Dark Souls Lore - The Locust Preacher

[@_Tzer]

I think what the locust means when talking about irina is that it isn't the abyss attacking her but her own firekeeper soul doing it. Because the description of a fire keeper soul in ds1 states: "Her soul is gnawed by infinite humanity."

[@gundamdetractor337]

i believe when they say that the Abyss never made such creature, they really mean the "small insects". they're all big insects. so its in fact, true. the Abyss hath yet to produce any such creature.

[@j85grim4]

I love watching these lore videos as when I'm actually playing the game, I'm so focused on not getting killed every 3 seconds, I have little energy left to even pay attention to the lore. So these are always fun to watch.

[@emmalinemae3131]

Loved this video! Don’t see a lot of people talking about these guys but I find them so fascinating. Keep the videos coming!

[@sunnbrothers3183]

Agreed. That's what made me decide on them for this video. I was real close to taking a jab at the OG himself Vaati for promising us a video on them that we've never gotten, but I don't want my hero to come noob crush me 😂

[@woahthere7895]

Thank you for covering my favorite npc in the dark souls trilogy

[@pattyoneill91]

hey man. trust me keep investing in this. we need more souls tubers and its a great lead up to elden ring. great work, the views will come just be humble and do good work

[@sunnbrothers3183]

Man, thank you. I genuinely appreciate that. I initially started doing these for fun, but it can get a little discouraging when I publish a video I'm so proud of and it just tanks 😂 thank you for your support fellow sunbro \[^_^]/

[@codyrisling3253]

I agree..considering the ashenhollow moved on from souls games and vatti hasn’t covered souls in a long time either. The souls lord and games are being forgotten about.. love this! Keep going \[ ]/

[@lastEvergreen]

Your vid is like two eyes gazing at one another.

[@idknemore525]

I literally just started the video but the locusts are one of the aspects of the series that most grabbed my attention and baffled me so thanks for talking about it.

[@AmeerKKamal]

I know its a year late but this is really excellent. I really like when people bring in real world religion, mythology and philosophy into these lore videos. Really exceptional work, well done

[@sunnbrothers3183]

Thank you, truly. This video was very much a passion project at the time, and I loved every minute of putting it together. This is still my favorite video to ever go on the channel, and I'm always thrilled when someone enjoys it!

[@AmeerKKamal]

@@sunnbrothers3183 so nice of you to reply. No problem mate. All the best to yas

[@tyzombie89]

This is a great video! I’ve been fascinated by the locust preachers forever and i think you did a great job explaining them. I grew up evangelical but i totally missed the Abaddon connection. Well done!

[@sunnbrothers3183]

Thanks for the love! I honestly only knew about the Abaddon filename from Lance McDonald and Vaati 😂 As for digging into the actual scriptural references in Revelation, yeah that definitely comes from my traditional Lutheran upbringing. Which I have quite heavily distanced myself from. I still love Jesus and His teachings, but man-made hierarchical religions are...gross.

[@tyzombie89]

@@sunnbrothers3183 ain’t that the truth 👏.. also i really think there is a connection between the angels and preachers. The angel hosts sprout from dead Londor pilgrims, who we know want to usher in the Age of Dark just as the locust preachers seem to want to do. Maybe the angel is like the final form of the locust life cycle? We can infer that they start out little because of all the smaller ones in the swamp, so a metamorphosis doesn’t seem too far-fetched. As i’m writing this, i just realized that the other thing we see infesting bodies in DS3 is the Pus of Man… interesting 🤔

[@darkslippery1996]

Masterful work. You have my thanks and admiration. 👏

[@chinjuaneldonjuan]

Bro looks like michael jackson

[@mothmantis0708]

Great video! Commenting for algorithms!

[@kizami3]

F*cking amazing man! Opened my mind to possible theories that I'd never considered. Keep up the great work, I shall watch your other stuff to wait out however long we must wait for another video!

[@sunnbrothers3183]

Man, comments like this make my day. I am absolutely thrilled to have you along for the journey. I work crazy hours and have a family on top of that, so it's tough finding the time to make videos sometimes, but I absolutely will be keeping at it, and I'm genuinely glad that there are people out there who enjoy it!

[@kizami3]

@@sunnbrothers3183 You're not alone on the working strange hours and having a family to deal with ontop of that. I run my own small channel(Grael Volkenburgh), just LPs right now but wanting to expand out into more. I am a lore enthusiast, and my next series is a DS2 run, planning to hunt down lore and to try and see if I can talk to people like Lowkey to get translations for the Japanese context, see if the story can make more sense. It's an idea, dunno if I'll have any luck but I have hopes. Just no time currently. Keep your head up, you got the support of me and your other fans to pull ya back up in case you go under.

[@sunnbrothers3183]

@@kizami3 I just hit you with a sub for a sub, fellow sunbro! My wife is currently learning japanese, and I hope to start learning as well, so if I manage to become fluent I'd be more than happy to jump on some translation discussion vids with you 👍

[@graelvolkenburgh3444]

@@sunnbrothers3183 thanks for the sub, we can do video whenever you want if we both find the time!! Look forward to possibly working with you in the future.

[@michaelvigato3228]

Thanks for making this video, i have always found these characters to be extremely intriguing, but always found very little material about them

[@mustachemusic]

Excellent video. A much needed acknowledgment that NPCs might be telling you their opinion or intentionally lying to you.

[@iXamXron]

Killer work, Don! You just pumped out a quality vid! Much love! -Ron

[@coreyrachar9694]

These lore videos you guys do are really really good. I personally would love to see more content like this from you guys! Not necessarily souls either, the SOTC one was excellent as well.

[@anadomingo5327]

Good video, i loved to listen to this and learn about these guys! cheers from spain ^w^

[@themewwave6308]

Just found your channel great work my man.

[@sunnbrothers3183]

We're just glad people enjoy the content that we here at Sunn Brothers do mostly for fun, and we genuinely appreciate all the love our community gives us!

[@redbirdtribe]

Yesssssss another vid keep it up man

[@sunnbrothers3183]

Thanks for stopping by to check out the new vid! We are so grateful for the continued support of our fanbase.

[@MailsdieEchte]

Thank you for the Video!

[@Dinjur]

Amazing video. Will definitely check out your other lore videos.

[@coal2710]

How accurate it is for the preachers of the dark to have horrible figures but soothing voices.

[@vasylpark2149]

The locus devouring flesh may not be a result of the abyss. remember where fire resides, shadows twist and shrivel.

[@abdul398614]

Thank you sir !

[@Priinsu]

22:41 That was chilling...😰

[@davinathaniel7161]

Keep up the good work, you just got a subscriber

[@kingofstrangeness7014]

Great job man!!

[@karljohan2300]

something ive wondered a long time is since fire is good against the dark and abyssalcreatures does that mean the abyss taking many places in ds 3 could have been prevented if throne of chaos never was defeated? and did the quelanas family know about it?

[@Stephen-so9oi]

Please make more content

[@HanzoHatt]

It would be great if they probably made a dark souls game based around the war with dragons or just the prime of cities before there downward spiral.

[@sunnbrothers3183]

It would be neat, but it doesn't much lend itself to the style of storytelling that has made From so special at this point. Fractured lands help create fractured stories, and that need to dig an uncover is what gets so many people so deep into the lore. Everytime you follow a rabbit hole, you end up finding yourself in an interlinking series of catacombs and caverns that seem to stretch on forever, twist and turn, and double back on themselves, much like the worlds of Dark Souls do. It would be cool to get some real answers, but then Vaati would be out of a job. And we don't want that. I need his silky voice to soothe me while I wash dishes or cook or what have you 😂

[@djgdedj]

The locusts preach truth. There is only peace in darkness. The age of fire is a lie.

[@johntrains1317]

Awesome video. New sub for this

[@CPalanysamy]

despite the christian references, the whole trilogy and sekiro specially have clear buddhist undertones, not to mention the locust sermons that sound and feel very much like Buddha.

[@illuminati1866]

Спасибо за лор.

[@muramasa870]

Let's goooooo

[@terazol2823]

very interesting! ;)

[@The80Kat]

I'm a Christan and I'll just tell you, abbadon is an angel put in place by God. He's not the devil because this exact angel puts satan in hell. You did a good job on your research even though your not looking at it in a religious way.