Dark Souls 3, Let's Talk Lore #04: Undead Settlement I

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Published on September 20, 2016 4:34:27 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADwduqjTGAk

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Dark Souls III (2016)

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Discussion

Duration: 2:32:49

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See below for navigation time-stamps, links, and references:
0:00:00 – Intro cinematic
0:02:23 – Greeting
0:13:50 – Undead Settlement
0:17:39 – On colonialism, panoptic surveillance, and education
0:41:47 – On translations, language, and conditions of possibility
1:02:45 – On undesirables, ‘bio-value’, and ‘bio-economies’
1:25:50 – Firelink Shrine
1:32:12 – Undead Settlement
1:44:00 – Pit of Hollows
1:53:35 – Firelink Shrine
1:53:51 – A Treatise on the Cosmology of Dark Souls 3
2:16:47 – Viewer comments

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Music added:
- Lost Sun: A Dark Souls Tribute**
- Secret Betrayal: Dark Souls 3 OST

**By Alexandre “Endless” Blanchard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrR0ZKhUw0Y
https://endless3.bandcamp.com/track/lost-sun

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Books mentioned or discussed (non-affiliate links):

Deborah R. Coen (2013). “The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter”: https://www.amazon.com/Earthquake-Observers-Disaster-Science-Richter/dp/0226111814/

Julie Cruikshank (2005). “Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination”: https://www.amazon.com/Glaciers-Listen-Knowledge-Encounters-Imagination/dp/0774811870/

Keith Thor Carlson (2010). “The Power of Place, the Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism”: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Place-Problem-Time-Consciousness/dp/080209564X/

Carl Sagan (1980). “Cosmos”: https://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan/dp/0394715969

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Other links:

ESO/L. Calçada. “Expansion of the Universe Clip”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8SGYbqmLHc

loseho inwmak’s translations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AM042reMfgKy3F716XhDtWelz8Tf0ixlVUYykyS9yfQ/edit?usp=sharing

Panopticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticism

Electro_Specter. “How I picture the fully upgraded Estus Flask”: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/comments/29oh6f/how_i_picture_the_fully_upgraded_estus_flask/

Hubble Ultra-Deep Field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field

Tony Darnell (Deep Astronomy). “The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and National Center for Supercomputing Applications. “Galaxy Evolution: James Webb Space Telescope Science”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNLlKZeQabo

Ultimate fate of the universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe

Cyclic model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_model

Big Crunch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch

Nataraja: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nataraja

Bart172. “TIL There is actually a complete Lordvessel under Firelink's bonfire”: https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/50jglp/til_there_is_actually_a_complete_lordvessel_under/

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Supplemental NPC dialogue courtesy:

MoonlightButterfly: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI_QectaF7CrE7iIzq-7G1g/

Sir Fist: https://www.youtube.com/user/SuiseisekiCarnivean/

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