If we take the descriptions of Gundyrs Armor literally then it makes much more sense that most of the game, except Light Firelink and the Kiln, is in the past than that we somehow discovered timetravel at the bottom of Lothric Castle. Eventually the Age of Dark will end and a new Age of Fire will begin, followed by the fire beginning to fade and appearance of the undead curse, etc. Hannah Kahnwald is pregnant. I know there is the manga thread but i dont wanna risk beings spoiled on Part 7 and 8. This theory would of course have heavy implications on the understanding of the Dark Ending of Dark Souls 1 that, after Dark Souls 2 established that the world is cyclical and the Flame is always "reignited" (Straid of Olaphis pretty much accurately describes the Cycles when he says that "No flame, however brilliant, does not one day splutter and fade. Despite the fact they diligently borrowed from other well-known films, "Dark Encounter" pleasantly surprised me. In the film, the women encounter underground creatures referred to as crawlers by the production crew. 2.) Difference between an "Undead" and an "Unkindler". The firelink itself, it is all caved in, some passage are full of rock, the towers have collapsed (even the firekeeper tomb which is why people tought irina was the first firekeeper, she died in the firelink). Dark Season 3 spoilers ahead, obviously. The book was written in the 1980s before the end of the cold war, so the author probably didn't have access to detailed info about the treatment of soviet citizens during sports games. He doesn't just know it exists, he knows that something happened to her. The only indicator we get that something is up is the complete removal of the skybox. The End of Fire (Alternative): This special ending involves taking the First Flame from the Firekeeper just as she was about to let it rest. Let me quote a comment I made a while ago. In Bird Box, people see the monster and they go insane. Dragon's Dogma is an action role-playing hack and slash video game developed and published by Capcom for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012. Gundyr was once a Champion, like us, an Unkindled with the duty to Link the Flame, but he came too late and the First Flame already died out when he arrived to the Shrine, just like in another time a certain Firekeeper never met her champion, yet we can encounter the Champion now reduced to Judge of new Unkindled in the tutorial in an age that clearly still has an active First Flame, and in my theory this is because even if a Dark Age falls upon the world the Embers of the Lords of Cinder can somehow reignite the First Flame on their own and so allow the Cycles to continue. That evening, strange lights, sounds etc. The End of Fire: This is consider the true ending of the whole DS sequel. We steal the First Flame here to use it for our own ends, like in the Usurpation ending except without the baggage of having to lead a bunch of scrawny zombies, so it's possible that this ending too breaks the Cycle as our character commit an act of extreme selfishness, but I think it's a less clear situation. I've even seen someone here speculating that this should be interpreted as our character being unable to actually Link the Flame because there just isn't enough combustible left in the world anymore to Link the Fire another time, while this interpretation may be a little radical the ending is certainly giving the impression that the world and the Flame itself have become old and tired, and it's getting harder and harder to keep to Flame properly alive. In DS3, both "dark soul" and "lord soul" are now bound to mankind, forming embers; and players were no longer the "undead", but an "Unkindled". So, as the Age of Dark settled in, he impaled himself with the Coiled Sword to keep it safe. The Dark Pictures Anthology promises thrills and chills, but unfortunately, the title fumbles in a critical way. The description say they are only "said to be" the eyes of the first firekeeper since our firekeeper left with us, or is dead. So Ornstein was in my opinion also fed up with the cycles, as he surely is powerful enough to survive Age of the Gods (DS1), and Vendricks epic fail (DS2), and in all this time he probably figured the same thing we did. Time and Space are distorted in Lothric, let's remember this) one, and I think that in this Dark Firelink Shrine we can see what is like to live within an Age of Dark, what it actually looks like (spoiler, it's not well lit), an example of the era we can usher in. "), came to find itself in a rather weird position, was it canonical or not? Movie tales place in the 80s and I loved the feel and setting of the movie. are observed in … Even after linking the flame, it can be seen that the sun is still a dark-sign. The eyes of a firekeeper which reveal dark things, they are irina's (who become a firekeeper later in the story), when you first meet her she tells you about the little things that nibble at her in the dark, also when you give them to the firekeeper she can see your betrayal in them because she see it trough irina's eyes. To do this, you need to be return to the "undead" state (similar to DS1 and 2) where you will turn "hollow" upon death. It's mostly saying what you were, but with some additional quotes by Aldia. The formulation of the item descriptions "Once, a champion came late to the festivities, and was greeted by a shrine without fire, and a bell that would not toll." The mere sight of the Cthulu drives one mad. The mind-boggling end of Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, explained To make sense of the ending of Trust Exercise, stop thinking of the characters as individuals. Two endings that continue the Cycle of death and rebirth of the First Flame, delivered by the Gods of Lordran and that keeps the Age of Fire alive, and two endings that end the Cycle ushering a new era for the world, but nobody knows whether you can truly trust that toothy serpent Kaathe and how nice of a world can be one ruled by beef jerky Hollows or massive bastards who stab waifus in the back for personal power. This didn't happen (keep in mind how the intro featured neither Ludleth nor the Princes) and that's why we, the Unkindled, rise. Showing all 2 items Jump to: Summaries (2) Summaries. This "sight" presumably contain not only knowledge of the FIRST firekeeper, but perhaps also the truth about the fading of the First Flame and what will come after it. Cookies help us deliver our Services. By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies.Learn More. You don't link the fire in that ending. Especially after seeing what happened in Oolacile.). The unkindled is imbued with the first flame. This is the ending that Aldia asked us to choose in the second game. The reason for this is as I explained previously we weren't recording areas more than once due to our battery and memory on the phone itself as I had previously already been up that corridor to the right before I entered the ward I ended my clip there. And we can see that in DS3 now, that even Ornstein saught out the Path of the Dragon, a most likely succeeded, because we only find his armor lying on the ground and not on a dead corpse, and the armor says he was looking for the Nameless King, who at first faught the dragons, but then joined them for some reason (maybe becuase he glimpsed the great farce Light and Dark are). An undead contain within themselves a fragment of dark soul and their own human soul, this mixture is often called "humanity". In my opinion, the only ones who "saw a glimps of truth" are the dragonbros. I presume this ending will only last another thousand years before someone will need to "re-gather" either the "lord soul" or "dark soul" again and return it back to the First Flame. Also keep in mind what's been happening to the hollows and what happened to the people of oolacile. http://bit.ly/1qV8fd6Bendy FOOLED Us! It seems to me that the whole usurpation was made exactly in order to break the system of Cycles established by Gwyn and so that the true Age of Man desired by Kaathe may be ushered in for good and permanently. If he was that cycle's 'chosen one', then that means he was basically a player character. Only sin can undo sin , the first sin. You need to first get the dark sigil from Yoel to break the "balance" within yourself. His relevant dialogues : Young Hollow, there are but two paths. In any case in this ending we end up betraying anyone just in the name of our own lust for power, by choosing this ending our character becomes literally Hitler Griffith. The narrator notes how the player character, a "nameless, accursed undead, unfit even to be cinder" has now taken the Ember his Ashes were seeking for. And not just because of the originality of the story. I can't say any of the endings (except for alternative end of fire) are good or bad exactly. Some sort of "monks", who through Path of the Dragon aspire to leave behind their cursed bodies, and become something more, something long-lasting if not everlasting. My clip does end there as I approach the doors. How Does Dark End? Your thoughts on the usurpation ending are in line with mine! If anyone's interested in more lore discussion I also made a couple more of these lore posts: here I go a little more into the whole Age of Dark discussion, it's mostly details and things I didn't want to add in this analysis because the whole thing would have become too long, and here instead I talk about my interpretation of how the world of Dark Souls 3 work. Netflix horror series Dark season 1 finale explained – spoilers ahoy! Unlike the human soul, which naturally have a lifespan, the dark soul stay on in the undead, resulting in an empty shell known as "hollowing". But I digress we can't sustain the flame, the game immediately says that's the case. ... exactly what happened by the end of the last ep we've prepared this handy explainer. In this ending we follow our duty as Unkindled to Link once … Only once the Cycles are destroyed in fact Mankind will be freed from the shackles of the Gods, the shackle of the Great Lie of the First Flame who was first delivered by the Gods of Lordran themselves and has now even outlived them. Linking the fire involves inviting the fire into your body and letting your souls feed its flames. It ends the world as it is known, but it doesn't end the world. Usurping the fire involves inviting the fire into your body and then consuming it as you would consume a soul. The Greys appear in front of him and he disappears with them in a flash of light, the rest of the family powerless to help. The Alternative End of Fire is the last ending, and the less clear to me. How is that not the latter most ending? Usurpation of Fire: This ending, similar to "Linking the First Flame" requires you to light the First Flame, but this time, not with the "lord soul" you gathered, but with the dark soul that you accumulated with the dark sigil. Although you too light the First Flame, rather than given the title "Lord of cinder", you will be given the title "Lord of Hollow". "Dark Encounter" is a low-budget film with an original approach. There is no promise of salvation from the curse substantiated in your becoming king of a bunch of walking corpses on the brink of mutation and insanity (Edit:Other than the claims of Yuria and her religion, but I've always doubted that Kaathe was telling the truth. Were host of embers, you can't use ash to start a fire. In Dark Souls 1 his plan was to let the Flame die out so that the Age of Man, the Age of Dark may begin, to do so he created the Darkwraiths who were able to steal Humanity so that it may not be used as fuel to keep the First Flame going, and he's also most likely behind the eruption of the Abyss in Oolacile when the humans of that civilization were led into attempting to uncover the power of the Primeval Man Manus (who might or might not be the Pygmy himself). Marshall described the crawlers as cavemen who have stayed underground. After this ending, the unkindled one is finally kindled. Maisie went missing in 1982 and a memorial is held a year later. This ending requires you to be an ashen one and to restore the "sight" of the Firekeeper. Ok there are other things but i can't really think about it right now, and maybe i'm wrong but that's how it felt to me and that's what's important right :), New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. With Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Sid Phoenix, Grant Masters. I have never understood the mindset that extinguishing the flame ends the world. Creature design. But only a true monarch can make such a choice. In this ending we follow our duty as Unkindled to Link once more the fast fading Flame, the Cycles therefore will obviously go on as it is to be expected. The only thing to notice is that unlike the Linking we witnessed in Dark Souls 1 there is no great explosion of white or anything, our character merely burns and sits at the Bonfire of the First Flame just like the Soul of Cinder was doing before we fought him and took his place. Humanity/humans were clearly only slaves to Gwyn and other Gods, which served no more purpose than a mere coal for the flames. The "one day tiny Flames will dance across the Darkness, like Embers Linked by Lords past", the tiny Flames might be referring to the lord soul reside within mankind. Remember the intro, the bell tolls to awake the Lords, to "fix" the flame in one way or another. In this ending we follow a series of strange rituals that first, through Yoel, grant us our first Dark Sigils, something that resembles the brand of an undead and that allow us to become Hollow, and then, through Yuria, we perform some kind of wedding ceremony where we absorb the Dark Sigil/Hollowness of Anri (also, we find out that in the Dark Souls world people marry by stabbing each others in the face, go figures), in order to be able to "wrest the Fire from its mantle", to "play the Usurper" and steal the First Flame. That the Nameless King IS Ornstein. The biggest difference is in DS3, players were no longer mark by the dark sign and will no longer turn hollow upon death. (maybe due to constant exposure to both dark soul and lord soul after so many cycle) During the period of DS1 and DS2, although players were both referred to as the "undead", there is a slight difference in ability. So, there are four endings in Dark Souls 3, and I'd like to share my thoughts on them and what they could possibly mean for the world of Dark Souls. :D. I was about to make a post on this very thing, but you articulated it so much better! But that does not mean The Dark is way to go as well. This explains why Sweet Shalquoir, the cat from Dark Soul 2 called gwyn a liar who end of the day threw himself into the fire. (Eyes of the First Firekeeper) It makes sense now why the abandoned dark Firelink Shrine were guarded by the Black Knight. Since he is hollow, his usurpation of the First Flame makes Hollows the new gods. This ending is consider the normal ending for DS 1 and 2, and will only last another thousand years before someone will need to "re-gather" all the "lord soul" again and return it back to the First Flame. In any case let's go back to Kaathe. I know this is the last dark souls and all, but it would be pretty bad ass to play the game in a age of man. I'm assuming that they can retain their sanity now. Unlike in DS1, in DS2, players no longer need the Lordvessel to hold the lord soul and can teleport with ease using the bonfire. And yet, the film’s ending does represent an escape of sorts. Their daughter disappeared the year before and despite appeals for help and repeated searches, no sign of her has ever been found. Everybody who thinks World of Fire is the "way to go" is merely a slave of great elaborate lie. Is the world of Dark Souls worth preserving though? Gundyr, our first is not against him, we fight the black thing which is why we don't get his soul but in the second we do defeat Gundyr who is no longer Iudex since the scabbard has been found long ago but since he is sworn to eternal duty, he continue to test the people wo pass trough and here we do get his soul. Directed by Carl Strathie. And so, he knew the logic that only a player character can kill bosses. So it's another great lie. Linking the flame has made no difference at all. I think you are all forgetting a very very important thing, and that is, that the world without Fire existed. And that's it. The throne will certainly receive you. The End of Fire instead is a more interesting ending with many implications over the endings of past titles and possibly our understanding of Cycles and the nature of the "Age of Dark". Half-grown Hollow, have you what it takes, truly? Apart from that keep in mind that "Light Firelink" does have an effect indicating travel through time/space when we leave or enter it since it does not have any known connection to the "real" world - on the contrary, the "real" world only brings us to one place: Dark Firelink. There is a specific English construction around "Once, ..." that doesn't imply past tense but is used in the sense of "Once upon a time", not as an indicator of a story that has happened before but as a story that's possible in general. This suggest that somehow as time passed, mankind is changing. The Dark Firelink Shrine is in my interpretation a manifestation of a past Firelink Shrine where the Flame wasn't Linked in time, this is described in Champion Gundyr's Soul and Items as they say that he was the "belated champion" who "came late for the festivities" and so "became sheath to a coiled sword in the hopes that someday, the First Flame would be Linked once more", that is the same coiled sword we take from his body in the tutorial. I actually think that The End of Fire is the one that makes the most sense, since trying to break the cycle either way (by kindling or usurping), there isn't any guarantee that there won't be any event that desperately tries to bring the cycles back. I saw extinguishing of the fire as a mercy killing; The destruction of a doomed and fading fire so that a new world could rise from the ashes of the old. The director explained, "They've evolved in this … But the question remains... What do you want, truly? We've see what Dark does to humans. The Usurpation of Fire is the next ending, and I think it kind of continues what has been said previously. Mysterious lights appear in the sky one year after the disappearance of an 8-year-old girl. Dark Encounter (2019) Plot. Maisie went missing in 1982 and a memorial is held a year later. An unkindler contain within themselves a balance mixture of dark soul and lord soul (together with the his/her human soul). For the third act they all go "Lovely Bones" on us with a domestic twist that weakens the total experience ! Which is why letting the First Flame fade out totally is the true ending in Dark Soul 3, as there is no point going back to the First Flame again when mankind can now contain both "dark" and "light" within themselves. A community dedicated to everything about Dark Souls 3. The lack of humanity might be what makes us unkindled. Present? I've been figuring that Gundyr is the champion mentioned in the Fire Keeper's set, the one who never met their Keeper. A 3rd act that I didnt see coming and was different. In this ending we align ourselves with the "Sable Church of Londor", a group of Hollows who is actually controlled by the Primordial Serpent Darkstalker Kaathe, the evidence that Kaathe is behind Londor and its Hollow pilgrims can be found in Yuria of Londor's death Dialogue ("Kaathe, I have failed thee") and also in the fact that she is selling the Dark Hand, the iconic weapon of the Darkwraiths of New Londo, the art of Lifedrain given to them by Kaathe himself. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. In this ending the Flame doesn't fade but is usurped, stolen, the Lord of Hollow take its power and find a new use for it. Had some very suspenseful moments that had me on the edge of my seat. It just begins the Age of Dark half of the cycle. When we approach the First Flame in this ending we don't Link it, we initially burn but then the First Flame seems to be absorbed within the new Lord of Hollows, as if swallowed by his or her Dark Sigil. With this interpretation the Dark Ending of the first game can be canonical, the Chosen Undead may have allowed the First Flame to die to become the Dark Lord of Humanity with Kaathe at his or her side, but this choice wouldn't have lasted for long as Gwyn, by becoming a Lord of Cinder and having Linked the Flame for the first time, created a system where the Age of Fire would have been reborn in any case, thus leading to the world of countless repeating Cycles of Linking the Flame again and again that we see in both Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3. Their daughter disappeared the year before and despite appeals for help and repeated searches, no sign of her has … Finally understand why Sweet Shalquoir, the cat from Dark Soul 2 called Gwyn a liar. To Link the First Flame: This is the ending when you return all the "lord soul" you gathered back to the First Flame. Black knight were the elite knights of Gwyn, the first Lord of Cinder. Usurpation could be seen as the "good" ending because as you mention, it implies we're breaking that cycle. That evening, strange lights, sounds etc. you let yourself believe the lies, that world of Flame is necessary, as did most of the NPCs you encounter. The question here is: does this ending break the Cycles? Snuffing out the flame is not a bad ending. 8 y.o. Unlike the "undead", who leave behind "Humanity" when killed, an "unkindled" leaves behind "ashes" - signify the "balance" are slowly making mankind normal again. It was the gray world of Everlasting Dragons. The Dark Firelink Shrine is in my interpretation a manifestation of a past Firelink Shrine where the Flame wasn't Linked in time, this is described in Champion Gundyr's Soul and Items as they say that he was the "belated champion" who "came late for the festivities" and so "became sheath to a coiled sword in the hopes that someday, the First Flame would be Linked once more", that is the same coiled sword we take from his body in the tutorial. Aldia never said it directly, but it was clear that this is what he wanted. When Arthur was talking to the psychiatrist at the end and he said "I just thought of something funny","but you wouldnt get it" then a flashback to Bruce Wayne on the crime alley with his parents dead in the ground and I found it wierd why would Arthur find this funny. In this ending the Firekeeper has taken the Flame from its mantle, but the player character kills her so that he can take the First Flame for himself. Press J to jump to the feed. Dark season 2 has arrived on Netflix, and it ends up asking a lot more questions than it answers. The Hollows of Londor themselves seem to look at the usurpation as the coming of the Age of Man, several dialogues with Yuria seems to imply that she considers the status of Hollow as the true shape of Man ( the Lord of Hollows for example is referred to as the "True Face of Mankind", and there's also the line "we Hollows, in most honest shape of Man" where she pretty much clarify that to the inhabitants of Londor the real shape of man is that of a Hollow, the bottom line is that the true shape of Man is that of beef jerky), furthermore all these talks about "true monarch" and "shape of man" also remind of several lines from King Vendrick in Dark Souls 2, who too talked about "Men taking their true shape when Dark is unshackled" and that the True Monarch is the one who "inherit Fire and harness the Dark" (and Yuria also says that "the old powerful fire deserves a new heir", the Lord of Hollows inherit Fire and by being Hollow also harness the Dark, more connections between the dialogues). Even crazier theory. Every cycle great pain and misery takes place after a period of time so wouldnt just ending it be a good thing in a sense? The alternative ending of Dark Souls 2 where we leave the Throne with Aldia in an attempt to find a way out of the Cycles may be another of such endings where the Flame is allowed to fade. Think of it like a biblical tale that talks in the present or past tense about something that will at some point happen (or has already happened) either in the past or future. I assume the FIRST firekeeper realized the source of the cycle and the sins of the "lord", and since all firekeepers have the power to let the First Flame rest, the "first" lord (presumably Gwyn) essentially took away her "sight" so that future firekeepers will continue blindly and lead the player to link the fire. 2) There is no visual, audio or other gameplay effect when we enter the Untended Graves. Cookies help us deliver our Services. It took many cycle for mankind to gain this ability to strike the balance within themselves. By the times of Dark Souls 3 Kaathe has understood that merely allowing the Flame to die is not enough to free Man from the rule of the Gods, therefore he is now using the Hollows, the true form of Mankind, to break the Cycles and steal the Flame so that they, the Hollows, may rise to rule the world. SUBSCRIBE for More Theories! (*Due to the lack of lord soul to suppress it) The ending could very well be the true "Dark" ending of whole DS sequel and perhaps give birth to another abyss. Becuase he infact did kill dragons for Gwyn, in the past, and he could be looking for "Nameless King" who is nothing more than a Path of the Dragon itself, "the enlightenment", if you will. Light? is not necessarily past-tense. 'Apostle' director Gareth Evans breaks down the freaky final moments of his new Netflix horror film starring Dan Stevens as … Dark Encounter tells the story of a family trapped in limbo. That it is all a big fucking lie, and the only "way out" is either dying permanently somehow, or become everlasting. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. The Cthulu theory is a strong one. Ending Explained + Analysis for the Stephen King adaption GERALD'S GAME. So he became a boss to make sure that the coiled sword would not be stolen, so that the next champion would have their Firelink bonfire. The ending is featured on DVD as an "unrated cut" in the United States. What if that ending scene takes place in the future where Batman already exists and got the Joker put in Arkham but somewhere before that (or while inside arkham) Arthur discovered that Batman is Bruce Wayne and realizes he created Batman the day he became the Joker hence why he finds it funny.
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