Why are these things called "Estus" flasks anyway?
Googling has yet to yield any answers, and the Wiki's don't explain the meaning of the name. But I do remember reading that the name "Estus" (as a person's name) has religious significance to it. But I'm still trying to relocate that bit of information.
Its not "these", its only one bottle. It refills when you sit at a bonfire
Lincoln Cooper
Is there any question left that Miyazaki is completely insane?
> "Time is convoluted, heroes of old just blip-in-and-out of existance. Physical land-masses are drawn to a central location where there is a camp fire that you can "link" to something that is never explained nor why. There are other firepits, where you can drunk the fire. There used to be girls that tended to those fires, but they all disapeared by the 3rd game. Also, souls are physical objects that can be split apart and shared, one of which is "dark" and could be split so many times that an entire species can be made. That species contracted a curse that makes them immortal, but the depression that comes from living and dying over countless cycles reduces them to shambling husks. And time between cycles is finite, so an attempt to prolong the cycles resulted in a Bed of Chaos that created demons. Two girls got changed into topless spider-chans. Their brother is this giant lava-puss monster thing. There used to be dragons. There still are. One is this rib-cage vagina beast and the ither is a hyper intelligent sex-offender. All the dragons died, except for ine that lives in the center of the earth that is actually a lake. There is another that you can fight but only if you go back in time. Also there is another one, but he is made from the bone of a giant. Also another one that lives in the abyss near the end of the world. And the dude who started it all had a son, that was raised as a girl and she has snake legs. Also the entire game takes place inside of a painting that contains other paintings with worlds inside of them."
If anyone other than him pitched this concept, they would have been locked up in a mental institution.
Alexander Fisher
They have multiple charges, yours is not the only bottle available to you as other undead also carry and use them, and you have two different types of flasks in the third game.
Gavin Howard
Estus means shit in latin, dudebro Miyazaki surely saw the aestus estus of Fate series and put it into the game, japs love random latin words.
The proper word is Aestus,
Lincoln Williams
Sounds like the typical lore the Japanese would make up, to be honest.
Jacob Collins
It's a play on 'estrus', they're the collected ovulation juice of the firekeeper when she's in heat. Her arousal powers the bonfires
Anthony Reyes
Fuck off ENB
Benjamin Richardson
In Dark Souls all life came from fire.
So I guess it would actually make a pretty big buttload of sense.
MYSTERY SOLVED FOLKS
Gabriel Evans
Except "estus" isn't a Latin word. Aestus is, and doesn't mean fire.
Luis Rivera
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Bentley Fisher
>this is alright, I mean I'll probably just throw this at something
Josiah Perez
No, humanity is a piece of dark soul
Gabriel Butler
Is there any evidence that Ceaseless Discharge is a male?
David Reyes
Fuck off, Matthew Mitosis.
Henry Brown
No Vaati, I'm not donating to your fucking patreon
Hudson Hernandez
>Time is convoluted, heroes of old just blip-in-and-out of existance That's not a serious part of the lore, it's just the in-game justification for how summoning works. It's only ever mentioned by characters explaining co-op (Solaire in DaS1, Crestfallen in DaS2, I forget in DaS3, probably Hawkwood).
Austin Ortiz
ESTUANS INTERIUS IRA VEHEMENTI SUPRA PETRAM PONERE SEDEM FUNDAMENTI
Brayden Collins
The Orange Charred Ring refers to Ceaseless as the brother of the other witches (Quelaag et al).
Jason Harris
There's an actual canon explanation now, though. Summon signs are miracles, so the "ghost" versions of people you see are like the miracle echoes from Dark Souls 1.
Jonathan Roberts
Wasn't this from some unofficial guide that for some reason had a collector's edition?