Ocelotte

Ocelotte is a mentioned character in Dark Souls III.

In-Game Description

The Queen of Lothric, married to the former King Oceiros, was initially revered as a goddess of fertility and bounty. After giving birth to Ocelotte, her youngest, she quietly disappeared.

Lore

Ocelotte is the last child of King Oceiros and Queen Gwynevere, and the youngest sibling of princes Lothric and Lorian.

Oceiros and the royal family were obsessed with producing a worthy Champion and for this reason he sired Lothric, who was designated to become a Lord of Cinder. However, Lothric soon revealed himself to be a sick and shriveled child, so weak that he never grew out of his baby clothes, and Oceiros went as far as cursing Lothric and his older brother Lorian to bind their souls together in a failed attempt to create a stronger sacrifice.

In his later years, now consumed by his continuous failures, Oceiros became fascinated by dragons and began to slide into madness, eventually turning to the cursed knowledge of the Grand Archives where he founded the heretical faith in the white dragon Seath. Continuing to study the sorceries and knowledge contained in the Archives and brought by the Crystal Sages to Lothric, Oceiros found himself walking the same path as Big Hat Logan, reaching the same level of "enlightenment" as him and then going completely mad. The king, in his deep delusions, believed he had to become a dragon himself in order to produce an heir strong enough to link the Flame. Oceiros eventually managed to transform himself into a scaleless dragon form, albeit an imperfect and distorted one, even obtaining the sorcery of Seath's crystal breath

Once his desire for transcendence was satiated, Oceiros once again fathered a child with Gwynevere, believing that a descendant of dragons would make a worthy Champion. Either because of the child was born deformed and monstrous, or because she suffered violence from Oceiros or was horrified by the King's decaying sanity, but the birth of Ocelotte was too much for the Queen Gwynevere to bare: she decided to abandon the kingdom never to return again, leaving the newborn with the twisted father. Once he obtained Ocelotte, Oceiros retreated with his royal guard to the gardens close to the Firelink Shrine, completely ignoring the state of his kingdom to protect the "child of dragons" who represented the culmination of his desires and the only thing left in his life. Despite everything, the king was not even able to see Ocelotte, holding him tightly in his palm and relying only on his madness.

When the Ashen One encountered Ocerios, secluded in a chapel within his gardens, the consumed king can be seen cradling an unseen form in his left hand; murmuring to himself of the great power his son Ocelotte had, he embraces the child to his chest and prepares for battle, never to let any harm fall upon him. During the battle the wails of an infant can be heard, implying Ocelotte is indeed real and present but simply invisible, causing Oceiros to accuse them of hiding from him. Once sufficiently wounded, the king, feral in his madness, dashes Ocelotte against the ground in a rage, causing an explosion of magic energy.

Trivia

• Cut content from Dark Souls III includes an unused audio file with what appears to be the sound of a crying baby being murdered. This file was probably intended to be used in Oceiros's boss fight during the transition between the first and the second phase, Ocelotte's last cry when Oceiros disposes of his son.
• In the alpha stages of game development, Ocelotte had a static character model made to be carried by Ocerios the Consumed King, depicting an overlarge malformed baby. The model was cut from the final game for unknown reasons, though it is likely due to Ocerios graphically and savagely murdering him in the second phase of his boss fight.