@@redduskironsky1058 The entirety of the post Anor Londo zones sans (most of) Duke's Archive, more than half of DS2 (although to be fair knowing how DS2 was made it's miracle some areas were finished at all,) and decent bits of BB, including cut content. DS3 was for the most part the most complete and fleshed out on release as far as we know.
@@deakkristof1818 True. How many Undead have we seen get their soul pulled out, put back in and completely recover? Over in DS3 either Ludleth can't grow his legs back or Andre rips em off.
So If we imagine that Lautrec kills her to free her from this awful existence... Can we admit too that the gods put this black eye orb in our hands not to punish only Lautrec, but Anastasia for escaping her fate ?
Or was it the gods that restored her, by having Lautrec kill her and the chosen undead resurrect her. Evil fanatics did that to her in the name of the gods, so the gods should punish them and help her.
@@Tasorius I don't think that reads personally: the gods of white want the fires fed from everything we know about Gwyndolin, Gwynevere, & their servants and as we learn well in DS3 Gwyn & his ilk never cared for humanity- they thought nothing of using them as slave knights then "rewarding" them with the treacherous prison that was the ringed city & branding them to suppress their natural power. Even DS2 recognizes them as greedy and cowardly, as Aldia explains (as much as anyone explains in a fromsoft title) the first sin was Gwyn disrupting the natural order by linking the flame and denying humanity the age of dark that was supposed to follow. The idea that these same beings would heal her out of kindness is unlikely to me, I think it's much more plausible that restoring her soul to her body allowed her to rise again like all undead do and just as we reawaken fully healed of our mortal wounds so would she.
@@PepperoniMage She is a Fire Keeper... It was probably the gods not being kind, but wanting for her bonfire, which might be the most important one in all of Lordran, to be reignited, so more undead can be bound to it and will return to live again through it... They want to fire to stay lit, and want for the undead to feed their humanity to the flames, so why should they not wish to keep this imortant fire alive? That's what I think at least.
It's nuts to see the passion that went into that game. It must have seriously hurt the devs when they go to lost izalith and were told "We got no time, hurry up" and they had to cut corners like the boss and plopping a billion dragon butts in lava. I wish the "Remastered" version had been instead the "Completed" version like "The team was given time and money to complete the original vision, to polish what had been rushed and provide you with the true dark souls experience they always intended to give!"
@@meyes5671 it's not even all the second half The dukes archives are fine, except for the boss who sucks. The tomb of the giants is great (love the dark gimmick, very metroidvania) with some issues, namely the stupid dogs and the way they're placed to gang up on you. New londo is fine. Izalith & demon ryins need to be redone from scratch.
I Wish the remastered put in ALL the missing stuff. Shiva of the east in the painted world. Oscar being a rival throughout the game always one step too late. The completion of lost Izalith to its original vision and not the cut corner mess it became.
I love that stuff about Dark Souls. The Faces underneath Helmets are all canon for me. And the fact that Ciaran's helmet can't be removed shows me that there is something true about the myths of her being a cyclops. You can go behind the scenes and literally find the answers, not just development fragments.
Also her model checks for an ID that doesn’t exist anymore. It’s likely she was intended to have a unique character model but they never got around to finalising it so they slapped the default model on her.
@@AvisPraeda777 they modelled the chapel dweller’s legs in bloodborne even tho they’re not visible. If they went to the effort of doing it with Anastasia, i’d assume it’s for a reason.
@@connoranderson7432 because she's always kneeling. Why waste resources on something you'll never see? And if you know literally ANYTHING about dark souls, you'll know her tongue was cut out. That's what maimed her.
Actually when the player brings her back, yes they condemn her to her cage again, but she's reborn whole again. Her tongue comes back so she's able to speak again, I can only imagine that her legs would come back as well
Ya, that's not even sub-text, she complains about having a tongue it's the whole DS3 cursed blueberries but to the next extreme. Only happy firekeeper is ms. golden knight who attacks you for killing gwin or gwinever can't remember.
@@IrvineTheHunter and the description for her fire keeper soul suggests she is physically grotesque underneath the armor because of the humanities. Fun times. It also makes me wonder how many other bonfires have a fire keeper who is just sealed within a nearby wall or floor.
Yeah, I had no idea she got her tongue back if you did the quest- Lautrec just keeps 'tripping' off the edge of the cliff somehow, totally of his own volition
Dark Souls has a history of maiming, mangling, or otherwise torturing firekeepers. The Bronze Clad firekeeper, aka Darkmoon Knightess, that serves Gwyndolin has her body supposedly damaged due to the amount of humanity writhing beneath her skin, the firekeeper in Ds3 lacks eyes, Anastasia lacks a tongue and is maimed. Irina is also blind, but seemingly cannot stand either, not to mention the same case as the Darkmoon Knightess with humanity writhing beneath her skin, so far as to it being a constang pain for her. Even going as far as Demons' Souls, the Maiden in Black has her eyes covered by wax, and her feet seemingly either burnt, or scarred from walking barefoot everywhere. The firekeepers are intended to be the keepers of life, as fire = life in the souls series (according to Gwynistic propaganda). Whether or not this is a reference to how biological mothers in real life suffer during birth, sometimes even dying due to complications, is something I can't say for sure. What I can say is that the firekeepers have always been depicted as maternal figures. It should be noted that Shanalotte, aka The Emerald Herald, had a child form that we supposedly were to see in Dark Souls 2 before it was cut. And that Crossbreed Priscilla was very likely to be the firekeeper in Dark Souls 1, before it, again, was cut.
IIRC, the Darkmoon Knightess simply had a lot of Humanity writhing underneath her skin. Irina seems to have something similar, though in her case it's apparently destructive. Alternatively, if those circumstances were a risk to the Darkmoon Knightess as well, perhaps being a Fire Keeper and offering Humanity to a Bonfire is a sort of treatment for the condition.
@@lordofsandvich3630 I think this is interpreted from life, like any other big religions of our world, way of white has it's brutal cruelty and darkness within
I’d like to think Lautrek was mercy killing her, Eygon seems to be the same way as well where he promised Irna he’d kill her one of her dialogues if she reads dark miracles but she’ll only respond to Eygon’s gauntlets but is killed afterwards is “Ohh... A Knight of Carim... is always true to his word...” land of Carim just seems particularly cruel which explains why everyone from there is so pessimistic and even when helpful always sinister.
Eygon and Anastasia are a play on the "shining knight, who protects a fair maiden"-trope, showing how corrupt this kind of relationship (and the church which perpetuates it) actually is. Anastasia was literally crippled (blinded and unable to walk), to make her dependent on someone. The knight is bound to sitting around, protecting someone he does not care for. He is a warrior, so of course the only answere to his problem, is to literally kill it. The player on the other hand reaches out to Anastasia and brings her something to read, give her some shallow purpose, as she only reads miracles, or in other words fairytales, without any actual knowledge in them, only storys which tell her, how dependent she is on "powerfull lords". Which is why she is so used to being dependent on somebody else, that she can barely exist without you, constantly deifying everyone, who pays normal attention to her. In the end not even that can keep her from beeing consumed by the dark, asking for help, but even if you reach out, it is not enough. She was kept a child, even as an adult. She never was allowed to stand on her own feet, and so she needed more and more help, until even that was not enough anymore. Or in other words: Leave women do their thing, they need to define themselfes, not to be defined by the men who claim to "protect" them. ("men" in terms of the shining knight trope, which usually is depicted with men) It was not death, Eygon was protecting her from, it was life. And even he could not be free in this artifical father-daughter relationship. Thats atleast my reading of that questline. The games have always critiqued systems that infantilize and control people, like the church. I guess thats why so many people believe in mercy killings, even though suicide would be the better solution. People can decide for themselfes if living is too much to bear. Now just ask yourself why suicide is considered a sin in the catholic church.
@@YasonYou The item description of the Brass Set (her armor) says this: "Armor of the Darkmoon Knightess, Fire Keeper of Anor Londo. After becoming undead, she visited the Dark Sun Gwyndolin at the Mausoleum of the Spiral Depths, became a Blade of the Darkmoon, and assumed the flame-keeping duty. She received this armor, which hides her hideous form and helps her hunt the guilty." There is other context that implies she became disfigured after deliberately becoming a firekeeper, but it's been so long since I've thought about this that I forget the exact details. There are youtubers who have done in-depth lore analyses of her character who explain it better.
@@matheuscruz8574 We can see a model of what she looks like under the armor and she's not hollow, but a hale and healthy human. I'm not even sure if "hollowing" is exactly even possible for a firekeeper, since they already innately carry multiple humanity inside them as firekeepers.
Holy shit, I just realized that after being maimed, her legs and tongue cut off, and who knows what else did she suffer, Lautrec maybe killed her out of mercy. After seeing her suffering for the time he was in Firelink Shrine, and seeing that she couldn't do anything to escape her misery, maybe he killed her just to stop her suffering.
Glass half full, glass half empty. FROM is also one of the devs that has the most publicly known cut, unfinished or rushed content out there. They weirdly fixate on less important and often minute details, especially ones that most wouldn't see unless they had dev tools or looked *extremely* close, then leave swaths of easily viewable incomplete zones, textures, and portions, whilst also keeping the games surprisingly mechanically light despite the iteration on iteration. It's a quirk they have, but at least you know it's a FROM game, just from that, good or bad. Favorite detail like that is still the Basilisks. That's a classic.
anakin: perhaps its former wearer was maimed to prevent escape padme: but she grows them back when you restore her tongue right? anakin: ... padme: but she grows them back when you restore her tongue RIGHT?!
And they apparently performed this "surgery" in the very robes she's wearing now, just to make it that much worse, I guess. Either that or they put them on her immediately after
That horribly grim but, pretty Interesting that they go so far for things you don’t see. Makes you wonder if there was more to her character at some point.
By the gods I wasn't ready for that but here I am with this knowledge that will haunt me for the rest of time and this EXPLAINS WHY I ALWAYS FELT LIKE I NEEDED TO PROTECT HER!
I wonder if this wasn't done for artistic purposes, ie the way she sits on the ground meant that her legs would clip through the skirt of have to be put into the ground to get the effect they wanted. Still it's a brilliant interpretation and I'm good with making it at least head canon.
I kind of think this was more to prevent clipping than anything else. If this was intentionally to show she was maimed, it wouldn't be as clean, and they'd make it more visible.
Yeah that was my thought as well. That they removed the legs so her kneeling/sitting would look more natural and avoid clipping issues. Still it's kind of an awesome take/inside joke if it was intended.
Fans: OMG I can't believe they put in THAT much detail for something that you never see! Devs: There was a bug we couldn't fix and it went away when we deleted her legs...
ngl, Anastacia is one of the NPCs that I feel the most bad for. She one of my favorite Dark Souls characters, but its difficult to explain why she is. I even once made an Anastacia build with her outfit
The extra mile dark souls goes to to make its characters suffer
>Goes an extra mile to add details most people won't ever see
>Leaves whole areas unfinished because of time constraint
@@matheuscruz8574 wait wait what area is this? A specific one?
@@redduskironsky1058 Izalith would be a good example..
The Lost Izalith
@@redduskironsky1058 The entirety of the post Anor Londo zones sans (most of) Duke's Archive, more than half of DS2 (although to be fair knowing how DS2 was made it's miracle some areas were finished at all,) and decent bits of BB, including cut content. DS3 was for the most part the most complete and fleshed out on release as far as we know.
I think it was the only way to escape from Miyazaki's foot fetish
xD
He clearly kept them.
@@mrjrb561 "Hand it over...your feet...for my fetish painting...."
MiyazakiTouch Tssk
@@mrjrb561 The Kira Yoshikage of feet!
every soul has its dark
- Dark Soul
"Perhaps, the real dark souls were the friends we made along the way"
- John Darksoul, from the hit series Dark Souls
Lame
@@DS_DoggerX Perhaps the real dark is the souls we made along the way
It is always darkest before the soul
"She ain't got no legs"
Ain't even got legs!
"We even have this crystal sh*t that makes us double immortal"
@@EthanHike And we don’t even need it
How's it feeeeeel Seath? To be a bitch
@@nathanjora7627 Dont. Even. Need it.
Miyazaki's ultimate nightmare
Haha I get what you mean
Up up you go.
I don't get it
@@matheuscruz8574 feet
"Hand it over. That thing, your feet pics." -Slave of pink toes and high heels, Gael-
When you return her Soul back after killing Lautrec, Anastacia's tongue is restored and she can speak again. Does this also give her back her legs?
Supongo que sí (en el lore, dudo que en el juego)
There is a small chance her legs grew back too. These kinds of things can happen with the Undead.
@@TheKing-qz9wd Undeads get eaten, and then resurrect at the bonfire, pefectly fine. (apart from the whole beefjerky thingy)
Most likely in canon, but her model doesn't change iirc
@@deakkristof1818
True. How many Undead have we seen get their soul pulled out, put back in and completely recover? Over in DS3 either Ludleth can't grow his legs back or Andre rips em off.
- Producers: "But why the word *Dark* in the title?"
- Miyazaki: "Well, you see..."
So If we imagine that Lautrec kills her to free her from this awful existence... Can we admit too that the gods put this black eye orb in our hands not to punish only Lautrec, but Anastasia for escaping her fate ?
Or was it the gods that restored her, by having Lautrec kill her and the chosen undead resurrect her.
Evil fanatics did that to her in the name of the gods, so the gods should punish them and help her.
@@Tasorius I don't think that reads personally: the gods of white want the fires fed from everything we know about Gwyndolin, Gwynevere, & their servants and as we learn well in DS3 Gwyn & his ilk never cared for humanity- they thought nothing of using them as slave knights then "rewarding" them with the treacherous prison that was the ringed city & branding them to suppress their natural power. Even DS2 recognizes them as greedy and cowardly, as Aldia explains (as much as anyone explains in a fromsoft title) the first sin was Gwyn disrupting the natural order by linking the flame and denying humanity the age of dark that was supposed to follow. The idea that these same beings would heal her out of kindness is unlikely to me, I think it's much more plausible that restoring her soul to her body allowed her to rise again like all undead do and just as we reawaken fully healed of our mortal wounds so would she.
@@PepperoniMage It's certainly a better theory than the idea that the gods would punish Anastacia for being killed, and thus "escaping her fate".
Lautrec probably killed her for her humanity as it's implied he had murdered other undead as well.
@@PepperoniMage She is a Fire Keeper... It was probably the gods not being kind, but wanting for her bonfire, which might be the most important one in all of Lordran, to be reignited, so more undead can be bound to it and will return to live again through it...
They want to fire to stay lit, and want for the undead to feed their humanity to the flames, so why should they not wish to keep this imortant fire alive?
That's what I think at least.
It's nuts to see the passion that went into that game. It must have seriously hurt the devs when they go to lost izalith and were told "We got no time, hurry up" and they had to cut corners like the boss and plopping a billion dragon butts in lava. I wish the "Remastered" version had been instead the "Completed" version like "The team was given time and money to complete the original vision, to polish what had been rushed and provide you with the true dark souls experience they always intended to give!"
You are right
This is why I want a Dark Souls remake. 1st half basically only needs a coat of nextgen paint, 2nd half can finally live up to the devs' vision.
@@meyes5671 Absolutely. It would be so wonderful to see this amazing game.
@@meyes5671 it's not even all the second half
The dukes archives are fine, except for the boss who sucks. The tomb of the giants is great (love the dark gimmick, very metroidvania) with some issues, namely the stupid dogs and the way they're placed to gang up on you.
New londo is fine.
Izalith & demon ryins need to be redone from scratch.
I Wish the remastered put in ALL the missing stuff. Shiva of the east in the painted world. Oscar being a rival throughout the game always one step too late. The completion of lost Izalith to its original vision and not the cut corner mess it became.
*D E E P E S T L O R E*
To think that I still manage to find new things about this game even today, it's just astounding
That’s extremely common for every game ever
@@zzodysseuszz But for other games it is rarely as interesting as for Dark Souls
I love stuff like this, lore elements that are only found a whole decade after the game first came out.
How can you not love dark souls
True, although it was already known she had no legs, simply I didn't think she had actually no legs in her model xD
It’s been known for years, dude
@@chaptap8376 sorry
@@AwfulWeather5684 You dont have to say sorry to assholes
@@pygy4755 it shuts them up usually
You ain't got no legs lieutenant Dan
Why am I not surprised this game goes into even that length to be darker?
Welcome to Darker Souls
Don't forget she also had her tongue removed
Yup. And don't forget that she even thought that she deserved it ._.
"I wish not to speak"
That part when the voice chokes up makes me so sad :(
@@metalmonster9536 Same. I felt bad for her before. After reviving her I felt like I had done something awful to her. Powerfully sad.
This is probably why she never even thought of escaping... There is no point. with no tongue too? yeah no point
Being in a jail cell in a land full of hollows and monsters probably didn't motivate her either.
If anything, it's more safe in cell
She also seems to believe her punishment is justified.
I love that stuff about Dark Souls. The Faces underneath Helmets are all canon for me. And the fact that Ciaran's helmet can't be removed shows me that there is something true about the myths of her being a cyclops.
You can go behind the scenes and literally find the answers, not just development fragments.
Ciaran's helmet can be removed though, she just doesn't have a specific face modeled underneath it.
Also her model checks for an ID that doesn’t exist anymore. It’s likely she was intended to have a unique character model but they never got around to finalising it so they slapped the default model on her.
She doesn't have any legs because she's always kneeling. We all know or at least we SHOULD know that her tongue was cut out. That's what maimed her.
@@AvisPraeda777 they modelled the chapel dweller’s legs in bloodborne even tho they’re not visible. If they went to the effort of doing it with Anastasia, i’d assume it’s for a reason.
@@connoranderson7432 because she's always kneeling. Why waste resources on something you'll never see? And if you know literally ANYTHING about dark souls, you'll know her tongue was cut out. That's what maimed her.
Wow. this kind of changes the story. In a way, Lautrec sets her free, only for the player to bring her right back to condemnation.
Actually when the player brings her back, yes they condemn her to her cage again, but she's reborn whole again. Her tongue comes back so she's able to speak again, I can only imagine that her legs would come back as well
@@caelancarnes499 neeto. Accidentally doing the right thing
Ya, that's not even sub-text, she complains about having a tongue it's the whole DS3 cursed blueberries but to the next extreme.
Only happy firekeeper is ms. golden knight who attacks you for killing gwin or gwinever can't remember.
@@IrvineTheHunter and the description for her fire keeper soul suggests she is physically grotesque underneath the armor because of the humanities. Fun times.
It also makes me wonder how many other bonfires have a fire keeper who is just sealed within a nearby wall or floor.
Back and with the tongue to guarantee the suffering.
So do her legs grow back along with her tongue when you return the firekeeper soul?
If it's anything like real life, then yes.
undead seem to revive with all of their body parts so yeah probably. I mean her tongue literally grew back when you revived her.
since they probably use the same model id, no.
Alright, no complaints from me about getting kicked off cliffs today, maybe I do deserve it after all.
Heh...
I'd just like to say: I read it with your voice :D
Turns out you were the hero all along
You saved her from her imprisonment
So you knew that? Damn, that explains a lot.
Truly you were her Hero, Lautrec. You saved her from her imprisonment only for the undead to bring her back time and time again
Now I feel kinda' bad for instagibbing Lautrec just so Anastacia can sit mutely in a shitty prison for eternity.
Yeah, I had no idea she got her tongue back if you did the quest- Lautrec just keeps 'tripping' off the edge of the cliff somehow, totally of his own volition
I mean, Dark Souls is basically already 'Wow, that's Grim: The Video Game'. This is just extra dressing on the misery salad.
She can't do stand-up comedy
"got no legs, ain't even got legs"
-dark souls: in summary
Dark Souls has a history of maiming, mangling, or otherwise torturing firekeepers. The Bronze Clad firekeeper, aka Darkmoon Knightess, that serves Gwyndolin has her body supposedly damaged due to the amount of humanity writhing beneath her skin, the firekeeper in Ds3 lacks eyes, Anastasia lacks a tongue and is maimed. Irina is also blind, but seemingly cannot stand either, not to mention the same case as the Darkmoon Knightess with humanity writhing beneath her skin, so far as to it being a constang pain for her. Even going as far as Demons' Souls, the Maiden in Black has her eyes covered by wax, and her feet seemingly either burnt, or scarred from walking barefoot everywhere.
The firekeepers are intended to be the keepers of life, as fire = life in the souls series (according to Gwynistic propaganda). Whether or not this is a reference to how biological mothers in real life suffer during birth, sometimes even dying due to complications, is something I can't say for sure. What I can say is that the firekeepers have always been depicted as maternal figures.
It should be noted that Shanalotte, aka The Emerald Herald, had a child form that we supposedly were to see in Dark Souls 2 before it was cut. And that Crossbreed Priscilla was very likely to be the firekeeper in Dark Souls 1, before it, again, was cut.
The Darkmoon Knightess's body was corrupted by the amount of humanity, I thought. I don't recall her saying she was burnt.
IIRC, the Darkmoon Knightess simply had a lot of Humanity writhing underneath her skin. Irina seems to have something similar, though in her case it's apparently destructive. Alternatively, if those circumstances were a risk to the Darkmoon Knightess as well, perhaps being a Fire Keeper and offering Humanity to a Bonfire is a sort of treatment for the condition.
yeah they also cut almost all of the emerald herald's dialog where she actually gave you a task to complete that was more than SEEK SOULS
@@cordyceps182 True, I completely forgot this.
@@nightscout9979 yes this pleases me
Pretty dark, eh? Suits the ingame world perfectly
Every soul has its dark
especially how backwards and cruel the Way of White is made out to be
Good to see there are other DS fans in my homeland :)
@@lordofsandvich3630 I think this is interpreted from life, like any other big religions of our world, way of white has it's brutal cruelty and darkness within
@@sparrow_r3364 Yes, indeed...
"We've sealed her in a barred cave, but we better chop those legs off just in case, yeah?"
I’d like to think Lautrek was mercy killing her, Eygon seems to be the same way as well where he promised Irna he’d kill her one of her dialogues if she reads dark miracles but she’ll only respond to Eygon’s gauntlets but is killed afterwards is “Ohh... A Knight of Carim... is always true to his word...” land of Carim just seems particularly cruel which explains why everyone from there is so pessimistic and even when helpful always sinister.
Eygon and Anastasia are a play on the "shining knight, who protects a fair maiden"-trope, showing how corrupt this kind of relationship (and the church which perpetuates it) actually is. Anastasia was literally crippled (blinded and unable to walk), to make her dependent on someone. The knight is bound to sitting around, protecting someone he does not care for. He is a warrior, so of course the only answere to his problem, is to literally kill it.
The player on the other hand reaches out to Anastasia and brings her something to read, give her some shallow purpose, as she only reads miracles, or in other words fairytales, without any actual knowledge in them, only storys which tell her, how dependent she is on "powerfull lords". Which is why she is so used to being dependent on somebody else, that she can barely exist without you, constantly deifying everyone, who pays normal attention to her. In the end not even that can keep her from beeing consumed by the dark, asking for help, but even if you reach out, it is not enough. She was kept a child, even as an adult.
She never was allowed to stand on her own feet, and so she needed more and more help, until even that was not enough anymore. Or in other words: Leave women do their thing, they need to define themselfes, not to be defined by the men who claim to "protect" them. ("men" in terms of the shining knight trope, which usually is depicted with men)
It was not death, Eygon was protecting her from, it was life. And even he could not be free in this artifical father-daughter relationship.
Thats atleast my reading of that questline. The games have always critiqued systems that infantilize and control people, like the church.
I guess thats why so many people believe in mercy killings, even though suicide would be the better solution. People can decide for themselfes if living is too much to bear. Now just ask yourself why suicide is considered a sin in the catholic church.
And people think linking the fire is the good ending.
only tragic ending number one and tragic ending number 2... :(
I was here to witness this. Dark Souls, when you leave, you feel a little sadder.
I wish they had modeled the Darkmoon Knightess' disfigurement the way they did this for Anastasia.
I never payed much attention to her. What's her deal?
@@YasonYou I’d like to know too. Never heard anything about this
@@YasonYou The item description of the Brass Set (her armor) says this:
"Armor of the Darkmoon Knightess, Fire Keeper of Anor Londo.
After becoming undead, she visited the Dark Sun Gwyndolin at the Mausoleum of the Spiral Depths, became a Blade of the Darkmoon, and assumed the flame-keeping duty. She received this armor, which hides her hideous form and helps her hunt the guilty."
There is other context that implies she became disfigured after deliberately becoming a firekeeper, but it's been so long since I've thought about this that I forget the exact details. There are youtubers who have done in-depth lore analyses of her character who explain it better.
@@afterwalker6773 My guess is that she simply looks like the average undead
@@matheuscruz8574 We can see a model of what she looks like under the armor and she's not hollow, but a hale and healthy human. I'm not even sure if "hollowing" is exactly even possible for a firekeeper, since they already innately carry multiple humanity inside them as firekeepers.
All this time, I thought her ankles were broken like in the movie Misery.
She skipped Leg-day for sure
Bro her legs skipped her
bro
Dumb
The real Dark Souls were the friends and invaders we met along the way
Holy shit, I just realized that after being maimed, her legs and tongue cut off, and who knows what else did she suffer, Lautrec maybe killed her out of mercy. After seeing her suffering for the time he was in Firelink Shrine, and seeing that she couldn't do anything to escape her misery, maybe he killed her just to stop her suffering.
This really is a dark moment in this game full of soul.
The effort from software goes to just fucking amazes me. No other games have this much detail.
... And think about the amount of cut content this game has... Oscar quest, Priscilla poses...
Glass half full, glass half empty. FROM is also one of the devs that has the most publicly known cut, unfinished or rushed content out there. They weirdly fixate on less important and often minute details, especially ones that most wouldn't see unless they had dev tools or looked *extremely* close, then leave swaths of easily viewable incomplete zones, textures, and portions, whilst also keeping the games surprisingly mechanically light despite the iteration on iteration.
It's a quirk they have, but at least you know it's a FROM game, just from that, good or bad. Favorite detail like that is still the Basilisks. That's a classic.
@@Valanway I'll take their games over any others. Every From game I've played has been a masterpiece.
@@Valanway Art is never finished, only abandoned. ~ Da Vinci
I wish them to improve more and more
That hit me right in the details. Keep em coming please and thank you
Such little details we might never see
Love these types of informative videos that make dark souls more interesting
anakin: perhaps its former wearer was maimed to prevent escape
padme: but she grows them back when you restore her tongue right?
anakin: ...
padme: but she grows them back when you restore her tongue RIGHT?!
And they apparently performed this "surgery" in the very robes she's wearing now, just to make it that much worse, I guess. Either that or they put them on her immediately after
Insert “are we the bad guys” meme
Ain't even got legs
This guy gets it
Just when you thought this 10 year old game couldnt get any darker. It always finds a way to surprise you
"Welcome to Blubbo's. I'll chop off yer legs!"
"Are you TRYING to go to jail?"
"Hey, three squares a day!"
Anastacia doing the T-Pose to assume dominance
More like a т-pose
I was very surprised to not see that "ain't got no legs" thing pop up.
later: she's very slowly getting away
This is why I love the souls borne series. The fucking detail. Some details you normally would never even see
But... Anastacia has feet fanart on the internet...
That horribly grim but, pretty Interesting that they go so far for things you don’t see. Makes you wonder if there was more to her character at some point.
"Bitch aint even got legs"
-ancient dragon probably
Miyazaki: cut her legs too so when modders digs around they will see this detail
Staff: haha no way
Miyazaki: Did i stutter?
No tongue and no legs.... holy crap this is next level. Dark souls character design is top tier!
So we have swords and magic that can kill gods but that cant break some bars
Look Ma, no legs!
Ain't. Even. Got. Legs.
FromSoftware taking seriously his lore since 2009
Just like every soul sings a sad sad song
Everyday you learn something new regarding this game
...haunting
"Bitch ain't got no legs." "Ain't even got LEGS."
By the gods I wasn't ready for that but here I am with this knowledge that will haunt me for the rest of time and this EXPLAINS WHY I ALWAYS FELT LIKE I NEEDED TO PROTECT HER!
Firekeeper Dan ain't got no legs
Maimed but still asserting dominance
If you want to see what Anastacia's garment originally looks like, then check out Rhea of Thorolund's Maiden set.
I wonder if this wasn't done for artistic purposes, ie the way she sits on the ground meant that her legs would clip through the skirt of have to be put into the ground to get the effect they wanted. Still it's a brilliant interpretation and I'm good with making it at least head canon.
"Bitch ain't got no legs"
"Ain't even got legs"
I kind of think this was more to prevent clipping than anything else. If this was intentionally to show she was maimed, it wouldn't be as clean, and they'd make it more visible.
"Bitch ain't got no legs"
So you..
T-pose 4 dominance
"So yeah, she aint got legs."
. . . sir, do you want me to call a therapist?
"Desperately, yes please."
This would explain the very confusing note I found in front of her cell...
"Need feet"
thank you dark souls
Lieutenant Dan! You got no legs!
She also literally regains her tongue when revived, sad her legs don't also heal
lieutenant dan, you ain't got no legs.
I'd love to see Dark Souls completely remade by FromSoftware today. It could even turn out to be a completely different game!
Ludleth moment
I'm willing to bet the "maimed" legs came first, as some form of dev laziness, and then the description was written as an inside joke
Yeah that was my thought as well. That they removed the legs so her kneeling/sitting would look more natural and avoid clipping issues. Still it's kind of an awesome take/inside joke if it was intended.
THANK YOU FOR SOLVING THE MYSTERY
Wow that IS grim
When you're literally nothing but pants waist below
wow, and I was thinking she just got hamstringed or something.
*Lieutenant Dan moment*
That was some pretty grim T-posing, for sure.
Jeez... I heard/thought that the hamstrings in the back of her legs were cut to prevent her from walking, but this... was not what I was expecting.
They took her feet!! UNFORGIVABLE!!!
Ya ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan!
summary of dark souls: wow... that is grim..
you ain't got no legs, Lt Dan
Nice detail.
Holy crap. I knew about the tongue thing but not her dang legs!
Fire keeper got Boneless Legs
Fans: OMG I can't believe they put in THAT much detail for something that you never see!
Devs: There was a bug we couldn't fix and it went away when we deleted her legs...
ngl, Anastacia is one of the NPCs that I feel the most bad for. She one of my favorite Dark Souls characters, but its difficult to explain why she is. I even once made an Anastacia build with her outfit
The world-building in DS1 is unmatched across the souls series
Jeeze, I'd figured they'd cut her tendons or something.
spain without the s
*"MY LEGS!"*
Considering what seems to have happened to Ludleth it would appear cutting off the legs is a common practice in the Way of White