Dark Souls Lore - The Firekeeper

Dark Souls III Lore - The Firekeeper of Firelink Shrine

The last DaS3 lore video I'll be making for a while; have I saved the best until last? Not exactly, but the Firekeeper lady seems to be the perfect way to send things off, for the time being.

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[Lord_Deimos]

Micolash: 'Grant us eyes, grant us eyes.'
DS3 Firekeeper: 'Goddamnit Ashen One don't take that lunatic literally.'

[saytans]

nuff said....she a beauty that i cant betray.

[tobequitefranco]

"Ashen one, are these...are these eyes?"
Ashen one: ;)
Firekeeper: how...thoughtful...

[bobjim]

I hearst thou voice waifu... i hearst...

[daviddu]

This is why she is the best girl of dark soul

[Nght_Ktsune]

For sone reason, I keep thinking that End of Fire ending is a romantic build up between the Ashen One and the Firekeeper and hearing the last words on what sehe said about hearing hear voice sounds like a combination between loyalty to the Ashen One and a more "closer connection" between the two. But who knows I might be wrong or right.

[atomicbrain]

0:38 - The maiden who strengthens our *flacid soul

[virgilthemob]

There's no way someone with a heart would ever strike his waifu down like that. She's just a pure, young girl who couldn't even see till you gave her eyes. She's worth protecting at all costs, not slaughtering to claim the fire for yourself.

[OldManMcLoyf]

In the DS3 first trailer, we can see the Firekeeper crown have swirling darkness within it, looking quite like the “egg” of Filianore.

[exandil]

Holy shit I just realized first fire keeper is Fillianore. Ludleth is a pygmy and knew her omg she is also blind

[cloudbloom]

A lot of people think that Vaati is the best when it comes to the lore of these games, but I'd argue that you are right up there with him. I've been watching your videos for years and you have such a great way of telling these interpretations of the lore. Thank you for all the hard work invested into each video you have made.

[Boogie]

Can't shake from my mind the thought if the Ashen One engages in the betrayal but doesn't strike down the Fire Keeper she calls out to them. Ashen One reaches out, fingers intertwine and so do they.

[OldManMcLoyf]

In my opinion...
25% Possibility she is the Fair Lady
25% Possibility she is the Sister of the Sable Church, Liliane.
50% Possibility she is just a random Firekeeper.

[FamousZaggy]

Besides the whole painting a new world with the pigment stuff, I've always preferred to not light the fire. Rekindling the fire is just prolonging the inevitable, whereas not lighting means the world can finally end. Perhaps FromSoftware wants it that way, by beginning a new world, somewhere that cuts its ties with Dark Souls.

[kippersu]

Eyes are the 'windows to the soul' were you to remove the windows you would cast your soul into the dark. Alternatively, maybe doing so keeps the light of a firekeeper's soul from escaping making them seem emotionless.

[jacobfreeman]

Snuffing out the flame is my favorite ending. You can choose what happens to the firekeeper...but I never have the heart to attack her. Maybe it is the wonder in her voice if you don't...like she did expect betrayal and you did a thing she did not forsee. Also the fact she says she sees other flames in this new darkness to come...I find hope in this. The cycle of flame, whether it be a flame of the gods or a flame of man is still just the age of fire. A path tread over ceaseless for time immemorial. A thing done so many times the very world is weary of it. What would have happened if the gods had not tried to force the world into their own image in a fit of pure hubris? This is a thing I want to know. Why is it seen as the end? Do we know the world will end if fire fades completely? All we know if the fears of the gods...whose rule was venal from the start.

[salahad-din]

I like to think of it as, in the kill the firekeeper ending, The Ashen One becomes the host of the first flame, and when they do battle with Gael, it is the Host of the Dark Soul vs the Host of the First Flame.

[bandarsalh]

The age if darkness is the ending that I chose last because it is the best
Us with our firekeeper till the end

[TheNamelessScholarOfficial]

I think the Secret ending of Dark Souls 3 (the one that is a demon's Souls reference) as the ending where Ashen one has a change of heart in the last moment, strikes her down to a desperate attempt at saving the first flame. But fails and the age of dark comes anyway. Firstly this is speculation. Secondly. The reason why I think the ending is this way is 1. well... It's more depressing. Because as you know in Dark Souls. For the most part. There are no happy endings.
2. Look at the way how Ashen one holds the first flame. It looks like the Ashen one is offering it to either the Darksign or the bonfire.
The subtitles I think It's a way to mislead the players.

[bradleyallen]

As with everything in Dark Souls, our Fire Keeper is never what she seems. She's aloud a sliver of light to remember her grand betrayal. We have our own.

She remembers. And so does Ludleth. An unquenchable dark for a seemingly infinite cycle. Although this one has a beginning. What they believed was a gift, a sacrifice, was nothing more than a nail into the coffin.

Give her the eyes.

Rise.