Except the opening cinematic where the player jumps into a whirlpool of darkness and awakes in Drangleic.
There are so many different explanations, other than "Alternate Dimension". Too much Dragonball Ocean Dub, in here.
Except the opening cinematic where the player jumps into a whirlpool of darkness and awakes in Drangleic.
There are so many different explanations, other than "Alternate Dimension". Too much Dragonball Ocean Dub, in here.
..and?
The player falling down a whirlpool of darkness, looks similar to the player who is required to fall down a gate/well in the Nexus (Demon Souls) to find the old one.
Except the opening cinematic where the player jumps into a whirlpool of darkness and awakes in Drangleic.
My theory is that he is jumping from the future into the past. The lady says "long ago in a walled off land to the north". Maybe the ruins before the undead jumps is Drangleic ruins in the future. It would make sense that the portal would be in the same geographic location.
Nothing has ever gone wrong from sending zombies into the past!
What even is the image on the ultra greatsword?
One more thing: guess who you see right after both fights? That's right: The Pursuer. I think the Pursuer is supposed to be you, the player. Look at his golf bag of gear: reminds me of only one other entity in the game: the player. So the Pursuer, like you, is trying to kill all the giants. Just a working theory.
Anyone else notice how the elevator up to the Dragon Aerie is tied to a pillar that goes nowhere? The devs are making it clear that these locations that you go to are messed up spatially and also I think in terms of time too. Shanalotte sounds much younger at the Dragon Aerie.
Those pillars are present in special places; under the aerie, Things Betwixt and Vendrick's place in the crypt.
Not sure what they mean.
ANYWAY. Someone asked about the fireflies in the opening, I mentioned they represent spirits to the japanese. I went to check the farfire statistics site and saw this.
http://farfire.darksoulsii.com/pc/players/index.html
Pretty much confirms to me that the Smelter Demon is a giant. Which means the Last Giant isn't really the last giant.
One more thing: guess who you see right after both fights? That's right: The Pursuer. I think the Pursuer is supposed to be you, the player. Look at his golf bag of gear: reminds me of only one other entity in the game: the player. So the Pursuer, like you, is trying to kill all the giants. Just a working theory.
Maybe this has been covered already, but I watching the intro cutscene again and was wondering why Drangleic Castle looks so different in it. The playable version certainly isn't old, ruined, and surrounded by dragons. Visual inconsistency or plot significance?
Maybe this has been covered already, but I watching the intro cutscene again and was wondering why Drangleic Castle looks so different in it. The playable version certainly isn't old, ruined, and surrounded by dragons. Visual inconsistency or plot significance?
Maybe this has been covered already, but I watching the intro cutscene again and was wondering why Drangleic Castle looks so different in it. The playable version certainly isn't old, ruined, and surrounded by dragons. Visual inconsistency or plot significance?
I've been wondering that myself.
It looks more like the Aerie and Dragon Shrine.
Which technically still Drangleic and still a work of Vendrick and co, but still.
I think its the Dragon Aerie, hence all the dragons flying around it.
I think its the Dragon Aerie, hence all the dragons flying around it.
On a side-note, anyone else noticed that the Last Giant and Giant Lord are oddly similar?
Do you have any similarity you want to point out?
I think Last Giant and Giant Lord are the tallest giants you fight but that'd be it.
http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/comments/220fca/a_quick_idea_about_the_last_giant/The Last Giant, based on the location of the body, body type, voice, and attack patterns, IS the Giant Lord to me. The Giant Lord, whom according to a Soul item, was defeated by some unnamed hero.
Late in the game, you travel into memories to fight the Giant Lord and gain access to the Throne of Want.
Early in the game, you walk into the grave of the Last Giant and he wakes up from a VERY long nap, sees you, and flips the FUCK out. He is so mad he tears himself out of whatever he is impaled on AND even rips off his own arm to beat you to death with it.
If you catch my drift, I think he knows who you are before you even do.
Player = the son
Vendrick = father figure*
The Throne of Want = womb**
kill the father
return to the womb
penis***
*rendered impotent*******
**Nashandra = cockblock
***penis = sword****
****phallic*****
*****what if I didn't use a sword?******
******it was probably phallic anyways
*******basically a fantasy where the son dreams of usurping his impotent overlord; see Vendy's limp swings as opposed to the player's firm, solid strokes********
********unless you used a greatsword, in which case it's probably just overcompensation
Further small evidence: Captain Drummond gives you his helmet. A helmet that is then not with the set of Dragleic armor you find later. A helmet you carry with you out of the memory.
Their movesets are the same, granted that could be lazy development on FROM's part. But this thread on reddit was the most interesting thing:
http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/comments/220fca/a_quick_idea_about_the_last_giant/
Gywndolin has a rather nice bust if that counts for something.Gwyn had disowned his son, his daughter fled the country, and his other son is unfit for the throne.
I think it's called the last giant because no one knows the existence of the ones in the Black Gulch. also Smelter demon is just ... a demon. the design is similar but it ain't a giant.Why is it called the last giant if there's the ones in black gulch? Is it simply the last giant in the area?
Smelter has the same face as a giant so that's probably one too.
I think it's called the last giant because no one knows the existence of the ones in the Black Gulch. also Smelter demon is just ... a demon. the design is similar but it ain't a giant.
I kind of whised that we had more information about Shanalotte.
There is some voice acting credited to Kid Shanalotte. DLC perhaps?
That's her in the Aerie, she sounds way younger and is shorter.
That's her in the Aerie, she sounds way younger and is shorter.
I think it's called the last giant because no one knows the existence of the ones in the Black Gulch. also Smelter demon is just ... a demon. the design is similar but it ain't a giant.
This isn't really lore, but more a wondering on possible cut content. I thought it possible that Cale had a cut story/questline. His dialogue seems to suggest initially that you might find him along the way as he searches through Drangleic.
Also, and I said this before once in the main thread I think - How disappointed I was in my first playthrough, after hearing him say not to go in the basement of the house - I was expecting it to lead to a new area. I imagined how you go down from Firelink into the Catacombs, that kind of thing. He's stood like 20 feet away from the door to the room where the skellies are, it's not really some big mystery is it.
There is some voice acting credited to Kid Shanalotte. DLC perhaps?
Could Nashandra be enslaving the Emerald Herald? They both tell you to seek the king. They both send you off on a quest to gain access to the Throne of Want. It's only when you're about to actually get to it that the two of them oppose one another and here, the Herald mentions that she will be free once you take the throne and/or defeat Nashandra.
I think they are just a sound effect. Maybe they represent your character slowly losing his/her mind, but other than that I cannot attribute further meaning to them.
They are quite distressing, but I've only ever heard them while playing with headphones and the volume p high. Wonder if there is some subliminal messaging going on here.
They were present in Dark 1 too, IIRC in certain places.