#eleum

[axemartyr]

Redraw, 2 years apart.

[trench-rat]

OC-Tober Day 3 - In a Cherished Memory

« A secret token of bonding, as if to say "I am thinking of you, and you are not alone. »

[iovites]

✞—˚✧❨✧˚—✞// Calator Iovites Vinnaeus

[disgustiphage]

ds2 screenshot redraw

[within-its-cave]

Speaking of Art, some OC concept refs

Alathasis, Emlyn, Flow, and Sileona & Centurion

Meant to be quick things for an event in a server. Just quick concept sketches for references

Al, Em, and Flow are all Bloodborne OCs

Sil and Cent are Dark Souls 2 OCs. Centurion a variant take on the Sanctuary Guardians for Eleum Loyce

They're all a bit rushed as I was doing them in last few days of October and needed to get them done by November 1st, but I'm still happy with these enough to post

[mailperson]

Imagine being this confidently wrong

[maletofujoshi]

is it sullying the experience if i play ds2 while listening to vocaloid

[lucatielenjoyer]

Lucatiel Ramble, number one out of... a lot.

Every time I play ds2 I make sure to do Lucatiel’s entire quest even if it makes me sob uncontrollably when she..... y’know..... spoilers for a game that came out in 2011

Begs you not to forget her name and says that she may not even remember herself, and then gives you her equipment, basically the only possessions an undead would ever have and the only means of guaranteeing your survival in Drangleic, bc she trusts you that much, even when she remembers nothing. I love her sm and she deserves so much better than that run-down shack in Aldia. Also, the item desc on her mask in DSIII hits me like a goddamn truck. Lucatiel canonically was a part of the Bearer of the Curse’s journey and they made sure she was remembered until the very end of the world itself. She is literally my favorite soulsborne npc and I wish we got more of her. I would always be so happy to find out I can summon her somewhere which meant that I could talk to her a little bit. And the fact that she tells you she’d kill you if it meant getting the cure, but then later entrusts the legacy of herself and her brother to you alone. It’s so sad, because I don’t even know if she remembered her brother by that point. She said that her oldest memories were fading first, but I feel like it was more along the lines of the memories that had the least meaning. Why? Because while she remembers her  past in mirrah and her brother, she doesn’t remember why she came to drangleic, which is much more recent than any of those other things. So, if my theory is true, and she only remembers the most important things, then her remembering your character while on the brink of hollowing means that you were of great importance to her, likely due to the lack of friendly faces in ds2, making your character stand out to her, especially since she recognizes you no matter what you’re wearing or if you’ve completely changed everything about your character (stats, using the funny trans coffin, etc.).

[godslayerclaira]

i do love FromSoft architecture and how the cities (almost) meld into a semi-coherent stage or whatnot

but I do have to say, all this architecture is bougie as hell, where are the backstreets of this town??? where are the middle class neighborhoods

[thedoctorfat]

. . .

Ahahahhaah Ahahahahaha AHAHAHAHAHAH!

Yes. Yes it really is as bad as everyone says.

Imagine, zero visibility beyond a few feet in front of you, and lightning horses that jump out at you if you stray from the path you're meant to be on, all without anything else to help you navigate.

I really really liked this DLC and how it worked up towards the boss fight. I liked searching for all the knights to assist me and how each route circled back to areas already explored to show that route had reached the end. The boss fight was very cinematic without any cutscenes and it was a blast to finish!

I cannot decide if I like this or the Sunken Crown (sorry Old Iron Crown) better. I still need to do the Frigid Outskirts though...

[axemartyr]

Summer is ending.

[trench-rat]

☼ PENITENT ☼

[disgustiphage]

yippeeeee!!

[redsixwing]

The New Londo Ruins.

Where we can imagine the fall of Oolacile as a terrible disaster, a magical corrosion and a rotting-away of the land itself, people were responsible for the destruction of New Londo. We meet one Sealer still in place, whose powers over cursing are unrivaled, if you're willing to pay his price.

We know by its name that it was related to Anor Londo. We know it was a city largely filled by the undead.

We know a fire keeper lived there, before nobody lived there at all.

Draining the water and realizing exactly what (and who) waits below is one of the defining moments of Dark Souls 1, for me.

The little details make it even better. The few souls dropped by any New Londo enemy; the total lack of a bonfire, snuffed by volumes of water or buried under a mountain of the drowned.

The ghosts and their fury, more cursed even than you are. The echoing screams and the tranquil blue light.

The Darkwaiths make it all the better, as does the realization that unlike every other enemy, they aren't after your souls.

It's one of my favorite areas.

What’s a Fromsoft level that, from a story and symbolism perspective, completely devastates you and eats away at your soul? For me, it’s Drangleic Castle from DS2. The existence of this place fills me with unfathomable sorrow and I will care to elaborate with text below this pretty image:

The fact that it sits atop an isolated hill, the emptiness of the rooms, the petrified soldiers, the ghosts and the rain all highlight the sense of dehumanization, isolation, loneliness, loss of self and overall confusion present all throughout this game (especially in, but not only, Nashandra and Vendrick’s relationship). This is a place where more than one person lived, descending towards insanity, for decades and decades rotting in either borderline psychological abuse or the awareness that the world is falling under a curse they do not fully understand, and that everyone is desperately trying to find a cure for, but with no avail. 

[within-its-cave]

Sileona & Centurion WIP

A wip - or concept sketch - of my Dark Souls 2 OCs, Sileona and Centurion. Both from Eleum Loyce. Sil is a Loyce knight and Cent is a Loyce variant of the Oolacile Sanctuary Guardian

[mailperson]

Ivory king is 100% the ugly duckling of the ds2 dlc trio