Dark Souls III OST (Tone Variation) - Soul of Cinder Theme

Lie down, try not to cry, and cry a lot.

[stubblygraph]

How many times do we need to teach you this lesson old man

[Muchac]

I wish I could just forget everything about Dark Souls 3 and beat it once again, blind and without spoilers while still having DS1 in mind, just to get hit by the feels during Soul of Cinder fight.

[shuryollendll]

SPOILER ALERT - (kinda)

Dark Souls 1 - After a journey of misteries and many lifes wasted in failure, like Artorias, the knights of the White Path, Knights of Catarina, and many than others, all the knights that followed the Great Lord of Sun, Gwyn, into the kiln of the first flame fighting the curse and the end of the Age of Fire. We kinda felt the duty to accomplish our mission and sacrifice ourself in order to not make their past vain, becoming nothing but a puppet in the hands of gods.

Later, we discover that everything was useless.

Dark Souls 2 - Nobody remember anymore of the Four Lords, just their souls remained in this corrupted world, Drangleic, four powerfull souls from the Lands of Lordran.
King Vendrick is looking for a way in order to win the curse, and it seems he managed a way to stop it, but not to heal it. In the meanwhile his brother Aldia, scholar of the First Sin, discover the real cause of the curse: a seal created from Gwyn in order to keep the first flame alive. This is the First Sin of the Gods, their want not to die.
After we "kill" Aldia, he tells us the most important thing of the series:

"But the question remains.. What do you want, truly? Light, Dark, or something else entirely?"

Dark Souls 3 - The flame is now fading in a way that never been before. Lothric refused to link the Fire, that's why bells called for us, champion of Ashes, the resemblance of all the failures of the past. We must find the Lords of Cinder and make them linking the fire, no cares how we manage to do it. During our journey, someone is looking after us: the black church of Londor, descendant of Kaathe's will. We discover that we can usurp the First Fire and give it to the Real Darkness, becoming the Lord of the new age of Humanity.
The path of the big betraial, where we cover all the past with ashes in order to break the cycle of the Fire and creating something completely new, an age without Gods, only humans, and gentil darkness..
So here we are, at the real Kiln of the First Flame once again, fighting the manifestation of all the cursed ones who decided to sacrifice for the Age of Fire, for their Gods.
A fight beetwen the traitors and the serves of Gods, the last fight.
Once we manage to win the Soul of Cinder, here something happens.

He revives.
Nor his body, just His will to not be forgotten.
Lord Gwyn, the first lord of Cinder. His soul is still here, fighting for the last time trying to keep the Fire alive.
But everything is useless, 'cause every fire will turn to Ashes.
And so the flame will fade, and so the world will be merged from grey, silent ashes.

Meanwhile, a strange painter is making his last paint, imaging a new cold, dark and gentle world. A world painted with the blood of the Dark Soul, the same souls that tried to emerge all this time, the same caotic soul that wanted freedom from the seal of Light, the seal of Fire.

A new, dark world, where Dark Souls could be free.

That's the story of many of us, the story of choices, different paths who converged into the same, peacefull end, 'cause everything will vanish, every flame will fade.

Thanks Miyazaki, and all the working team.
Thanks From Software, and absolutely thanks to all the players who lived in this games.
-- A great fan of this series

[rodrigoparrapalma]

2:15
Try not to have vietnam
flashbacks
*has vietnam flashbacks*
Also, The Soul of Cinder
Freed me from all of this
pain.
Dark Souls 3 Truly is...



THE BEST OF THE THREE.
DARK SOULS TWO WAS GOOD
DARK SOULS ONE WAS GUD
DARK SOULS 3 WAS AWESOME
(caps on fucking purpose)

[carlwhitted]

The slight pitch raise gives it that much more kick in the feels. Masterfully done.

[dinorex]

Gwyn's notes always give me goosebumps.
Even after eons, the Great Lord is still here, fighting to his last breath to keep the Flame alive.

[khajiitimanus]

"You'll get your rent when you fix this damn [First Flame]" - Maguire of Cinder, probably

[conor]

I think the 1st part of this ost is really underrated. Yes, the 2nd part is great, but I prefer the 1st part. It really gives of the "battle to end all battles" vibe if you know what I mean. The 2nd part of this theme, while it also gives of the same vibe, disrupted the pace of the ost just a little by going to a more peaceful tone in my opinion. Overall a great soundtrack though. Great work btw :)

[KonradCurz]

The soul of cinder is effectively every dark souls player hence why he uses all forms of attack including the ability to backflip like we could in DS1 when we got dark wood grain ring.

[rinblack]

Beginning of the boss fight: really badass knight with badass music, you feel like this'll be a fight to remember. Few moments in, he switches builds. You're in awe that it's the player character from Dark Souls 1. Your happy yet saddened that you need to kill him.

Phase two starts: Plin, Plin, Plon. Those three notes indicate that an old friend and former boss had returned. You feel the music hitting you in the feels.

[ii]

It was like listening to the song for the first time. By God, this is beautiful. Thank you

[nathanbrown]

I love the superimposed gwyn over the soul of cinder.

Took me too long to notice that...

Didn't even notice it in the first fight against him. I was riding on a wave of aggression fresh off the DLC before I fought the final boss... steamrolled him so badly that I was just...saddened.

[MicrosoftNestleTea]

2:15

The part that gets me most is obviously the piano.
But the vocalist in the background is giving 110% and it's amazing.

[padroelhijodemorzat]

The second phase of this OST always makes me think about a fire fading, because the tone of the music gets slower and quieter, until it completely vanishes

[electheded]

I was waiting for this one...worth the wait

[millwillhill]

always if i here this, i want an feature to repeat bosses again without

[lonetraveler]

Funny how everyone has different lores for this game based on their choices.

Your lore could be that you fought your DS1 character.

Or your lore could be that your DS1 character abandoned the flame and left never to be seen again.

And for the latter, where could they be now? Imagine following Yuria's questline, summoning her for this fight, and halfway through, there they are, and they've been watching you all this while, someone else who finally sees the pointlessness of it all. Yuria extends a greeting to the old master, and you three finish it together, to let this cursed world... rest in peace.

[coffeeseriez]

It's the war...
And the Gorest Battle...
We all gonna die...
The Soul of Cinder is God of Tones...

[abaronofchivalry]

The whole franchise is enough to make a grown man cry. Damn it, this game is too good.

[breadcrumb]

I'm pretty sure in the picture that's a boss from ds 1