Dark Souls Lore - Abysswalker Artorias
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- Dark Souls Lore - Abysswalker Artorias
Knight Artorias, what did you see in the Abyss?
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"is Sif left-handed?"
A very interesting question actually.
If you look closely, the way Sif swings the greatsword DOES resemble a left-handed person(slashes from left to right).
In the cutscene he even purposely switched the sword to this position, indicating he's more comfortable with the "left-handed" style.
I wonder if this means something.
Also I suppose the reason why Artorias didn't use left hand in game is simply because it's broken, probably from previous battles. Which further indicates what we fought was a weakened Artorias ---- this probably doesn't mean anything lorewise, only the designer's way to add a little bit more respect to someone that will eventually be defeated.
Yeah, I had an argument with somebody about the left or right handed question, and I also mentionned this point, about sif moveset, one thing that can be relevant also, is that it is mentionned that Artorias was UNMATCHED with a great sword, it is interesting to note that left handed swordmens have some kind of upper hand with ordinary right handed swordsmen, because ordinary rihgt hand are used to have sparring with others right handed, and they re not used with left handed. On the otherside, left handed are used to the movements of right handed, because right handed are most common.
I can't say how strong he was with a healthy arm and a greatshield but I think Artorias was boosted by the abyss. Do you not remember him kneeling down, buffing himself with the power of the abyss and one shoting you after that ? One thing is for sure, what we fought was not Artorias, but a mere creature consumed by the abyss that wore his gear.
@@ayrona93 Artorias regular non cursed greatsword has faith an intelligence requirements and magic damage.
We know that Artorias faced the Abyss. So its only reasonable to assume he knew magic and likely miracles to an extent.
He could likely have buffed himself without the abyss anyways.
Possibly even heal himself.
Maybe not quite as strong of a buff.
But even a half as powerful buff in exchange for the strongest shield in game And the ability to use his domimant hand/twohand his weapon and use tactics and skill.
He's at best a third as strong as he should be.
It means Sif trained with a "left handed" stance, presumably because of the advantages that gives against right-handed fighters. Sif is not left or right handed, as that's a traits found only in kangaroos and homininians.
I think the Abyss Watchers were set up by Ciaran to continue Artorias’ legacy. The Chosen Undead can give Ciaran the Soul of Artorias which became known as the Soul of the Blood of the Wolf, shared by the Abyss Watchers.
Good point. Never thought of that possibility. There is also the possibility that Ciaran gave the soul to Sif after he was saved. Would make sense beyond the gameplay perspective that his soul creates Artorias' sword and the wolf's blood would carry on his legacy.
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I'll have to respectfully disagree with this theory. In the game we can find a female corpse behind the Grave of Artorias where you can loot the Hornet Ring. Dark Souls' relies heavily on environmental lore and many items are thoughtfully placed to tell its story (very much like we find Tarkus' set on a corpse in the Painted World's room in Anor Londo), so it is likely that the corpse in question is Ciaran herself.
reikayakishiro good point, but does not rule out the possibility that she returned to this spot after handing off the soul. We do not find it (Artorias's soul) on the corpse, and the chosen undead does not prop her corpse up next to the grave after killing her.
@Daniel Rhodes I wasn't ruling that out, I was refuting the idea that she was the founder of the Abyss Watchers. DS's lore may be vague in places, but if there ain't no other evidence that contradicts what's already hinted/implied/explicit in the game, it is safe to go in the most obvious direction. Ciaran was dead eons before the events in DS3.
Making an addendum: It is worth noting that the Abyss Watchers were also known as the Farron's *Undead* Legion (opening cinematic, Hawkwood's dialogue). Ciaran uses Lloyd Talismans if you engage in combat against her, which was an item for hunting Undead, and on top of that, she also despises humans, as evidenced in her dialogue without Artorias' soul in your inventory, when engaging her in combat, and when killed; that's more than the one-liners characters blurt out to point fingers at your motivations being driven by the fact you're human. The way she puts her sentences borders on racism, even. She doesn't even bother giving you her name. Also, she addresses the player in the "you" form of speech, as opposed to her other comrades - Artorias and Gough - not because she was somehow born at a later age, but rather that in early modern english addressing someone by "you" could either signify respect and formality, or emotional distance and coldness depending of the social situation you found yourself in. It's not hard to figure out the meaning behind her choice of words when you sum all parts. So I doubt she'd ever bring together this kind of lot.
And to add up to your commentary, the game implies that souls have memories of its former owner ingrained in it (Old Moonlight spell being the most explicit evidence of all); Sif's soul can produce Artorias' greatsword because it's part of the wolf's memories.
I think Artorias is largely a symbolic character who represents the key themes of the games where no matter how great of a man you are, no matter how much dark you bring light to, the flame you create only casts an even greater shadow. He shows that even the brightest flames casts the darkest shadow. Artorias represents a key theme of the games where often times the very thing we set out to destroy, we end up becoming. Great video Alex, awesome as always!
I can’t even think of Artorias without getting even a little bit teary eyed
Yeah same lmao
I think the abyss has always existed, as evidenced by the ring knights, and Manus just had so much humanity that he created a new and even more dangerous form of it.
Right. The abyss always existed but when Manus went crazy after his awakening his humanity went wild. Thus I can assume that he created a wild, dangerous corruption of the abyss.
Yeah, I do like that concept. The "Abyss" existed and then was twisted by Manus, making him the father of what we think of, as the modern abyss.
Well the armor and weapons of the ringed knights were forged in the abyss so the abyss existed from the very begging . Manus being one of the pygmy lords had so much of the dark soul that when he snapped he created a corrupted version of it wich consumes anything it touches. I said one of the pygmy lords because i think the furtive pygmy is either dead or sealed away with the others and the rest of the dark soul in filianore's egg. Look at the boss room of the four kings the abyss completly devoured everything around it leaving behind only a hollow space because it was corrupted.
New Londo is an example of this. It has nothing to do with Manus and it happened before artorias went to oolacile. New Londo was the reason artorias gained the title of abyss walker
I just want to say that I feel like you look at Artorias from the wrong angle. I think people like his character so much because he was brave, if foolish, and willing to sacrifice himself to fix his mistakes. He, of all four knights, challenges the abyss and when he realizes his mistake he saves Sif instead of himself. It wasn't that he accomplished much but that he dealt with his faults head-on. Still like your videos just felt the need to say that.
It's definitely gonna vary from person to person - I like Artorias I just think he's very flawed and I would argue he didn't handle any of the challenges in Oolacile in the correct way. But that's part of what makes him interesting, to me.
Silver Mont Alr I just wanted to share because you always seem to put the guy down a bit.
@@Jking44th your opinion is predicated in the belief that the abyss is “bad.” Which is the childish cliche that silver is trying to get away from.
@@eddiey699 First, comment is 3 years old. Second, nah. My opinion has nothing to do with what the abyss actually is but how the characters reacted to it. Artorias and the people perceived the abyss as bad and he went to do something about it. It was a stupid choice that lead to him being overwhelmed and instead of saving himself he saved Sif. He didn't let Sif pay for his mistake. "Abyss bad" has nothing to do with any of that because the reality was that it was dangerous for him and Sif.
I always interpreted it was Oolacile itself that awoke Manus and in their desire to learn more about this being they poked and prodded him until he snapped. They may have had a special connection to him which might explain why Dusk seemed to be special to him and why they even knew where he was. This may have been a desire to take back the power of man to supplant the failing gods...only to discover the dark does not work like the light and it does not take well to being disturbed.
Kaathe or another primordial serpent is known to have convinced oolacile to disturb the body of Manus by telling them it would grant them more power.
Wasn't expecting this on my birthday but you know what I'm fine with it
I think the creatures of the Abyss are the Serpents and the Locusts.
How about the mushrooms? They aren't in the Royal Wood but they are in Darkroot. Are they abyssal fungi?!
@@SilverMont why all the guesses about Alvina, Sif, or some other creatures being the "beasts" that Artorias made a covanant with when all the evidence points to the Primordial Serpents. Kaathe explicitly states that he lives in the Abyss waiting for the Dark Lord, Kaathe (a Primordial Serpent) is the only creature actually shown being able to traverse the Abyss besides the Four Kings, Primordial Serpents (probably Kaathe) caused Oolacile to wake Manus, New Londo and Oolacile are the same location, and on top of all that the Primordial Serpents are exactly the shifty figures that would make a deal like that.
Even if you want to reject all that, I think it's safe to say that the "beasts of the Abyss" are the Primordial Serpents just by the process of elimination.
1) Alvina is just a sentient/non-hostile one of the cat creatures that hangs out in Darkroot Garden with no obvious links to the Abyss other than she knows about Artorias, so that rules her out.
2) If Sif is from the Abyss, why would she be trapped by humanity sprites and hiding under the protection of Artorias' shield if she could just walk around freely?
3) There is no way Manus, humanity sprites, or the corrupted people of Oolacile would be in any state to make some sort of deal due to them being extremely hostile and having no way to communicate. Plus I wouldn't consider them "beasts"
4) There isn't any other creatures that we know of from the Abyss except maybe the locusts, and they weren't even a thing in DS1 so I doubt they had anything to do with it.
@@SilverMont I just remembered that Alvina makes a brief ghost-like appearance in the Chasm of the Abyss to guide you to Sif, but I take that more as her spirit helping the player to save her friend than Alvina physically being in the Abyss.
Shalquoir and Alvina are more wise and mysterious beings than "beasts". They are pretty neutral too, whereas being from the Abyss would convey a strong affinity towards the dark.
After reading the “Age of Fire” comic, it got me to wondering, sure it shows Artorias fighting Darkwraiths, but regardless, his eyes, and Arkon’s, they where red, but also cooled to a faded blue sec later, and this is even more proven by the Silver Knight in Anor Lando from DS3...
*kneels in front of Oswald of Carim, hands clasped*
I have a confession...
Silver Mont is my favorite RUclipsr.
Me too
*GASP* ARTORIAS!!
Undead Hunter prod
Prod knows that true Artorias weilds a dark Dark Sword... yeah lol
Once upon a time, the Abyss was a cold, dark and very gentle place.
I feel like everyone lies in Dark Souls.
Or maybe they just never have the "truth", so no matter how genuine they think they might be, they can't help bu lie. Look at the discourse between the clergy in Demons' Souls and the Mages. The whole time, it turns out they draw power from the same source and maybe the player is the only one that figures out the "truth" about it.
When we fought him, he was not "the abysswalker" yet. The legend (lie) has not been spread yet, he was just knight artorias
I beg to differ. The game gives out that Artorias was formerly titled as Wolf Knight (and The Great Artorias, according to Gough), he would only be known as the Abysswalker after the events in New Londo (Silver Pendant description), the most probable place for him to have founded a covenant with the creatures of the Abyss so that he could be able to traverse it (Covenant of Artorias' ring, the entirety of Darkstalker Kaathe's lore).
His final title (and perhaps something that's only known to the player themselves) was Artorias of the Abyss, when he was fully corrupted by it in Oolacile.
The timeline is a little iffy, but it seems implied that the events of Oolacile came after Artorias had fisticuffs with the Darkwraiths and potentially did a little Abyss-delving.
big fan for a very very long time thanks for making these videos
Have you watched thepruld Christmas special, now every time I try to imagine the personalities of Dark Souls characters, I can only imagine them as thepruld's version.
i kind of have this feeling i need more lore on fume knight aaaaaand.... Sir Alonne
I did videos on 'em a while back, (Fume Tower Lore or something) but I might do another at some point to improve it.
Damn the obvious answer: he made a pact with Manus, he sacrifices himself to save the world from the abyss. He is the hero we all wish we could be.
It is my belief that before the DLC Artorias did in fact defeat Manus, and was corrupted afterwards, as Dusk is still alive without the player going back in time and credits her saviour to Artorias. If he never defeated Manus, and the player never chooses to go back in time, why is the Abyss not more wide spread? I believe that the player going back in time is what ruins the legend of Artorias, taking his place as the saviour of dusk and slayer of Manus. That when you travel to oolacile you're in a time where Manus is already dead and you're simply in the crumbling ruins of the city that was too far gone. Going even further back in time after the Artorias battle, to a time where Manus lives, and you slay him,in place of the abysswalker.
It might be one of those time is confusing as hell, but it may be something like if you choose not to link the fire, someone else will do it. No matter what you do in the game, it all resolves itself in the end.
Could be, but then why does Alvina tell us that "the legends of Artorias are non but a fabrication"?
Lautaro Trefilio it very well could be her not believing the stories, or perhaps she's a close friend of Sif and possibly Artorias, and doesn't want Sif to die because you're looking for the ring the he guards. As to why Alvina doesn't say anything after you kill Sif, it's probably because getting booted out of a covenant after killing a mandatory boss would be kinda dumb. Or maybe she just never finds out, who knows?
IIRC doesn't Dusk only have that dialogue about Artorias if you complete the DLC and save her?
Lautaro Trefilio
Becuase she's a none believer 😝
She talks about her detrust in shiva but he dose not do anything
Artorias warns you before the fight.
Nah fam, you have some lore mixed up.
I am not a loremaster, so do correct me if i am wrong
Artorias didnt lose due to hubris, he lost due to Sif.
Artorias's greatshield protected him from the dark completely. However, somewhere along the line, Sif was injured. Artorias had roughly 3 options: Either bring an Injured Sif with him to Manus where Manus would likely kill him, Leave Sif behind to be killed so he could fight Manus alone with his shield, or leave the shield behind to protect Sif and try to fight Manus without it.
Of course, without his Shield, he lost the fight against Manus's dark magics and was subsequently corrupted by the dark.
And with Artorias being Left handed, you cant use the boss fight as evidence to disprove it as like you said, Thats probably not even Artorias anymore at this point, its a possessed corpse in similar looking armor with what seems to be some maybe similar athleticism. And to say "Artorias didnt Inherit the sword" is kind of a weak argument, thats cherry picking from the item description at that point.
"Artorias, deeply scarred by the abyss, used this to form a barrier to protecthis compatriot Sif."
The wording here suggests that he was harmed by the Abyss before he ever got around to protecting Sif (and nowhere does it suggest complete protection against the dark). Either way it's not entirely clear what happened - my thinking is that due to his injuries, he was unable to properly utilise the shield, and thus used it to protect Sif, kinda solving two problems at once.
Sif is pretty deep in the Abyss, and if Artorias knew how much the doggo would struggle, why wouldn't he have sent it back the moment they went in? Instead of waiting until they get really far inside. Obviously Sif isn't having a great time but I feel like it was capable of holding its own, especially as we can summon Sif against Manus.
11:25 Im I the only one slightly bored by how the daggers handle and scabbard folding like paper? Also, maybe Alvina teached the Forest Hunters how Artorias fought (at least the eay she saw him for the last time) and they became the Undead Legion? After all, they are guarding his tomb, kinda.
Dark Souls weapons are very magical. This is the game where you can shove an entire scythe through somebody, after all.
Definitely one of the saddest scenes in any video game that I've played.
Abyss walker more like abitch walker am I right
I’ll leave
exogenesis91 Lol
Hahaha fuck im mad that i laughed at that... im gonna leave as well then
Abitch Walker more like bore ragnarok am I right
Hohooo, you show 'em, Sergeant!
That little Lyon traitor is my fav. But the curse equipment of artorias are just 😩👌
Lyon traitor?
Silver Mont I believe ornstein left to search for the nameless king, he abandoned his position. The age of fire was fading but even smough stayed, I do think that it was reasonable for ornstein to leave, but I don’t think lord Gwynn would have approved.
Just wanna hear ur thoughts on my overall theory because I like ur lore videos. Kaathe wants a dark lord because the serpents are imperfect dragons. He wants the dragons to rise again and know the humans are the ones who can finish off the gods. Ash lake shows the dragons survived in small pockets. If the humans kill the gods off then the true dragons could destroy the human world. People bring up dark eater midir but he literally was forced for lifetimes to consume the dark it shows how resistant the dragons are to it. To me it seems like a big rock paper scissors. Humans beat god. God beat dragon and dragon beats human
That was more or less my thinking back in the day, yeah. I went into that on my old Kirk lore video (I think it was that one) and I'll be bringing it up in my next lore video, in September.
Ah yes, those Fume Knight hitboxes. Lovely memories.
Thats is what i call made in abyss. Now everyone Pass The Humanity.
Get outta here Lautrec
But what if artorias is left handed though? Hear me out a bit.
This is less lore based and more from a background of sword play. In the video you propose that artorias' arm is broken protecting Sif with the shield, or in a conflict with Manus, but what if artorias broke it himself? Its stated that artorias is unmatched with a greatsword, but his fighting style when we fight him sucks. That's not how you fight with a greatsword if you can help it. Even if you only have one arm. Most of the weapon styles in the game are pretty in depth and well researched, and it's one of my favorite parts of the game. But not artorias. So one of his lines is, he knows hes being taken over. Not just killed by the abyss, but taken over and assimilated by it. Being the good honorable knight he is, what if his last saner thought is to break his sword arm, making it unusable by the force corrupting his mind so that he is less dangerous to those around him?
Hmm, in that case, wouldn't it have made more sense to just toss his sword, or jump into a hole? Although my personal thinking is that his berserking combat style in the fight is on account of him being "dead" or hollow - all the finesse and skill replaced with swinging it around like a club.
Silver Mont feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, cause you know way more lore wise than I do, but would artorias even view death as a solution here? Is death ever a permanent solution in dark souls? And as far as throwing away his sword. He threw away his shield to protect Sif, so that makes sense, but maybe he decided he wanted to go down swinging, taking as much of the abyss with him as he could. Idk. Like I said, I'm not a huge lore buff, so I dont know his personality well enough to make a call like that, it was just an observation I've always had about his fighting style.
@@path2plowshares274 sorry for replying to an 8 month old comment but i think that Artorias sword style perfectly reflects DS level of fighting style : Too damn widening of every single hit, also the sword is always a great sword, so when using it with only one hand is definitely harder to get your moves correctly (try to equip the same sword yourself one-handed).
Also his hits are really precise and he gets the sword where he wants, so i highly doubt it's his off-hand
@@path2plowshares274 also take a look at how he grabs his sword in the age of fire comic and you see the higher hand is the right one, and also in the comics he fights right handed
@@SilverMont yeah like abyss creates more of a berserker effect. Stronger, faster but less accurate, graceful and not well thought out
Another amazing video. Thank you so much.
I can't help but share this: It's not just Japan that uses red and blue for rival forces. In early some judeo-christian art there were two angels as that usher the dead into the afterlife. The angel in red leads the the sheep (symbolizing the good believers) while an angel in blue leads away the goats (those who erred in life). Over time the repetitions of this scene by painters altered the blue angel into the devil. It's very recent the color red is heavily attributed the devil.
Interesting, I've never heard of that before! It's definitely not my strong area haha
There are some that say Artorias was Left handed. And there are those who say Artorias was Right handed.
Me? I think the dude was ambidextrous. Chew on that for a bit lol
Visions of Guts
Can't wait for the remaster on the switch
Something like two months to go right? Not long at all. Although IIRC the Switch version is different to the Remaster, it's a bit closer to the originally, visually. Which I think is a good thing. Long as you get the matchmaking updates, that's the important part!
What armor set and weapons are you wearing Silver Mont? By the looks of it I’m guessing the shield is made from Gywndolin’s soul.
You are correct! And it's the brass set, with a texture swap to make it silver
Silver Mont ahh it looks really nice man! I’m guessing that’s what the Silver Mont character is also wearing too haha. I forget all the stuff you can do with the PC version.
The sword... is that Solaire’s sword?
Silver Knight Straight Sword, if I remember right (I'm answering from the comment page without actually checking the footage)
I love Artorias his whole Wolf Knight thing is pretty cool. Though I would like to have seen his dynamic with the other Knights of Gwyn, and even Gwyndolin I mean Wolf Knight and Moon Deity I totes ship it. Speaking of we ever gonna get a Gwyndolin lore video? I think he's the only one you haven't really covered, the Priscilla video does not count.
I dread the comments on a Gwyndolin lore video
Silver Mont Well I can't really speak for everyone, but I think your videos a worth enduring a few bad comments ^.^
Great video
I hope they make dark souls 4,3 only really felt truly dark souls in the dlc,the prison area and archdragon peak,I want another challenge,and I mean better ai and lesser room for error,like how most counted every mistake they made every try.
which armor set is he wearing?
It's the brass set, but the textures are edited
But artorias did use a shield just not in his boss fight.
Yep
What set of armor is that in the beginning?
On the player character, the silver one? That's the brass set with a texture swap
Yay, more lore from one of the best! (Here before the slow-walking edgelords finally arrive)
Sounds like dark wraiths. The ones who creep.
The beast from the Abyss could be Frampt, as he is "loyal" to Gwyn.
Yeah, a serpent seems as likely a bet as Alvina etc.
No mature content
*Artorias tossing an impaled corpse at someone*
He was just throwing his friend at you for a hug
I just wish you coulda fought artorias in his prime. Him Gwyn vendrick and lorian are such a tease because of what it describes them as at their best
Isn't it?
How long did the thumbnail took?
It's still actually not finished, and has so far taken a couple of hours.
And now, later, at it's finished state, it's about 4 hours of work in all.
natuprunk do you get the royalty from his videos too or you just get royalty from that website ? Or you don't get paid at all
The Punisher Sequence , Alex pays me for the art I do, a flat sum, and I get a tiny bit of money from the shirts I sell (due to how the site works, I get a portion of sales).
Conshuuuumed by the darkness
I don’t know why but the way he says that is weird to me
Me?
Lol!
Silver Mont talking about flippy floppy man
NOICE
Oh yea I fukin love you silver
Me too
Also I think the reason Artoias didn't use his left hand in the game is simply because it's broken from previous battles.
You know, the way it hangs.
Although it barely means anything lorewise. This is probably the designer's way to show a character's strength who is meant to be defeated by players, so that we know he would be much stronger in his prime.
Dark Souls really has a thing for that, yeah. Like they hammer us over the head with the fact that Gwyn is probably at like 1% of his power.
Thst was his shield hand so he swings his sword with his dominant hand. He has a big pauldron over his left hand those things are usually put over the shield hand for extra protection. When he fought manus he and sif were probably backing the beast into a corner. Seeing itself overpowered manus went after sif the weaker of the two. To protect sif artorias had no choice but to get between sif and manus taking the blow meant for sif, a blow so powerfull it shattered the bones in his hand and broke his shield. Unable to bear the burden of his shield artorias left the shield with sif using the last ounce of magical power from the shield to protect the wolf pup and continued the fight alone. He maybe didn't have the silver pendant or didn't use it for some reason so this left him wide open to the coruption of the abyss. Tainted and overwhelmed he retreated maybe out of fear of hurting sif intending to come back with reinforcements, tough being so weakened he was completly taken over.The rest is history.
@@SilverMont That was a Tolkien theme that featured prominently in Souls games. From The Silmarillion to The Lord of The Rings, as time went on the land became more damaged and all it’s inhabitants became smaller and less powerful. Just like Dark Souls builds a process of decline and fall into Lordran and Lothric, these once great beings are now diminished and we are only present for the aftermath just to mop up the crumbs and take the last vestiges of power in a broken and traumatised land.
Hey dude could you make a lore video on the dragonslayer armour its a really intresting thing and its possesed by a soul maybe the same as the iron golem only corrupted by the abyss
I touched on it a little in my Ornstein video from not long ago
Silver Mont ill recheck it out thanks dude
What’s the set he is wearing?
A texture edited brass set
8:56 It's supposed that he switched hands to use his dominant arm to give Sif more prltection
Is this a reupload from your older vids?
Not a reupload, a remake. A remaster.
Silver Mont got it.
If you compare with the old one, you'll hopefully see that it's a lot better!
Silver Mont I'm sure I probably saw the old one years ago and forgot
Silver Mont Ken and Ryu bro, another example of frenemies
That thumbnail tho, Why is Genn Greymane wearing Artorias' shoulder pads? kek
He needed even bigger shoulder pads so he took the next logical step and strapped a knight to each shoulder
I'm pretty sure the fume knight is NOT dead. Its stated that he chose to stay there himself. The ashen bride died(or killed herself) and clung to items(the idols) and the fume GS, not the knight himself.
Plus if you go in wearing the royal agis helm he gets royally pissed at you. I doubt some dead puppet would care about somone that nadalia didn't even know.
Otherwise I like the theories.
I always thought it would be cool that part of his self remains, so that even in death, he's triggered by bell boy
Silver u gonna remake more vids
Some of the oldest lore videos, yeah. To make them better.
You can't say for certain that the sword wasn't passed down to Artorias though, there's absolutely nothing in the game that states it was originally his and only his. That doesn't defeat the left handed theory, by simply stating well it was originally his with nothing to back that theory up, especially since there's no inheritors shown outside of Artorias.
WarriorExo there's nothing to suggest the sword was passed down to him.
We don't know where Artorias got the sword, yeah. The fact that it's known as his sword though, would suggest that he is the original owner of it. But there could always be something like in Fate with Gilgamesh - he owns the "prototype" of all heroic weapons, but they aren't associated with him as much as their most famous owners. Like excalibur with Arthur, etc.
Knight Artorias: the ultimate Chad.
I'd say that's probably Straid
INT build being a chad? That's a though one.
Straid has pretty much every stat, he uses pyromancy and sorcery, plus his set was originally a swordsman set so he's probably got a good amount of str/dex too. Plus you just need to compare his reaction to being petrified with other characters. Rosabeth has a seizure and starts spazzing out, Straid just starts shit talking immediately and laughing at you. And then he tries to make you more powerful by giving you a spare set of his clothes so you can be more like him.
Good point. But how much STR, tho?
Ornstein best knight and hubando though.
Man Bear King
The second best kind
A Dishwasher Smartorias?
What am I doing?
Meh, he didn't really do anything that amazing besides lose and look cool. His design and Guts style is alright, but I honestly thought the Abyss Watchers were cooler.
The reason manus pulls you in the vortex is because he is looking for the other half of his pendant, which broke when he went mad when put together it could apparently restore him to his human form. P.s. he is the furtive Pygmy.
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I think Ornstien sounds like you...
That's because we are both Leo's
Artorias is left handed.
Sif is female.
We don't know Sif's gender, as it's never mentioned. Nor is Artorias's dominant hand. However in the game and in all artwork, he's right handed.