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Filianore is an NPC in Dark Souls 3. She is part of The Ringed City DLC. She is in eternal slumber and is cradling an odd sphere resembling an open egg when you find her. She has no dialogue but can be examined upon first encountering her.
Filianore Information
- Not killable (in the traditional sense at least)
- Interacting with, and thereby awakening, Princess Filianore is neccessary to access the final part of the Ringed City DLC.
- It is repeatedly stated by several NPC's never to do this.
Location
- You can find Filianore in the tower of Filianore's Church at The Ringed City (Location) after you defeat the Spear of The Church Summon or if none is available, Halflight, Spear of the Church
- Then, a decayed version of her can be found at Filianore's Rest.
Drops
- N/A
Combat Information
- N/A
Dialogue
She has no dialogue but upon meeting her if you approach and examine her you will trigger a cutscene and when you return to gameplay, you will find her dessicated and dead and the world vastly changed.
Lore Theories
Due to the very small amount of information known regarding the mechanisms of the Dark Souls universe and the sheer significance of the events that occur upon waking Filianore, the number of potential lore theories regarding these events is too cumbersome to list here. Instead, a list of the available evidence from the DLC and game in general related to these events is listed, so that the reader might come to their own conclusion.
- It appears that Fillianore is the origin of the Grass Crest, found on the Grass Crest Shield and Chloranthy Ring, based on the items associated with her, The Young Grass Dew and Spear of The Church Covenant, which mark the symbol of Young Grass to be that of Filianore.
- It is suggested by The Small Envoy Banner that Filianore is the youngest daughter of Gwyn, and was gifted to the Pygmies along with the Ringed City, with him promising to her that he would one day come for her, when the time came (a promise he is incapable of keeping.)
- This seems to be supported by a statue found right before Filianore's Church, depicting Gwyn giving a kneeling Hollow two items, a crown, later seen worn by the Pgymy Lord, and the Chloranthy Ring.
- Shira, Knight of Filianore, claims that Filianore is the matriarch of the church, is asleep and should not be awakened, for "as the Fire waneth, does she lie by the Dark, all for the sake of Man." Her preceeding statement, that "Those who are ken to God's name (the player) are surely ken to the terrors of the dark" seems to imply that Filianore somehow protects from the terrors of the dark. However, what this means is highly uncertain. She does state that the Spears of The Church, and Divine Spears of The Church protect Filianore from any who would attempt to awaken her, and also that Midir, who railed against the Dark, took up an oath to protect the Princess's Slumber
- The Ringed City Hollow, a decrepit figure found on the outskirts of the Ringed City, appears to be a Pygmy, and has similar, but different intentioned things to say regarding Filianore and what will occur in waking her, claiming that her sleep is an illusion by the gods to keep the Dark Soul from you. He states various times a disdain for the gods and their servents, such that it can be implied that waking the princess will have negative consequences to them. His statement that he is an ally to the player comes with the additional statement "If thou art yet human, the urge will begin to swell, to bring ruin to this heap of dung." This seems to imply that waking the Princess will bring about great destruction, either to The Ringed City (which it certainly does) or to the world as a whole. Lastly, if slain, he will exclaim: "May the Abyss's Curse take the gods!" a statement of tremendous significance of inumerable interpretations.
- Judicator Argo, summoner of the Spear of The Church boss that guards Princess Filianore, actually has very little extra information to add, only that "The Abyss runneth deep." open to interpretation, and that Filianore is to be protected "by the King's decree" although who the King is can be debated, being either Gwyn, The Pgymy Lords, or another, interesting primarily in that Gwyn is never referred to as King.
- Filianore's design
- Filianore's eyes are closed and a sign of the Abyss, black crooked veins, poke from her closed eyes. It is revealed from her corpse later on that she has no eyes, much like the firekeepers.
- The egg like sphere Filianore is carrying is highly unusual, and its destruction heralds Filianore's waking and the consequences that unfold. Although the player breaks it, it is already in the midst of coming apart, implying it would not remain forever regardless. Facinatingly, the sphere is identical, down to the individual cracks, to the spheres that form the core of Vagrant Crabs, strange wandering creatures born from the results of interactions between player worlds in Dark Souls I, implying that the effect of Filianore's sleep may trancend time and space and be somehow related.
- Curiously, Filianore has black hair, unique among the children of Gwyn, and does not have a name beginning in Gwyn, like Gwyndolin or Gwynevere, although what implication these facts have is uncertain
- Her outfit greatly resembles the other princess of the series, Dusk.
- The awakening of Filianore
- When the "egg" caves inward at the player's touch, Filianore awakens, stares at the player, and then light emenates from the egg. The player is brought to the same location, only everything is destroyed for miles, leaving thousands of miles of barren ash. The cathedrals of Anor Londo and The High Wall of Lotheric can be seen in the distance, but what state they are in is unclear. The Ringed City is destroyed, and there is no sign of any of the features that surrounded it. Filianore is dead in front of you, a withered husk resembling a hollow.
- Curiously, the player can use the bonfire to transport back to the Ringed City proper, where it is wholly unaffected, but where Filianore is gone from her resting place.
- It is interesting to note that in previous cases where an illusion is broken, the illusion remains broken everywhere, as when the lights are taken from Anor Londo in Dark Souls I even when returning to other areas of the city, implying that awakening Filianore did not break an illusion, but instead that the player was transported elsewhere in time and space. A similar situation exists with Firelink Dark in the Untended Graves, but as with that, the mechanisms of its existence are unclear.
- The events that follow seem to be implied to be the natural consequences of the player awakening Filianore, serving as possible evidence of the function of her sleep.
Trivia
- Despite being unkillable, summoned phantom will see her in white as every regular NPC.
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I suppose the egg is the container of the ringed city. When it collapses, so do the walls surrounding the city, crumbling into a heap of dust.
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Every day after work I come back home to defend my mistresses slumber, eagerly waiting for those foolish enough to try and disrupt the slumber of my princess. They shall not be forgiven. I love you Filianore
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If she had been awake all that time, then she'd realize how much of a bastard that her father was. I feel sorry for her, never being able to live her life, due to the sleep she was put into just to stop localized time and space for the Ringed City.
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Danm…that fight was pretty intense…anyway now what do i do with this girl- wait why am i at the end of the world now?
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The first NPC upon entering the Ringed City (area, not DLC) tells the player that the city is already in ruins and hidden by an illusion. Given Filianore's condition upon cracking the Embraced Shell, she's been dead for a while and the Shell was maintaining the illusion, keeping the fake city in place. Upon disrupting the illusion, Gael goes in and gets the Dark Soul. Despite lots of twisting of lore by some players, there is no time travel... the pygmy (?) NPC before that first Judicator makes it clear that it was already long over for the Ringed City.
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The virgin main character with time travel vs the chad Gael with literal balls of steel to wait till everything is ash and dust
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"It is interesting to note that in previous cases where an illusion is broken, the illusion remains broken everywhere, as when the lights are taken from Anor Londo in Dark Souls I even when returning to other areas of the city, implying that awakening Filianore did not break an illusion, but instead that the player was transported elsewhere in time and space." This doesn't make any sense. It being an illusion doesn't require us to explain away the distant structures or the presence of the Sun in this supposedly end times time travel. Shira's casual response to finding you also makes sense without time travel. Of course, the endings are rendered obsolete as well with the pessimistic implication of time travel to the end of the world. There's nothing good about a painted world running on an (apparently) finite resource like the Dark Soul. We can't see the Darksign Sky, but we couldn't see its casting against the sky in the illusion Ringed City despite the tall walls. And this is to say nothing of the narrative nonsense that time travel would imply. "Fillianore" (something related to her since she's dead) just sustained an illusion of the city when it actually had degraded long ago. I still can't explain the nature of Firelink Shrine however. Even the idea of time travel can't make sense of that mess. But at least we don't have to assume any time travel in the Ringed City. The intuitive interpretation both suffices and preserves the integrity of the base game's endings than just yet another one of these "oh, turns out nothing matters anyway". Though I love all these games, the lore of DS1 had never received proper continuation from its sequels. The whole thing is riddled with casually placed incoherence.
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As someone noted before in description of repair spell it’s indicated that light is time and egg that she is holding gives a tremendous light when it breaks so it’s probably stopping time in ringed city and isolating it in past
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"It is revealed from her corpse later on that she has no eyes, much like the firekeepers."
Does this guy not understand how bodies decompose? Of course Filianore's skeletal beef jerky remains won't have eyes anymore.
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Her egg shell looks an awful lot like a Vagrant enemy from DS1...
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it is funny as she is most likely a ref to Angel's Egg anime movie
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this is the seconded time today first it was the consumed king now Gwyn okay someone call
anor londo social services over the case of Gwyn lord of cinder being a bad parent
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She is a very interesting character indeed but what is more interesting is the item she is holding, the shell in my theory it was protecting or more likely imprisoning the dark soul of man within itself but for some reason it was broken , im not going to try and explain why is it broken but rather what it is, in Dark Souls 3 there is a spell that as you can remember was in DS 1 and that sorcery is "Repair" well yes it's in the game and whats with it you may ask. Have you read the description? If not then let me show you what piqued my interest: "While the effects of this spell are rather subtle, its foundations are a well-guarded secret. Light is time, and the reversal of its effects is a forbidden art." - "Light is time" This thing in hands of Filianore, cracked but not completely, when touched breaks and glows brightly before sending us forward in time. So whatever it truly was im unsure but what im sure of is that tremendous amount of light was involved in its creation...
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Probably someone already pointed this but the curtains and veils surrounding her form a bonfire, as you can see in the concept art. Symbolically, she's keeping the bonfire lit. This is probably related to her role in the deceive of the undead humans.
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it's like a reverse cosmic egg, instead of producing anything associated with life or constructive growth it manifests death and mass destruction
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It would've been cool to have her clothes as an armor set too.
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Am I the only one who immediately thought after seeing the cracked egg that Midir has hatched from it?
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To to make an omelette, you gotta crack a few... oh sh*t i collapsed the space-time continuum
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Filianore's ratios are quite optimal, therefore, she is much better than cow tits Gwynevere...
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Lots of petulance in here, if all you ever do is feed and feed, evenytually there's nothing left to eat.
all these spite-driven abyssals, doesn't it even state in the game? Man and Locusts are kidred spirits? (the preacher mask)
"Those Who are not ken to Fire CANNOT paint a world" Fire IS creation, the abyss is death and decay.
if nothingness is what you result in, then nothing is what you deserve.
it is what you make for yourself.
Pestilence and Disease.
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Gwynn having a 4th secret child that is never mentioned until the final moments of the final DLC of the final game is one of the biggest asspulls in gaming lore history
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She is just jelly of her big sisters amazing chest and her tantrum ended all of space and time. . .
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- me looking at Filianore for the first time: ok ok ok ok my new princess show devotion so cute omg wannayou need humanities princess because I have plenty ask mlady ask please talk - Filianore awakens: ａｗ ｓｈｅｅｔ, I always forget this is *****ing dark souls.
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IMO she's protecting the Ringed City... oh what am i saying.. she's protecting the Gods by creating a "time bubble" because the dark beneath the town would reach pygmies, and with the weapons born of darkness they could overthrow the gods. Have you ever noticed how the crystals sprout from the ground in the dark swamp? Yeah, imo she was "slowing down" their growth so that they wouldnt reach the surface, all for naught however, because ultimately pygmies found those crystals and started using them. Shira couldn't possibly know this secret therefore she remains a loyal dog to the gods, closed in a dark room "protecting" the mad king even after the world shifts into the future, kingdoms crumble, gods are dead yet here she stands a puppet unable to see her own strings, may her soul be tormented and consumed by the Abyss. Ayymen
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Pretty sure she pulled some samurai Jack stuff and teleported to the future
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Other gods: what shall we protect our false legacy, our grand illusion with? Gwyn: E G G
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She is a very interesting character indeed but what is more interesting is the item she is holding, the shell in my theory it was protecting or more likely imprisoning the dark soul of man within itself but for some reason it was broken , im not going to try and explain why is it broken but rather what it is, in Dark Souls 3 there is a spell that as you can remember was in DS 1 and that sorcery is "Repair" well yes it's in the game and whats with it you may ask. Have you read the description? If not then let me show you what piqued my interest: "While the effects of this spell are rather subtle, its foundations are a well-guarded secret. Light is time, and the reversal of its effects is a forbidden art." - "Light is time" This thing in hands of Filianore, cracked but not completely, when touched breaks and glows brightly before sending us forward in time. So whatever it truly was im unsure but what im sure of is that tremendous amount of light was involved in its creation...
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Belike it is, a transposing kiln, in Filianore's possession.... Look at the item after killing the curse rotten great wood.
"For more theories regarding Filianore, check out Kos Lore and A System of Rebirth by Rakuyo." Oh, this again. Rakuyo, next time write about your bowel movements and how they relate to the lore. They definitely appear to be the source of your insight, anyhow.
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" It is revealed from her corpse later on that she has no eyes, much like the firekeepers. " Can someone remove this? Seems like whoever wrote this forgot that eyes are literally the first thing to decompose in a corpse, let alone one that's been mummified for *****ing ages.
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It appears that when her egg breaks, and she decays, it's very VERY similar to a scene in the anime art film "angel's egg." It may have even inspired the creator.
I thought AoA was prettier but this DLC did more to confirm and finish the Lore than any other. It confirmed the "Ringed Curse" was a product of the gods. I had always assumed if we started on equal footing but "Men were granted a fleeting form" the undead is the power of the gods weakening. Hollowing is a byproduct of the curse, worse yet humans get fooled into maintaining the gods rule. We'd never advance because of hollow outbreaks and relighting the Flame. Ringed City was granted at the end of time by the gods, paper thin protection from Filinore. Meaning even after the gods were long gone our "golden age" was at the end of time and designed to fail. It also makes what Aldrich planned sensible, form a world from something related to the Dark but not of it or Flame. Removing the last of the old "gods" Gywndolin before, of course he probably didn't know of the Ringed City. Basically mutually assured destruction.
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I closed the game in the begining of her cutscene, when i came back that place where she stayed was empaty, e the world was still the same, then i died for that knight in the entrance of the church, after that everything was destroied. (sorry for my bad english)
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Can anyone link me to her slider values? Would love to make a filianore character
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A thing that should be mentioned in the hugeass lore section; when you summon into a buddy's world for Gael, and you look at Filianore, she's actually a ghost, implying to me she is actually still alive, just... withered. As with most other NPCs in the world, Filianore appears as a transparent outline, and while unkillable by phantoms, this is also true of living NPCs in the world, like the Pilgrim of Londor who drops Chameleon and Anri
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I just had the weirdest maybe-revelation... What if Filianore was supposed to be the first Fire Keeper?
I know it sounds edgy and half-baked, but bear with me, because I've actually mapped out how this could be possible. The Eyes of a Fire Keeper apparently belonged to the first Fire Keeper, and reveal a destitute world without flame. The eyes themselves look opalized, but are noticeably leaking a sort of black fluid. As I'm sure you can tell where I'm going with this, Filianore is found to be lacking eyes, and her empty sockets also leak a black fluid.
Looking closer, Filianore actually bears strong resemblance to the Fire Keeper, except that she's larger and her color scheme is swapped. Instead of black, she wears white, and instead of silver hair, hers is black. Filianore's tiara also has similar faceting to the mask worn by the Fire Keeper, and both of their palms are covered.
Ludleth, who many remark resembles one of the Pygmy Lords, states quite plainly, "We did all we could to spare her from them." My guess is that Gwyn wished for her to tend the First Flame for him, but she was cursed with a premonition of Gwyn's failure and the fading of the First Flame. To prevent this, Gwyn instead "gifted" her to the Ringed City to guard the Dark Soul and the Pygmy Lords, but was actually imprisoning them both, with an empty promise that he would someday return to relieve her from her newly assigned duty.
Lacking a Fire Keeper, Gwyn desperately fathered Gwyndolin with an unknown mother (possibly Priscilla), and though he was born deformed and as a male, he raised him as a daughter in accordance with the role Gwyn would bestow upon him--as the next Fire Keeper, to be Filianore's shade. Gwyndolin's eyes are obscured by a heavy mask, and whether he possesses eyes is unknown. Visually, Gwyndolin represents a bridge between Filianore and the current Fire Keepers, wearing a white gown similar to Filianore's, but with silver hair like the Fire Keeper's, and the mask that the Fire Keepers wear could even be an imitation of Gwyndolin's mask. Interestingly enough, Aldrich's appearance also fortifies this pattern, as he takes on the appearance of Gwyndolin clad in black, appearing more like the Fire Keeper than Gwyndolin himself, if not for the mask.
Maybe less likely so, the Soul of a Fire Keeper could have also belonged to Filianore, as it is said to bring comfort to bearers of the dark sigil. When we first reach Gael's arena, we find a lone Pygmy Lord crawling his way toward Filianore, pleading for help, not knowing that Filianore is long-dead.
Furthering the connection between Filianore and the Fire Keepers, the tomb below the Church of Filianore is also quite similar to the tomb at Firelink Shrine, and we even find an imitation Fire Keeper's mask after killing the Moaning Knight. And, if you look closely at the corpses of the Fire Keepers in their mausoleum, you can see that their eye sockets are surrounded by a deposit black matter, though it doesn't appear to be cloth.
I know it's highly speculative, but then again, what Souls theories aren't a total shot in the dark, no pun intended?
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After touching the egg, going up to where Filianore had slept, she appears to have simply vanished.
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So many people are still speculating the significance of the egg, but I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone suggest it might be the egg that Midir came from. If you look not-all-that-closely, the interior of the egg matches the appearance of Midir's soul, with a sort of ring of stone surrounding a gaping black hole (which of course matches the eclipse, the Dark Sign, the Dark Sigils, and the hole bored into Hollows). Gwyn established the Ringed City, offered his youngest daughter, and charged Midir with battling mankind all around the same time, placing a seal on mankind even after he and his family perished. I don't imagine Gwyn would have been able to just enlist a random dragon in his service considering the violence he wrought upon their kind, so it makes more sense to me that Midir was raised from birth as a servant of the gods--and like the Spears of the Church, Gwyn tactfully kept the dragon blind to his true ambitions, caring not whether they fell to darkness in the process of defending the gods.
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I think her spell reaches much further as only until the borders of the RInged City. When the game starts and we see the intro we see pilgrems wandering in a desolated world like the one we see after her spell is broken. That is how our world really looks alike I think. But when we start it is still green and normal looking. There is no desert nowhere. Thats already the illusion of Fillianore. It could also be the ultimate reason for the Pus of Man. Fillianore preserves the look but under the surface the abyss, the dark, rottens the world further and further from the inside. And sometimes this dark beomes too strong and breaks through the illusion. We see this in the Ringed City in form of the dark lake and it also happens in the rest of the world with the Pus of Man. Why the illusion? Maybe to keep a path intact that guides an Ash to the Kiln of the First Flame even after the land has fallen in ruin. And to keep the chosen one away from the Dark Soul.
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Actually when we wake her up, she puts the Ashen one into a very powerful slumber (that bright white light we see) and we wake up after eons passed, at the end of time... just in time to recover the dark soul from Gael, who has gathered all the blood that contained it and is now waiting for the last shard, ours.
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Not killable?, well, you are the reason of her death, maybe her end is inevitable, but at least she can still alive - sleeping.
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Didn't see anyone mention this, but she is almost certainly a reference/homage to the girl in the anime Angel's Egg (which was obviously one of the inspirations for all of dark souls).
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a lot of people kill themselves near her with bloodlust
anyone knows y?
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Is she actually a daughter of Gwyn? It would contradict the lore.
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"Don't worry, I haven't forgotten, Mother."
-Painter in Ariandel-
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It seems to me that thing in her hands is very similar to Vargants from DS1.
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As she is another beautiful goddess you can seemingly repeat seeing, has anyone tried to kill her? I'm curious if she just wakes up and I don't have the game, but interested in the lore, or if it's some kind of secret.
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When first heard of her in the dlc I was hoping she was the pygmy that found the dark soul. Thought that would be kinda cool.
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The ringed city is the egg, look around, you're in a shell, with crystals in it just like the concept art depicts.
Illusion? Yep, as you fly in you pass through some thick turbulent yellow clouds, then the sky is just yellow, like a golden sorcery of Oolacile, and the darksign is gone from the sun.
It's probably been said before, Im not trying to sound overconfident about the theory, just telling you my view of things.
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I think the thing Filianore's is clenching, judging by the artbook, is not an egg, but a geode. Google them, they are some sort of mineral formation with a rocky exterior and its insides hollow and full of crystals. Maybe it is were the dark soul was found. It would make sense, since its shell is pale like a soul and its hollow core (which would have been housing pure darkness in the middle of the first flame) is full of curse crystals
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I think Filianore is the mother of painted woman.
And the egg is a dragonegg(the painted woman).
I am 100% sure that this is the first firekeeper. We know that there is ton of firekeeper corpses in firelink and we know that everytime a firekeeper is summoned, her eyes is missing, like Filianore.
You can even see signs of darkness in Filianores face. Can anyone figure out the tower which you cannot enter, please.
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All I ever wanted was a real big boobed goddess to serve yet she too was an illusion.
I literally cried when I saw her true dryed dead form.
Damn you Fromsoft, damn you.
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if you go back to the room in the (past??? not ruined city) after talking to her she is missing, but her body is still in the (future??? ruined) world. does that mean she teleports rather than time travels???
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Her name can be translated to "Daughter of the Sun". The first part, 'filia' means daughter in Latin, and 'nore' means sun in Elvish. See? Which means she is a daughter of Gwyn.
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Who the fudge is this woman? and what is she holding in her arms?
Why is she locked away high up in the tower, behind the Halflight boss ?
NANDAYOO ??
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I wonder if the Eyes of a Fire Keeper are hers.
From the description the eyes are that of the of the first Fire Keeper.
Her eyes removed as she saw things she should not have seen?
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My theory: The pygmy we meet next to the city's first bonfire states her slumber is a "lid" of sorts. By that description her very existence can be alluded to "Pandora's box". As she sleeps, so does the rest of the city remain separated from time. This would explain why the city is so brightly lit despite the true "sun" being on the verge of going out. So long as she stays asleep, things will not age within the city, hence why everything still looks relatively new.
Once she awakens, all of time catches up to her and the city itself is pulled into its proper time and place at the world's end. Here at the worlds end is where the Pygmy Royalty was hidden by Gwyn so that the power of the Dark Soul will not spread over the land, nor will it be stolen by a greedy human... until now.
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Does anyone else notice that when you get summoned in she has that transparency look that NPCs that you can talk and interact with do. does this mean that there is a way to talk or interact with her
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Does anyone else notice that the egg thing she's holding looks JUST like a vagrant from Dark Souls 1?
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The dreaming theory: It's time to present the theory section of our tale, and with it, I believe I have a theory.
The entirety of the Ringed City itself is a Dream World.
Think about it: Throughout the game everyone is talking about "embracing the darkness", which could be another way of saying the dark of slumber. On top of that, everyone continues to speak about "protecting" the dreaming city, but I don't think they mean for her own safety. They're trying to keep her asleep out of fear of ceasing to exist should she awaken. Her slumber might have been an unexpected side effect from the abyss affecting her, something with the dark soul of man affecting her, or some other magic, but it still means she's sleeping.
Another way to confirm this theory is your interaction with her. The minute you wake her up after shattering the embracing egg, the entire world crumbles, and when you can see again, it's a complete wasteland like the dredge Heep. That also explains why you no longer see Gael until the very end, as he's outside "the dream".
It might seem abut complicated or confusing, but theories usually are. And it's not something that can be denied outright.
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Speculation time; here's a solid fact. SHE is a daughter of Gwyn. His YOUNGEST daughter. And for some reason, looks nothing like either himself, or Gwynevere, her only sister. Instead, she takes her colouring closer to her brother, Gwyndolin. Dark hair, pale skin, you know it's true. We never see Gwyndolin's eyes throughout the series, but here we see the eyes of a slumbering God who was tasked with keeping the Pygmies away, and the Dark Soul as well as part of Gwyn's selfish attempts to preserve his Age of Fire.
Theory; Filianore has been touched by the Abyss via the Dark Soul, and her efforts to contain it was what allowed this. Which resulted in her slumbering. Theory continued; at the end of every cycle, a 'Chosen Undead' or 'Ashen One' finds her, wakes her up, and her spell to contain the Pygmies and the Dark Soul is broken, which results in a fast forward jump in time to which how the world would have been if it hadn't been for Filianore keeping the Dark Soul and Pygmies locked away.
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lore speculation time:
looks like she was holding up the realm bubble the ringed city was with her dream spell, Gwynn must have had grand plans for the pygmys and their descendants if he sacrificed one of his daughters to keep them safe for so long after he is gone.
he sealed their darkness with fire giving birth to the Darksign and giving them a heavy weight to carry on their shoulders.
as for the dragon egg, it is implied than the gods raised Midir since he was a child, it could be that she holds up his everlasting egg shell as part of her eternal dream spell. tendrils of darkness seep from her eyes the same way the inside of the shell looks up rotten too.
having her holdin Midir egg would also make her bound to him as his eternal guardian.
there is also the chance that she gave birth to the egg but she is not portrayed as a motherly figure so I'm not too fond of that.
also, she does not show any kind of dragonkin malformation like some other heavenly children do, wich is interesting.
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So according to the Small Envoy Banner item description:
"The small banner used by envoys of Great Lord Gwyn in the days of yore.
For the pygmies, who took the dark soul, the Great Lord gifted the Ringed City, an isolated place at world's end, and his beloved youngest daughter, promising her that he would come for her when the day came."
So if I am understanding this correctly, this Great Lord is Gwyn and he gifted the Ringed City to the pygmies and his youngest daughter, who is undoubtably Filianore. That would mean that Gwyn has 5 children: count them, Gwendolyn, Gwenevere, Nameless King, Yorshka, and Filianore. Was Filianore not mentioned previously because she was born of the dark soul and thus was Human and could not live in the City of Gods (Anor Londo)? Could someone with the japanese version of the game please give the direct translation for this item? This is very interesting lore right here.
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***** I screwed evrything up the gods seem to hate me and Shira call me a lowly kind. lol
- Anonymous
SPOILER AHEAD: Invades in the Church Ruins after the fight against 'The Red Hood' knight. Go from the Princess Bonfire, towards where you fought the boss, and turn right down that 'hall'. After to go to the back, she'll appear.
Drops: Crucifix of the Mad King & A Titanite Slab.
Notes:
- Uses the Mad King Crucifix and the Lightning Arrow miracle (very often, be careful).
- Used 4 Estus in the fight. May have more, never saw her do the 'I'm out' animation.
- Has very low poise due to the armour she has, making her easy to stunlock
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
The egg is innocence.
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