The first part
You can read more about what happened in the first Dark Souls in the first part – here.
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It is not known how many years have passed since Gwin’s reign and how soon the flame has been flooded again, but where the lordran had once been, many kingdoms managed to arise, see their heyday and mouth.
And then the brothers Vendrik and Aldia came. Wendrick struck four nameless great and got their souls. The gained power allowed him to establish the great kingdom of Dranglik. No one knows exactly how the king ordered the souls, but he himself was a man, and his kingdom was built for people. Rumor has it that he sacrificed his souls to the first flame, thanks to which he was able, along with his future subjects, to find a human appearance.
New Dawn
There are only two ways: follow the rules of this world or destroy them.
Each king needs a faithful queen, isn't it? Wendrick's wife arrived from distant lands and warned the king about the threat of giants living behind the sea and ready to destroy the young kingdom.
Having gathered his best warriors, Wendrick went on a campaign, plundered the lands of giants and stole something incredibly valuable from them. No one knows exactly what the king brought from behind the sea, but thanks to this thing he comprehended the secret of the creation of golem-artificial creatures revived with the help of souls. With their help, impregnable walls were erected, huge bridges were laid and the Dranglik castle was rebuilt.
► Aldia was not interested in public affairs and soon locked himself in his estate, preferring to immerse himself in mysterious experiments.
The world reigned in the kingdom of Wendrika. Until the first carriers of the sign of darkness appeared. The flame began to go out.
There were more and more damned dead, and the king did not know how to deal with it. They tried to destroy the undead, lock in the cells, to take away on ships to distant lands, but there were more and more carriers. Wendrick was frightened, because he was also a man and was afraid to “become infected” with a curse from his subjects.
Then he turned to his brother, hoping to find the medicine with him.
In search of answers, the brothers decided to turn to the dragons, but not to their weak descendants, not possessing the grief of the relics of the ancestors, but to ancient original creatures. And the truth, who else can reveal the secrets of life and death, if not those that never lived and did not die?
It remains a mystery where Aldia could know about the nature of the first dragons, but with the help of the bones of the ancient dragon and the soul of one of the giants, a creature was created – a copy of the former owners of the world. And it spoke.
No one knows that it was Wendric and Aldia who managed to find out from the double of the ancient dragon, but shortly after his creation, Shanalotta was born, she is an emerald messenger, a child of dragons, educated by people. Later it was sometimes described as the last guardian of fire, and this quite accurately conveys the meaning of her purpose. Apparently, the dragon revealed the true cause of the curse to the king and his brother, and they decided to create a creature that could forever support the original flame. But their plan crashed, Sanalotta did not turn out the same as they expected, and the curse could not be overcome with its help.
► Despite everything, Shanalotta tried to somehow fulfill her mission and later directed the damned dead in the hope that among them there would be someone who could light a flame.
Dark soul
Crushing longing, forgotten joy, a sense of obsession with a lost thing and sincere hope to again find it … could these thoughts belong to the monster from the abyss? But maybe if so, it Bonus Strike Casino was not a monster?
However, the curse turned out to be the smaller of the problems of the kingdom – the giants came to pick up their. A long bloody war broke out, which affected several generations at once.
Vendric had hard, Drandlik was lying in ruins. The war marked the turning point: Wendrick first seriously thought about the source of his misfortunes. The giants took revenge on the invasion, but whether they really were going to attack the kingdom? Who persuaded the king to invade foreign lands and steal the sacred artifact? Wendrick realized that the darkness got closer to him than he could expect, and the name is Nasindra to her. But who was his queen, and what kind of threat from her?
Water could not know this. Maybe it is for the better.
Many centuries ago, when the first man Manus was struck in the abyss, his soul was divided into parts. Each of these particles reflected the sides of the personality of the father of the abyss, and each acquired shape.
The first was Elana, a reflection of rage and malice of Manus. She became a companion of the drowned king, who had long ruled the beautiful underground city of Shulva, whose inhabitants worshiped the living ancient dragon Sin. Elana used the king to be closer to the dormant dragon. She ate with his power and saved her soul in the hope sooner or later to strike and avenge her “father”.
► Elana defiled Sina, placing poison in his heart. He eventually caused the death of all the inhabitants of Shulva.
The second was the Nadalia, the embodiment of the loneliness of the father of the abyss. Her intentions remain unknown, because when she came to the Iron King to become his wife, he had already disappeared.
The old Iron King was a powerful ruler, who managed to raise his kingdom from the very bottoms. A huge amount of iron was extracted in its lands, unprecedented armor, weapons and mechanisms were smelted and smelted.
The creations of the king were as great as terrible. He created a metal demon from a smelter who received a real soul. Demon and destroyed the king. With one blow, he sent him to the hot lava, where the king met with something that he himself turned into a huge ugly demon.
In desperation, Nadalia renounced her body and settled in a hammered tower, behind a poisonous fog. Under his influence, people became unquestioning slaves of the lonely queen.
► before his death or until the end of the time of Nadalia will be alone to wait for his king.
The third fragment of the soul of Manus became an alsa, a dumb oracle, always soothing the awakened fire of chaos in the city of Eleum Lois. This is a symbol of hope, the only bright feeling that lived in the heart of the first person.
She became the wife of the King of the ivory, who guarded his subjects from the ranges of chaos with her. The king felt the dark beginning of Alsanna, but trusted her. Before going to the very heart of Chaos, to end him once and for all, he left Alsanne the highest symbol of power – Eleum Lois ceremonial blade.
Alsanna overcame the darkness inside herself: even after the death of the king, she remained in her eternal post.
► Alsanna – live confirmation that Manus was not always a monster.
The fourth fragment was embodied in Nashndra, the personification of the manus obsession. He so passionately wanted to get a thing that for her, risking everyone, dragged the chosen dead man in due time. The same I wished the strength of the first flame equally. She manipulated by Wendrick, by hook or by crook, pushing him to light a flame, sacrificing himself. After the death of the king, the power of the original fire would go to her, and the Manus, her father, would be avenge.
► Nasindra captivated Wendrick with her beauty. And this is not at all surprising, because it is very similar to Zarya, the beautiful Princess of Olachil, once stolen by a manus.
Eternal curse
The throne will certainly accept you. But the question remains … what do you really need? Light? Darkness? Or something completely different?
Feeling a threat to Nashndra, Wendrick threw the idea to light a flame at the cost of his own life. He firmly decided to find a way to break the cycle, get out of the endless circle of attenuation and firing, while saving humanity from the curse.
After long thoughts, he decided to get the crowns of other kings. How it should have rid of the undead of the curse and who gave the vendric such an idea is not known, but most likely, his brother Aldia stood behind this. Who knows what discoveries he made in the walls of his mansion? Yes, and Wendrick himself was famous as a person who knew the secrets of the soul. Perhaps it was in the soul of the carriers of those crowns that it was a matter?
Wendrick sent his knights to Schulva, where they attacked the dragon Sina, but perished from the poison that expired from his chest. In the halting tower, all the knights died in the fight against the servants of Nadalia. In both cases, Wendrick did not come a single step closer to the crowns. Eleum lois his warriors, apparently, did not have time at all.
In desperation, Wendrick went to the crypt of undead and walled himself behind the door that only a person can open. He took with him the royal ring, necessary to open the gate to the throne of desires standing in the maiden of the first flame. The king did everything so that I never get to the throne. His only hope, as in the time of Gwin, is the emergence of a new chosen dead man.
► Wendrick with the help of Aldia wanted to move his soul into an artificial body in order to get rid of the curse, but Aldia disappeared without a trace, and later returned to a shapeless disgusting creature.
And such a dead man was found again. Under the auspices of Shanalota, he walked through the damned lands of Dranglik. The lord of the giants fell from his hand, who once turned Dranglik in the ruins. And a forgotten sinner who sentenced herself to eternal suffering for an unsuccessful attempt to light a flame. And the old Iron King, who, according to rumors, found in Lava a piece of the soul of Guin himself. The trash rotting in the depths of the garbage, which, as they say, adopted the power of the first of the dead.
And even the offspring of Manus did not slip away from the hero's sword. Powerful souls were nourished the dead man, and he could sit on the throne of desires, extending the era of fire.
But the chosen dead man again chose another way. He met Aldia, and he convinced him of the meaninglessness of the continuation of the cycle. Light a fire or provide a world with darkness – it does not matter. The fire will return, and the curse of undead will always accompany it. The cycle must be interrupted.
Wendrick strove for this, but he did not have enough strength. Will the chosen dead be enough? Unlike Wendrick, he was able to get the crowns of all the great kings. This did not take off the curse itself, but completely relieved its symptoms. The hero was no longer afraid to become "hollow". He remained a man, no matter how much he was dying. He went beyond the cycle and went in search of a fund from the curse, leaving the flame slowly fading.
From the final (unless, of course, there is no unexpectedly, unexpected Dark Souls 4-a joke!) parts of the cycle you will learn about the era of people.