Sinclair Lore
patreon
Post your "Souls Mix Tape" Suggestions
🕑 Added 2024-06-11 10:12:31 +0000 UTCHi everyone,
This is the post where you can make suggestions for our Souls Mix Tape.
Suggestion 1:
Link
Suggestion 2:
Link
Suggestion 3:
Link
*********************************
For a reminder on what the Souls Mix Take is, please see the post below :)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/introducing-mix-105989397
TLDR: The way Souls Mix Tape will work is that we'll collect questions and discussion topics from our audience, and try to address as many as we can per episode. They can be anything from "How does Pyromancy work?" to "How many versions of Laurence were made during development?" to "What is the Brain of Mensis thinking about?
This will be an ongoing series, and we'll collect questions from our Patrons, Discord members, and YouTube comments. For the first few episodes, however, we will exclusively be asking our Patrons, and opening up to Discord and YouTube users after the series has been established. After that point, we will still be giving Patron questions a higher priority.
Feel free to ask us anything, and we hope you have fun messing with us.
Thanks!
Comments
braindouche
One of fromsofts enduring obsessions is blindness/headlessness. Characters are constantly running around with their eyes covered or missing altogether and it doesn't seem to have a significant impact on their ability to move through the world at all. What is up with that? Why is blindness consistently treated as a non-issue?
Dkard
Last one sorry! George Martin was, IMO, clearly being hyperbolic when he said his lore took place 5,000 years before ER's main plot; nothing would at all resemble what came before if so. What timeline might the shattering to now instead be on, in that case? Decades, generations?
Dkard
Were the Chalice Dungeons as they released (psuedo-procedural, "infinite", decoupled from Yharnam) always FromSoft's intention with Bloodborne, or were they aiming for something more like Elden Ring's world-integrated lil catacombs? Similarly, is there any indication that Elden Ring might have had procedural content serving that purpose at some stage of concept/development instead of the (largely bland) little dungeons we have now? Also, thanks so much for the podcast y'all are the best!
Dkard
A bit outside the box (and long, sorry!), but what's Lordran's deal within the world of Dark Souls? Clearly people go there on pilgrimage and to seek specific things (undead especially). But beyond that, we have pretty good detail on the other nations/cultures but no idea of how they relate to Lordran. Seems that gods can leave and have temporal power elsewhere e.g. Lloyd, but other than that I imagine Anor Londo has been radio silent. Is it a holy seat, former imperial capital, etc? DaS feels very much about empire and capitalism in the abstract, but is there a basis to fit Lordran into a world system more concretely?
braindouche
This question is for Sin: when you're playing Dark Souls 2, what language do you count in?
braindouche
If you can parry with an empty fist, why can't you parry with a pyromancers flame?
Benji Bailey
Is there any behind-the-scenes info on what happened with Sekiro's DLC? Was there a Tomoe DLC that was cancelled, or was that never actually the plan?
Rich B
what's the deal with the guy in bloodborne who asks for the password to the forbidden runes? how was he talking to you if he's already been dead for years? also why did willem assign a single guy to sit behind the door until he died instead of just having some students work shifts or something?
braindouche
Why is the academy packed to the ceiling with dead glintstone? Sellen has plenty of glowing glintstone in her secret lair, and I think seluvis does in his tower too, but the academy doesn't seem to have any glowing glintstone onsite.
Simone Ballesio
Suggestion 1 Has the Erdtree actually burned before? What happened? Suggestion 2 What's the deal with the Chapel of Anticipation? How do we even get there, and why is our maiden dead? I know the starting location was changed during development, but is there any in-game lore related to that place?
jmh, Witch bird
How did the Madiaras Twins' snake become a dream entity/begin infecting the Forbidden Woods?
Sayucchi
Is patches an immortal time traveller or is he reincarnating throughout the series?
Herb
How does Marika compare to Gwyn?
Carcillian
When will you do a "Ladders of Dark Souls" series, where you talk about where each ladder leads to and which one the highest is?
Kimmie
What is the Great Swamp?
Dirk Sofin
Where exactly in time do the Untended Graves exist in DS3? Are they the past? The future? An alternate universe?
Lazor
Is there a lore reason for illusory walls?
heather
Suggestion 1 Who built each elevator in the lands between and why? Suggestion 2 Why do Melina, Ranni at the church of elleh, and torrent all appear out of thin air with the same blue magic starry stuff? Could it be because we are all made of star stuff (the same stuff stars are made out of), and so are our pets? Suggestion 3 Not really a question but please give us more Tricia if you feel so inspired :) Suggestion 4 Why is there red grace in the forbidden lands? Suggestion 5 Who are the corpse wax gargoyles aligned with and who made them? Suggestion 6 Why don't the vulgar milita have a dung eater style fanboy like the omen do?
braindouche
Is Muriel trustworthy? Like, why should we believe everything he says?
VioletHX
Is there a lore explanation for the design of the primal knights in DS2? Really cool design but unlike anything else.
Niamh
Why did Ludwig kill Maria? /j Okay real question now, how did Aldia fuse himself into the fire without kindling it?
JC
Why the primordial serpents? (As in why did they come into being specifically, and last as long as they did)
Sayucchi
Why do you think izalith betrayed the gods and invaded the undead burg with her demons?
Kirke Novak
If you could get the accurate and “canon” answer to any bloodborne lore question, what would it be.
George Allen
thoughts on charred thermos' theory about the "holy medium" found in the labyrinth being the remains of Laurence?
wavesounds
my question is: where do you think the make contact gesture comes from? how does it work?
