How the Demon's Souls developers called the game's characters

Demon's Souls just turned 14 years old! Here's every NPC in the game. The ages aren't canon, but they're listed in the face datas. Watch in 4k if possible for a sharper image
Big thanks to Thens for getting the 6th archstone and the loading screen guy to work
Dropoff for restoring c9998 and c9999
Lokey Lore for some of the translations
Moonlight Ruin for help with the age datas
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timestamps:
0:00 The Nexus
0:09 Stockpile Thomas
0:44 Crestfallen Warrior
1:21 Maiden In Black
1:56 Monumental
2:43 Blacksmith Boldwin
3:18 Temple of God
3:23 Acolyte of God
3:49 Disciple of God
4:22 Worshipper of God
4:56 Saint Urbain
5:32 Magicians
5:36 Freke's Apprendice
6:02 Sage Freke
6:57 Yuria The Witch
7:57 Patches the Hyena
8:42 Assassins from Latria
8:56 Yurt the Silent Chief
9:31 Mephistoteles
10:15 Tell All
11:04 Boletarian Castle
11:13 Dregling Merchant
11:58 Biorr of the Twin fangs
13:12 Ostrava of Boletaria
13:46 Boletarian Trio
14:21 Old King Doran
14:49 Fat Officer
15:08 Executioner Miralda
15:50 False King Allant
16:12 True King Allant
16:33 Thomas's Daughter
17:01 StoneFang Tunnel
17:09 Filthy Man
17:36 Blacksmith Ed
17:55 Patches the Hyena
18:21 Scirvir The Wanderer
19:14 Great Club Black Phantoms
19:29 Lever Ghost
19:53 Tower of Latria
20:00 Once Noblewoman
21:11 Lord Rydell (Rydell Allant)
22:03 Baby's Nail Black Phantom
22:24 Fool's Idol
23:03 The Liar
23:26 Old Monk
23:43 Old Monk's Summon
24:03 Shrine of Storms
24:10 Satsuki
24:48 Hawk Girl (Sparkly the Crow)
25:44 Patches the Hyena
26:07 Uchigatana Black Phantom
26:28 Graverobber Blige
27:22 Old Hero
27:51 Valley of Defilement
27:59 Filthy Woman
28:51 The Poor Child
29:02 Meat Cleaver Black Phantom
29:24 Selen Vinland
30:07 Garl Vinland
31:05 Maiden Astraea
32:13 Land Of The Giants
32:22 Filthy One
32:45 Unknown Merchant
33:10 Other Unused NPCs
33:20 Hatsumter
34:30 Prototype Knight
35:31 Loading Screen Guy
35:59 Tutorial Ghost
36:11 outro

[@CrestfallenChannel]

24:48 Sparkly's official japanese name is ''taka no musume'' that means ''Hawk's daughter'', as can be seen in this Illusory's video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/joq5p4eJhcxphJIsi=HCz1QhXQi1EvcYJ9

[@RagDas01]

Out of curiosity, do any of these characters, like Ostrava, have face sliders that one can use to remake them? If so, is that possible to share?

[@dungeaterfancam]

3:55 (he's bald) thank you, I have now gained full understanding of the lore

[@illusorywall]

This rules.

[@CrestfallenChannel]

I ended up regretting putting the ages because they're just how old their faces look. Interestingly the other games don't really show this value anywhere AFAIK

[@GamerRoman]

Prototype knight... Mr.Kings Field 5

[@hesiolite]

"I have become the King's Field 5: Limited preorder edition exclusively for the Sony Playstation 3"

[@nickperri6571]

It was very interesting to see king Allant was king Rendal in the code, it made me immediately think of Knightking Rendal from the lore of Dark Souls 1

[@Er404ChannelNotFound]

32:28 Filthy Woman's voice lines sound very similar to the sound of laughter you hear from the Shaded Woods' curse pots in Dark Souls 2, just slightly pitch-shifted 🤔

[@CrestfallenChannel]

it is the same audio

[@Er404ChannelNotFound]

@@CrestfallenChannel I knew it!

[@Slayer_of_Demons]

you are a godsend for the demon's souls community

[@zedre7633]

I recognize those "Filthy One" laugh tracks. They sound like unpitched versions of the Dark Souls 2 cursed pots.

[@Slayer_of_Demons]

I'm so glad I'm able to finally see these faces, a lot of this has gone totally undocumented for way too long. Still prefer the drawings in the game guide though haha

[@Wormerizzator]

*sees name* How do you do it? I can't imagine what it takes to slay a demon.

[@Squeaky245]

@@Wormerizzator As Ostrava always says: "just bee yourself :^)"

[@KosOrSomeSayKosmo]

This is amazing, thank you so much! Any upload from Crest is a special occasion, but this is above and beyond. Love your channel!

[@Wormerizzator]

I have to say, Miralda looks really good for being a crazy executioner. But on the other hand, Astraea looks incredible to me; she even has teeth! I legit have a very hard time remembering other npcs, in From's Souls games, with teeth. Maybe the Fair Lady in DS1? Which is similar to Astraea too. Other than that, amazing video, Crest! Have you thought of doing something similar for the bosses as well?

[@CrestfallenChannel]

Yes, although I don't know if I should make a video for every boss at once, or make a video for every area with every enemy+boss.

[@SpacePirateLord]

Shame Miralda didn't have her concept art face. Clearly they decided since they weren't gonna show her face they didn't need to do anything beyond designing a face in character creation. Makes me wonder though... What does Remake Miralda look like? 🤔

[@JJack1775]

I'm here for the faces

[@queenvictoriann]

This is SO useful! Thank you!! I want to go through and compare all these in-game faces to their concept art now. Bless you, Crestfallen 🙏

[@v01156]

extremely insightful and enjoyable, appreciate the inclusion of cut content as well as i find it fascinating! that king's field-esque first person animation set for the prototype knight is also of large interest...

[@joelyfish4216]

I'm curious if the trend of defaulting female characters to 15 and male characters to 36 extends to the other soulsborne games. Maybe I'm just noticing a pattern where there wasn't one, but a large number of characters had those two values, including several for whom it seemed inappropriate. Also the t-posing poor child got me a lot harder than I'd like to admit. I half expected a fortnight dance coming out of that.

[@dungeaterfancam]

maybe the age is just the numerical value for the slider? Haven't played demon's souls but DS1 had an age slider iirc so maybe 0 to 100 just represents how young the face looks and not the actual years someone's lived. Since most female characters were made to look more or less conventionally attractive they have lower slider values while dudes are mostly rugged so they have higher slider values, and characters with unique models might've had their faces sculpted based on a basic face made in the character creator whic had that age value. Also doesn't the child being real mean that the beggar woman is actually sane and honest and has been subject of unfair distrust and disrespect all for nothing? He and his mom should definitely do some flossing and orange justice to celebrate clearing her name

[@darthalexiel6375]

"All girls are 15 years old. Trust me!" :)

[@NoahRichard]

That first-person model blew my mind. Awesome work.

[@minespatch]

I love the touch of the ages as well. Nice work.

[@genarovargas5661]

9:38 Let's see what you have beneath that mask... yeah leave the mask on

[@dlaESP]

Love this, as well as being fascinating it's just all in all a really good collection showing the tone of the game. Music, design and incredible voice acting working well

[@meekaboo_]

This is a really nice resource to have, thank you!

[@siraw50m34]

There was a hell of a lot of work and research put into this! Very well made. I can't imagine the time you put into this video!

[@lucamckenn5932]

I like that they didn't mean for the maiden in black to be Irish, it just so happens that the best VA for her casting had a very distinguished accent.

[@CrestfallenChannel]

I like really the accents, specially the Dregling one. Makes them more unique

[@nightscout9979]

Irish? I thought she had an Eastern European accent. I think it was a great choice, as it emphasized the Maiden in Black was probably from a land long since lost to the First Scourge, and related to the overall European setting for Demon's Souls.

[@lucamckenn5932]

@@nightscout9979 I've heard several people from Ireland speak the way she does. Her pronunciation of souls gives it away. She says it more like sowools.

[@TheSeriousSoul]

The Maiden in Black is voiced by Evetta Muradasilova, her name is definitely of Eastern European decent. The only level up lady in the Souls franchise who's from Ireland is the Emerald Herald voiced by Ruth Negga who's an Irish-Ethopian voice actress who's been in film and TV

[@KateHikes83TJD]

​@@TheSeriousSoul I guess that's why ds2 always had that slight irish vibe to me it's cool to know these little details

[@nightscout9979]

Thanks for such a thorough look at the faces that fueled imaginations for so long! It's also cool to compare some of these faces with the manual and art book depictions of the characters in question. I always had the feeling Miralda was meant to have black hair, just greasy and filthy due to her work and insanity, so that was cool to confirm, but then there's stuff like Ariona looking gray that young. Man, if that's the familial hair color rather than a sign of age, then King Allant XII is even more of a Griffith than he already was. It's neat to learn that his name in the code was Rendal too! It's probably a scrapped name rather than his first name, especially since Saint Astraea is called Saint Libra in the code, but it's still interesting to see that From Software's reuse of a king named Rendal in their games goes all the way back to Demon's Souls itself. Haha, these ages. It's like a dev joke that most women in the setting either lie to be as young as possible or became wise enough to say it's a secret. The only exceptions are the worshiper who's too nice to lie and Miralda who's too crazy to try. Seriously though, no way those are the ages for every woman, so it's really mystifying why it's the one seemingly set as a default. The male characters have nuanced ages in comparison, but funnily enough, half of them look too young based on their hair color and lack of wrinkles. Still, it's fun to see the ages that were getting experimented with when thinking up the characters. I appreciate the looks at the human bosses! The False King's face conveys how he was truly designed to ruthlessly fight and kill, with just a distant enough gaze to further hint that he's a pawn or sort of drone. Astraea looks to have a subtle mix of stress and being entranced by her archdemon soul. By the way, does Astraea have heterochromia, with a gray eye and a blue one, or does the archdemon soul's light just overpower her right eye's color? Thanks for the rare look at the Old Monk outside of cutscenes! I was able to get such a look only once in the entire time I played Demon's Souls, thanks to being online and a selected player Monk taking ages to finish being summoned. It was awesome to see just how enormous the Old Monk really is, along with the rare glimpse at electricity-based magic in Demon's Souls. Latria showed minor bits of it with the Mindflayers' stunning orbs and the Fool's Idol's floor traps, but the Old Monk was unleashing some major bolts in comparison to maintain his seal and search for slaves, and the golden color is set off from the pack. I wonder if that helped shape part of Dark Souls' emphasis on Anor Londo's lightning? The look at the tutorial characters was a bonus treat! I feel the unused knight may have inspired the design of Horace the Hushed later on, and people on Twitter have already mentioned his resemblance to Creighton. In the end, From Software made the right call going for a different armor set for the players and the Boletarian Knight foes alike, and the third person perspective was definitely an improvement over the tested King's Field camera. Thanks again for all the awesome work you've done, both here and over the years, Crest. Thanks to Thens, Lokey, and Moonlight Ruin too. The various little production values throughout the video were fine touches as well.

[@CrestfallenChannel]

I appreciate the comment! Ariona is actually blonde, it's just the lighting from that place that makes it look like that. I uploaded a picture of him in the Nexus on twitter yesterday. I believe that Rendal is his actual name as that would make the brothers Rendal and Rydell. Astraea's eyes are deep blue.

[@nightscout9979]

@@CrestfallenChannel Do characters other than Ariona have their hair color changed so drastically by the lighting? Also, do you think Libra might be part of Astraea's name, or does Rydell's name make for a special exception with Allant? Thanks for clarifying Astraea's eye color.

[@CrestfallenChannel]

@@nightscout9979 Biorr has a brighter blonde hair in the nexus, but those are the only differences. I don't know about Astraea, Libra could be her surname (or even first name as we never heard her full name), or a reference to something, but I don't think it means anything.

[@nightscout9979]

@@CrestfallenChannel I wonder what it is about their hair that makes it change so much based on the lighting. Would Ariona and Biorr's hair change notably depending on which world they were loaded into? Ariona's hair in this video seems to be as gray as the stonework of the palace. Regarding Astraea, saints tend to be known by their first names, or their full names, so her being separately called Saint Astraea and Saint Libra suggests that Astraea replaced Libra as her name in the development process.

[@dungeaterfancam]

This is pretty interesting, according to (what seems to be) more literal name translations, Patches in Demon's Souls was actually referring to the spots on a hyena's fur rather than some piece of clothing if I understand correctly. I wonder why he is named Patches in all other games rather than Hyena, since only one word works without the other in the same context.

[@scas97]

This is amazing! I love the editing with the text appearing being in sync with the music :D

[@FrADandD]

dunno why but i miss so much ds for ps3 and so sad broken archstone is not playable ( but is hidde into the disk ) . good job crest like usual 😀

[@geryjunsofyan1524]

10:26 Tell All The All Knowing

[@dudunikolaishvili8096]

C9999 shall be known as DeS Creighton

[@Simte]

Thank you so much Crest, I was so curious ever since I played for the first time back in 2009.

[@TheSeriousSoul]

At 15:55 Allant is referred to as King Rendal? Does that make the Steelplate Ring in DS1 a DeS reference?

[@CrestfallenChannel]

Yes, probably.

[@guillermoramos744]

This is gold , thanks man

[@CrestfallenChannel]

Some of the textures have been upscaled, can you guess which ones?

[@LeEnnyFace]

How were you able to use upscaled textures inside the game? I would always run into problems with the engine's limit, IIRC

[@lucamckenn5932]

All of them? Or maybe just seeing the game emulatedon PC is throwing me off. I'm legit used to playing demon souls on a CRT, remember those?

[@CrestfallenChannel]

​@@LeEnnyFace You can only upscale a few of them at the same time, as there's a quite narrow size limit before the game crashes. Sometimes just a single texture will get get past the limit.

[@RAPHAELSC]

Sure; one of the hardest work made in the whole internet!

[@acorda9621]

Gael Vinland is legit how my character ends up looking for every playthrough

[@HydefHyde]

Excellent video!

[@phunkysouls6641]

Great video!

[@MaximillionPegasusJ.Crawford]

...what? Really? False King Allant is called King Rendal? Like...Knightking Rendal of Balder mentioned in ds1? Oh...i need to take a closer look at that. Maybe there are more connections. I have a funny feeling in my tummy, maybe youre on to something.

[@hesiolite]

35:06 Is this 1st person view a remnant of the time where DeS was supposed to be a first person elder scrolls type game ?

[@CrestfallenChannel]

Yes, probably from before Miyazaki joined development

[@guillermoramos744]

Mephistopheles looks high AF

[@SomeWheats]

Who knew our Boletarian prince was so dashing. Also, I swear I've heard the Land of Giants' Filthy Woman's laugh many times... Did they use it for that one distraction spell in DeS or another game maybe?

[@Shadamachaeon]

I have to admit, the only exposure that I've had to 'Souls ' type games has been 'Elden Ring', but looking at all these characters, and the mysterious yet familiar lore behind them, compels me to really want to play these earlier ones.

[@peenywallie]

14:30 断罪者ミラルダ

[@Alukardo11]

Amazing work

[@SuperPuchpuch]

Didn't know Prince Ostrava was that... handsome? Lol

[@yuyukoako189]

Heroine, Yuria and Miracle lady look so cute

[@umukzusgelos4834]

as much as I like some of the classic voice performances, the Monumental has always managed to fill me with nothing but boredom when listening to him/her, they sound so uninterested in anything they have to say one thing I´ve always enjoyed though is the inclusion of NPCs like the Acolyte of God, who on the surface does not really have a purpose other then giving some information and set the tone by offering gossip about other NPCs present in the area, the later games did not really have that Also I feel like Tell All and Mephistopheles were originally meant to inhabit a similar position to Kaathe and Frampt but only Mephistopheles made the cut edit: there is a merchant in Sens Fortress in Dark Souls I who mention's a Knight King Rendal, maybe that was a reference if King Allant´s first name is Rendal edit edit: what´s with almost every female NPC being 15?

[@悪臭-p9p]

This art direction was soooo much better than the remake. They arrogantly overdid the redesigns imo.

[@JKSmith-qs2ii]

I feel the same, but you can bet on it that the remake will be preserved going forward and the original will slowly be forgotten.

[@悪臭-p9p]

@@JKSmith-qs2ii that's why they should've included the original version imo. Certain remakes would do that now and then, but oh well🤷🏻‍♂️

[@JKSmith-qs2ii]

@@悪臭-p9p well they didn’t with shadow of the colossus which I also think the remake is worse than the original. I’ll keep em preserved myself instead.

[@ПётрПавловский-щ1х]

awesome

[@kisukoev]

I know that's just the age value on the character creation, but it's very funny to me that a japanese game is full of men over 40 while basically all females are between 15 and 30. It just screams "Japan"

[@franciscadeguerrero6720]

The age of the characters is all over the place lol, Garl is supposed to be Selen's younger brother

[@CrestfallenChannel]

Yes, should've clarified that this is just what that slider of age on the character creator says

[@Voodoostyle88]

Demon souls rules 💪

[@cynthiapeach3944]

Is this the original for PS3 or the remake for PS5? I've never played either so I can't tell.

[@Fussfackel]

was the prototype knight the basis for your experiments with the 1st person mod? at which state is that btw? couldn't find any further info on it.

[@CrestfallenChannel]

Nope. I don't think the mod will ever be possible, for some bizarre reason nobody managed to find the file that has the camera settings, it's just missing, so it's only possible to modify the camera settings using the debug+cheat engine at the same time, which is not viable. A cheat engine table is theoretically possible, but there's no chance that I'd be able to make something like that alone.

[@Fussfackel]

@@CrestfallenChannel thanks for clarifying! maybe one day. I don't know how well these games play in 1st person (I haven't tried the DS3 mod yet), but it has some weird fascination to it.

[@CrestfallenChannel]

@@Fussfackel It is pretty cool actually, there's a video about a first person table on PTDE, but I'm not 100% if it still works

[@Fussfackel]

@@CrestfallenChannel I'll look into it. I'm also saving for a VR kit one day, not primarily, but also to give the DS3 VR mod a try :D

[@CrestfallenChannel]

@@Fussfackel you end up seeing many details that you don't normally. It was very different walking through the anor londo rooms

[@manofsense7859]

Why do the NPCs in the og Demon’s Souls look strangely similar to the NPCs in the Fallout games?

[@AngraMainiiu]

It's because of pre-rendered models, many of the NPCs in Demon's Souls use unique faces that you can't replicate in character creation.

[@bronyfanhelluvafan6728]

Can I ask you a question Crest?

[@CrestfallenChannel]

Yes?

[@bronyfanhelluvafan6728]

@@CrestfallenChannel As stupid as this sounds, a while ago I wanted to do DS1 NPC Battles however everytime I moved a specific NPC and enemy to a different location they always try to go back to their default placement how do you alter that?

[@CrestfallenChannel]

@@bronyfanhelluvafan6728 You have to change their settings with mapstudio, you should ask on the modding discord discord.gg/mT2JJjx

[@bronyfanhelluvafan6728]

@@CrestfallenChannel Thank you.

[@Dracomies]

Those faces look like something straight out of Oblivion. Almost straight out of the Creation kit.

[@Zansekai]

Yuria is 15???

[@tims.1615]

Ah yes, *flake*

[@scantyer]

awesome video. Also caught an error where it says "miralda" japanese in 14:29 in

[@CrestfallenChannel]

Ah crap, his name in the files is 古き王ドラン