#I mean fwiw the cloranthy/fleur-de-lis design is also something that shows up a bunch in Anor Londo | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

paradife-loft · 7 days ago

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huh. because they're basically the same kind of item & shape, I had always assumed the little headstone Ciaran sets up for Artorias in the coliseum was a miniature version of the main headstone in Sif's arena

but they're actually not the same design at all - the initial marker looks like it came from a broken piece of the actual panel walls of the arena itself (the carved ones with the cloranthy & fleur-de-lis-esque symbols). the large gravestone meanwhile has some carved text and a different, kinda generic geometric motif seen in a couple of other places in Anor Londo.

#I mean fwiw the cloranthy/fleur-de-lis design is also something that shows up a bunch in Anor Londo #in particular it shows up on the walls and the casket of the Darkmoon Tomb #but yeah not on the base game version of the gravestone #another fairly tangential thing - the implication of the items you can make from Sif's soul #to me it seems to suggest that Artorias gifted her a portion of his soul at some point (pre-Oolacile but post-New Londo?)#(I also like the idea that Sif's giant sword she uses is similarly soul-infused)#(just to make a bit more diegetic sense of how much bigger it is there than when Artorias wields it)#dork souls tag #the true and proper use of the Lordvessel is hopping around Lordran to cross-reference architectural elements fwiw

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