Now, this is very interesting! I've never been so confident of Sekiro being connected to the other games as now, for starters. The fact that the Serpentine Traveler is considered by some to have the " face of a dragon" may indicate what one could term as a "difference in standards"; as we know, serpents are considered failures at being dragons, and are symbolic of the Undead, sharing a sort of "kinship" to them in their greed. The very fact that dragons possess human descendants gives some questions; did they take human form? Are their 'descendants" worshippers who took forms closer to the dragons they meditated around? Because it seems to be a trend that each dragon covenant's members resemble the dragon they center around. It could be that the people of the East worshipped a certain serpentine dragon....... A " pale beast", perhaps? I've heard it pointed out by Honored Madman that one of Alonne's shoulder plates depicts a viper; an interesting choice. The masks worn by the serpent mendicants , Shiva and Alonne seem to trace their heritage back to a single type; the masks worn by Channelers, who unlike the others, possess functioning eyes of their own. I remember that their original name terms them as "priests". The mendicants themselves are very, very interesting, because while clearly serving the local dragon-kin and the Nameless King who is their patron, they cast Dark sorceries. Their castings without a doubt produce Humanities, though they oddly possess some sort of golden hue. You may remember our talk on the Nameless King; I fear that after his banishment, his obsessions went to..... Dark places. "Nothing will remain once the bell is tolled."
Oh yes. I'm pretty convinced the world of Sekiro is connected to the other FromSoftware worlds. I was actually a bit surprised at how much serpent/dragons were connected with the East. I have no proof so far, but I personally believe the Nameless King may have resided in the East at one point as well. I like the idea of the Nameless King going super dark after his banishment.
@@ChannelYoshimitsu It's actually not so strange when you think about it. Back when you found Vendrick and Shanalotte told you to go to Aldia's Manor and the Dragon Aerie, she told you to go to " The East". It was a little confusing for me, too; it was the kind of sentence more suited to a game where I had a map.... But maybe it was included for a reason. The Ancient Dragon, it's covenant and the dozens of wyverns surrounding it live in the eastern fringes of Drangleic. And in the case of the wyverns, they are most likely foreign to it. Why? "Do the dragons watch over the land of their own will, or are they in the grip of one of Aldia's spells?" The implication is that the wyverns, who are in fact true descendants of the Ancient Dragons, watch over the rest of Drangleic from their seat in Dragon Aerie, and once provided themselves to the kingdom as mounts for Dragonriders. Did they do so of their own will? Well, regardless of whether they did, where could they have come from, if the Aerie is not their natural home? Simple. Further East. _ Nobody takes the Nameless King's design seriously. Everyone I talk to just thinks it was an " earlier version" , or that it wasn't intended. Despite the fact they even kept a specific death scream for him( a very Hollow sounding one at that). But they're not wrong about one thing; it's difficult to explain. After all, there's no indication the Nameless King became one of the Lords Of Cinder. He is not listed among the Thrones of Firelink. And yet, he looks as Hollow as his father. Did he link the Flame? But then, there are his mendicants, casting Dark sorceries. What are they doing? What could this mean? What has drained the son of Gwyn so? "Touching an ancient dragon scale gives one a glimpse into the abyss. Believers in the dragon will rise above this petty corporeal existence." The Abyss, eh.... Poor, poor son of Gwyn. Didn't you know that when you look into the Abyss, the Abyss must look into you?
I always found Sir Alonne's helmet unusual but never thought about the channelers even though I've been observing them on my travels in Archdragon peak. Nice work.
Another thing I want to point out is the fact that Eastern Set not only offers high slash defense but also provides good defense against fire when compared to other elemental damage negations of the set, The Eastern Set also provides the least resistance against lightning compared to other stats of the set as well. I also noticed that The Serpent Men in Dark Souls 3 has fire resistance. So, your theory is very believable. The Channeler's Helm from Dark Souls 1 has similar looks to Alonne's Helm and the description in the English version said The Channelers are "the eyes" for Seath The Scaleless, Although I don't know what to make of it. So I would love to hear your opinion on this. As always, Love your lore analysis. I hope you make another video on Dark Souls!
I feel like I unintentionally stumbled upon the best Japanese comprehension content on UA-cam since you upload in both languages. I am definitely gonna use this for my language immersion thank you 🤗 Btw, would it be possible to have access to the script to be able to look something up quickly/make sentence cards for anki? Thank you for your work, I am gonna binge every video of yours ☺️
Thanks for finding my channel! :) I can go through my scripts and add then onto the vids. Although the first 6 videos I winged it without a script so I don't have a script for them. The rest I have a script so I'll add them on once I get my next video script done. :)
Yoshimitsu, you're the GOAT! I discovered your channel today, watched a bunch of videos, subscribed and turned notifications on. Best DS lore channel on youtube, you deserve many more subs! Please never stop posting! P.S. will you ever dip your toes into Elden Ring lore?
super awesome video. always exciteing to see your new videos and insight into the lore. it would be cool if you did a little video on the translations between the crow you offer items to between games. I think its cute the communities gave nicknames that people feel are canon between japanese and other country players
I just discovered this channel. It's amazing. May you please, please, please do a lore video on the Age of Duskborn ending for Elden Ring? It's the most disputed ending of them all yet no one has looked into the original Japanese for potential mistranslations. Even Goldmask has been translated. But not Fia.
I find it so amusing that a japanese developer, who creates to the most part european history inspired worlds, places these mysterious abd strong figures like shiva and alonne (among others) inside their games and mysticizes their own homeland as this fabled land of the east haha Once again an amazing video. Especially the armor part, theyre all similar in color palette as well. Im pretty sure this theory has truth to it. I couldve done without the sekiro spoiler though :,) I remember you mentioning that another video you would make is about vendrick and nashandra. It would be great if you went into the drang knight description from ds3. Old want shield and the ruin armor in ds3... etc. - also maybe tackle the subject of how drangleic played a part in the creation of lothric ... Have a great day!
Thanks for the comment. I agree and love how they mystified the East in Dark souls. :) I'll add the drang knight armor and old shield of want into Vendrick Nashandra video research. Might turn into two videos.
@@ChannelYoshimitsu Glad you made the video! Your videos have helped me with running Dark Souls campaigns in D&D, they've given me deeper understanding and lots of ways to surprise my players.
This may be considered essentialist or borderline racist (by contemporary Western standards) but I think Xanthous (contextually) refers to the yellowish skin tone of Easterners (8:23 is a perfect example) (Xanthous was an old fashioned racial descriptor used in the past, alongside Leucous and Melanous). Contrast with the "white" of Gwyn or the "black" of the Pygmies. Mirrah is in the absolute East of DS2, and is the capital of Lindelt. Dragon Shrine is a "Xanthous" Temple (made of sandstone), where Drakekeepers drop Dragon Charms, which are perfect imitations of the originals, crafted by Lindelt. Original charms were looted from Shulva by the Drakebloods, Lindelt's forebears.
Between DS2 and DS3, Lindelt essentially revived the Church of Londor (Lande d'Or = Golden Land) to it's past glory, and merged with them. Sulyvahn is the son of a Lindelt witchtree, raised in a Lindelt replica-painting. He installed the "Angelic Faith" in Lothric, which is his own *branch* of Lindelt fundamentalism, designed to allow Yuria to find a True Monarch to bring about a new cycle or, failing that, restore balance to the existing cycle by bringing an "age of Dark".
Considering that in the Dark Souls universe the soul is a separate entity to the body vessel, yeah it would make sense that there would be people with dragon-like body vessels. What your theory suggests is that dragon worship and dragon-kin is the strongest in the east. I've noticed something similar, but it's the giants that have an eastern connection with the name of that DS3 'Oni Slayer' and its item description: "A unique greatbow handed down in an eastern land, where tales are told of its use in slaying giant horned oni". A loose theory of mine is that not only do the giants come from the east, but some of them might even be Chaos Demon Giants. While we don't fight any oni across the games, there is evidence of them existing in Lordran as there's a giant skull in Ash Lake with demon fangs. We know that when giants die they become trees and right next to the Great Hollow in Blighttown there's a unique weapon there called Server. This is shaped like the Nepalese Sacrificial Sword Ram Dao used for beheading animals. It is possible that this head and the Great Hollow were once a giant that is probably the corpse of the Nameless Blacksmith, especially with all those leeches around the Server weapon that drop tons of Large Titanite Shards and Green Titanite Shards for smithing. Not only do you have the Dragon Worshiping Ash Lake and the Chaos Demon Ruins surrounding the Great Hollow, but Shiva of the East is seen lurking in Blighttown looking for the Chaos Blade. Then you've got the Titanite Demon in DS1 that has no head and drops Demon Titanite that looks similar to Titanite Scales that are pillaged from those immature dragons in Arch Dragon Peak.
I love the idea of Chaos Demon Giants! I have a similar idea floating in my mind too about Giants from the east. Really cool info regarding the Server looking similar to the Nepalese Sacrificial Sword Ram Dao.
I love lokeys stuff and the clarifications that he's brought to the Souls community. Super appreciate that there are others like lokey that bring clarity to the lore through translations.
@@ChannelYoshimitsu waiting for your video about the connection between dark souls or any from soft games to elden ring from item description in japanese
I promise to release a vid that'll connect the lore of all the FromSoftware games. Just, not yet. I still have to deep dive into Bloodborne and I still need to do way more research on Elden Ring.
The greatest lore channel in town
Now, this is very interesting!
I've never been so confident of Sekiro being connected to the other games as now, for starters.
The fact that the Serpentine Traveler is considered by some to have the " face of a dragon" may indicate what one could term as a "difference in standards"; as we know, serpents are considered failures at being dragons, and are symbolic of the Undead, sharing a sort of "kinship" to them in their greed. The very fact that dragons possess human descendants gives some questions; did they take human form? Are their 'descendants" worshippers who took forms closer to the dragons they meditated around? Because it seems to be a trend that each dragon covenant's members resemble the dragon they center around. It could be that the people of the East worshipped a certain serpentine dragon.......
A " pale beast", perhaps?
I've heard it pointed out by Honored Madman that one of Alonne's shoulder plates depicts a viper; an interesting choice.
The masks worn by the serpent mendicants , Shiva and Alonne seem to trace their heritage back to a single type; the masks worn by Channelers, who unlike the others, possess functioning eyes of their own. I remember that their original name terms them as "priests".
The mendicants themselves are very, very interesting, because while clearly serving the local dragon-kin and the Nameless King who is their patron, they cast Dark sorceries. Their castings without a doubt produce Humanities, though they oddly possess some sort of golden hue.
You may remember our talk on the Nameless King; I fear that after his banishment, his obsessions went to.....
Dark places.
"Nothing will remain once the bell is tolled."
Oh yes. I'm pretty convinced the world of Sekiro is connected to the other FromSoftware worlds.
I was actually a bit surprised at how much serpent/dragons were connected with the East. I have no proof so far, but I personally believe the Nameless King may have resided in the East at one point as well.
I like the idea of the Nameless King going super dark after his banishment.
@@ChannelYoshimitsu It's actually not so strange when you think about it.
Back when you found Vendrick and Shanalotte told you to go to Aldia's Manor and the Dragon Aerie, she told you to go to " The East". It was a little confusing for me, too; it was the kind of sentence more suited to a game where I had a map....
But maybe it was included for a reason.
The Ancient Dragon, it's covenant and the dozens of wyverns surrounding it live in the eastern fringes of Drangleic. And in the case of the wyverns, they are most likely foreign to it.
Why?
"Do the dragons watch over the land of their own will, or are they in the grip of one of Aldia's spells?"
The implication is that the wyverns, who are in fact true descendants of the Ancient Dragons, watch over the rest of Drangleic from their seat in Dragon Aerie, and once provided themselves to the kingdom as mounts for Dragonriders.
Did they do so of their own will?
Well, regardless of whether they did, where could they have come from, if the Aerie is not their natural home?
Simple.
Further East.
_
Nobody takes the Nameless King's design seriously. Everyone I talk to just thinks it was an " earlier version" , or that it wasn't intended. Despite the fact they even kept a specific death scream for him( a very Hollow sounding one at that).
But they're not wrong about one thing; it's difficult to explain. After all, there's no indication the Nameless King became one of the Lords Of Cinder. He is not listed among the Thrones of Firelink. And yet, he looks as Hollow as his father.
Did he link the Flame?
But then, there are his mendicants, casting Dark sorceries.
What are they doing? What could this mean?
What has drained the son of Gwyn so?
"Touching an ancient dragon scale gives one a glimpse into the abyss. Believers in the dragon will rise above this petty corporeal existence."
The Abyss, eh....
Poor, poor son of Gwyn.
Didn't you know that when you look into the Abyss, the Abyss must look into you?
I always found Sir Alonne's helmet unusual but never thought about the channelers even though I've been observing them on my travels in Archdragon peak. Nice work.
Gwyn: "Sorry Sekiro-verse, my bad."
Yoshimitsu-san! I'm glad to see you upload.
Good to see you back. Hope your doing well. Thank you for the upload 😊
Another thing I want to point out is the fact that Eastern Set not only offers high slash defense but also provides good defense against fire when compared to other elemental damage negations of the set, The Eastern Set also provides the least resistance against lightning compared to other stats of the set as well.
I also noticed that The Serpent Men in Dark Souls 3 has fire resistance.
So, your theory is very believable.
The Channeler's Helm from Dark Souls 1 has similar looks to Alonne's Helm and the description in the English version said The Channelers are "the eyes" for Seath The Scaleless, Although I don't know what to make of it. So I would love to hear your opinion on this.
As always, Love your lore analysis. I hope you make another video on Dark Souls!
Yesss more yoshimitsu!
Yay you're back!
I feel like I unintentionally stumbled upon the best Japanese comprehension content on UA-cam since you upload in both languages. I am definitely gonna use this for my language immersion thank you 🤗
Btw, would it be possible to have access to the script to be able to look something up quickly/make sentence cards for anki?
Thank you for your work, I am gonna binge every video of yours ☺️
Thanks for finding my channel! :)
I can go through my scripts and add then onto the vids.
Although the first 6 videos I winged it without a script so I don't have a script for them.
The rest I have a script so I'll add them on once I get my next video script done. :)
Yoshimitsu, you're the GOAT! I discovered your channel today, watched a bunch of videos, subscribed and turned notifications on. Best DS lore channel on youtube, you deserve many more subs! Please never stop posting!
P.S. will you ever dip your toes into Elden Ring lore?
Yup. I will eventually get into Elden Ring lore. Although, it will be after the DLC.
Yesss so happy for another one man. You are my favorite souls theorist
Thank you for the awesome comment! I will strive to bring more lore videos. :)
You style is like a more refined version of bob the hollows old work
Immediately made me think of the Frayed Blade, how you can immortalize Midir into a Katana.
Really good point! Kinda kicking myself for not thinking of the frayed blade when making this blade.
super awesome video. always exciteing to see your new videos and insight into the lore. it would be cool if you did a little video on the translations between the crow you offer items to between games. I think its cute the communities gave nicknames that people feel are canon between japanese and other country players
Interesting idea. Never thought of covering those crows. I'll take a look into.
I just discovered this channel. It's amazing. May you please, please, please do a lore video on the Age of Duskborn ending for Elden Ring? It's the most disputed ending of them all yet no one has looked into the original Japanese for potential mistranslations. Even Goldmask has been translated. But not Fia.
Thanks for checking out my channel.
I'll add the Age of Duskborn ending into my Elden Ring research. :)
@@ChannelYoshimitsu Thanks man. Your the best. :)
I find it so amusing that a japanese developer, who creates to the most part european history inspired worlds, places these mysterious abd strong figures like shiva and alonne (among others) inside their games and mysticizes their own homeland as this fabled land of the east haha
Once again an amazing video. Especially the armor part, theyre all similar in color palette as well.
Im pretty sure this theory has truth to it.
I couldve done without the sekiro spoiler though :,)
I remember you mentioning that another video you would make is about vendrick and nashandra. It would be great if you went into the drang knight description from ds3. Old want shield and the ruin armor in ds3... etc. - also maybe tackle the subject of how drangleic played a part in the creation of lothric ...
Have a great day!
Thanks for the comment. I agree and love how they mystified the East in Dark souls. :)
I'll add the drang knight armor and old shield of want into Vendrick Nashandra video research. Might turn into two videos.
Really interesting theory, and it seems to make sense. Great video as always
Thank you for this, very enlightening!
Glad you enjoyed!
@@ChannelYoshimitsu Glad you made the video! Your videos have helped me with running Dark Souls campaigns in D&D, they've given me deeper understanding and lots of ways to surprise my players.
This may be considered essentialist or borderline racist (by contemporary Western standards) but I think Xanthous (contextually) refers to the yellowish skin tone of Easterners (8:23 is a perfect example) (Xanthous was an old fashioned racial descriptor used in the past, alongside Leucous and Melanous). Contrast with the "white" of Gwyn or the "black" of the Pygmies.
Mirrah is in the absolute East of DS2, and is the capital of Lindelt.
Dragon Shrine is a "Xanthous" Temple (made of sandstone), where Drakekeepers drop Dragon Charms, which are perfect imitations of the originals, crafted by Lindelt. Original charms were looted from Shulva by the Drakebloods, Lindelt's forebears.
Between DS2 and DS3, Lindelt essentially revived the Church of Londor (Lande d'Or = Golden Land) to it's past glory, and merged with them.
Sulyvahn is the son of a Lindelt witchtree, raised in a Lindelt replica-painting. He installed the "Angelic Faith" in Lothric, which is his own *branch* of Lindelt fundamentalism, designed to allow Yuria to find a True Monarch to bring about a new cycle or, failing that, restore balance to the existing cycle by bringing an "age of Dark".
Considering that in the Dark Souls universe the soul is a separate entity to the body vessel, yeah it would make sense that there would be people with dragon-like body vessels. What your theory suggests is that dragon worship and dragon-kin is the strongest in the east. I've noticed something similar, but it's the giants that have an eastern connection with the name of that DS3 'Oni Slayer' and its item description:
"A unique greatbow handed down in an eastern land, where tales are told of its use in slaying giant horned oni".
A loose theory of mine is that not only do the giants come from the east, but some of them might even be Chaos Demon Giants. While we don't fight any oni across the games, there is evidence of them existing in Lordran as there's a giant skull in Ash Lake with demon fangs. We know that when giants die they become trees and right next to the Great Hollow in Blighttown there's a unique weapon there called Server. This is shaped like the Nepalese Sacrificial Sword Ram Dao used for beheading animals. It is possible that this head and the Great Hollow were once a giant that is probably the corpse of the Nameless Blacksmith, especially with all those leeches around the Server weapon that drop tons of Large Titanite Shards and Green Titanite Shards for smithing. Not only do you have the Dragon Worshiping Ash Lake and the Chaos Demon Ruins surrounding the Great Hollow, but Shiva of the East is seen lurking in Blighttown looking for the Chaos Blade. Then you've got the Titanite Demon in DS1 that has no head and drops Demon Titanite that looks similar to Titanite Scales that are pillaged from those immature dragons in Arch Dragon Peak.
I love the idea of Chaos Demon Giants! I have a similar idea floating in my mind too about Giants from the east.
Really cool info regarding the Server looking similar to the Nepalese Sacrificial Sword Ram Dao.
ey bro! have you ever heard of lokey lore? great guy in the lore community, you should check his stuff out!
I love lokeys stuff and the clarifications that he's brought to the Souls community.
Super appreciate that there are others like lokey that bring clarity to the lore through translations.
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Hey yoshi! How’s your Japanese is so fluent? You lived/worked in Japan?
It's because my parents are Japanese. They taught me Japanese from when I was a baby.
Nice!
so there's a chance that sekiro and souls is connected?
I believe so. In my head cannon, all the From Software games are connected.
@@ChannelYoshimitsu waiting for your video about the connection between dark souls or any from soft games to elden ring from item description in japanese
I promise to release a vid that'll connect the lore of all the FromSoftware games.
Just, not yet. I still have to deep dive into Bloodborne and I still need to do way more research on Elden Ring.
@@ChannelYoshimitsu got it
Shiva of the east?
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Shiva of deceased!