Talk:The Painter/@comment-87.174.18.72-20170625163733/@comment-29522860-20170628042108

In Dark Souls, there was the world of Ariamas, called this because Ariamas painted it.

In Dark Souls III, the world is called Ariandel, because it was painted by a man of that name.

When The Painter wishes to paint her world, she asks for your name to honor you, and depending on your choice will remark how she has no name of her own.

Keep in mind that the painting containing the world is still a canvas with pigment on it, and will not be able to remain for long periods of time, causing the world itself to decompose. It burns so that a new world can be painted, and given the ruins in the depths of the painted world of Ariandel, it is clear that the painting has been renewed in this manner at least once.

Since everyone inside the painting also burns, it can be sadly surmised that Priscilla and Ariamas stood by the old forlorn, burning to death so that a new painter could remake the world in a pure state. As one sees when Ariandel dies, he allows the flame to consume him, and makes mention of the renewal prophecy.

In summery, if all rotting inhabitents of the painted world (including the painter and his mistress) die off along with the painting itself, then nobody from that past era should be alive. Since the new painter and mistress became Ariandel and Friede, the previous ones must has passed away (Do not assume that I like the idea of Priscilla being dead). Since The Painter blatently states that she has no name, and that she is at least the third generation after Ariamas, she cannot be named Ariamas.

This does intrige me. If she is now the painter, would she have a mistress or a "master" of the painting?