Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
It's a secret sequel to a hidden ending!
Aldia, the Scholar of the First Sin, is easily one of the most fascinating characters in Dark Souls 2, if not the whole trilogy. So it was disappointing that Dark Souls 3 completely ignored him.
Or did it?
In both the Japanese and English versions of the game, Dark Souls 3 does actually allude to Aldia, but in very different ways. In this video, I argue that Aldia actually had a major impact on Lothric, and may have even inspired the Usurpation of Fire/Lord of Hollows ending. I also found quite a few surprising connections between Aldia, Vendrick, and Yuria of Londor.
This theory would also rectify one of the biggest criticisms of the story and lore in Dark Souls 3: Aside from a few fan service items, the game seems to ignore almost everything that happened in Drangleic.
Lokey on Aldia: lokeysouls.com/2021/02/04/aldia
And on the first of the scholars: lokeysouls.com/2021/02/05/lothric-first-scholar
(Lokey's Abyssal Archive is an amazing resource that I highly recommend.)
Ashen_Shroom's theory on Soul Stream and the Soul of Cinder: reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/8jmkdo/soul_of_cinder_and_the_spell_soul_stream
Edited with Gling AI: bit.ly/46bGeYv
It's a secret sequel to a hidden ending!
Aldia, the Scholar of the First Sin, is easily one of the most fascinating characters in Dark Souls 2, if not the whole trilogy. So it was disappointing that Dark Souls 3 completely ignored him.
Or did it?
In both the Japanese and English versions of the game, Dark Souls 3 does actually allude to Aldia, but in very different ways. In this video, I argue that Aldia actually had a major impact on Lothric, and may have even inspired the Usurpation of Fire/Lord of Hollows ending. I also found quite a few surprising connections between Aldia, Vendrick, and Yuria of Londor.
This theory would also rectify one of the biggest criticisms of the story and lore in Dark Souls 3: Aside from a few fan service items, the game seems to ignore almost everything that happened in Drangleic.
Lokey on Aldia: lokeysouls.com/2021/02/04/aldia
And on the first of the scholars: lokeysouls.com/2021/02/05/lothric-first-scholar
(Lokey's Abyssal Archive is an amazing resource that I highly recommend.)
Ashen_Shroom's theory on Soul Stream and the Soul of Cinder: reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/8jmkdo/soul_of_cinder_and_the_spell_soul_stream
Edited with Gling AI: bit.ly/46bGeYv
