Dark Souls Lore ► 10 Secrets of War

Item descriptions and their Japanese counterparts were compiled by Lokey - this video wouldn't be possible without his work - / lokey_ds
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[@TouchMeDono69]

VaatiVidya already did

[@redreaper8652]

NOOOO

[@qarcon3247]

Zoro>>Sanji

[@Kockafalva]

now I feel hollow

[@Thesaurus_Rex]

There were a lot of things I didn't like about DS2, but something I really liked was how it felt like a part of a much larger world by constantly describing all these different, distant cultures that you never got to see. In that aspect, at least, it really felt like a we were seeing just a small part of a great big world. And I think that plays into the timelines of Dark Souls. In the original Dark Souls, few distant lands were described, because, even during the full age of fire, civilization was still young, and men and other beings hadn't yet had a chance to spread to other lands. In Dark Souls 2, things have been in full swing for a while, and many civilizations have sprung up and developed distinct cultures and belief systems and interactions with one another. The undead curse is a distant fear for that world, something horrible and terrifying that happened far away and one hoped would never reach their homeland, but, almost always, inevitably arrived. In Dark Souls 3, the world is collapsing back in on itself, so many cultures have already perished. The undead curse is the only thing keeping most of the inhabitants alive. It's not that they survived, it's that they failed to die with everyone else.

[@MineSlimeTV]

Infsct I adore so many of the different and stylized invaders and npc phantoms as well as all of this unusual race's! It felt humane something beautiful and viewed in this land the truest economic and more almost grounded troubles theu faced alongside other rising ones. All collapsing together to leaving only derelict.

[@brightestlight9462]

this is a 2 year old comment but whatever i thought dark souls 2 takes place chronologically waaay after dark souls 3?

[@Thesaurus_Rex]

@@brightestlight9462 That was a theory at one point, but there's no real evidence supporting it, and there are enough vague references to DS2 locations and persons in the past tense that DS3 almost certainly takes place after DS2. In the Dreg Heap, the lands seem to be arranged from youngest on top to oldest at the bottom (except for the Kiln of the First Flame, which sucked everything else towards it and ended up being one of the highest points as a result). DS3's Lothric is towards the top, then DS2's Earthen Peak is in the middle, then DS1's Firelink Shrine is at the bottom. The Ringed City is even further below to indicate that it's one of the oldest locations in the world.

[@brightestlight9462]

@@Thesaurus_Rex thanks for that! so what's the canonical reason for ds3 having so many more direct links to ds1? ds2 doesn't really talk at all about gwyn or any of the gods or locations in ds1, whereas they are integral to ds3--though obviously not as much so as in ds1

[@Thesaurus_Rex]

@@brightestlight9462 I believe because Drangleic was, itself, somewhat further from Lordran than Lothric is, both geographically and philosophically. Lothric seems to have been somewhat obsessed with the linking of the fire, and there's a possibility that the royalty of Lothric were, themselves, descended from the gods of Anor Londo. Meanwhile, Drangleic seemed opposed to the linking of the fire, to some extent, given that Aldia seemed to view it as "the first sin". And, as I said in my original post, DS2 took place during a time when, while the curse of the undead was very much widespread, the world was perhaps at its zenith, when the races of men had spread far across the world, so the cultural influence of Anor Londo's gods (if any still existed at all) wasn't felt by many.

[@QrowBarr]

"And the reason for this is like the convergence of the lands" So that explains Earthen Peak and its elevator to Iron Keep

[@meci6625]

Yeah that was... Confusing I watched a video recently (today actually) that said that the original idea for DS2 was that of a massive open world with all the different regions that we see. But the team changed director mid development and they had to scramble all together. Kinda like a real life Lothric. DS2 is still my favourite though

[@davidhong1934]

@@meci6625 Hopefully Elden Ring is actually open world and not DS2

[@thecrabmaestro564]

I mean I think in ds2 it's that they're making a long journey shorter to not affect gameplay as much. It could be that the lift takes us to the top of the tower and then from there there is a path to the iron keep that's too long to be put in gameplay. Or it could be rushed design, who knows.

[@ElSultan98]

@@davidhong1934 learn english ESL pedro before shitting on ds2

[@ashikjaman1940]

​@@davidhong1934 DS2 was still very open world I feel

[@towelie5127]

"seeing your end in your armor" could mean they wore it until death. could also mean " their eventual fate is death by combat"

[@jooot_6850]

then again, it could also be implying that you could "see" the abyssal taint on your armor

[@OutlawDin0]

I want to know more about the "other" gods, such as Velka. How did they arise and relate to Gwyn and the Age of Fire?

[@ganeshapartners]

Same!

[@doublee7110]

Or flame god Flaan lmao

[@swagiro824]

gwynn fucked that giant crown in fire link shrine and their baby was velka. DEEPEST LORE

[@AceRide]

For me, Velka is by far the most interesting of the gods in Dark Souls. Her unique domain, her unique relationship to said domain (being equally willing to redeem or to punish), her status as a "rouge" diety, the possibility of her being Priscilla's mother, the suggestions of a connection to Gwyndolin, and her potential connection to sorcery (being described as a "witch" & her talisman using intelligence instead of faith). She's connected to so much that in terms of overall importance to the lore, I'd argue she rivals Gywn.

[@Darkbloom006]

Velka was Gwen's side woman.

[@LuckyDT]

Honestly, if YOU made it, I’d watch a damn 2 hour documentary/retrospective on the Varangian Guards.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

I think it would be fun if for one video, Vaati becomes an author and tells their own story set in the dark souls universe the way they tell lore. Like nothing will contradict anything in the games. Vaati is just going off and paint a picture of their own.

[@jnxey8856]

Thumbs ups if you want a 30 second video on the Varangian Warriors of Dark Souls 2!

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

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[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

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[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

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[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

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[@owen723]

Impressive...

[@lucasguzzi1538]

I waited two years for someone to talk about the effigy shield. Thank you vaati, saved my soul.

[@dioscaresparza]

"Ring the bell if you want to be summoned here" I see what you did there -_- You want your personal unkindled army Vaati xD

[@SmellyPigPro]

Grant us eyes.

[@fallencrusader7104]

Wrong game bruh.

[@coltj5907]

Charlie Cairone Fear the old blood

[@festethephule7553]

ColtJ And may the good blood guide your way.

[@ericschuster2680]

By the Gods, fear it, Laurence!

[@IrrelevantPride]

MAJESTIC

[@Aksuuuk]

the varangians in dark souls 2 is probably a reference to the Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Empire and the moste likely reason they are pirate in dark souls 2 is probably becouse most of the men in the Varangian Guards where vikings

[@mankyscotchgit4986]

The Norsemen were also called Varangians in Russia, where they conducted piracy along the river systems.

[@DmitriyLusin]

*They are called Varyagi in Russia, which has the meaning/translation - Varangians.

[@GilCAnjos]

Additionally, the word 'vikingr' literally means 'pirate'

[@joeyjohnson942]

i thought they were the big ear dudes from star trek

[@zanthous6938]

GilCAnjos Actually the word vikingr comes from the Norsemen travels, back then reffered to as going on viking

[@unluckycatfish6866]

Always like more Dark souls lore!

[@Albert_Lecter03]

UnLucky Catfish You just got my words out of my mouth.

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

UnLucky Catfish VAAAAATI

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

UnLucky Catfish VAATI

[@dorkyface]

Unlike a lot DS fans, I really love ds2. One of the things I liked was the focus on what humans were doing- real humans, not God eating cannibals or undead hordes. It's just a perspective I kinda wish they did more with :)

[@kimashitawa8113]

Ikr

[@nightshade180]

I hate how people bash it so much. If it was a stand alone game, it would be great! But people always compare it to Dark Souls and Demons Souls.

[@stolenname94]

@@nightshade180 people say it's bad because it did things differently. Probably the one I hate the most is people taking about how you don't engage single hollows for one on one combat like the first game. So because they can't agro one at a time for an easy r1 spam kill they call it bad game design? ?I call it not being a carbon copy of the previous game lol. The same people who moan about life gems quickly forgot they loved crescent moon grass in demon souls. I really could go on pointing out the flaws in their nostalgia. My only issue with Ds2 is some bosses were shit and the hot boxes can be dodgy under 105 agility I'll give them that. But if you ask me hand down best fashion souls and pvp, the combat in general was well balanced imo.

[@nightshade180]

@@stolenname94 I completely agree, I liked how it was a little harder to get enemies alone. And some of the bosses were kinda crap (covetous demon, and nashandra to name a couple) but there were some good things, I personally like how mythas fight could be hard as mess if you still have the windmill running, and with freja having smaller spiders in the fight and only being able to hit her two heads. I just hate hope people compare it, and don't recognize the beauty in the game

[@twistedgwazi5727]

I think DS2's issue is that it often did changes poorly. Combat to me feels janky and durability is an absolute nightmare to deal with. If they didn't want it to be compared with DS1, well, they wouldn't have called it Dark Souls 2.

[@valtsu5754]

Without Vaati I wouldn't know anything about Dark Souls and it's lore. I can't wait for the next lore video. \[T]/ [*] ||

[@monoclesquid9667]

I have an alternative theory for carthus which I have detailed in Dark Souls Amino (Trap God Leo) I believe that the catacombs are not actually part of Carthus, but the demon ruins and smouldering lake, which the Abyss Watchers used as a ‘dumping grounds’ of sorts for the remains of carthus. This explains the nearly identical architecture of the catacombs and ruins, the pottery from farron appearing in the catacombs, now filled with bones and malevolent spirits, as well as Ghru, formerly Xanthous scholars, appearing all the way into the lake.

[@grimmgaming8115]

I believe they changed from sand to mud

[@CZProtton]

@@grimmgaming8115 That does not make sense how the Farron Keep got to stand there. The Farron Keep turned to a muddy swamp, the huge kingdom of Karthus surely did not.

[@nataliecameron]

@@CZProtton carthus wasn't there, it would be blightown that became farron keep

[@DanCGe]

I've been in severe Vaati withdrawal

[@cip689]

Daniel Guarnieri haven’t we all?

[@markzucc1883]

Vaati: *uploads video* Me: *nuts*

[@soulsring7823]

Mark Zucc 😂 was it some Aromatic Ooze😏

[@blackbeanstew7645]

Mark Zucc make sure you have great magic shield, or else you might have to take care of an ocelotte

[@savagehabits9369]

Not gonna lie I got pretty excited too

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

Mark Zucc EXACTLY

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

Mark Zucc HE UPLOADS A VIDEO BUT DIDNT CHANGE HIS LAST ONES

[@a-highlander5955]

Dark souls changed my life for the better. Thank you Hidetaka Miyazaki for everything.

[@Nightksa1995]

how did it change your life if i may ask

[@TheLloydLightning]

From software* He was a key factor for sure but didnt archived everything by himself.

[@VictorYamaykin]

Same

[@GinIchigo]

Lloyd Dark Souls wouldn’t be as popular as it is without Miyazaki.

[@TheLloydLightning]

Lakota Coberly Never sayed otherwise. What's your point?

[@coltj5907]

Nice video :) looking forward to the ds1 remastered lore videos, it should be interesting to see how our perspectives of the first games lore changes due to our knowledge of its sequels lore

[@danielantony1882]

ColtJ a lot will change. " *A LOT* ".

[@kylebutler9865]

Dude, Vaati is good, but if you have the time, check out Hawshaw. The lore is well detailed, if slowly produced.

[@GrotesqueSmurf]

IF they change any of the item descritions at all...

[@bloodybutterfly7113]

Why would the lore change just seems likea cheap way to milk the the same videos over and over again his ds1 top 10s wereby far the worst next to no information andjust retarded facts for most of the time so I guess that's a reason to redo them but what else is he gonna find out just leave it be

[@HunterMearo]

Maybe they'll be shinier higher resolution videos with new particle effect and still more bugs than a fan made patch... Wait...

[@SaintMarianne]

So the Abyss Watchers are like the Grey Wardens? They risk being corrupted when they drink the blood that grants them power? Cool.

[@fnrd3858]

Hi Vaati great to see ya again

[@metj6885]

antontornqvist Vaabi

[@bashthedash4177]

A VaatiVidya video ? What is this 2016 ?

[@izharulhaq9389]

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[@crimsonking9696]

🤣

[@JackJack-gl8vd]

Yessss😤

[@momsspaghetti7171]

Vaati uploaded. It's time to give your meat a good ol' rub. *EH* *EH* *BOI*

[@ertegin]

damn you're bad at memes

[@MartoZCreate]

This was so cool! I love the editing, and it's amazing how much information you're still pulling out and tying into the lore.

[@mirekjarek2297]

Its not even possible how many secrets and hidden stories this game may have. LOVE IT

[@smokeybeefroarus1497]

Can't get enough of how amazing this game series is, truly a masterpiece

[@Kazamezo1]

0:16 Beat you to it Vaati, I liked the video as soon as I clicked; knowing for sure that you release nothing but quality content.

[@lzsmith8]

Mirrah armor set was totally my fav for my first ds3 playthrough, so it was really cool seeing a little bit more info for them in this video. awesome stuff as usual vaati!

[@objectiveasceticgaming6332]

Thank you for doing things like checking item description translations I’ve often thought that some descriptions may have gotten lost in translation and you have confirmed this for me. :)

[@rangamsarmah2061]

I personally absolutely loved dark souls 2, and the scholar edition too. You know how dark souls 3 is kind of like a follow up to what is going on in lordran? I want a souls game about drangleic, and how time has effected that part of the world.

[@Psychobum91932]

If we ever see a ds4, let's hope that might be it

[@myamdane6895]

Saw Vati made a new lore vid: Got cat, snuggled on couch. We both were amazed by Vati.

[@comicdans7732]

These videos always feel incredibly enriching. The feeling of being engrossed in this world is one of the reasons that Dark Souls is my favorite game franchise, and any video from this channel strengthens that feeling. It's quite sad that this video did not appear in my subscription feed, which is why I will do something I've never done and actually ring the bell. Only for you, Vaati

[@MordorMatty]

Really enjoy your souls lore videos, watched them countless times they're great keep it up VaatiVidya

[@codystegemueller9428]

9:42 DUDE YOU KILLED THE NON HOSTILE TORCH HOLLOW WHAT THE HECK

[@aikoluna3480]

Should be ashamed for harming a poor torchbro

[@sofiaholiday5344]

1:54 yoshikage nito

[@arisenpai]

great editing and music. I appreciate your content vaati, keep it up. hope you can make more once the remaster comes out, even if it's something already covered... I bet we'll all find something new even now.

[@hamsteman2011]

a very good story and video as always vaati! happy to see new content and hear the story of everything, you are the one who made me interested in doing more than kill bosses in the souls games and since i heard you explain it all it have been a more emotional challenge to fight through the games. outstanding work!

[@sHmAaa]

I'm surprised we've never seen any King's Field videos from you.

[@FalloutUrMum]

I'm new to Dark Souls, recently started really getting into DS3, I never knew there were Varangians in Dark Souls that's super cool. In real life Varangians were Viking, Rus, and Anglo-Saxon mercenaries who worked for the Byzantine Empire and basically did all the elite soldier stuff like protecting the emperor and doing the special forces type of stuff on the battlefield at the time. This was because the Emperors trusted Norse honor over the loyalty of their own people

[@Nonamed70]

it always amazes me how I could just hop right into dark souls again and play it for hours and hours after watching ur lore videos, what an amazing series and what an amazing youtube channel!

[@ALventurer]

Great video Vaati! Your videos and the upcoming ds1 remaster is getting me really interested in the souls lore again 👍🏻

[@jjjjffff1293]

GRANT US LOOOORE

[@4ngelicLotus]

Dammit Vaati, just start making audiobooks. My ears demand it!

[@chips1234ify]

Once more an absolutely incredible video! Just when I think there's nothing more to say about the lore and you hit me with this gem, amazing stuff dude!

[@GH-ds7wq]

Hey Vaati just wanted to say I love your channel. Seriously can't believe how much lore there is to delve into.

[@srcocomad]

hmm i always thought the age of the deep sea that Eldritch envisioned was a clear reference to bloodborne..

[@GinIchigo]

EySoyCoco A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea. Accepting of all that there is, and can be.

[@rakkatytam]

Gross

[@raphicoco]

I will assume you are joking because DS2 was made before Bloodborne. Yes, I am just telling the obvious but I have seen way to much ignorants on the internet that has made such mistakes.

[@AWMK101]

EySoyCoco It’s so clearly a reference. Deep sea, seen in a dream, Aldrich sounds just like Eldrich.

[@0NodMan0]

*_TARKUS! TARKUS! TARKUS!_*

[@hael6t418]

So glad to see a new lore video! :) love you're channel man keep up the good work!

[@JessycaEdrielle]

I think this is the only channel I really look forward to watch. Congrats on the high quality of the videos and the high quality of your voice ♥

[@napolien1310]

Dark souls is life

[@orochipippa93boss]

"If you already know everything, consider opening a KZbin channel on Dark Souls lore" Damn, Vaati :):):)

[@ellienash4249]

As always, great video with a lot to think about. Can't wait for that Wolnir and Carthus lore vid !

[@chandlercoleman2394]

So well filmed! This was a refreshing and insightful 14 mins. Your work is exquisite.

[@facelessenemy3755]

Welcome Back! :D

[@expertmageyurina7186]

*Blow's off dust* Oh he's uploaded again

[@navoffical4204]

I missed your content so much! Keep trying to work on these projects, we're all happy to watch even 30 seconds of a video.

[@tonydude5053]

I’m actually really excited for your Carthus video. I’ve always wanted to know more about it

[@gabrielamayo9023]

Hey ThePruld made me follow your content and it's actually pretty good, you are a Librarian of the great Archives that contains all the knowledge of the world of dark souls, bravo!!!

[@VaatiVidya]

wowee thanks pruld!

[@Elfaia]

You can call him, Lorbrarian.

[@gabrielamayo9023]

elfaia that's really nice bro

[@danielantony1882]

That just sounds like a joke to me.He gives a very basic and simple lore information to be honest.Aegon of Astora does a *LOT* more in-depth lore digging.Even if he doesn't make the most logical inferences he literally digs every lore evidence in the game and discusses that with other people.

[@gabrielamayo9023]

Daniel Antony well thank you for sharing that with me, but i just prefer the "mood" of Vaaty videos, anyway even if i already watched some of Aegon content i will dig a little deeper, so that maybe i will change my mind 😉

[@JulianoTrentin]

Nito is the coolest of them al. I would like to see him battle manus :>

[@laundrybasketgamers]

I want a dlc focused on the war against the dragons

[@ElKabongg42]

Vaati I always look forward to your new videos, please keep up the great work!

[@jetboi08]

It's always good to see an upload from your channel 😊

[@MrKyleCorpus]

I've missed you Sir Vaati of House Vidya. Great vid, can't wait for the next.

[@thanatossslay9819]

Omg 'Sir Vaati of House Vidya" is SOOO GOLDEN! Give this man more likes!

[@TheQuiescentGamer]

Oh snap, Vaati just made another vid. Lemme pause my research to peep this!!!

[@nomercy8989]

by research you mean google right?

[@TheQuiescentGamer]

nomercy8989 By research, I actually do mean mean my research project for grad school...

[@Shazoo1997]

TheQuiescentGamer what's your kink, no point in lying

[@TheQuiescentGamer]

Ginsho My kink is to become as grossly incandescent as Solaire while getting smacked around by Wolnir. Basically, I get turned on in the dark not knowing when the enormous existential dread that is my life will finally grab me and drag my corpse into the abyss where others have surely died...

[@Shazoo1997]

TheQuiescentGamer one can only dream though.

[@gucci4president433]

Love you’re videos so much I tend to bing watch them wayyyy to late at night

[@artemisroca9798]

Congrats on Namco reaching out to you. You are awesome and deserve some recognition. Keep the videos coming!

[@FenrisRM]

i want that 30 second video! all DS lore is good lore, no matter how short

[@kokkiemonster6939]

I just watched your Dark Souls Remastered story trailer 😁 💓

[@RubyDynamite]

Probably the *best* version of 'hit the bell for notifications' I've ever seen. Also I could easily fall asleep to these. Your voice is just delightful. Also also! It's just gobsmacking how detailed the lore in these games is. Not just that, but it's just so fascinating to see how something as simple as localization of a non-English title can impact your analysis. Bravo, VV!

[@WhiteMageTali]

Always love your lore videos Vaati! You inspired me to start recording my own content, though much is only gameplay for now.

[@PositronPlays]

More lore is always a good time

[@danielantony1882]

Not really lore to be honest.More like a basic lore guide with average and simple skills of lore digging.

[@joe6185]

Daniel Antony man he's saving us the time it would take plus connecting them which basic item descriptions dont entirely do

[@danielantony1882]

Joel Reyes So it's hard for you to remember that Faraam is the god of War that the Lion knights worshiped,The Firstborn is the god of war and that the firstborn's first knight was Lion Knight Ornstein? Do you have intellegence problems,my man? It's the most basic lore twist.How can you not get it?

[@joe6185]

Man I get that you were trying to be condescending but woofk I think you just hit yourself a bad one there bud

[@Spodo_Komodo]

Yeah you sounded like a real dick there Dan

[@Dragoony]

Notification squad assemble

[@JohnSmith-op3qj]

I'm not feeling so good...

[@darksuper54]

Sorry I'm late Fortnite and such

[@LouSipher]

I had a carrier pigeon deliver me a notification, get on my level.

[@ashoethief48]

These videos are always so good. No matter the theme. Vaati's voice is like velvet sunk in honey, the music is pretty sweet and the visuals are so well edited.

[@rubenvaldes9736]

You have no change since all of your first videos and i liked so much!

[@bloodfiredrake7259]

HE UPLOADED.

[@iamtheduke87]

Always good to see you back

[@willriseabove6858]

Lol haven't seen a video of tbis channel for like a year.. glad the remaster has rekindled the channel cause the lore videos where always nice.

[@makk3400]

1:09 in the "The Unmade Soulsborne Videos of 2017" Video you talked about Lorians war against the Demons and that actually was the one I was the most interested in and now its the only one missing feelsbadman.

[@williamdouglas7025]

Praise the Vaati

[@powerless_imp0682]

Excited for that carthus vid vaati keep the work up!

[@COZYTW]

4:08 Or, since they had many of their own abyss watchers who were felled in those regions, their blood was what bound them together? The blood is a vessel for the soul, after all; and they could very well be bound by Wolfblood. So while the Abyss Watchers ultimately died somewhere else, causality & the bonds between the remnant souls in their blood pulled the world together somehow, like a messed up patchwork of corpses

[@Simte]

*Upload hype!*

[@rileyrobinson9585]

Simte \[T]/ Praise that sun boii

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

Simte VAAATI

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

Simte COME HERE AND TALK WITH ME. YOU'VE MADE A MISTAKE MAKING A BLOODBORNE THEORY

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

Simte COME ON MAN

[@Christian-ir2mb]

did i hear prepare to cry ds 1 remaster??? hell yea!

[@Zer0GravtyDV]

The music in this made everything 100 times better. Nicely done!

[@alexanderrubio7500]

You put so much effort in these videos, thats why i love what you do, i deeply thank you to increase my insight of the soulsborne series and after all i respect you, and admire you, beacause you tell the truth when you take footage fron other videos and because how your voice perfect for story telling catches me when youre talking about lore, my deepiest thanks to you for enhancing my curiosity of this universe that captures our minds and lets us explore other realms of imagination that some years before i couldnt even imagine. Thank you

[@notxtrever3874]

In my opinion dark souls 2 probably has the best lore on things that are not in the game.

[@ironbooze2937]

Not XTREVER DS2, especially scholar, is underrated anyway. They are all good games, don't get me wrong, but DS2 gets way too much hate. In my book it's >DS3

[@janogabor7697]

Ds 3 is still way more interesting. Ds 2's world felt like it has no inspired style to it or atleast it lost it's style. Miyazaki made Dark Souls to feel like Berserk. Ds 2 feels like your average fantasy. Ds 1=Ds 3>Ds 2.

[@fatbastardbeats]

>Ds 2's world felt like it has no inspired style literally DS3

[@thanatossslay9819]

hollllllke123 ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT!? Spoiler alert: He did. He said it so many times that berserk inspired him to make DS

[@Rammkommando]

DS3 was literally copy and fucking paste from DS1 not really all that inspired honestly DS3 had the most boring areas other than DLC, i wanted to explore more in DS1 and 2 but DS3 EVERYTHING LOOKS THE FUCKING SAME, with the exception of irythyll which i got bloodborne vibes from it

[@KaiserAfini]

Vaati, any chance you could do some Salt & Sanctuary lore ? Its fascinating stuff, full of small details.

[@firestalker11]

KaiserAfini I've been hoping for a video like that for months. Hope it happens.

[@LordFhalkyn]

I think he only does Soulslike games produced by FromSoft. If he did Salt and Sanctuary, he'd have to do other Soulslike games, such as Nioh and Hollow Knight.

[@larrywave]

LordFhalkyn i would not be sorry if he did 😊

[@TheZajicekfarber]

Oh man, I just started playing Salt and Sanctuary again last week (never beat it before), and I was thinking how much I'd love to see Vaati do some videos on it.

[@KaiserAfini]

Wesley Farber Its a great game, but if you want lore videos, check out the series by Cyberphile. He wrote The Drowned Tome (which you can find in pdf on reddit) and is the community's lore master.

[@RoyBright]

Vaati, I love your videos and learning Souls Lore from you - it's like being taught Dark Souls by Bob Ross haha - wonderfully relaxing - keep up the good work, mate :)

[@mcweegeepants132]

Great vid, still can't imagine how creative and imaginative you have to be to think up all these theories

[@thelonesomewanderer8359]

btw I saw someone named Gavel The Pebble when I was doing some co op the other day and I died from laughter, just thought id share that with you guys

[@laundrybasketgamers]

That’s pretty hilarious. I imagine the Havel gloves and the ringed city loincloth with a mail breaker or something

[@wannabehero6893]

What if everything in dark souls is a cycle when we head into the new painting we live with whatever was painted then we die and whatever identity grabs our soul. Begins Slaying whatever was painted and starts the beginning of the end. In our dark souls universe it would be the gods that took the soul of the one who helped the previous painter. This would mean the dragons were painted and This would give the dragons a past and would explain why there world without the gods was so perfect. Also perhaps in the painting before the the dark souls one dragons were perfect creatures in the eyes of the painter.

[@raphicoco]

WannaBeHero then people other than hollows should have been here and remembered the existence of such thing. Then humanity should have been there even before fire. Rott should have also existed and the actual cycle of the flame wouldn’t be a thing. It would also say that anything in DS2 is not real and that the painting in ds1 was not made at first as a prison. Sorry, your theory is interesting but there’s no way that it can work. Tell me if I am wrong but it also looks like you never played DS2 or haven’t looked at it’s lore because it explains a lot about the cycle itself and how it was even brought in the first place. That it was almost like some kind of paradox made by Gwyn because he couldn’t accept the end of his empire. That being hollow is the natural order and that the cycle is an anomaly. Every thing need to end someday but people are scared of it so they go against it’s nature and create more misery because of it. There’s is also more to this but I will leave it to you to discover it.

[@williambeliles3892]

Just stumbling on your channel. I've now watch around 4 hours work of videos. You my friend have a new sub and bell ringer

[@oetic5016]

Ceaselessly inspiring me with your lore, theories and tone of voice I'm a big fan your doing amazing videos don't stop until you've reached the end of your quest!!

[@labombaboy9433]

Hey anyone remember the name Edward Emberpants... Hmmm ? Well I know I do. Do you Vatii ? Or did you forget him in Yharnam ?!?

[@fisheryboi835]

it's all about dawde wetpant now

[@nataliecameron]

Edwad*

[@maxcepec9886]

LOOORE

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

max cepec CARTHUS IS NOT A KINGDOM. ITS PROBABLY JUST A DUNGEON TO PROTECT PONTIF FROM THE ABYSS WATCHES AND OTHER PEOPLE.

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

max cepec AAAAAAAAH

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

max cepec COMMON WHY DID YOU DECIDE ITS A KINGDOM?

[@ArstotzkaEmpire]

max cepec IF ITS LITERALLY JUST A BUNCH OF TRAPS.

[@maxcepec9886]

uhh, are you sure you wanted to reply to me?

[@artemissnow6051]

I really regret not finding this channel sooner... I love the Souls series, and I love learning the lore behind everything, thanks to you dudes 👉😎👉

[@tribizz9252]

Was waiting for this, thanks man!

[@Blanqsin]

Ahhh the dream begins tomorrow:)

[@blonglor5114]

We have returned!!!

[@abedt.5425]

OMG , I miss you very much

[@D0wn3y_]

I give a like every time, just cuz I miss your content so much! I know what I getting, lv you man

[@vexxhearts]

This video is old but than you for the hard work cause I’ve put hours into these games and you still amaze me with things I’ve missed once again thank you