Painting Woman

painting woman
General Info
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Painting Woman is an NPC in Dark Souls 3.

Painting Woman Information

  • Killable, but respawns after reload.
  • After she moves to the attic and Sister Friede is killed, talk to her. Afterward, return to corvian village and talk to the Corvian Settler outside the house to receive a Titanite Slab.
  • Cannot be summoned.
  • Will occasionally wave goodbye to the player when leaving after talking to her.

 

Location

  • You can find the Painting Woman in the Painted World of Ariandel, in the attic you unlock with the Contraption Key after defeating Sir Vilhelm.
  • Relocates to the Ariandel Chapel after unlocking the sliding altar in the lower level of the room filled with flies and corpses. Take the ladder up the wall near the bonfire to find her.
  • If killed, can be seen at the same place you killed her.

 

Drops

  • Does not give any souls when killed.
  • No items.

 

Combat Information

  • Does not fight back.

 

Dialogue

First encounter dialogue:

 

I believe...I feel the scent of ash upon thee.
Thou'rt the one of whom uncle Gael spoke.
The one to show me flame.

Tis good. When this is done, may I return.
The door is open thanks to thee.

Tis good, I'll head off to paint.
I promised uncle Gael I would."

§After she relocates to the Cathedral where Sister Friede is:

 

Thou'rt Ash.
Thou'st a pact made with uncle Gael.
So I wish to tell thee all.
Behold its size. This is my canvas.
It's to be a cold, dark, and very gentle place.
...But first, I must see flame.
I wish to paint a picture.
Of a cold, dark, and very gentle place.
One day, it will make someone a goodly home.
That's why I must see flame."

After defeating Sister Friede:

 

"Those who aren't ken to fire cannot paint a world.
Those absorbed by fire, must not paint a world.
Don't worry, I haven't forgotten, Mother...
I can hear the fire crackle...
And soon, I will see it...
My thanks, Ashen One.
I will finish the painting.
Of a cold, dark, and very gentle place.
So that it might make a home for someone, someday."

"...my thanks, Ashen One
I can almost see the flame...
Soon, uncle Gael will bring me the pigment
I wonder if he has found it
The dark soul of man..."

 

After killed: 

Ashen one, i cannot die.

I have a world to paint."

 

In The Ringed City DLC: 

...Ashen One, thy gift of flame has taken root. And Uncle Gael will soon bring the pigment.
Pigment coloured like the dark soul of man.

I wonder if Uncle Gael has found it?
The pigment coloured like the dark soul of man.

Upon giving the Blood of the Dark Soul
My thanks, Ashen One.
With this will I paint a world. Please tell me thy name.
I would name this painting after thee.
My thanks. I will paint a world of that name.
Twill be a cold, dark, and very gentle place.
And one day, it will make someone a goodly home.
I see. We are much alike.
Twill be a cold, dark, and very gentle place.
And one day, it will make someone a goodly home.
Then I will name this painting "Ash".

I wonder when Uncle Gael intends his return.
I hope the new painting will be to him a gentle home.
My thanks, Ashen One.
I will assuredly finish the painting.
Of a cold, dark, and very gentle place.
One day, it will make someone a goodly home.

 

Trivia

  • Has extra dialogue after completing the Ringed City DLC.
  • She may be related to Priscilla or Yorshka, as she seems to have scales on her neck, hands, and feet.
  • Voice actors, chracter inspirations, fan art, cosplay goes here.

 

 

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    • Anonymous

      I've got sneaking feeling that we will one day see this cold, dark, and very gentle place. The entire idea of these "painted realities" fascinates me. What worlds has she created? Can she create any type of world? Have we already visited her cold, dark, and very gentle place albeit in some future form that is no longer gentle? It certainly could give them some very interesting ways to continue with a Dark Souls 4 or even reference it in other future games (as we all know they tend to drop some pretty obscure hints about connections between their games).

      • Anonymous

        My theory is that she is the child of Priscilla and Dunnel. I think the painter is the true moral ending. It's like a combination of the Ursurption of Fire and Linking of Fire endings. It gets rid of relying on the First Flame (hence cold and dark) while also re-constructing the World into something new. This is likely why Gwyn built the Ringed City, to contain the Dark Soul, as he wanted the Age of Fire to unnaturally continuously occur. Cool considering Priscilla was originally going to be the main Fire Keeper in Dark Souls 1. It also makes me think she is the true keeper of the painting, not Elfriede who waltzed in locking her up and convincing Ariandel.

        • Aww she's so adorable sitting there waving her legs, she's like a little sister I never had, can't even think about her feet, although the feet, them she does have

          • Anonymous

            I believe the titanite slab that can be received from the corvian is not able to be received until after you beat freide, seeing how he thanks you for burning away the rot. The girl moving to the attic is not the trigger for this, as she can be found in the attic before defeating the dlc main boss.

            • Anonymous

              After giving her the blood of the dark soul and exhausting the dialogue, I would have preferred a final cutscene in which the painting was completely painted and immediately afterward the flames devoured the painting, reducing the world of Ariandel to ashes. Ashes of Ariandel. Bad ending for this DLC. The painting is not finished and Ariandel does not burn. All for the sake of ratakids and sharp gem farmers.

              May the dark shine your way.

              • Anonymous

                Interesting thought. What if this is miquella? Eternal youth, a child who can’t die, making a home for their twin malenia to give her a home free from the scarlet rot.

                • Anonymous

                  "My thanks. I will paint a world of that name.
                  Twill be a cold, dark, and very gentle place.
                  And one day, it will make someone a goodly home.
                  I will name this painting "Lands between"."

                  Powerful.

                  • Anonymous

                    She’s like Priscilla reincarnated, except for From learnt the mistake of giving it a silver trophy for killing her

                    • Anonymous

                      This girl is Ranni. Has to be. There’s a lot of murkiness regarding Ranni’s lore in Elden Ring; they claim she’s a child of Radagon and Rennala, but truth be told I don’t think that’s entirely true. Ranni is incredibly powerful compared to other gods in ER - she stole the rune of death, orchestrated the night of the Black Knives, has her own offbeat ending which echoes the Dark Souls endings with its “age of stars” verbiage… To me, Ranni seems to defy all the rules of the world she’s in.

                      Not to mention that the painting girl here sounds like her, and very well could be painting the Lands Between.

                      She could also be Marika, who knows. Maybe this new ER DLC will shed some light on this… One can hope.

                      • Anonymous

                        Missing three lines here, when you return after dying she's talking alone:
                        "Those without fire cannot paint.
                        Those with fire must paint.
                        Of course I haven't forgotten Mother."
                        Who's she talking to? Velka?

                        • Anonymous

                          I was messing around and killed her after giving her Gael's blood and she is not respawning. Is this a glitch or I have murdered a child?

                          • Anonymous

                            Funny, I went to see the Painting Woman and gave her the blood CARRYING Slave Knight Gael's GS and she skips the dialogue asking when her uncle will return

                            • Anonymous

                              I like it when she asks our character's name. If we say we have no name, she names us and the painting "Ash". So now we're Ash and the new world she painted is...Pokemon? :) We just teleport to Pallet town (Lol cause painting) and instead of normal Ash starting his 10 year journey of failure we show up as a Giant Hulking Flaming Knight and murder/replace him and pikachu. Then go on an epic bloody adventure with the painter riding on our shoulder like Giant Robo.
                              Pokemon! Adventures of "Ash"(en one)...Gotta kill'em all!

                              • Anonymous

                                the only question is which world did she make bloodborne Sekiro or Elden ring the painter is meant to represent Miyazaki and the painting is dark souls as a franchise so

                                • Anonymous

                                  My character's name is Death. "I will paint a world of that name. Twill be a cold, dark, and very gentle place."

                                  • Anonymous

                                    I offer you a deal: i go kill more incredibly powerful beings for paint and
                                    I receive. Sekiro: shadows die twice 2

                                    • Anonymous

                                      Buy black paint like a normal person. Dont make me have to ****ing defeat god at the end of the entire world just for a dumb painting.

                                      • Anonymous

                                        Ok so since the lore is a bit shaky on her and someone already mentioned it on here, I think this might be Ocelotte. Now he was dislike bombed because he didn’t supply any evidence, but I would like to try and put something together. So now, if Gwynevere was the Queen of Lothric, I don’t think she would leave Ocelotte with an Oceiros that was loosing his mind. I think she would try and keep the child safe from Oceiros by keeping her in the same place where another crossbreed was, say like Yorshka? Plus The painting lady is a crossbreed so that can be some evidence of Oceiros being the father. I don’t really know, the lore is really vague with this one, anything can really be possible. This just makes the most sense to me

                                        • Anonymous

                                          "Pigment" is kinda similar to "Pigmy". Knowing that this pigment is the dark souls I think it's a happy coincidence

                                          • Anonymous

                                            Is she immortal? I mean in the lore. She can come back to life, and she's called the painting woman, so is she immortal?

                                            • Anonymous

                                              This is Ocelott from the Consumed King Oceiros boss fight. Do the lore diving yourself and you'll find that I'm 100% right

                                              • Anonymous

                                                "Sorry, but your uncle Gael wont be coming home. On the positive side - the thing he searched for? - I guess, he always had it in him and the real treasure was the friends he made along the way? Anyway..." [Hands over Blood of the Dark Soul...]

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  Since she makes a painted world where you can live in, it is a bit weird that theres a painted world in a painted world, so ive came up with a theory about the painted world. What if the painted world was based of a painting like the one of her? I believe theres a ''core'' part of the painted world, which is a painting itself and the entire place is based of the painting, but a painting is not eternal so the painted world rots. So in order for a new painted world the old one would need to get burned so the new one can take over and shape the landscape, for a painted world without rot. Now this is just a theory and i dont have any evidence backing it up, but i like to think its like this.

                                                  • Anonymous

                                                    they need to ad a option to make hot chocolate considering its a frozen world I think the girl and everyone deserves one

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      Man, ds3 is deppressing , we killed an 18 year olds uncle took his blood and gave it to her then she wants his dead uncle to live in it without knowing that he died by our hand

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        Is it just me who has a memory of the painting being finished after you've given her the dark soul? She paints some/all the painting in my memory. Yet I can't find any pictures anywhere.

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          dose she take commissions for drawings if she dose i would ask her to paint a picture of anor londo before it was dark

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            i cant tell how old this girl is she sounds young but she doesn't look it I asked geal but all he did was stab me in the ass

                                                            • Anonymous

                                                              No matter what someone says, for me, she is Priscillas daughter (the father i have no idea, propably a human ), so she is worth cherishing and protecting.

                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                speculation on the linage or history of painters does little to explain their purpose. They create and reforge worlds.

                                                                • Here's a potential thought, Yorshka is the product of Priscilla and Gwyn (Since Gwyndolin is referred to her as brother) while this Painting Woman is the product of Priscilla and someone else, possibly a lover within the painted world. That would make her and Yorshka half-sisters.

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    If Priscilla was indeed a product of Seathe--and one is of the mind that Priscilla and The Painter have some relation, which I am--then it would seem Seathe's quest for immortality was a success, though, not for himself. Immortality, instead, of time, of life, and of death, through a perpetuation of endless cycles of new paintings as the as the First Flame finally wanes to naught.

                                                                    That is, until, one day, tiny flames will dance across the darkness.
                                                                    Like embers, linked by lords past.

                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                      The point of infusion of the blood into the pigment was to cancel the cycles, a peaceful world painted of one soul without other influence will not face disparity the same way, would probably be like the untended graves which are only non peaceful to trespassers

                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                        Isn't she talking about the painting the "Painted World of Ariamis", since time is all warped and messed up in DS anyway?

                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                          That moment when brainlits think they smart cuz they said this was bloodborne when theyhve no actual proof only theories that get counteracted by the “gentle” part of what is the lainting suppose to br. Actually use your brain and not be dumbasses

                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            Just got to Gael and haven't found her at all in the Ringed City so far. Does she appear after I kill him?

                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                              1. She never appeared anywhere within the Ringed City for me, so the information stating can be "found" there is quite misleading, and 2. Wouldn't painting 'girl' be more appropriate, considering her child-like appearance and demeanor? I guess this is just a nitpick, but still...

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                I'm finally playing Demon's Souls and I wonder if she has the same voice actress as the Monumental, they seem very alike. Dark Souls 3 has a lot more stuff related to Demon's Souls than I thought.

                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                  In my game in NG+1, when I met she in the capel above Sister Friege she thanks me and tell that she has already painted the new world.

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