Dark Souls Lore | The Everlasting Dragons: History & Legacy

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Dragons as a metaphor for rocks and minerals, giants as a metaphor for trees and forests. Such a neat game

Especially with the way dragons were used in DS1, it felt like they were meant to be so old and powerful they were pretty much features of the landscape, closer to a natural force than most life forms are

What if the basilisks aren’t simply cursing you with their breathe attack but are actually conjuring the fog of non existence to turn you into minerals… or like the fog is transporting you to a time before the age of fire. Knowing how repair powder works, it isn’t completely out of the realm of possibilities.

Aldia is my favorite NPC in the dark souls series. One of the few characters with answers instead of more questions. He saw through all the bullsh!t.

I sometimes can't help but see the desire to become great ones in bloodborne as a parallel to the desire to become a dragon to escape a lesser existence in dark souls and even elden ring. Although magma wyrms and childless successful great ones are still left wanting. Showing to me that there really is no perfect existence in these worlds even if you ascend as high as you can.

"Oh hey smoughtowns putting out a video in an hour, oh hell yeah it's about ancient dragons, OH HELL YEAH I have so much laundry to fold to this!"

I absolutely love that you included so much Dark Souls 2 lore towards the end. I know the major controversy behind DS2, but to me, that game is incredible, and will always have a place in my heart.

Never forget Gwyn caused the endless cycle because he was afraid of letting things naturally progress as it was supposed to.

Dragons in Dark Souls and Elden Ring hit two different spots. Dark Souls dragons are all unique and have their own personality. Elden Ring Dragons show the distinct race of Ancient Dragons in game are still powerful and fearsome, yet rare. FromSoft having both allows them to scratch both itches

The time before all others, where these massive dragons could exist when nothing else could, is by far the scariest part of Dark Souls to me! It almost has an Eldritch feeling to it. Great work as always!

There is so much depth to these games, how did I never even question what the giant skeletons were in the tomb of the giants

An interesting take that i had is that perhaps the Giants arent distant relations of the Dragons, but of the Archtrees. Their metamorphosis when they die, taking on even more tree like looks, their connection to the passage of time is similar to the Ancient Dragons but they dont share the same niche. Perhaps they're descendents the same way Kalameet and the Gaping Dragon are, the advent of life and death twisting what were primordial beings into new forms

Its not a FromSoft game without dragons of some sort! I still remember discovering the stone dragon at the bottom of ash lake, it was both terrifying and awe inspiring!

I love the theory that most if not all life can be traced back to the dragons. It links together certain ideas that never quite clicked for me, like the radically different giant skeletons from DS1, or the relationship between giants and dragons. That kind of reminds me how in D&D, Forgotten Realms, the first major war was between Giants and Dragons, similar in power, but different in method and intention. I can't help but wonder if this comparison of DS's giants and dragons is not similar. Giants are not literally dragons, but they are possessed of the same psudo-life the Everlasting Dragons held?

The fact that Humans could possibly be just evolved dragons just blows my mind. So many ideas from this one little thing. Like using divine and magical spells are innate to us from our once powerful fires or some such ideas.

That dragon to humans evolution theory sounds insane but then I remember that we all came from fish and that mammalian ancestors looked a bit more reptile like. Oh well

I have a theory why the lords challenged the everlasting dragons that I've never heard anyone mention before. The lords challenged the everlasting dragons because they would outlive them, and probably mocked them as well like they did to Seath. Denying the lords the power of the everlasting scales, they decided to pillage them and then give them to Seath so he can discover how to live forever and share that knowledge with the gods to escape the fading of the flame.

One of my favorite topics in the Dark Souls universe and, as always, beautifully put together and narrated. Keep up the good work sir 🫡

We goin back to the olden days with this one 🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️