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This supposed to be funny.

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Aldia's human form

I was surprised to discover many people aren't actually aware that the key art of Scholar of the First Sin depicting a bearded man with a crown is most likely Aldia in the flesh.

Now, it may seem bold to just claim this, especially since many people assume that's Vendrick. I mean, he is holding his crown after all! And I get this, they look alike; they are both bearded old men with similar clothes... but I think it's worth pointing out key differences between the two subjects:

When compared side-by-side the differences become rather obvious. The two are wearing completely different clothes, and the character in the key art notably lacks one of Vendrick's more iconic features: his two long braids running at the side of his beard.

The clothing style is also very interesting, as it makes the man look less like a king and conqueror and more like a wizard or priest. The silhouette is more akin to robes! Since he was a magical researcher and seemed to practice strange rituals, this attire would fit Aldia quite well. Other notable differences in their attires include the long sleeves and the seeming lack of a cape (and if there is, it looks really different)

I will admit, their facial structure is quite similar though, but that's easily explained by the fact the two are brothers. It can be missed since it's information only gained from item descriptions.

This also explains why the figure would have a similar style to that of Vendrick without being the king himself!

But I can understand if someone isn't convinced yet. Him holding Vendrick's crown seems odd in isolation, doesn't it? There is a way to explain this though, and that comes from the pattern established by the other DLCs. Their covers all featured the crowns of the old kings. It would only be fitting for the final version of the game to continue the theme with the crown that had yet to be depicted.

And keep in mind, this is the "Scholar of the First Sin" edition, which introduced Aldia as an in-game character rather than a lore-only one. It stands to reason that he would be featured in some way on the cover. Heck, the other key art for the game is one of the Forlorn, who are his creations!

So there, here's my case for why this guy has to be Aldia. I think his design has too many departures to be Vendrick and it just makes sense for Aldia to be featured on the cover of the game named after his title ahahah. These are just my thoughts, but I believe the case is pretty strong.

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Dark Souls’ Kings And Lords

Gwyn: I will raise this son as a daughter and in general take a whole diarrhea on him regardless of his merits and accomplishments because he was born aligned to a different aspect than me. I will also disown my other son and erase any records of his identity and history. I embarked on genocide of dragons for possibly very shady reasons, and was fully on board with a dangerous project to recreate that which cannot be replicated, resulting in a catastrophic failure that mutated a wise and peaceful civilization into murderous beast. You are supposed to feel bad about having to kill me, as the sad piano that plays while we duke it out suggests.

King of Oolacile: Dude, what if we totally dabbled in the forbidden arts with our golden sorceries (read: utility spells) as our only back-up and tortured this ancient conglomeration of twisted existences that we revived just to satisfy our sick curiosity? That’d be RAD, I hope nothing about this bites us in the ass down the lane, am I right.

The Four Kings: Man, it was really a challenge, but we finally got this whole New Londo jimjam going strong and steady! *phone rings* GUYS, THIS SNAKE THAT ANTAGONIZES EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR PROMISES TO TEACH US THE 120% ILLEGAL ART OF LIFEDRAIN, LET’S ROLL, I MEAN, WHAT’S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?

King Vendrick: *playing the harmonica off-note in his shitty crypt* I married this really hot chick but she turned out to be, like, a literal aspect of darkness hell-bent on the obliteration of civilization, so, hey, whatevs, man, you gotta compromise in marriage, right? *takes a swig of a black label Johnnie Walker* she then was like “honey, you gotta murderize that entire civilization of peaceful giants”, so we did! It was GREAT, we lost over half of our population, I redefined the concept of “war crime”, it was mad cool, man, well, except for the part where I realized what I had done, engaged full pussy mode, and locked myself in a crypt, where I took to wandering naked and afraid while my bodyguard protects me, despite the fact that I am insanely strong and immortal and wise. WHATCHA GONNA DO *LIFTS ARMS IN MOCK SURRENDER* *LAUGH TRACK PLAYS*

Duke Tseldora: ＳＰＩＤＥＲＳ

The Sunken King: Whew! That took a LOT of time, but we finally did it! We built a whole city around this slumbering dragon, our object of worship! This is, in no way, a dangerous idea at all. You know what is also not dangerous? Why, those famed Dragonslayers coming over by yonder, the Drakeblood Knights, led by Sir Yorgh, famed Dragonslayer! Let’s see what they want!

Old Iron King: LOOK AT ALL THIS METAL, HOMIE. LOOK AT MY COOL ASS SAMURAI MAN TEACHING MY KNIGHTS TO BE SAMURAI, HOMIE. LOOK AT THIS BITCHIN’ FUCKIN’ FORMER DRANGLEIC KNIGHT, RAIME, WHO CAME TO SERVE ME, HOMIE. YEAH BABY, WE GOT IT ALL IN THE IRON KINGDOM, WE GOT THESE CROSS-CULTURAL SAMURAI KNIGHTS PIMPING UP THE PLACE WITH PLATE ARMOR AND IAI, MAN, AND WE– H-hold on, Alonne, baby? Where you going, man? Baby, no, I can change, I swear, please come back, baby, NO, BABY, ALONNE *SHANKS ALONNE* aw fiddlesticks well I guess my kingdom goes to fuck now ‘cause I will throw the biggest, meanest tantrum in the history of big diaper pissbabies LET’S GO

Ivory King: Hello! I love you! Yes, you! Whoever is reading this, I love you! I really do! And while I love you a lot, there’s someone I love even more, and that’s my beautiful wife, Alsanna! God, I love my wife, she’s so beautiful and kind and smart, I just want her to be happy forever. I know, she’s a literal aspect of darkness who came with evil intentions and zealous desire to raze my lands, but, I know that anyone, anyone, is capable of redemption, and my love has confirmed that. I love my wife, and I love my kingdom Eleum Loyce, my capable knights, my beautiful tigers, my kingdom of snow and peace! Wanna know a secret? I built my kingdom right on top of the Old Chaos to contain it, to keep it in check, so it wouldn’t rampage across the world. Ah, I’m really sad to have to cut this short, but my soul, well, it wavers. After so many years of fighting it, my very fabric is yielding to the overwhelming chaos. As an ultimate act of sacrifice, I will give myself to the Flame, contain the whole essence of the Old Chaos within my body, and keep it wrested to the ground, so it can never harm anyone evermore. I am glad to have met you, but I must go now. Please live a wonderful life! Shout out to my beautiful wife!

Yhorm the Giant: *hands you the one thing that can kill him* I AM HONESTLY TRYING TO MAKE THINGS BETTER, PLEASE TRUST ME. AND IF I GO COO-COO, USE THAT TO KILL ME, AND ALSO, I AM PUTTING AWAY MY GREATSHIELD SO IT IS EASIER TO HIT ME IN CASE I GO BAD, BUT PLEASE, I AM JUST TRYING TO BE GOOD, BRUSH YOUR SEATBELT AND FASTEN YOUR TEETH.

Oceiros, the Consumed King: *spams your Facebook feed with photos of his invisible baby*

Nameless King: Funny story, but I am actually not a king. Anyways, check out these delayed attacks and these FPS drops.

Prince Lothric: What If Stay Home Instead

The most true kings.

Lucatiel makes dark souls 2 worth playing

we'll meet again... don't know where, don't know when...

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from your friendly knight under the bed

Dark Souls II: Scholar of the first Sin

"I am, in fact  the incarnation of my Father's fears".

I absolutely love the amounts of stuff that can be solved with some esoteric knowledge in this game, I feel like before all the wikis and guides these games made people actually talk to each other to figure out all the absolute nonsense in it.

Also to add my own, you can burn the windmill at the second bonfire of the level with the discount medusa. Which will get rid of the poison out of her arena. BUT also make a previously poison spewing fountain you could unlock, into healing water that cures poison apparently. Seriously I was rather confused the first time I unlocked it with a stone and it just puked poison to my face.

Twitter has had a days long discussion about things they like about dark souls 2 stemming from this post so here's some highlights

Dark Souls 2 only saves Save games locally, they aren't steam cloud synced like dark souls 1.

Which, as I'm experimenting more with the games I am coming to appreciate because I can just reload a earlier save file instead of having to redo entire characters.

For example, I could make a copy of my dark souls 2 save in AppData right now and put that on my desktop, then try to kill Blue Smelter Demon. I have 65 tries before I need to reload the backup if I want to fight him fully human.

Or I could just...keep farming souls to fee the Ring of Life Protection since I'm in the covenant of Champions.

Maybe once I hit 99 of them....

Because my PC hates me, the screen freezes with this monster chasing me. What a stupid death!