Bloodborne's Story • Translated (Lore w/ Lokey)

Bloodborne released in 2015 and it was great!
But did you know it had a story?
And LORE!
And that the lore was partially lost in translation?
In this video, me and channel friend Lokey dive deep into the translation we got, and into a more proper translation to understand what was lost in translation.
Hope you have some time to kill, because this one is a beast! :D
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[@mrdrquesos2795]

Theres never enough time to speak about bloodborne

[@AesirAesthetics]

Enjoy! :D

[@pinkemoslayer6337]

You can say that again!

[@paxtenebrae]

When talking directly about Japanese translation I fully buy Lokey's theories. The more he extrapolates out from there on tiny in-game details the more I reach "Press X to doubt".

[@dylanmiller9162]

Yeah, I look forward to more info on just translations on his site because sometimes I also felt like there were connections they felt were more obvious and thus didn’t need much explanation but to me felt like they came out of nowhere.

[@evanpetelle5669]

This seems like such a real topic. I’m listening and driving and if you were to randomly come across this conversation on the radio, you’d assume they were speaking on actusl individuals & places. It’s so cool. Excellent world-building. Excellent story. Glad to have this man who understands the serious nuance when translating Japanese & the implications that error can have. Great video, great conversation.

[@mirceanicula9198]

I love how with the Orphan of Kos fight his wings float in the air as if they're not affected by gravity. It makes a correlation with outer space, the cosmos. the details in these games are astonishing!

[@Bumfuzzel96]

or like being in water

[@yeahthatsright33]

This came out at the perfect time. I was just getting back into bloodborne.

[@AesirAesthetics]

:)

[@coolbule1238]

Im an addict

[@jordansebert11]

@@coolbule1238 same here dude. Want to help me with my 99 arc build? Just got kos parasite, my save data got corrupted on my other ps4, I had perfect gems and everything lol my psn is Ronaldraygun94 if youre interested in hanging out and playing/talking about the game!

[@Er404ChannelNotFound]

I believe it was in an interview that Miyazaki revealed your healthbar doesn't actually represent physical health necessarily. Instead it's refering to your motivation, your drive to move forward and to end the nightmare. I know it's unintuitive especially considering how the game literally says "YOU DIED" when your healthbar reaches zero but the idea he pushes in here is that you weren't really killed but rather pulled by the Moon Presence to the dream to avoid death. This is also supported by the way with which the rally mechanic works. It's called *rally* for this reason in which you regain your motivation to move forward by hitting back against the monsters that are inflicting this damage to your fortitude. This is why it also works on the enemies after they're dead and in their dying animation. In this sense what the blood vials are doing principally is numbing you to the pain to aid in restoring your drive by getting more blooddrunk in a sense.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

It is death, but the moon presence steps in and eases your mind enough that you can recover. Your body, as I understand it, is just as durable as the beasts. Your wounds will close quickly, even if they should be fatal. What has a hard time recovering is your willpower. All the pain and stress unnerves you. So anything that banishes the pain and the memory of the trauma will restore you. The item description of blood vials makes it clear it is euphoric to take blood. That the rush is something many come to crave.

[@Mikolaj1334]

Makes sense if you think how frenzy status works... kinda.

[@noahraab2429]

I mean...shattering my legs after hitting the ground doesn't seem like I got pulled out before dying. Maybe it some causality or time manipulation. The dream reverses you back to a former healthy state. Or maybe it's your own dream version of yourself? If you just lost a an arm in an accident, I suppose you'd still have it in your dreams because you haven't accepted the loss yet.

[@johndiddilyjoe6258]

Yeah idk I think I'd be more willing to believe if there was less blah blah blah and more, Source

[@Er404ChannelNotFound]

@@johndiddilyjoe6258 I mean, you can open the stat screen and press Help to reveal info on individual stats. Put the pointer on HP and it says "The power, or will, to survive. If this falls to 0, your strength will fade away".

[@yeahthatsright33]

Also shoutout to Lokey! I really hope your offered an official job to handle translations for games! You do really impressive work and I wish that the larger corporate world of video games would take notice!

[@GoldenXShark22]

Genuinely some of the most fun BB discussions! Would love more if possible!! Even after years I'm still learning so damn much, thanks guys!

[@JuliusCaesar103]

I enjoyed this talk tremendously. Loved it! Lokey is an encyclopedia about the game.

[@AntiSocialismo50]

Translation of cutcontent is peak dark souls lore analysis

[@AesirAesthetics]

I don't remember inf I said this in the video or not, but I consider a lot of cut content to be fair game for lore, because so much of it gets cut for performance reasons and because they don't have time to test everything, rather than them having changed their minds on what should be canon

[@AntiSocialismo50]

@@AesirAesthetics yeah, you are right. I agreed that cut content can explain certain things, like the spiders conections with amygdala that was cut, for me that is a fine explanation for them.

[@vinodchhabria8738]

@@AntiSocialismo50 Hey Jesus, how's the heaven doing these days.

[@ickyvicky]

I really appreciate these vids, they help me understand while also giving me ideas for writing!

[@lumeronswift]

I adore the translation of Kos you provide. That hugely raised my investment in the story. Every other lore channel talks about Kos as having simply washed up dead on the shore... but the mournful beauty of the scene is much more meaningful in the context you provide.

[@jhitcho2026]

Great content guys. Thanks for the deep dive and clarity to bring a greater context and understanding.

[@AesirAesthetics]

Our pleasure!

[@georgerolandallen]

excited to listen to this. preparing my thumbs to switch to half speed whenever lokey talks

[@JuliusCaesar103]

What a special episode. Look forward to listening to this.

[@AesirAesthetics]

hope you enjoy!

[@AesirAesthetics]

Apologies for some clickety clacks here and there. Also, how cool is it that I still have all of the raw recordings I did for the commentary!?!?!

[@harper2606]

Such a great listen, you two are wonderful!

[@razorloboerrol]

Nice to see Lokey here. Been hooked to his lore site since I found it a few weeks ago.

[@AesirAesthetics]

Lokey is a friend from way back! We even did that Demon's Souls translation video together!

[@razorloboerrol]

@@AesirAesthetics That's really great. I'll watch it once I finish Demons Souls (at the maneater section). I know it's been down to death, but will there be 1 for dark souls 1 & 3? In the future. Half way done. Great job as always.

[@AesirAesthetics]

@@razorloboerrol 1 yes. Don't really have much to say about 2 or 3

[@razorloboerrol]

@@AesirAesthetics that's cool.

[@Proctor_Conley]

Great stuff! Thank you both!

[@daerdon]

This video maxed out my insight. Greetings and thank you from the Dreamlands!

[@AesirAesthetics]

Glad it was helpful :D

[@primarchlogarius]

A fireside chat between an Aesir and an all knowing Jotun. Love it!

[@Applecrossresearch]

Hi Aesir!! I'm a big of your work I've been watching your videos since your Silent hill 2 video and that was the first time I felt like I completely understood a game from every angle and that's a feeling I very rarely get from youtube analysis videos. Starting last year I binged all of the Fromsoft games( except for dark souls 2 and Sekiro) in preparation for my playthrough of Elden ring. since then I've been captivated by the lore of these games which led to me watching all of your videos on them. I've noticed that out of all the games you seem to be particularly fascinated with the lore of bloodborne seeing how it's the Fromsoft game that has the most lore dedicated videos on the channel. With that information in mind I would like to give give you the ability to completely understand Bloodborne and I think I've found something that might do the trick.... Behold the holy chalice of all blood borne lore hunters, a recent analysis series called The True Story of Bloodborne by the channel Charred Thermos: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGbOm2WEaaaBr6c . This is unlike anything you've seen before covering Bloodborne, it covers almost every aspect of the game through a surprisingly applicable and undiscussed lens that reveals far more about the story of the game, Miyazaki's creative process, and the themes of the game. I wouldn't and can't say we've solved everything with this series(there are some conclusions I don't exactly agree with, mainly some in the final two videos) but it definitely feels like this series has uncovered a colossal milestone in understanding the game almost as if we've found the Rosetta Stone for Bloodborne. I'm very curious to see what you think about all of this especially because I have seen almost no one acknowledge this on youtube as of the time of commenting this and I'd like to see these concepts spread in the discourse. If I am right in how I'm perceiving the information in this information this could not only lead to the explanation of bloodborne but will also redefine how we analyze the other Miyazaki era Fromsoft games. I should also say that I apologize in advance for making you and your lore colleagues do more research and possibly making more videos on Fromsoft Games seeing how you only recently uploaded a non-Fromsoft video as of 2 weeks ago

[@MrSilverBlade313]

Oh my god thank you so much for this !

[@AesirAesthetics]

Enjoy!

[@Mikolaj1334]

Looking forward for Elden Ring Lost on Translation; Lokey is speaking my 'sharp-but-sloppy' type of language and have good understanding of matter.

[@rutsugo]

FINALLY, thank u both

[@AesirAesthetics]

❤

[@macos-brasil1814]

Nice video. I had to skip the Elden Ring video because i do have the game since day 1 BUT i'm so busy with work, personal life and studies that i still didn't had time to appreciate this piece of art. Since i don't want spoilers i'm happy to watch this Bloodborne content instead

[@colemanmichael5179]

You both made me laugh my ass off when your talking about blood ministers are like tonic sellers. Made me think of the tonic seller from red dead redemption 😂😂😂. Awesome video! I been watching a bunch of lore videos that I liked a lot. But this one in particular really helped expand my understanding of everything blood borne. Thank you both😁💯👊.

[@DanielRedMoon]

Mmm, interesting idea.. I wonder then, if the "end of the game" is triggered by killing the Wet Nurse. As if our goal, given by Flora, was to get rid of the Great One that answered first when summoned by Micolash and took Mergo. We might not even kill the baby! As Yharnam, waiting outside, could recover it! Silencing it might not actually mean killing it.. but returning it to the mother, so as to be where he is supposed to be instead of crying when kidnapped.

[@jonnymario771]

I think you kill the baby to let him rest in peace without being tortured.

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

So guess Elden Ring lived up to the usual translation issues, if Ranni's ending is anything to go by. Can't wait til you guys get to that beast, so much lore to get into, so many potential mistakes in the localized versions if the prior games are any indication

[@ericdillard6335]

I don't even want to think about how long THAT video would be 😂😂

[@fuckyoutubehandles1]

Something I never understood is people saying German de-aged to fight The Hunter at the end. If you watch him, he limps toward you the entire time. He only appears fast because he's highly skilled with the Burial Blade.

[@AesirAesthetics]

Lol, yeah this is a tvery random and inconsequential point which people either agree with or not, I totally get that if you look at his face he's still very much an old man but I've been browbeaten by my people enough that I'm in the "he becomes younger" crowd. The arguments go that: If you watch the DLC trailer you'll see Gehrman in the Fishing Hamlet wearing the same getup he switches to when he becomes a boss and if we assume that that was his getup 20~ years ago, it fits that he's become younger. There's also other instances of people becoming younger in dreams (Brador, Micolash) to support him doing it and his face (on the model) has very awkwardly been stretched over the body of a different character, meaning it's hard to use his in-game model as a gauge for his actual age. Thank you for sticking around the video long enough to get to that part tho, sorry about all the creaking sounds in the background :D

[@fuckyoutubehandles1]

@@AesirAesthetics That does make a lot of sense

[@hk015]

😅 now what we need is a extended directors cut edition with sin&sophie

[@AesirAesthetics]

But they HATE Bloodborne! All they love is Elden Ring!

[@jacobfreeman5444]

When has that stopped them before?

[@razorloboerrol]

5 hours nice 👍

[@AesirAesthetics]

;D

[@coyotetime]

This was really interesting. I didn't fully understand what a 'blood baby' is as referenced with Annalise (and maybe Queen Yharnam). Is it just the successful version of bearing a great one's child, or is it something else?

[@BrettFairchild]

Yeah the idea is that in whatever way or form it had to take, they wanted to deliver a child to a great one in exchange for gifts or a deal or some kind. Whether it was a human child with special blood, some experiment, some monstrosity, they wanted to be able to provide "a child" for them like they wanted. Mergo was the closest they ever got to presenting one after using the chalices to take it, but the Wet Nurse swooped in and claimed it before the others. They tried making a deal with the wet nurse in exchange for eyes by forgoing Mergo, but that didn't go as planned either...haha

[@nicklaserbeam]

Love it. Never enough soulsborne lore. Cannot wait for all the Elden Ring videos

[@gavinmcphie6936]

Bit of a doozy but I'm entirely confused about Lokey's interpretation of the Nightmare of Mensis. The School of Mensis really has no established presence in the Nightmare of Mensis. The idea that the Nightmare is their base of operations is only based on the fact that Micolash's corpse is mummified, but that could likely be just a product of the nightmarish setting. There's no evidence that they were actively performing experiments there. The Brain of Mensis is likely the malformed, conjoined brain of Mensis Scholars. The English says it was "retrieved" in the nightmare, but the Japanese is more like "gained" in the Nightmare. Micolash is feverishly running through a library "asking Kos to grant them eyes" (or more literally just asking the cosmos to grant them "Eldritch knowledge"). It makes more sense to me is the Nightmare of Mensis being a figmental Pthumerian castle facilitated by the will of Mergo. Mergo's Attendants, the Shadows of Yharnam, and Mergo's Wet Nurse were all once servants of Queen Yharnam and her child of blood. The events surrounding Mergo's death are vague, but I imagine it could have ran parallel to what's described in the Blood Rapture rune. One thing I surprised he didn't pick up on is that Annalise and Queen Yharnam are made explicitly clear to both be "Blood Queens" in Japanese. Having certainty in that goes a long way in explaining Cainhurt, Queen Yharnam, and Mergo. I've always thought Winter Lanterns are just warped projections of the Hunter's subconscious, explaining their superficial resemblance to the Doll and why they're only found in nightmares. The fact it's a dream could explain many of the stranger things you find all across the game (e.g. the crow-dogs). I could go on but this is already too long. Lokey just expressed a lot of old theories that are now kinda weird imo.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Winter lanterns are definitely a twisted version of the doll. I feel they relate to the fear the character has of the doll. Or that hunters in general do. Here is this eldridge thing that only vaguely is humanish and you can't tell what motivates it. It doesn't even pretend to be a doll convincingly. Must be something in your own mind that wonders if some horror might burst out of her visage at some point.

[@BigPapaGanda]

How did this mad lad know I started a new job and have a 2-4 hour commute!? What a legend.

[@AesirAesthetics]

😉

[@EdenHellCipher]

I’d love to heard a round table discussion between Aesir, Lokey, Sinclair, and Sophie where they all pitch progressively more out-there plots for a Bloodborne sequel. I’m not even kidding, someone tag Sin and make it happen. Personally, I think a pirate theme is the natural next step. You could call it Bloodborne 2: Sea of Blood, and your ship crashes on the abandoned wharf of Yharnam, which is getting swallowed up by weird eldritch ocean stuff. One of the bosses could be The Blood-drunk Barnacle.

[@AesirAesthetics]

Sophie and I have talked about a Bloodborne 2. You can see some of that dialogue in the Armored Core video we did together

[@Truestoned0]

@@AesirAesthetics ah a classic one of my favorites

[@pinkemoslayer6337]

Heck yeah. One of the greats! 😘

[@AesirAesthetics]

The best!

[@FalseSleepwalker]

I thought I somewhat knew the story of Bloodborne. How wrong was I. Great work guys.

[@AesirAesthetics]

Bloodborne is an ocean which expands as we explore it O_o

[@brickedgamingllc155]

He is back!

[@AesirAesthetics]

Oh yeah! :D

[@xxbabayagaxx1425]

Second best bloodborne channel behind the snack covenant (though lokey and you are low key guest hosts as this point)! Loved to hear what you two thought, everytime I think I've heard all the nooks and crannies bloodborne keeps capturing my imagination in an endless eldritch thrall

[@akatsuki_silva]

This is gonna be great

[@AesirAesthetics]

:D

[@chase6579]

Whàt im blown away by is that its it's this in depth while the meta narrative is CLEARLY a metaphor for victorian medical practice and all of the macabre details around that.

[@gwynbleidd1917]

No lol

[@freshhands9461]

Listening to you both after all these years...so many convoluted things set straight...thanks for that. I still prefer some parts of my head canon, but that reveal with the doll is so sweet actually. Now of course I cannot ever again crush that tear of hers for some lame upgrade material...wish I could just slot it as is.

[@AesirAesthetics]

:)

[@annyonny1224]

I'm watching this across days and one thing I'm increasingly struck by the further in I get... And I mean this in a positive, kind of hilarious way... The guest speaker's like this V8 motor mouth Energizer bunny from the get go & throughout, whereas poor Aesir... I feel his pain as he gradually becomes more and more exhausted.

[@AesirAesthetics]

It was like 4AM or something when we finally concluded the talk XD I thought it was gonna be an hour or so talk but I underestimated the extent of the research Lokey had been doing ♥

[@annyonny1224]

@@AesirAesthetics Great work! Thanks again. I especially enjoyed your housefly 'excuse' which I only heard shortly after posting, lol, cheers.

[@AesirAesthetics]

@@annyonny1224 it was super creepy! A shadow just moved across my room in the middle of the night!

[@bagofrandom]

Really informative chat. Can anyone elaborate more on pre-hunter Yharnam and the establishment of the Healing Church? Thnx

[@zlodrim9284]

Nice!

[@AesirAesthetics]

:)

[@marisab1cc]

@@AesirAesthetics Very Nice! im inspired to play through Bloodborne once again!

[@annyonny1224]

Thank you, Aesir.

[@AesirAesthetics]

You're most welcome

[@gavinmcphie6936]

Insightful commentary thus far! So 3:00:46 although Amelia and the White Church Hunter you find in the Hunter's Dream recite the same prayer, I believe they have different voice actors. For that reason, I'm not entirely confident that it's actually Amelia, but I do like the idea. It's certainly some sort of analog

[@benre]

very interesting opinions! yes opinions, lets not forget that there are no real answers unless miyazaki comes out and confirms it

[@jacobfreeman5444]

So Yharnum is the ghetto of the bloodborne world? So when people go by Yharnum they roll their windows up and speed up?

[@liamcassie4538]

He doesn't seem to make the distinction between Great Ones and Kin. Is this something missing from the Japanese?

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Well, they are not all that different. The distinction seems to be the great ones are more enlightened but in body they are pretty much the same thing.

[@errantvice7335]

I liked the part where

[@AlbertusSalvatierra]

36:37 1:23:58 1:40:10

[@jjjameson3379]

So.. Kos is a female Great One (previously a human that became more), but one that didn't ascend mentally (physically active)? Or it did.. but her body was simple left (sleeping) on the beach? Until it got physically pregnant?

[@jonnymario771]

She was probably already pregnant and god knows how long her gestation would last. Then she was probably dissected by the old hunters.

[@giorgiocotogno3903]

Great video! One question, if before the human in Isz transformed there were no great ones, why the human in Isz were looking for the cosmo? I really don't buy the "all great ones were once humans" thing Edit: How the beast scourge existed before the old blood, great ones and pthumerians? So ebrietas remained here because she transformed in a cthulhu monster, so moon presence, brain of mensis etc. are beautiful? Don't know, I really can't buy this So the immortal Blood Queen of Cainhurst, descendant of phtumerians, who has knights in search of blood to give her to have a blood baby, starts searching blood for a blood baby when laurence ask her? The swore enemy of the church works with its founder.. Micolash who wears a byrgenwerth stundent outfit and knows about Rom, surely isn't a Byrgenwerth scholar but a man who has stolen their outfit for.. reasons?? For the "they cannot have babies", to me it seems more like their babies eventually all dies, we've seen great one babies in Mergo, Kos, Iosefka, Arianna.. so I don't really know if they can't or if their babies dies soon after the birth. I think that Willem has participated as well in the hamlet's massacre since his the one obsessed with more eyes and eyes inside, and the cursing fishman specifically says "Byrgenwerth" and do not talk about the church at all. The part with the hunter of hunters who send hunters to be "buried" by gherman seems really really plausible and it's really poetical. I don't think the mad man is ludwig, for instance why should he be in the hintertomb dressed like a monk? Shouldn't he at least be dressed as a healing church hunter? And the mad man clearly use an imitation of the moonlight sword while ludwig use the original, the mad man isn't a beast while ludwig is it, and more important: where is the horse? And if ludwig never became a beast why is he in the hunter nightmare? Remember the only way to enter the nightmare is to "fake-out" that your hunter has gone blooddrunk. To me Lawrence was holy as Ludwig for the church, or else they'll never put his beastified skull on an altar in the grand cathedral.. And I don't think the blood of the bloodletting beast became the first source of blood because 1: They're using old blood, not beast blood and 2: The blood maidens exist to get the blood, if a source like that existed why experiment on holy women for blood? For the executioner robe I think that it really have inspired the outfit of the church, but the logarius/cainhurst thing happens later in time. Logarius is not dumb, he killed every source of blood for annalise, binded her and protected her with all his powers, only after our hunter kills him she can return to her affairs. She specifically says we are the only two vilebloods.. so no, cainhurst knights specifically did not survive, that's why we only learn about cainhurst from a wannabe executioner and cainhurst area itself. Where the informations about the cainhurst crow identity come from? And the ones about mensis brain? Why micolash calls for eyes in the inside if the wet nurse already gave them to him/them? Edit 2: Sorry but this to me seems 60% invented by Lokey with his headcanons.. I'm sure many information have been mistranslated in from's franchises, but I also think with how much Miyazaki interact with western media and interviewer etc etc he will have noticed his games are being totally misunderstood by now.. I've got nothing against Lokey, he was the source of many mindblowing revelatios to me personally but I think he's headcanoning too much the actual informations that he got. Edit 3: Disagreeing with the demon souls 2 is just dumb after all the evidences.. C'mon, watch the entire video and tell me one thing that Aesir said that Lokey agreed on..

[@quickclaw240]

Burg in German or burcht in dutch means castle.

[@frolicsomgaiety]

Cosmic horror in the old west, you say? May I refer you to Hunt:Showdown

[@coreyrachar9694]

! Metal Gear!?

[@AesirAesthetics]

:O

[@theologamer]

Legs must be tired from all these logical leaps.

[@MarionetteDuAuguste]

My understanding was that you get physically brought to the dream by the messengers and you’re astral projecting back into the real world, which is why you don’t die when killed, because your body is still dreaming, but then in the Yharnam sunrise ending your body in the dream is killed, leaving your astral projection in the waking world the only form of your consciousness extent, which means that when you die again, like Micolash, you have no way to reform and simply cease to exist. Which is also why there are all of the tombstones in the dream, because there are ton of Hunter corpses that need to be buried.

[@gwynbleidd1917]

Your understanding was incorrect lol

[@MarionetteDuAuguste]

@@gwynbleidd1917 I’ve yet to see any evidence of a theory that explains the situation as well or better than mine, with as few or fewer basic assumptions. Would you care to provide such evidence, or are you simply going to engage in heckling and not contribute anything to the conversation?

[@gwynbleidd1917]

@@MarionetteDuAuguste lol no. Unlike you, Im not in the habit of pushing unsubstantiated head-canon nonsense in comment sections.

[@MarionetteDuAuguste]

@@gwynbleidd1917 I can see why you’d think it was unsubstantiated, given how I didn’t cite my sources. I’ll do better in the future, but I’m not going to edit a year old comment…which was honestly a kind of weird choice for a target to comment on. Maybe examine your own life a bit before casting shade on others?

[@gwynbleidd1917]

@@MarionetteDuAuguste I'm happy with my life. Kinda weird though to complain about responding to old comments on youtube, as if that isn't happening literally all the time lol.

[@gabriellecollier8127]

Bloodborne's story is utterly changed for me. It is not what I thought it was at all.

[@MarionetteDuAuguste]

I’m sorry, but after relistening I have to point out a mistake that Lokey made. byrgenwerth does not mean Burial Place. The proper translation for Byrgenwerth is Dignity City

[@martinwilson4824]

‘Byrgen’ in old English translates literally to ‘tomb’ and ‘Werth’ translates to ‘Honour’ or ‘Dignity’ so you’re both wrong, and it’s proper name would be Tomb of Honour, which makes sense since the horrors that happened there led to the death of dignified practice.

[@MarionetteDuAuguste]

@@martinwilson4824 to be absolutely clear. I was making a reference to another podcast the Lokey has been on multiple times in the past.

[@insertedgynamehere___969]

@@martinwilson4824 burg means city or town. And worth is your sense of dignity. Ergo: Dignity city

[@blaf55]

3:46:23

[@yokai1235]

lokey was right armored core 6 plays like demon/dark souls

[@AesirAesthetics]

I will bury Lokey for jinxing it >:O

[@ihateyoutube772]

2:50:00

[@jashloseher578]

Translate the unused japanese stuff in shadow tower, boyo. What a tease on the NDA.

[@AesirAesthetics]

Cannot break the holy NDA. Contractual obligations are the only thing seperating us from the animals

[@jashloseher578]

@@AesirAesthetics Made men by the contract, undone by the contract; fear the contract.

[@aphidamas1]

The gain on your mic seems kinda high.

[@AesirAesthetics]

dang :( Hope it's still listenable

[@kimlee6643]

It's only 4 hours long... D A M N

[@AesirAesthetics]

enjoy :)

[@kevindangelo1091]

Just 2 guys talking who know their shit

[@InvasionEnjoyer]

My brain

[@user-ey8bh8cd5r]

What’s Lokeys process? Is he just good at Japanese lol? Also thanks for these videos very enjoyable man

[@AesirAesthetics]

Ask him on twitter :)

[@therevahchist2790]

Sounds like Bloodborne and Elden Ring are pretty platonic in their astrology.

[@Tstorm731]

In defense of localization teams, they have almost always maintained the beauty of the original script. I bought a PS3 and Demons Souls after watching the opening cinematic and falling in love with the “proetry” of the writing. That’s something that is very hard to translate. They nail the atmosphere but (especially early on) it was at the cost of the intended meaning. Some of it is so muddleheaded and misleading that it drives me nuts, but if they hadn’t done such a good job at maintaining the beauty of the syntax, I never would have played Demon’s Souls. Thanks the good blood for Lokey (and Aesir…and the snack covenant). I am blown away by Lokey’s understanding of the original script. I have been barking up many a wrong tree. Thanks for this episode!

[@venator5890]

There is no indication that Micolash was part of Byrgenwerth? I mean, you literally enter into a memory version of Byrgenwerth study rooms just by touching his body dude. Also, the Fishing hamlet massacre was done by Byrgenwerth AND the Healing Church, not by a sort of an "early Byrgewerthian version" of the Church. Even if Laurence separated from Master Willem and founded the Healing Church, in reality Laurence did not definitively cut off relations with Byrgenwerth but the two institutions continued to cooperate for a certain time. Gehrman was the "meeting point" in which it is clear that the figures of Laurence and Willem were united in a sort of "triumvirate", with the Healing Church, Byrgenwerth and the Hunting section guided by Gehrman. It was at the time of this triumvirate that the Fishing Hamlet massacre took place. Don't forget that they sought "inner eyes" within the villagers heads, that is... Byrgenwerth.

[@laggingdragons]

I was getting really anxious that you weren't gonna ask about Amygdalas as the video closed out, lol. Personally, my skin-deep theory is that, seeing as how they look like our pineal gland, they might be psychic "organs" of Great Ones, extensions of their being. I haven't checked it against anything though and I feel like the idea won't stand against the lore, but it'll satisfy me for now until I chew on it again later. Either that or they're the Great One's equivalent of our messengers. The messengers can go pretty much anywhere and move things around for our benefit. That seems to be what the Amygdala do for the Great Ones.

[@acey8274]

4 hours with no time stamps

[@Big_Dai]

Work on the audio levels! Sudden screaming of excitement, and moments when you have to turn up the volume make for bad content. @2:53:14 Mmm.. this lokey guy sounds WAY too sure of himself, in a way that he simply cannot be. He might be well informed, but he sounds so wrong in so many things. Like his insistence on our Character being trapped in the blood-drunk Hunter's Nightmare, when there is no evidence of us being affected by Kos in any way! Instead, needing outside help to even get in. One thing is providing the evidence.. but he sounds like the way he ties it all up is the truth (even correcting Aesir as if his take on anything is wrong). EDIT: Also, people eating mummies is far more interesting (and with hints of "rationality") other than rich people being degenerates. Almost as interesting as people's interest in mummification, and the process of its democratization!

[@sinestesis]

Try to edit the audio levels of a 4 hour conversation 💀

[@presleycarelyn8142]

p̷r̷o̷m̷o̷s̷m̷ 👇

[@fb1179]

ramble ramble ramble

[@Nehelenia3000]

37:08 This is inaccurate. Byrgenwerth means Dignity City. I thought this is common knowledge.

[@AesirAesthetics]

:D

[@odinsrensen7460]

God I wish you had done this without the background noise. It gets really annoying after the first two hours. Distracting.

[@kageakiminato8536]

Kirino, worst girl of all time

[@AesirAesthetics]

🤔

[@lonelykitchen]

I am shocked that the canon term is "kosm" and not "kos". how did that not get picked up in the translation? for years millions of unfortunate fools have thought they could get away with saying kos. it really is kosm as some say, after all

[@RisottosWife]

it's ゴース which means "Ghost" actually

[@lonelykitchen]

@@RisottosWife watch the video

[@RisottosWife]

@@lonelykitchen I have, multiple times and Lokey has mentioned the name Ghost/Gosu more than once in the video. In addition, google Kos's japanese name yourself if you don't believe me.

[@lonelykitchen]

@@RisottosWife are you literally trying to mansplain and UMM ACTKUALLY me? grow up

[@RisottosWife]

@@lonelykitchen Woah there, no need for unwarranted vitriol over a correction, calm your mammaries

[@justincurll1110]

Do not agree with the notion of Gwyn being selfish, or imposing his will, and am confused as to where the idea even comes from

[@AesirAesthetics]

He destroyed the world to prolong his Age of Fire for thousands of years when the natural law of the world would've had it end before Dark Souls 1

[@santiagojara8056]

Bro, did you just not play the games? Motherfucker destroyed the logic of the world and doomed an entire race just to keep Anor Londo shiny

[@LadyDeSelby]

Research gnosticism

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Gwyn definitely was being selfish. He put his legacy above what was actually best for the world and it's people. Anything that got in the way of that was rejected. Even his own eldest son. But it can be argue what he did was the opposite to destruction. He forced stagnation of body and spirit so his civilation could remain supreme. All these souls are forced to remain in a decaying world just so the tribe of gods can maintain their hold.

[@justincurll1110]

@@LadyDeSelby I did, in high school, in the 90s. What's your point?

[@headconcepts]

the soulsborne games are loosely connected. fog takes over the world in demon's souls, turning it into a purgatory that evolves into the world of dark souls 1-3, the fog stagnates/rots in elden ring, spreads to other realms in sekiro, and manifests as an entire culture in bloodborne. all of the games have different dimensions and dreamscapes which can be transported to via portals, it's not that hard to connect the lore

[@AlbertusSalvatierra]

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