Go watch Sinners I just saw it it's really good. Watch the I Lied To You clip oh ye doubters.
To the point.
The...wait...
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Right, this series is labeled "AI" because it's called Ashen Idols not because a robot wrote it. That would've not occurred to me ever when I started. It's about taking like single head scratcher topics like nadalia apart rather than trying to analyze the entire-ass story of dark souls 2 in relation to 1 and 3.
This almost whole entire blog is about trying to take dark souls apart in relation to each other. Also this series is about trying to figure how nadalia figures into it, the same way scholar was trying to figure out who the cardinal tower/undead crypt statue was, and The Elder being on the way, was what kicked off the scholar series.
Speaking of slowly being left behind by the world faster:
The mod I was using for nightreign was like a parameter edit, but all the new updates are online-only, which sure I get it, but the mod moved to me3 whatever that is and I don't have the bandwidth to do anything more complicated than copypaste a modded database file over and click a offline launcher app to make me cool and good at things.
So for nightreign I'm just like watching other people fight the boss and then watching zullie and bonfirevn until i start seeing normie articles about mods because if they can figure it out. Holy shit am I writing two series at once I must be less depressed. Hey, look into that if you proofread this later and delete everything back to the Sinners recommendation and then everything after this go to bed.
Right, to the point.
A large part of Dark Souls story is told mostly by what's missing. It's the missing parts that make it something MORE that just item descriptions and quest objectives and contrivance. I'm sure it's the weed talking, but the part of the story we're told is like the white outline around a humanity sprite and the part of the story we're not told is the big most-of-it black part.
So, something that I've always come back to as far as The Lore, is the undead asylum; working out that "oscar" was a, pardon the French, coward and a weakling and also The Actual Chosen Undead Yes Oscar Of This Family Saying Chosed By Me Gwyn, or Nameless, I God Almighty Am Saying This Astoran Family That Hollows Incredibly Easily Shall Succeed Me.
What would it have took to have been The Dark Lord, back before the firelinking, had gwyn been a little less successful at resisting the course of nature?
They would have to be incredibly powerful obviously. But further, they would need to be fully human. That means no souls, no leveling up, no soul arts, no time or light magic beyond good old fashioned Getting Good. "Here is one humanity, beat the game or game over."
Because a humanity is basically just a raw id waiting aimlessly until something agitates it or it gets trapped inside someone, at which point it gets caught up in an adventure where it begins to understand division as a concept and develops preferences and the Wanting Stuff begins.
There's a bbc kids cartoon called numberblocks, probably tory propaganda somehow, but the idea is each number is a cartoon character and they can add and subtract to turn into each other. Both my kids love it, the oldest is a math wizz, which is a correlation. The eldest will also probably end up being a king charles fan somehow.
Not the point. Kind of the point, he was a raw id that found division and thereby preference. Alongside the point.
The point: Once the vessel that housed it hollows, every humanity (in a natural state) goes back to being more-or-less identical to each other. They don't become anything like a Soul of a Proud Knight or a Soul of a Box Loader Who Should've Stayed in Bed or a Soul of a Great Big Dumb King or a Lords Soul (although they can merge with them, but it's always [under natural circumstances] just one humanity).
They can split though. It's a twin humanity, not a pair humanity.
Which is now where finally I'm getting to the point about the kids cartoon:
Imagine an entire planet where every single person is the number one block in the first episode. Every time it asks a question, poof, +1 humanity waiting to notice something, poof +1 humanity. Somehow one of these things has to overthrow the God of going "equals two! equals three!" And the god, as this would have been shortly after the dragon war, would still be a pretty big slice of the Global Maximum Number pie chart.
Therefore,
The original Dark Lord, whoever it was, would basically need to be the Best Infantry Soldier ever; a Godfrey or Good Hunter level recruit, opposed to the "every weapon is a club" hacks we see during the bonfire era. Is it cool to say badass again yet? Just the worst people you could imagine were all saying it last I got out. I don't say it much do I? Fuck I'm trying not to be a the worst people I promise. The worst people are fascists and their enablers. "Their enablers" is doing a lot of lifting in that sentence. I want to be clear who I think the bad guys are. Gendered on purpose.
Another thing about the dark/light dynamic is that while souls can "pair" and grow stronger, they can't "twin". A spul can exist as 1 up to Global Maximum, they can add and subtract between each other, but they can never +1. The Maximum only goes down.
It could've been giant smith. It could've been patches. It could've been anyone, that's kind of the point, so long as both the sprite and the vessel were given the right opportunities and came to the right conclusions and took the right actions. In other words, a champion of that most human of attributes: luck.
Which sort of brings me to the point:
It's easy, given the setting, to think of this conflict as a lex luthor vs clark kent or guts vs griffith or storm team vs doomguy situation.
But there's one other thing I keep coming back to across the series.
We're supposed to be talking about marrying a princess here.
When we look at the lords pygmy, I think there's seven thrones, in the ds3 dlc, we find they all sold humanity out, obviously, but
What
If
The original Dark Lord didn't wage or win a great war? What if they just won a hand in marriage?
The lords pygmy seem to be married to fillianore, in some kind of "and the seven dwarves" narrative in what seems like it could be a kind of Dark Lord Ascension Ritual that has stalled out.
We find a princess, gwyndolinevere, nashandra, anri, finianore. We find seven dwarves, seven trials, seven colors, seven fires.
We find a rarely seen eighth color.
Filianore holds and egg and the egg has black obsidian albumin and the yolk is pure light.
The conclusion, I think, is that this, here in the ringed city where gwyn broke time, was originally supposed to be where the dark lord from the dark tales period was supposed to ascend, with Lordship inherited via marriage rather than conquest.
A further possible conclusion is that marriage is how anor succeeded izalith
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