| estebxx said: Souls series stuff.
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Meh this thread was dead when it started, From always had a strong series of games. No way, Metacritic scores were low for a well done, but extremely niche, series? Get out of town! DeS spoilers:
1) When you fight Allant he tells you that the Old one will eventually take all the souls humanity possesses to grant them an end to life. The demons came from the old one and live by consuming human souls. The origin of demons in DeS runs parallel to the origins of demons in DaS. Just substitute the old one in place of the bed of chaos.
2) Dragons would have been around the whole time. The in DeS demons don't fight them, demons were used to wipe out humanity, and they seem to have free reign now that there's no army to stop them. If all humans are wiped out and turned soul starved, it only makes since that Dragons would eventually rule the world as they did in DaS. Since we're going by human history, not dragon, the origins of dragons or the prior existence would go beyond recorded history. The origin of Lordsouls also goes beyond recorded history.
3) Time being convoluted and the theme of death and rebirth, as illustrated by the endless cycle, could mean Patches is part of that same cycle, forever trapped, being killed and reborn. When "time is convoluted" is a major theme of your game, anachromisms are expected. We team up with characters dead for so long their names are the things of legend, or are so old they're long forgotten.
4) The cities would have fallen into disrepair after humanity, and presumably the demons that fed on them, were gone. From DaS1-2 we see cities destroyed and in disreapair. We also see in DaS that there were remnants or death, in the form of skulls when the dragons were around. The dragons were immortal, so what left the skulls?
Souls games have a history of using positioning to tell a story. Look at where things take place. The Old One is a mass of twisted sticks and wood when we meet him. After he dies from starvation, he's just a pile of sticks hidden under ground. In DaS, there was a giant raging fire under ground, and out of it came enough souls for all of humanity. What was burning and why did souls come out of the fire? Well if demons, all coming from the old one, took all human souls in the world and returned to the old one, he would be a highly flammable vessel that contained all the souls for humanity. Also, the beings that find the souls were among the souless humanoids we saw in the opening that very much resemble DeS's soul starved. It really fits in as Boletaria being just one more spin of the wheel really.
