meaning that he knew her when she was still alive. In the End of Fire ending, we see what is apparently the begining of an age of dark, and the screen literally fades into total blackness, and I do believe that this isn't merely a transition screen, as the Fire Keeper says "Ashen One, hearest thou my voice still? Its a value I find hard to quantify, but something I found satiated in strong regards when making this theory. Description [edit | edit source]. The dark is ultimately staved off by primordial fire, which is the nature of the seal. Tumblr. The humanity sprites cannot avert their nature of pursuing that which they have lost/don't have, and yearn for soul and flame invariably (Pursuers flavor text). They were sparks of raw power that could be used, among other things for magic. They at this point have a civilization. I don’t agree. But Lord Gwyn trembled at the Dark. It was claimed in developer interview that the dragon of Ash Lake in-game did not feel pain when his tail was cut off because he is pseudo-mineral life, I can find this source at a later time, but this is what I base my interpretation of the everlasting dragons on. Men help in the battle! Proto blood-life in the Age of Ancients continued to develop through checkpoints that mirror the stone, bronze age etc of real life. And to conclude everything, I'd like to ask about the Age of Dragons. The Dark Soul is defined by what is initially considered a weak power, and severely underestimated by at least Gwyn. It was when all Lords enflamed their Lord Souls did they gain the strength to challenge the ancient winged deities. Men can contain the darkness within them, unnatural as it all is. The Moonlight Greatsword is false moonlight, revealed from flavor texts over the years. No one truly knows what the Age of Dark is because up until now no one has ever allowed the Age of Dark to happen. We should have a dark souls lore sub. However! I've always seen it as basically our age, here in the real world. Greedfall - yes, it is a bit janky in some places and fairly low budget, but the rpg experience is far better than expected, combat is good too. The blood lifeforms could perish normally. In this era, the world was ruled by the Everlasting Dragons. The Age of Ancients: The Dark Soul and the First Men. Add a post. But then there was fire, and with fire came disparity. One question I have though is how do you fit Seath into the whole Dragons being mineral lifeform thing. DARK SOULS, a spiritual successor to 2009’s Demon’s Souls, is an action role-playing game that sees players exploring a demon-infested land of the undead in an attempt to retrieve their lost souls.Its realistic melee combat is bloody and gory, and requires players to make clever use of scarce artifacts that can restore health or allow players to engage ghostly specters. The lore of Dark Souls is infamously vague. I think it fits into the giant humanoid skull seen in Ash Lake and parts of the later series entries to regard the blood lifeform's having intelligence somewhat inversely correlated with size, at least in a vague sense. The Age of Ancients is an era in the lore of Dark Souls. Primordial Serpent Kaathe "gifts" an ability of Lifedrain to undead warriors in New Londo. It can be hard to envision the Age of Dark because we have no real reference point for it, but it certainly would be dark in a literal sense: the sun and the First Flame are linked, and when the First Flame goes out so does the sun. With hollowing gone, humans would never lose their Humanity and souls, and therefore maintain individuality… and Disparity. The Primordial Serpents, whose role certainly had some play before all this, start to have some clear agenda. Edit:It had never occurred to me that Seath's betraying element was to reveal his kin's lack of lightning defense in their exterior. Cheers mate, I saved this for next time I have time to read a book. Dark Souls: Age of Fire #1 is an interesting and darkly gorgeous introduction to this story set in the famed age of the gods. The Witches and Nito do what you see in the cutscene, powered by their Lord Souls. I find that it helps iron out some of the supposed inconsistencies and head-scratchers of the game, like how the First of the Dead can move, what dead even means in a world filled with undead, how darkness can be representative of life etc. Ingward notes the existence of at least one undead gaining the Lordvessel before, and odds are they eventually met their demise due to not being strong enough. Things always come full circle here. Gwyn fashions lightning magic out of natural inspiration from the mushrooms innate lightning (see Yellow Pine Resin dropping from mushroom men and its text in Dks3). One of those being the age of dark. The Furtive Pygmy splits the Dark Soul into humanity. and it can technically be everlasting unless a new age of fire begins. Because of this, the Tomb becomes a holy part of the Way of the White. Join. Furthermore, the nature of crystals here would suggest the nature of him birthing modern sorcery as soul-power made "solid", the crystal apex of the soul spells being particularly piercing and tangible. Then from the dark, they came, and found the Souls of Lords within the flame. I am decently inclined to believe they have ancient origins from their growth throughout, and towards the bottom, of the great hollow. Indeed, it can be construed honestly as helpful, for the seal of fire contains the darkness within them, unable to expand or go out of control in normal circumstance. I may adapt or refine it come the right time. Time flows as a consequence of light, as a consequence of the First Flame. It has power that can be harnessed but is in a way infinite, in very much an inverse to the Light Soul that has been used by the gods and is now indistinct liquid energy distributed amongst them (I believe alot is in Gwyn himself). Gwyn either happened upon another Lord Soul that was demented, in that it was separated into two complimentary, unnatural pieces, or found another Lord Soul and perhaps with the assistance of the other lords proceeded to split it into these two unnatural pieces. The difficulty level is turned all the way up to 11 in this game, and will probably be remembered as the hardest game this year. In truth, the Age of Dark would be very similar to the Age of Grey, albeit there would be some differences. In fact, I am rather easily convinced that this is true. The Dark Soul, being alive, has want. Especially after he burns to ash to open the Kiln. Darkness, which otherwise would just be the lack of flame and soul-power, can now expand and consume. I cannot claim that as to whether or not they could even move before the First Flame came into being, as whether they could or not fits into the rest of my theory rather equally. I believe that it innately does not possess the properties that we have come to regard "soul" in Dark Souls though, namely that it can be transferred, broken down, fuse/build up, or used for a variety of purposes by means of its consumption or transposition by the sophisticated means later used by the gods. The dragons are animated by their incredible internal "twinkling" light, they are "killed" in the same way you kill a statue by breaking it. They are what become known as undead. A more accurate term would just be that they were discombobulated and broken down. Rather than begetting will, it has a will itself. And the black eyes that shimmer within, I see? When they die, they die. card. Gwen created the Seal of Fire to seal away humanity because he's a selfish jerk, and the Age of Fire keeps this alive. As how these obsessions relate I cannot say, and much of these ideas I have ultimately been inspired from details given in other Souls games, making it a complicated theory to present in these bounds. When the Age of Dark comes to an end, the Age of Fire spurs anew. The Witch of Izalith at some point attempts to recreate the First Flame from her own Lord Soul, causing the Chaos Flame and spawning demons. Then from the dark, they came, and found the Souls of Lords within the flame". Full of gray crags, archtrees, and Everlasting Dragons. But the Age of Dark, proceeding from the Age of Flame, has thus Disparity baked into it. ". For example, we now have an existence things that can have a lack of Light, or once have light but now no longer do. About Community. Their life is entirely ephemeral, the passing of the Chaos flame that "powers" the demons as the First Flame powers bloodlife is inevitable, lacking any element of immune to the passage of time, and overall short-lived. Dark souls is an incredible, fun, deep, rewarding game if you are the right person. But by nature of being born of a cursed existence, the dark is metaphysically an Abyss; as much as it consumes and grows, it can never be satiated. I think most would phrase it as the best Souls intro cutscene, for lack of a better word it is "mythical." This is the water found in Ash Lake, and it is from this water, which we do not claim has a bottom necessarily, that the Archtrees rise up from. Again this is not very ironed out... Just wanted to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this theory. 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