(slowed)Gwyn ,Lord of Cinder

Just though bout some tragic piano,and decided to make a slowed version of Gwyn's bossfight theme.My first try ever.

[Peachpilled]

I’m surprised hardly anyone has done this, at least that I can find besides that 600% slowed video. This sounds just right dude. Nice job.

[Gnompus]

1:23 most underrated part in my opinion, love how the piano seems hopeful for a moment before seeming to seep back into repetition and agony

[TheWolfPackGAC]

This fight is heartbreaking.
You find a husk of a former god. He's sacrificed himself to preserve his age of fire. And what's worse is he is incredibly weak, the fight almost makes you want to be reluctant in killing him.
Dark souls is an incredible game.

[DivineBanana]

You can really appreciate how intricate and complex this piece is when the notes are allowed to linger a bit like this. Truely breathtaking!

[archivelibrarian]

You finally make it to the one everyone has been talking about, and it turns out he is weak.
Instead of having a triumphant victory, your victory feels empty and hollow.
Instead of an epic battle, it feels like you're beating down someone who has already been defeated.
It's almost like all of these legends have been lies told to you by the world the entire time.
The dark truth of the world, the reality of your actions, it all comes to it's boiling point right here.
There is no good ending.

That is the point of Gwyn, the "lord" of cinder.

[vviprz]

Your fight is done, hollowed king.

For there is no kingdom left to protect.

Only ash, only ruin.

Only… inevitably

[StuckInAnEternalLoop]

Gwyn is, compared to the rest of the Dark Souls universe, one of the strongest people to ever exist. He fought against the dragons (The player only faces a few and all of them are either damaged by time and death, don't have invincibility or can't even properly fly when they fight you), the demons, that were created by the same power as the one that rests within him, gave massive junks of his soul away as a sign of thankfulness or out of fear, set himself on fire and burned for eternities. And when we fight him, literally having defeated the kings, the god of death, the witch of izalith, seath and so on, getting power out of them, he still doesn't give in and fights to the bitter end, even able to keep up with Solaire's help. Heck, in DS3 the Cinder's last line of defense against you is using gwyn's soul, that is even more used by now than in DS1.
And his mental state isn't even described here.

[zacharyblanks]

At first when I entered the arena to fight Gwyn, I heard this and was so confused at first. I was expecting a grand cutscene showing Gwyn’s might, but no; I was just thrown into the fight with this music playing in the background. All I could then feel was immense guilt. All the lore finally connected for me and after the fight, it felt relieving and so depressing at the same time. I finally beat a game that I never thought I was going to beat ever in my lifetime.

But at the end, I lit the first flame and lost everyone and everything anyway. All I could tell myself was that I believed I did good, but at what cost?

[ultamatemario]

Honestly hearing this with the boss fight would make it sound fitting cuz the music sounds like a husk as it used to be while gwyn was an empty shell on par to his prime state

[karzaisheikh]

I personally think that he’s not a bad guy. Imagine if you created an empire for your family and friends just for one day everything you worked for will be turn to ash. The dude sacrifice himself so that his empire will last a little longer, I feel bad and also emphasize him for what he did. He’s a god that’s loosing his powers but refuse to accept it. In the end everything he have is ash.

[spragoodle]

It’s decided, I want this playing at my funeral

[morganjenkins]

A king who rules over an ever expanding empire, now only rules over its ruins, rubble and... ash

Gwyn, once the lord of sunlight, now only rules over nothing but cinders.

[Saladass-kchh]

You Can parry Gwyn But ya Can't Parry the FEELS

[joshnaround_]

His story is soooo sad..smh an excellent character for a truly amazing game

[thegamecritic]

It's honestly amazing how this game plays with your feelings. If you think about it, Gwyn is a unique character because of how YOU the player view him. Some view him as the villain who got what deserved in the end, for permanently changing the cycle of nature and betraying humanity. Others see him as a hero, who fought valiantly for what he held dear and bravely sacrificed to save what was left of his crumbling legacy. Be it, villain or hero, let it be known: That Gwyn's character was amazing in terms of lore. That and he was scared of the dark 🤣

[norre_]

Dark Souls is a game made by people that know how to make a tragedy world,
this game is 90% of the time struggle and perseverance,

some times in a boss fight you even begin to doubt if this struggle is even worth it,

you push forward, not matter the challenge, and yet, the game does not have a happy, satisfying ending.

You surely wondered what is your real purpose is this world, linking the first flame is the one set by default to you, but somehow even after you link the first flame there is still this feeling of seeking a purpose.

You fight in this lands with harsh boss fights, annoying enemies, but the same lands of good companions and friends.

But in the end, Dark Souls is a tragedy, and all of this companions are killed, all of the joy that you had is killed, just like how the fire fades and the world is consumed by darkness, you too, slowly becomes more hopeless about fighting in this world.

Dark Souls is a purposeless world, a sad, grim, aggresive world.

The pursuit of purpose in a purposeless world.

[DeSchft]

When this fight happened in my first playthrough, I was glad I died so I coukd hear this master piece again. Since then it's been sitting in my playlist.

[misfit]

This sounds even more sad than the original

[mudges]

To be accurate, this can be played on piano. It's only three-half steps down from the original key. I play it this way all the time, cuz I like it better.

[phobetor]

It leaves you wondering if sacrificing everything is worth anything if it leaves you like this in the end.