There's no real attempt at narrative order here, although there are what you could think of as of thematic through-lines. Of course none of this will make sense if you haven't read Scholar of Scholar, which is tediously long, claims to be in order even though it isn't, and is wrong about almost everything except for the stuff about Ivory which I am absolutely 100% right about and will defend to Big M himself what fight me. Or Big T in this case I suppose. Fight me Big T
001 - The Pilgrim and the Eye: Licia, Shulva, the Crushed and Black Eye Orbs.
002 -The Saint, The Witch, and the Wayfarer: Saints and illness, the Old Guard of Probably Olaphis, Zullie and witches
003 - Descent of Maiden: Descendants, handmaidens, guards, and relatives of Gwynevere. I'm pretty sure I proved myself wrong in a couple of different ways in 004.
004 - Translation Notes/The Stone Garden: Boyd, Vorgel, stuff about language and statues.
005 - Stripped of Ornamentation: Lewellyn of Mirrah, which it doesn't seem like there'd be much to say about him.
006 - A Storm of Dragons: Dragons! And stuff that's maybe a Dragons!
007 - Cordial Intrusion: DMBs and BSs and and RSs and GSs and WoBs and BoBs, Elana v. Mytha stuff.
008 - To Wander Eternally: Angels. Ties pretty directly to 010 with the ecology/biology stuff. I think I might almost be ready to hazard a guess on where babies come from.
009 - Profane Use: Blood Magic and Dark Lightning. Conjecturey, even for me.
010 - Immemorial: Archtrees and the Age of Ancients.
011 - The New Motive Power: Golems, puppets, and puppeteers.
012 - Spread Eagle: Shields with eagles on em.
013 - Turn Back: Aava, Lud & Zallen, Fabian and the Priestesses, proposed history of Eleum Loyce & the nature of Profanity
014 - What Woeful: Gundyr, Fire Keeper, early Lothric stuff, if "early" even means anything.
015 - These Dying Leaves: More trees, speculative Aldia and Londor stuff.
016/017 - By Our Very Howls: A Curse Revisited, revisited.
018 - In the Clutch of Crows: I bet you think 10,000 words would be enough words to explain the Clutch rings and you'd be wrong, it takes 10,000 words to not explain the Clutch rings.
019 - Peasants and Pigs: And hollows and pickaxes and class dynamics and more crow-based insanity.
020 - Rusted Gold Coin: Darklurker, the Leydia, the Pilgrims. More angels.
021 - Sin Tin Null: All is melted in blood and all is reborn. Covenants, Paintings, and Londor. Some Ringed City stuff. Fucking Targray.
022 - Token of Spite: DS2 covenants, timeline stuff
023 - Twin Dragons: I wrote and deleted this three times over the course of a year during fits of religious madness before declaring it both cursed and forbidden
023 - Ten Thousand Eyes: Attempting to outline Izalith's family tree.
024 - Antipodal: What if some things are simple?
025 - This Endless - what happened to the demons
026 - Bond of the Hawk - Hawkeye Gough's influence across the series.
Break & Deburr All Sharp Edges
See, this is what happens when you stop buying new games. I have about ten hours a week to play games [more now, thanks to the covid, but not a lot more now - Me from the Future, 4/20] and that is being split between writing about them and playing them [playing Nioh 2 and Crush Them All currently, thanks for asking [Random Dice and obsessively consuming Ninja Turtles lore, thanks for asking, 11/23]. I don't keep up with new games, because my primary interest in Dark Souls is from a story-design standpoint and as a weird historiography simulator I can project my psychological problems onto, and very few people make games like that.
Anyway, important new revelations around everything occurred and there's a need to backfill a lot of stuff before there's any real hope of making more sense of the third game.
Believe it or not, Scholar was just scratching the surface of DS2 and me from a year ago with his failed attempt to figure out DS3's story was a fraud and a charlatan and a coward.
This new series, which is not being written by a fraud and charlatan and coward, will be called Ashen Idols and will primarily will be dealing with DS2, particularly the DLC stuff, but mostly smaller and tangential things that didn't/don't fit in Scholar, and how it fits into the other games. I'm trying out a more concise format, where I'm not trying to tell the story of an entire country and how it ties into all the surrounding countries with each post because that's a great way to go crazy.
026 - Bond of the Hawk - Hawkeye Gough's influence across the series.
Break & Deburr All Sharp Edges
See, this is what happens when you stop buying new games. I have about ten hours a week to play games [more now, thanks to the covid, but not a lot more now - Me from the Future, 4/20] and that is being split between writing about them and playing them [playing Nioh 2 and Crush Them All currently, thanks for asking [Random Dice and obsessively consuming Ninja Turtles lore, thanks for asking, 11/23]. I don't keep up with new games, because my primary interest in Dark Souls is from a story-design standpoint and as a weird historiography simulator I can project my psychological problems onto, and very few people make games like that.
Anyway, important new revelations around everything occurred and there's a need to backfill a lot of stuff before there's any real hope of making more sense of the third game.
Believe it or not, Scholar was just scratching the surface of DS2 and me from a year ago with his failed attempt to figure out DS3's story was a fraud and a charlatan and a coward.
This new series, which is not being written by a fraud and charlatan and coward, will be called Ashen Idols and will primarily will be dealing with DS2, particularly the DLC stuff, but mostly smaller and tangential things that didn't/don't fit in Scholar, and how it fits into the other games. I'm trying out a more concise format, where I'm not trying to tell the story of an entire country and how it ties into all the surrounding countries with each post because that's a great way to go crazy.
