The Abyss, the Deep, and the "Dark" of Dark Souls

In this episode of Fear the Old Lore, we examine the Abyss, the Deep, the Dark, "stagnation," and their ties between games to gain a better understanding of the lore of Dark Souls.

This one took an extremely long time to write and produce, partially because of the scope of the project, and partially from trying to not overexplain or underexplain things. I probably end up doing both anyway, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

Special shout-outs to Carlos Oliveira/Erick Gondo, Mor'tis Vult, and cad5150's channel for helping me get footage for Dark Souls 2 and Demon's Souls, and a huge shout-out to censhin for creating https://logansarchives.com/ for me so I could sift through all 3 games' text in Japanese, English, (and even Chinese) extremely quickly. It was an immense help in creating this video, and it probably wouldn't have been possible without it. Also shout-out and special thanks to the creator of https://leminerva.github.io/Dark-Soul..., where the text for all 3 games in Japanese, Chinese, and English can be found.

Sorry for any of the very mild spoilers for Sekiro and Bloodborne. I really should have put up a spoiler alert, but I didn't think about it until the video was already finished.

Here's the link to wikipedia's page about the Abyss. It's really fascinating. I recommend checking it out because I certainly didn't have enough time to discuss it more in the video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyss_(...)

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Link to my Japanese to English Retranslations of Bloodborne and assorted Dark Souls text:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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0:00 - Intro
0:20 - What is the Dark?
1:35 - Duality - Product of Disparity
2:19 - Life and Dark
3:23 - Life and Will
5:56 - The Dark - Drawn Towards Life
6:39 - The Emotions of the Abyss
8:21 - Fear and the Dark
11:51 - Emotion - The True Essence of Life Itself
13:42 - Transcending Life through the Path of Dragons
16:13 - The Transformations of Men into Trees, Pus, and Dragons
17:47 - Taking the Dark out of the Abyss
22:08 - The Potential of the Abyss
23:35 - The Effect of the First Flame on Darkness
25:36 - Manus, "Master" of the Abyss?
28:36 - The Blood of the Dark Soul, or Dark Soul Blood?
30:57 - Blood - Container of the Soul?
32:46 - The Rotting, Stagnant World and the Painted World
37:20 - The Deep - Corrupted by Blood, Pus, and Tears?
40:13 - Aldrich, Artorias, Blood, and the Dark
41:19 - Dark Devouring Desires
44:30 - Dregs, Vermin, Yodomi, Stagnation, Blood, Poison, Rot, and the Dark
48:10 - Cleansing the Dark and Completing the Cycle
50:50 - Breaking the Cycle
51:53 - Outro