#queelag

[art-of-monkan]

Happy (belated) anniversary to Dark Souls!

Here are some of my Dark Souls fanart, that I created sometime ago <3 I'm still happy with them!

[akagamie]

Inktober Day 2 : Spiders

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Queelag is a symbiote, not a monstrosity

Queelaag lives at the bottom of Blighttown, presiding over all its poisonous decay and stealing the drecks of humanity that float down there to feed her ailing sister. She's most players' first encounter with the corrupting influence of Chaos on human beings, although if you pay attention she is foreshadowed by the Cragspiders in Blighttown, who also have human hands. A sexy femme fatale whose beauty contrasts a monstrous spider is an old trope, with deep roots in especially Japanese folklore, and the black widow is a comfortably familiar female archetype in western literature as well.

And Queelaag's cutscene does place an emphasis on her beauty, there is an element of seduction to her, albeit the monstrous flame-spider she's attached to quickly interrupts it. Interestingly, they do seem to be two creatures, a woman and a spider, fused together, rather than a single entity, and there is an element of oddly harmonious cooperation, rather than corruption, to their behaviour, as though they are united by a common goal of collecting Humanity to consume. Chaos Flame was the Witch of Izalith's attempt to recreate the First Flame, and I think she discovered exactly what kind of fuel that kind of fire consumes.

[hijodelagua]

[piscesbot]

[angryorisamain]

Me: *is playing Dark Souls Remastered for the first time*

Me: *gets through Blightown to Queelag’s Lair*

Me: Oh ok, a giant spider boss. It’s about time, this should be good.

Me: *sees the Queelag reveal and what she actually is*

Me:

[ocenes]

Friend asked me if I could draw characters from Dark Souls, so I drew some bosses and NPC !

[andromedagrace]

I thought I was going to beat Queelag easily, she one shot me.