Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-187.60.100.111-20140629154705/@comment-5632187-20140629164843

The appeal to me of the Souls Series lore is that you get to build your own story as you go. For example I was just derping around in Earthen Peak and decided to chat up Gilligan. From him I discovered that Mytha married a Prince from "the nearby castle". He talks about how the Princess and the Prince married and whatnot, but leaves it there after talking about how the "poison does wonders for the Princess's body". When you meet Mytha, however, she's a Queen, not a Princess. So what kingdom did she marry a Prince from? Drangleic? No, Vendrick has no known descendants. Iron Keep? Well maybe since Mytha was referred to as a Princess but was really a Queen, the Prince is really a King. An Old Iron King. See? You get to build your own story based off small facts. Is that concrete truth? No. Can we get a concrete truth? Still no.

I can see how this would be seen as flawed by some, and great by others. I feel it's a flawed story telling system FromSoft is still working on perfecting. Yes, there are gaps and there are contradictions. That's bound to happen when the company is still working on perfecting such a complex form of development of the story.

I believe that Hidetaka Miyazaki's "Dark Souls Bible" would be similar to the in-real-life Bible. Different stories of different portions of certain characters lives, but still open to interpretation. Just like the Bible, I feel there is room open to interpretation even in Miyazaki's "Dark Souls Bible" and that's why he doesn't share it. Becasue it's what he thinks the story is, not what the true story is. Could I be wrong? Definitely. But that's just what I think.