If they're undead and I'm undead... why do they attack me?

>>376470394
you're white

>>376470394
they are fully hollowed and have utterly lost their mind


you have not

>>376470394
if your already dead why would they even kill you?

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>>376470394
they're completely hollowed. they lost all humanity and act like feral animals.

>>376470394
They want your humanity and your souls.

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>>376470484
>MFW

>>376470565
Then why don't they attack the other hollows? Why only me?

>kill Oswald
>he threatens me in the 'hereafter'

But I thought Lordran WAS the hereafter.

>>376470904
You have souls

What really concerns me is when enemies of different types work together when they're all supposed to be mindless actual zombies. Like, you have priests, slimes, and whatever the giant furry spider thing is in the big church to Aldritch, but they're all friends.

>>376471073
so do they, they drop them

If most of the NPCs are undead why don't they keep coming back when you kill them? I think Oscar's the only guy who is actually shown dying before hollowing, and it's still a one-time return.

This game would be alot easier if it didn't try so hard to be a castlevania game. Kept thinking if I killed the black knights, I'd find a key to the locked residence, only to find out the merchant behind the 2 spear skeles sells it.

>>376471259
Lol why did you think that? There's nothing beforehand to imply that that's the case

>>376470394
Wasn't the lore that all hollow-hollows attack hollows that still have humanity, since they want it.
The PC just doesn't ever completely lose theirs, so everyone is always hostile.

>>376470394
Because they are enemies and you are the player character.
"Lore" in Dark Souls is an afterthought to give flavor to typical video game tropes. The developers didn't think this hard about it, neither should you.

>>376471235
They do come back after you kill them; when you rest at a bonfire

>>376470394
They've gone insane from dying over and over again, your mind is still intact.

>>376471151
not as much as you, their souls are fade.

>>376471527
Exhibit of an actual live retard.

>>376471497
This is correct

>>376470394
Because you used bluff and disguise as dump stats?

>>376471469
Saw something shiny behind the first one below the residence. Playing the game blind. Usually ignored the DS threads these past years. It's hard but not from combat aside from bosses, sometimes an off-camera enemy gets you, or you misstime a parry attempt.

>Hollows are just players who gave up

>>376471840
That's just a ring behind him. Not a particularly useful one either.

>>376471981
>Not a particularly useful one either.
That thing can save many a noob character

>>376471981
Yeah I know. Some bullshit about raising defence when low hp, when you are low hp you will die from almost anything. Right now working on finding the door for the mystery key. Steel bore and once I mastered parrying, the black knights became pushovers.

>>376471073
Why do they attack you when you have no souls then?

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>>376470394

>thinking the soulsgame ''lore'' was carefully planned

cmon now they make games on what sounds dark and cool, it has a depressing dark theme to it nothing really makes sense

I mean just lok at the names ''dark souls'' what is that shit even supposed to mean

>scholar of the first sin

this shit doesn't have any real context and you know this

>>376470904
Hand it over. That thing, your dark soul

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>>376472542
I need my Dark Souls, too.

>>376470484
Go to sleep Tariq Nasheed

>>376472298
The lore really falls apart when you look at it in any depth, and a lot of this is due to From loving to shove things in for fanservice when it makes no snese

DS1: Fight Smough and Ornstein. Kill them. Get his soul, he's 100% dead
DS2: Fight Old Dragonslayer, who is near identical to Ornstein and even drops his unique ring
DS3: You pick up Ornstein's armor from Arch Dragon Peak, where he presumably died. Even though you killed him at least once already eons ago in a previous age of fire/dark cycle.

>>376472298
>Dark souls
I might be stretching but I think it has to do with humanities soul looking dark and being opposite to gwyn

>>376472848
plus the dragonslayer armor fights

>>376470394
they did not prepare to die

>>376472235
You still have souls, you used them to level up. And even when you are at SL1, you are far from being in that pigmy-ish state.

>>376472848
>DS3:*It was a hologram*
This was really fucking stupid

>>376473078
you truly have become.....FROM SOFTWARE PRESENTS FROM SOFTWARE'S DARK SOULS (TM)

BY FROM SOFTWARE

>>376472848
I think restarting the age of fire brings back the bosses too. Explain NG+ and the sequels.

>>376473164
>Explain NG+ and the sequels.

No explanation needed. They just wanted to add a new game+ option and used flowery language to say it.

>>376470394
Don't ask the questions that Miyazaki don't want you to ask.

>>376470394
because its a video game
/thread

>>376472985

>I might be stretching

that's the point you to do some really big asspulls to make even a standalone soulsgame ''logical'' lorewise

I mean I'm not complaining, it's one of the few games I can play halberd in a non-faggy way

and do knight-larping in a dark fantasy world

>>376473658
Can you not detect sarcasm you sperg? How is that an asspull in the slightest ?

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>>376470904
Because you are the chosen one. It says so in the book.

cos u fuckin suck

>>376475042
Like it says in the book we are blessed and cursed.
Same things make us human, make us hollow.

>>376472848
>he doesn't understand the first thing they tell you in Dark Souls
>Time is distorted in Lordran

>Even though you killed him at least once already eons ago in a previous age of fire/dark cycle.

Wow you answered your own question. What a stupid post.

>>376475861
Who says you're in Lordran though? DS2 looks like it takes place in an entirely different area completely removed from the other games as well, and it still has fucking Ornstein

>>376470484
This

>>376470484
>not making a cute brown girl

>>376476072
Straid of Olaphis says the Lost Bastille was built upon the ruins of the Northern Undead Asylum. They are both in Lordran, whether it goes by a different name in a different time is irrelevant.

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If Nito was the first of the dead then how is he made of skeletons?

>>376476440
If Garfield knew Digdug's friends were all dead, why didn't tell him before they went into the mines?

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>>376476440
lold for some reason

>>376470394
god damn it, first post said what i was going to say

They're niggers.

>>376476380
Oh for fucks sake, does EVERYTHING in Dark Souls need to be chained to the previous games? Do they have no originality? At this rate I'm expecting there to only be one main character this whole time, it's the same fucking guy walking around and beating the shit out of everyone like Reimu but with even less recognition.

>Dark Souls lore
Shit's whack, yo. Full of holes that autists try to desperately fill by pulling shit out of their ass

>>376470394
Because they're undeader

>>376475303
What fucking book?

If Vendrick's army died during the giant war how did they get cursed into being undead?

>>376472542
how did they get away with this?

>>376477846
I alt-tabbed out of the game and shut it down right at that moment. Then I uninstalled it and burned the disk.
Some things are simply unacceptable. Name dropping is one of them.

>>376472201
>when you are low on HP you will die from just about anything

Hence the ring. Maybe use it?

>>376472848
>there are people who STILL think you actually fight ornstein and smough

IT'S AN ILLUSION
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They left Lordran a long time ago.

>>376478194
Then how do you get a unique soul and a fucking ring?

>>376478194
>it's an illusion
>it's all a dream
>it's an alternate reality
This is lazy writing at its finest

>>376470904
You're the Chosen Undead

>>376472298
You only think this because you don't give a fuck about it.I know what everything in DS1 means.

>>376478264

Ornstein left Anor in DS in search for his Teacher > Gwyns Son > Nameless King in DS3 > Got killed by Nameless King

>>376476705
>argument about how the connections don't make sense in the game
>proves that connections make sense
>DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE CONNECTED?

>>376478001
Settle it down sperglord

>>376470394
>index.jpg
fuck off, phoneposter

>>376470743
>new mechanic where any hollow enemy that kills you becomes partly unhollowed and is a new type of enemy until you kill it
>imagine the bloodborne blood echo system except the enemy actually gets new moves and a new model

That would be the tits

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>>376472848
Ornstein was an illusion much like Gwynevere. Smough may have been as well, maybe not.

DS2: Old Dragonslayer is the real Ornstein, who was not in Anor Londo.

DS3 is just you finding his armor, that could mean anything.

Is Bloodborne the only modern From game with a straight-forward lore?
The only messy thing in it is the dreams, and even that have some backing into Lovecraft.

>>376473150
>Heh... I guess I really was a... Dark Soul

Stopped playing right there

>>376471527
kys

>>376478194
See>>376473096

>>376476705
Are you retarded? Youre just mad your argument was proven wrong.

>>376478264
>>376478428
because sequels were a mistake

>>376478582
Its straightforward because it's the only game. The second they make a BB2, expect some fucktarded lore.

>>376478637
>>376478264
>>376478315
I never said it's not dumb I just said that how it is that's just facts. Just cause you don't like it doesn't make it different.

>>376478582
What wasn't straightforward about Ds1's lore? If you don't count the bullshit the other games add, then its just fine.

>>376478001
This is how i felt when Tyrion read his character description on an episode of Game of Thrones

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>>376478868

>>376471527
>how to trigger Souls fags
>>376471626
>>376478608
Like pottery

>Alluring skull
>Souls are a concentration of life, and the
life-starved Hollows are lured by its power.
That's why they attack you.

>>376476380
>Straid of Olaphis says the Lost Bastille was built upon the ruins of the Northern Undead Asylum
Wait, he said that?. I thought asylum wasnt even close to lordran.

>>376471151
hat's why you attack them.

>>376479306
>replying to posts made longer than 10 minutes ago
autism

>/v/ tries to use its brain and fails

sincerely,

/lit/

>>376478582
My only thing with Bloodborne is that the characters are harder to relate to and understand. Everyone is fucking crazy in Yharnam. The closest to a normal person is Arianna at least until she either dies or has an alien baby

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>>376479008

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my *god* you are a faggot.

>Thread makes me think back to when everyone thought Nito had something to do with the Darksign
>Turns out it was Gwyn after all

Back then there was a lot of debate for and against Fire. Nowadays 2 and 3 basically say "Gwyn did everything wrong."

>>376479545
Yeah well, at least we are not reddit like you guys.

>>376476380
How can it be Lordran if Drangleic is where Vinheim was

They want it. That thing....your Dark Soul™

>>376472771
fuck you for making me remember this

>be a bad writer
>make shit up as you go
>leave everything up in the air
>fans "make sense out of it"
>they think you're a genius

From Software in a nutshell.

>>376477846
>>>/tv/

>>376480015
But Gwyn literally did nothing wrong

>>376478025
>have low hp
>put on ring
>still die in one hit

>>376480015
DaS1 presented many arguments both for and against the fire. On one hand, we saw how the lords gave birth to demons, treated humans like shit and just abused their power in general. Also, the fire couldn't live on forever and weird things happen when it starts dying. You need a powerful being to sacrifice his soul to reignite it.
But the DLC showed us that their fear of humanity wasn't completely irrational. When it gets out of control, fire-based beings cannot stop it.

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>>376477345
WHERE THE FUCK ELSE WOULD THEY PULL IT FROM!? SOMEONE ELSES ASS!?!? YOURS PERHAPS!?!? MAYBE EVEN MINE IF IM LUCKY HHMMMMMM!?!?!?!

>>376479008
Nice meme

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>>376471560
not in ds1

>>376480374
>treated humans like shit and just abused their power in general.
When did that happen exactly?

>>376480194
The story is very clear when you have all the information

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If he was an illusion how come he dropped a ring and a soul?

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>>376478582
>bloodborne
>straight forward lore

>>376479395
>Why do my fellow undead attack me?
>Because you have Souls
>But they have Souls too
>That's why you attack them

Let's all take a moment to appreciate how beautifully simple and appropriate of a response this is.

>>376480882
They flooded New Londo and killed innocents. Humans couldn't enter Anor Londo either, unless they survived Sen's Fortress and killed the golem.

>>376480979
Those were an illusion too. If you go full Orns cosplay you are actually naked

>>376479571
>Everyone is fucking crazy in Yharnam
Yeah dude there's a disease that turns people into ravenous wolf-creatures, and if you look closely enough you see tentacle monsters and horrifying gods from another dimension.

>>376481093
They flooded New Londo because the 4kids started fucking with the abyss.
Not to mention there are normal sized doors and stairs in Anor Londo.
The golem was part of the prophecy/scam of Gwyndolin/the serpents.

Your bias are showing.

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>>376480979
Killing Smough last is the canon outcome.

>>376481093
Humans flooded New Londo, because humans were led to the Dark. Darkwraiths and an addiction to stealing humanity are what awaits when the dark soul is left unchecked.

Humans had to prove themselves worthy to enter Anor Londo, and Sen's Fortress is probably one of the best areas anyways.

>>376481391
They could've personally gone down there to stop the kangz. But instead, they decided to murder thousands of innocents, because human lives don't matter to them.

> normal sized
No, those are for the silver knights.

> prophecy
Sen's fortress was old af and was basically the Lords' way of telling humans that they were inferior.

The lords deserved to die. The chosen undead did the right thing by killing those oppressors and starting the age of dark/man.

>>376481958
>anyone besides the chosen undead
>stopping the abyss

ha ha ha, good one

>>376470394
Because they just don't like you, you fucking loser.

>>376471235
Cause you took their souls

>>376480359
The ring lowers the damage you take even if you're at full hp provided it will get you to low hp

>>376470904
It's an RPG

>>376470904
Why do wolves hunt in packs?

>>376470904
You have humanity (which stops you from hollowing)

>>37647090
Same reason zombies do not attack each other.

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>>376470904
>>376470394
>hollowed is attracted by a more powerful soul
Fucking mentally retarded
>Why Are Moths Drawn to Flames?
http://mentalfloss.com/article/28574/why-are-moths-drawn-flames

>>376472848
>he doesn't know that time is convoluted

>>376483993
Do all roads lead to Gran Soren?

>>376481524
Why is Ornstein fighting himself in this picture?

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>>376485701
So hollows kochio miro?

>>376488236
genius

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>>376470394
I'm sure it's been explained by now, but those are hollows and you are merely undead; the difference is that they've lost all sense of purpose and goals and have lost the last of their humanity as a result, but you have not. They've gone mad and are only attracted to attack beings with humanity and a powerful soul that has yet to hollow, and because you are the Chosen Undead it can be argued that you have a very powerful and attractive soul by your nature.
Your goals are to ring the bells and either kindle the first flame or snuff it out; some of the goals of other NPCs in the game are to find their own sun, or to watch over New Londo Ruins, or to serve their fair maiden with humanity, or to keep forging weapons for the many undead that pass by, or to simply keep adventuring until they can adventure no longer. And when they lose sight of their goals and let their minds fog over, when they lose that last light of hope in their undead lives, then they finally succumb to the curse and become hollows like all the others.
You, the player, will also hollow if you choose to never finish the game; your goal is to complete the game, kindling or snuffing the first flame, but if you give up on those goals then you've effectively given up on your Chosen Undead's humanity and allowed them to turn hollow as well. All the players that gave up on the game because it was too difficult for them have effectively gone hollow, and their "Chosen" Undeads may merely be wandering as the very hollows you strike down in the game. Remember, neither of us want to see you go Hollow.

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>>376490003
>player returns to the game a year later
>character has gone hollow

If the living people had a problem with the undead why didn't they just kill them and pour water on the bonfires
fucking idiots I could have run lordaeron

Then we put more wood on the big fire

fucking dumpasses

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>>376470394
>and the dragons were no more

>>376481085
>Souls lore thread in 4 sentences

>>376470394
Because you are insane hollow ravaging through the lands with tree trunk in hand, slaughtering everything on his way, only to mindlessly sit in fire and burn in the end. Such thing must be stopped at all costs.

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the biggest mistake we made was destabilizing the lands by getting rid of the dragons. i've said this countless of times

>>376491375
>weakness : lightning
gud. very gud

>>376487239
Trust no one, not even your soul

>>376478501
>if you let a certain hollow kill you enough times he regains his sanity and regrets having to kill you so much so he starts joining you in boss fights to make up for it.

>>376478385
Where's the thesis anon?

Fucking speedreaders reee

>>376472848
DS1: Fight a illusion of Ornstein made from a part of his soul given to Gwyndolyn
DS2: The game states post SotFS that it is an impostor, probably to repair the plothole.
DS3: Ornstein went to Archdragon Peak to look for Gwyns firstborn, then either join him as a dragon stone user and disses his equipment or dies.

>>376490003
this

>>376476705
>It's bad that a sequel connects to the prequels
?

>>376478264
The same way you get souls and drops off of silver knight holograms. They're really convincing.

>>376478315
Are you reffering to BloodBorne with
>it's all a dream
Or to the alternative use of it?

>>376492962
Technically Bloodborne is literally "It's all a dream", but it's not your character's dream, and the events that transpire are as physical and dangerous as any reality.

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>Ornstein in DS1 is an illusion
Holy shit it all makes sense now
They actually integrated that bit of lore into the gameplay. Miyazaki is a fucking genius

>>376478582
Dark souls was the same until the sequels bamco forced them to make fucked it up.

>>376478582
DaS1 was straight-forward with its plot. Miyazaki apparently prefers when players do some lore interpretation which is why the more unclear details are left to the player to find out, given only hints about what happened before.
Obviously 2 and 3, despite working on the basis that several eons have passed, couldn't just abandon everything that was in 1, going with the concept that nothing in this world ever truly dies.

>>376493073
I don't get it.

Also what a faggot for not healing while Smough charged from afar

>>376491942
>Intentionally get killed repeatedly by every hollow in the game
>End up at the final boss with an army

>>376493603
Could be some specific run like no healing during combat, no armor, low level, something like that. Never saw that bug though.

>>376493073
I mean, Smough suddenly gaining lighting damage is more feasible than Ornstein turning into a big guy.

>>376493669
That would be kinda cool, feeding them the red pill on Gwyn by giving them pieces of your humanity. Sounds kinda like furtive pygmy splitting his dark souls to create humanity.

>>376493795
I doubt we'll ever see anything even similar to this, but the idea of willlingly giving part of your soul to hollows to act as companions is interesting. You could even bypass the problem of the army by having it so once they die once, they respawn back at their original spot so you won't be carrying them along the entire time.

>>376493960
That would be a cool rework of undead rapport, if you meet a soul requirement you can spend it to turn a hollow into a ally till it dies.

>>376494135
It could be balance in such a way that doesn't bother too much, with them not acting as phantoms but more standard enemies turned allies. I'm sure someone skilful enough could mod that into Dark Souls 1 although you'd have several purging moments since every time it requires a bit more platforming, they'd just throw themselves off, like the lift in Blightown, Anor Londo, that last stretch to Gwyn, etc.

>>376493603
It's a speedrun strat, more damage on low HP ring.

>>376494420
Like lemmings of cliffs.

>>376470394
Because...Hand it over. That thing, your Dark Souls^TM

>>376470394
Because...You. You are the one from my dreams

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>>376478582
You mean Demons Souls. You have to look around for it, but the main story is actually quite simple and doesn't involve any stupid mind-bending shenanigans such as "time is convoluted". Allant was a greedy dick and ruined the world by waking the Old One. You kill demons because you need to summon the Old One. You can choose to put the Old One to sleep or become a new demon. If you fight some historical figure in an odd place, that's because they're actually a ghost. The End.

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>>376478582
You're completely fucking wrong. The main being which is responsible for the events of the game, the Moon Presence (also called Flora) is a near complete unknown and we know almost nothing about its motivations or actions. Even the most die-hard lore-fags have to just assume and make shit up, and none of it is obvious or consistent from one person to another. It's actually one of the most obstructionist parts of any Souls game ever.

>>376496112
this, but that's the point

it's a being on a higher plane of existence than us, we're not supposed to understand it. What's happening to humans is just the result of some bullshit feud between alien gods, and the player character just gets caught up in it

I'm kind of glad there were more instances in DS3 where NPCs fight each other

>all those silver knights that can stab and shoot your ass are not, in fact, real
????????

>>376481085
took me a while but wow.


I guess these things just write themselves when you have basic rules to follow. as long as you stay consistant.

>>376470674
Why do they look so evil and maleficent

>>376471143
isn't the spider thingy former archdeacon?

>>376470394
The answer is the Japanese aren't bent on explaining every little detail in depth in any media. I can't explain it, but it seems to be a cultural thing.

Like how you see in anime where someone is sick, every time it resembles a bad case of the flu and the exact ailment is never explained.

Tends to make a lot of western people who consume their media run around like headless chickens trying to explain their motive when the creators themselves never really put any thought into those details.

>>376479008
Just started watching it.
actually pretty good, if formulaic

>>376488236
dweebs are weird and smell faintly of cheese

>>376496698
But explaining every little thing is exactly what Japanese media does

>>376496698
seems quite the opposite to me
>western game
>girl is half naked
DUDE TITS LMAO
>eastern game
>girl is half naked
She has terrible skin condition and can't cover her self, pls understand.

>thinking the Dark ending is the good one
I seriously hope you guys don't do this

>>376496709
It goes downhill after season 3.
Which is admittedly more than it usually takes for the series to stop being interesting.

>>376497080
The tyranny of the lords ends and the age of man begins. Humans can finally live in peace without the risk of some cunt flooding their cities or cursing them because of irrational fears and jealousy.

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>this entire thread

>>376497187
this

it's just dark as fuck

>>376496907
Nope, they're always very vague.

>>376481085
>>376481085
>>376481085

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>He didn't take the flame for himself.

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wtf even am i????

>>376481085
I'm honestly impressed.

>>376479423
no u

>>376497187
>a few guys become superhumans and everyone else is a hollow

>>376497187
Yes that is the idea but somehow I don't trust the Dark a lot
>the entire Oolacile business
>descriptions in Hexes spells often mention how they are an insult to life itself and go to mess with the natural order
>the whole Daughters of the Dark business in ds2
>sun doesn't exist because the deity representing the sun is missing
Somehow I doubt Dark has ever been good

>>376483993
Ocelots are proud creatures.

>>376481085
so why don't they attack each other?

riddle me this fags:
if the light/dark cycles happen between millenniums of years, how come its always some medieval era? why dont i see some futuristic buildings and shit at the end of an age?

>>376471143
The darkwraiths attack corvians in farron keep

>>376496934
>game
>flaming guy with fire powers
DUDE AWESOME LMAO
>Kojima game
>flaming guy with fire powers
It's a corpse haphazardly reanimated by a floating psychic boy due to lingering feelings of rage, hence the flames

>>376493745
big for you.

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>>376498394
It'd be weird if Dark Souls 4 was announced and it suddenly looked like this.
In-game I guess we never really see what happens after linking the fire. The hollows stay hollowed, humanity is nearly death, slowly having to rebuild itself from lost knowledge and broken pieces of armor.

>>376498247
a few possible reasons
I've heard it mentioned that hollows keep a memory of what they were doing last before they died, which includes their duties and friendships. a bunch of sewer-dwelling hollows wouldn't attack their friends

additionally, other hollows aren't going to have very many souls, so they aren't attracted to them

but it would have been great if they'd added at least a few examples of infighting

>>376476440
Nito is the central skeleton. That was the individual that became Nito. The rest are just like aggregated onto him as armor/clothing/a nexus of death god power.

Nito dies > first of the dead > death is a thing now > others die >Nito becomes made of skeletons

>>376480789
That's a lie

>>376498394
maybe the end of an age comes way after all the people have already turned undead

>>376499202
I can only think of the Darkwraiths in 3 having any in-fighting

I read nothing about the lore or anything and haven't even beaten the game and i know this shit. Pretty sure they explain it in the first hour

>>376481085
top kek

>>376470394
Dark Souls lore is all bullshit. Miyazaki put everything there just because he thought it was cool and
>berserk reference did you rike it
They had to hire a fan to tell them how the lore worked for DS3, you can forget about all your epic theories because the developers themselves do not give a shit

>>376499750
IT'S JUST A PAINTING BRO

>>376470394
Those guys on the pic only attack you if you attack them though

>>376497721
that looks like a FRAMPT if I ever seen one

>>376497214
Oh yeah... that "joke"
Even after reading the explanation it's not funny

>>376498394
because the dark souls universe is in no way similar to our own? likely evolution doesn't exist and if it does then magic would fuck with it a huge amount.
also could be the old 'they found magic so it stunted their technological growth' meme you see every now and then in fantasy.
plenty of good reasons why see

Dark Souls lore is just a constant series of taking game mechanics as literal universal laws. There's nothing more to it.

>>376472848
>people are this retarded
Ornstein in DaS IS AN ILLUSION
The items clearly say that Smough was the only knight that remained to guard the cathedral

>b-but le souls!!!!
Yeah, like it's impossible for Ornstein to give part of his soul to Gwyndolin so the illusion can be stronger.

>>376500405
evolution does not correlate with advancing technology. and "magic stunts growth" is not a good reason, hence why it's a meme.

>>376498394
because it's based on japanese culture which would still be stuck in pseudo-feudalism without the intervention of foreign powers

>>376478582
>even that have some backing into Lovecraft.
you mean the guy that reduced pretty much everything to "DUDE ISTS SOO BAD AND SCARY I CAN'T POSSIBLY DESCRIBE IT"?
no wonder his lore is used so much in other works, it's literally a justification to not explain shit

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>>376470484
>dark souls
>dark

So, Why do all enemies respawn when I lift a bonfire?

>>376498394
It took humanity tens of thousands of years to get out of the "sticks and stones" part of our societal evolution.
One can assume each cycle starts with that.

>>376503576
and why the bosses are the only ones to not respawn?

>>376501308
>because it's based on japanese culture which would still be stuck in pseudo-feudalism without the intervention of foreign powers
actually it's because the series is supposed to be appealing to the west too (and it did) and japs know gayjins get uncomfortable whenever they see some fantasy that isn't not-d&d (which is not-lotr) that can be grossily summed up as "medieval times with magic and non humans whose only difference from regular humans are some body feature and lifespan"

>>376471235
They fuck off your timeline