I think the true tragedy of Solaire was that he was desperately searching for a purpose, but his purpose was right in front of him this entire time: being everyone’s sunbro when they need it most
Justin Duong "Curse the Sun, his children too. And their children, forever, true. Curse here, curse there. A curse for he, and she, why care. A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea, source of all greatness, all things that be. Listen for the baneful chants. Weep with them, as one in trance. Curse the Sun, his children too. And their children's children, forever, true."
You can do it without spending the 30 humanity, allbeit while feeling horrible the entire time If you attack Solaire right after the centipede fight, the game logic forces him to stay in the location of provoked hostility until your sins are absolved This means that you can make him hostile, then go ahead and kill the sunlight maggots through the normal route before requesting absolution, and badabing hes alive without spending 30 humanity
MrTerminator 645 Everyone only tells you the skip just skips the fire sage and centipede demon. They never mentioned that was the only way to save Solaire. I had to kill him because even though I had no intention of playing blind, everyone was still too cryptic.
I think there's one overlooked facet of Solaire that adds so much to just how great he is that tragically never gets much consideration. We all know Solaire helps you fight Gwyn in the end. That alone is pretty damn cool. However, think about the Centipede Demon fight. He has the Orange Charred Ring on during that fight. But the ring is your reward for beating the boss. It's already implied that he's a step ahead of you the whole time, so this pretty much confirms it. That means this dude not only took out Gwyn, probably by himself (parry cheese aside, that's an impressive feat according to the lore), but, moments from touching the flame and linking the fire, this badass motherfucker stopped and remembered that he's still got one more thing to: step back outside, put down his summon sign, and wait for you to find it. He put off saving his own world just to help make sure you saved yours. What an amazing guy.
Not likely, if he had indeed defeated him prior to your arrival only one result could've played out, the flame is kindled and the undead curse is lifted, meaning your journey ends there and because once you leave, the age of man begins, Solaire, seeing all them primordial snakey kathe and em bois, would've just kindled the flame, thus boofin your ass like the black nights when Gwyn first the flame. Nevertheless Solaire is pretty cool, I only failed to save him once and I legit shed the one manly tear.
I don’t know if anyone noticed but, when you summon Solaire of Astora for Gwyn, he’s not transparent like all of his other summons, meaning he came along himself for one last moment with the person who helped him through this entire journey.
Nothing like solaire! In every other game you have partners that are extremely clever and powerful... and i got the dude that stares directly into the sun. Nice.
It's so sad that Solaire, the man, who spend his whole life to finding a sun, gone mad in that dark deep shithole, where baerly one beem of light can seep.
There is a path you can take for solaire avoid his demise but its not an easy path, would you take it ?? Me : Hell yeah *unseathing sword* tell me which way
Solaire is my favorite character. Which is funny because the first time we met, he creeped me out and I was afraid he was going to trick me and stab me in the back.
Solaire = a dark souls player You start your journey with as much high hopes as you possibly can and by the end,the dark souls world inevitably makes you depress and beyond to the point of hollow.
Slockry It fits the lore well, the player's reaction: You're undead and yeah, you cannot die, but you may die so much that you give up and become hollow(quit the game). It's beautiful in itself.
DrSpunge Imagine if they made it so that if you quit your game somewhere out in the world (not by firelink, or majula) and then stopped playing for 6 months or a year or something, one of those random soul items would be created in that spot for other people to pick up? Like the way your stoned corpse exists for other people in DS1.
+pig potty I hope you know why it is wrong to use the term DS, although you did say DS1, but people still might be confused and think you are referring to Demon's Souls just say DkS1.
Solaire: I'm looking for my very own Sun... Chosen Undead: You're looking for your... little boy? Solaire: No, I'm looking for that *points towards the sun Chosen Undead: Uh... cool... wanna go tag team the centipede demon?
Solaire will always be remembered as the ultimate ally. Kind, Brave, and could soak a shit ton of damage. pretty much every major boss fight he is their willing to join. And he never truly went hollow, the worm just made him go mad. He had his humanity to the very end. Praise the Sun!!!
Is a shame that his iconic armor (in my view the most iconic armor in the entire game) isn't in Dark Souls 2 :/ even though the Heide knights have similar design but just their helmets
Everything kinda points towards Solaire being tje firstborn, but after DS3 we find out that's not the case. But I think this only makes Solaire even more awesome. He was no god of any sort, only a regular Undead, fighting his way through Lordran in order to find his own sun.
True, but here's what gets me....Solaire is supposed to be Gwyn's nephew. In DS1 before it was finished a lot of content was cut. There actually was a scene where Andre (blacksmith) moved the statue that lead to Gwyn's tomb. Andre was Gwyn's brother and Solaire's father. The epicnamebro channel use to talk about it back in the day.
@@johntelekom9712 nah, Solaire is a different person, he is not the Nameless King. He was thought to be the Nameless King before DSIII, when, y'know, the actual Nameless King showed up.
God. Such a weird feeling with this character. New to the series, and I spent so long on that damn bridge demon. But to see this guy just chilling, almost calm while I'm still recovering from a fight was so... beautiful. I honestly don't know why, but I just felt better
6:15 onward has always brought me to tears. Your description of “a man of indomitable will, who persists just a little further to find his sun.” Hits right in the feels
Theory time: My theory is that YOU, the player, are his sun. He doesn't know it because he thinks it can't be an undead/human. In one of the endings, you sacrifice yourself to light a bonfire that continues the Age of Fire for a while longer. You are the most powerful thing in the game when you kill Lord Gwyn, and you use that power to continue the Age of Fire, the Age of the Sun. Because of your sacrifice, Solaire becomes the most powerful thing in the world, and he has helped the Chosen Undead light a fire that continues the Age of Fire and reawakens the sun. Solaire has helped this warrior become the sun, and he is a part of it, for he has helped you become it.
Well, that can't be true because you are not the only undead who links the fire. It happens time and time again. And, you only killed a husk of Gwyn. The real Gwyn was hundreds, if not thousands, of times stronger.
Solaire's presence absolutely _trivialises_ Gwyn, even if you suck at parrying. It's so simple to shift Gwyn's aggro to Solaire, and the sunbro is _just so amazingly powerful_ that Gwyn can barely scratch him, making it a piece of cake for me to peel the Lord of Cinder's exposed back open with my Lifehunt Scythe.
"You really are fond of chatting with me, aren't you? If I didn't know better, I'd think you had feelings for me! Oh, no, dear me. Pretend you didn't hear that! Hah hah hah!" - Solaire next to the bonfire in Anor Londo
@@keshav3479 ngl, i played ds1 cuz i knew funny sun knight is in it, and when i first saw him before seeing the dragon (???) i kept going back and talking to the guy and somehow got that dialogue from him lol.
There are never happy endings in Lordran...maybe that's one of the reasons of why this game is so beautiful.It radically changes our perception of games and stories are and how much they can make us feel...Maybe that's one of the reasons of why this game shines like the Sun
the Sacred Oath miracle from dark souls 3 says this, "Miracle of those chosen by the Sunlight covenant. Temporarily boosts attack and damage absorption for self and those in vicinity. This is the tale of the Sun's firstborn, his faithful first knight, and the brave dragonslayer who served them both." firstborn is nameless king and dragonslayer is probably ornstein. maybe solaire is the faithful first knight.
Leo Ring's description: " [...] Ornstein was the first knight of the sun's eldest born, and his cross spear is said to have pierced scales made of stone." So Ornstein is the first knight and the Dragonslayer may be the wielder of Dragonslayer Armour Boss, which is an empty armor (different from Ornstein's) who had a dragonslayer within.
Stories like this are why I love the souls series, watching him slowly descend into madness slowly makes you descend into madness to, but then after you defeat him, you still carry on, and defeat the game feeling like you truly lost a friend.
If you save Solaire at Izalith, he gets up to Gwyn before the Chosen Undead, and fails to defeat him. With his last bit of hope of finding his goal, plus knowing he'll be there, he leaves his summon sign as a final attempt, with the true Chosen Undead. Once you're both victorious, and you link the fire, it comes to his mind that it really was fate that brought them both together in Undead Burg, so you can both help each other reach the goals, even when his was misguided slightly; you were the sun he had been searching for the entire time, as the Fire of the World.
Solaire, for the first time in his life, could not find the strength to fight. The arms that had hacked their way through everything from Hollows to Havel were frozen; the legs that had outrun a drake's flames would not propel him toward his foe. For when he looked into the charred, weary eyes of the husk that was no longer his father, he simply - couldn't. Tears of grief and shame stinging his eyes, he drew upon the power of the Homeward miracle. He did not rise from the Lordvessel for a very long time. What to do? All the muscle and shining bolts of the former God of War were in vain. The despair, incredibly, was even more overpowering than what he had felt at... At Lost Izalith. And then he had it. For he remembered the one whose companionship, inherent and uncomplicated, shook him out of his gloom. To undertake the task alone and friendless was beyond mighty Solaire. He needed moral support. He needed a light to go by. He needed... jolly cooperation.
I see it was mentioned already in the comments but it cannot be stated enough. If you summon Solaire in the Gwyn battle, he's not a phantom. He's actually there.
Of all the enemies in the game, I hate those little bastard Sunlight Maggots the most. Not for being any sort of challenge, which they're not. But for making me kill my favorite character!
at least there are these 2 things, 1. you can save Solaire (and probably will if you're a true sunbro) and 2. the maggots can be farmed for sunlight medals
Matthew Noojin You can, but it's rather obtuse. You need to join the Chaos Servants and feed 30 Humanity to the Lady before going to Lost Izalith. This allows you to access a backdoor path into lost Izalith that lets you skip 2 bosses. In this area you can kill all the Sunlight Maggots before they get to Solaire. Make sure you kill EVERY SINGLE ONE, though. If you leave a single one alive, Solaire is still doomed.
It's speculation, not trolling. If you save solaire you can summon him for the final boss. If you then chose the dark lord ending and leave the fire unkindled, it can be assumed that solaire will go ahead and light the first flame in your stead.
Honest question, if you took the path that forced you to fight Solaire, how many of you went back to kill all the maggots while yelling furiously at them "Damn you! Damn you! Give me back my friend!" while crying true tears?
+Big Bang Sensei They took away our jolly cooperation, so we engage in some jolly genocide XD. Of course, I prayed over Solaire's corpse before doing that.
Powerless, Alone and some Shitty Iron gear and still manage to visit all Lordran in search of his own sun. You don't need to be special or have any power to do big things, just with some hard training, an indomable will and never lose hope, you can achieve great things. And of course, remenber to put your sign down to anyone who needs some help, you never if that help could save you from getting insane ; )
He was like the knight of my childhood. A kind and heroic knight who came out of the darkness to whisk me away from reality. He was really my binding in the entire game and every time I tried desperately to save my sun bro. In the end, when he finally became the first flame... I couldn't help but cry for 20 minutes.
when i first played dark souls, i had a average understanding of the story. i spent a lot of time reading item descriptions, exhausting the dialogue of every npc i came across, kaathe prob taught me the most of any npc. at the time, i knew the basics, but when i found your vids, along with a few other people making lore vids, i had no idea how well writen this really was. i mean, i could tell it was a deep and complex story, but after watching pretty much every lore vid, i was overwhelmed. this should be a novel, or made into a movie. this story should be shared through other media than just the game. its fantastic. whoever wrote this story, is a genius. everything connects so well, i see the story as i see the level design. no matter how far you go, how deep you travel, it all connects in some cool way. the story can go off in any direction, but loops around and makes these massive connections to things that are so easily overlooked.
+Tyler S I feel like a movie would be a gigantic let down. Realistically there's maybe ONE medium that really rivals the submersion of a video game. Which is a novel. So maybe there, you have something. Think about how much is at stake to make this into a movie that would undoubtedly be a flop. IMO.
yo I get the same exact feeling! like, if someone were to write out every aspect of the story in novel form it would widely be considered a modern classic/masterpiece
Solaire Sol Heir. Idea. Solaire could indeed have been the firstborn son of Gwyn. Alongside the Chosen Undead he fought against the Dark. However, after they defeated Gwyn, Lord of Cinder, it was Solaire who rekindled the first flame, not the Chosen Undead. In this way, he reclaimed his divinity, and traveled to Archdragon Peak to become the Nameless King. This is why the sun still shines on Archdragon Peak long after it has been extinguished everywhere else. *EDIT* Yes this idea was complete bollocks but watching people get all bothered was amusing.
There is no way he would 'gain' anything in rekindling the flame. Also he wouldnt be rekindling the flame instead of the nameless undead, in his world he is the chosen undead. I want him to be the lost son too
relighting the First Flame doesn't make you more powerful. It drains your power, your soul(s) to fuel the new Age of Fire. So Solaire is most likely not the Nameless King, meaning he is also most likely not Gywn's firstborn. Instead he's like Oscar: the Chosen undead of another timeline. Except in Solaire's case, he can actually link the first flame (in his own timeline) thanks to your intervention
Well, the sword of the statue just ties everything together quite nicely, seeing he also only talks about the future and present, and never the probable forsaken past. Reincarnated as a mortal, turned undead so that he may redeem himself. A chance for redemption and to continue the age.
***** **SPOILER ALERT FOR DARK SOULS 3** The nameless king in DS3 is the first born. "The Nameless King was once a dragon-slaying god of war, before he sacrificed everything to ally himself with the ancient dragons."
***** No problem. One does have to wonder why there is a statute of solaire in undead parish. Was he such a great knight in astora that Gwyn decided to honor him for some reason or what
I just finished Dark Souls for the first time and I did regret summoning Solaire for the final fight, because it was too easy with him around. But now I regret nothing. It just got more epic thanks to this video. Thank you.
- Daaad, i kinda lost the Annals of History - Well son, i'm disappointed, but i still love you, dispite... - ... And your Van Hallen Mix Tape... - GET OUT!
My favorite part of Solaire was if he stays alive to the very end, when you summon him in the Kiln of the first flame, he's not fully orange. He's himself, just with an orangish glow eminating around his body, showing that he's there to help you, in person.
I never noticed it before, but I think you're right! I think this might have major implications for Dark Souls 2. It could mean that what will turn out to be the canon ending of Dark Souls 1 results in the Fire being re-linked again regardless of what the player chooses, because even if he/she chooses to walk away (i.e. the Dark Lord ending), it makes perfect sense for Solaire's character-profile that he would simply link the Fire himself. He dreamed of becoming "so grossly incandescent" as the sun, what better way to do that than to sacrifice himself to the First Flame? Not to mention how that would so fittingly represent him symbolically succeeding his father after all, assuming he really is Gwyn's son.
So what? Regardless of what lands it takes place in, whether or not the Fire was re-kindled in the Kiln of the First Flame (and by whom) during the canon events of the first game is obviously going to be relevant in the events of the second game. Anyway, you're making a completely baseless assumption that any gods related to Gwyn and Lordran won't have anything at all to do with Dark Souls 2. What we DO know for a fact is that the reveal trailer clearly shows 1.) Anor Londo in the distance, 2.) a place that looks suspiciously like the Kiln of the First Flame, and 3.) a place that looks suspiciously like the Painted World of Ariamis. So you might wanna rethink your baseless assumptions, bud. For all we know at this point, Dark Souls 2 is a journey back to Lordan, or even possibly a journey *away* from Lordran, with most of the game's events taking place in lands in between.
CognizantCheddar Story takes place in the same world, but in a different land. They don't mention Astora, Lordran, or any of that. The story's based waaaay after the DkS1 storyline, you'd know that if you played the network test.
Out of all the character deaths in the game, Solaire's always hits the hardest and is the most depressing when you consider the type of person Solaire is within the game. This video's depiction of his untimely demise and the subsequent sad feelings I always get after seeing this is the reason I usually save him, everytime- except the first time which was enough for me to realize I actually didn't want to see this character "die".
SIM1291 Solaire is your light. He's the only hopeful, proud and eager person you meet. He is not deterred by the obstacles on his quest. He helps you take down your enemies, and is an inspiration. And then you find him maddened by the maggot... Its amazingly perfectly agonizingly depressing.
It’s been over a decade and this is still one of my favorite videos on this platform, based off of my favorite game of all time, I literally can’t express how much I appreciate you Vaati you deserve everything and more
That feel when you're on your first playthrough, but you don't know specifically where to go to save him, as guides are vague, so you're on a mad scramble to find a way to kill the chaos bug.
Your voice...the way you speak and your intonations are spot on. It matches the bleak world of Dark Souls without droning. Congrats! I think you've got a wonderful talent.
Solaire is just another chosen undead like you. To me I think he's considered the cannon hero who saved Olacile and defeated Gwyn. if you want someone to be that instead of a nameless unknown hero. Or actually he's just from a parallel world, we already actually travel to the past, so why not?
+VaatiVidya for your anniversary you should remake some of the classics! I pretty sure with the amounts of mods on ds 1 you can make even a better cinematic and also the plus of better narration and audio quality
You got it right, man. Apparently it is canon that Solaire was the Undead Saint that linked the flame. Dark Souls 2 we have Sublime Bone dust, the bones of the saint who kindled the flame, and the game devs told that "In his world, Solaire would have linked the flame". Bullseye!
I have to say Vaati, that was the most motion-evoking video I have seen on a game ever! None of the Mass Effect games or Elder Scrolls even match the quality of this story :')
You made yourself look really stupid dark souls doesn't tell its story most are theories. the DS Story lacks majorly all we have to judge from it is the description from the items thats very stupid especially if you're calling it a RPG.
The fact is a good RPG tells it's story thats why dark souls is more of a action game you can't compare sky rim and dark souls and if you do don't say they story is better in dark souls because dark souls has next to no story unless you wanted to read the item descriptions and make theories on why the developer didn't make it clear
Theory: solaire is actually the chosen undead and you were destined to hollow in the asylum until Oscar came along and since you had no purpose you just went along with what Oscar said
Pretty ridiculous that a channel focused on only souls can get to 500k subs. You are one of the most professional cerators ik of and you even somehow have gotten many people that don't even play souls to come and stay at your channel. Props to you man.
Those who all thought solaire was the son of Gwynn who became undead as punishment...but when we find out in ds3 the truth felt stupid for mistranslating what happened that gywin son felt for the dragons and went agianst him
but but but u have the choice of letting solaire die or live and it will change the story line (in DS1 the ending will lead to the same future outcome)
They should have added a secret ending. Where if you saved Solaire from the sunlight maggots, summoned him for the Gwyn fight, he survived the fight, and you chose the Dark Lord ending you would have to fight Solaire as a final end game boss. It would make sense; Solaire also believes he is the chosen undead, so if you just didnt link the flame then he would. But you would have to beat him and become the true Dark Lord.
I think the true tragedy of Solaire was that he was desperately searching for a purpose, but his purpose was right in front of him this entire time: being everyone’s sunbro when they need it most
That was beautiful
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When ever I’m in trouble he pulls up
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He can't see the sun because he is the sun and he can't be seen as the sun burns out the eyes on all who try to see the sun.
"Ah, you were by my side, all along.
My true mentor... my guiding sunlight..."
HellChuggapri1 We are born by the sunlight, made men by the sunlight, and undone by the sunlight. Fear the old sunlight.
Justin Duong
"Curse the Sun, his children too.
And their children, forever, true.
Curse here, curse there.
A curse for he, and she, why care.
A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea,
source of all greatness, all things that be.
Listen for the baneful chants.
Weep with them, as one in trance.
Curse the Sun, his children too.
And their children's children, forever, true."
HellChuggapri1 *crying and clapping intensifies*
...is that a joke? Bloodborne.
HellChuggapri1 old blood
Saving Solaire was the best spent 30 humanity ever.
You can do it without spending the 30 humanity, allbeit while feeling horrible the entire time
If you attack Solaire right after the centipede fight, the game logic forces him to stay in the location of provoked hostility until your sins are absolved
This means that you can make him hostile, then go ahead and kill the sunlight maggots through the normal route before requesting absolution, and badabing hes alive without spending 30 humanity
@@luckylit4488 why feel horrible? You're hurting him to save him,which is something a good friend would do.
@@luckylit4488 But can you summon him against gwyn after doing that?
MrTerminator 645
Everyone only tells you the skip just skips the fire sage and centipede demon. They never mentioned that was the only way to save Solaire. I had to kill him because even though I had no intention of playing blind, everyone was still too cryptic.
Poison mist pyromancy through the shortcut also kills the maggot allowing you to save him for free
I think there's one overlooked facet of Solaire that adds so much to just how great he is that tragically never gets much consideration.
We all know Solaire helps you fight Gwyn in the end. That alone is pretty damn cool. However, think about the Centipede Demon fight. He has the Orange Charred Ring on during that fight. But the ring is your reward for beating the boss. It's already implied that he's a step ahead of you the whole time, so this pretty much confirms it.
That means this dude not only took out Gwyn, probably by himself (parry cheese aside, that's an impressive feat according to the lore), but, moments from touching the flame and linking the fire, this badass motherfucker stopped and remembered that he's still got one more thing to: step back outside, put down his summon sign, and wait for you to find it.
He put off saving his own world just to help make sure you saved yours. What an amazing guy.
xSilentZeroXx wow
When you put it like that u rite
Never thought of it like this lol
xSilentZeroXx lame theory
Not likely, if he had indeed defeated him prior to your arrival only one result could've played out, the flame is kindled and the undead curse is lifted, meaning your journey ends there and because once you leave, the age of man begins, Solaire, seeing all them primordial snakey kathe and em bois, would've just kindled the flame, thus boofin your ass like the black nights when Gwyn first the flame. Nevertheless Solaire is pretty cool, I only failed to save him once and I legit shed the one manly tear.
My Solaire theory:
He is a guy who likes the sun.
Aera Steele I thought he loved the moon
What if Solaire is actually just a roleplayer veteran dark souls player who gets stuck in your world but just tries to pass himself off as an NPC?
... Do you even praise the sun ???
He a Warrior of the Sunlight. A Covenant
Well at least now we know who's real Gwyn's son from DS 3
You talk about me an awful lot.. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you have feelings for me! Hah hah hah.
Holy shit that's the best comment I've ever seen.
Best comment ever! :D
Forgive me sunbro for i have sinned against you and failed to save thee from thy madness. :'c
This is golden, I love it when people do stuff like this, thanks for this :)
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I don’t know if anyone noticed but, when you summon Solaire of Astora for Gwyn, he’s not transparent like all of his other summons, meaning he came along himself for one last moment with the person who helped him through this entire journey.
what a detail *_*
This is deep.
Actually I believe that Myazaki stated that Solaire canonically links the fire when you save him.
Dam@@GilbertTheGilbertGuy
I wish to some day meet this solaire, he seems like he would be a person I could have a nice toast with.
Well how do you do Onion knight of the legendary Catarina?
Bless thee
Siegward of Catarina dude not gonna lie when you committed Suicide in the 3 one I cried I’m even still wearing your helmet as a reminder if you
You should also meet siegmeyer, you can be assured that this knight won't mock your armor!
Man I cried when you died next to me in the Yhorm fight, no joke
Nothing like solaire! In every other game you have partners that are extremely clever and powerful... and i got the dude that stares directly into the sun. Nice.
ahhh...praise be to thee.
newton stares directly to the sun too, just saying
Whom should need thy eyes when the oh so glorious sun is there to guide thee on thine holy duty?
Who needs eyes when you are there to guide me brother?
he's still better support than Donald in Kingdom Hearts tho
I know it's just Solaire's armor, but that ending...
Squidfest right
That ending was deep.
The only thing needed that would have made it perfect was that when the view Pans away him that solaire do the praise the sun pose.
If you bring him with you to beat Gwyn. He links the flame in his world.
Wholesome ending
It's so sad that Solaire, the man, who spend his whole life to finding a sun, gone mad in that dark deep shithole, where baerly one beem of light can seep.
Not if you save him!
@@Voyde And he links the fire on his own world as well, becoming his "own sun"
There is a path you can take for solaire avoid his demise but its not an easy path, would you take it ??
Me : Hell yeah *unseathing sword* tell me which way
His shield shines the sun in your eyes
Best 30 humanity a man could spend
9:26 I would cry if there was a custom cut scene where Solaire just praises the sun at the end as he burns.
no one can tell you he didnt do exactly that when he linked the fire in his world.
Solaire isn't a Satanist, though. He just likes the sun!
@@konfu_ion The sun is just jolly. Right lads!
The Nameless King is just Solaire's mega evolution, obviously....
lol
is a Sun stone required?
Sun Stone while holding a Kings Rock
Sun Stone while holding a Dragon Scale after reaching minimum happiness.
No, Solaire is the first flame. Why? because he brings joy to everyone in this dark times
Solaire is my favorite character. Which is funny because the first time we met, he creeped me out and I was afraid he was going to trick me and stab me in the back.
+FullMetal Bat And you found Patche and Lautrec
+Matante Kurdent and trusted then ...
Laurentius Oscar And Solaire
Perfect comment
WELL IT ISNT TRUSTY PATCHES FOR NO REASON AFTER ALL ;)
Solaire = a dark souls player
You start your journey with as much high hopes as you possibly can and by the end,the dark souls world inevitably makes you depress and beyond to the point of hollow.
Slockry It fits the lore well, the player's reaction: You're undead and yeah, you cannot die, but you may die so much that you give up and become hollow(quit the game). It's beautiful in itself.
DrSpunge Imagine if they made it so that if you quit your game somewhere out in the world (not by firelink, or majula) and then stopped playing for 6 months or a year or something, one of those random soul items would be created in that spot for other people to pick up? Like the way your stoned corpse exists for other people in DS1.
+pig potty I hope you know why it is wrong to use the term DS, although you did say DS1, but people still might be confused and think you are referring to Demon's Souls just say DkS1.
+MegaBeyblademaniac .PrimeMaterialDan its called context
Solaire was so focused on finding an actual sun that he never realised that he had already found his sun:
The player
Precisely
The sun was the friendship we made along the way
Perhaps what he searches is thy sun, but what if he... was someone’s own sun?
Son, not sun, apologies for the unpleasant confusion.
I cannot lie.....yep.
No, he's already my sun
Solaire was disowned by Gwyn because he lost his favorite Van Halen mix tape.
+ReverendSyn and gwyn hated gwyndolin because his favorite album was dark side of the moon
"I'm actually a BOY!"
"NOT NOW, SWEETIE!!!"
+ReverendSyn Sir what about Seath?
+Scholle Bootsmann Bitch don't even got no legs.
***** *Gwynerear
"For the Fire within Solaire, will burn the brightest of all."
This is the greatest line in this video, \[T]/ Praise the Sun!
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\[T]/ Praise the Sun
Solaire: I'm looking for my very own Sun...
Chosen Undead: You're looking for your... little boy?
Solaire: No, I'm looking for that *points towards the sun
Chosen Undead: Uh... cool... wanna go tag team the centipede demon?
Richie Godsil me
Solaire: You bet your dead ass, buddy! \[T]/
"Ya God damn right I do, let's go show that bastard the power of JOLLY COOPERATION!"
I gave you the one thousandth like.
Richie Godsil
Chosen Undead: *takes 3 hits* TAG
Solaire: *kills demon in 3 swipes*
Chosen Undead: I should give up.
I love that you can save him, but only from trial, error, and multiple playthroughs.
It's true that time is convoluted in Lordran.
First time playing this game he didnt die, but i dont know how i did it
@@xeox4280 sick
Solaire, the true hero of Dark Souls.
say that to my fury sword...
No. Remember that he would have gobe insane and slowly in hollow
My +15 weapon says otherwise
+MattDragoran my level 99 buster sword with ultima and all summon materia says yes.
Well actually if u think about it Gael is the real hero
Solaire will always be remembered as the ultimate ally. Kind, Brave, and could soak a shit ton of damage. pretty much every major boss fight he is their willing to join. And he never truly went hollow, the worm just made him go mad. He had his humanity to the very end. Praise the Sun!!!
and you cannot forget about the jolly cooperation he loves
Is a shame that his iconic armor (in my view the most iconic armor in the entire game) isn't in Dark Souls 2 :/ even though the Heide knights have similar design but just their helmets
Everything kinda points towards Solaire being tje firstborn, but after DS3 we find out that's not the case. But I think this only makes Solaire even more awesome. He was no god of any sort, only a regular Undead, fighting his way through Lordran in order to find his own sun.
the firstborn of Gwin is the nameless king
@@aleksejvogric9354 It's actually Gwyn
this Prepare to Cry video needs a remastered version, cause we now know Solaire isn't Gwyn's firstborn
True, but here's what gets me....Solaire is supposed to be Gwyn's nephew.
In DS1 before it was finished a lot of content was cut.
There actually was a scene where Andre (blacksmith) moved the statue that lead to Gwyn's tomb.
Andre was Gwyn's brother and Solaire's father.
The epicnamebro channel use to talk about it back in the day.
Wait really? Who is it then?
@@johntelekom9712 the Nameless King.
@@NachoBearYeah but isnt one of the main theorys around solaire that he is the nameless king?
@@johntelekom9712 nah, Solaire is a different person, he is not the Nameless King. He was thought to be the Nameless King before DSIII, when, y'know, the actual Nameless King showed up.
If only I could be so... grossly incandescent.
Ask the X-Files.
Imposter
Hitler in Disguise who knew hitler in disguise was a cute lil anime girl
You just need to Live in the present, and signal your name! :D
Ok Hitler
Solaire might not be Gwyn's son. But he will always be my sunbro! \[T]/ RIP buddy
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In Canon what did happened to solaire after dark souls 1?
@@lubesoggytoes7352 i don't know but you can see his sign in one boss in dark souls 3
God. Such a weird feeling with this character. New to the series, and I spent so long on that damn bridge demon. But to see this guy just chilling, almost calm while I'm still recovering from a fight was so... beautiful. I honestly don't know why, but I just felt better
6:15 onward has always brought me to tears. Your description of “a man of indomitable will, who persists just a little further to find his sun.” Hits right in the feels
More like hits right in the darksign
Theory time: My theory is that YOU, the player, are his sun. He doesn't know it because he thinks it can't be an undead/human. In one of the endings, you sacrifice yourself to light a bonfire that continues the Age of Fire for a while longer. You are the most powerful thing in the game when you kill Lord Gwyn, and you use that power to continue the Age of Fire, the Age of the Sun. Because of your sacrifice, Solaire becomes the most powerful thing in the world, and he has helped the Chosen Undead light a fire that continues the Age of Fire and reawakens the sun. Solaire has helped this warrior become the sun, and he is a part of it, for he has helped you become it.
Cool
Well, that can't be true because you are not the only undead who links the fire. It happens time and time again. And, you only killed a husk of Gwyn. The real Gwyn was hundreds, if not thousands, of times stronger.
Or it could be Gwyn, Smough, or siegmeyer.
None of the things you point out imply or support your theory, you would make a terrible scientist.
+miguel luna
I think you mean theorist, because science has nothing to do with it.
Solaire's presence absolutely _trivialises_ Gwyn, even if you suck at parrying. It's so simple to shift Gwyn's aggro to Solaire, and the sunbro is _just so amazingly powerful_ that Gwyn can barely scratch him, making it a piece of cake for me to peel the Lord of Cinder's exposed back open with my Lifehunt Scythe.
\[T]/ NEVER STOP PRAISING
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[+] 420 PRAISE IT
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***** THE LEGEND NEVER DIES!
What rings you got.
HAVELS RING AND FAVOR AND PROTECTION, STAMINA, HEALTH, AND ENDURANCE. EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER WANT.
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Solaire's the kind of guy to say "What if we put out minecraft beds next to each other? Haha just kidding...unless????"
@@sharpfang "wouldn't it be fun if we both got naked?"
"You really are fond of chatting with me, aren't you? If I didn't know better, I'd think you had feelings for me! Oh, no, dear me. Pretend you didn't hear that! Hah hah hah!" - Solaire next to the bonfire in Anor Londo
@@keshav3479 ngl, i played ds1 cuz i knew funny sun knight is in it, and when i first saw him before seeing the dragon (???) i kept going back and talking to the guy and somehow got that dialogue from him lol.
I love how DS3 blows solaires a god theory out of the water.
+Garrett Percell Why is that?
Do you have the game yet? Because I don't wanna really spoil anything else.
No I realise now, forgot about Nameless King, my bad. I beat the game yesterday for the first time :)
Okay dokay then. Worst boss in ds history by the way.
worst ? how so
There are never happy endings in Lordran...maybe that's one of the reasons of why this game is so beautiful.It radically changes our perception of games and stories are and how much they can make us feel...Maybe that's one of the reasons of why this game shines like the Sun
Whoa, that's heavy.
Arty23 what about my 🅱️ patches?
Praise the sun
That's why dark souls 1 is my favorite game in the series.
the Sacred Oath miracle from dark souls 3 says this,
"Miracle of those chosen by the Sunlight covenant.
Temporarily boosts attack and damage absorption for self and those in vicinity.
This is the tale of the Sun's firstborn, his faithful first knight, and the brave dragonslayer who served them both."
firstborn is nameless king and dragonslayer is probably ornstein. maybe solaire is the faithful first knight.
Ornstein is his first knight ;)
Read it again. Tale about 3 dudes. So, "and the brave dragonslayer who served them both." Ornstein did become solair's pawn as well.
Maurice Wiencke ornstein is the dragon slayer, not the first knight
Artorias is the first knight, Ornstein was the best dragonslayer.
Leo Ring's description: " [...] Ornstein was the first knight of the sun's eldest born, and his cross spear is said to have pierced scales made of stone." So Ornstein is the first knight and the Dragonslayer may be the wielder of Dragonslayer Armour Boss, which is an empty armor (different from Ornstein's) who had a dragonslayer within.
3:15 "The identity of the third child is a mystery." Man coming back to this video knowing who he is makes him just that bit more badass.
1:05 the moment you realised that Solaire JUST got killed a second ago for the player to put on his armor and pretend to be him.
Or he was killed in the previous world, and this was NG+
Tasorius I choose to believe this one.
Solaire is the big celebrity of the entire Souls series.
And this is why I saved solair from the sunlight maggot...sunbros stick together
Stories like this are why I love the souls series, watching him slowly descend into madness slowly makes you descend into madness to, but then after you defeat him, you still carry on, and defeat the game feeling like you truly lost a friend.
It has been many many years, but we still say one phrase no matter what...
PRAISE THE SUN!
PRAISE THE SUN \[T]/
@@funnisunman6290 \[T]/ YES PRAISE THE SUN \[T]/
Nothing changed brother praise the sun
always praise the sun brothers
If you save Solaire at Izalith, he gets up to Gwyn before the Chosen Undead, and fails to defeat him. With his last bit of hope of finding his goal, plus knowing he'll be there, he leaves his summon sign as a final attempt, with the true Chosen Undead. Once you're both victorious, and you link the fire, it comes to his mind that it really was fate that brought them both together in Undead Burg, so you can both help each other reach the goals, even when his was misguided slightly; you were the sun he had been searching for the entire time, as the Fire of the World.
This comment stuck a stick of dynamite in my brain, lit it and... well, you know :P
Solaire, for the first time in his life, could not find the strength to fight. The arms that had hacked their way through everything from Hollows to Havel were frozen; the legs that had outrun a drake's flames would not propel him toward his foe. For when he looked into the charred, weary eyes of the husk that was no longer his father, he simply - couldn't.
Tears of grief and shame stinging his eyes, he drew upon the power of the Homeward miracle. He did not rise from the Lordvessel for a very long time. What to do? All the muscle and shining bolts of the former God of War were in vain. The despair, incredibly, was even more overpowering than what he had felt at...
At Lost Izalith.
And then he had it. For he remembered the one whose companionship, inherent and uncomplicated, shook him out of his gloom. To undertake the task alone and friendless was beyond mighty Solaire. He needed moral support. He needed a light to go by. He needed... jolly cooperation.
I almost began to cry when I delivered the final backstab to Solaire in NG. Then in NG+ I made sure I saved him.
qsqua But did thou prepare to cry?
qsqua ALMOST?!
You have, like, no feels.
;-;
TrueDemonPictures No. That's why I turned into an emotional mess on the inside.
Jayden Benson
It's because I ha already turned hollow.
qsqua omg learn to parry scrub, backstabs are for noobs
I managed to save solaire. Praise the sun \[T]/
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So.. In the end, Solaire died knowing his death would cause the sun to shine in Lordran once more?
That's actually kind of poignant.
im not sure what poignant means but it reminds me of that vid where some guy reads the misspellings of the word pregnant
Yes xD
You could say it was.... grossly incandescent.
And then we learn that linking the fire was delaying the natural order of the world
@@Ozubura That Aviators reference tho :D
Dayman...
FIghter of the Nightman...
Champion of the Sun...
You are the master of Karate and Friendship...
For everyone...
Daymaaaaaaaaaaan!!!
ah-AH-AHHHH
+Ethan McCorkell (GamescastEthan) Fighter of the Nightman...
*****
Champion of the...
*****
He's a master of karate
And friendship for everyone!
5:56
Was Solaire having a Sungasm???
Nope, just insane
yes
Fossil 29 wooosh
The thing on his head messing with his mind...
@@FaizanShaikh02 I knew that already, it was the meaning that caught me off guard back then.
I see it was mentioned already in the comments but it cannot be stated enough. If you summon Solaire in the Gwyn battle, he's not a phantom. He's actually there.
Of all the enemies in the game, I hate those little bastard Sunlight Maggots the most. Not for being any sort of challenge, which they're not. But for making me kill my favorite character!
at least there are these 2 things, 1. you can save Solaire (and probably will if you're a true sunbro) and 2. the maggots can be farmed for sunlight medals
shrimpboom8
The maggots are also pretty useful if you need to go through the Tomb and don't have enough Int to use the light spell.
oh yeah, but on my first playthrough I traded the sunlight maggot, at least there's the lantern
What?! You can save him? God dang it I just killed him
Matthew Noojin
You can, but it's rather obtuse. You need to join the Chaos Servants and feed 30 Humanity to the Lady before going to Lost Izalith. This allows you to access a backdoor path into lost Izalith that lets you skip 2 bosses. In this area you can kill all the Sunlight Maggots before they get to Solaire. Make sure you kill EVERY SINGLE ONE, though. If you leave a single one alive, Solaire is still doomed.
If only that last part where Solaire becomes the lord of sunlight was real... :(
it is. if you leave while he is in there, he actually will rekindle the flame and become his own sun.
Brendan Horn Obvious troll is obvious.
It's speculation, not trolling. If you save solaire you can summon him for the final boss. If you then chose the dark lord ending and leave the fire unkindled, it can be assumed that solaire will go ahead and light the first flame in your stead.
Swiggity Krinks But you made it sound like it is an official ending.
xavier welinder just logic ^_^ but nope, it's not official or anything.
Honest question, if you took the path that forced you to fight Solaire, how many of you went back to kill all the maggots while yelling furiously at them "Damn you! Damn you! Give me back my friend!" while crying true tears?
+Big Bang Sensei
They took away our jolly cooperation, so we engage in some jolly genocide XD. Of course, I prayed over Solaire's corpse before doing that.
Killing solair felt like killing my own brother
I felt so depressed after i killed him.... He was a true bro
+Big Bang Sensei
as soon as i started in newgame+ the first thing i did was opening that stupid door and killed those fuckers
why don't you do it then??
Kurt Adams ur toon is bugged. you need to make a new toon
Powerless, Alone and some Shitty Iron gear and still manage to visit all Lordran in search of his own sun.
You don't need to be special or have any power to do big things, just with some hard training, an indomable will and never lose hope, you can achieve great things.
And of course, remenber to put your sign down to anyone who needs some help, you never if that help could save you from getting insane ; )
Sooooooo the chosen undead?
@@givemethesauce1376 Well in his world he is the Chosen Undead in a way.
Solaire is by no means weak, in grand part thanks to his unbreakable faith
He was like the knight of my childhood. A kind and heroic knight who came out of the darkness to whisk me away from reality. He was really my binding in the entire game and every time I tried desperately to save my sun bro. In the end, when he finally became the first flame... I couldn't help but cry for 20 minutes.
TheWaluigiman1 There is no ending actually showing him becoming the first flame
You would think that Gwyn's beard would catch fire when using that sword of his...
He has been on fire for decades, his beard is most likely just strands of ash
when i first played dark souls, i had a average understanding of the story. i spent a lot of time reading item descriptions, exhausting the dialogue of every npc i came across, kaathe prob taught me the most of any npc. at the time, i knew the basics, but when i found your vids, along with a few other people making lore vids, i had no idea how well writen this really was. i mean, i could tell it was a deep and complex story, but after watching pretty much every lore vid, i was overwhelmed. this should be a novel, or made into a movie. this story should be shared through other media than just the game. its fantastic. whoever wrote this story, is a genius. everything connects so well, i see the story as i see the level design. no matter how far you go, how deep you travel, it all connects in some cool way. the story can go off in any direction, but loops around and makes these massive connections to things that are so easily overlooked.
+Tyler S I feel like a movie would be a gigantic let down. Realistically there's maybe ONE medium that really rivals the submersion of a video game. Which is a novel. So maybe there, you have something. Think about how much is at stake to make this into a movie that would undoubtedly be a flop. IMO.
+Arg Etect TV show would be great, plenty of time to get in depth and give the story everything it needs
Tyler S
A TV series would be your best bet; a movie just isn't long enough.
Miyazaki is your nan fir the story
yo I get the same exact feeling! like, if someone were to write out every aspect of the story in novel form it would widely be considered a modern classic/masterpiece
Solaire needs his own spin off game, movie, tv show, Netflix series, anime, comic series, animated short, whatever! I just need more solaire!
Solaire got to be a sun.
Good to see someone achieved their dream in this game
Solair! ah ah ahhhh
champion of the sun
master of jolly cooperation
and friendship
for everyone
ZombryaTheDark DUDE! YOU ARE AWESOME!
Part of me wanted to keep the man Happy with his maggot illusion
It's better living your whole life as depressed
Living in a World of Darkness.
Be the man Solaire know you are.
+Breast Cancer Yoshi yes
+Punchy McHurtyfist Was that a Guerann Lagann reference (If I spelled that correctly, which I most likely didn't)?
Solaire
Sol Heir.
Idea. Solaire could indeed have been the firstborn son of Gwyn. Alongside the Chosen Undead he fought against the Dark. However, after they defeated Gwyn, Lord of Cinder, it was Solaire who rekindled the first flame, not the Chosen Undead. In this way, he reclaimed his divinity, and traveled to Archdragon Peak to become the Nameless King. This is why the sun still shines on Archdragon Peak long after it has been extinguished everywhere else.
*EDIT* Yes this idea was complete bollocks but watching people get all bothered was amusing.
Interesting theory.
There is no way he would 'gain' anything in rekindling the flame. Also he wouldnt be rekindling the flame instead of the nameless undead, in his world he is the chosen undead. I want him to be the lost son too
relighting the First Flame doesn't make you more powerful. It drains your power, your soul(s) to fuel the new Age of Fire. So Solaire is most likely not the Nameless King, meaning he is also most likely not Gywn's firstborn.
Instead he's like Oscar: the Chosen undead of another timeline. Except in Solaire's case, he can actually link the first flame (in his own timeline) thanks to your intervention
Well, the sword of the statue just ties everything together quite nicely, seeing he also only talks about the future and present, and never the probable forsaken past. Reincarnated as a mortal, turned undead so that he may redeem himself.
A chance for redemption and to continue the age.
Actually solaire is just solar in french
Gwyn - Zeus
Solaire - Kratos
Daddy issues.
But Solaire isn't the first born.
***** **SPOILER ALERT FOR DARK SOULS 3**
The nameless king in DS3 is the first born.
"The Nameless King was once a dragon-slaying god of war, before he sacrificed everything to ally himself with the ancient dragons."
***** No problem. One does have to wonder why there is a statute of solaire in undead parish. Was he such a great knight in astora that Gwyn decided to honor him for some reason or what
***** We know that he was a knight. Whether he was good enough to get the elite knight set we don't know.
Don't discredit either of those four by doing that...
I just finished Dark Souls for the first time and I did regret summoning Solaire for the final fight, because it was too easy with him around. But now I regret nothing. It just got more epic thanks to this video.
Thank you.
how the hell did you manage to summon him on your first game
j roy You can summon him if you're human when you get to the Kiln
aracniphobia1 but he goes insane and you have to kill the little sun maggots and waste 30 humantiy in the chaos covnet
...then... bitch about it? you can save him so... whats the issue?
aracniphobia1 the issue is that saving him on your first play is highly improbable tough it is possible i dont belive anyone did it without a guide
Dark Souls III DLC, you fight Solaire who has gone insane after getting skin cancer looking for his sun.
If only haha
Ouch
What DLC?
@@darkwolf7969 IF ONLY, he means it as a joke/.
11 years ago..goddammit.
The Nostalgia hits so hard
Best videogame character for me
...ok Solaire, maybe a little too happy there... 5:56
Foulblood 11 like you have never had an orgasm from the incandescent sun.
Foulblood 11 Did you just... Fuck you.
Aranea Nox ...?
Foulblood 11
You ruined the moment. I was about to cri.
He just bust a nut at that moment
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"The same sword as Solaire"
I felt a chill over my whole body
Solaire was without doubt a bro above all others. Would really love to see a nod to him in DS3
He might be in it *spoilers* they put in Andre the blacksmith and onion bro
+megazion34 not the same onion bro though new guy is siegward old was siegmeyer
+The Dragnix maybe he gave himself a new name for his rebirth lol
megazion34 or maybe related?
The Dragnix theyd might aswell be clones there so much alike lol
7 years later and I still love this lore, praise solaire
- Daaad, i kinda lost the Annals of History
- Well son, i'm disappointed, but i still love you, dispite...
- ... And your Van Hallen Mix Tape...
- GET OUT!
turntechGodhead please enlight me with the sun, what's thtat reference?
Santy3071 Type 'Dark souls Animation' and you'll find it somewhere.
watch?v=M9x_koRZ2bA
My favorite part of Solaire was if he stays alive to the very end, when you summon him in the Kiln of the first flame, he's not fully orange. He's himself, just with an orangish glow eminating around his body, showing that he's there to help you, in person.
I never noticed it before, but I think you're right!
I think this might have major implications for Dark Souls 2. It could mean that what will turn out to be the canon ending of Dark Souls 1 results in the Fire being re-linked again regardless of what the player chooses, because even if he/she chooses to walk away (i.e. the Dark Lord ending), it makes perfect sense for Solaire's character-profile that he would simply link the Fire himself. He dreamed of becoming "so grossly incandescent" as the sun, what better way to do that than to sacrifice himself to the First Flame? Not to mention how that would so fittingly represent him symbolically succeeding his father after all, assuming he really is Gwyn's son.
CognizantCheddar
Dark Souls 2 doesn't even take place in Lordran and has nothing to do with even the Gods of Lordran.
So what?
Regardless of what lands it takes place in, whether or not the Fire was re-kindled in the Kiln of the First Flame (and by whom) during the canon events of the first game is obviously going to be relevant in the events of the second game.
Anyway, you're making a completely baseless assumption that any gods related to Gwyn and Lordran won't have anything at all to do with Dark Souls 2.
What we DO know for a fact is that the reveal trailer clearly shows 1.) Anor Londo in the distance, 2.) a place that looks suspiciously like the Kiln of the First Flame, and 3.) a place that looks suspiciously like the Painted World of Ariamis.
So you might wanna rethink your baseless assumptions, bud. For all we know at this point, Dark Souls 2 is a journey back to Lordan, or even possibly a journey *away* from Lordran, with most of the game's events taking place in lands in between.
Now that you mention it Grimno, you're right. I never noticed that before and it does answer a few things.
CognizantCheddar Story takes place in the same world, but in a different land. They don't mention Astora, Lordran, or any of that. The story's based waaaay after the DkS1 storyline, you'd know that if you played the network test.
Out of all the character deaths in the game, Solaire's always hits the hardest and is the most depressing when you consider the type of person Solaire is within the game. This video's depiction of his untimely demise and the subsequent sad feelings I always get after seeing this is the reason I usually save him, everytime- except the first time which was enough for me to realize I actually didn't want to see this character "die".
SIM1291 Solaire is your light. He's the only hopeful, proud and eager person you meet. He is not deterred by the obstacles on his quest. He helps you take down your enemies, and is an inspiration. And then you find him maddened by the maggot... Its amazingly perfectly agonizingly depressing.
It’s been over a decade and this is still one of my favorite videos on this platform, based off of my favorite game of all time, I literally can’t express how much I appreciate you Vaati you deserve everything and more
Damn they gave the baby a sword? Talk about bad parenting, i wasnt allowed use a knife till i was seven.
Don't judge my parents.
Swords are wonderful educational tools.. Be they harmed in the process of weilding it.. It will be an important lesson..
Well... It's a fitting toy for a god of war
MrUnladenswallow Well, you're not a God.
***** But I am.
you have, without a doubt, the best dark souls videos on youtube.
Head canon: Solaire was the chosen undead and linked the fires, earning the happiest ending of every NPC you meet in the game
even after 7 years, still nice to watch; well made; praise the sun
That feel when you're on your first playthrough, but you don't know specifically where to go to save him, as guides are vague, so you're on a mad scramble to find a way to kill the chaos bug.
Your voice...the way you speak and your intonations are spot on. It matches the bleak world of Dark Souls without droning. Congrats! I think you've got a wonderful talent.
Fighting and Killing Solair is definately a tear worthy moment
Koriander Yander how?
True…
(Sniff)
@@blazaybla22 the deadline is entering lost izalith before killing the creatures that make solaire go mad
Solaire is just another chosen undead like you. To me I think he's considered the cannon hero who saved Olacile and defeated Gwyn. if you want someone to be that instead of a nameless unknown hero.
Or actually he's just from a parallel world, we already actually travel to the past, so why not?
Solaire
Sol Heir
Sole Heir
OH SHIT D:
Dre Ruiz in portuguese, "Sol" means "Sun", so we could say that is "Sun Heir" :P
EXACTLY! :O
Fenryr 3001 ... YOO :O !
Dre Ruiz In french "solaire" simply means "solar", as in "associated with the Sun".
+Dre Ruiz (Dre2Dee2) Also Sol means sun in latin.
ur videos.. are amazing
+OhYouDontSayThat Thanks mate! This is such an old one, hah. I've gotten much better at narration since.
I know bruh I started on ur Bloodborne vids !!
+VaatiVidya for your anniversary you should remake some of the classics! I pretty sure with the amounts of mods on ds 1 you can make even a better cinematic and also the plus of better narration and audio quality
+VaatiVidya Indeed you have but you cant beat the amazing lore of the original!
You got it right, man.
Apparently it is canon that Solaire was the Undead Saint that linked the flame. Dark Souls 2 we have Sublime Bone dust, the bones of the saint who kindled the flame, and the game devs told that "In his world, Solaire would have linked the flame".
Bullseye!
The one true Prepare To Cry
artorias and sif:hold our swords
I have to say Vaati, that was the most motion-evoking video I have seen on a game ever!
None of the Mass Effect games or Elder Scrolls even match the quality of this story :')
You made yourself look really stupid dark souls doesn't tell its story most are theories. the DS Story lacks majorly all we have to judge from it is the description from the items thats very stupid especially if you're calling it a RPG.
Ryan S But the fact is, the story made people create theories because of its deep quality.
The fact is a good RPG tells it's story thats why dark souls is more of a action game you can't compare sky rim and dark souls and if you do don't say they story is better in dark souls because dark souls has next to no story unless you wanted to read the item descriptions and make theories on why the developer didn't make it clear
Ryan S RPG's don't have to tell a story, just to let you create your own character.
Bruce Marlon not many people know of the lore behind elder scrolls but it has the most lore behind it than any other game
Theory: solaire is actually the chosen undead and you were destined to hollow in the asylum until Oscar came along and since you had no purpose you just went along with what Oscar said
For my endings that I keep canon in my head, Solaire found his Sun, himself.
3:47 Literally gave me goosebumps. Vaati you are the best.
Solaire's Sacrifice: the True Dark Souls Ending.
Pretty ridiculous that a channel focused on only souls can get to 500k subs. You are one of the most professional cerators ik of and you even somehow have gotten many people that don't even play souls to come and stay at your channel. Props to you man.
I just got chills down my spine when i figured out that the dragon is guarding the last evidence for solarie
Those who all thought solaire was the son of Gwynn who became undead as punishment...but when we find out in ds3 the truth felt stupid for mistranslating what happened that gywin son felt for the dragons and went agianst him
I'm literally getting chills watching this...
As did I.
if solaire isn't in dark souls 2.. it just wont be the same without him.
but but but u have the choice of letting solaire die or live and it will change the story line (in DS1 the ending will lead to the same future outcome)
DS2 will be set in another part of the world. You won't be returning to Lordran the second time around.
A decendant mite be there
Maybe. It's more likely that we get more information on the pygmy, though, which means that Solaire will probably not be around.
I think thats sorta besides that plot.. to be honest.. wouldnt make much sence
I think Solaire IS Gwyn's son, but now, like Vaati said, he's just a humble warrior who helps people and Praises the Sun.
They should have added a secret ending. Where if you saved Solaire from the sunlight maggots, summoned him for the Gwyn fight, he survived the fight, and you chose the Dark Lord ending you would have to fight Solaire as a final end game boss. It would make sense; Solaire also believes he is the chosen undead, so if you just didnt link the flame then he would. But you would have to beat him and become the true Dark Lord.
he lives in his own Lordran, its just that both of you can interact with one another since like Solaire said, time itself is convoluted in Lordran.
don't worry solaire i'll help you find gywn's van halen mix tape.
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So, the third son of Gwin is the boss Nameless King of DS 3?
Nameless King is the first born.
Really?
+Markus De Guzman well it still could be solaire. Time in the dark souls universe is convoluted you know.
+Lemonitus true Solair could be the first born and the nameless King could be related to them Praise The Sun
+Pedro Dantas I thought that as well, but It's still Solaire for me :)
Lmao, and then came the Nameless King.
Which proves nothing.
There are compelling theories that Solaire and the nameless king are one in the same. But who really knows?
@@Tasorius Except that Solaire isn't the Firstborn. Nameless king is
@@adamyooz I would like to see these theories and see if they're as half baked as the Solaire is the Firstborn theories.
@@mrmoneybags Learn to link comments properly.
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