#undead parish

[guiding-moonlight]

[acquired-stardust]

Dark Souls Remastered PC 2018

[amorfista-of-izalith]

"Oh, there you are, dearie! I have moss; now dish up some souls! Vee hee hee!"

She's cute what can I say

[winterdasu]

I've decided I want to learn watercolor painting so I've started doing landscapes of areas in dark souls 1 that I love.

Here's Firelink Shrine and the altar in Undead Parish where you get the first Firekeeper soul.

[alberichfanpage]

First bell rung!

[hikayeplays]

Time for me to wax poetically over architecture! So Anor Londo, beautiful, beautiful Anor Londo

One of the main and most glaring obvious point is that it feels "new" not necessarily in the "not decrepit and abandoned way" but rather in the "this is much more modern than the rest" kind of way. It tries really really hard to scream gothic! Expecially with all those flying buttresses. Although technically you can see clear influences from places like the Schloss Neuschwanstein and Schloss Drachenburg which are both from the 19th Century and thus NeoGothic.

But it doesn't really matter that much if it is gothic or neogothic since the Undead Burg and Parish is romanic more that anything and Firelink Shrine has all the hallmarks of either a byzantine basilica or a Roman repurposed one (I'd either go as far as to speculate that the Firelink Shrine zone where Framp appears after you ring both bells of Awakening is in fact a ninfeo but that's matter for another post).

Another matter are the walls that circle around all the areas, they are a proper barbican, like those you can see in Krakow. Usually these are more modern that Gothic Proper ranging from the 15th century to the 16th century but just as much as we can see that Anor Londo is meant to be gothic and not NeoGothic we can imagine that the Barbican is meant to be """medieval"""

What matters is that we can clearly see an in-game timeline progression with Firelink Shrine being the oldest, Undead Burg and the Old Parish (where you find Andre) next, then the Undead Parish proper and lastly Anor Londo.

I should really go back and explore it better either when I get the Lord Vessel and fast travel or in a NG+ when I'm no longer absolutely lost

[literal-fashion-souls]

Dark Souls locations series: Undead Burg & Undead Parish

"The way I see it, our fates appear to be intertwined. In a land brimming with Hollows, could that really be mere chance? So, what do you say? Why not help one another on this lonely journey?"

[driffftttt]