Area Origins in Dark Souls

The one thing I've always loved about Dark Souls is that there is so much depth that its hard to cover everything. We've all bearly scratched the surface of it in all honesty
Now onto the areas of dark souls. All of the Area's in Dark Souls have origins of some sort, as we all know there are speculations such as to where Oolacile is and such now to discover what exactly everyplace else was

"Northern Undead Asylum":

"Firelink shrine":

"Undead Parish/Burg:

"Depth":

"Darkroot Basin/forest":

"Sens Fortress":

"Anor Londo":

"Blighttown":

"The Great Hollow":

"Ash Lake":

I've currently my third playthrough, a sorcerer playthrough from which i am drawing observations as i get through an area i'm going to update this Post.

Madara wrote:Now to Undead Parish and Undead Burg. I'm lumping these in together because i feel that they are one and the same Kingdom. I believe that this place is the what remains of the Kingdom of Balder. It says that Balder came to ruin after a great many undead were spawned. Spawned also means that chances are that the undead consisted of former Balder citizens. I think that all the hollows you see are Balder residents(i.e. the reason that they are in the Undead Burg) and the Balder knight are the remnants of Rendels elites. The area just before the depths was probably the slums of Balder harbouring thieves and the poor. Most of this is just speculation on the geography and the armour description but you get where i'm coming from.
because i can't exactly what it is.

Glad to see someone agrees with me!

Just something I just thought up, but I find it very unlikely that each of the "districts" is it's own kingdom.

For one, tehy are too close together and we already know that there is little room for farmland on this mountain. There would most likely be constant fighting over what little there is.

Secondly, I believe it says that Knight King Rendel and/or Ricard were from one of the kingdoms until they went hollow and came to Lordran.

I probably won't add a ton to this thread since I'm with Shkar in that I believe most referenced Kingdoms are either outside of lordran or destroyed. However I did want to comment on an asylum observation. Resemblances to prison for early asylums was typical. More so though between early asylums and penitentiaries. A part of recovery (asylum) or penance (penitentiary) was often religion and elaborate chapels weren't unheard of. It's also we worth noting that early poor houses and similar structures would often house the poor, sick, elderly, unwed mothers (with children), the insane, the disabled and often criminals mixed in. Basically my point is that the asylum is quite consistent with these attitudes and ideals. Even architecturally speaking. Big doors leading to the entrance (or exit for us) with smaller structures leading up to it. A chapel for worship, many rooms or cells, a courtyard for exercise and fresh air, and the stray demon actually appears to be in either the indoor activity yard or a communal room to throw in a mass of "low risk" persons with individual cells reserved for trouble makers. Our cell is reminiscent of us being considered "high risk." Perhaps more so than the other cells. End of the hall meant harder to conspire with others (no neighbor on the other side of the wall and too far to hand items). The sliding roof to allow sun (or food) could mean our door wasn't meant to be opened a lot if you catch my meaning. Finally, it's at a lower level than a lot of the space. Good place to hide someone.

UPDATED
Now includes, Sens Fortress, Blighttown, The Great Hollow and Ash Lake

It seems Firelink is actually the top of the tallest tower in New Londo before it was flooded and buried.

Buggy Virus wrote:It seems Firelink is actually the top of the tallest tower in New Londo before it was flooded and buried.

I don't think thats geographically possible considering that the chamber containing the lordvessel and the door to the kiln lay directly below.

I think the fire is right above the elevator which could mean that both were part of the same structure. I think it's more likely that the elevator was the means to get between New Londo and firelink but that's nitpicking since they could be part of one tower

skarekrow13 wrote:I think the fire is right above the elevator which could mean that both were part of the same structure. I think it's more likely that the elevator was the means to get between New Londo and firelink but that's nitpicking since they could be part of one tower

Thats an interesting premise, considering that New Londo was theorized to be a new extension to Anor Londo, maybe it was created close to the Kiln to Allow Gwyn and the other Lords to keep the flame alive?

You should use spoilers to make it easier to read.

DoughGuy wrote:You should use spoilers to make it easier to read.

Sound advice dude.