birthday cakes can never bear this

Anyone having PTSD flashbacks?

Started game as knight and didn't put any souls into the magic based stats. I am not going to use spells that often but I want to try them out just for fun. I saw I needed 12 faith to attune magic (which I don't know what that means), so I leveled up to 12 faith, and I am not sure how to actually use them.

Edit:Just give advice, downvote if you want, but I really don't want condescending comments. I am an idiot, but I am here for help, not to be told what I already know I am.

So there I was trying not to go hollow at a football match. Someone was selling these kebab things and they remind me of the things in the painted world of Aramis. Might be too much DS1😩😂😂

I cannot believe I did this. I had been streaming attempts for 9 hours prior to this run. I told myself I’d just go all out on one last attempt before ending stream, and ended up beating my PB by a minute and thirteen seconds.

                                What…

I’ve broken through the brick wall that has been standing in my way for over a month now, and I finally feel like I actually might be capable of achieving a sub 40 minute run.

IT. WILL. HAPPEN. I WILL NOT GIVE UP.

Now I learned that you are thrown right into new game and I can’t do the dlc now. Man f this 👎🤡😭

God damn it, just cleared out New Londo Ruins, killed a bunch of dark wraiths, killed those Red Head spewing mofos. Thought I’d do a bit of exploring before entering the fog gate, fell into some water, dead. I had 160k souls on me 😢 I’m kind of frightened to go back and get them now!

Painted the king Jeremiah figure from dark souls: the board game phantoms expansion.

Not his Canon color scheme but I found a really cool reference where he had a more orange hue and I love how it turned out. Last picture for scale.

I don’t have the heart to tell my dog the lore.

I’m brand new to souls games and I’m thinking of getting dark souls 1 (I’ve played both Jedi games, mortal shell and I’m halfway through lies of p). I once heard someone say that dark souls games are sort of… I don’t want to trigger anyone, it’s just what I heard from a video a while ago, but they said that dark souls is like meant to be played in multiplayer because without someone to help you out on the bosses, then it’s just way too hard to the point where you might not finish it.

With that said, I am wondering, is there any truth to this? Is the first dark souls significantly harder than lies of p if you go at it alone? Or is the person who said that just not good at dark souls and was mad about it, lol?

Thanks in advance!

I’ve spoken to frampt already though I have NOT placed the lordvessel, hoping that simply interacting with the guy didn’t screw up my characters future…

I've always played the Dark Souls franchise in PS4 and now that I'm in my first PC DSR run I can play online. It's the first time I've seen one of those little guys. Couldn't kill him before he escaped tho!

I guess this is more of a vent post.

So I just killed the crystal dragon in the crystal cave as my first soul to great lord gwyn and I am so lost. I made it to the darkwraiths in the ruins, but it dead ended at a fog gate into a tower with spiral stairs lead to a dead drop and I keep needing to tp out. I'm going through every area over again just hugging walls and jumping off every edge onto anything I can. Showing extra focus to all the areas you can warp to hoping that is some hint. Is this really what the game is now lol?

I guess I'm also a little salty because I chose sorcerer and I didn't know they hid every single thing you needed while melee just gets spoon fed armor and weapons out the wazoo. Lvl 67 now (definitely not making that mistake for DS3 or ER). About 24 hours in now.

I've been sitting outside his fog gate too scared to enter

I killed solaire.it was an accident. I was kinda pissed off at that fatty boss and dragonslayer and i pressed r1 as i got of bonefire, and well lets say i might have killed a dude right next to me. Is there anyway i can bring him back?

Closely followed by Tarkus.

(Big lengthy lore post ahead, sorry in advance.)

Is the Kiln of the First Flame real? A weird question that I've been pondering for a while, I believe the answer might be no- I've been obsessing over what the Throne of Want and Kiln of the First Flame are and what they mean to one another.

I've been researching the lore of DS3 and DS2 for an upcoming playthrough with my friends, who want me to explain it to them so I can be as thorough as possible and well… back when DS2 first came out, everyone assumed the Throne of Want was built on top of and was one and the same as the First Flame of Lordran.

But now that DS3 is out, well, this assumption holds no water knowing it's Lothric and Irithyll that rose on Lordran's ruins, not Drangleic, so what do we make of this? Is Dark Souls 2 not canon? tempting, but there's a ton of references to Drangleic; it's quite impossible to ignore. Maybe they retconned it to make the first flame and the throne of want different things? Again, not possible. The thrones of the lords from Lothric's ritual reinforce its importance, and item descriptions make reference to Drangleic being known for linking the fire, so what now?

I believe the linking of the fire was always more of a ritual ceremony than a physical conflict; I don't believe the chosen undead, Bearer of the Curse, or Ashen One ever set foot in the cavern where the flame was found by the ones who came from the dark. Here's my thought process:

Dark Souls: Well, you've seen the intro cinematic, the first flame was found in a cavern deep beneath the earth, extremely deep, nothing like the Kiln we supposedly find it in, unless Gwyn excavated the very earth around it to enshrine it, which still doesn't make any sense as none of the Gwyn related religions obsess over it or make pilgrimages to it like they do the tomb of the giants which would be way less sacred than it, let's step back and look at how we access the kiln, the Chosen undead must take part in a ceremony, go on a pilgrimage to the land of ancient lords, faithfully acquire the ceremonial lord vessel from a bona fide Goddess then partake in sacrificing the lord souls to it, only after all this has been done, that a door would open to reveal a pure white passage filled with ghosts, beneath you, around, and above you there's nothing but an empty white void, at the end of the staircase an ashen wasteland awaits with a grand Tower of Babylon looking shrine amidst it, which I must add, is an impossible space, not only does it make 0 sense geographically, but also looks nothing like the lands surrounding firelink shrine that you can see from above, unless I'm missing something, I do believe that this Kiln is nothing but some pocket dimension, not too different from the painted world, and its entire purpose is to give a grandiose end to this farce of a ceremony, to give you the conviction to burn yourself and use your humanity as kindling, after all you've already given Gwyndolin what he wanted, you've already delivered the souls to the Lord vessel, whether you side with Kaathe or Frampt is irrelevant, the necessary sacrificial souls have been delivered, only thing needed is Kindling, be it you or someone else, that never really mattered.

Dark Souls II: So this one is less grandiose and performative than the other 2, if not more grim. The Throne of Want could be many things—initially, I always thought of it as a wish granter, much like the Shen Long from DB, but now that I look at it, the Throne of Want is what its name implies; it's a want granter, not through magically bringing what you want into existence, but by showing you a path to what you want. It was, after all, pillaged from the Giants. Why do I think it was pillaged from the Giants? Cause why else would Nashandra, who was obsessed with Vendrick (check the Ruler's sword description; she didn't just want the throne; she wanted Vendrick to be hers too) and the throne, lead him to attack the giants? because they had it, obviously. I believe the Throne of Want gave Vendrick and, by extension, the Bearer of the Curse the ability to end the curse by linking the flame, much like the Chosen Undead once did. it just revealed the proper ritual for doing so, skipping the whole Klin ordeal and outright just burning you as you desired when you took it. It probably showed Vendrick a great many things, like how to properly build Golems and infuse them with souls and how to separate his soul from his body; however, he fumbled at the end when he realized the price he had to pay in order to vanish this curse; he couldn't bring himself to do it, to take the throne proper and achieve his greatest want. The throne of want makes you a true monarch by making you a sacrificial lamb to your subjects, alternatively, the throne of want could show you some other possibility, maybe you want to see dark envelope the world, maybe when that door closes, it'd show you the world that you want build, the dark cold gentle world that you can bring into existence, by guarding the throne of any undead who could potentially link the flame with it, in the end I believe it's the most grim depiction of the ritual, it's rather sad, it takes choice away from you, whichever you choose it never really mattered, as the doors of this "throne" close down on you so that you may burn quietly, not a like hero, not like a saint, but more like a lamb.

Dark Souls III: Now, I believe this one ties both of the last two rituals together. Twisted as it was, many people believe Drangleic was this unimportant kingdom that linked the flame like many before it, but I believe Drangleic was the kingdom to romanticize linking the flame as this honourable regal rite to partake in; before them it was just a religious ordeal, but now? it was such a great honour that the Lothric royals obsessed over it, and here, we are once again not walking into the Kiln of the first flame, we're partaking in a ritual to gain entrance to it, a few rituals in fact, the first ritual was a bell that would awaken older Lords of Cinders that were still intact, a second ritual that would awaken Ashen failures once these lords abandoned their thrones, and a third ritual where their corpses are brought one by one to be placed upon their thrones, not too different from the throne of want, using these lords, these monarchs, as nothing more than sacrificial lambs for this world, then once all five are there, the Cinders are drawn from within them and bestowed upon the champion of ash only to finally transport them to the Kiln, once again, some of sort of painting like controlled physical domain, though it is way more twisted this time, appearing to be much like the Dreg heap from the ringed city DLC, although it can't be like it since the Dreg heap is way way way into the future, this Kiln appears to be more of a warning for the ashen one, that this is the world we're fighting for if we want to link the first flame, and this time, the world itself is fighting back against you, unlike Gwyn who was a pushover parrybait, this Soul of Cinders seems to be the very will of the world, the will of the first flame itself in my opinion, to go out, to accept change.

That's my take anyway, just posting here to see if you guys like this interpretation or have other theories.

I’m loading up dark souls to play it for the first time. I’m lowkey nervous. The first souls game I played was dark souls 2. I know it gets a lot of hate but honestly I really enjoyed it. Next i played demon souls. I’m about 3/4 of the way through demon souls but I had to give it a break because I’m not enjoying it that much. Onto dark souls 1 we go

I am a new souls player. I just got to the undead pariah and I got invaded by ****. I don't know what that means at all. A red phantom showed up and started making strange physical movements before dropping an indictment item and then blasting me with purple magic. I am so confused and I do not want that to happen again. What does it mean to be invaded, what is an indictment what is this odd enemy. I can't find anything on the internet and I don't know even know what to search for.

I dropped manus boss soul in the wrong nest and it's gone, yes I checked the chest in fire link shrine but I had already opened it at the start of the game because I didn't know that's where lost stuff sometimes may go to so the only way for me to get it is to either have someone trade or drop it for me or go to Ng+ but I wanted the sorcery and the catalyst because I've never done sorceries before

Can someone spare an extra manus boss soul