Why are these things called "Estus" flasks anyway?

It's a pun in Latin

"Need a restus? Drink an estus"

>>376644005
Lel.

>>376643856
1 minute of googling tells me it's latin for fire

I don't play Dark Souls. Would it make sense for that to be a bottle of fire?

To "be" or not to "be".

>>376644149
Yes, that's what it is

>>376644149
>>376644149
Considering they refill at bonfires it would stand to reason

Aestus is latin for heat

>>376644149
Fire itself is a reoccurring theme in the series.

>>376644205
>>376644240

well then there you go. It's literally 'Fire flask'

Ancient Sunny D

>>376644149
because you are also born from the first flame and when you get hollowed you seek the fire.

It´s kinda the main plot theme in 1 and 3

>>376643856
They are filled with the firekeeper's pee.

>>376644303
>>376644324

well maybe it's a bottle of Dark Souls

>>376643856
Estus looks like it taste fucking amazing.

>>376644005
fpbp

>>376643856
I've always wondered whether the thing at the top is a funnel or a stopper.

>>376644149
Sure

>>376644149
>1 minute of googling
C'mon, man. Googling shouldn't take more than a few seconds. We ain't got time for dat!

>>376644472

Don't forget that it smells like shit

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lgWdyMycK_0

>>376644149
You're a liar.

Ignis is fire in Latin. Estus means heat.

Its not "these", its only one bottle. It refills when you sit at a bonfire

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>>376643856
Is there any question left that Miyazaki is completely insane?

> "Time is convoluted, heroes of old just blip-in-and-out of existance. Physical land-masses are drawn to a central location where there is a camp fire that you can "link" to something that is never explained nor why. There are other firepits, where you can drunk the fire. There used to be girls that tended to those fires, but they all disapeared by the 3rd game. Also, souls are physical objects that can be split apart and shared, one of which is "dark" and could be split so many times that an entire species can be made. That species contracted a curse that makes them immortal, but the depression that comes from living and dying over countless cycles reduces them to shambling husks. And time between cycles is finite, so an attempt to prolong the cycles resulted in a Bed of Chaos that created demons. Two girls got changed into topless spider-chans. Their brother is this giant lava-puss monster thing. There used to be dragons. There still are. One is this rib-cage vagina beast and the ither is a hyper intelligent sex-offender. All the dragons died, except for ine that lives in the center of the earth that is actually a lake. There is another that you can fight but only if you go back in time. Also there is another one, but he is made from the bone of a giant. Also another one that lives in the abyss near the end of the world. And the dude who started it all had a son, that was raised as a girl and she has snake legs. Also the entire game takes place inside of a painting that contains other paintings with worlds inside of them."

If anyone other than him pitched this concept, they would have been locked up in a mental institution.

>>376645623
They have multiple charges, yours is not the only bottle available to you as other undead also carry and use them, and you have two different types of flasks in the third game.

Estus means shit in latin, dudebro Miyazaki surely saw the aestus estus of Fate series and put it into the game, japs love random latin words.

The proper word is Aestus,

>>376645976
Sounds like the typical lore the Japanese would make up, to be honest.

It's a play on 'estrus', they're the collected ovulation juice of the firekeeper when she's in heat. Her arousal powers the bonfires

>>376648427
Fuck off ENB

>>376644149
In Dark Souls all life came from fire.

So I guess it would actually make a pretty big buttload of sense.

MYSTERY SOLVED FOLKS

>>376648742
Except "estus" isn't a Latin word.
Aestus is, and doesn't mean fire.

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>>376644801
>this is alright, I mean I'll probably just throw this at something

>>376644448
No, humanity is a piece of dark soul

>>376645976
Is there any evidence that Ceaseless Discharge is a male?

>>376648427

Fuck off, Matthew Mitosis.

>>376648427
No Vaati, I'm not donating to your fucking patreon

>>376645976
>Time is convoluted, heroes of old just blip-in-and-out of existance
That's not a serious part of the lore, it's just the in-game justification for how summoning works.
It's only ever mentioned by characters explaining co-op (Solaire in DaS1, Crestfallen in DaS2, I forget in DaS3, probably Hawkwood).

ESTUANS INTERIUS IRA VEHEMENTI
SUPRA PETRAM PONERE SEDEM FUNDAMENTI

>>376649951
The Orange Charred Ring refers to Ceaseless as the brother of the other witches (Quelaag et al).

>>376650429
There's an actual canon explanation now, though.
Summon signs are miracles, so the "ghost" versions of people you see are like the miracle echoes from Dark Souls 1.

>>376644801
Wasn't this from some unofficial guide that for some reason had a collector's edition?

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>>376644005
Good one.

>>376648427
See you next week, Matpat.

>>376643856
Shit game for shit idiots.