History Fridge / DarkSoulsIII

** There are way too many differences to the worlds in the franchises themselves for similar architecture to connect them. To list a few things [[spoiler: time and space in Dark Souls is extremely warped, while in Bloodborne the changes to time and space are an artifact of the dreams the Great Ones made, a way to show that what we're in isn't normal.]] [spoiler: We actually see the future at the end of Dark Souls III and even further in the Ronged City. Our fight with the Soul of Cinder is shown to be ina future when the shrine become abandoned, further reinforced in DLC when it's shown that fight is in the Dreg Heap, where you can find pieces of Lothric previously explored had crumbled into this hole at the end of the world. The end of the DLC then shows us even further in the future where the world seems to have become a desert of ashes]] [[spoiler: Lastly the new face of humanity is that of the hollows. This is pretty much inevitable no matter the ending chosen]]

** Adding to this The Ringed City DLC gives a reason why Aldia and Vendrik could never find a answer to the Curse, They never knew about the Ringed City and the Pygmy's and the fact that Linking the Fire Was not the first Sin, it could be considered the Second where as the first SIN was Gwyn Creating the seal of Fire to seal off the Abyss from the Pygmy's

* There's another CallBack to the very intro of ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' with ''The Ringed City''. Said intro mentions the Furtive Pygmy was "[[ExactWords so easily forgotten]]" - we were told ''from the very beginning'' Gwyn UnPersoned the Pygmy - had ''that'' bit of exposition been a bit clearer, it's likely the Chosen Undead would have made sure to go with Kaathe's plan and saved everyone else the cost of keeping the Age of Fire alive.

* Why is the Cathedral of The Deep full of weird brown sludge (apart from slowing your movement to a crawl and making you easy pickings for the giants?) Seems like an odd place for swampy water, right? Look against the walls in these sludge pits and you'll see lots and lots of body parts, including the remains of a maiden. There's a distinct possibility that this sludge is actually what left of the people sacrificed to Aldrich. [[NauseaFuel That's right, you're wading knee high in Aldrich's faeces.]] Hope that Saint's Bident is worth it!

*** also the look of Aldrich [[spoiler: remember the blob students in the college?]]
** maybe [[spoiler: The Moon Presence]] is the Dark souls 3 [[spoiler: Player character, after causing the age of Dark, it worked like a roundabout way you do so in BB and he/she became either the Moon Presence or Ebrietas]]

* When you think about it, ''The Ringed City'''s final boss makes perfect sense. [[spoiler:Gael is an undead, a Determinator to the very end - in other words, ''[[PlayerCharacter you]]''. While the Chosen Undead follow Gwyn's footsteps in linking the First Flame, Gael went for the opposite way - the Dark Soul of Man. Plus, giants, dragons, and ''gods'' have fallen to the undead, your {{Player Character}}s being firsthand examples. Gael is one of you, but he's the strongest of them all - and he's gone mad with power. In the second phase and onward, the Dark Soul consumes him, much like how the Flame does to the undead who link it. First, he was the ultimate undead - and afterwards, he's the very embodiment of the Dark Soul.]]

** This adds a whole new level to Aldrich's behaviour in game. While we assumed that Aldrich just went insane like Yorhm and the Abyss Watchers did, many things will tell us that he has quite a bit of intelligence. He uses sorceries and miracles throughout the fight, is able to manipulate Gwyndolin's body, and if the timeline about when he devoured him is true, came up with a whole new miracle after he was revived. While he never seemed sane to begin with, he can still think clearly. Aldrich, like Lothric, was purposely trying to avoid linking the fire, because he wants the age of the dark to begin.

* With the release of Ashes of Ariandel, and the revelation that Sulyvahn is from the painting, it makes a few disparate details about Irithyll and the Church of the Deep make a bit more sense. It explains why there are Corvians on the Road of Sacrifices and in Irithyll itself, why there is one Pontiff Knight stationed directly outside Sulyvahn's Cathedral that uses a scythe, and possibly why Sulyvahn himself decided to overthrow the bloodline of Gwyn (keeping in mind that the original Painted World of Ariamis was essentially a prison for Priscilla and other such people who didn't have a place in the world of the gods).
* Of course Creighton canonically bested Pate in ''[[VideoGame/DarkSoulsII Dark Souls II]]''. [[spoiler: The former is a serial killer who's been physically killing people by his hands, while the latter was never shown to explicitly seen killing people with his. In addition, Creighton had better gear. And even then, the Bearer of the Curse was being constantly tricked by Pate's traps, causing the PC to side with Creighton should he interfere.]] How he's still around even after the events between the two games may arise some questions however.

* The curved sword moveset of [[spoiler: the soul of cinder]] utilizes the backflip of the dark wood grain ring, basically confirming that phase to be the chosen undead of dark souls 1. But there's more than that; it uses a combustion-like pyromancy, similar to the one that [[GoodBadBugs was known for trivializing Gwyn's fight due to a bug]]. Assuming they did so, the chosen undead wouldn't have had any reason to attune different spells before linking the fire, so of course they still have the spell that got them to that point equipped.
* When you think about it, ''The Ringed City'''s final boss makes perfect sense. [[spoiler:Gael is an undead, a Determinator to the very end - in other words, ''[[PlayerCharacter you]]''. While the Chosen Undead follow Gwyn's footsteps in linking the First Flame, Gael went for the opposite way - the Dark Soul of Man. Plus, giants, dragons, and ''gods'' have fallen to the undead, your [[PlayerCharacters Player Characters]] being firsthand examples. Gael is one of you, but he's the strongest of them all - and he's gone mad with power. In the second phase and onward, the Dark Soul consumes him, much like how the Flame does to the undead who link it. First, he was the ultimate undead - and afterwards, he's the very embodiment of the Dark Soul.]]

*** The Cleric set mentions that they wear covers on their backs as to no become "seedbeds for spreading darkness". Maybe the rocks are budget versions of that?

** This adds a whole new level to Aldrich's behaviour in game. While we assumed that Aldrich just went insane like Yorhm and the Abyss Watchers did, many things will tell us that he has quite a bit of intelligence. He uses sorceries and miracles throughout the fight, is able to manipulate Gwendolyn's body, and if the timeline about when he devoured him is true, came up with a whole new miracle after he was revived. While he never seemed sane to begin with, he can still think clearly. Aldrich, like Lothric, was purposely trying to avoid linking the fire, because he wants the age of the dark to begin.

** Alternatively, he could actually be mute. Mute people are not entirely silent, they instead make grunts and other noises, as they cannot speak coherently.
*** Err, guys...They said that Horace's tongue was cut out! He grew up a tortured existance in the Cathedral of the Deep and is one of two surviving children who escaped. What else is in that area? Rosaria's Fingers. What do they collect? Tongues...
*** Horace is from Astora, he and Anri were the only two children to escape Aldrich's clutches. There are zero connections between Horace the Hushed and the Fingers of Rosaria.

** Redgrave also made an offhand comment that maybe Ocelotte is [[spoiler: the Fire Keeper.]] It remains to be seen in the DLC whether or not that holds any water.

* Of course Creighton [[spoiler: canonically bested Pate in [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsII]]. The former is a serial killer who's been physically killing people by his hands, while the latter was never shown to explicitly seen killing people with his.]] How he's still around and joined an invasion covenant may arise some questions however.