Pieces of The Past - Dark Souls 3

#darksouls #lore #story

An exhaustive list of all of the various easter eggs or references from dark souls 2 that are found in dark souls 3. or all the ones i can think of. and their lore significance

[cheche]

See this is why I like dark souls 2, as it actually feels like time has past ! Like lots of time ! Names of gods forgotten and stuff

[Cricket]

50:34 the entire ringed city dlc is the player going from Dark Souls 3 (areas with Lothric knights) to Dark Souls 2 (Earthen Peak) to Dark Souls 1 (the old firelink shrine at the demon prince arena, Ringed city which is where the pygmies originated) such a brilliantly designed Finale DLC

[jonaswest]

The ds3 merchant always struck me as possibly being or related to the soup spoon lady who took care of the ds2 keepers. And now she's the only one left.

[Zulmofo]

Dark Souls 2 is getting some much needed love recently and that makes me happy. I wish that they referenced Straid and Ornifex in 3, it wouldve been cool to even get some hints about them. Hell even Navlan or whoever is locked up in aldia keep lol

[TheHonoredMadman]

I really dropped the ball forgetting about patches/lapp hollowing. But perhaps i myself and begining to hollow

[LovelessDogg]

Oh, Pate literally is Patches, at least he was originally. It's not just a player theory or anything like that, it's supposed to be him. That old concept art of Patches for DS2 belonged to Pate before he was changed to a different character, and if you use modding to remove his helmet you can see he's using Patches face and bald head.

I think it was changed because he's kind of a trademark of Miyazaki. He seems to only really show up in games he's had a major hand in making and since he barely did anything for that game, patches was turned into Pate.

[RxAxIxNxBxOxW]

I absolutely love the setting and the whole story of DS2, is the game that makes me imagine the most, also the fashion is amazing!

[spookynya]

Another character reference (or reincarnation maybe) from DS2 in DS3: In the third DLC from DS2, in Elyum Loyce you get invaded by an npc called Holy Knight Aurheim who wields a greatsword and the Mirrah Shield. In DS3 you meet Holy Knight Hodrick, who also uses a greatsword and the same shield (now called the sunset shield)

[BigHuskyGG]

everyone kept telling me DS2 was disconnected from DS1 and 3 and the more I played the DS2 and uncovering all of the story the more I kept commenting "but I thought this wasn't connected to the other games" in a sarcastic manner

[Lord_St]

Zullie the witch (youtubers) deserves an in game reference on their next release. Imagine a dark witch invader who can clip through walls

[onionsieglinde]

I love how DS3 shows that the Bearer of the Curse kept his promise to Lucatiel

[Maxiom]

I have a lot of critiques of DS3 and it's plot, but one bit that I like to think was that the "Usurpation of Flame" ending was something akin to what Nashandra was planning to do with the Throne of Want.

[siamihari]

The Profane Capital and Yorms Section of DS3 felt unifinished,
Im of the oppinion if the content here wasnt cut or time had permitted more ds2 would have been found surrounding yorm

[JanJansen]

Dark souls 3 has a reference to the best waifu of dark souls 2



Laddersmith Gilligan

[RealEvilLordExdeath]

Very good Video, i also think Aldia is the reason why the people in dark souls 3 know so much about dark souls 1 while in 2 most of that was forgotten.

I think aldia teached about the first sin and the old gods to the people of lothric

[slightlytwistedagain]

Not fully into the video yet but I've got some quick points on some of the things you mentioned. When it comes to specific weapon types, slash weapons are the preferred type to use on undead as blood animates their bodies, so by draining undead blood you can imprison one in their unmoving vessel.

You're spot on about the relation of Yuria's mask with the Crimson set mask from DS1. That's because they're Corvid, as in crows which means Velka. You seen other Velka symbology on the Crimson set such as a crescent moon pendent, as well as a pendent eye orb (the official art of the Crimson Set shows this as well). You would be surprised how many people overlook these details on this set. I don't know what the full circle on the Red Crimson set is exactly, but that could be a Way of White circlet seeing as Velka is the patron saint of the Way of White even though Allfather Lloyd is the head bishop.

[kevindangelo]

Man we're on the same ds replay cycle. My kid came out of his room last week and said, are u playing ds2? Isn't that the worst one? His favorite is ds3 but I'm so proud of him.

[victorprati]

Very awesome video my dude!

The theme of hollowing and forgetting your memories from DS2 still is present in DS3
Anri of Astora goes hollow after fufilling his quest
Horace goes hollow after falling off the bridge before High Lord Wolnir
The entire Patches/Lapp questline from the Ringed City DLC revolves around this same concept

The whole premise of lords not willing to link the first flame in DS3 could also be attributed to DS2 ending where you go for something else entirely ignoring the cycle and trying to break free from it.
which leads to the stagnant state of the world we see in DS3.

Not saying that the Giants didn't sail in long boats but the wrecked ones you see in DS2 have the Drangleic banner so it's safe to say those are from Vedrick's team

It would be cool to see a video about ds2 concepts used in Elden Ring

[BlankMannXrx]

Another downside to the blue moon great-sword is the lack of scaling

[LastProtagonist]

The oracles mentioned in the Profaned Capital use different kanji than what's used for Alsanna in DS2. Although they don't really seem related, the icons for the Prisoner's Chain for Gundyr and the Embedded Ring thing in DS2 are virtually identical. Btw, I also have been streaming reactions to some of your videos here on yt. You should be able to find them by checking out your "Mentions" tab.

I appreciate the videos, there were definitely some references that I missed, so well done. Looking forward to more!