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The Souls Lore Community: Someone Should Be Studying This.

As I was watching SmoughTown's most recent Elden Ring lore video, I started thinking about the lore hunting of Souls games as a social phenomenon, and I genuinely hope this community is studied by psychologists and social scientists someday, because it's worthy of research.

Normally the rise of FromSoftware's games from relative obscurity to worldwide fame is what people might be interested in, but the dedicated lore community online and especially on YouTube is especially fascinating to me. Dozens of YouTube channels are specifically dedicated to collecting, compiling and deciphering every scrap of lore and storytelling available in these games with a deliberately obfuscated storyline, and hundreds of thousands of people watch and consume this content, not simply satisfied with playing the game, but joining in on the search, the debate and discovery.

I'm reminded of Jacob Geller's absolutely stellar video "Shadow of the Colossus and the Search for the Last Great Secret", and I feel like the modern Souls lore community is a convergently evolved social phenomenon to the "Secret Seekers" on those old forums trying to tease out the last secrets of Fumito Ueda's masterpiece (Hidetaka Miyazaki was directly influenced by Ueda's work, so this makes sense).

People will evaluate Souls lore with greater skepticism than I see most people use for their political or personal beliefs, and the lore debates I've seen in person often feel like academic discourse more than your average nerds discussing their favorite game, so I suppose all I have left to say is "why is no one studying this???"

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[ghostofashina]

MALENIA, BLADE OF MIQUELLA:

“When my father wasn’t sculpting or smacking me, he said I was made in the image of god. So God I became, forging myself each time I found a man to die for. I was the creator, the crucified.”

— Bianca, Eugenia Leigh.

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Patches from FromSoftware’s games doesn’t originate from Demon Souls

*Contains spoilers for Shadow Tower Abyss*

Patches was originally from Shadow Tower Abyss which is a sequel to Shadow Tower, which is a spinoff of the Kingsfield series. FromSoftware made all of these games. In Shadow Tower Abyss Patches asks for money and if you give him some money he will give you a key to a room with human remains and looted chests, but one chest will be unopened. If the player opens the chest a bomb inside it will be set off and patches will be gone. The player will see him again when entering the next area and he will be on the other side of a bridge where he will ask to make a deal with the player (spare him and you get a map of the area). Regardless of what the player answers, if you walk over the bridge Patches will make the bridge open up downwards causing the player to fall into a watery pit with monsters. The 3rd and final time Patches appears is dead face first in the sand of a desert like area. If Patches is killed by the player he will drop an item that can be returned to another character and the bridge will open

Patches’ next appearance was in Armored Core: For Answer. He appears in the mission "Defeat Unknown NEXT + No Count" as Patch The Good Luck and pilots the NEXT, No Count. In this mission the player is tasked with destroying the 2 NEXTs in the area (a NEXT is an advanced armored core unit). If you destroy his teammate Buppa Zu Gan (pilot of Big Barrel), Patches will plea for a cease fire and if you let him live he flees the area, ending the mission (letting him live has no effect on mission payment)

In 2009’s Demon Souls, the version of Patches we know and lovingly hate was made. He kept his cowardice and cunning from his previous versions, but became cheekier, more joyful, got a redesign, and got a different voice (he didn’t have a voice in Shadow Tower Abyss, but did in AC4A). Since the release of Demon Souls he would continue his tradition of making the player reach lower planes of elevation. In Demon Souls he kicks the player into a pit, in Dark Souls 1 he kicks the player off a ledge, in Bloodborne he pushes the player into another pit, in Dark Souls 3 he lowers a bridge with the player on it, and in Elden Ring he kicks you off a cliff

Edit: changed “dislike” to “lovingly hate” because I felt it was more accurate

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Halloween Dungeoneering, Part Two!

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Bloodborne's monster designs are beautiful, so amazing and cool!!

This Is my third fav Boss un design and mechanics

Bloodborne my beloved!!

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From Software Cosplay Parade ♡♡♡

We already have plans for a 100% Bloodborne parade for 2025, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the game ♡

Where? LUCCA COMICS & GAMES (Italy)

Who? Hidetaka Miyazaki Cosplayers Italia

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In case anyone was wondering, why my nickname is Fareeha AND some Spaniards, answer is right under the cut! (Since Tumblr is basically a diary, and I REALLY want to describe, tell, write down, draw and even put it in my blog) Long post ahead! Many screenshots, personal stuff, memes etc.

So you decided to read... Good :'D

It started with Dark Souls 3. The first game experience was very exciting. I spent for about 3 hours creating a character, dealing with a disgustingly made character editor, and they came out.... Simply terrible. Some chubby-cheeked femboy (I have nothing against it, even like it sometimes, but he looked really terrible) with a face like he wants to betray you right now, taking away your family castle and all your feudal possessions. What a waste of time… Also it was sad that I spent 3 hours in the game without starting it. Therefore, I deleted this character and hastily, literally in 5 minutes, created new one - I barely changed one of the in-game templates - slightly lengthened the nose (because big noses are an art); decided to take a hairstyle that would be a little feminine, but at the same time more or less practical - a bun :’D ; made a slightly more stern appearance and it turned out that he was very attractive! There was a problem with the name, but then I also took the first one that came to mind - Esteban. I took the Deprived class because I couldn’t decide who I want him to be and I also wanted to try the so-called “most difficult class,” which turned out to be the most comfortable.

During the game I fell in love with him so much exactly the way he was - and he turned out to be a little frivolous, jester, Casanova, just a handsome guy in my favorite armor of the Black Knights (those devils look INCREDIBLE and make me squeal) and funny older brother of my husband's character.

Tbh now I see that I am making a kind of a doll game out of Fromsoftware games, as it was in childhood - all my characters have their own story, relationships, preferences and strong family bonds lmaooo Why not (I won’t stop)

Esteban was the first "Spaniard". Playing with him as my avatar was incredibly fun - numerous deaths were not perceived so hard, there were LOTS of funny moments, I was scolding Esteban, amusing my husband… In general - we became close, and for a long time finishing the game I could not calm down and was talking about him too much (I genuinely don’t know how my hubbo puts up with me). I was drawing, even wrote a fanfic. And since I LITERALLY CAN’T live without a romantic story, Esteban was the first simp of Prince Lothric and a little bit of Orbeck and Fire Keeper xdd

After DS3, we started Elden Ring. There I created Miguel - also a spaniard, Wretch, cheerful, but more mischievous and feminine than Esteban. I couldn't stop changing his appearance for a very long time until I found something that suits Miguel and fully reflects his character. I really liked Gideon Ofnir, well, really, really liked, but Miguel didn’t share my interest, and I couldn’t really ship them (except for a few explicit drawings :’D). Miguel stayed with Ranni, whom I love dearly, and I started the game again, with a new character. I created a girl. She turned out to be french and received the name Fiquet, and she not only gave me inspiration to finally write a fanfic about her and Gideon, but also brought me mental satisfaction because I finally took the Sorcerer class and spent the entire game killing enemies so easily (except for Mogh and Malenia) with a few hits, without tactics, thinking or other crap. Fiquet, my girl Q_Q

I miss them, enjoy the pics of them

Hello, sir :^)

After Elden Ring we started DS1, where Ramon was created in the same way, and also Jose in DS2 (I didn’t go further than Majula, I can’t help it - I don’t like this game. The desire to continue appears only because of Jose, who is my funniest character I think)

Ramon as his is. No screenshots of Jose, he jumped of a cliff and now looks kinda bad lol...

So it became a tradition to start the game with pathetic (I mean his class xd) spaniard and continue with girl (although I have only Fiquet for now. Others are not much remarkable). That’s how Guillermo was created for playing Bloodborne! I already did absolutely everything I could in BB (I even created a female character to come to Edgar so choir boy won’t be so sad :'D), but Guillermo remains with me - kind, sweet, a little nervous, like an angel from vintage postcards (I see him that way xD), caring, kind of mother figure, confident in his rightness, responsive and sensitive, but at the same time with an impenetrable moral shield (I mean, it’s impossible in any way hurt his feelings). I brought him together with Micolash (not surprising, I guess), came up with a tragic and romantic story for them and an AU with a continuation of the plot after the squid hunter ending for a happy end, endowed him with the blessing of Kos and gave him a backstory. There is something attractive about it when a man receives the blessing of a female deity who protects women - it says a lot about him as a more feminine person on the inside than he appears on the outside.

When I imagine any cool plot with Guillermo x Micolash, I feel like

Guillermo in case if you hadn't see him already:

You know, all my oc x canon look like that

(my OCs are always sort of Sportacus for their loved ones lol And also their loved ones are almost every time evil and edgy)

With all this I want to say that my spaniards and Fiquet have probably become like children to me... I love them, I continue to write about them, they are an integral part of my perception of games, and yes, this is probably really a peculiar need to play with dolls at my age xd Maybe that's why Guillermo wears Doll's gloves, Esteban enjoyed wearing Zullie the Witch's dress and gloves (with ADORABLE manicure yknow!!!) and etc lol...

Thanks for reading! I love to tell stories (As you may guessed lol), tho it take a plenty of time to translate it. Love yall

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if there’s one thing about fromsoftware games its that they will be putting your ass Underground™️

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Made these little guys a bit ago.

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[ghostofashina]

"Hmm. Seems you’ve grown, if just a little."