Between Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III there is a beautiful pen-shaped connection. In the sequel, a mysterious character takes care that we grow stronger. It is about the Emerald Herald. Use a pen to get it. In Dark Souls III we face the human or semi God who more fervently defended the dragons, so much that he even built a shelter for them and allowed the followers of these creatures to continue with their creed in their Archidragon Peak.
And this one has feathers. Although this character is the son of Gwyn, it is also of the dragons, because the desire that they survive will sponsor him and he feels comfortable as their son. With this interpretation, we read the description of Estentia's pen, the one that the Herald carries in Dark Souls II: ‘the son of the dragon, isolated from the world, imagined a world of infinite possibilities with the simple vision of a pen.’
¿Does that isolation refer to the Archidragon Peak? ¿In a metaphorical way this pen speaks of the Nameless King, true heir of the will of the dragons? ¿Does that world of infinite possibilities refer to the one that leads the practice of the dragon path? I like to think so.
Analyzing the shape of his winged creature, we see that the wings of the wyvern are black, black like the ravens of Velka, a character that I maintain is Gwyn's wife and, therefore, mother of the Nameless King. A theory that I consider, and that I gather in a fabulous book, is the conspiracy of this character with dragons and primordial snakes to produce the fall of the gods and the arrival of man; that is, of sinful beings. This riding being can be an evolution of these dragons soaked by sin represented by Velka, an adaptation of the dragons themselves to a human world.
And everything would have begun with the creation of a woman, of the Herald, who in principle wanted to end the curse of the undead that ravages the stopped reflection of the world: Drangleic.
Anyway, beautiful series is Dark Souls and beautiful are the theories and readings that can be extracted from enjoying them. I have always liked to believe that this supervision that Miyazaki is supposed to have in Dark Souls II has helped him to gather ideas from this sequel and work with them.
