re: Dark Souls Support Group Needed

I think I'm going to go after the black knights, Havel, and the Hellkite before moving on the the Darkroot Forest.

I kept burning bonfire ascetics at his bonfire. So I had to fight him 6 times in a row; I beat him easily at that point with the red tearstone ring, but once I got to NG+7 everything one-shot me so I wasn't able to use it. Would taken MUCH less time. I have another character on NG+5 and running to the bosses is pretty optimal, I never wear armor so everything two-hits.

I read them but use discretion lol

Thanks to a pep talk from Pectus, I killed my first black knight.

Eta: and I did it by parrying all of his attacks

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In your defense only like 5 people understand the story from just playing it and not watching those videos... and like half of the YouTube channels don't understand it and just steal from the others

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That, and while I don't think it's all bullshite, it's funny to me how easy it is to make things fit your own narrative. With that said, I give you the ultimate DS lore video: The Legend

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it's funny to me how easy it is to make things fit your own narrative

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when your story style is minimalist, it allows for rampant interpretations of everything... it's what makes DS so good, YOU create your own story. Before watching the YouTube videos my story was, I was awesome and trying to break some curse, and it was fricking hard to do it.

At the end of the day:

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The story is really just about power, fear, blind faith, and about how shitty humanity is.

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and I would also add, it shows how blindly we frick everyone over in pursute of immortality, there is no good or bad when all you can think about is the immortality that you gain from ultimate power... and how we lose our own "humanity"

My theory is that there is no 'undead curse,' it's simply the natural form of mankind as it returns to dark and the prophecy is an obvious lie perpetuated by Gwyndolin and Frampt. Your character is arguably the most evil in the games - you're the one seeking out the old lords and killing them for the sake of someone else's cause. You're nothing but a pawn - either of Frampt and Kaathe or the Emerald Herald.

One of the things I appreciate most about the world is that it isn't black and white, no good and evil, there aren't any mustache twirling villains - they've either tragically fallen to darkness or in the pursuit of power.

And only the Hellkite remains

F Dark Souls. can't even beat that first boss on that bridge.