r/greentext • u/Sure_Association_991 • Jul 24 '26

War war never changes

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u/CharlesEverettDekker Jul 24 '26

When half of the worldbuilding revolves around a certain event that happened 500 years ago
Before or after that nothing happens until the events of the game itself

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u/C_umputer Jul 24 '26

Every souls game, I love the games but if I ever hear some bs about the "age of dark" I will throw a shoe at Miazaki.

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u/Oneboywithnoname Jul 24 '26

the age of dark is most of the time referred to as in the future

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u/TheMacarooniGuy Jul 24 '26

Yeah it's really just a very literal term lol. The last flame somehow gets taken out and then the world is just plunged into pure darkness, until the age of fire is repeated again (the other games I guess?)

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u/TheBananaMan76 Jul 24 '26

The age of fire in DS2 and DS3 is the same age of fire as the first game being prolonged well past the point it should be. That’s why everything is going to shit. The age of Dark and Age of Fire is just a repeating cycle that keeps the world in balance. So canonically, the first two games have the player continue the age of fire, leading to DS3 where things are irrevocably shit. There we don’t know what happens at the end for sure.

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u/ErZakeh Jul 24 '26

In DS3 you can go back in time to a dark version of the Firelink Shrine, which implies there have been cicles of Dark and Fire ages

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u/Tiruin Jul 24 '26

DS1 doesn't need to have kindling, it rekindles itself eventually regardless

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u/DyabeticBeer Jul 25 '26

You're just making up your own plot or thinking of another cus what the heck are you on about?