(The prevailing theory is that he and Manus – the antagonist of the Artorias of the Abyss portion of the story – are one and the same, but as with most things in Dark Souls, this isn’t absolutely certain.) Many of the accepted conclusions about the backstories of Lordran and its inhabitants are essentially received wisdom there’s good evidence, but we cannot know for sure.
Plenty of things are still debated – for instance, the true identity of the Furtive Pygmy, a character mentioned only once, in the game’s prologue. The Artorias of the Abyss storyline answered some of the lingering mysteries about what on earth happened in Lordran’s past, but many remain.
And it’s been a collective effort: Dark Souls’ story has been uncovered over the course of years by thousands of individual players, each contributing their own observations, deductions and – of course – wild conjecture.Įven years down the line, there are still parts of Dark Souls’ story that we can’t decipher. You have to hunt for hints in item descriptions, in the sparse snippets of dialogue, in your surroundings, in the forms and lairs and implied histories of the bosses you encounter, in the game’s one and only narrative cutscene (the prologue). This is because enjoying Dark Souls’ story is not a passive experience it’s not told to you. Dark Souls’ story took months – even years – to fully uncover. It is totally possible to play through Dark Souls in its entirety and have no idea what actually happened. It just does everything it can to hide it from you. Naturally this vexed me, not just because I am afflicted (like most Souls fans I know) with a mania for converting people, but because Dark Souls has an amazing story, one of the best, most intriguing, most complex, most intellectually involving stories in all of video games. "It’s just not my kind of thing," he told me. He’d gotten as far as the Taurus Demon before stopping. Well, this particular friend wasn’t entirely uninitiated. I remember sitting with a friend over some beers, trying to do what every single Dark Souls player has done at some point: persuade the uninitiated that it’s the best game of the past decade.
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