Here's my first big gripe with the game. It's gonna seem dumb, considering the gripes other people have but look.
When we come across an obvious, direct port of a basegame boss with a proper name, like Agheel, they change the name to something like Flying Hill Dragon, or it's a character that kinda would make sense to show up like Margit or Elemer.
They didn't do that with Freja. She is still the Duke's. In the context of Nightreign this would seem to call for a direct connection to the Duchess, otherwise we're back to ignoring any kind of peerage or succession analysis and the story of Dark Souls is back to not making any sense.
Unless Duchess is really is married to Aldia or Seath, which seems like the least likely thing.
However,
Gnoster is very DS2-coded and gives us a DS1-only status effect. Only the worm doesn't like us this time.
My best overall reckoning is that, since the Adel-Recluse connection seems pretty solid, that each of the nightlords lines up with one of the nightfarers.
Gladius and Wylder seems fairly obvious, and the Adel+Recluse thing.
Raider and Auger are both ocean-themed.
Caligo and Heolstor both show up late, as do Executor and Revenant.
So,
Gladius - Wylder
Adel - Recluse
Gnoster - Duchess?!?!
Maris - Raider
Libra - Ironeye or Guardian
Fulghor - Ironeye or Guardian
Caligo - Executor, somehow
Heolstor - Revenant (exists only to kill the nightlord, gains strength from NOT being alone, and loneliness seems to be a Nightlord theme)
So that's the hypothesis.
I don't know if it started with the 1.01.3 patch, but Augur has been dayfaring into my nightfaring missions and Freja seems to spawn instead of Bell Bearing thank god.
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