gods.
The difference between pygmy and a casual human would be that humans have rejected and contained the dark within them. Unlike pygmies which seem to be in harmony with the abyss.
We should also note how humanity in DS1 is a shard of the Dark soul.
Dark equals humanity. Dark is natural part of them both, but approaches are different.
Karla states:
"There is one thing that you should know."
"There is a darkness within man, and I am afraid you will peer into it."
"Whether the fear will spark self-reflection, or a ruinous nostalgia..."
"...is up to you entirely."
Humans have been alienated from the dark because gods feared their ever growing power. But even though they feel nostalgic of it and miss to be part of it. It will be ruinous for them, because they lack control of dark and will be consumed by it. Turning them into monsters like seen in Oolacile.
Isn't humans in DS1 supposed to be "relica" of dark soul instead of a shard? A shard would imply it is less than the whole, while the dark soul is special because it can replicate
no the dark soul was split up into humanity, all the humanity shard sprites are pieces of the dark soul.
when a being comes into possession of large quantities of the dark soul (or large amounts of humanity) like manus and gael, they become insane with power and bound to dark.
from what I can tell as well, manus is the furtive pygmy, and Ludleth might be a shard of manus. my evidence for this is that manus is referred to as an ancient pygmy, and the only reference of an ancient pygmy is the furtive pygmy. when you fight him, you see that his boss arena looks identical to the kiln of the first flame, with an outline of a body too small to be a human's. this is where they discovered manus's body with the broken pendant.
in dark souls 3 we learn that there are multiple furtive pygmies, they watch over the dark soul by dividing it among themselves like how humanity is divided among humans. the arena for the fight with gael again looks similar to the kiln and also the arena for manus, only without the body indent. we also learn that ludleth was sacrificed to the flame against his will through is dialogue, and by studying his player model people have determined he's roughly the size of a pygmy.
what I think happened is that the furtive pygmy took the dark soul, and eventually gwyn found out. he separated the ringed city from the world and isolated it using the egg that Filianore protects, and had the Judicator make sure no one interferes. when deciding what to do with the soul, I think the pygmies wanted to divide the soul but the furtive pygmy wouldn't let them. the pygmies also needed a lord to link them to gwyn's age of fire though, so they sacrificed the furtive pygmy against his will. perhaps he began killing pygmies to collect more of the dark soul so he could have the power that was taken from him or not, but either way he is sealed off from even the ringed city.
Kaathe finds out where he is, and he tells the sorcerers at Oolacile, who dig him up. it is unclear what they were torturing him for, but perhaps it was either knowledge of soul sorcery, or the dark soul. either way, they break his pendant and he is driven mad, creates the abyss and is disfigured by it. he's beaten by the chosen undead and then breaks into fragments of his former self and psyche.
some suggest that Karla is a fragment of Manus given her description for her ashes, but if Manus turned to ash that would mean he was a failed Lord of Cinder, and the only pygmy Lord is Ludleth.
TL;DR if Karla is a shard of Manus, Ludleth is as well, and Manus is the Furtive Pygmy.
And then we gank spank their arrogant asses.
Light is time... huh, this reminds me of Orihime's "healing" powers from Bleach. She uses light to reverse time and in that way undo the damage of someone's body.
Epyrian now that's a name I never thought I'd hear again
Doesn't reverse time, it's called out as even more hardcore than that. Orihime straight-up selectively Removes events from the timeline. When she "Heals" something she takes one specific event that happens and removes that from having happened while leaving all other events alone and completely ignoring the weird paradoxes that Should Cause.
For example: If you got a broken arm that healed improperly and had to compensate by training the rest of your body to function around the mangled limb(imagine you gained the ability to do one handed push-ups since then). A time-regresser would remove the effects of all the events going back to right before you got that broken arm, removing any gains since then(back to two-handing push-ups). Orihime could remove the broken arm event, and Only the broken arm event, while leaving your one-hand pushup gains despite this normally causing a paradox with every other time-based power.
vaati: hey guys I'm going to Japan to kick Miyazaki in the chin because HE TOOK MY JOB
Fck, making scrambled eggs has never been harder after watching this video
Kaca Fucks sake man 😂😂😂
I set off the fire alarm in my apartment trying to fry an egg.
Swaz Jokes same, but I was making a ham sandwich
A few days ago I was going to make a sunny-side-up fried egg, but when I cracked the egg, nothing poured out. It was a hard boiled that had been stored in the fridge for who knows how many days. The yolk was all green too. And it was the only egg left. My faith in breakfast for that day remained forever shattered.
I remember watching Angel's Egg... So much said with so little words!! I enjoyed it and see the parallel.
1:45 Okay I finally watched this movie yesterday, and having done that, I think I disagree with this point. I don't think it matters to the girl what's in the egg until the man asks her about it. I'm basing this on an earlier scene, where she discovers a flask full of some undisclosed red liquid. My immediate reaction, at least, was to be curious about what was inside the flask--but she immediately pours it out and goes to find the fountain, where she fills the flask with water. The contents of the flask aren't important to her; she's only interested in its shape, and what it has the capacity to contain.
When the man asks her what's in the egg at first, she literally can't tell him; she doesn't know, and up to that point she never cared. As she grows more comfortable with him, she begins to wonder herself what's inside. When she hears the story about the bird, she's delighted by it, and decides that the bird must be inside the egg--it's the most interesting possibility at that precise moment. When he questions her about it, she remembers the big fossilized bird skeleton, and takes him to see it. But there wasn't really a lot of bird imagery before that point. Instead, there was the focus on water, and to a lesser extent on drowning. Then, after the man arrived in town, there were the fish and the fishermen--people hunting invisible things, only traceable by the shadows they left on the ground. The man is hunting a specific thing, but although the thing exists, he can't really ever hurt or catch it. Knowing that, and having pursued it for so long, he no longer believes it's possible; as he says, he's forgotten where he came from, and where he's going.
So we've got the girl, who's totally focused on the egg--not because the thing inside it is important, but because the egg is a vessel for potential (and also for her innocence, because once the egg is broken she falls into a ravine full of water, is destroyed by her reflection, ages, and then apparently drowns in such a way as to create a million more eggs; the destruction of the egg leads directly to her becoming an adult and then immediately dying). And we've got the man, who breaks the story by doubting it and investigating it, locking its potential into one place (which no longer matters once it's fixed; we're never actually shown whether there was anything in the egg or if it was empty).
I think the point of comparison here is that in both cases, the egg sort of represents a point of stasis. The moment the egg is broken, everything changes, irreparably. The big eye appears, the fishermen drown, the girl matures (and then also drowns), there are feathers everywhere, and we zoom out to see that the world is a tiny shard surrounded by darkness. It's a calamity--a flood, like the man described earlier. This is also a consequence of the egg's destruction in Dark Souls, but Dark Souls in general tends to take a dim view of postponing calamity purely for the sake of maintaining a grim status quo. Dark Souls' world is dead. And unlike in Angel's Egg, we can already see inside Fillianore's egg before it breaks; there's nothing inside it. In Dark Souls, breaking the egg isn't an inevitable cruelty performed by an exhausted, battered man with nothing left to him but an impossible hunt (and besides that description better suits Gael); it's an act of kindness, accidental as it might be. Even before Ringed City, there are glimpses behind the illusion of III's Age of Fire. The Untended Graves aren't a vision of a version of Firelink from the distant future; it's the _real_ Firelink Shrine. It's the one connected to the world; you need to teleport to reach ours. It exists in a world devoid of hope--and, shocker, that's *the real world* in Dark Souls. The only way to 'save' this setting is to let it go, so that something new can grow where it once was.
Anyway uh. Happy November, I guess.
I watched the movie today and thus came across this video. Your Description of how the Girl sees the egg really resonate with me; great Interpretation
I feel angel's egg might also have affected the end of fire ending, in the movie, from the breaking of the egg which leads to the girl drowning, many new eggs are born, much like how in the end of fire ending, the fire keeper says that one day tiny flames will dance across the darkness, even though the first flame has faded
never expected to see this anime again. it was a real hidden gem
Indeed
Regarding Manus - my thoughts on the matter were that Manus was THE Furtive Pygmy who was betrayed by Gwyn after the War against the Everlasting Dragons for the crime of sundering his (Manus') own soul and spreading that power across his closest allies. This stems from the knowledge of the Dark Soul gained by playing through DaS3's DLCs, the way that Gwyn has been shown to constantly be a jealous and rather foolhardy individual with little regard for any other being, and how often the ideas that seem good are attributed to him but then we find out someone else did the work. We know that powerful enough Souls can be split, we know that they can be split multiple times, and we also can infer that splitting the Soul is more like shattering a Soul than cleanly slicing one - as the sum of the remaining parts is never as mighty as the original whole (see Seath and the Four Kings from Gwyn's Soul as well as the Witch of Izalith's Children and the Demons of Lost Izalith for The Witch's Lord Soul).
Izalith's Souls was never sundered it was perverted and warped into the Chaos Flame, and the Witch herself was turned into a bed of Chaos which spawned all the demons, Literally by the power of a perverted soul.
Big Thundah when it absorb Souls, they seem to shatter into thousands of tiny balls of light
I like the idea, but you have not posted any evidence that would suggest Manus is the furtive pygmy.
andre is like looks pissed becasue you keep repairing your weapon
Vaati has thought about Dark Souls so much, he's started speaking in their way..
Yo Vaati. I noticed something when playing the Gael boss fight the other day. I dont think Filianor is dead. Whenever you get summoned into the Gael boss fight, Filianor is is out lined by a white shade, something that is always reserved for NPC's in the hosts world that cannot be interacted with by the player. It is always used on living NPC's however. You get summoned into worlds surrounded by corpses all the time and they never get an outline so it is interesting that they wold give Filianor one if it meant nothing. I'm curious on your thoughts about this.
YoMama2143 but when she's still there, what happened then when you went through time?
YoMama2143 interesting?
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I don't think it is relevent because Holy Knight Hodrick are killed by the fall of cursed great wood and is body can still be visible for the player and the summons, but he is dead at this moment.
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Katherine Luo wrong it is spelled Iain Hansen! ;)
Only eggs can sustain me
When that warrior in Angel's Egg smashes the egg, the animation looks eerily similar to when the ashen one marries Anri.
I have to agree. The idea that the egg is never to hatch, isn't because the egg is broken/rotten, it will never hatch because time is frozen. When broken, we see what's inside. It's a really nice idea. Great video as always Vaati.
I think she was holding together the last pieces of a dying world.
Had Midir at 10% when the notification came up...RIP guess he can wait.
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VaatiVidya I have a few theories I really would love your input on, that link incredibly well with what you've stated here, and I think could potentially shore up a few weaker points.
Specifically I'm going to bring up the linked Greek myths of Eos and Tithonus with Selene and Endymion.
Eos-goddess of dawn-falls in love with Tithonus, a mortal. She begs Zeus to grant him eternal life, and he does, but she fails to ask for eternal youth. And so as ages pass he withers, becoming decrepit and horrifying, and finally she transforms him into a cicada to be free from him. Many illustrations of this transformation look remarkably similar to the appearance of hollows, especially those in DaS 1, making me suspect that this myth may have informed the idea of the undead.
Selene-goddess of the moon-likewise falls in love with Endymion. She learns from her sister however, and asks for her mortal lover to be given eternal sleep, for while he slept he would not age. With the previous myth brought to mind, this one seems even more likely a candidate to help explain Filianore.
I think drawing upon foundational western mythology is something often missing from too many lore discussions, especially seeing as how the entire basis of the franchise is from Miyazaki's love of western literature despite being only partly understood.
With these two myths in mind, suppose Gwyn--knowing that his sacrifice would only ever be temporary--gave his daughter the egg, giving her an object for her blind faith as you described. Giving her the instruction that as long as she guards the egg, the world cannot end, he lays eternal sleep upon her. Now as long as she slumbers, she does not age or mark the passing of time, creating an eternal causal loop. She slumbers, and thus her miracle of faith preventing the world's end, is maintained.
We shatter the egg and wake her. In an instant, her faith shatters with the egg. Her task failed, her miracle is banished. with the flash of light, eons of time held at bay rush in. She ages and the world is destroyed by the exact same faith that held these at bay. She BELEIVED that this was the result if she should fail. In essence, she CAUSES the world's end by fearing it due to her failure.
This egg is a transposing kiln. Filianore went rogue, likely shifting her faith from her father/family to the Pygmies and the Dark Soul. She does what she does recognizing the futility of Gwyn's Age of Fire, birthing Humanity with the Dark Soul and kiln in order to resolve nature. The symbolism of Dragons throughout this series, and even Elden Ring, gives us the assumption that Everlasting Dragons' offspring, the primordial serpents for example, have chosen Humanity/Dark Souls to bear the burden of restoring balance to nature, and likely are the source of this object.
Only in DS3, you are ash, a product of many cycles of failing to properly restore nature, as every successive reset was less and less complete due to missing key ingredients to properly link the flame - while chosen undead/ashen ones are able to fulfill the linkage, this is only because they have the power of the Dark Soul within them to do so, and it's only a small fragment. We've been linking the flame without the rest of the Dark Soul for so long, that it has been allowed to stay magnificently powerful by comparison, only completely fractured.
Humanity is the only way to completely erase the previous cycles from manifesting in the next one, and due to lacking creationist powers, we rely on a special being that can artistically re-create reality from her own imagination. This being is implied to be related to Gwyn and Gael, and takes the form of a child to symbolize an innocent, naive basis for the world she then creates. She effectively transposes all of this power in her own human way once we bring the Blood of the Dark Soul to her, presumably going on to create the basis of reality for Elden Ring.
This is clever writing, I have to admit. Filianore is shown to be a gentle, heavenly figure, much like a mother. Pygmies are mankind's ancestors, through unclear and unsaid means of evolving. They're both like right next to each other and she's coddling the kiln until you arrive. You witness the birth of man through your jumping back in time and touching the kiln, and then the end of the world immediately after. Just wow.
I love the music he uses in all his videos. Definitely has a souls feel to them. Does anyone know where he gets his music from or if there's a playlist on spotify I can listen to?
I think it is from the dark souls soundtrack
Do you know the names of any of the music used in this video I've tried looking and can't find it, i even went to the description and followed the link and it leads to a pop music RUclipsr.
In Braille: "Solaire is Gwin's firstborn"
Eduardo Bilibio de Oliveira it's either a joke or misunderstanding.Cuz the Firstborn is Faraam.
actually that is only a possibility, and Solaire being the son of Gwin is both a very old theory and a very old meme in the souls' community
Eduardo Bilibio de Oliveira for me solaire will always stay gwyns first born...
x RaSoR Solaire is potentially Faraam's Knight.
Except Solaire was never intended to be the firstborn. It was supposed to be ANDRE, y'know, the blacksmith. He was even supposed to pull the statue behind Frampt at Firelink Shrine, revealing stairs that would lead to the place where you put in the Lorevessel. The Primordial Serpents weren't even in the original design. These are all things that were scrapped before implementation, and that includes Oscar being an active participant of the story and being your foil in every way.
Also, it is pretty much confirmed in Dark Souls 3 that the Nameless King *is* Gwyn's firstborn. The 'Solaire is the firstborn' theory is just that: a theory. And no matter how old it is, it isn't true. Not just because the Nameless King is the firstborn, but also because *Solaire was NEVER intended to be the firstborn.*
Don't quit Vaati, we need you!!!
2:16 looks like things betwixt from dark souls 2
It does ._.
Miyazaki didn't direct Dank Souls 2, he acted as a supervisor. Maybe it is coincidence, or Miyazaki snuck in some influence.
The name of the song in the beggining is sanctuary by johannes bornlof.
love your lore videos tons of interesting stuff and very relaxing to listen to in the background as I replay ds3
2 years later but what if the egg shows and holds time, showing when the end is near. When we touch the egg, it cracks and falls apart, pushing time forward to the end of the world.
What if the Egg and the Church and the whole city fit together ?
Thy Pygmis where easily forgotten, only ever to find mention in theire own ringed city, given to them by Gwyn.
Even the Ringed Knights where kept secret and they should have gone down in History for theire fight against the Dragons.
Gwyn send filianore there. This Child of Gwyn, has faith based powers and a Church to praise her, maybe giving her even more strength.
Gwyn was afraid of the Abyss. Gwyn made the Pygmys bow to him. Even in theire own Capital, we see them kneeling before Gwyn.
The Pygmys came to Praise Fillianore, for she was a God and she kept them safe.
She managed to seal them away. And to keep the city from falling to the end of Fire, by using faith.
But now we, unkindled with our Darksoul touch and disrupt the very thing that kept the Pygmys and the City in Stasis.
So now, all that would have, but didnt fade, now suddenly falls to dust.
What does the Braille sentence in the video say?
Goose Man And it saids soliare is gwyn's firstborn
Tavion Taylor I'm kidding
Dutchy the Second lol have you guys never been on the internet before or something?
We still haven't answered the most important question. Why the fuck is there a crab in the rock!
God Bleach wut
hitbox detection.
what crab in the rock?
As long as Vaati keeps making videos life is good. Thank you! for the amazing content!
Every time your videos come out I get sad Souls is over but when you say there's still more I get happy again. You really put so much effort into each video. Cheers Vaati.
"Thank you for being the one percen-"
This is the last thing I heard before closing the video.
Filialore
I’m glad to be one of the 1%, always have to watch till the end!
Good gosh these video presentations are gorgeous. Every one a diamond so far. Please keep it up.
10:05 (tl;dr speculations about Filianore's ties with firekeeping) to go along with the Filianore and firekeepers, has anyone else noticed that the firekeeper crown looks like a bulkier, more filled-in version of Filianore's crown? Also, if the eyes of the firekeeper show scenes of an ultimate end to the age of fire, a vision which could be considered one of heresy or betrayal, then if Filianore saw these visions, wouldn't Gwyn want this Filianore's foresight to be put to rest? What better a way to do so than to stick Filianore far away in the Ringed City and actually put her to rest, and have her keep the dark soul in check while she's at it? Two birds with one stone!
I don't think she's a true firekeeper, though. Perhaps a goddess to firekeepers, just like the nameless king is a god to warriors, or Gwynevere is a goddess to healers. The latter two are easy enough to understand, but surely the firekeepers had to come from somewhere. Perhaps as well, the practice of blinding the firekeepers didn't come about until later, because in DS1, none of the firekeepers are blinded. However, none of them are able to speak of the end of fire for one reason or another: the Darkmoon Knightess is wholly loyal to Gwyndolin and thus to the gods and would therefore never utter such betrayal, Quelaag's sister is too ill to even speak, and then last but definitely not least is Anastacia, who had her tongue cut out so she would not speak foul, heretical words again, which very well could have been of the end of fire.
So Vaati is it possible that you will one day do that Lady Maria of the astral clock tower video? You said that you would be very excited about it but then DS3 came out and you've been on that. Will we one day have our video on our caring lady?
parker maisterra same thoughts. it upsets me that basicslly the whole community swept bloodborne under the rug because it wasnt dark souls 3. it won game of the year for a reason, because it lit like lady marias AOEs
Hey you can make a religion out of this
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everything is a religion if you are brave enough
It's called the Way of White.
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Kinda counter intuitive don't you think? Especially when everything bad that happens in all Soulsborne games happen because of religion, like Gwyn and his Way of White or Lawrence and his Healing Church
*FUCKING HELL VAATI I WATCHED TENSHI NO TAMAGO OVER TWO MONTHS AGO WHEN YOU FIRST POINTED OUT THE POSSIBLE REFERENCE AND I OBSESSED OVER IT SO MUCH I COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT DARK SOULS OR ANYTHING ELSE EXISTED AND ONLY NOW, AFTER PORING OVER COUNTLESS REVIEWS AND ANALYSIS YOU COME AT ME WITH THIS SHIT AND DON'T EVEN EXPLAIN HOW MAMORU OSHII FELL OUT WITH CHRISTIANITY AND FAITH IN HIS YOUTH JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO BECOME A PRIEST AND HOW IT PROBABLY MEANS FILIANORE BELIEVED HER BELOVED FATHER GWYN AND HIS AGE OF FIRE WOULD BE ETERNAL SO LONG AS SHE TOOK CARE OF THE EGG AND STAYED PUT IN THE RINGED CITY BUT WHEN SHE FINALLY WAKES UP ALL SHE SEES IS THIS UNKINDLED PIECE OF SHIT BEING ALL LIKE "GWYN IS DED N' I'M DA LORD OF HOLLOWS LMAO, RAVIOLI RAVIOLI, GIVE ME THE DARK SOULIOLI" SO SHE JUST FUCKING STRAIGHT UP AGES UP AND DIES LIKE WTF VAATI PLS*
Daisuke Yoshioka This took a hilarious turn.
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Pretty much what I was mulling over when I watched the video too.
One of my most favorite youtube comments ever.
*OF COURSE THE BOLD CAPSLOCK ON NO PUNCTUATION MAKES IT BETTER BECAUSE IT IS NOW EASIER FOR EVERYONE TO READ*
I literally listen to your videos on repeat during work. You keep my focus intact and for that I thank you! :)
There are many great content creators on youtube, but man, your videos .... i have no words for that... top tier, thx man, cant wait for next video.
I watched Angels Egg today and now i have even more questions in my head. We need a lore video on this film Vaati!
not sure if its coincidence, but Aldia in DS2 spoke of Shattering the "Yolk", to reveal the illusion of humanity and free will for what it is, could he have actually been speaking literally and not figuratively?
Voldebutt yoke as in what you put on a work ox.
Like Peroxide said, Aldia was saying "Yoke", not "Yolk". Similar sounding words, completely different and unrelated meanings.
Yoke. Not yolk
Shatter the yolk!
Yoke, as in a device used to force animals to do work.
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The man claims his entire income is on the line and that he is very passionate about this series of games, Police have found 4 propane explosives near the entrances placed there to kill any police officers.
Escalation as the masked man executed one of the employees at fromsoftware and now is begging the ceo miyazaki to make another soulsborne game.
Today was a tragic day after a masked man took the entire fromsoftware development studio office hostage and then executed everybody shortly after, 2 Minutes after exeucting every single hostage the masked man detonated another pack of hidden explosives destroying the entire office building, No activity on the youtube channel "Vaatividya" has fans suspecting the owner of said channel may have been involved in the attack.
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Propane explosives? Dang it Bobby.
The only youtuber that I watch his video to the end his voice is so perfect he is keeping u in his content nice!!
This is one of your best videos, Vaati. I sincerely want to thank you because your content always is of incredible quality.
Damn, I got goose pumbs when he said that Fillianore is the miracle.
I really need to see Angel's Egg sometime. I've known about it since my anime fandoms day, way back in the 90s.
2:13 Thats the starting point of Dark Souls 2! o_O
I love watching your videos, they are very well made. It's amazing how you dig up the lore and make connections like that! Everything makes so much more sense.
Another way to interpret Filianore is as the consequence of desiring needless answers.
The crestfallen knights all state, in some form or another, that searching for answers is pointless. Better to just accept a convenient explanation than go mad from the unanswered questions plaguing you at the end. It's easier that way, less painful, and the end of their side-quests comes back to it.
The knight in Dark Souls 1 goes hollow upon realizing that ringing the two bells was never impossible; he had convinced himself that it was.
Saulden advises that you just give up and stay in Majula. As you gather more NPCs to the hub, he rewards you in turn, feeling less hopeless and that life is worth living if it can be done so around other people.
Hawkwood is seeking redemption for his desertion of the Undead Legion of Farron, but can't find the courage to make up for his past mistakes. He tries going to Dragon Shrine for some sense of peace and is unable to find it. He came to Lothric to try and lay his former companions to rest, and deliver them to their throne. Yet he couldn't find the resolve to do so. Hence, upon your return with the Undead Legion's cinders, he breaks down in a mixture of gratitude (you laid them to rest and helped him find some form of peace), despair (he never found the strength to confront them) and self-loathing (the one task he set for himself upon his arrival in Lothric has been performed by a complete stranger, and he did not even attempt to give aid).
The point is, the knights are driven to different points because of the player's actions, shattering an illusion that kept them sane.
So imagine how your character feels upon arriving at the world's end; this is where their search for answers has led them.
"What question is worth this?"
What question were you even trying to find an answer for? Or were you just here because you knew you had to be?
VAATI PLEASE NO MORE LORE I NEED TO SLEEP SOMETIME THIS YEAR
Really interesting video Vaati
*_Inside Filianore's egg was Darkness itself. That's what I think._*
NodMan but the egg it self represent faith keeping the dark
perhaps the egg represents the the faith of keeping the dark in but once broken no longer hinders the natural order of light to dark.
Maybe she was hiding poise in there.
Agent_Ash but that would mean that it's out there......somewhere.....
imprisoning me
The way you let the music play out at the very end of the video gives me goosebumps every time
I'm thinking so hard right now about what other Souls videos could be made and still this interesting. It's not going so well :( But on the other hand, this is why I'm not a serious content creator. Good luck Vaati! I'd watch anything you put out honestly.