Yeah he's pretty much made to be parried. Something like Silver Tracer + Hornet Ring really helps there. Which ending did you go for?
lit the bonfire
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One shall stand, one shall ball.
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I interpreted the ending as that I sacrificed myself to rekindle the original flame, thus preventing the end of the age of man.
It's the opposite actually, the whole point of lighting the fire is to artificially extend the age of fire and hold off the age of man. Gwyn doing so was how this all happened in the first place. If you clear the Four Kings before placing the Lordvessel you meet another Stache Snake who tells you a lot more about what's going on than Frampt does.
Because Frampt is literally full of shit, you see.
Dark Souls is cool, Fine work, Skeleton! #kaathelife
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I interpreted the ending as that I sacrificed myself to rekindle the original flame, thus preventing the end of the age of man.
It's the opposite actually, the whole point of lighting the fire is to artificially extend the age of fire and hold off the age of man. Gwyn doing so was how this all happened in the first place. If you clear the Four Kings before placing the Lordvessel you meet another Stache Snake who tells you a lot more about what's going on than Frampt does.
Because Frampt is literally full of shit, you see.
Dark Souls is cool, Fine work, Skeleton! #kaathelife
I thought the creation of the flame is what marked the beginning of the age of man?
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Story-wise there isn't a "normal" way, really. It's just easy to miss that you can leave.
An ending that's easy to miss could easily be called an alternative ending, imo
Sure, depends on what you mean by "alternative". I was basically just saying that they're both equally canon and that one isn't just a bad or obscure ending.
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I interpreted the ending as that I sacrificed myself to rekindle the original flame, thus preventing the end of the age of man.
It's the opposite actually, the whole point of lighting the fire is to artificially extend the age of fire and hold off the age of man. Gwyn doing so was how this all happened in the first place. If you clear the Four Kings before placing the Lordvessel you meet another Stache Snake who tells you a lot more about what's going on than Frampt does.
Because Frampt is literally full of shit, you see.
Dark Souls is cool, Fine work, Skeleton! #kaathelife
I thought the creation of the flame is what marked the beginning of the age of man?
The Age of Fire is the age of the gods, which is basically the whole lot around Gwyn. Both sides have their own agenda and don't care about you. And there are no good or bad guys, just people trying to carve a world out for themselves.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
Basically the story of Dark Souls is one of gods that realized their time was ending and trying to stop it with varying degrees of success. The Witch of Izalith tried to just remake the first flame and you saw how well that worked. Gwyn Said fuck it and used himself as kindling pretty much to keep his shit going even though it kind of didn't if you saw the real Anor Londo.
My take is that the Dark Souls world has a sort of cycle to it where fire and dark take turns and life as we see it just sort of happens in the interim. Your character is very much not human, you're an undead, Gwyn wasn't a human, it's possible you never actually meet a human in the whole game. Except maybe Manus, who might be The Most Human. Undead exist because the current age of fire is ending, or should have ended, and given way to humanity. It's just that what humanity would be at that point isn't necessarily what you'd think. Probs a bunch of giant ghosts floating around infinite blackness until the next cycle.
My take is that the Dark Souls world has a sort of cycle to it where fire and dark take turns and life as we see it just sort of happens in the interim. Your character is very much not human, you're an undead, Gwyn wasn't a human, it's possible you never actually meet a human in the whole game. Except maybe Manus, who might be The Most Human. Undead exist because the current age of fire is ending, or should have ended, and given way to humanity. It's just that what humanity would be at that point isn't necessarily what you'd think. Probs a bunch of giant ghosts floating around infinite blackness until the next cycle.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
I mean, eventually, whichever choice you make will get undone by time finally having its way. The end is just sort of a choice between keeping things on life support or just letting it all reset itself. It matters to you, because it's about what you believe should be done, you're the god now. It's just that it doesn't really matter the the universe as a whole.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
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It can easily be assumed that you are human when the game says 'revived to human' after reversing hollowing. The undead who are being imprisoned in the north are humans who have gone hollow.
It's notable that you have to consume a humanity to "revive". It's something you lack, not inherent to you. Your character may have been human at one point but they are very much an undead when the game takes place.
Humanity is, in fact, poisonous if I recall a few item descriptions correctly.
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It can easily be assumed that you are human when the game says 'revived to human' after reversing hollowing. The undead who are being imprisoned in the north are humans who have gone hollow.
It's notable that you have to consume a humanity to "revive". It's something you lack, not inherent to you. Your character may have been human at one point but they are very much an undead when the game takes place.
Humanity is, in fact, poisonous if I recall a few item descriptions correctly.
You only lack it because you are in the state of being hollow. It wouldn't say 'revived to human' if it wasn't a return to the state of being human.
Besides, I refuse to believe that my character was born as an undead baby and grew up as an undead.