Dark Souls Lore | "Time is Convoluted" Explained

An infamous line is uttered by Solaire of Astora in Dark Souls 1: "Time is Convoluted", and this has been widly considered to be a lazy hand wave. However I disagree and so in this Dark Souls Lore video we will be examining the concept of time and the fading of the first flame throughout the entire trilogy. We heavily draw on the work of Lokey and his translations in order to mend the discourse on this divisive topic.

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Intro: 0:00
Disparity: 4:23
Lordran: 9:01
Bubbles: 15:32
Drangleic: 22:47
Lothric: 32:46
Issues: 39:02

Shout out to Lokey for without whom this video wouldn't exist.
Lokey Lore: https://lokeysouls.com/
Lokey's Abyssal Archive: http://www.abyssalarchive.com/
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REFERENCES:

Lokey's Q+A Document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LSaN...
Lokey's Abyssal Archive: https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/pr...
Lokey's Article on Dark Souls 2's Beginning: https://lokeysouls.com/2020/11/16/the...
Lokey's Article on Heide: https://lokeysouls.com/2020/11/16/heide/
Lokey's Article on Dark Souls 3's Beginning: https://lokeysouls.com/2020/11/16/the...
Lokey's Article on the Untended Graves: https://lokeysouls.com/2022/08/22/unt...
Polygon with Dark Souls 2 Director: https://www.polygon.com/2012/12/19/37...
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ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Credit to Hawkshaw for the Black Knight 'Spirits' footage: https://youtube.com/@Hawkshaw?si=nPrC...

Credit to Ashen Hollow for letting me use his Ringed City DLC footage from:
   • Dark Souls 3 Lore: Curiosities of The...  
   • A Dark Souls Story | Uncle Gael  

Commission Thumbnail art by S-Mrry:   / bloodexer  

Thumbnail layout by BrightSparkIV:   / brightsparkiv  

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