I wonder what would happen to that certain subsection of Dark Souls fans if the next SoulsBorneWhatever game had nothing written in its item descriptions.
They’d have too much freedom when it comes to interpreting stuff and would go to war with other loresters who believe other things until only one is left standing.
Something something, dark souls of fandoms, something something I’ll get my coat
Guest Commentator: @Meowtroid
It’s time for my favorite boss fight!! (In the main game, at least.) The area to get there, however, shows how the end of this game ratchets up the difficulty, and it’s not going to let up until we’re done.
When we got onto the subject of yoga, I got it in my head that I should create this, I guess:
(The image is from a Google Image search, I just added the words.)
And given the fact that I love the boss fight of this episode so much, I made a dumb little video early last year to show it off.
(Mild spoilers for an item I haven’t gotten yet.)
Guest Commentator: @Meowtroid
Let’s explore a brand new library and learn what it means to misuse a microwave. The Grand Archives is a big place with a lot of nooks and crannies, so it’s going to take a little bit to explore everything.
Also, be prepared for the most exciting PVP performances the world has ever seen… or something.
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That lever you don’t know what it does, I believe it opens a bookshelf somewhere near where you first run into the wax people that has a titanite slab behind it.
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I just looked it up and you’re right! Oh man, that would have been incredibly useful to know in the many times I’ve played this game before… though I doubt I would have found it on my own anyway.
Here’s some speculation based on item descriptions and cut content!
The wax that you dunk your head is probably isn’t Seath’s body, and probably not semen either (since semen tends not to harden into a hard shell). The Scholars use it for the same reason you do: to avoid being Cursed by the book arm ghosts. There’s a cut piece of headgear called the Scholar’s Shed Skin, which would (allegedly) provide immunity to Curse, and work together with the Scholar’s Robe, but it was removed from the game files. Its item description reads:
Skin shed from a sage of the Grand Archives. The ivory wax has hardened, forming a mask. Wax protected the inquirer from exposure to the foulness that permeated the majority of the texts, preventing one’s anchor of reason from being too easily washed away.
The reason why the Scholars dunk their head in wax, then, is to protect them from the “foulness” of the books, not the content (since they appear to be able to see quite well). Additionally, the item description for the Scholar’s Robe states that it has “quite deliberately” been stained with wax, presumably for the same purpose, since it’s got a high Curse resist stat.
The Scholars study the books of the Grand Archives to learn Sorcery, specifically crystal sorceries. This isn’t explicitly stated, but come on. They’re called Scholars, they cast crystal sorceries, and they’re in a magical library. Presumably, while this isn’t Seath’s Archives, the knowledge about crystal sorcery was probably kept around, since it’s really important to be able to prolong your life through magical means (instead of the Undead Curse).
Studying crystal sorcery is probably why the Crystal Sage (or his brother) is here as well, since Big Hat Logan needs to be referenced again lest we forget he existed. At least he’s got his shirt on this time.
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Guest Commentator: @Meowtroid
A bit of a filler episode as we round out the top of the archives. Well, the library part anyway.
Today, we get to find out what happens when our bird boys become all grown up!
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Guest Commentator: @Meowtroid
Back from a little hiatus with some more Dark Souls!!!
We’re going to finish up the rest of the main game for the most part. We’ll be saving the end for, well, the end. In the mean time, I prove how good I am at fighting a boss and then how average I am at beating a boss.
There’s also a couple of quest lines coming to an end…
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Lothric and Lorian is one of my favorite fights. I just like how it builds and the music is awesome. It’s a suitable climax for the Lothric series of areas.
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They’re definitely one of my favs too possibly one of my favorite boss fights in any game.
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Guest Commentator: @dimbosama
Before we officially get started with the DLCs, there’s a bit of optional content we didn’t get to, and we’ve got someone new to join in the revelry of these horrible snake people and there eight-legged brethren…
So, you know, “here there be dragons” and all that.
And what the fuck is a horse stance???
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I have to ask how many people here tried to kill the ancient wyvvern the hard way initially? I probably stubbornly did at least 10 attempts before going for the easy way. Outside of that the weird roly poly enemies are apparently called rock lizards.
Guest Commentator: @dimbosama
We’re going to wrap up our journey to Archdragon Peak with the boss battle to end all boss battles™! For now, anyway.
There’s also a few cameos from NPCs that decided we’re worth killing, sooo… yay!
Regarding the boss fight: It turns out the the “King of the Storm” moniker was added in the English translation and does not exist in the original Japanese, so my naming the dragon King of the Storm is both not technically wrong and totally up to interpretation!! But, at least to me, it makes more sense for the dragon to have that name.
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Guest Commentators: @Enrel and @IFS
It’s time for the Ashes of Ariandel DLC, featuring a vast winter wonderland and my co-commentators doing their best to kill me…
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Guest Commentators: @Enrel and @IFS
After a torrent of puns, I’d say the best follow-up is the most obvious joke! And only eighteen videos in the making!!
For the PVP duel arenas stuff, I won’t be showing it off in the LP simply because it’s just PVP in areas set aside for PVP, and we’ll be getting plenty of PVP fights in the videos to come.
The medals/badges/honor that I talk about look like this, and only appear for me on this menu (at least, that’s the only place I’ve been able to see it). They will appear next to my name for other players when I’m summoned.
The little, gray badge is hard to make out, but that’s the first one you can get. Duel badges appear to be cumulative, so if I lose a couple of matches in a row, I could lose my badge .There are four badges, in ascending order: iron, bronze, silver, gold.
Oddly enough, duel badges persist between characters, as I have not used the PVP arenas with this character, and yet I have a duel badge. (Or maybe it’s a bug where characters with the same names accidentally share a badge, who knows.)
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Nobody said “ladder”, but Lobo did guess Gilligan so I think that should count.
Yeah, I’m not sure where he even pulled Gilligan from, out of all of the Dark Souls NPCs there have been. Maybe because he mentioned Gilligan in the last episode, or the fact that I kept dodging questions about ladders.
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