Lore To Sleep To ▶ (Dark Souls) The Cycle of Ages

[@TheAshenHollow]

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[@thehonestcompany867]

I'd love to play a Souls game in the Age of Dark, playing as a serpent becoming more humanoid/draconic as they work to bring about the Age of Ancients and wrest it from the humans who would like to see the world remain in its state of darkness, traumatized by a world that remained far too bright for far too long

[@andrewross6682]

Look up Age of Nightfall mod

[@pogothepurple3826]

Love it

[@arthurdossantos6826]

I imagine it would be just staring at your screen with the power off.

[@gregbalisong4203]

I wish we could end up seeing the age of the deep, or maybe some other age we’ve heard little to nothing about

[@marymcallister7963]

I love this series. I've been using soulsborne lore videos to fall asleep for years (starting when I had depression, that's how I got into the series). It's so nice to have a playlist just dedicated to that where I know there won't be unexpected music and loud noises. Thank you !

[@TheAshenHollow]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy it! And I hope each of your days is more bearable than the last! =)

[@victoriousf.i.g.3311]

Had depression, past tense? Congrats, love that it implies liberty from depression!

[@oskadavies9983]

I absolutely love this series, I listen to it most nights its so good

[@TheAshenHollow]

Thanks! That means a lot! =)

[@chrisdyter1440]

No horrible ads and sudden loud noises - The Ashen Hollow cares about his listeners. Even the plug for the sponsor delivered in that gorgeous soft drawl. Love it

[@joshuaj4460]

These videos help with my sleep so much. I thank you so much. That being said, it’s hard not to laugh when the entire atmosphere is set up and I’m dozing off, and then I hear, “But first.. the video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends” Don’t get me wrong, I understand why you’re doing it, and keep doing it, I just find it funny.

[@TheAshenHollow]

Haha, gotta do what you gotta do sometimes! xD I appreciate the candor though!

[@onlygalactic1744]

Finally gonna get some good sleep tonight. Love the videos even if I don’t watch while sleeping

[@TheAshenHollow]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching! =D

[@ryansworld9372]

Thanks!

[@ryansworld9372]

I hope you do an Elden Ring lore to sleep to once it comes out!

[@TheAshenHollow]

You're too kind, friend! And yes, that is the plan! =)

[@elliothazelton4489]

YES I love these videos!!! The soothing nature of this serie’s lore combined with awesome narration is a perfect package to fall asleep to!!

[@TheAshenHollow]

You're too kind!

[@RoseBleueDuRosierSec]

I'm having bad anxiety these days and you upload a new one! Thank you so much.

[@TheAshenHollow]

Thanks for watching! I hope your days start getting better asap!

[@Radagon_of_the_Golden_Order]

I say no more age of fire. this is canon I Orenstein wants the age of darkness. I loved the video!

[@gabrielsemipro]

I envy people who sleep to this. I use youtube videos to sleep as well, and it's terrible when there's sudden shouting or any loud sound, but here, i know this won't happen, still, i can't actually relax when someone is trying to make me relax, it's so weird, i feel just strange, hearing like someone is speaking into my ears, close to the mic and with a soothing voice. I have no idea why i can't relax to that, but it's a nice content, and it's helping a lot of people, so this rocks.

[@pailhorsegaming6762]

I gotta be honest, I don’t even watch these, I just put the playlist on and pass out.

[@victoriousf.i.g.3311]

I love how you kept the low, soothing voice through the Raid promo, too! I guess it would have been jarring otherwise, but pretty cool you managed to keep your vibe while communicating a sponsorship.

[@bigreaderpike]

Maybe the dragons children when they're born in the age of fire are from eggs or whatever or just you know serpents and the conditions of the world's in that age keeps them from becoming dragons

[@andreicapucion6568]

Just in time for bed. Thank you for this ❤️

[@Kingbobman69]

I really chuckled when u said RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS in your deep ASMR voice. Seriously tho, keep up the great work brother. I get that you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes to keep the lights on.

[@TheAshenHollow]

Haha, gotta do what you gotta do sometimes! xD And thanks dude!

[@ladyfox6705]

7am Friday here! Perfect timing for my breakfast nomnom 😊👍☕🍞🍯

[@Finikyu]

I really do enjoy these sleep based lore videos. So relaxing, thanks for making these!

[@luckiness8288]

i have a lot of problems with sleeping but thanks to you it has gotten way easier to fall asleep keep doing these kinds of video's i really enjoy them :)

[@TheQuandaryZone]

this series has helped me sleep better than any sleeping pills

[@liamorendorf1997]

Ok bear with me. In lothric it seems like many of the hollows were turning into trees; and I’m guessing some of the hollowtrees transform into those flying things in the dragon slayer fight. Maybe over time all humans hollow in the dark turning back into pygmies and the treehollows turn into arch trees and the flying ones turn into dragons???? I’m just spit balling Also the lighting stone plate ring says something about “knights who would become dragons”

[@escrivaodegalarran1098]

I just wanted to know if the age of ancients is also part of the cycle, because if it was, what the hell would start it? It's said that dragons are souless beings, but let's be honest, all enemies drops souls even if it isn't like a boss soul which you can store in your inventory. I bet that dragons and humans are actually connected, this would explain why they can barely transform into one, and why the serpents are hella supportive of this. I even believe that perhaps, at a certain point in the dark age, every renascent human will slowly turn into one, as the curse actually makes you an everlasting and unchanging vessel of humanities and souls, and that's not even mentioning blood, and what the hell it might be or actually do in the world for it alone to be able to carry souls.

[@johnc6158]

Check out this video about the puss of men in ds3 and the theory that everything is destined to and working towards becoming dragons or serpents

[@WFLSCOMMANDER]

Thank you yet again for another good night’s sleep

[@mynameselijah]

The title of this is everything

[@UberCletus]

Over 20 minutes!? Guess who's finally getting some sleep tonight 👌

[@juanmanrique451]

Indeed

[@theunionargus2589]

Love these! Pleas make a similar series for Bloodborne!

[@runegartmann1255]

That would be amazing blood-borne has such amazing lor I could listen to that all day

[@TheAshenHollow]

That would certainly be cool! Unfortunately I know very little about Bloodborne. Unless of course you happen to know someone I can commission to write the scripts? =)

[@theunionargus2589]

@@TheAshenHollow I don’t know anyone personally but the Bloodborne subreddit is a pretty large community of dedicated fans, it might be worth looking for some respected folk there to lead you in the right direction. Messaging the mods might be a good place to start. Also, if you want to get into the lore read The Paleblood Hunt by Redgrave. Truly amazing stuff.

[@runegartmann1255]

@@TheAshenHollow Unfortunately I don’t but maybe you could do a collaboration or something with another channel. There is a guy who’s channel is called the exploring series and another channel called the brothers codethey have both made videos for blood-borne covering the story and the thematic ideas. But this is only a suggestion keep doing what you love since this is totally amazing in its own right.

[@Chris-qp2vi]

@@TheAshenHollow maybe a collab series with Vaatividya?

[@marystone860]

I am playing Dark Souls Remastered on my Nintendo Switch Lite, for the very first time! First, I read up and watched a lot of lore videos, so I would know at least somewhat was going on! So, from what I have heard so far, this whole thing loops over and over itself, again and again. We know eventually someone or something, comes along and shatters the cycle, and yeets it out the window! Someday (hopefully in a Dark Souls 4), this will be either explained or the rabbit hole goes even deeper than ever! So, IF this is a "never ending" cycle, they keep doing it because they hope it will be different this time, or they fear IF someone doesn't do it, something far worse can happen! I'm still trying to figure this whole thing out, to be honest! On a fun note, it would be trippy to see something happen in the Soulsborne universe that is similiar to the Conjunction of Spheres in the Witcher! It would be nuts, if you chose the Dark Lord path in Dark Souls 1, meets up with your character from Bloodborne (if you chose to become a Elder God, maybe loosing the thing that made you care about the world), what could happen from that? It would be even better if they DIDN'T loose that, and could change back at will, meets the Dark Lord! I know it sounds crazy, but, it's just fun! I can't wait until I can play Bloodborne, I am a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft, and their lore is badass as hell! This is such a great channel, I'm glad it exists! New Sub!

[@Silath01]

Never have i heard such a soothing Raid Shadow legends ad

[@jeffreymarkland3038]

This ASMR series is dope.

[@Pfromm007]

I haven't been advertised on Raid: Shadow Leggins in a sensual voice before. Not sure how to feel about that.

[@TheAshenHollow]

Haha! It's at least better than loud ass KZbin ad breaks though, right? ;D

[@Pfromm007]

@@TheAshenHollow Yeah, it's great honestly. Love your videos, they really help calm my mind enough for sleep.

[@LIAM-iu4nj]

Ahhh darksouls!😌

[@masterzoroark6664]

So the best ending is to rest the flame with the help of the Firekeeper so the "Logic of the World" is mended

[@thomas_dries]

Ashen your videos are so inspiring, I'm going to make my own souls youtube channel and I just wanted to thank you for the inspiration!

[@zombieman2821]

YEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!! Cant wait to pass out to this

[@Demonbaby713]

These videos are great don't stop making them!

[@banze4542]

Thank you

[@TheAshenHollow]

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[@MrPandarilla]

I would pay real money for a doll of the maiden in black in your thumbnail

[@azizm8686]

Thank you for the wonderful storytelling.

[@TheAshenHollow]

Thank you for watching! =D

[@smuglydepressed]

Just as I was about to take a rest, how perfectly timed!

[@TheAshenHollow]

I'm a wizard!

[@hoppinpepper8043]

i've listened to this 3 times now......i may have developed an addiction lol

[@moskovthefirst2227]

Never too early to sleep!!!

[@TheAshenHollow]

I heard that! xD

[@moskovthefirst2227]

@@TheAshenHollow yes sir!

[@creedflow]

So good listening to calming lore of an amazing videozzzzzzzzzzz........

[@biomegamechdude]

mysteriously some of my comments on these vids have been removed >.> if there ever had been a ds4 this video makes me think it could have shown the beginning of the next lords not sure how from would have done it tho they never gave us a game at the actual beginning after all

[@nickcampbell5626]

I thought after the age of dark was the age of the deep.

[@feeble_goblin3764]

Sleep? Ill be the judge of that

[@feeble_goblin3764]

Almost but not quite

[@Gyokosz]

I was thinking something similar, but i considered archdragon peak to be the key to unraveling the age of ancients, not the primordial serpents. Age of fire slowly fades, gods die, after a while humanity goes hollow, but some become Dragons, thus ending the age of dark and inheriting the world. Then after that the hollow men find the newly Born flame and the souls, and the cycle continues

[@Kyng_T]

Pretty sure the only reason there are embers in the age of dark, is bc the keeper hides some embers. This means you have to kll her, and perhaps that is the betrayal. She has committed herself to the flame, and will only allow the flame to die with her.

[@runegartmann1255]

A great video as always I have a question though and if anyone can answer it or have a theory about it I would be all ears. If the Lord souls that are found in the flame are passed down from Lourdes of cinder what is the dark soul since as far as I understand it it is fundamentally different from the others. Could it be some kind of natural safety mechanism to ensure the age of dark or maybe since it seems to have a strong connection to life and emotions it needs to be there for those things to exist within the cycle. Anyway that is just my theory but I would love to hear others.

[@runegartmann1255]

@Armando Molina that makes sense thank you very much for answering. So are you saying that the dark soul became dark because the furtive pick me divided it amongst humanity or was it dark to begin with. Because if it was dark from the beginning then why was it so and is there a possibility of a version of the cycle where the situation are reversed so that there are three dark souls and one for lack of a better word light soul

[@ppgangster2258]

I finnaly got an elden rings ad before watching this, pog

[@jacoboddie5364]

I was thinking frampt might be connected to seath somehow, perhaps he was sympathetic to him and that might align him with gwyn at some point

[@clint_yeastwould9053]

Great work

[@under5643]

Woooooooo time to sleep

[@iR3dy]

I haven't gotten a notification from the last 3 videos... You know i always comment as soon as you post 🥺😭

[@TheAshenHollow]

KZbin be like that sometimes. 😔

[@barbarianzg8826]

Why first pygmy kept dark soul until the end of the Age of fire even the dark soul is most powerful..?..he had to lvl up!

[@marystone860]

Yeah, someone had to start Dark Souls plot armor, lol!

[@StriderFoxGaming]

I wonder how many "ages of fire" happened before Gwyn

[@theultimatetactician1712]

None prolly

[@theultimatetactician1712]

Actually if you think about it none have passed cuz the age of fire and cycles are something Gwyn produced as a byproduct of finding the souls and starting the age of fire

[@StriderFoxGaming]

@@theultimatetactician1712 BUT If you pay attention to the Fire Keeper saying what she sees for the future, the embers could reference the Lord Souls. And if they appeared amidst darkness, who's to say that there werent Lord BEFORE Gwyn and they ended up eventually ending their "Age of Fire" LEADING to the age of Ancients

[@theultimatetactician1712]

@@StriderFoxGaming you got a good point mate. Well I won't go with this theory but the truth is elusive and subjective like most things in life.

[@skullnite1042]

where can i listen to this music?

[@janbaltes2863]

Thanks :)

[@sweetlikedonuts8581]

whats the song at the end called?

[@9Skiddlerip9]

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I liked it, because well done. Raid. I love the lore, and it is soothing. Raid. But getting used to asmr Souls is a bit strange. Raid. I think I'm going to listen to more. Thanks! :)

[@acousticmeatus8141]

Please tell me you have Spotify

[@tylercraven7150]

It's 2pm currently, I guess it's nap time

[@TheAshenHollow]

Sweet dreams! ;)

[@AesirUnlimited]

I understand what the developers where going for with the cyclical nature of the ages. But is it really so bad to delay the inevitable? I imagine if we found a way to prolong the universe in real life, we would without question. Imagine if scientists found a way to stop the heatdeath of the universe from happening. They likely would pursue this path. Assuming humanity is even around so far into the future. It would probably be more realistic for me to limit it to whatever it is that ends humanity. I highly doubt that humans will be around when the heat death becomes an immediate problem. Lol

[@wnihaunter3943]

the moment you realize that dark souls 1 is literally one cycle out of possibly infinite cycles that happened previously but we are just not told about i.e. age of dark= age of dragons

[@rain8222]

Bloodborne please

[@malekartorian3054]

I wanna play dark souls so bad. Dont mean to brag but ive killed Malenia and I cant kill a flipping skeleton or even get past firelink x.x

[@mari6794]

Love your voice (｡◕‿◕｡)

[@JezzmundTutu]

Fp

[@zolays]

your videos are too adicting :)

[@TheAshenHollow]

Glad to hear! Thanks for watching! =)

[@Kyng_T]

Pretty sure the only reason there are embers in the age of dark, is bc the keeper hides some embers. This means you have to ‘k/o’ her, and perhaps that is the betrayal. She has committed herself to the flame, and will only allow the flame to die with her.