Dark Souls 3, Let's Talk Lore #21: Untended Graves

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Published on December 25, 2020 9:00:11 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyCfNaFrkuo

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Dark Souls III (2016)

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Discussion

Duration: 4:18:01

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See below for navigation time-stamps, credits, links, and references:
0:00:00 – Intro cinematic
0:05:41 – Greeting
0:08:59 – Closer Look: Untended Graves
0:13:34 – Untended Graves Friends
0:55:59 – Cemetery of Ash
1:03:28 – Untended Graves
1:18:52 – Champion Gundyr (boss fight)
1:24:30 – Champion Gundyr (discussion)
1:40:56 – “Ash Seeketh Embers” by Casitive
2:02:20 – (Untended) Firelink Shrine
2:23:47 – (Untended/Ashen) Shrine Handmaid
2:39:13 – (Ashen) Firelink Shrine
2:55:30 – (Another) Treatise on the Cosmology of Dark Souls 3
3:09:27 – Introducing “Sockeye at the Boundary”
3:32:12 – Design Works
3:45:15 – On Individualism in the Age of COVID-19
3:50:03 – Viewer comments
4:12:03 – Exit greeting and credits

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Music added (in order of first use):

1. “Boat Floating” by Puddle of Infinity: https://youtu.be/3cRKq-0GEyw

2. “Lost Sun” by Alexandre “Endless” Blanchard:
YouTube - https://bit.ly/2Vj9AUb
Bandcamp - https://bit.ly/2LqhvdS

3. “Souls of Fire” by Yuji Takenouchi (Dark Souls OST)

4. “Firelink Shrine” by Motoi Sakuraba (Dark Souls OST)

5. “Fire Keepers” by Motoi Sakuraba (Dark Souls 2 OST)

6. “Untended Graves” by Sound Phenomenon
YouTube - https://bit.ly/2DSRFsV
Bandcamp - https://bit.ly/2H4XKEA

7. “Majula” by Motoi Sakuraba (Dark Souls 2 OST)

8. “Hiraeth” by Scott Buckley: https://youtu.be/XPZL2yFOeA8

9. “Iudex Gundyr” by Tsukasa Saito (Dark Souls 3 OST)

10. “Premonition” by Yuka Kitamura (Dark Souls 3 OST)

11. “Firelink Shrine” by Yuka Kitamura (Dark Souls 3 OST)

12. “Secret Betrayal” by Yuka Kitamura (Dark Souls 3 OST)

13. “30 Minutes of Relaxing Dark Souls Music” by RemixSample: https://youtu.be/fsdZaDVTUdA

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Additional community contributions:

“Fun with definitions” illustration by Nicole “Neolucky” Dubois: https://bit.ly/2Jm4yiG

loseho inwmak’s translations: https://goo.gl/Mf31UA

Supplemental NPC dialogue courtesy:
MoonlightButterfly (YouTube) - https://bit.ly/2V67O3I
Sir Fist (YouTube) - https://bit.ly/2Vj8HuH

“Ash Seeketh Embers” by Casitive: http://bit.ly/3rpTFji

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YouTube videos discussed:

Lance McDonald’s “Time of Day System – All Cut Ceremonies”: https://youtu.be/b8IvzBq9OVM

illusory wall’s “Dark Souls 3 Dissected #1 - The World Layout of Lothric Explained”**: https://youtu.be/LqRhEvTdQgg

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s “Occupation of a Salmon Farm: Why?”: https://youtu.be/X_bbmMI_Tdk

**Though this video (which was not released until after the present episode had been written and recorded) was not discussed, it essentially confirms my claims RE: the location of the Cemetery of Ash in relation to the Consumed King’s Garden.

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Images (in order of first use):

Church of the Holy Trinity: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_the_Holy_Trinity_-_panoramio_(1).jpg

Toronto Homeless Memorial by Loretta Lime: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Homeless_Memorial.jpg

Emil Lauffer - Kriemhild's Complaint (1879): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emil_Lauffer_-_Kriemhild%27s_Complaint.jpg

Purgatory by Jean Colombe: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folio_113v_-_Purgatory.jpg

Dante and His Poem by Domenico di Michelino (1465): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domenico_di_michelino,_Dante_con_in_mano_la_Divina_Commedia,_1465,_03_purgatorio.JPG

Gustave Doré’s illustration for Dante's Purgatorio 02: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgatorio#/media/File:Pur_02_dore.jpg

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Additional links:

“Sockeye at the Boundary: Controversial and Contested Salmon in the Cohen Commission, 2009-2012”: https://bit.ly/3aQkzdv

The map featured in the “Sockeye at the Boundary” segment can be explored here: https://bit.ly/3jLi66M

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Books mentioned (non-affiliate links):

Dark Souls III Official Guide: https://amzn.to/2PNtsJc

Dark Souls III Design Works: https://amzn.to/2PXJLTX

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