Dark Souls 3 Story ► The Duty of Anri & Horace
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Why won't my Estus flask heal my feelings?
someone must of died a lot to iudex gundyr...
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe here, try some of this *hands seigbraū*
Idk....Btw what happend to HAVOK
I thought this was a fake channel but it's the actual Bandai Namco channel. Haha.
Kaleb
IT IS, WHAT THE FUCK?
The voice acting for Anri is absolutely amazing. She sounds devastated when thinking where Horace went, tired in the church and shes done a phenominal job.
Yeah
Nah Horace's grunts are the best
Totally agree
My thoughts exactly the best voice acting in the entire game
@@pureprogress9359 I thought greirat beat anris VA but only by a bit.
"I hereby declare you husband and wife, you may now impale the bride with this sacred blade..."
*people cheering
When you marry someone, you become one
Still don't get why this happens
Warren Sheppard Hollows be cray.
XD
let me fix that for ya!
"...you may now impale the bride with this sacred blade... IN THE FACE!"
Anri: You are brave indeed, to face your duty alone...
Me: *Sees Summon Signs at bonfire*
lol
lmao
Just a Normal Cat Get a little lonely y’know
Who needs companion for boss fights when you have fire in your right hand..... I SUMMON THEE, MEAT SHIELD!!!!!
Casul
Genuinly heartwarming that their first words when you attack are “Please stop this!”
I don’t know of anyone else who verbally asks you to stop attacking like that and that really makes Anri seem so pure and sweet.
Yet if you stop attacking they'll keep attacking.
Doesn't Leonhard give you a few warnings before becoming hostile? I may have rolled over him a few times
@@Hat-Trick I think he tells you to knock it off or something
Sounding sweet at the beginning, but then imagine after you kill her she gets back at you with "STOP PARRYING AND FIGTH U PUSSIE OMG GET A LIFE NERD!!1!11!!" , good old hatemail.
@@Kaffe23
I accidentally attacked her in the Catacombs because the skeletons had me on edge. Thankfully, I ran away from her and donated a pretty hefty amount of souls to the statue to be absolved.
“Good hearted, find standing fello-“
*Instantly starts stabbing the shit out of him*
A true DS player
Xalech a true asshole
Lmao😂
My 1st playthrough of DkS2 i killed Man Scorpion Tark without talking to him...just because he horrified me...
Just to over do it use wrath of the gods on her when you kill Horace with lightning
@@hevillepeacefoot8647 I mean how will you know the lore of the land if you don't hear all their dialogue?
*prepares to cry* *clicks play*
*wasn't prepared enough*
#HelloDarkSoulsmyoldfriend
#ADutyToFullfill
I've come to die with you again.
And all the Hollows silently creeping.
And the DARKSIGN, THAT WAS BRANDED IN MY BRAIN, still remains...
Anri: “He’s a kind-hearted, upstanding knight, a fine partner for this grueling journ-“
Vaati: yeet
Red Fruit #3 that makes me howl in laughter each time.
Vibe Check
"So you have chosen... death."
Only just noticed that Vaati was actually playing a hollowed character when he did that
@@joethomas8464 actually beat me to it by a week, damn
Bell: tolls
Aldrich: “Oh bloody hell, I just linked the damn thing. Lothric, it’s your turn.”
Lothric prince - Fuck off ...... let the world fall ....i m out of this bullshit ...... throw someone else in these flames ...
@@rahulverma8774 when you think about it, Lothric is just an introverted angsty rebellious teen
Lothric: Fuck this shit I'm out, and no thanks!
Yhorm: Naaaaaaaah, faaaaaaaaam, I’m gooooooooooood..
Damn 666 likes
(speculation) there is part of anri's and horace's story that is told around the cathedral cemetery: a corpse of an astora's knight, only having his greatsword on him, and a coprse of an executioner, only having his beheading sword on him. as Anri and Horace ran from the cathedral in escape, aided by the astora knight, the executioner chase after them. Both engaging in combat, the knight and the executioner died, probably mortally wounded after the fight. Horace took the armor of the executioner,probably as a price or a symbol of his escape, and Anri the armor and the duty of the long fallen Astora knight, and swore to keep on his knightly duties... for all the children s/he knew.
*Claps for brillance*
good call.
Maybe. Would aldritch need an executioner though? He supposedly eats people alive.
it's stated on horace's armour that he took it from a killed executioner. the events of his demise are just speculation, but his weapon on a corpse on the way out oif the cathedral links him to that place, and the event of the children escaping. everything else is speculation on my part. It's not a wild thought that he at some point ate children burgers, maybe before turning into a lord.
good ass speculation
Seriously though, the female voice actor for Anri is so AMAZING. It’s the reason I simply CANNOT make myself kill Lady Anri...
I'm just in a female play throught and I just can't accept the male voicing because the female one feel so much true to me.
maverik744 What?
I meant that the male voice actor is not as good as the female voice actor for Anri. I'm not a native english so maybe my whole comment was non-sense ? XD
maverik744 I understood the gist of what you were trying to say, no worries.
yo i liked the dude anri
My god. Hit me right in the feels when you killed Horace and Anri gasped. Needless to say that was dialogue I had never heard in any of my playthroughs.
@@metaldoji I finally killed the NPCs at firelink one of my recent playthroughs before journey 2, and I just find it so difficult. Especially Irina.
Labowi ur a monster
@@p.michaellabowicz912 its easy with the astora greatsword its the best weapon against npc's i guess
A fellow man of honor
The wiki told me to kill them before NG+ .. I killed Cornyx & looked down that corridor to Irina.. Shes always thanking you for saving her & calling you champion & obeying your every wish.. I couldnt do it. Cornyx's eulogy dialogue thingy made me feel bad already..
The ending where she hollows beside horace is sad yet heartwarming that she would go back to his "grave" and spend her last moments of humanity knowing her duty is fulfilled and accepts her fate.
You know the sweetest thing about that is? If you do find her she chills and won't attack or even notice you unless you're super close to her. She genuinely seems at peace and it never really feels right killing her even for her armour.
My first playthrough I made the mistake of telling Anri where Horace was when I saw him alone in the pit away from everything. I never got close enough to see he had Hollowed. I figured "Oh, you just got separated. Let's reunite them. This will be so ha-WHY DID YOU KILL HER?" I then defeated Hollow Horace through eyes filled with tears. Anri was such a kind soul and I was a bumbling brutish idiot.
It was at that point I decided I would pick the violence ending. THE FLAME IS MINE AND NO ONE ELSE'S NOT EVEN THE FIRE KEEPERS BECAUSE THIS STUPID THING TOOK ANRI FROM US!
Just discovered Anri's lifeless body at the entrance of the lake (beneath the bridge), killed by Hollow Horace if you tell her where he is while is still alive of course.
Never found this "ending" for this quest before.
That one hurts man
The preferred way is to kill his hollowed form and THEN tell her, because she'll make a little memorial to him with his gear.
@@VGamingJunkieVT yes, & you shouldnt lie to your wife its a bad sign for the marriage
@@kaylt.7864
heh, I go for the Aldrich path. She hollows, but at least she stops the monster that took everything from her.
Do you know were i can find footage of that?
3:59 Gundyr got so tired of not reaching the Firelink Shrine, that instead he just lit a couple of candles
Has never seen champion gundyr
Man just couldn't fit through the door
@@mjw-hk8jf oh god, what if that was the reason he was late? Haha
Gundyr: Fine, I'll link my own fire!
it's so cute to see it that way
Anri: "May the flames watch over us."
*Horace is instantly killed with a sword of flames*
the flames watched too closely
I'm sorry but anyone knows which Sword is it?
@@alexandreduc5129 farron greatsword
@@isaacnewton2.060 It isn’t. The Farron Greatsword is more narrow, and you can’t normally buff it with pine resin like Vaati does here
@@alexandreduc5129 Lothric Knight Greatsword.
I like how Anri can be seen kneeling when you rise as Lord of Hollows. Perhaps she is happy to have a companion, the two of you undying.
Perhaps there is something human there, in bringing her back to life.
Scytale of Riviera
in Miyazaki's brain, it's probably a fully Hollowed Anri, only carrying out your will as the Lord of Hollows, as do all the other hollows.
that bastard doesn't even know what the word "happy" means.
Scytale of Riviera All Unkindled either die or go hollow. Those who go hollow no longer feel feelings so I think it's merely that you are (by title) her lord.
Can Anri even be hollow in that ending? We took her/his sigils afterall. Not that she/he couldn't be imbued with more but its just something to consider.
The Comment Police since he is a big fan of the Berserk manga i would say he likes to keep its mentality in that “if you think any of this will have a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention”
Line the hollows up at the purging monument. Problems solved. Patches solved the riddle of immortality....or so he would argue.
Lucy Briggs Owen, Anri's female voice actor, did an amazing job with this character. Her delivery of the line, "Horace, we've done it. We really have!" Never fails to make me tear up a bit.
I'M GOING
HOLLOW
HOLLOW
hi yung
hello yung
Love your vids man.
AHHHHHHH
oshi oshi oshi oshi oshi
Me: *falls in love with anri*
Yuria: “hey why dont you marry her!”
Me: “Hell yea!!”
*1 hour later*
Me:”this was not the happy ending i was looking for “ *tears*
You can see her at the end cutscene, It's a weird ceremony but a legit marriage
I mean, it's still better than the alternative. If anything, that ending is, by far, the happiest. For Dark Souls standards, that is.
The great betrayal is definitely a happy ending
Either
-Die
-Live in eternal darkness
-eternal darkness but the firekeeper dies
-Become lord of hollows
I'm going with the last one
@@bram8731 Not eternal:
"But one day, tiny flames will dance across the darkness"
Poor Anri, there's no happy ending to be found in a Souls game.
That's the beauty of it, really.
Neenjah Rammus it's like an Irish fairytale
BlackIron Gaming 🤔🤔🤔
Trey Hampton Irish fairytales are infamous for the sadness
well, everyone is dead already
your cinematic skills in this we're crazy good, the cutaways, the angles, it's amazing
the part where you charged at Horace and added fire to your sword gave me legit chills
ikr
were*
I guess in a world of despair, betrayal, and utter horrors committed by demons, men, and gods alike, a warrior woman's quest to destroy the monster of her youth, whilst fighting back loneliness and despair long enough to finish her duty is as great a victory we can get.
The world of Dark Souls can never be fixed, so the small victories made as we struggle against the light and dark alike shows us what it means when we are most human.
Miyazaki and his fucking Berserk boner....
lol
Siegwards storyline is relatively positive too, if you see it through. He fulfilled his promise, and at least he doesn't hollow so you don't end up having to fight him. I wouldn't have had the heart.
Nicely said! But i'd like to correct you on one thing:
Anri is not a woman...it can be both a man and a woman
it depends on your character
if you play as a male character Anri will be a female in your playthrough
if you play as a female Anri will be a male in your playthrough
i discovered this because i allways do multiple playthrough, and my first is allways as a male character i call Cecil, and the second with a female called Atena (then the third is a male called Hor, the fourth a female called Idunn, the fifth a male called Veorfash ecc ecc..won't bore you with my list of characters ahahah)
i was surprised too when i discovered this in my second playthrough
Wise words, Canterlot Crusader.
10:21 Even Anri sounds like she's about to cry!
"You've gone hollow have you? Then we'll have to put you to rest!" Coming from Anri, whos partner is hollow. Good one.
And is hollow her/himself.
I know this is a tad late, but I think the difference between being hollow and going hollow is insanity. Being hollow makes you go mad but it’s not immediate and can be staved off. Horace is hollow but he goes hollow at the lake when he attacks you (and kills anri if you tell her of him without killing him)
@@LittleArto well i mean GOING hollow means the transformation has started, BEING hollow means you fully lost yourself and went truly hollow
I thought it was undead then hollow
@@Bvbybrxy_R.A.I.D I think undead are just people who can’t die ex; the unkindled, and hollows.
When I first started to play souls games I never thought bout the lore until I first started to watch vaati so thank you vaati
+scott marshall I was the same Scott, when I first started playing. Glad I could open up the story for you.
Anri is by far my favorite NPC, I love Siegward and The Firekeeper, but Anri is just so interesting and so cool, it honestly hurts me whenever he/she talks about Horace, and when you killed Horace and dropped to her knees, I actually winced.
Moral of the story. If it's a souls game no one is gonna get a happy ending.
Except Patches
i mean, the soul of cinder got a happy ending. it got to finally rest after god-knows how long watching the first flame die.
it also got to beat the shit out of you in a form of revenge for the number of times you walked his composite parts off cliffs.
LMAO
no everyone around you would probably have their fate setup for them, but your main character probably end up "Link the Fire" everytime
Yal Rathol If a happy ending is getting murdered after years of torture. would you really call it a happy ending?
Weddings need to be LIVELY
Yuria: hold my beer.
Lucifer best waifu
yes im late but i couldnt resist to mention that you lost the wondrous opportunity of calling it siegbrau
@@goongalass930 You're right that would've been better
Hold My Estus FLASK*
Anri and Horace share my favorite backstories of the Dark Souls Characters. After I had defeated the Grim Aldrich in the world of dear Anri and found her hallowed near the Cathedral, I donned her gear and sword to honor her and once more defeat Aldrich. It was at the bonfire where I saw a white summon sign of another player named "Horace" and I summoned him to find that he was dawning Horace's armor and weapon. We exchanged bows and plunged into the fight. After we emerged victoriously from the fight I waved goodbye and it only made me imagine what it would have been like to have an ending where they took down their childhood enemy together... If only
And if you were to join them
Donned?
Eli Foyle that was beautiful...
this gives me comfort in some level thanks
I'll keep this ending for me. 💕😭
I love that Anri is one of the few female characters who wears a full Armored suit.
This is due to the fact that the character is always the opposite gender than you. In fact, if you play a female charakter anri is a men and is voiced by such.
Right, so they only need to change the voice and maybe slightly adjust the model/animations, but not much more
That soundtrack was downright amazing. Awesome work.
As a side note, I still think Anri's "Wedding" looks like you're turning her into a dark bonfire.
I never noticed that, but it does look like she's burning in dark flames. Perhaps, by usurping the first flame YOU become the new flame- a fire in the image of "mankind". You absorb it's power like how you absorbed Anri's sigils. Speaking of Anri, it's like the "wedding" foreshadows your power to come as you absorb her dark sigils in the form of dark flames- and the darkness that is to come as you hollow your spouse in the process.
Maybe bonfires in the Age of Dark will have swords like the sword of avowel pierced through them as opposed to coiled swords.
Siobhan Herbstritt You get where I'm coming from. Bonfires are made by sticking the Coiled Sword into the heart of a corpse. This dark bonfire was made by sticking the Sword of Avowal into the brain of a corpse.
The item description for Black Flame reads "Black flames born from the Abyss bear no shadow. They are said to be the impenetrable fires of humanity." I think that's probably the most important description in all of Dark Souls lore. The first flame created the dark as its counterpart, but if the first flame is turned into a dark flame, then light and dark will become one and transcend the cycle completely.
Also, requiring 8 dark sigils is interesting, because 8 is cyclical, like a sideways infinity sign. Maybe we gather enough humanity, scattered pieces of the Dark Soul, to create our own cycle. Rather than burning humanity for kindling like in DS1, we use it to usurp the first flame and take over. The Dark Soul wins.
What you said about the number of sigils completely blew my mind, because i never thought about it that way before. I didn't think that the number had any significance until you brought it up, and it got me thinking about what the number 4 means in Japanese culture. It shares the same pronunciation- shi- with the word death, so I wondered if the number 8 hold any significance. I just looked it up and it turns out that the number 8 does hold significance in Japanese culture. The shape of the kanji- which looks like this 八- is associated with prosperity and growth, and it is often called "suehirogari" which means "being increasingly successful". So the number of dark sigils is probably meant to insure that we are successful in our goal- usurping the first flame. (if you're wondering where I got this information from, it's from lingualift.com) So it was basically a new cycle, that was destined to come.
Also, to ponder a little more about the Age of Dark, I wonder if the first flame will be passed down from generation to generation when the Lord of Hollows eventually dies- I understand that hollows are still technically undead, but through out dark souls, npcs that go hollow die permanently when they are killed so I'm assuming that this still holds true here, but feel free to correct me if i am wrong- much like how the Age of Fire had undead sacrifice themselves to the fire flame to rekindle it.
I used to think that the "End of Fire" Ending was the "True Ending", but this conversation has made me rethink that. I'm starting to think that the "Usurpation of Fire" ending is the "True Ending", and it's the Black Flame description that has me thinking this. It's the last sentence "They are said to be *impenetrable* fires of humanity."- they are impenetrable, nothing will extinguish them. These flames destined to burn forever, unlike the first flame which, as Kaathe had said, will fade -"and only Dark remained." It's only because Gwyn began the cycle of "linking" the first flame did it survive as long as it did. So had Gwyn not done this, the dark fires of humanity would have taken it's place- but it looks like Usurping the Fire also brings about this end and possibly even strengthening this new fire (but this last thought is just speculation on my part, there's nothing to support the first flame strengthening the flames of humanity.)But I digress. Also the HUGE amount of detail and multiple ways to fail the Usurpation of Fire ending tells me that this ending is very important.
I could go on and on with these questions and speculations, but then this would be too long and I'd like to hear you're thoughts.
I guess you can call it "The Dark Wedding"
This video makes me realise how brilliantly the voice actor of hawkwood delivers his early lines. "Only he developed a habit of eating men." You can hear the utter contempt in this poor knights voice, knowing he's up and at it again to kill an entire army that abandoned him for just using a shield.
This was your best video so far. Your editing skills have improved so well.
love your portrait photo!
He's an upstanding, kindhearted knight...
a fine partner for THIS grueling journe-
*WTF S-STOP IT!*
I’ve always just left Anri to mourn o’er the wee graves of the children she knew; I ne’er told her where Horace was, I’ve always thought that seeing that her lifelong friend had hollowed and been slain in a place as hellish as The Smoldering Lake was too much for her already damaged mind to handle.
i’ve always did the same thing, cause i kinda teared up when i had to kill Horace so i didn’t want to see what’ll happen if i kill Anri
Very respectful of you to care for Anri like that but... What about Horace? Anri might be the only person capable of mourning his loss properly and I figured that he deserves at least that much. Also I think it's better that she learn he didn't betray her. That said Horace or the little ones they fought for is a tough choice all around.
I killed hollowed Horace and then told her about it. She makes a memorial to him, which seems kinda touching.
Why tf are you putting apostrophes where those v’s are supposed to be? Quit being fucking annoying
@Bem Most people know that ne’er is an antiquated version (13th century) of the word “never.” It was widely used, to give a specific example, by old English poets such as Marlowe, who were able to shorten “never” to one syllable with “ne’er,” & thus play around with their poetry’s structure-given they often wrote in poetic forms that allotted strict limitations on syllables per line & incorporated rhyme schemes. It has a long history of use, though it’s hardly ever used today. Did you really think this dude just…came up with a random contraction out of the blue that everyone somehow understood but you? Use Google before you talk shit so confidently next time.
So ultimately it's Gwyn's fault I couldn't bone her after killing Aldrich
Everything about this comment right here, is fucking beautiful.
She's actually ugly af under her helmet
Is anything in this series not Gwyn's fault?
@solaire of astora still wouldn't work, she's hollow underneath her armor. It'd be like fucking a raisin
@@jonathonm8702 I'd still do it
These lore videos > everything
yeah i missed this kind of Lore videos, even tho i enjoyed the recent ones too
Edwad Lore Video > Everything else
sex>these lore videos> everything else
memes>sex>everything else
The best thing about this is the fact that she leaves her sword before hollowing and has only a broken sword hilt to fight with while hollowed. I always thought she did this to be less dangerous while hollowed. May the flames guide you, brave Anri!
FINALLY I CAN ENJOY THIS GAME NOW THAT I KNOW THE LORE
Garl Vinland Pranked?
Garl Vinland Roasted kiddo, no need to thank me ;)
Oh, Garl Vinland was here. I guess he removed his comment. He's an arrogant prick.
there is something to it, that the community is the part of the game and VatiVidya is a great example.
You can't enjoy it until we get Edwads lore.
My story ended up with me balls deep in the fire keeper but hey linking the fire sounds fun too...
Genius
*wink*
Mehmet Mohammed hey! We gotta wait a long ass time before we get to ignite the fire to dance amongst the dark, might as well have a porpuse to not hollow out.
I wanna be balls deep in the firekeeper
thefreshprincer, why not have both firekeeper and anri?
"But neither of you are alone....."
These stories are why I fight so hard, in Dark souls. Why I persevere when all lights have gone out, and the tasks seem insurmountable. Because there is so little good in this... shattered, corrupted world. There is so little peace, compassion, and goodwill. The more you look for it, the less there seems to be.
So I struggle against the wave of darkness, clinging to the one virtue I have left: Hope.
Hope that my fight, my endless battle, will result in a little more good creeping into the world.
we all need that Dark Souls mentality in real life.. no matter how hopeless, bring good in to the world..
"Anri deserved better. i'm a make a world that deserved her."
Thank god!!!! Prepare to cry is finally here!!!!
feels kinda long huh
I thought so too but Um............ look at the title
I demand a renaming of the video VaatVidya
Thank god? There is no god, but the Sun! \[T]/
This game has the greatest voice actors
skyrim has 2 voice actors xd
how can you say that when DSII actually exists?
People are asking for siegward and yhorm, but I'm really curious on what's going on with leonhard
Absolutely. He's the most puzzling of them all. I'm almost sure there's a historical reference within his Lore, for someone to kill their loved one to 'protect them' from others.
I kinda want both. I would like to see the past bros of Siegward and Yhorm, but Leonhard was interesting too.
+Eduardo Pratti I thought he was secretly a part of the same covenant as Sirris and just assasinated rosaria
It's not as simple. Leonhard is very clearly loyal to Rosaria, as he wants to stop you from "spoiling her soul", and when killed, his dying words are "Blessed Rosaria...", as if he had failed her.
Yeah I hate that guy, but he and yellowfinger have a story.
Her voice acting is just unbelievable. Gives me chills and tears. And a whole story is just so desperately sad.
I wanna see Siegward and Yhorm next
bump
bump x2
We already know basically everything about them, really.
Booty bump
it would still be nice to have a prepare to cry for them though
Just Wow! I found this channel yesterday and watched so many videos of you and I still cannot stop my fasciantion! I mean i love DS3 and the Lores but the was u tell these Storys behind the NPC and Bosses is amazing! You became one of my favorites of youtube! Good Job man :)
+x Maerdra thanks mate!
Yes i remember when i find it first it take too much time to watch all of his videos
I follow Vaati since the comprehensive Guide for DS2 with his Australian Friend. He is truly a good one.
dark souls is like a reallllly great party, someone's gotta die to keep the place lit.
I really dont wanna go to your birthday party
@@nanoshoe Suuuureee...
she's so precious... she's gotta be one of my favorite characters in the series
Prepare to Cry videos we need-
*Siegward and Yourm
*Rosaria, Yellowfinger, and Leonard
*The Firekeeper and Corland (probably spelling that wrong)
*Sirris and Hodrick
*Twin Princess/Royal Family of Lothric
*The Old Demon King/Black Knights/Knight Slayer Tsorig/The whole smoldering lake area
Agreed, but dont rush him. The wait was worth it for this one :´)
+Kizzar Sunlfex Totally agree, just saying that we have a lot to look forward to, and even more when the DLC comes out :)
Could you link me to anything on smoldering lake lore? I know nothing about any of the ones in the last bullet :p
+Random Person OMG the dlc!! :O Thats 100% true
Also patches and greirat should probably be in the same video as siegward.
I have to say, I think the female Anri portrays emotion far better than the male version.
Definitely, it feels right. Something's off about Male Anri.
Perhaps it's supposed to be that way. Men generally try not to show emotion and instead keep it all to themselves. Male Anri sounds like a young man who is desperately trying to hide the fact that he's losing faith.
yeah, but male Anri sounds hot as fuck.
I think male anri sounds good. He doesn't show as much emotional break though. Which is fine because he still gets the message across.
Honestly, having male Anri being just as emotional as female Anri would be weird. Men, overall, don't express emotions as well as females and that's totally fine. I like both Anris. They have their merits.
vaati: recording for an opening of a depressing video, while Anri introduces him to Horace.
Also vaati: fucking kills him
I can't bring myself to do the Lord of Hollows again. I did it once just to get necessary PvP items and haven't done it since. leaving Anri in the church with the assassin actually makes me feel bad.
I've tried justifying it by thinking if she died then, she would be spared the pain of going Hollow later, but every time I walk into that church, without fail, I've gone over to that statue and hit it as hard as I possibly could.
if she's gonna die anyway, at least let me be the one to end it. I don't know why this unforgiving, bordering unfair punishment of a game makes me want to protect the characters in it as much as I can.
Because you fear being unable to do so in real life. And hope to never be tested. The fear is strong but it's born of love.
Today I went into the darkmoon tomb and found the peligrym dead and
Anri too while I was expecting an item. I tears almost flowed from my eyes. I swore to have my revenge when I exited the tomb
You can see her kneeling in the Usurpation ending.
She dies by your hands regardless.
In the wedding, she isnt dead. Mostly paralyzed. You impaling her is the one that kills her, not the agent of yuria.
Otherwise, you wouldnt be able to absorb her souls since if shes been killed by another, they wouldve been the one that gets her souls.
@@Hustler2_ Yes but in that ending Feanor, she is already hollowed, when you become hollow it’s like becoming a zombie. That’s not her, that’s a reanimated husk of what she once was. There is nothing left of her, her brain is rotten and so is yours. You are a puppet of Yuria but you the player don’t even know it. This is why you do the ending where you kill her yourself so at least she completed her quest of killing Aldrich.
Excuse me for a moment, a group of ninjas had pulled out their onions in front of me.
John Smith Is that a sex joke?
Cthulhu
It wasn't until you gave me that idea :D
*FacePalm*
Anri’s companion, Horace, died attempting to follow her to the end. Anri, knowing Horace’s fate; chose her dearly departed friend to spend the rest of her undeath with; knowing he’d not betrayed her but rather could not go on. They know peace, together, once their hollowing has ended and their souls are freed.
The voice of Anri is fantastic, the sound of hope drained out of her when Horace is nowhere to be seen is genuinely painful to hear
Gotta love the timing, "May the flames guide me", pulls out the burning sword of death
He jumpcut to it
Never mind he does show it but its really quick
He's just using resins with their quick application
It's the Lothric Knight Greatsword
+Calvin - Freerun how do you get that weapon
I didn't cry during this video, YOU DID! *runs off crying*
Please tell me we're not going to have to wait until April 1st for the Edwad Emerpants Lore vid.
That would be the most evil April Fools prank. Fucking period.
+Harry Book Gotta wait for the dlc man
I wouldn't even be mad. That would be hilarious
+Derpalope Edwad as optional boss in DLC
Fuking edwad? Does he even know about edwad?
I always feel a little bad that Anri never got her vengeance on account of Londor having some pretty strange wedding customs.
In the end, there's no right ending for Anri.
On one side, you both conquer Aldrich and she goes hollow.
On the other hand, you take her dark sigils and she hollows, becoming one of your servants.
Jason Alcatraz The first is better though. Atleast she died happy and fulfilled, better than most characters end.
Asan Ali nah I dont think so. By taking her sigil. She comes back to life in the hollowing ending and she is your wife. Like yuria said , "for what lord taketh no spouse?" So she will be with you and bring in a new age. And not die off. Think of it this way. When you take her sigil. Shes with you internally and technically you (and anris soul and sigil inside) kill aldrich so win win then
@@CrimsonRayne this is how I viewed it as well, most people only say you receive anri's dark sigils bit what if she gets your 5 as well, you can't magically absorb holes bored into flesh, but perhaps share them, a unity of darkness, sharing the harshest form of the curse both of you carrying 8 sigils sure the sword wedding is odd, but she is there at your side when you claim the fire as your own, she may be kneeling but she's there, she never wanted to hunt Aldrich, she wanted a partner, yuria says she is hollow, this makes me think that Horace was the ashen one revived to kill Aldrich and anri as a hollow chose to accompany her old friend, and when he vanishes and attacks us is out of hate not madness, he will also kill anri because he feels betrayed by her. If you don't preform the wedding she will eventually go mad and attack you on sight this is the final stage of hollows, she lost herself when she loses her companion and if you do not stand at her side she will be alone and have no one.
1:31 Savage. Brutally kills Horace, then proceeds to loot his corpse right in front of Anri.
And then stabs her in the back...cold, bro, ice cold.
+Kevin Jones A stone cold savage.
Have you ever consume artories 's soul in front of cirian or sif
had to do something during that dialogue lol
VaatiVidya Haha!
everytime anri crys about horace i nearly cry :c
I always play male characters because that voice actress is SO DAMN GOOD. Always a joy to listen to her voice.
Also. Fml she goes hollow????????
I played the game countless times and i never went back to find her. I always assumed she leaves her last breath in the boss arena like Siegward. Damn it man.
Relax
why cant everyone live and be happy in these games
Because they live in a cyclical apocalypse?
Cuz the entire universe of Dark Souls is totally doomed and fucked up
Some do. Like Solaire. He's....Kinda happy. v
Solaire either survived without a purpose in his life and go hollow. Or die but fulfilled his goal
That's better then like 75% of the cast...
I'm going to post this here and hope that you see it since your newer videos are more about the DLC and hype/speculation. There's a thread of thought I keep coming back to, a few days ago I was scouring various lore depositories for further mentioning of something I feel to be incredibly relevant. Some time ago I decided to take a close look at The Kiln of the First Flame area.There's a number of interesting things to note, but the most significant I feel is that the arena in Kiln of the First Flame, and the First Flame itself is situated on top of an Archtree. The trees themselves incredibly strong throughout the series but very seldom discussed.
Some points of interest before I go deeper (sorry, I can't cite these off the top of my head; my research was fevered.).
There's some dialogue where Cornyx speculates that the First Flame is itself a manifestation of Chaos.
Nashandra wants access to the Throne of Want because she believes it houses The Great Soul.
It's been a personal observation that many of the demons, particularly in 3, have almost plant like qualities to them. Take a good look at the flying ones during the Dragonslayer Armor fight, and the Stray Demon.
Maybe this simply means they were dead for aeons and plants began to grow on them, and this is how the Stray Demon survives in the sunlight. But then there's the Bed of Chaos, which is cradled in a Tree. There's a possibility that the Izalith Witches found a wellspring of Chaos in these trees and simply found a way to draw it out. There's a prominence of the trees in their areas. Even in 1; Izalith is under the Ancient Lake; you just don't go through the Ancient Lake to get there. Hence the Bed is at the roots of those Archtrees. Then again in 3 we see the trees above in the Smouldering Lake with Izalith beneath them. I'm inclined to think that Chaos is somehow borne from the Archtrees.
Now, going back to the Kiln in 3; Lothric and the entire land mass it is on is seen collapsing. Then we have the Flame and this Ancient Tree jutting upward. Everything else is pointing downward, ultimately. Devoid of life but this Tree and the Flowers on top. This is the most barren we ever see the center of the Kiln. In 2 you only see the Throne, in 1 you just see the Flame. Only marked by ash. In 3 we get to see what the flame rests upon, undeniably. The question of location has never really been well addressed regarding the First Flame; is it in the same spot every time? Is it moveable? Could someone just load it in a cart and relocate it ten feet? When we see it in 3: we're almost being presented with it; Lothric crashing into an ocean of dust while the arena is drawn up towards the Darksign.
I think that the Archtrees are a much bigger part of the lore than has been considered yet. When I think about the Great One from Demon's Souls I recall it's tree-like visage. I think it's likely that these trees are actually a colony or single entity playing a seminal role in events similar to, but not exactly like in DS. There's not really a lot specifically about them, but with the trees proximity to certain areas, and Nashandras motivations considered, I think it could be likely that The First Flame is actually the Soul of this Great One, and that all of this goes on not to extend the Age of Light explicitly, but so that by some means the majority of souls borne of The First Flame would find their way back to it to be sacrificed to it.
So in the Usurpation of Flame ending of 3; I'm inclined to interpret the events as instead of sacrificing ourselves to the flame (along with all of our accumulated souls), we instead recognize the flame as a soul and draw it into ourselves; thus ending the Age of Light. I believe this being was possibly responsible for the Age of Light, kind of a long shot, but since this entity is a plant, we can at very least consider that sun light would be favorable for it. These trees are also just about the oldest thing in the lore. It's quite possible that they just go dormant once an Age of Light ends, and the whole grand cycle can begin again; that there was plenty before the Dragons, but only the trees survived that.
I dunno. Like I said, it's a line of thought. I just can't shake the feeling that the Archtrees are probably a lot more interesting than the game tells us. Would love to see some tied together content about the subject.
EDIT: by Ancient Lake I meant Ash Lake.
Interesting
Make this okn a reddit thread
I thought of another idea for why Anri chooses that specific hillside when she goes hollow without finding horace. From the elite knight armor set, we learn that Anri clung heavily to her past as an Astoran (maybe for a sense of identity to keep from hollowing). On the grave she looks at, you can pick up the crest shield. I believe it was you who said that Oscar the Fateless' shield in DS 1 might bear his family crest. From has made the two almost exactly alike, down to the crest shield, and they both are Astoran. So maybe they're part of the same family, and that grave is a tribute to a knight of the same family. So maybe Anri chose to make her grave alongside a fellow Astoran knight, who could be of the same family.
I know there isn't much hard proof for Oscar and Anri's family relationship, but the imporant part is that the grave belongs to a fellow Astoran knight, and that Anri feels a strong connection to it as an Astoran.
This is my favourite questline. It's so emotional! Segward is a close second
I knew all this already but listening how you tell it with images, cinematics and all that makes me feel like I'm discovering the story for the first time
LOL 1:05
Ok now I'm sad.. i didn't know anri would stop like they and kneel down
"But neither of you are alone" That's the line that did it for me and then following it up with Anri almost tearfully in awe of her quest completed.
I fall asleep this this playlist every night bro. You need to do audio books and more videos like this about dark souls lore and theory. Favourite channel
I remember when I first met Anri & Horace. They gave me so much hope and seeing the genuine friendship between the two inspired me to push through the swamp. After finding Horace hollowed I couldn't bring myself to confront Anri about it so I continued ahead hoping that she would someday fulfill her duty. :(
Wait ... abandon humanity? Really? The lord of hollows ending is you ebracing humanity to it's fullest, ending the sharade of the age of lords and starting the age of man, repurposing the fire to serve a new master. In some ways, it is the perfect immage of man, at least in the DS universe.
+93Avenger93 I think, more accurately, it's you accepting the dark sign. You're a lord of Hollows after all.
While hollows are man, they're no longer human if that makes sense. Think of it as embracing your inner darkness, that man are ashamed of or outright likely to despise. You embrace your Dark Sigil, which is the core piece to hollows. They're like a race of their own, undead and unwanted ... so you lead people to the Age of Dark, which is for man. After all, look at Manus from Dark Souls 1. He was the Furtive Pygmy, yet his humanity went wild. He still represented man in the most twisted way, so this is also what you're doing- leading humanity in a direction that is for hollows, once man but embracing who they are and their curse.
You sound like Kaathe
Get out and take your pro-Hollow propaganda with you, Kaathe!
Age of dark would be the age of humans this is just the age of hollows.
How would you even save her without knowing beforehand that one of the statue is fake?!
Bullshit beginners trap, is what it is.
I only found it because I'm dumb and was trying to break stuff.
johnnywonton12 exact same reason I was wondering if those statues could break like the chairs
One, people often hit stuff for no reason, two, there are messages left by other players.
there are messages left by players
i remember the first time i was playing dark souls 3 and i got to catacombs and heard anri talk about horace getting lost. i was checking everywhere for him and when i finally found him i said something like, “there you are horace, let’s get you back to anri.” when he started to attack me tears started to come down my eye and when i killed him i felt so much guilt, that i stopped playing the game for like a couple of days.
Anri: “You are brave to fave your duty alone”
Me: *laughs nervously in summon sign* yeah......
I'd love a DLC where we get to go from Anor Londo to a ruined dukes archives where we learn more about Oceiros' obsession with Seath, and learn more about Ocelotte as well. Not sure what the bosses could be, and it may be a steaming pile of fan service, but I think it would be cool.
If it's given a little more proper detail and maybe explained Seath's effect on the world of Dark Souls as a whole instead of just one boss and a infant crossbreed then maybe it could be great. As for bosses maybe we will find a certain waifu here but in a corrupted form like Oceiros.
DONT CORRUPT THE WAIFU
All good things will end up spoiled by the shadows of evil. EMBRACE IT!!!
Jacso Slayer I DONT CARE ABOUT SHADOWS, DONT TOUCH THE FUCKING WAIFU
Yes, I definitely want more dragons.
I’m going to be honest this is my favorite story, it made me smile and is the only one to make me cry, “Horace....we did it”
For some reason I found it really funny when you just started wailing on Horace out of no where while anri was talking about how great he was
the music with the vocal lines from the game and your narration sprinkled throughout makes for an excellent watch. you have my sub
I maybe years late but that cut at 6:55 man, beautiful!
Does anyone else have a sudden urge to like the video around 2:46?
lol!
Ummm... no
Indeed =)
Nah bro, that's just your fetish talking.
Almost unnaturally so.
This is one of the best stories in the series: the sad story, the voice actor, and the brave woman faces her fear to fight her nightmare, but also go alone without her fellow companion Horace. Thank you, Vaati for the video.
I haven't played any FS other than Elden Ring but I've been listening to all your videos for the STORYTELLING. I love how expertly you weave together each disparate part of the lore tidbits into a cohesive and smooth narrative, but most of all how you deliver it with such impact. It's always soothing and always makes me feel something.
That is to say I'm tearing up at this video 😭 man.
Jesus that beginning freaked me out.
also faraam helmet is looking stylish as always.
Same (The running anri)?
This was just sad and depressing.....another good video Vaati. T-T
Cant wait till fromsoft trolls us and makes a souls game with a happy ending where nobody dies or hollows
Dude you're one hell of a storyteller. I'm so hooked I'm binge watching all of the Prepare to Cry series.
Can you imagine a Dark Souls movie? Think Excalibur but 100 times the budget and resources. Christ it has potential to be the most metal movie ever made.
My story ended by ending the people before they had to suffer.
Irina of Carim,
Anri of Astora,
Horace,
Eygon of Carim and few more.
To me it's ending the suffering of them before they get to feel their suffering in the full extent.
After that i'd let the Firekeeper see into the possible future with the Eyes of a Firekeeper,
managing to defeat the Avatar of Lords,
letting the flame die out in the Firekeeper's hands.
Then the Ashen one & the Firekeeper sit down together, having the Unkindled one hold the Firekeeper, leaning his head towards her & speaking of the Dark Age, whilst the Firekeeper would see the beginning of a new Age of Fire, resting her head on the Ashen one.
Eventually with time Both may survive as the Ashen one would defend themselves, possibly hiding at the old shrine.
Soon enough in many of Generations both will be witnessing the beginning of the new light.
Maybe the Ashen one is taking part in creating the new Age of Fire?
(yeah yeah, ik. very one sided good-talking shit. Not fit for the depressing world of dark souls , but fuck off i can dream with my waifu)
Freddy Spaghetti you speaking str8 facts
Freddy Spaghetti, LET HIM DREAM
Actually, I like how this sounds. Good on you :D
I approve of this.
i lost it when he started attacking horace LMFAO😂😂😂
Edit: I forgot all about this comment thx for likes of 3 years ago wow time does fly😁
Hellwolf 101 Gaming me too but then felt so fucking bad seeinf anri on her knees with extra dialogue
I was dying lol.
You have to kill Horace tho :(
There was this dramatic music playing and everything, then he just went ham on horace
He went full Hollow. Never go full Hollow.
Ahhh I Love this series. I watch this playlist + DLC everytime i'm doing a new playthrough.
I love the melancholic feeling I get from watching Prepare to Cry.
Vaatividya's word is Lore!
9:47-9:56 this is always the part that makes me cry
Finding a vaati lore video in your upload inbox is like finding 100 $ on the street
When i played the game for my first couple runs, i thought Horace was Yuria's agent guiding Anri along to her death, and i grew angry at him, hated him and Yuria for using Anri for their vile plots. i see now that i was wrong, and i murdered an Innocent man out of misguided anger. Forgive me Horace.
that first part of the video where you fight them, and kill horace, i instantly started crying. The voice acting is too good.
Hey Vaati, regarding your video on the optional bosses of DS3, I don't believe that The Nameless King is Faraam. Now, there are a lot of similarities between the two, granted, but I think it's actually a red herring. Here's my reasoning:
We can deduce a lot about Gwyn's personality by how he named his children. Gwyn was prideful, to the point of being dangerously arrogant, and this is reflected in the names of his children, Gwynevere and Gwyndolin. They both have Gwyn in their names, and it's not unreasonable to assume that this would also hold true for The Nameless King, his firstborn son. Above all else, Gwyn valued his legacy, his impact on the world. He wanted to ensure no one would ever forget him. Even if he was no more, people would hear him in the names of his descendants and remember him. So, when his firstborn betrayed him, Gwyn inflicted what he personally considered to be the worst fate imaginable on him: to have his name forgotten, to be erased from history. Gwyn was so self-centered that he didn't even consider what The Nameless King would fear, but only what he himself was afraid of. So for Gwyn to name his own son "Faraam" completely contradicts what we've already established about his character, even with all the evidence you mentioned.
I also think this allows for some fun ideas for what The Nameless King's real name is. Gwyndor? Gwynos? Gwynaris? Anyway, that's my own theory, feel free to disagree.
why is he a fish?
+Kárpáti Gergely (GeroBird) u win bro
+Kárpáti Gergely (GeroBird) Reply of the year.
If that's how Gwyn named his kids then why isn't Yorshka called Gwynorshka. And Faraam could be a name than the Forossians came up with for the Nameless King, since religions tend to work that way.
I'm pretty sure Faraam would be a fake name. if you were exiled from your kingdom, disowned by your father, you might take a new name too.