Dark Souls Lore | The Everlasting Dragons: History & Legacy

The Everlasting Dragons of Dark Souls are one of the pillars of its lore; a reminder of a more Primal Era. In this Dark Souls Lore video we explain the story of the Ancient Dragons and their influence on the greater story.

Please subscribe for more future Dark Souls Lore content!

Intro: 0:00
Age of Ancients: 1:45
Factor: 4:36
Everlasting: 5:45
The First Flame: 9:14
The War of the Dragons: 22:31
Transcending the Cycle: 28:36

Shout out to Lokey for without whom this video wouldn't exist.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Soundtrack is Dark Souls

I do not own the rights to Dark Souls, all rights to FromSoftware

#darksouls #ad #darksouls3 #darksouls2

[SmoughTown]

Let me know your thoughts on the Ancient Dragons below!

[david]

Dragons as a metaphor for rocks and minerals, giants as a metaphor for trees and forests. Such a neat game

[jackjones]

Especially with the way dragons were used in DS1, it felt like they were meant to be so old and powerful they were pretty much features of the landscape, closer to a natural force than most life forms are

[goathead]

What if the basilisks aren’t simply cursing you with their breathe attack but are actually conjuring the fog of non existence to turn you into minerals… or like the fog is transporting you to a time before the age of fire.

Knowing how repair powder works, it isn’t completely out of the realm of possibilities.

[michaeliniga]

Aldia is my favorite NPC in the dark souls series. One of the few characters with answers instead of more questions. He saw through all the bullsh!t.

[Jaden-Ring]

I sometimes can't help but see the desire to become great ones in bloodborne as a parallel to the desire to become a dragon to escape a lesser existence in dark souls and even elden ring. Although magma wyrms and childless successful great ones are still left wanting. Showing to me that there really is no perfect existence in these worlds even if you ascend as high as you can.

[ejihajwilhelm]

"Oh hey smoughtowns putting out a video in an hour, oh hell yeah it's about ancient dragons, OH HELL YEAH I have so much laundry to fold to this!"

[sageastreaus]

I absolutely love that you included so much Dark Souls 2 lore towards the end. I know the major controversy behind DS2, but to me, that game is incredible, and will always have a place in my heart.

[thatonefinalgirl]

The time before all others, where these massive dragons could exist when nothing else could, is by far the scariest part of Dark Souls to me! It almost has an Eldritch feeling to it. Great work as always!

[bubbachord]

There is so much depth to these games, how did I never even question what the giant skeletons were in the tomb of the giants

[RossAshmore]

Its not a FromSoft game without dragons of some sort!
I still remember discovering the stone dragon at the bottom of ash lake, it was both terrifying and awe inspiring!

[educatedlaziness]

An interesting take that i had is that perhaps the Giants arent distant relations of the Dragons, but of the Archtrees. Their metamorphosis when they die, taking on even more tree like looks, their connection to the passage of time is similar to the Ancient Dragons but they dont share the same niche. Perhaps they're descendents the same way Kalameet and the Gaping Dragon are, the advent of life and death twisting what were primordial beings into new forms

[Women_Respecter]

Dragons in Dark Souls and Elden Ring hit two different spots.

Dark Souls dragons are all unique and have their own personality.
Elden Ring Dragons show the distinct race of Ancient Dragons in game are still powerful and fearsome, yet rare.

FromSoft having both allows them to scratch both itches

[daniell]

I love the theory that most if not all life can be traced back to the dragons. It links together certain ideas that never quite clicked for me, like the radically different giant skeletons from DS1, or the relationship between giants and dragons. That kind of reminds me how in D&D, Forgotten Realms, the first major war was between Giants and Dragons, similar in power, but different in method and intention. I can't help but wonder if this comparison of DS's giants and dragons is not similar. Giants are not literally dragons, but they are possessed of the same psudo-life the Everlasting Dragons held?

[whatthemeep]

One of my favorite topics in the Dark Souls universe and, as always, beautifully put together and narrated. Keep up the good work sir 🫡

[Ulta_Nagenki]

The fact that Humans could possibly be just evolved dragons just blows my mind. So many ideas from this one little thing. Like using divine and magical spells are innate to us from our once powerful fires or some such ideas.

[hhowdy]

We goin back to the olden days with this one 🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[lemonlefleur]

I’ve always viewed the Fog of the Age of Ancients as a result of the unbroken primordial Fire that mixed both Light and Dark Souls.

This is why the doors to bosses is coated in fog, as the power of our Dark Soul approaching in Contest a powerful Light Soul entity brings forth a shred of the ancient fog as if the two souls were once again mixed through their proximity.

[swift]

Super cool learning about the fog and how it's a causality breaking force in the dark souls world.

Makes me think that's why fog walls appear when you die to a boss. Travelling through it may essentially let you break causality and travel back in time to attempt the fight again from the beginning, explaining why a boss's health regens and the fight restarts. Pretty cool!

[gizmo]

Dragons were alive, they were everlasting, meaning no death, with death came the disparity.