#lautrec's comrade warrior

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Dark Souls 1 faces references Part 6: Darkmoon Knightess, Lautrec, Two Lautrec's Helpers

Darkmoon Knightess

Everyone noticed already I know, but yes, she doesn't look hideous at all, unlike her lore suggests:

I've assumed she is supposed to have traces of Hollowing, but on the second look, her armor might actually hide some creepy body mutations that are exclusive for those who become Firekeepers:

Japanese description of her armor (yet again, this ( x ) document) says:

すなわち暗月の剣として罪人を狩る助けとし また、火防のおぞましい姿を隠すために

It kinda says 'as the Darkmoon Blade, it helps her to hunt the guilty/criminals, as well as hides hideous appearance of fire hindering/defending'! 火防 says approximately this, to 'hold/defend/protect/hinder fire', and 'firekeeper' is written as 火防女, with 女 (woman/female) symbol added as Firekeepers are all women! Though all of her armor descriptions, including helmet, say that they 'hide hideous appearance' when for example Anastacia's face looks fine and we see it! Maybe, either: the "mutation" in question doesn't effect everyone the same way, or helmet refers to it simply in bundle to armor set overall and real "horror" is closer to her chest area!

Also, unfortunately, she IS identical to Pharis, in all but eye color:

I'd say that Pharis should hold the 'priority' for this face data, as someone who we actually can observe in the game even withoit datamining headwear away even though in transparent Fog Ring filter! Darkmoon Knightess I think would be better off with at least an altered hairstyle and, again, traces of the strange Firekeepers mutation in question!

....and I am thinking about it so hard, when the real answer to why Darkmoon Knightess doesn't look 'hideous' at all is because they copied appearance of Pharis, nor DS1 character creator allows much creativity lol. But, well, this post is primarily a reference if anyone wants to draw the characters, so I still need to bring potentially useful details!

Lautrec

Already mentioned, but he has the most beautiful shade of green eyes ever!

And also someone stole his eyebrows I guess. Keep pale, almost green skin in mind because Oswald has the same, and both him and Lautrec are from Carim! So yeah, lore? 🤔

Also DO YOU GUYS WANT MORE LORE, I know you do! Something interesting was found out while Rayan was checking NPCs data! At some point Rayan found this data:

However, this screenshot is not perfect but unfortunately the only thing that got documented! The data of this character is not fully loaded and according to Rayan loading it fully required restarting it completely! And when it was restarted, the face loaded into.....

Not only it loaded Lautrec's face, but also the one with slightly different features! Eyes more open and nose less crooked! Chin seems to be slightly less long. I'd say, perhaps, a bit "younger" Lautrec? So... yeah, seems like now we know what Lautrec was wearing before encountering Fina, since his current golden armor just imitates her aesthetic!

Lautrec's Helper (Sealer)

This is one of the guys that help Lautrec fight you when you invade him for vengeance! This one wears the red sealer set, same as Ingward and Yulva!

There were only three Sealers in total; one is Ingward who stayed in New Londo, another is this guy who helps Lautrec! That leaves only Yulva's design to be up to interpretation, but her sorcery and set are found in Blighttown and corpse appears to be regular human one, so nothing out of ordinary I guess!

Yulva IS a she, too:

彼女は、���み村で治癒術をふるうために 封印の任を捨てたのだろうか

('Did she abandon her duty as a Sealer to bring healing in 'sick village'?) You can see the 女 again! 彼女は is 'woman (talked about in the sentense)'! A he would be just 彼は, without the symbol (used for Ceaseless Discharge in his ring, for example).

Lautrec's Helper (Warrior)

And this is the one that has the spear (Pike) and shield!

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Part 1: Oscar, Ricard, Solaire, Anastacia

Part 2: Reah, Petrus, Vince, Nico, Leeroy

Part 3: Pharis/Evlana, Americus, Forest Hunter (Cleric), Beatrice, Dusk

Part 4: Shiva, Shiva's Bodyguard, Forest Hunter (Sorcerer), Forest Hunter (Thief), Forest Hunter (Bandit)

Part 5: Quelana, Jeremiah, Grana, Cut Content Character, Domhnall

Part 6: Darkmoon Knightess, Lautrec, Lautrec's Helper (Sealer), Lautrec's Helper (Warrior) (you are here)

Part 7: Ingward, Kirk, Oswald, Havel, Tarkus

Part 8: Griggs, Logan, Rickert, Crystal Knight, Laurentius

Part 9: Patches, Siegmeyer, Sieglinde, Mildred, Crestfallen Knight, Crestfallen Merchant

* Shots of characters' faces datamined and provided by RayanTheMad on Twitter + rayanwasalsotaken on Discord!

* Twitter thread with the faces here: ( x )

* Data for characters Ciaran, Darkmoon Soldier (Balder) and Darkmoon Soldier (Berenike) doesn't exist and they simply copy the last face loaded, when there wasn't any loaded they use default placeholder data