This much actually is stated outright in the game. In Dark Souls 2, you're a severely hollowed undead, drawn to Drangleic, because the land of Drangleic draws the undead like moth to a flame. In Dark Souls 1, as you stated, you're an undead in a prison for undead, and escaping the prison makes you the "chosen undead". Saying that you're losing your memory is a very poetic way of saying we have no fucking clue. who? Doing what exactly? For what ultimate purpose? In Dark Souls you were the Chosen Undead, on a quest to either link the flames or usher in the Age of Dark. I think the spin you've given on the opening is probably the best that we're going to do (barring major lore discoveries) but it's a shame that we have to polish up something otherwise lacking in structure and depth. Dark Souls 2 explains itself so poorly that a substantial number of people weren't even clear that they were fighting the final boss until the game ended. The Dark Souls we were able to figure out what we were doing in that prison, the importance of the Dark and the role played by the final boss.
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The original Dark Souls felt like putting together a gigantic puzzle, where stray details eventually assembled into a glorious overall narrative in which some things were initially obscured but came together (the role of Gwyndolin as a major driver in the plot) while others remained shrouded in mystery (we never really quite figure out what's up with the Abyss).ĭark Souls 2 has been out for a while now and it doesn't feel like we're a whole lot closer to figuring out much of the story, most glaringly the central why that drives the entire narrative. This is kind of a good answer and it puts a literary twist on the vagueness of the opening, but it speaks to a more general disappointment that I have with the lore of Dark Souls 2. You can end the pain, the suffereing, leave the world and finally die by lifting the curse for a while, or just let the curse fester, and you can rule, let some other guy end the curse while you play King. Until we finish and we don't really understand why. "Find your way to Drangleic", okay i'm here, now what? "Gather greater souls," okay, did it, ect. We arent told this purpose, so we go with what we remember. But, like we saw in Ds1, having a purpose staves off the insanity. When you open it, the firekeeper/old woman tells you where to go, you go, because why not? There's nothing else for you to do but wait for insanity. The undead can never truly die, and the fire keepers no longer tend the fires, right? It's my opinion that rather than being reformed at a bonfire, and waking up there, your character has died hundreds of times, each time losing more of his or her self until they can't remember anything outside of that doorhandle. Nothing that came before your arrival will ever be known, and it needs to be that way. The character creation is literally a rebirth for you clarity of thought for the first time in who-knows-how-long, but no memories. Whatever it was that brought you here, wherever you came from and whatever you were - none of that matters any more, because you'll never know. Your memory is impenetrable murk, sanity slipping through your fingers, and when you arrive in Things Betwixt, you don't even know why you're doing what you're doing at that point in time, you just know that you're going somewhere.
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The idea is that everything you knew about yourself - where you came from, what you were, who you loved - it's all gone, except for the devastating knowledge that you did come from somewhere, you used to be something, and you used to love someone. There may never have even been a giant swirling vortex of darkness into which you plunged. The game doesn't tell you and you're not supposed to know.
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