Demon's Souls Story ► The Evil in Latria

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[andymcp]

“..There was an elderly man who went too far..”
In a Souls game? No way!

[rhymenoceros]

Latria is easily the most horrifying places Fromsoft has ever created, which is impressive when you remember it was featured in their very 1st Souls game.

[travisoliver]

I couldn't have been the only one who was genuinely horrified at Sage Freke's last dialogue, right? From the start, he's the guy whose aware of the true nature of the Old One, and he's been nothing but helpful. And now he's driven mad by the nature of demon souls. It hits even harder when you realize that we are at least partially responsible for his madness, because we give him demon souls that he can research.

[GRAVYBEATS]

One of my favourite zones from all From Soft games. I'll never forget the first time I started exploring it. Felt like a true survivial horror.

[voodooozo]

Latria, a place so filled with greed would be like an amusement park for Patches the Unbreakable.

[MHSenju]

Latria in the Demon Souls remake is the equivalent of a beautiful nightmare. The darkness with the green emulating light. The falls to your death and the demons lurking around every corner. Latria is despair laid bare....

[justonionbro]

Tower of Latria is the one time I actually liked a dungeon kinda setting in a game

[FirstLast-cgnk]

Regarding the sage's dialogue at the end, consider the following: Ultimate comprehension in the world of Demon's Souls leads to the understanding that reality is *defined* by comprehension. Reality is a kind of collective comprehension shared by all souled beings, but the greater one's comprehension, the greater an impact they have on defining reality. However, if there's only one souled being, and they possess absolute comprehension, can that being be anything other than a god?

Your character, through comprehension, understands that their strength is not defined by their muscles, but by what they believe their strength to be. The same goes for agility, endurance, and all other stats, but most especially Luck. After all, once you understand that comprehension impacts reality, luck stops being luck, and the outcome of events becomes more and more what you decide they should be.

However, there's also a kind of skewing of reality that comes from this viewpoint. After all, if comprehension determines reality, then does that not mean that nothing is truly real save for that which has the power to comprehend? And by having greater comprehension, you are more real than others. If the gulf between how real you are and how real others are becomes great enough, then is killing them and taking their souls, their comprehension truly so terrible? After all, to you they are no more real than the characters in a picture book are to them.

This is why those with the greatest comprehension in Demon's Souls seem to be the more sociopathic to others. After all, one of the most common characteristics of sociopathy is a belief that oneself is the only thing that matters, the only thing that's truly real. Discovering that this is not only true, but one of the fundamental rules of the cosmos, is certain to lead even the sanest and most rational of men to becoming as evil as any demon.

[jbhtah]

I never knew Freke was the one pushing us towards the darker ending.
Thanks Vaati 😊

[dylanschmeichel]

I just realized the heart of Latria somewhat resembles the synthetic behelit Ganishka uses in berserk to create the Daka, as in they both utilize human bodies to then spit out demonic abominations to serve a higher power, i.e. the old monk or in berserk the apostle Ganishka himself. Just an interesting resemblance.

[greathorn]

I always forget just how compelling and complete the lore of Demon’s Souls really was. None of this information is vital to playing the story, but it’s in there anyhow. So good.

[bb-imhf]

"There was an elderly man that went too far..."
I see the ancestor is doing well, even away from his manor

[JustDaZack]

Prepare to Cry is such an awesome series.

[fernandosantello]

I remember playing the Ramake the day my PS5 arrived. I worked the entire day so I just got to play at night, but luckily it was a Friday. Me, at my living room, the world around me dead silent, alone, at 2 AM playing through Latria.


The immersion was absurd. One of my favorite gaming moments ever

[AssailantLF]

fun fact: the giant heart thing in Latria is very clearly based on something similar in Berserk. However, in Berserk it's not a heart, but a giant demonic *womb*, which kind of makes more sense given that it spawns monsters.

[douglatins]

The detail you show these games have make just gasp in awe in their majesty

[someguyshere]

Mandatory comment

"Lady Maria Prepare To Cry when?"

Great Vidya work as always. Thank You

[dylanmalone]

Latria is something straight out of one of HP Lovecraft's stories
The monstrosities, the hunt for forbidden knowledge, the old king in yellow cloth, all sounds like something he would had written himself

[artorias]

Man, I really wish I can play this game and experience everything first hand, sad that it's been almost a year since the remake came out and I still can't even play it

[strychen]

I'm saddened by the lack of Demon's Souls content on YouTube with the remake being out. I'm having a blast building blue and red toons. So glad to be back in Boltaria!