#alsanna silent oracle

[navlaanchair]

was talking with @newlondohollow about Manus' daughters parallelism which i talked about in the previous post and we've had some realizations:

like i said Alsanna represents Manus' fear for the gods, and she is very similiar to Filianore, and ironically... her kingdom fell because of a creation of the gods, the Chaos Flame, created by Izalith.

even Manus' incarnation of his fear couldn't escape the thing he was fearful about, the gods.

Nadalia resembles Manus' loneliness, Manus always felt alone in his entire life, he got segregated, controlled by the gods, and even at Oolacile he couldn't find peace, since he got tortured in the dungeons of it, all alone.

and yet, Manus' incarnation of his loneliness was going to marry... a torturer! the Old Iron King.

ironic, isn't it?

i don't have much to say about Nashandra and Elana since they both resembles Beast!Manus emotions more than Human!Manus'

i love Manus lore

[katyspersonal]

Daughters of Dark observations

Bruh, turns out Alsanna DOES have an eye color, and it is not what I expected!

This is the texture of her skin and facial features, from this ( x ) website loaded through a ZIP!

I also have a feeling as though Daughters of Dark come in pairs; so, whereas Nashandra and Elana are both blondes with green eyes, Alsanna and Nadalia would both be black-haired with ??? eyes!

I mean, Elana is not quite herself anymore, but her hair looks very much like actual hair still, and blonde + green eyes combo feels oddly coincidental?

Nadalia's body is also not what it used to be, but black hair is distinct, and again, to think in 'pairs' sense it'd fit very well for her to be black haired even originally because Alsanna's hair is black!

When I thought what Alsanna's and Nadalia's eyes would be, I really felt maybe red or orange? It'd contrast with the other two's green nicely, since their hair already sort of does! But I suppose I had a right hunch still, because if Alsanna's eye texture gets saturation turned up, it IS, in fact, orange and red!

Even the "greenish" looking edges are actually on orange spectrum, just try to colorpick and see yourself! An idea: maybe her eyes were a much brighter red/orange color, but saturation is lost in them for now? Meanwhile, if Nadalia still had her face, her eyes would be bright and glow as much as her idols x)

[minespatch1]

[nightclawduke]

"I was supposed to take care of you, so sorry"

[zviyeri]

i finished this like. 4 months ago and never uploaded it bc social media management is the bane of my existence. best souls 2 for your viewing pleasure

[swallowtail-ageha]

Bitter water is such a burnt ivory king/alsanna song i need to-

[tenderlambkin]

Ahem

My beloved Dark Souls Disney Prince won by a landslide! And against a well known DS1 boss? Ivory King & Alsanna ftw. I cried my way through that whole DLC! 😭 No I am not normal about them

[headcanontheshitoutofsoulsborne]

Alsanna the Silent Oracle and her Ivory King have penguins for their fursonas.

It is fitting for the cold area ^^ I am sure they are very cute.

[navlaanchair]

very interesting how Alsanna and Filianore looks so similiar

this basically confirms that Manus was from the Ringed City at some point, doesn't it?

Manus being from the Ringed City was very in contact with Filianore, and the gods. he then went to Oolacile for some reason, here's what i think:

i still believe that Manus is the Furtive Pygmy, i think it's a very reasonable theory. i mean, being such an important character lore-wise related to humanity, dark and the abyss, why would he be a random human?

Manus and the Pygmy Lords got segregated in the Ringed City by Gwyn, which was a beautiful city blocked in time so that the humans couldn't enter in the annals of history.

but Manus was suspicious of Gwyn and his plans, and was scared of what Gwyn could've done to him and his children a.k.a the humans.

Manus then left the Ringed City and went to Oolacile, who was a city very tied with Light and Gwyn.

either he went there to warns everyone about Gwyn's plans or maybe he just wanted to chill with the other humans now that he finally escaped from the gods. (even though they tortured him later on, my man can't catch a break lmao)

Manus' fear got more aggravated after Gwyn started using humanities to rekindle the Flame, but he knew he couldn't do nothing about it. (note: i'm not tryna demonizing Gwyn, i actually love that paranoid old man🫶)

i found very symbolic how Alsanna resemble Manus' fear and is similiar to Filianore, representing Manus' fear for Gwyn, for the gods.

important to point out how also Nashandra and Dusk are very similiar

Nashandra resembles Manus' want, and being similiar to Dusk is probably because she gifted him the pendant, the thing that Manus "wanted" from us when we picked it up.

while for Elana and Nadalia they don't look like someone in specific but still, Nadalia resembles Manus' loneliness, because hey, Manus felt alone his entire life, to the Ringed City where he was segregated, to Oolacile where he got tortured in the dungeons.

while for Elana... i actually don't know about her... other that she resembles Manus' anger when he trasformed into a reckless beast...

i just love DS details that would make DS2 haters say "they just didn't think about it!! it's only a coincidence!!" lol

(also this was very rushed so there may be a few errors...) (also merry christmas!!)

[katyspersonal]

A couple more thoughts on Daughters of Dark, or Dark in general

It feels consistent that they oddly prefer to wear white (mostly) clothing, despite being associated with the Dark! Flower Skirt might have been Elana's originally since she naturally has floral aesthetic and Daughters of Dark "just arrive" in the kingdoms seeking to seduce the most powerful person around... and Flower Skirt's description says exactly this, that it is cute clothing designed with attracting a potential "patron" in mind! Needless to mention it is found in Shulva!

Besides Daughters of Dark, Velka is another example of a Dark-aligned being that wears white:

This all just starts to feel more intentional for me tbh! I think beings of Dark, or those heavily aligned with it, instinctively lean towards wearing white clothes to appear "safer" and more.. likeable, I suppose? They know, at least deep down, that everyone fears/hates the Dark, and it motivates them to seek "blending in" and obscuring the darkness, even if in the most superficial way x)

Some just want to have a more "inviting" look in the society that loathes Dark, others might hate themselves and let it rub onto them, some maybe were pressured to wear white (like I can picture Velka wearing white reluctantly). Also imagine Manus not being allowed to appear amongst the other Lords unless he's wearing a white dress and some people embarrassing the hell out of him and Gwyn by joking he must be yet another one of Gwyn's brides fjdhjfdfdh

Another interesting thing is like, I feel like my hunch about Priscilla being connected with the Dark was right! Alsanna is associated with ice/snow and invisibility, whereas Nashandra's true form is just a lot of death quite literally... and these things DO also manifest in Priscilla! Her element is cold and ice, she can turn invisible and she is "antithesis to all life" that also carries literal scythe, weapon symbolic of death!

Since she was discarded at birth for being seen as a threat to all life, these traits must have shown initially rather than just be something from Velka rubbed onto her I think! I still like the idea that Priscilla is a cuck child between Seath and Caitha (a God aligned not just with Dark but also with death!) while Gwyn wasn't looking though fdgsgd But at this rate the idea of Velka being her biological mother isn't that far-stretched xD In either case, Everlasting Dragons aren't linked to Death, so if Priscilla points towards Dark, that'd come from second parent 🤔 It all makes sense, too! In the world of Fire+Life+Light, Ice+Death+Dark are its opposites, everything is very balanced! Death-associated places and Darkness also always come hand in hand in Dark Souls, too!

At the same time, Elana and Nadalia are interestingly reflections of different flow in time! Elana's element is wood in the world where everything that didn't come from Dragons came from the trees! "Tame" Humanity, that isn't wild, manifests as wood (Four Kings are the quickest example), but also Giants in Dark Souls 2 are devolving back into wooden forms. Wood reflects devolution, coming back in the past! Meanwhile, Nadalia's element is ash, which is the opposite; ash is what is left after everything burnt, in the world that holds itself on a lot of burning. It is future and eventual decay it brings. Both likewise oppose what Age(s) of Fire entail, just in different ways: undoing it or exhausting it respectively 🤔 When elements of Alsanna and Nashandra (ice and death) are more directly "hostile" to it!

[maranigai]

Alsanna and the ghost of Manus (in human form)

This actually was a page from my comics for ds ask, but I decided to remove the text when I posted it here. 

[styrac0saurus]

for a lad who has way too many blogs right now for me to know who to tag like what the fuck crowe

[zviyeri]

Say nice things to the newlyweds immediately 🔫

[balteus]

let me elaborate for a short minute.

Alsanna, effective queen of Eleum Loyce, is a shard of Manus, a canonically male character, a representation of his fear. Why is a shard of Manus a woman? moreover, she wears a retainer's robe which when worn by a female Bearer of the Curse has a pin over the chest. Alsanna however has a boob window (as she should)

The Ivory King of Eleum Loyce, Alsanna's husband, never took off his helmet in public. The face that is carved on the helmet, a supposed representation of him, appears pretty feminine, and his armor when worn heals when killing an enemy, but only if the Bearer of the Curse is female.

Conclusion. Ivory King and Alsanna are a T4T couple.