History Characters / DarkSoulsIIIDLCCharacters

* KillItWithFire: Some Followers use specially modified torches that better allow them to attack abyss corrupted Watchers. Justified as those corrupted by the abyss become weak to fire.

* PlayingWithFire: Their long range attack consists of igniting multiple fire motes in their branches, then letting them home in on their targets for often devastating results.

* AmbiguousSituation: When you wake her up, the Ringed City is suddenly a ruin. Did time speed up, aging the Ringed City before your eyes? Did you travel into the future, while the Ringed City experienced time normally? Or was the place like this when you arrived, and your actions merely dispelled an illusion? There is some evidence for the second theory: after Filianore has awoken, [[TheDreaded Gael suddenly has a reputation among the pygmies]], which the normal passage of years would allow him to achieve.

* {{Determinator}}: Lapp's made it as long as he has because of his unbreakable will and determination. Slight subversion, since his will is finally starting to crack as he loses his memories, driving him to find a way to regain them before he goes Hollow.
* TheFogOfAges: He has lived for so long that he cannot even remember his own name. Even purging stones are unable to restore them anymore (ingame, the player can use as many purging stones as they want and they will always work, indicating that Lapp has used thousands if not millions of them!).

* HeroicWillpower: His force of will is the only thing that has kept him from becoming a mindless hollow, even after losing all his memories. [[spoiler: Though after he gets his memories back, the heroic part becomes heavily questionable.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: If he regains his memory, he laments that every age has been blighted by the greed of man. [[spoiler:Which is a bit rich coming from a guy who made an aeons-long career out of kicking people off cliffs in the hope of robbing their corpses.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: He's lived for so long that he's gone Hollow and forgotten everything about himself, kept sane only by his unbreakable will. Purging stones no longer work to restore his humanity, so he seeks the fabled Purging Monument hidden in the Ringed City. [[spoiler: With your help, he gets his memories and identity back....for better or worse is an entirely different question.]]

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: He carries a Curse Ward Greatshield, symbolic of his quest to avoid becoming hollow.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: If you can't get the Titanite Slab in the Earthen Peak Ruins in a couple of tries, he'll kill the Harald Knight guarding it and give it to you. Note that this likely involves him running across a toxic swamp under angelic laser bombardment, then killing quite a tough enemy so hard that it won't respawn, and he doesn't even seem out of breath afterwards.

* TrueCompanions: If the Ashen One tells him where the Purging Monument is, he thanks them and swears upon his birth name that they're true friends, no matter who he was in the past. [[spoiler:It doesn't last: Once Lapp regains his memories, he promptly backstabs the Ashen One by -- as per usual for Patches -- kicking them off a cliff. However, in a strange way it does last; returning to where Patches was huddled up will reveal the discarded Lapp Armor set for the Ashen One to procure, and Patches' summoning sign will be available to the player against Halflight. Also, unlike every other instance of Patches dropping the player into a pit, this one doesn't put the player into any immediate danger, and is in fact the only path forward into the city; he may have been earnestly trying to help, in his weird way.]]

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Aside from yourself, Gael, and Shira, there is exactly one survivor of the Ringed City at the end of the Age of Fire, and its the Ringed Knight wielding the Paired Greatswords that served as the vanguard to the Church of Filianore.]]
* TimeAbyss: The Ringed Knights you fight in the city are the exact same ones who fought alongside Gwyn in the war against the dragons. [[spoiler:One of them, wielding the Paired Ringed Knight Greatswords, lasted even longer than that, and can be found wandering the ashen desert that serves as Gael's boss arena.]]

* BadassBeard: A big white one that the player cannot obtain through a legitimate way in normal gameplay.

* RememberTheNewGuy: This fifth child of Gwyn is suddenly introduced in ''The Ringed City'' as if her existence is common knowledge. This is a bit jarring, considering the huge lore presence of Gwyn's family, especially since one of Filianore's brothers is notable for being disinherited and scrubbed from in-universe records.

* LastOfHisKind: Midir is the last surviving "true" dragon in the world, the SoleSurvivor of his dead race. Once he dies, the dragons will finally go extinct.

* RememberTheNewGuy: As mentioned before, Fillianore clearly did not exist before The Ringed City DLC. The complete lack of any mention of Gwyn's fifth child, even when the Nameless Firstborn was at least acknowledged as existing is a bit jarring. But then as of the DLC her presence is treated as common knowledge.

* AmbiguousSituation: What exactly happens when you wake her up. Does time suddenly speed up, aging the Ringed City into a wasteland before your eyes? Did you travel into the future, while the Ringed City experienced time normally? Or was the place always a ruin, and you dispelled an illusion? There is some evidence for the second theory: after Filianore has awoken, [[TheDreaded Gael suddenly has a reputation among the pygmies]], which the normal passage of years would allow him to do.

* BreakingTheForthWall: The item description for the White Preacher Head (the hollowed-out head of a locust preacher) is noteworthy for being the only time in the entire series that an item description uses second-person pronouns, seemingly referring to the player.
--> ''Perhaps that someone is you? Did you not arise from the Abyss, and did you not resist drowning in the Age of Fire?''

* AmbiguousSituation: What exactly happens when you wake her up. Does it make time pass extremely fast in the Ringed City until it's reduced to a barren wasteland? Do you just get sent to the future while time passed normally for everything else? Or was it a wasteland the whole time and you dispelled whatever illusion was making it not look like one? Who the hell knows? Though the fact that Gael has built up a reputation among the pygmies as TheDreaded lends itself to the second theory, since it would have taken him some time to do that.

** [[spoiler:The Dark Souls hollows him completely at the start of his second stage, making him vulnerable to the Hollowslayer Greatsword.]]

** [[spoiler:After his first phase he turns completely Hollow due to the Dark Soul, making him vulnerable to the Hollowslayer Greatsword.]]

* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: She says "Those who aren't ken to fire cannot paint a world. Those absorbed by fire, must not paint a world." After she is shown fire she awaits her uncle to bring her the pigment, [[spoiler:the Dark Soul of Man]] implying the painted world needs both fire and dark in equal measure.

* AnimalMotifs: Wolves of course, though for some reason the Valorheart weapon the Gravetender wields summons a roaring [[KingOfBeasts ''lion'']] in its Weapon Art.

* FragileSpeedster: He health goes down pretty quick if you can hit her. Key word: "if."

* GlassCannon: As far as bosses go, she can't take many hits, but she hits like a whole fleet of trucks. Many players will find a single attack from her knocking off a third to half their health, when she isn't outright using [[OneHitKill One-Hit Kills]].

[[folder: Princess Filianore]]

[[folder: Silver Knight Ledo]]

[[folder:Locust Priests]]

!!Locust Priest

Strange beings spawned from the abyssal swamp to preach to men about the glories of Dark. Unfortunately, being locusts, they became far more concerned about filling their bottomless stomachs than drawing men towards the Dark, and have become a serious problem in the lower districts of the city. The few that are still sane will share with the Ashen One stories of those who have embraced and found comfort in the Abyss.

* CatchPhrase: "And let the feast, begin". Even the sane ones will end their mini sermons with it.

* TurnsRed: [[spoiler: Once he reaches two-thirds health, he draws out more of the Dark Soul's power, gaining what is essentially a Dark equivalent of a Lord of Cinder state and a dark BattleAura. He also stands upright and begins to fight in a more calculated, human manner, implying that the sudden surge of humanity brought him slightly back to his senses - although this is also when he goes hollow, so [[DemonicPossession it might not be his senses he's coming back to]].]]

* HopeSpot: Rather hidden within the lore, but it's there, since, while you do [[spoiler: kill Gael during his bossfight, and the painter's comment on how she intends her painting to act as a good home for him seem to be a classic case of dramatic irony about this fact]], it's worth noting that Gael's [[spoiler: fight]] happens in the [[AfterTheEnd far future]], and that you return to the present day after you fight him to deliver the pigment (case and point, you can access the Ringed City again after [[spoiler: fighting him]]). This means he may actually be alive and well, and may even live to see his new painted world -- assuming the world of Dark Souls allows for events in the past to alter the future.

** [[spoiler: He is classified as an Abyssal-type enemy for his entire fight, making him vulnerable to the Farron Greatsword and Wolf Knight Greatsword weapons.]]
** [[spoiler:After his first phase he turns completely Hollow due to the Dark Soul, making him vulnerable to the Hollowslayer Greatsword as well.]]

* BladeOnAStick: He wields a Splitleaf Greatsword, which, despite the name, is actually a halberd.

* TurnsRed: [[spoiler: Once he reaches two-thirds health, he draws out more of the Dark Soul's power, gaining what is essentially a Dark equivalent of a Lord of Cinder state and a dark BattleAura. He also stands upright and begins to fight in a more calculated, human manner, implying that the sudden surge of humanity brought him slightly back to his senses.]]

* NotSoDifferent: His role as a counterpart to the Ashen One is not made entirely clear until you reach ''The Ringed City'' DLC. [[spoiler:Just check ShadowArchetype.]]

* NotSoDifferent: She's an Unkindled just like the player character, even awakening her Lord of Cinder form after Ariandel revives her. On top of that, she's preventing the Painted World from being reborn even though the signs of its rot are clear, exactly like how Gwyn reacted to the failing Age of Fire.

** Ultimately, and appropriately, one to [[spoiler:the player character. Both Gael and the Chosen Undead are lowly beings who accumulated untold amounts of power, enough to slay gods and destroy the world, and all for a nebulous quest thrust upon them by inscrutable forces. The last time they encounter each other, they are some of the very few beings left at the end of the end of the world, and certainly the most powerful.]]

* DummiedOut:
** A hybrid Millwood/Silver Knight set named "Ledo's Set" exists in the files, but was never used for lore reasons.
** Players were also presumably able to get a version of the summon spell used by the Judicator Giants.