Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26894987-20170617210207

A friend told me that in Chinese version of DS1, poison arrow was named "黑木箭", which translates to "Darkwood Arrow".

I will translate the text here:

Black arrows favored by Archer Hero Pharis.

Boasts high damage and long range,

But its secret was lost alongwith death of Pharis.

Thus became invaluable treasure.

It would be unlikely the translators "invent" this description, and it does not fit the function of poison arrow, too.

My theory is that they accidentally mixed a cut content description with the poison arrow, which seems most reasonable.

I could but speculate why this item is removed from the game; it could be of a game balance reason, or it could also be that the developers intentionally tried to leave the identity of Pharis in ambigurousness, as this description confirms that the woman wielding the bow was not Pharis himself.

This goes well with my previous theory with Pharis: English version of the game used "he" when referring to Pharis, while the Japanese version (I played through and read all the texts) did not make Pharis's gender clear, not once. The developers tried to conceal any information on Pharis's gender, but English translators might not notice their effort, so they used "he" because they KNEW Pharis is a man.

What do you guys think on this? 