Talk:Estus Flask (Dark Souls II)/@comment-24949280-20140602162602/@comment-67.11.161.251-20190819170525

The makers of Dark Souls were often both clever and blunt with their naming. Estus is actually a reference to an antiquated word, "aestus", a Latin word pronounced phonetically like "aiestas", and meaning "heat", or "warmth", or in the pre-Latin Proto-Indo-European forms, "burning", or "fire".

Entertainingly the PIE version of the word is pronounced roughly like "eydh", so if you drink Estus in Heide's Tower of Flame, you're drinking warmth in Fire's Tower of Flame.

Just make sure if you're playing SotFS that you don't pull the heat (Heide Knights) down on you in that area....