Family Evergrow As its name would suggest, the Undead Crypt is a massive mausoleum dedicated to those who have manifested the curse. Why does such a burial ground exist? Because you can never be quite sure when the Undead are finally just dead. Hollows buried on its grounds rise out of the earth like stereotypical […]
Magic Kingdom The Lost Bastille is home to a number of prisoners, but none are more chatty than Straid, a sorcerer from the ruined nation of Olaphis. Although now a “forgotten prison”, (忘却の牢) this facility was once a castle, apparently the seat of government for this land. Based on Straid’s dialogue, this government was the […]
Preface Heide embodies perhaps the most frustrating aspect of FromSoftware’s approach to Dark Souls II. (DS2) We are provided very little to work with even compared to similarly ancient events in the original Dark Souls. (DS1) As a result, reconstructing the overall picture of these ancient civilizations relies more heavily on inference than ever before, […]
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