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Bloodborne phase. I love dirty ink

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One thing fun about @demilypyro streams is when she just won't drop a bit, to the chagrin of her guests, a true streamer of the people

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"I see it in your eyes, too. The shadow of Shura." Messmer despised his own fire. Time and time again he hoped to rid himself of it, but ever did it burn.

Messmer as Shura and Godwyn as the Divine Heir.

Back in Sekiro, all characters cursed with the shadow of Shura are related to animals. Sekijo, orangutan. Sekiro, wolf. Then, we have Messmer and snakes. As both of them, Messmer is known as a fierce warrior that conquered his title with fire and blood. And those who go on killing will eventually become Shura...

The divine heritage comes from the Divine Dragon, who's grafted to a tree while wielding golden lightning. Godwyn was the only divine child able to conquer the golden lightning of the dragons, but even when his soul was killed, he was unable to die. And such stagnation, much as the dragonrot, brought blight over the lands.

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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???"