My explanation of the ending and lore of Dark Souls 3 now that the last DLC, the Ringed City, is out!
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To be fair, the Ringed City does do a better job of connecting with old lore; it at least takes place in the same world. But once again, most of the lore and story of the second DLC is either self-contained, connected with Ariandel, or only slightly referential of old lore. Midir, Halflight, the Judicators, Filianore, and especially Gael all fit into one of those three categories. Most of the stuff is new. Filianore technically is connected to gwyn but is essentially a completely new character. Midir and Halflight are 100% new; however Midir does have strong connections with older dragons and the Abyss. And Gael is straight out of Ashes of Ariandel. The pygmies in the Ashen Wastes are really the only characters of old that we find a better insight to through this DLC.
And none of that is necessarily bad, obviously a new DLC should have new characters and stories! But with a whole new cast, we can’t expect a ton of answers to old questions.
Onto the actual ending, Gael, and the Dark Soul. Our final boss is a slave who gets powered up off a blood protein shake. I can see how some could've expected something a bit more grand, especially since that protein shake was basically the namesake of the series, the Dark Soul. I talked about this in my previous lore video, but this fight is unexpectedly a really fitting one. I said I’m not sure how to feel about the ending as a whole, and that's still true, but to me this final boss fight is an amazing one.
Gael is a nobody; that’s huge. Because unlike almost every other boss in the series, that means he’s just like us. The chosen undead, the bearer of the curse, the ashen one. Those are all fancy titles for nobodies. The chosen undead was one of probably millions of undead just like them. The bearer of the curse, the name literally just means one who got cursed, and this is in a land in which the big problem is that that same curse is afflicting everyone! The ashen one is only so because they failed, that’s it. All we did to get our current mystical title is not succeed in linking the fire. That doesn't sound like a real mighty accomplishment to me! We always play as someone who could’ve been anyone so that we can all really connect with our character. We can make our character whoever we think he or she really ought to be or is. That's the role-playing part of this RPG.
So this fight with Slave Knight Gael, is a fight on equal footing. Two nobodies who have had the will and the drive to push forward and complete the task they set out to do in a world of mindless hollows. We have both seen the world crumble and gotten stronger. We have both made it to this last meeting, where no one else stands. Maybe this is the future and truly all have died or been eaten by Gael, leaving only us two as the final living beings. Gael has consumed the Dark Soul to make sure that his lady, the painter in Ariandel, would be able to use his blood, now the blood of the dark soul, to finish her painting. But the Dark Soul has corrupted him; we have to put him down. Maybe he knew we would be the one to do it. Whatever the case, his mind having left him, Gael is now Berzerk and he rampages for the remaining part of the Dark soul that rests in us.
Once we defeat Gael, that’s basically it. There’s no cutscenes, not even a fade to black. We can go back to the painter in Ariandel and giver her the blood of the dark soul. With that we get her ending dialogue, and that’s that. The End. Nothing more. Abrupt. Confusing. What’re we supposed to do now? Shouldn't there be some kind of conclusion?