background story Demon’s Soulsis a FromSoftware game that launched the “Souls” sub-genre of role-playing games, and is a classic story about human hubris: as Demon’s Souls Remastered,”King Arant XII brought unprecedented prosperity to his northern kingdom of Boletaria by channeling the power of souls. That is, until the colorless deep fog swept across the earth.” players Demon’s Souls Witness the destructive state of fallen Boretalia – its proud castle walls crumbling and its halls teeming with soul-devouring demons and their mindless slaves. But what was Boletaria like before its downfall? How did King Orante reach the pinnacle with the power of soul art, and what made him decide to end it all by awakening the old soul eater? Players can learn the answers to these questions by talking to Boletarian NPCs in the game. Demon’s Souls world…but the truth of Boletaria’s past can only be found in the player’s imagination, as game designer Hidetaka Miyazaki intended.
Demon’s Souls (and its spiritual successors dark soul) is very concerned with the concept of the soul, which is not surprising. Mechanically, these in-game souls serve as both experience points and a form of currency. The souls of enemies will be transferred to the player after they are defeated, and various merchants in the game world will exchange souls for new weapons, supplies, and magical disciplines. The colorful souls of enemy bosses—demons, gods, dragons, and fallen heroes—can even be transformed into powerful weapons or magical arts in the right hands. rarely (if ever) Demon’s Souls or dark soul Seems to question the ethics of soul exchange, the source of human life, and self-awareness.
In fact, this arrogant attitude towards the commodification of souls seems to predate the deep fog and demonic plagues witnessed in the game’s plot. Demon’s Souls. In fact, the more players look at the world design of places like Boletaria’s Palace and the attitudes of lower level NPCs like the Dredger Merchant, the more they realize that Boletaria’s “Golden Age” is like many Golden Ages in history The same, was established by exploiting slaves and victims, whose souls were extracted to empower great works of magic.
Demon’s Souls: Boletaria at its peak
In a conversation on Nexus Demon’s SoulsOstrava of Boletaria, a wandering knight easily frightened, described his country thus:
Before the plague, Boletaria was a magnificent kingdom. The king, his knights, and subjects are humble and unassuming, but also steadfast and compassionate. I have spent a lot of time studying in the cultured countries of the South, but no country has captured my heart quite like Boletaria.
But look what we’ve become now! I don’t believe this is what Father wanted for our great land…
Later in the game, Ostrava’s true identity is revealed: he is Ariona, the son of King Arant, a frightened yet unusually brave young man who idealized the world he had spent most of his life away from. Motherland and father. Additionally, he is a particularly sheltered member of Boletaria’s nobility, and his growth mindset blinds him to the lives and perspectives of Boletaria’s more common subjects.
From another point of view, players Demon’s Souls Can be talked to the dredger trader found in Boletaria Palace, he is a scavenger who mocks Ostrava as “Spoiled son.’ When it came down to it, he had this to say:
Whether they are brave knights or humble fodder, demons will steal their souls and drive them to madness regardless of their status. And those who dare to stand up for their humanity are hunted. This was the end of the great Bolletaria as we know it. But gosh, at least the demons won’t let us die in battle!
Cynical observation by Dre Green hints at dark side of Boletaria’s ‘great kingdom’ Demon’s Souls, existed even before King Arant ignited the demonic apocalypse. Throughout the game, the ill-equipped “Dregling” enemies are a group of lower-class slaves whose equipment is broken and used as expendable human shields for the more fortunate members of Bolletarian society. With the mentality of “sacrifice the poor so that the rich prosper”, is it any wonder that King Arant and his fellow nobles embraced the idea of devouring the souls of their subjects for the sake of power?
Demon’s Souls: Magic and Demonic Servants of Boletaria
multiple points in the plot Demon’s Souls Players will encounter artificial demons, amalgams of soul energy created by powerful wizards or magicians–for example, the old monk and his cannibals, or King Alante himself and his sword-wielding “demonic” reflection. In fact, the Great Old Ones, the primordial beings behind the creeping Mist, can’t actually create demons themselves – only empower those who wish to create or become demons themselves.
Dragons can be seen throughout the Boletaria Palace area Demon’s Souls Described by NPCs as King Arant’s “pets,” certain demons (such as the “Vanguard” boss seen at the beginning of the game) wear chains, indicating that they were bound or controlled by humans in the past. This suggests that before the Deep Mist spread, the magicians of Bolletaria used the Soul Arts to create demons, and they used these powerful creatures as beasts of burden, servants, and stand-ins for warfare.
Bolletaria’s fabled prosperity came not from a techno-industrial revolution but from a magical demonic revolution, with demonic laborers building the massive walls and looming towers of Bolletaria’s capital while craftsmen using demonic powers Souls create artifacts of power (much like Blacksmith Ed can do in the game with the Soul of the Flame Lurker). Then the Old Gods awoke, took control of the demons, and commanded them to devour the souls of all humans. Or maybe the masters of these demons never change.
Demon’s Souls: The Despair of King Arante
in the backstory Demon’s Souls, King Alante is portrayed as a great monarch of King Arthur level, and even has his own knight “round table” – the royal two-tooth Valafax and Biot, Alfred, Tower Knight, Metas, Lancer Knight, Longbow Ulan. Biot, one of the only surviving knights, had only a few good things to say about Arrante, describing him as a magnanimous ruler—”Cold, lively, and caring for his subjects.However, as the player’s character travels through the deep fog into Boletaria, King Arante’s goal is to feed all human souls to the Great Old One and destroy the world. How did he go from a benevolent monarch to a forgotten man – looking for villains?
In his climactic rant where he reveals his motivations to the player Demon’s Soulslamented the mutated, pathetic Arrante”The world is full of pain and suffering,” sees the Old One’s consumption of each soul as the end of suffering, and asserts “No one wants to go on.Thematically, Arante is a metaphor for depression and the fight against it, and his view of death as an escape from torment stands in stark contrast to the persistence of the player character, who has endured countless hardships in his struggle to reach Arante Death and frustration.
among the many secrets Demon’s SoulsAmong them, the most mysterious one may be the reason why King Alant fell from a wise king to a murderous crusader against humanity. Perhaps, after bringing the Kingdom of Bolletaria to its heyday, Arante felt dissatisfied and without goals. Or maybe he had a terrifying moment of clarity and realized that his utopian kingdom was built on the suffering of an oppressed underclass and soul-drained victims.In either case, it’s not a fight to alleviate the pain he sees in the world Demon’s SoulsAlante chose to try to wipe them all out.